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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chria01:
You fail to mention that apple supports their phones for 2 years from release unlike motorola which might be a few months. Also Apple only releases a new phone every year so that they can focus on only 2 phones at any one time while Motorola has released more phones than that so far this year on Verizon (I am having trouble finding actual release dates on phones but I think its true).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KefkaticFanatic:
The article: http://ausdroid.net/2011/04/26/the-little-aussie-taking-on-motorola-u-s/

Moto's comment (bold added for emphasis):
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
I love their bull**** carrier scapegoat. Now that HTC threw down on their decision to unlock bootloaders I'd love to hear Motorola's response.

We should all spam their Twitter and Facebook :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chria01:
Well I spam their support forums to keep the unlocked bootloader post at the top and I remember someone showing their facebook account was all people asking about unlocked bootloaders. Oh wow it is worse than I thought. Like that poll about what feature are you most excited about with the X2 and everyone is asking about unlocking the bootloader. HTC and samsung must have asked them to kindly piss off all of their customers and Motofail agreed.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KefkaticFanatic:
Spam would just make the community look like a small lot of spoiled 12 year olds. The proper way to do it would simply be open letters and petitions and whatnot. Unfortunately, those have a bad rep of never actually getting anything done so not much is thought about them. However, this one guy's petition got them to at least make that comment, so if you continue to send them simple messages of support for an unlocked bootloader and ensure people sign that petition, then that would certainly show them the real support for this. The problem is already users like us who like to mess with devices is a minority, so getting positive exposure is what we have to go for.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chria01:
The bootloader revolution has been going on for a while. HTC is Egypt and Motorola is Libya. Sanjay Jha it appears isnt going down without a fight.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Well I don't particularly mean "spam", but I mean to really, REALLY stay on their asses and keep them backed into a corner. They cannot ignore their customers. This shows such a lack of integrity and accountability on their part.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moehagene:
Apple may support their devices for the life of the device, but the dev community is where any company gets their best ideas from. Apple being a prime example using the devs to pave the way. I think it would be wise if Motorola would take a page from Apple and use our great devs for ideas on how to make our devices better.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
I hope no Android devices OEMs take any advice from Apple. Keep anything Apple-eque away from Android please!!!!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moehagene:
Just saying. Think of the possibilities of the Atrix or future devices if Motorola would build off of what our great devs do.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chria01:
I should never have mentioned the A word however I only meant that Apple provides much better support for their devices than Motorola. However Motorola has created a very iphone-esque ecosystem by disabling sideloading to force the app store/ marketplace. Locking the phone and generally being arrogant with customers. If motorola promised us that we would get regular, timely updates of the latest software over the expected life of the product that would at least make me feel a little more comforted about being being stuck without custom roms. At least kenneth saved us with gingerblur.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dudeman Broguy:
To clarify, the sideloading lockdown is AT&T's work, not Motorola's. Every other Droid model I've seen on Verizon did not have this issue.

Also, yes, Apple may seem to provide better support for their devices, but lets keep in mind how many of them they have to keep track of..... only four. Even less if you consider that the latest version of iOS is only backwards compatible with their third generation products. (iPhone 3GS and 3rd gen iPod Touch)

Motorola, HTC, and Samsung are all making multiple phones for each network, which would obviously necessitate more time needed between updates for each individual device. And like it or not, they're all designing custom versions of each version of the OS, so further development to optimize the UI for each device will take even more time.

Considering all of this, I don't see any reason to lose hope yet. The Atrix has only been on the market for about 3 months anyway. Moto hasn't forgotten about it, and as one of their flagship devices, they certainly have no plans to abandon it. The fact that the original Droid X from last year is now receiving a Gingerbread update is proof of that. I expect we'll be seeing updates on the Atrix for a quite a long time to come.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdoodle:
I think it's just a matter of compliance. AT&T wants locked boot loaders and Motorola doesn't want to say no.

HTC says they'll no longer have boot loaders and if AT&T says no, there's really nothing they can do but end relations, but that's stupid.

It's just a matter of who's got more balls so to speak.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdoodle:
Oh if anyone is following the Atrix Motorola Forum with the Bootloader Solution thread, there's a user "ryaske" post #744 who posted something very interesting.

The post he's referring to is about GPL violations. It might be worth reading into.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indiacam:
Is there anybody with information or link with latest complete list of all unlocked bootloaders from different branded and also few unbranded companies?

I have motorola milestone with locked bootloader and am disappointed with very limited option of good mods and less features.

I home my next device will be completely unlocked with all options. Anybody??

Thanks in advance...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikenley:
Check out here.

http://www.rootzwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Handsets
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitrox1:
http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/root_friendly
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indiacam:
Thanks a lot, thats hell lot of information on this page. You are fast to reply, thanks again. Five Star from me....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SedaG:
Posted below is a still very active petition with over 10,000 signatures against Motorola and their locked bootloaders. It started with dev's and consumers being impressed by the Atrix's hardware and discovering they were still going to be restricted by the locked boot loader. So this petition is not only for the Atrix but for all Moto locked phones. Go here and sign if you are interested. Not to put any other posts about this petition in the dark but this one is very large and the larger the better!

http://www.groubal.com/motorola-lockedencrypted-bootloader-policy/
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernandodistinto:
I just signed!!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason.salado:
Signed it

Atrix 1.83 Rooted Honeyglow
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defnow:
signed in blood! :mad:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernandodistinto:
Guys, please -respectfully- comment over here:

facebook.com/motorola/posts/10150275786350731

:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OkNewMedia:
Samsung are not locked on AT&T, so why would any of the others be locked? I think that AT&T is starting to realize that in order to drive Android sales, they must allow Android phones to take advantage of the openness of the OS. That is why they recently unlocked the unknown sources.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mgamerz:
Im thinking its more of the amazon app store.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G on the network with the most backhaul, whatever that is. This post might have errors as I hate touchscreen keyboards.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles2224:
I don't think so but, is it possible to port over this answer/ignore screen from Sense?? My girl is getting annoyed by the slides now. She seems to be liking iphone now.. which it is better an app deparment. Way better than android market IMO..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nissan350:
Not possible for an AOSP ROM (which I presume you're using).

That answer screen is part of the Sense framework. To port that over would mean to port over the entire framework, which isn't possible.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles2224:
Thank you, no kind of alternative huh?? She really likes that "iphone" stuff.. but unfortunatelty.. she's stuck now with the TMOUS leak , unrooted.. :P until there's a downgrade.., everything else is perfect, except she's tired of the slides.. which is dumb IMO same process right? :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nissan350:
I don't believe there is an alternative, though I could be wrong. The AOSP answer screen is part of Phone.apk and I don't believe there has been an alternative to that.

You can use alternate dialers like DialerOne (http://www.appbrain.com/app/dialer-one/kz.mek.DialerOne) which changes the dialing screen, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't change the answer screen.

Sliding or pressing to answer calls doesn't matter to me, sliding just requires a tiny bit more finger effort, lol. Tell her it's good for her finger muscles lol.

I did notice that if the phone is "awake" and someone calls, you get the "push to answer" option instead of the slider. And when it's locked, you get the "slide to answer" option. Makes sense because they want to make it harder for you to answer a call on accident when the phone is locked and in your pocket. So if someone modified Phone.apk to always present you with the "push to answer" screen, then your problem would be solved.

If you're familiar with ADB, have you tried the downgrading thread over at the development section? Supposedly you can downgrade and root any G2 with it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1055581

Then you could just load up an MIUI or Sense ROM onto her phone and she'd be happy :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles2224:
Yeah, I've rooted her phone and all.. put sense, miui, and cm roms on it but they always have problems.. so I unrooted but then put the PC10IMG of gingerbread on it :) and since there's no downgrade available right, she's stuck at slides now :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nissan350:
Lol that sucks. I love Sense and MIUI ROMs but they're a little too slow for me. I've had the most success with the InsertCoin ROM. Pretty smooth, not as smooth as CM7 though... Of course that's just my opinion.
[General Questions and Answers] freudenbauer:
Hey,

i would like to buy another Android Phone to play a little bit around with it.

It should have

- open bootloader

- hard to brick/destroy

- good community support

- enough roms to play around with

I also want to learn how to create my own roms and I dont want to make my first steps on my daily used (sadly not cheap) phone.

It shouldnt be to expensive (so guess it has to be an older one)

Freudenbauer

PS: Im sry if their is any thread like mine but I havent found a similar one. All were HowTo create a rom, but im looking for the right device to start with.
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDeform:
cheapest i can think of are the ones that came out long ago. if i was to answer try a winmo phone with android not stabled but thats the cheapest phone that can use an android
[General Questions and Answers] freudenbauer:
Thanks for your advise, but i dont need the cheapest.

I´m looking for one which fits in to my required list. Mainly the hard to brick/destroy point ist urgent for me because I know I will make a lot of mistakes while creating (and afterwards flashing) a rom. So I don´t know if the winmo phones have this ability.
[General Questions and Answers] plainjane:
Well it's not cheap, but the Evo has every request you've made. There's tons of development, it's easy to root/nand unlock (via unrevoked), and it's almost impossible to brick. Unless you pull the battery during a radio update... that'll kill it for sure. Once the Evo 3D comes out, it'll drop in price.

As for something cheaper, a Nexus One might have what you're looking for.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDeform:
Good idea here. Best bet to run with a big crowd thats been doing the testing mostly solving the possible ways to brick it
[General Questions and Answers] SERGI.3210:
Try htc hero was been my first phone and i was learn wirh it... Easy to use and with light roms and mods

Enviado desde mi Desire HD usando XDA Premium App
[General Questions and Answers] freudenbauer:
It seems like I can neither buy nor use an EVO in Europe. :(

Thanks maybe i can find a cheap one this weekend on ebay.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yihinlau:
Hi everyone,

i am kinda New user of Galaxy S, and i'm having a backup ploblem with the Tegrak Kernel builf 18

at this point i am on ZSJPK deodex rom + Tegrak Kernel builf 18 (TEGRAK lagfix (all) was enabled)

every things was smooth till i reboot my phone and hit the home button to get into the Tegrak recovery, i was tring to make a FULL backup.

So i did click on the "BACKUP /system" and the phone does succeed to backup.

and then the problem comes, i got bootloop after i did the backup thing.

and it turns out i have to reinstall the whole phone start with the download mode....

i've read some replys from the Tegrak post, and somebody did mention about we have to turn off every lagfix to install .zip update file, so do i have to disable lagfixs before i do a backup as well?

thanks a lot!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yihinlau:
help please !:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Ask in the roms thread makes sense .

jje
[Windows Phone 7 General] rvmax:
Encoding HD Video for Windows Phone 7

Zune offers by default an automatic conversion of videos for Windows Phone 7. However the quality is not always what you want, the encoding time is endless and often lacks many options such as subtitles.

This guide was produced for encoding high definition video 720p or 1080p to Windows Phone 7. You can use the same method to encode videos lower quality but the result won't be conclusive.

Software & Encoding Setup

Many programs exist to encode each with their advantages and disadvantages. Some are paying others do not.

VidCoder offers all the advantages: free, easy to use while providing many functionalities.

The encoding is configured with the following parameters:

Container

mp4 File

Video

800 x 480 resolution (default for Windows Phone 7) in order to have 1:1 pixel ratio

Codec : H264 2 Pass

Bitrate 1200 kbps

Audio

AAC Stereo 128 kbps

Experienced users can manually adjusted the settings.

Install & Configuration

Download VidCoder from official webpage : http://vidcoder.codeplex.com/

VidCoder-0.9.0-x86.exe or VidCoder-0.9.0-x64.exe

Install application with standard option

Download and unzip from this topic the xml configuration file : Windows Phone 7.xml

Start VidCoder

Click "Tools" and "Import Preset.."

Select the "Windows Phone 7.xml" file and click OK

The new Preset "Windows Phone 7" is used by default

Encoding

Drag & Drop any video in VidCoder

After tools detect your file add subtitles if you want. click Edit on subtitles line

Select your subtitles or import srt file and click "Burned In" to add it on video

Check Preview if you want and click Encode

Send video to your mobile with Zune (zune won't convert it again)

Done :)

You can now see the Best Video Quality Ever on Windows Phone 7 !

Q&A

My video is not recognized after drag & drop

Before Drag & Drop try to remux your video with mkvmerge Gui : mkvtoolnix-unicode-4.8.0-setup.exe

My subtitles doesn't work

Try to convert them to ass and integer in video with mkvmerge Gui
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Great guide, thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] yeahyeahyeah1981:
Thanks so much
[Windows Phone 7 General] SiL3nTKiLL:
wow extremely good info!
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
where were you at a few months ago??? lol

time to encode some anime for my wp7 mwahaha - with subs!!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] rvmax:
I used HDConvertToX before VidCoder.

This application is also very effective but much more complicated for an equivalent result. Drag & drop and direct dvd or bluray encode of vidcoder is very cool.

If you want to limite video size change the video bitrate settings....
[Windows Phone 7 General] evoga:
I tried Vidcoder with your wp7 presets and with Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 and It was terrible, the sound slowly goes out of sync and the framerate lags.

Using Zune to convert the film and everything was ok so I'm still sticking to Zune for the moment. Thanks for the information though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] rvmax:
I watch all my series and some movies.

2 hours action movies without lag on samsung omnia 7. Check your source video.

WP7 can play 2500 kbps video. We are far under this number.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FlowerPotmen:
I use Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, and my blu-ray movies are perfect on WP 7.

FPM
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
Handbrake

I started using Handbrake to shrink my movie file. Unfortunately, it still takes forever for Zune to transfer. What are the transfer times you guys are getting using this program?
[Windows Phone 7 General] mrdaco:
If I select external .srt subtitle, there is no option to select "burn in subtitle". So subtitles are not visible.
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
Nice tutorial there... I'm running some random vids through to check out the quality...

I normally use AVS video converter and I usually encode to 1500 or 3000 bitrate depending on the source and what the vid is... I did some tests on the battle scenes of avatar and I'm sure the 3000 bitrate was noticeably better... When I play people the avatar clip peoples jaws always drop...

Either way it seems an easy to use app... Nice one...
[Windows Phone 7 General] rvmax:
In Zune you must see "Syncing" if you see converting it's because your custom encoding preset are not compatible with device. What settings are you using ?

In this case merge the sub (ASS) with video before with mkvmerge. It's 5 min more to go.

Converte srt to ass : http://atelier.u-sub.net/converter/

1500 or 3000 will always give better results. However on a 4" screen, difference is really minimal above 1000 kbps.

Everything is a question of quality / size as well. Personally my action movies in 1200 kbps are very good and have 1 GB to 2 hours of footage:)

And for series between 150 and 600 MB.
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
To be honest, I only encode 'show off' videos @ 3000... I can see the difference even on my LG...

All the rest are 1500...
[Windows Phone 7 General] the0ne:
Great tutorial , have shared it via 1800pocketpc : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2011/06/05/encoding-hd-videos-with-subtitles-for-windows-phone-tutorial.html
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
What a waste of time WP7 is

What a waste of time Zune is....

I don't want to be obliged to encode or convert my movies, etc.

I just want to drag & drop my AVI movie files to my phone and watch them immediately, like I always did before with WinMo.

Why WP7 is still not supporting DivX|avi file format?

And let me avoid Zune. It wastes my time and does a bad job.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Then use an OS that meets your need to drag and drop files directly to the device. Far from a waste of time because it doesnt work for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sahil00150:
Thank You Buddy................
[Windows Phone 7 General] thekiller99:
"I just want to drag & drop" Rofl? Get off your lazy ass. You are the kind of people that just leech off others and don't appreciate what other people contributed to this community. Maybe you should've done some research before you got the phone. The reason why Microsoft wants us to use Zune is that they can make more profit, thats how the business world works. If it wastes your time then just watch it on your Pc then, no one is stopping you from doing that.

Back to the point the converter is very nice however it takes around 50-60mins to convert the HD video(40mins duration) which does seem to be quite a large amount of time but overall quality is good :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
I'll check it out on my system tomorrow and see how some anime goes...or doctor who...
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
What files are you guys using? I used AnyDVD to rip a Blu-ray and pointed Vidcoder to the folder structure but it estimates 1 day for encoding. Is this conversion time frame normal or am I missing something? Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
[Windows Phone 7 General] thekiller99:
1 pass and 2 pass...does it make a significant difference?? beacuse i tried it and honestly i can't tell the difference
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.8820:
Thank you :)!
[Windows Phone 7 General] teufel_es:
Please, i need advice, urgent.

I am studying for a cisco certification, i have some training videos on wmv format, i thought that they would be transfered automatically to my lg optimus 7 without been reencoded by zune, it was not the case, zune reencoded the files with some terrible quality, and it took forever to convert a 15 mb files, i saw this how to guide, i followed it, i was not able to use your first preset because it would take more than 1 hour per file, i tried the wp7fast preset, the files were converted succesfully, the problem comes when i try to transfer the files to my mobile, still zune reencodes the files it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to encode a file but when i try to play the file on the mobile, it does not play, it stays at 00:00 and does not start, is there any option i need to select to avoid zune encoding the files, a funny thing is that the original files are playable on wp7, how do i know that?, because i used tonido to transfer a file to my phone and it played very well, the problem is that tonido does not show the video fullscreen and it is a hell of a slow process because the files are transfered through the tonido servers so the process depends on my upload speed, which is 500kb, i need the files on my phone so i can watch them on my way to work and whenever i can. I used your wp7 fast preset exactly as it was created by you.

I hope you can give me an advice.:confused: Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
For the meantime, use this classic HTC HD Encoder app...

Linkie...
[Windows Phone 7 General] frodiggs:
Doing that as well (AVS) at about 2500 bitrate but my 1080p music vid recently came out letterboxed on the Focus. Should the Zoom be full and aspect ration 16:9?

funny as i had converted UP awhile back which filled the screen.
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
AVS Video Converter has aspect ratio changes... Depending on what version you use will depend on where the aspect ratio changes will be...

I'm using 7.1 and its located in "Advanced"... You can set source aspect, output aspect and zoom to crop... Click along the video timeline to check the crop is correct...
[Windows Phone 7 General] frodiggs:
Yikes I was looking at Xilisoft Video Converter and had AVS on the brain. Now i think i recall trimming but AVS hangs a tad under win 7 x64 for me
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strike_Eagle:
Anyone here have a problem when playing the video on your Windows Phone?

I use this menthod to encode a "Shooter" Movie (578x234), NO SUB, and having a problem with low FPS when viewing the movie on my HD7, cause the sound go far above the image of the movie.I have to pause and then press play again.

The movie is about 2 hrs long.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Yohan_B:
Great !!

It work very well, thanks you !