yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] boborone:
Apps would need to be 2.3 compatible. Tibu wouldn't be of any use. Nandroid never backed up all of the captivates files. So neither would be wise. Have a bunch of apps that might not work, and a backup that didn't back everything up.

Just save to a folder on your computer the rom you're on, the mods you have done, and copy the tibu file that you make after backing up your apps. That way you can go back to what ever rom you're on now.

This all of course assumes that you're running a 2.2 rom now. Otherwise, you're on a 2.3 rom, yeah tibu your apps.
[Captivate General] clemmie:
Does anyone have any suggestions for backing up contacts, etc then?
[Captivate General] nakedninja42:
Wouldn't the apps get updated from the market after installing? Of course its just the data apps like a game not any system apps.

I ask because I have not had any problems with restoring games and other apps like gtasks using tibu after going from 2.3 back to 2.2 then back to 2.3.
[Captivate General] bames:
any word on official push?
[Captivate General] nakedninja42:
Do you have them synced with google or other email account you use with the phone? If so then that would save your contact numbers. For sms there is sms backup+
[Captivate General] NascarFastcar:
Ill wait intill it's offical. I have to see if my current captivate is going to shutdown on me. 6th replacement phone that has random shutdowns... My current one just started shutting down about 2 weeks after I got it. Then it shut down once a day. Just odin'd it back to jh7 and installed froyo from kies myself. Been two days and it's fine lol.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Just incentivizing the process.;)
[Captivate General] alexige:
I think he means if u do a TiBu backup and a particular app developer hasnt yet made their app compatible with 2.3 yet then that specific app will not install.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
What?:eek: You mean a TiBu backup will be useless for me? Does that apply just to things like contacts and BT pairings, etc. or to apps and their data, as well?
[Captivate General] boborone:
Provided you setup the initial first boot to save information to your google account, all bt and wifi pairings and passwords will be saved to the cloud (I hate that phrase). Every android device you sign into will automatically bring those settings to itself from Google's servers. Contacts you save the same way, google account sync. Apps and data, don't remember how we all went to froyo from eclair.
[Captivate General] clemmie:
That was my concern. Some contacts are google paired, others are only on the phone. I'm not too concerned about apps in particular because they can be redownloaded, but losing contact info is not cool.
[Captivate General] bigbooty:
Wrong.

Don't master clear when going back to stock. Your tibu folder will be unchanged and usable after flashing this. Back up what you want flash this, use DG's root file and tibu will restore everything for you just fine. I was on Amdromeda3 right before this and I'm running this rooted with all apps and data restored. Runs sweet.
[Captivate General] boborone:
When you make a new contact from now on, make it a new google contact.
[Captivate General] alexige:
i think for what ever reason bt, wifi, and such do indeed get backed up but for some reason dont get restored with samsung roms. CM7 will restore and probably other companies phones but i remember reading somewhere samsung roms wont restore other than contacts and calendars from the google servers.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Are all of your apps working? I'll bet some of em have lazy developers and haven't made them 2.3 compatible. Or they could be greedy like some did with the froyo change and made a new one that you would have to buy so you can have the same app for more money.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Huh, no idea that happened. Thanks for that tidbit.
[Captivate General] chrislj:
This new rom does indeed have new bootloaders and they are required. I removed them from the package and flashed the rom and it boots still but the screens are corrupted. The only one you can see is the AT&t logo but I'm not sure which boot file it's coming from.

Is the sbl.bin or boot.bin first? Can you flash one and not the other?
[Captivate General] bigbooty:
Yes they are. Of course they also worked on every gb rom on the forum when I ran them.
[Captivate General] clemmie:
I followed nakedninja42's mini guide and everything worked without a hitch. After rooting, I reinstalled TiBU and all is well. Contacts etc are restored.
[Captivate General] kdwolf85:
I made an Odin 1 click over in the development forum as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127249
[Captivate General] chrislj:
All the experimenting with different things I got tired of putting the various files into their correct spots in Odin so I made 2 1-click downloaders for myself. The big one has the stock rom but the stock kernel is replaced with the Fugu kernel. The other has the stock kernel. It makes things much speedier when I screw up lol.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
This doesn't help me since I don't sync anything to Google's cloud. My contacts and calendar are synced from Outlook via Windows Live (Hotmail), so I'm guessing once I re-enter my Hotmail account info on the phone it will resync all that stuff again. Eff Google!:D
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
I'm going to out on a limb and say sbl.bin is the Secondary Boot Loader.

Mismached bootloaders can and probably will result in a permanent brick.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
So, early adopters, any issues to report? Any bugs, things not working? How about some screen shots? This could tempt me away from Andromeda if I'm not careful.:p
[Captivate General] AdamOutler:
Its not Armani. Im working on a Heimdall one-click frontend for developers to package their ROM in a One-Click package.
[Acer Iconia A500] pintness:
Hi Iconia-Lovers,

I really love my Tab for web-browsing and gaming, but you have to admit it sucks at video playing. MP4 and 3GP are crappy formats that are hardly used in RL und converting your whole video and movie collection isn't a real option.

I had have an Archos A70 which plays even 1080p MKV flawless with a single core 1GHZ CPU, but relies on an additional decoding chip if i get this right.

In theory, the Tegra 2 has more than enough power to play 1080p files, right?

I already tried like 6 different media players but all of them weren't able to play 720p mkvs nice and even non-HD-avi-files felt a little slowed-down.

So can we hope for a hardware-accelerated media player that enables alle the joy of moving pictures for us? Will possibly acer itself help us out on this issue? What are Samsung and Motorola doing on their Gingerbread tablets to enable nice media playing?

Hoping for a better tomorrow

Cheers

pint
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
you sure about that?? my 101 throws a fit with 1080p mkv videos and both use the the firmware.

but i agree, i would love better video support on the iconia, since it runs circles around my archos when it comes to everything else.
[Acer Iconia A500] ben.marks:
Tried VPlayer? it costs like $4/ £2.30 but it can play practically all standards, not sure how it fares for 1080p tho.

I had it playing .avi and .mkv fine though.

Vplayer--

Video formats: divx/xvid, wmv, m4v, flv, rmvb, avi, mkv, mov, mp4, 3gp, ts, tp...

Streaming: http, rtsp, mms and m3u(apple http stream, m3u8)
[Acer Iconia A500] MurderCity420:
I use UPnPlay (network streaming) along with MoboPlayer and it has played everything i have on my NAS very well.
[Acer Iconia A500] Droidify:
Also I know Rockplayer gives you the option of hardware/software decoding so you may want to give that a try if you haven't already. There is a free version.
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
Both moboplayer and rock player are useless for my 720p and 1080p videos... total stutterfest, but that's a known thing for tegra devices on 3.0...
[Acer Iconia A500] lord_voldemort666:
Hmmm... I use moboplayer, and every 720 did I've tried has been great! I haven't tried any 1080p vids though.
[Acer Iconia A500] amtzone:
tested 1080 quality....the videos lag and the audio missing....

hope acer will figure it out....:D:D:D
[Acer Iconia A500] MurderCity420:
Avatar & 10,000 B.C. in 1080P using UPnPlay & MoboPlayer streamed from my WD NAS, looks great. No lagging at all.
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
not another one of these threads..
[Acer Iconia A500] lord_voldemort666:
Guess what? You aren't being forced to read this thread. :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
Guess what? It pushes down other, more quality threads.

Guess what? There's already something like 6 or 7 threads EXACTLY LIKE THIS ONE already.

Guess what? People need to learn to use the search function.

Guess what? Guess what? Guess what? :) :) :) :)
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
^ If you don't like it, report it to a mod and move on...
[Acer Iconia A500] lord_voldemort666:
Guess what? You've just caused this thread to get bumped several times.

XP
[Acer Iconia A500] RaveOn911:
I have been trying all the suggested encoders to get smooth playback for film material as 60/50hz works fine. I maybe more sensative to it than others as I tent to look for it on moving objects. But I got it to replace a media player too.

I tried the script posted in another thread with good results but the jump is still there.

Bought DVD Catalist 4 with same results.

Freemake with custom profile same again.

Handbreak I find too slow but I read it works but can't verify it.

Any Video Converter Pro with xoom profile WORKS - it has very little judder but having to strip the subtitles out of the MKV every time is a real pain ( Anyone know how to disable them ) and it's too expensive anyway.

Trying to edit DVD Catalist 4 profile now but no success yet

Oh and I tried Vplayer , Rockplayer , Moboplayer and any others I could find

Hope my two weeks at this helps somone else out.
[Acer Iconia A500] e.mote:
@RaveOn911

With any problem, you need to find its parameters. Only a handful of people notice the "micro-stutter" deal, so it's either a user sensitivity issue, or a tablet-centric issue (which could be hardware or software, user-caused or device defect).

Ask somebody to watch a video clip on your tablet, and ask them if they see anything wrong with playback. Don't tell him beforehand about "micro-stutter", as you don't want to bias his observation.

If he notices the stutter, it's your tablet. If he doesn't, it's you.

If the first, then bring a video clip on a uSD card into a store and try it on other tablets (hopefully with same or similar make as yours). If it doesn't happen on other tabs, then replace your tab. If it happens on every other tab, then again it's you.

If you have heightened sensitivity, then there may be params that can alleviate the issue. The default interleave for MP4Box is 0.5s. You can reduce this interleave, eg

MP4Box -inter 250 -add infile.mp4 -new outfile.mp4

(or)

MP4Box -tight -add infile.mp4 -new outfile.mp4

MP4Box works on MP4 only. Given that MKVs can only play in software mode currently on Teg2 tabs, it's a fool's errand to play MKV and claim that they don't play smoothly. Avail of the native support.
[Acer Iconia A500] tazm0n:
Mobo Player plays my mkv and xvid/divx AVI's just fine. I'm no codec/encoding expert, but from what I've read it's worth re-encoding some of the files to a more manageable bitrate for both audio and video and maybe dump the 5.1 or AC3 audio. I haven't looked at every file I've played, but a couple that would choke on my Win7 Asus netbook, I re-encoded with Handbrake. They still look and sound great.
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
I understood that that's the whole point the OP was trying to make: he wishes that someone makes a video player application that can handle MKVs via the hardware decoder. It's not a bad thing to wish for, either; it would provide better performance and hardware playback uses less battery, too.

The question remains: is it possible? As far as I know, the chip itself doesn't get relayed anything more than the actual video stream inside the file, regardless of the container, and thus an app should be able to do exactly that. But since I don't know anything about Android internals are applications given any such access?

My N900 phone uses regular GStreamer stack and thus you can demux anything you want and supply the video stream to the hardware decoder. As long as it's H.264 normal profile and not too high a resolution it'll play, regardless of the originating container.
[Acer Iconia A500] e.mote:
There's nothing wrong with wishing, but until it happens, we have to use what we've got. For HC, for now that means MP4 for native support.

3.1 thus far has been worse than 2.x insofar as multimedia, probably because vendors have had 2.x for much longer, and were able to add enhanced support. A good case in point is the Samsung GalTab 7 vs the GalTab 10.1. The 7, released last year, can play MKV. The new 10.1 can't. Ditto for all the "my old phone can play MKV, why can't my tablet" complaints. It is what it is.

From all indications, HC was and is a rush job. It had to be pushed out the door because of competition from the iPad. I think the prospective buyer should understand that s/he is buying into a beta, and temper his expectations accordingly. Android has high potential, but now isn't then.

I've written a script that does fast remux/convert to MP4. A straight remux takes a few minutes, and it can process batch. It's a more productive route than wishing for a HW-accel player to come along.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102922
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
I suppose that's a matter of viewpoint.

I took a look at the MediaPlayer class in Google's APIs and it seems to me that it should be fairly straightforward to demux the MKV file in software on-the-fly, create named pipe with mkfifo and feed the MediaPlayer class the raw video stream via that. Just throw a simple GUI on top of that and you have a rudimentary video player capable of playing MKV files with hardware accelerated video.

I'll try it out once I receive my tablet, was planning to learn Android programming anyways.

PS. Bah, doesn't allow me to post links yet :/
[Acer Iconia A500] e.mote:
Good that you're planning a proactive route. My plan is similar. I think, however, it would well behoove one to discard the "it looks simple enough" notion. Common sense dictates that if it were simple, it would have already been done. There are many smart coders out there, some of whom have long experience with media players, and they're still working on it--Coreplayer, VLC, BSPlayer, etc.

Good fortune all the same. Hope to see the fruits of your labor in the months to come.
[Acer Iconia A500] pintness:
Yes, it works a little better than the other Players, but still unwatchable because of artifacts and slowdowns.

Streaming is not really an option for me because i want to use it on the go :)

i didn't find any threads regarding video hardware acceleration.

thanks for bumping though :D

Yep, that's what i meant.

I guess i just have to wait a little until gingerbread grows up.

Thank you guys for the answers!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
Hey everybody!

Last time I gave my new s2 to my girlfriend, she installed an strange app from the market called pesoguin sakura dance (free) (should be on top if you search "tamagotchi" :D - it was surely the last time i handed it over to her haha).

Reading a comment like "damaged my phone" about the app unsettled me a bit and leads me to the question, if an app from the market could damage my/a phone irreparable?

I tested that app with lookout and didn't find anything. If you look on over 260 averaged 4 stars ratings and 50 - 250 000 downloads you shouln't think that there's something wrong. But, as i said, there's that comment; and i heard from another guy that there could be apps, which change the os of a phone.

Am I too careful and there's nothing (with this app) that should upset me or are there apps which do sth without me realizing anything.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoney73:
May I ask what your previous phone was?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty warrior:
May I ask what your previous car was?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
any serious and helpfull comments?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coniglio:
Dunno! Hoping to get some answers :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Micksta:
Reason being it's a pretty stupid question :)

Unless the app *gets* (by that I mean, you approve) root access, it ain't screwing anything up...

It's always a good practise to read over the permissions the app requires and ask yourself "Does it really need these?"

Btw... please uninstall Lookout...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
hmm..stupid question, ya?

so i heard sth. what you obviously didnt hear, namely that there are definetly malicious apps which get root-access without me approving that.

and please get me in the enjoyment of your knowledge why i shouldnt use lookout :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty warrior:
come on it wasnt stupid

made me think about those viruses on the market place
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Micksta:
Pretty sure Superuser would pop-up with any request for root access, don't think there is a way around that...

I am against running an Anti-Virus/Malware client on my phone. IMO it's a stupid idea. I don't want to get in an argument, if you want to run Lookout or similar apps, I'm not going to stop you. It's like the 'why use a Task Manager/App-Killer' argument...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crucio_:
i dont think that he has asked a stupid question, asked people if they know of any dangerous apps isnt a bad question. you say su would pop up if it was going to be something bad, but you assume he is rooted ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woodstock_ahem:
I feel a valid concern has been raised in the OP.

The apps available in the marketplace should be vetted but as we know its not.

after rooting the phone...it more or less becomes like the home PC.

personally i download apps only from big corporations...but i do understand most ppl like to try out new & tempting stuff on their phones...

since i access lots of personal accounts from my phone, i keep away from apps which comes from sources i havent heard before...

ignorance is bliss at times...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robin M:
I don't think he asked a stupid question either. I have found a few malicious apps in the Market that download unwanted garbage to your phone. It surprises me that the Market does not screen out such apps before posting.

That said, I think he definitely needs a new girlfriend.

Sent from Galaxy Tab with XDA app
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
hahaha...no;) she's cute and no..she isn't someone whos playing tamagotchi stuff;)

b2t. should i be in sorrow after downloaded pesoguin sakura dance? the developer artsplanet inc isnt that small..

btw. my phone is rooted.

thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
nobody that can calm me? :/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
I can get round the superuser popup on many phones... So it's not enough to rely on that alone.

I suggest you do run a reliable AV program if you are at all concerned
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Btw, few apps are likely to cause serious harm.

If something gets root, in theory it can cause a lot of damage, but normally they aim to quietly install other files without you knowing.

So if you want to start clean, remove and wipe your sd, clear all app data, and reflash the latest rom via odin or kies

If an app had root, it could have modified your system partition, so the reflash matters.

But in theory, someone could delete everything from your phone, or brick it (on some devices), though I am not aware of any such apps
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turborider:
yes there are very dangerous apps in Android Market like this one for example Albanian Keyboard wich is steals all u data like a key logger and no one in there are doing anything to ban or remove that crap :mad:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoney73:
of course you can.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
so what do you think about that pesoguin sakura dance app (free)?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolmensch:
Shouldn't be that problematic especially as most security holes are patched in gingerbread. AFAIK the most viruses are only able to harm FroYo and lower OS'es.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkath.:
so am i right, that everybody here already assumes that the app i downloaded is malicious!?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machatta:
Where did you see the comments about the app damaging phones? I looked at the app on the market and apart from one negative comment about it not uninstalling it was all about levels of cuteness.

It doesnt look for any unexpected permissions - internet access and location. And, googling the subject it seems to be a thing in Japan.

I dont see why you think the app is malicous.

Contrary to some of the comments on the thread though, nothing wrong with using scanning software (especially on this phone where it wont clog up the memory) and yeah, some fairly malicous stuff has been discovered. Most of the major AV providors have android apps. I can't be bothered as I dont install any non-well known apps really.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/

Think about permissions when you install apps - that's a bit of a bugbear for me in that I dont see why a lot of apps need the permissions being sought.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/security.html

Google consider that allowing users to accept or reject individual permissions would be a bit much or too complicated or whatever. If you dont see why something want to access contacts etc, dont install it.

If you really want to use the apk, use "permissions denied" from the market to disable individual permissions.

Android has taken linux mass market for the first time so yeah, more and more malware will appear.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mightbme:
No such thing as a stupid question Micksta...just stupid answers :p.

I'm sure there are subjects which you know little about....that's what this forum is about..don't let it end up with the same culture as whirlpool where though people have sound knowledge, many also have attitude. I'm not saying that you were particulalry harsh...just that any question asked is valid.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvpeterson:
Is there some sort of list maintained by Google that shows a list of malicious apps?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elar:
At least this is some kind of a list although it's about virus-infected apps and have been removed already:

Developer: Magic Photo Studio

Sexy Girls: Hot Japanese

Sexy Legs

HOT Girls 4

Beauty Breasts

Sex Sound

Sex Sound: Japanese

HOT Girls 1

HOT Girls 2

HOT Girls 3

Developer: Mango Studio

Floating Image Free

System Monitor

Super StopWatch and Timer

System Info Manager

Developer: BeeGoo

Quick Photo Grid

Delete Contacts

Quick Uninstaller

Contact Master

Brightness Settings

Volume Manager

Super Photo Enhance

Super Color Flashlight

Paint Master

Developer: DroidPlus

Quick Cleaner

Super App Manager

Quick SMS Backup

Developer: E.T. Team

Call End Vibrate

Developer: GluMobi

Tetris

Bubble Buster Free

Quick History Eraser

Super Compass and Leveler

Go FallDown !

Solitaire Free

Scientific Calculator

TenDrip

Source: phonearena.com/news/Android-pulls-two-dozen-virus-infected-apps-from-the-Market-over-30000-users-affected_id19272
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnDruid:
Well, any "Google known" malicious apps would(should?) have been removed already. And most folks who would find such an app can use "flag as inappropriate" in the Market. However I am not sure what can we or Google do in case the app was installed some other way than market, say the Amazon App Store or any other appstore or a direct browser download.