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[Acer Iconia A500] Achristocat:
foxl by soundmatters

If any of you out there are really into sound I'd recommend this guy...

http://www.soundmatters.com/foxl/

I have had one for about 5 months, travels with me everywhere. Bluetooth A2DP, actually functions as a mic / speaker for a phone, Great, great sound...

Read a few reviews online for more opinions.

Between the sound App on the A500 and these little speakers I played DJ at a friend's place for a small room wirelessly...Puts out some pretty good sound for being so small...

Check 'em out. I love 'em...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TexasBadger:
I have had my TF for a week and the keyboard dock for a day. Love them both. I do have one quirk to deal with, however. A couple of days ago, my TF began booting to the screen one frame to the left of my homescreen (to #2 instead of #3). I would like to fix this annoyance. Does anyone know the secret? :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TexasBadger:
Follow-up question: Does anyone know the magical procedure to set which of the five screens is their home screen?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuntdouble:
You have obviously installed some app or launcher which is making it do this. You'll have to start uninstalling things a few at a time to see which one is causing it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xxiworld:
Running CM7 N84 with the 5/23 OC kernel and untimely uboot...

I recently have been trying to find a way to watch video over my network without having to download it to my nook l. (VLC stream and convert is unstable for me and involves a big loss of quality)

There are two apps in the market that solve this problem perfectly, except for one major issue: they crash root explorer so badly that only flashing a nandroid backup can fix it.

Cifsmanager and mount manager both mount network shares to /mnt. From here I could open my network video files just as easily and reliably as if they were on the nook itself. . . For a while.

But using either program seems to cause a major problem with root explorer and another file manager I sometimes use. It doesn't happen straight away, but after a little while, (I think it may be when the mount point is unmounted) I try to open root explorer and it hangs, and then force closes, leaving the system highly unstable, breaking market and constantly maxing out the cpu, and nothing seems to fix it.

I tried rebooting...still a constant 1200 in cpu spy, even while doing nothing on conservative governor, plus a broken market, and everything is laggy and unresponsive. So I tried re-flashing CM7 and the OC kernel, wiping cache and dalvik cache. STILL the same problem!!!

Only restoring a nandroid backup fixes it. I've just done that three times today, trying to find some way to get it to work...at first I thought the problem showed up only when the share was mounted, so I tried unmounting before opening a file manager and just browsing to the videos in vital player. Nope. I STILL got the NEVER-ENDING CRASH. Then I thought it might just be a problem with cifsmanager, so I tried the same thing with mount manager instead... same problem.

Does anybody have any idea either why root explorer crashes after a cifs share has been mounted and even (or perhaps especially) after it has been unmounted again, or how a crash can cause such long lasting damage?

I am tempted to try one more thing... changing the mount point to some other location, intead of /mnt. But after doing three nandroid restores in one day, I am hesitant!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ChrisDDD:
I've been using CIFS Manager for some time on my phone, and now on my Nook, and have never experienced the problems you're describing. I've noticed if I leave shares mounted on my phone, it will kill the battery quicker, but I believe that it's because it's keeping the WiFi connection open and preventing it from disconnecting when the phone goes to sleep. But I've never noticed high CPU usage, on the phone or the Nook.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xxiworld:
Huh.

Are you running CM7, with OC? Where do you have your shares mounted - /mount/cifs or somewhere else? And do you use root explorer? It is root explorer which crashes after I unmount cifs shares, and it is only when root explorer crashes that I have this issue.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ChrisDDD:
I'm on CM7 nightly 87 (was using nightly 76 before that), but not an overclocked kernel (I used the setting in CM7 to overclock to the 925 mhz, but I'm not using that other kernel).

And yea, all shares are mounted to /mnt/cifs I mount a share, use Root Explorer to access/copy the files on the share, and then unmount it with CIFS manager. Root explorer works fine afterwards - the /mnt/cifs directory is gone as soon as I unmount.

The only issues I've had with Root Explorer is sometimes when I try to start it, it'll hang with a black screen before I get the initial directory listing, I've never had it crash later on.

Curious what could be causing your issues. I just tried unmounting a share while Root Explorer was still open, thinking that might cause it to crash, but nope, kept working fine. The mnt/cifs/NAS directory was still there after being unmounted, but Root Explorer just found it to be empty.

Not to discount all the effort people put into kernels, but from my experience with my phone, I tend to stay as close to stock as possible (CM7 stock, in this case). I've just found most 3rd party kernels and tweaked roms to always be a bit flaky - there's always something that's not working or causing some sort of problem. Maybe you could try the stock CM7 kernel.

Oh, and for the cifs manager settings, I just have "load cifs module" checked, I'm not using any separate .ko files (like I have to on my phone).
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] racks11479:
Have you tried File Expert? Its a file explorer with network options. I stream movies from my computer that way. And it has network discovery as well. :)

Oh and its freeee!!!!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xxiworld:
So I tried it again, with somewhat better results. Root Explorer would still crash on me - it hangs on a black screen before getting the directory listing, just like you describe, but if I don't exit out in time, it Force Closes. However, the crash did NOT cause the CPU to go crazy this time, or break market. I'm not sure why this part of the problem didn't recur, but I mentioned in my OP, cifs manager had also been crashing another File Manager program, by Joydao. I've since uninstaller that program. Maybe that was the culprit for the CPU issue?

Once I got a hang at the black screen, Root Explorer was essentially broken though, as every time I tried to load it, it gave me the black screen, even after rebooting.

However, I noticed that when it gave me the black screen it wasn't giving me the "root explorer has been granted superuser access" that pops up whenever root explorer starts normally, and since cifs manager needs superuser access as well, I thought this might be the culprit. So I opened up superuser, went into the settings. I clicked "check for update", and it crashed. I re-opened superuser and clicked "check for update" again, and it told me it was up to date. After this, root explorer started working normally again.

For now, I'm going to keep cifs manager installed, and hope for the best
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ChrisDDD:
Just checked it out and it looks really nice. It only wants to open unknown file types (videos, etc.) in an installed browser instead of letting me choose an installed video player, for example. Couldn't find anything in the settings to add more programs to an "open with" list.

Other than that, it seems pretty good. Love the network discovery. CIFS Manager seems to provide a little more seamless access, mounting shares right to the phone so any app can access files (if you mount it to a directory on the SD card, which works even though I believe it's discouraged). But I'll be keeping File Expert installed too, the interface is really nice and easy to use.

Glad to hear it's not causing quite so much trouble now. Yea, sometimes something completely unexpected is causing the problem. I've found the combination of cifs manager and Root Explorer to work really well, so I wouldn't be surprised if the problem was as a result of some other conflicting app.
[Galaxy S II General] stoolzo:
I just factory reset my phone by dialling the reset number into my keypad and it bricked my Phone, got stuck in boot. I Was using VillianROM 1.1.

it could have been a fault with the phone though as I have just taken it back with s sync / charge problem which turned out to be a problem with the port.

I would not recommend resetting if you are on a custom ROM just to be safe. Wait for CMR so it can be flashed from SD.
[Galaxy S II General] CommanderThor:
But you can stil access bootloader and therefor instal new ROM i hope?
[Galaxy S II General] stoolzo:
you may be able to if you phones syncs, mine didn't but I think that was another fault, I just wanted people to be aware this could happen, this may have been a one off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I guess I never really thought about his before, but pertaining to the dynamics of tethering and the connection speed; The other day, I tested the tethering on my phone, just for the hell of it. Disconnected my LAN connection on my computer, enabled the WiFi card, and started tethering, and it was great. Fast!!

Of course, I have a WiFi router and my phone is connected via WiFi, with Data turned off, so I'm used to fast data speeds on my phone.

Today, my DSL line went down, so I fired up tethering, and with no WiFi, I was only getting a 3G signal, and my internet connection to my computer was slow as hell.

The question is, and I never thought about it before, but the incoming signal determines the tethering speed, correct?

BTW, USB Tethering was even slower......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradleyw801:
So is your question about what the "tethering source" is? Or is the question, why is it so slow?

To answer it, there are a number of factors that come in to play. Are you rooted? What rom/kernel combo are you using? What are you using to tether? For example, some roms have it built in, others use a seperate APK.

I use Ultimate Droid 3.1.1 rom, and use the built in tethering. From the PC, when doing a speed test, I usually get about 1.5-3MB download speeds, and usually about .5-1mb upload speeds. I had similar results when using the wireless tether APK available in the market.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
I you have a 3G connection with a speed of 700kbps, how do you think it would magically go faster than that while you're tethering?? The data can go between the phone and the computer at 54,000kbps but it can only go 700kbps from the phone to sprint so obviously its not going to go any faster. It can only go as fast as the slowest link.

Also, I don't think you can't have the phone connected to WiFi and use WiFi tethering at the same time. So your first test was probably not tethered at all. You're computer connected to your WiFi router, not the phone. In order to tether using WiFi, you have to have WiFi turned off and the tether app uses the WiFi radio to do it, bridging the connection to 3G or 4G data from sprint.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Oh yeah, I should have said in the OP that I know WiFi drops when tethered and @Bradley, see my signature?? lol

I pretty much assumed that was why it was so slow, on 3G, but it has to be using my WiFi router for it to have been so fast when MY DSL isn't down thanks to the stupid storms beating the crap out of the Midwest..... right?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
Well, that doesn't jive. You said you had you phone connected by WiFi to the DSL and you were tethered to the computer by WiFi. This is not possible. You can not use WiFi for both things at once. WiFi Tether will not work if you have normal WiFi turned on. Your computer was not tethered to the phone in that test. Your computer was connected to the DSL by the same WiFi your phone was.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SouthPhilly:
LoL.... after I read reply I reread the OP's post. Your right!!!! LMAO!!!!!

Sent From The Tree House Out Back!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Ok, let me explain. The other day, I had my phone's WiFi on, as I always do, since I have a Wireless Router with AT&T DSL. And it's much faster and uses less battery to connect to a wireless router than to just leave it in data mode via 3G, follow me?

I decided to test the tethering app, so I turned on Tethering, and connected my desktop computer to the Evo via that tethering thingy-ma-jingy. It was defintely connected to the Evo and NO to the Wireless router, which, btw, I don't even use the WAN side for my computer, I use the LAN connection, dig?

It was blazing fast. Faster than my normal DSL connection. Websites were snapping open, like cable modem fast.

Today, because of the storms, my DSL was down, so to get online on the computer-box thing on my big ol' desk here, I turned on Tethering.

BUT, I had to also turn Data on, so I would have a 3G connection.

My computer-thing was slow as hell now.

SO, if tethering turns off the phones WiFi connection, meaning it's no longer getting a signal from my DSL Wireless router, then why the MAJOR difference in speed as compared to today, when I only had 3G?

Wanna answer that for me, cowboy?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveGrandRapids:
Gremlins . . . :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
You're repeating yourself, and just using more words.

I don't care how many ways you attempt to re-describe the same thing. You can not have your phone connected to WiFi and utilize WiFi Tether at the same time. It is physically impossible. You are obviously confused about what you did.

Furthermore, even if it was not in complete defiance of reality, simply using your phone as a bridge between the computer and your WiFi router would not magically increase the speed of your network connection. Every single thing you have described in this thread is completely wrong. You're confused and mistaken about what you did.

Yes. You're wrong. There's your answer, again, for the third time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
OMFG!! I didn't say I was connected via WiFi WHILE I was tethering, I said my phone is always on WiFi when I'm at home because of my wireless router.

OBVIOUSLY the incoming WiFi signal to the phone drops when you start tethering. Everyone knows this, or they should.

The QUESTION is why was my tethering speed blazing fast until I didn't have a DSL signal coming to my house, meaning that UNTIL I STARTED tethering yesterday, I could only use 3G for a data signal to my phone. Then the tethering speed was slow as hell.

You said my computer wasn't connected to my phone in the first test, yet it was.

Network and sharing showed it was only connected to the EVO in both tests.

Now if you say it's because I no longer had a wireless router for the phone to receive a signal from, then it would seem to me that WiFi can't be dropping when I start tethering
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveGrandRapids:
If I follow your logic correctly, then it seems to me that your DSL speed is faster than the 3g signal you are getting on your phone at home. I say this because . .

1. When you tethered your computer to the phone to DSL via your Wifi router, you said it was fast.

2. When you lost your DSL and tethered the computer to phone using the 3g for internet access, it was slower.

3. So, based on that, than, for you, YES, 3g was a slower connection than your DSL.

I think that is what you were pointing out . . . :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
#1 is invalid, that didn't happen.

#2 is what happened both times presumably.

#3 is variable depending on location, signal strength, network load, etc. and we don't know what his DSL speed is either. 3G can be faster than DSL.

No, that's not what you said. You said the opposite. Twice. I assume you mis-spoke and that isn't what you were trying to say.

Look. You are making this way more complicated than it needs to be. So I'll lay this out real simple like.

1) You do not, did not, will not, and never have had you phone connected to your WiFi/DSL and simultaneously used WiFi Tether. It is not possible, never was possible, and never will be possible. So just stop trying to think like it happened or may have happened. Anything that may have appeared as such was nothing more than that... appearing as such. Not actual. Just seemed like.

2) Data transmission rate to/from the internet, regardless of what medium you used to connect (DSL, 3G, 4G, shotgun DS3's, whatever) will never be faster than that internet connection. Most home networking components are capable of a gigabit per second on the internal LAN and 54gbps on WiFi. But if you're talking to the internet, that data can only flow as fast as the 768k internet connection allows (for example). That means your internet data will go from your computer to the routers/switches, and out the modem at that rate (768k).

3) If you were indeed tethered on your first test that went "fast", then your 3G network connection was obviously quite nice. On the second try, your 3G network connection was obviously slower. That's what happens with 3G. Your DSL and WiFi has absolutely no bearing on this, at all, whatsoever, period.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] enzo319:
Im sure this may have been addressed but couldn't locate it.

I have a bluetooth keyboard and touchpad. i want it to work with my moto atrix. So far i have used the 'blueinput' app but it only recognizes my keyboard and not the touchpad. anyone have luck with any other way to sync a bluetooth keyboard with their android? i also am looking at 'KeyPro' but i havent tried that yet.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enrique Casas:
Q- slingplayer apk will not open on xoom,installed it and uninstalled rebooted and nothing works, running 3.1 system and flash 10.3 anyone have any suggestions on a fix.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathiase:
Hi,

I just bought a new Xoom and have trouble accessing the internal storage over USB. Here are some specs:

I connect Xoom to my Laptop or any other Ubuntu 11.04 I tested and get this in dmesg:

That's all! No other messages, so new block devices - nothing. What can I do?

cheers

mathiase
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgtagem:
Im installing Ubuntu right now. Ill let you know what happens.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Did you download the drivers from Motodev?
[Epic 4G General] jeremyglass:
Well this might be the end for new HTC phones for many people!

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...r-recovery-and-kernel-images-all-locked-down/

Short story- no more customized....anything!
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
Yes but unlike motorola they are responding to their consumers I really hope they reverse their decision on it or that the new motorola phentom which will be announced on the 9th isn't locked either otherwise that would suck for android....
[Epic 4G General] redsman55:
If that remains to be true (and I hope you are right that they listen and reverse their decision), that puts the EVO 3D off of my list for possible future upgrades.
[Epic 4G General] rygran87:
I read about this a couple days ago. I was disappointed, but not much... Now I know for sure what I'm NOT getting with my upgrade in January.
[Epic 4G General] quik99:
I'm not a apple fan..but Whats the point of a android phone that is not open source and unlocked? might as well get a iphone :mad: those can be jail broken still..
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
because in todays world...if its not privatized...you cant sell it to support the habits of the age old 'pecking order'...

and if you cant sell it the way you want to ... your system of sales fails to be useful in this modern and ever changing world

but damn its so easy for them to fall back to their old ways of cracking the whip and making a buck

less effort...more profit...more slavery...more control...more easy chair time and less effort on their part to develop useful products that serve their purpose so we can move on to more important things in society

like perhaps, limiting reproduction because we have no real resources to feed your inborn desire to duplicate despite their own wishes for more slaves, to produce more privatized products, so they can make more sales...

the result is you staring at a computer reading a half defined post by some guy in the midwest trying to solve the problems of the world while you shake your finger at a cell phone company and i laugh at you for not even realizing the people that run these companies have probably never lifted an ounce of soil or had to walk a mile to a job they never wanted in the first place

just saying

the only thing they are listening to...is if it will limit sales...

but heed the warning...all this is doing is pushing away the inevitable

restructuring the world to not rely on money...a design concept that holds no ties to any or actual physical limited resource

JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN MAKE A FULL BREATHING EATING HUMAN BEING FROM YOUR MICROSCOPIC SPERM AND OVARIES DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD

JUST BECAUSE IT MADE A BILLION PEOPLE SMILE BEFORE YOU DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO EVEN IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY SAVED UP TO SECURE THEIR FUTURE

your decision to recreate does effect others...

freedom of speech is what they gave

just like you i took the bait

now i see the price we pay

for rights so obvious no need to itterate
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
When smartphones get locked down I will buy a wifi tablet and a cheap (free) phone and the carriers can kiss my arse.

Sent from Bonsai 7.1.1.1
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
todays concept of cell phone production is just like your concept of reproduction

so who's in the spotlight now?

you people never cease to amaze me

COMPLETELY UNRELIABLE IN LOOKING AT THE PROBLEM AND ALWAYS WILLING TO POINT THE FINGER

go have a look in the mirror

a million dollars says you wont find the problem

and you will right back in the angry chair wondering why the world is going to ****
[Epic 4G General] redsman55:
I had to laugh when I read your post.

Let's just hope this isn't a trend. Being able to run custom ROM's really extends the life of the phone. It does for me, anyway.
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
human beings...

smart enough to venture into space in search of resources...

but too dumb to share in a communal ideal such as self control...

no sacrifice...none will suffice

consider putting your reproduction on hold

instead of asking a company not to produce something that benefits their own personal gains that have NOTHING to do with what is better for majority of poeple on the planet

JUST SAYIN
[Epic 4G General] Art2Fly:
Eigerzoom, I effing love you
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
So you're saying that it benefits more people for them to start locking down phones?

how would that be more beneficial for anyone except the company?...

Don't you realize that thats why android is SO great .. the ability to customize it.
[Epic 4G General] redsman55:
Point well taken.

My reproduction is on hold...permanently. I have two sons in college (both at Stanford). The only thing not on hold for me is my bank account. :)