yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
Oh, I don't want the Sensation either. If I did, I would have already returned the G2X and used my Vibrant until then. I am sticking to what I said before and that is, I feel that the G2X is the better device that will hold me over until Tmo gets there SGSII variant. I have wanted that phone since I saw it.

I made my comment because I don't think T-Mobile would ever take our devices back, give us a different phone and discontinue the G2X completely. Thats a serious loss of revenue. No company in there right mind would do that. The most T-mobile will do is replace our phones with working ones from a new batch.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] freakboy13:
They can have my g2x.... when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. I ain't gonna update ****. My phone works perfectly. Even though I was a bit disapoonted with the can boasting 8mp and have suck ass features this phone rocks. I hope those who do have issues get some justice though.

"If Satan lived in heaven he'd be me.... "
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Xenolance:
Would anyone be able to link the post regarding the g2x being pulled? I'm just getting into the android world and the g2x is my first android device and I love it. I can't even find a example of the screen bleed everyone is talking about.

Guess I don't have the issue since I love my screen, but the constant radio bounce is annoying, so is the phone turning off in the middle of the night and not waking me when it's time to go to work. But that had only happen once.
[General Questions and Answers] Wopper89:
Hello all,

I have seen similar questions around here, but not for this phone yet.

We own a Samsung ue32C6730 LED TV. I myself have a Desire HD. I am wondering if there is any possibility to use my phone as a remote control for this TV.

Hope anyone can help me out :)
[General Questions and Answers] ratchetnclank:
The TV uses infrared for remotes the desireHD doesn't have an infrared port.
[General Questions and Answers] Wopper89:
I meant remote control through our home network. The TV is connected to our router and my phone has Wifi.
[General Questions and Answers] swimon:
This first app should work for your Desire HD (if you have the right TV set):

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.remoteTV&feature=search_result

This second one only works on some samsung smartphones, I'm trying to get it to work on my HTC Desire (original):

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.smartview&feature=search_result

If anyone knows how to get this second app to work, please let me know,

Grtz
[Desire General] torres.sis:
Hello,

1st of all, if this is not the correct place for this post sorry.

My question is, does anybody knows if the gingerbread ruu official will be available this month?

Tks.
[Desire General] cjm1979:
Nothing official yet. Should of asked in general to be honest.
[Desire General] maxvanni:
wrong thread!
[Desire General] godutch:
if you can't find it here it won't be released anytime soon ;)

http://www.911htc.com/
[Desire General] torres.sis:
can someone move this post please, tks.
[Desire General] andQlimax:
official update end of this month -6 days? :D

http://twitter.com/#!/ThreeUK/status/73019847298138113

official update end of this month, -6 days? :D
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I'm starting to think it'd be a better idea to have one 'Gingerbread/2.3/OTA' thread that has all the info in it and hopefully stop a hundred posts of the same question..

we still haven't a clue when it's coming out but I personally can't see it happening this weekend - but I'm sure when it's out it'll be all over here :)

Haven't 3 already 'delayed' this 'release' a few times since March? it'll more than likely happen again and next week they'll see the end of June
[Desire General] welly275:
no update yet. they say due to bugs they cancelled update for following days. they are not giving a certain time for the update.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Which now links back to here!!
[Desire General] nickislauw:
WTF, why is 911sniper and 911htc closed?????? maybe copyright or something ?
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
It's not known yet, but it's guessed that one or all snipers were caught:

http://www.androidcentral.com/keeper-leaked-htc-roms-disappears-ether
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I am pretty sure when it is out this forum will explode...
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Very strange..This morning was linking back to google.com, now here to the xda forum...There is some subliminal message in that? :D
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mrfisch13:
anyone else try to install that work around with an un modded g2x?

all i get is download unsuccessful =(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mrfisch13:
any word? ninja bump
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sryan1983:
Not possible if your unmodded. Did you read the other post about this? If not, click the search button and type Netflix and you will find it ;)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Minker17:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1076150

Although it doesn't work on our phone.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] darbear5610:
NETFLIX on G2x Post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1076107

This isn't possible on the G2x unless you're running a custom ROM or a CM Nightly, and messing around in build.prop. Also see this post, it might help http://techland.time.com/2011/05/13/netflix-for-android-workaround/
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lettermanstud:
Build file moved pls help

i moved the build file onto my SD card but now phone doesn't recognize itself and keeps looping rebooting itself on a black screen. How can I get SD card build file back into system folder?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sykokane:
I have CM7, nightly 49 on a G2x (LG-P999). I am able to install the Netflix and Hulu+ apk's from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1076150&page=209

I find the Netflix app "works," but the sound is sped up, it sounds as if they were "chipmunks." Everything else appears to work fine.

The Hulu+ App simply gives me a "Device Unsupported" error, but allows me to change around my subscriptions and such.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] waterstander:
G2x & netflix

I was able to install the apk successfully however once launched it goes into a black screen and closes out. Any resolution or possible work around would be awesome, no nightly build or rom added,
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aowendoff:
Hey There,

I have a rooted G2x running EagleBlood FroYo edition and would like to know if netflix works under FroYo. I have altered the build.prop like when I was running CM7 but it just seems to open and then closes.

If anyone had any ideas, it would be great.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Adj.:
Here's what I did. I edited the build.prop file as such:

ro.product.model=HTC Vision

ro.product.brand=HTC

ro.product.name=vision

ro.product.device=vision

ro.product.board=vision

ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a

ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi

ro.product.manufacturer=HTC

ro.product.locale.language=en

ro.product.locale.region=US

ro.wifi.channels=

ro.board.platform=tegra

# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device

ro.build.product=p999

# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint

ro.build.description=lge_star-user 2.3.3 GRI40 41d004ac ota-rel-keys,release-keys

ro.build.fingerprint=mobile/htc_vision/vision/vision:2.2/FRF91/277427:user/release-keys

I just pasted this over that whole section, on both cm7 and fauxs roms. Then I power cycled. You may have to reinstall swype and a few other apps but then netflix will show in the market. install as usual. I don't recommend on the nighties unless you feel like doing this process every day.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] BobbyDukes707:
Really, if you just change the "model" and "manufacturer" you should be fine. But you need to edit the prop.build, reboot, THEN install the app. And find and install the latest version of the app, i think it's 1.2.2. I haven't had any issues with chimpmunk voices.... oh and I run cm7 by the way...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aowendoff:
This option only works if you are running a GB based ROM correct?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sarni84:
no dude u dont need to change all that... at all just change model=htc-vision .....and manufacturer=htc ...and that is it i do this every time i flash a nightly and it works perfectly and nothing breaks ie, swype etc ...now when u do it make sure u change permissions to r/o then do the build.prop then reboot!, after reboot install the app, then woila!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sarni84:
doesnt work with froyo only gb on our phones with build.prop edit
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aowendoff:
I had a feeling. Will try CM7 again once it is a little more stable maybe.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Adj.:
Hmm good info. Less crap I have to change
[T-Mobile LG G2x] brownie9978:
Netflix Working On Latest CyanogenMod For G2X!!!

Okay so i was playing around with the build.prop and i installed it on the latest Cyanogenmod Rom for the G2X and it worked perfectly!! :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 3908501:
Can someone please explain, once and for all, why recording incoming audio for calls is so damn difficult? Forget about the legality of it or whatever - my question is purely technical. What are the technical difficulties that a developer runs into when trying to write a call recording app? Particularly for the Atrix?

I've heard that "moto blocks it", but that's not really an answer. Is the driver "hidden" in some way? Is the stream encrypted or something? Is there no API function that exposes the incoming audio stream?

On phones that do successfully record the inbound audio, how is the app doing it, and why does it work on that phone, but not on another? What's different about the platform/software/driver/electronics/etc?

Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slivuh:
Would love to know this as well.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netter159:
definitely a bump. My bet is that the API is crippled in that area for legality reasons.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techcruncher:
Trust me, I'm sure your phone already has plenty of call recording software on it....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChongoDroid:
Totally bro it like totally records your words and stuff and like saves em on an invisible SD card and the file is 0kb... oh and then if you check your memory to see if it is recording it sends it via the internet... even without a connection!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JxWayne89:
+5,000,000

LMFAO!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elementaldragon:
probably is the legality issue. worried about something being recorded during a conversation that can't legally be recorded.

Can't really imagine any technical difficulty that would prevent it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jnewell05:
If you call me its legal for me to record the conversation. There is nothing illegal about that.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elementaldragon:
And if someone else is using your phone, it's not.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galpha:
Totally clueless lol.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dingleberry1:
In many jurisdictions, all participants must be aware that a conversation is being recorded, or the recording is illegal.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 3908501:
Thanks for all the replies, everyone, but I'm afraid this post is turning into the legal conversation that I hoped it wouldn't. I'm sure none of us are lawyers, so let's stick to the nerdy technical stuff we're good at. :)

So just to try to reign the conversation back in; there's gotta be some devs out there who have dabbled in this area before. What are the technical nuances and obstacles in wirting code to record the incoming audio of a phone call?

(Ya, I know about the 'speaker-phone' trick. I'm asking about the incoming audio stream.)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 3908501:
...

...

Uh... ok. Thanks for that...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 3908501:
BAAAHH HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Skadoosh!! :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkrohn:
See this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117#c401
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
Back to the post..

the Atrix, cannot record calls is because Moto left out a standard Android function from one of the libraries, the libaudio.so file. Supposedly that is the standard way to stream the live call audio (both incoming & outgoing) for Android programming.

Since other Android phones CAN record calls, and since other Android apps do work with multiple other phones--it seems likely that this is a Moto issue and not an "Android" problem. Moto have no comment on the topic other than "we don't make call recording software".

Someone capable of shimming in some new code or writing a driver that can access the hardware will be my hero. in another post I saw someone that was able to bring a driver from another phone and use its functionality to record calls

I would pay good money to record MY phone calls.....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
I came across this idea from another board about a "virtual recorder"

Quote:

"For example, maybe we could develop a virtual bluetooth device. Similar to a virtual DVD drive in widows. There's no real physical drive, but the driver makes windows think there is and it can be used to mount ISOs... Well, same concept - make a virtual bluetooth device that android thinks is a physical device, and use whatever existing mechanisms to divert the audio stream to the virtual device. Then of course, the back-end for the virtual bluetooth could simply send the sound back to the handset whilst recording the audio stream."
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pat123:
^^Thats a neat idea. However, I am not sure it is possible to do that given the APIs and the inherent limitations of the platform!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
That post about the "other driver" is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806451

according to him he "Because it wasn't open source, I had to disassemble it in order to write what I wanted exactly."

Also here is a link to android FYI

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRecorder.AudioSource.html

l8r
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoberGuy:
Is this something that can be corrected with a custom ROM and kernel? I admit to not knowing much about programming for Android and how a lot of that works. I've got some programming experience outside of Android and Linux, and I'd be willing to cross over and work on custom ROMs just for that feature. Like you, I think it's worth it's weight in gold...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
yes it would be fixed with a custom ROM. but I think that a "driver" or a "hardware accessing application" would be easier, it would be specific to only the atrix hardware, but think about it this way - you would be building the code that accesses the "Modem" and "Mic/Speaker" hardware directly around any other code and provides the "API" that allows the software to access the data.

The custom rom aspect comes in if you wish to replace/add-to the libaudio.so file with the added features.

Yes "weight in gold" indeed
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoberGuy:
Packaged as an APK, most likely requiring root access.

Appreciate the info. Time for some research!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
I bet user avs333 would share his "recording" code and save a bunch of time.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806451

Then the only hard part would be the hardware trapping code, I agree with the root access, but that's easy.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
I believe the restriction on call recording is hardware related and can't be "fixed" with software. Otherwise, the demand would dictate that we'd have a solution by now. The Atrix only records your side of the conversation while the other side can be picked up faintly only if you're using the speakerphone. The incoming audio is not accessible by software, it is fed directly to the earpiece or speaker. Phones that record both sides of the convo (like the TouchPro2) has the incoming audio accessible by software.

Why certain companies choose this or not is beyond me. I'm not sure if it's legal reasons (probably not) or cost cutting or whatever.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
cost cutting yes.. Its not hardware just software. Skype and other software can use the microphone and speaker (all software based), and I there is software that uses the modem / Bluetooth interface to communicate (like music)

the TouchPro2 was developed by a company (HTC) that followed the rules and coded the full range of api into there phone. they could have skimped and left out the api if they wanted but that is why they have a good fan base.

Its just Motorola not wanting to put the development dollars into the code for the api that "should" be there but they deemed not worthy. in a way it also makes there phones more reliable cause there is less to "hack"

Whoever has the talent to code a patch or api replacement (rom) will have flower petals placed at there feet by me...

I dearly miss being able to replay my own phone calls back to gather details that are now lost.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
for example here is a hack that was fixing a pre 4.1.83 update fault with Skype audio

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1047748

replacing? a /libaudio.so file.

Digging deeper into these file would probably give some clues as to how we can tap in.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
Skype does not use incoming voice from the radio, it's incoming voice is by way of data. So the Skype comparison is invalid.

HTC hardware is NOT Motorola hardware which proves my point. Motorola Atrix is not hardwired for such functionality. This is the case with phones that cannot record both sides of a call properly.

Like I said, if there were a software solution, we'd have one by now. This IS xda after all...

When has this problem been solved with software for any other phone with the same problem?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
Sorry you feel so negative about it. I have seen fixes via software for GPS issues that people said "its the hardware, software can't fix it"

It was solved on another phone. here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806451 an actual api replacement on that phone
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
GPS is an apples to oranges comparison. Being that the problem was overcome on the Hero doesn't disprove what I have been saying...it sort of proves it indirectly.

I think a feasible solution for ALL phones suffering this limitation would be to record the incoming voice via speakerphone then apply automatic gain control to the resulting audio file on the sections with incoming audio. It would sound noisy on the boosted parts but you'd have both sides of the convo audible in the recording.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gh123man:
Thank you. very interesting.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millab:
If the radio is only able to push audio to the earpiece or speakerphone then how can it also be possible to route it to bluetooth?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
My guess is the radio is hardwired to the bluetooth transeiver as well as the earpiece and speaker.

Having audio streamed in software would put far more strain on the CPU than if the audio was hardware based.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
WhyBe It is your guess. Motorola would be the only one to say for shure, design wise hardwired things like this limit capability, Motorola may have done that but they should be following google android specs to not hardware features.

I have accidentally streamed more then one music source to the Bluetooth at a time, so there is a way to send audio trough the CPU to Bluetooth

My old fashioned Palm treo had no CPU strain doing any of these functions of call recording / music playing ect.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
There is less CPU strain (no streaming of incoming radio to the CPU) or this configuration may allow for cheaper design (no A/D convertor on the radio).

I'm not saying for certain, but it really seems that way.

Of course you do, how else do we listen to MP3's? That is not the problem. The problem is that there seems to be no way of getting audio from the radio into the CPU other than going through the microphone A/D by way of the speakerphone. Again, my guess is there is no A/D convertor allowing developers to do so or there is no software means of accessing the radio stream.

There are many phones that are capable. My old Motorola V60 dumb phone could do it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogueTowel:
Anything new?

Has there been any movement on this problem? Really I'm just looking to record phone interviews, so using the speaker phone is ok, but it hasn't worked with the apps I've downloaded so far.

yes I'm a noob, I'll learn fast though, just got the phone last week.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lougump67:
Desperately need an app or recording alternative on ATRIX

I am also interested, and willing to pay for, an app that can solve this problem. I am new and have no programming experience with Android devices, but does anyone know whether this has been solved or whether there are non-app alternatives for recording. For example, I can plug my wife's wired iphone headphones, w/mic, into my Atrix and use it during phone calls (both mic and headphones work). Would it be possible to plug some sort of call recorder inline to this headset and record both inbound and outgoing sound?

I am new to this sort of thing, but I desperately need a recording option for weekly teleconferences on my ATRIX (that last part is key and dictated by my personal situation of when and where I make the calls...on my ATRIX).

FYI: it is not illegal in my state if one party is aware, however, my colleagues are also interested in a solution to this problem.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OldOneEye:
nothing yet

with the advent of custom roms My hopes are up.

Need some hardware guru's to look it over.

This thread got a little take over by the legal trolls, I just what to record a two way phone call of my own origin.

the hardware is there but the calls to the feature to use it is missing.

l8r
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgsI9003:
Basically call recording is controlled at kernal level & google has locked at rom level (audio file missing) in most countries due to local laws. Only China roms allow that, we in samsung i9003 section are suffering the same problem.

We have only 1 stock rom (China specific) which allows call recording & 1 custom rom based on xxkph for i9003 which does call recording with native dialer.

So its not the hardware limitation but the kernal limitation which I am sure can be overcome.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
If call recording restriction is due to local laws, why are some phones able to properly record calls and other phones can't? I'm talking unmodified phones in their factory state.

Also, I can go to Radio Shack and buy a phone recording device. Why is it legal for Radio Shack to sell such a device?

I've had two cell phones that properly record calls:

HTC TouchPro2

Motorola V60

why were these device allowed to "break the law" ?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoneguy589:
My cheap work phone...Pantech Ease, records any phone conversation I want without any issues.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickn850:
Although it is legal to record conversations in some states without consent. In some states it is illegal to record conversations without consent of the other party. Therefore for legality reasons they probably just cripple it for everyone. Its much easier than dealing with the headache of the lawsuit crazy society we live in.