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[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Hey, i flashed a radio a few days back, and my phone got stuck on the HTC boot screen. Took quite long so i pulled the battery, and went into recovery, so it gave me errors (can't mount cache etc.) Restored a nandroid backup and it worked like a charm. Now my question is that was the error because i pulled out the battery and didn't let the phone boot? Does the fist boot after flashing a new radio take long? If yes, how long?(approximately - )
[HTC Desire S] Adidas108:
yeah take longer then classic boot..sometimes up to 5 min
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
thanks, last time i panicked......
[HTC Desire S] InfernalByte:
In my opinion you've been sooooo freakin' lucky. DO NOT FLASH A RADIO UNLESS ITS ESSENTIAL!!!! DO NO FLASH RADIO@S ON A WHIM.

Very little if nothing at all is known about recovering from a bad radio sector (NVRam) flash, and your very lucky you haven't turned your Desire S into a very expensive calculator.
[HTC Desire S] InfernalByte:
In my opinion you've been sooooo freakin' lucky. DO NOT FLASH A RADIO UNLESS ITS ESSENTIAL!!!! DO NO FLASH RADIO'S ON A WHIM.

Very little if nothing at all is known about recovering from a bad radio sector (NVRam) flash, and your very lucky you haven't turned your Desire S into a very expensive calculator.
[HTC Desire S] Numline1:
Advice #2: Never ever pull out your battery while the phone is turned on or booting up. It can get very nasty. True story.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
Hello everyone,

I've been trying to get my U8800 working with this application: Viber Android Market Free

Making a call/Receiving a call, on the other side (other phone) they can't hear me. I guess it's my device that's not supported.

Does anyone here got this application working? It is very handy.. :)

Thank you!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Spammaren:
Use Skype instead? They're exactly the same.

Can't post links, too new;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] timeslotPT:
Hi,

I just bought my ideosX5 from TMN portugal and manged to install the Viber app and make/receive phone calls without any issues (over wifi).

Cheers
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
Thanks for both answers.

@Spammaren, I also have Skype. But wanted to try this app.

@timeslotPT, Mine was bought at Tmn too. Are you using a custom rom?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Poulsen8r:
Which rom are you using? MIUI and CM7 have broken Voice recordding so this app will not work with either or these roms. There is possibly the same problem with Oxygen (Fairly sure it's not though). It will work with Void or any stock rom.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
I am using void #eridanus and it's not working.. :S
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] simplistian:
I called an iPhone user with viber it works on the stock B137 ROM.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
What is causing my problem is the modded ROM. Since it's not the original, something triggers and Viber doesn't work. Which is very odd. :S

Anyway, thanks for all the feedback.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] burakerenn:
I should inform you that void #eridanus does not have such an issue. I was using it on #eridanus without any errors. So I think your conclusion about Viber is not working because of void ROM is wrong.

Probably something had got corrupted and you needed to clear data or something.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
Well, if it worked with you then I apologize for my precipitated conclusion.

Will try again and see if it works.

EDIT: With the new version, it still doesn't work. Well..I'm unlucky. :P

Thanks
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
Started using Miui, and tried the Viber app once again. Surprisingly, it doesn't work either.

Any thoughts to solve the problem?

Thank you
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] XphX:
Maybe you can use the Viber-protocol with another client?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] entrapmen:
I'm using miui (latest) and viber without a problem, never heard a problem other than you. Did make titanium backup/restore or install it from market? Did you make a clean install of miui or upgrade a from an early release?

Sent from my u8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ArbiterGR:
I'm using viber since my htc wildfire days, and using it on ideos x5 on stock rom and the latest MIUI posted @ dev section and it works fine. It seems to "lock up" from time to time, but it's random.

Overall, it works good :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] l3gionPT:
Thanks for your answers.

I made a clean "install", made all wipes and factory reset.

I installed Viber from market, clean install too (no restores or anything like that).

This is really annoying, i would like to use this useful app with friends. :(
[Atrix 4G General] sniffs:
Why does Motorola remove this from it's phones? Recently upgraded my DroidX to GB and it has screen OFF animations, but not screen ON animation.

Upgraded my Atrix to GB and same thing..

Anyone know of a way to enable this?
[Atrix 4G General] hotweels258:
There is no screen on animation. Not even on a stock nexus s.
[Atrix 4G General] sniffs:
Yeah there is..It's on Cm7(it's on my Droid 1), and apprently this version of Gingerbread in this video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClA8sU5SH8

Is this a feature of Cm7 only?
[Atrix 4G General] kkeo:
That's an adw launcher feature
[Atrix 4G General] sniffs:
The screen on animation that is opposite the screen off animation is an ADW feature?

I am running ADW on 2 of my devices and I don't see that feature anywhere.
[Atrix 4G General] darkamikaze:
the screen on animation on cm7 is just the reversed screen off.. and it was compiled by someone to work on cm7.

TL;DR

Does not come standard with GB.
[Atrix 4G General] Anthonok:
Yeah it's only an option on CM7.

Sent via the power of a unicorn's horn.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I needed a PDF viewer for my own purposes, and the closest I could find was Maciej's PDF Viewer (=apv) app on the market. It was open source, and so I made a bunch of changes that I wanted or needed. Anyway, I now have a pre-release for version 0.3.0, which include a bunch of enhancements since Maciej's 0.2.9 release.

Here it is.

New features:

- speed optimizations

- page number display

- options including: full screen, reverse video, various tweaks, page with volume keys

- overhauled file selection: added icons for directories, added home directory option

- better font rendering
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Now I posted pre-release 0.3.0 pre 2. Includes a monochrome feature to save memory and a zoom-to-width feature which I think people will find handy.
[Android Apps and Games] asifito:
Sounds like you know what your doing. Not had a chance to test your app yet, but does it have the functionality to add bookmarks and highlight text?
[Android Apps and Games] DanBroChill:
Gonna try it out now, thanks!:)
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
No, there is no annotation, sorry. Just reading.
[Android Apps and Games] Hund:
Its really nice with open source alternatives. Im gonna try it out. :)
[Android Apps and Games] trail1091:
I think i will love this. thanks bud
[Android Apps and Games] sark666:
I haven't tried it yet but it would be great if you could add zoom to a fixed percentage

the reason I want that is some pdfs have huge fonts for the page numbering and while technically fit to width is working, there's still a fair amount of room on the sides. Obviously this should be sticky. A bonus would be it would remember the setting by filename
[Android Apps and Games] moav:
Works good, one option I'd love to get is fixed scrolling like with browsers
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Zoom settings are indeed remembered by filename.

You can also adjust how much the zoom buttons zoom by. If you set that to 5% or 10%, you can do zoom-to-width and then press the zoom button once or twice.

Eventually, I'd like it to detect the real edges of the text.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I couldn't figure out how to implement that. Moreover, I find it's poorly implemented in the browser--it locks much better on my device into horizontal movement than into vertical movement!

Instead, there is a "vertical scroll lock" option. This locks the scrolling to be only vertical, unless you make a serious (1/5 screen width) swipe left or right which temporarily unlocks horizontal scrolling.
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
I`ve just tested this app for half an hour with a bunch of PDFs littered in my Desire. This is without exaggeration the best pdf-viewer I´ve seen so far.

Very useful:

- zooming in steps as little as 5% because most PDFs were made for monitors or printing and not smartphones

- inverting the screen for reading at night or low-light conditions. It also saves power on my screen to read white text with black background.

- and it´s FAST :cool:

What I miss:

- an option to forget about the layout of a PDF, so I can only get the pure text. This would be very useful for PDFs designed for magazines with a columned layout, which is a pain to read on a handheld computer.

Keep up the good work :D
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Remember, too, that if you set the 5% zoom option, you can still long-touch the zoom buttons for a 2X zoom.
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
Wow, haven´t noticed that - that´s quite useful.

Originally I thought of requesting a feature to remember the place where I closed the document because I´m used to open things in the ES explorer.

Then I stumbled through the built-in file explorer - feature implemented :D

Maybe an FAQ or a short manual would be useful ...
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
There is a wiki on the project page. You can add a FAQ. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
It's a great light app and it has some cool features which I miss on other apps. But my primary feature for PDF readers is smoothness.

It would be great if it would be working as smooth as Documents To Go (their PDF reader). By smooth I mean smooth rendering and scrolling. Also it won't hurt to have multitouch zooming.

I know it's easy to demand and hard to do but at least there are ideas what should be present in the next versions.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
That's largely a matter of speed, and it's going to be hard to improve that, except by expending a lot of memory for caching and background rendering.

I agree, but it is a finicky feature to implement correctly and hence requires a multitouch device for debugging. I don't own one. Moreover, there are potential patent issues.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I've just posted 0.3.0 pre 13. This unfortunately has a new bookmark database, not compatible with previous versions, so people will lose their per-document settings. I am hoping this is the last such loss--the new format will make code maintenance easier and is easily upward expandable.

New features/fixes in pre 13:

- store horizontal offset in per-document settings

- better restore of zoom if orientation has changed

- fix round-off error which resulted in occasional horizontal one-pixel-width errors
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
I would also like to mention the color feature in your app is really great! Now I can read without hurting my eyes in the dark and it saves batter as well. Great feature indeed!

hmmm what if you make the memory size for caching an option in the settings for users to choose their optimum size? Do you believe that this would make any speed improvements?

I see it's kind a hard/expensive to make this feature possible. Darn US laws on patents :-/ don't know if in EU is the same for Android apps but for C++ and other programming languages, there are no e-patents.

Keep on your great work!

PS: I'm using HTC Desire (CM7 rom)
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Maybe, but it would need a smarter pre-render queue than we currently have. I experimented with making one, but my attempts were buggy so I got rid of them.

Tell me which scrolling pattern you'd like to be faster? Currently the app (in render ahead mode) is optimized for ebook reading: you read a page, and while you read the page, the next one is rendered and shows up instantly when you flip pages (I generally do that with the volume-down key) or scroll vertically to it.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug somewhere, perhaps only on devices with larger screen resolutions (it works fine on my 854x480 Archos, but I am told that it doesn't work on a 1280x960 screen), which makes the next page not show up instantly.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Question: Can you open a PDF file in ES Explorer and have it show up in APV? And does it restore the bookmark then?
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
Almost all PDFs are wider than my screen can handle, unless I zoom out to a level where the text is illegibly small.

Adobe's own Android PDF viewer can reflow text to avoid horizontal scrolling while still keeping the font large enough so you don't have to point a microscope at your phone.

If Adobe can do it, it can't be that hard. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
It can be done, but would require a lot of changes in how we draw the pages.

Personally, I am inclined to think that the whole point of a PDF file is that it keeps the page layout. If you're going to reflow text, you might as well convert the PDF file to a proper reflowable format like html or epub (e.g., with Calibre) and view with a dedicated reflowable ebook viewer like Moon+. Even if we add reflowable text support, we're never going to be able to match the feature set of a dedicated reflowable ebook viewer.

There are two qualifications to this:

1. Some PDFs have rights restrictions that do not permit export of text. For those PDFs, in those countries where there are laws that may require one to respect the rights restrictions, there is a real advantage to having the PDF viewer do the reflowable viewing if one can't legally convert to a reflowable format.

2. It would be nice to be able to do the conversion on-device. A feature to export the PDF to html or epub would be useful.
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
Really a great pdf viewer . Full featured but low on resources . Thank u.

Waiting for 1.0
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Could you explain what you mean by "low on resources"? Too much memory usage?
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
If you can change the icon to suit the rock solid app.

Best thing is that it remembers page no. And zoom levels . That is really what needed and lacking in most of the professional apps.

Thank u . Once again for sharing .
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
I meant low burden on resources .

Missed a word. Sorry.

(thanks XT9 )

(again thanks to XT9 )
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
Yes, it does remember it as if I had opened it through the internal file browser. I´ll download the newer version and test further after I had dinner :D
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
I use vertical scroll in render ahead (if possible this pattern could be faster). Usually I read magazines in PDF format thus I switch between pages more often then in a book. When I swipe down the screen to scroll and wait to go further on to next pages it's "scrolling" movement is lagging (it seems to me that this is partly because there was not enough time for the device to cash in those pages or render them quickly enough), sometimes there are black screens but in a few moments the pages load up. Your render process as I've tested is quite more faster then in Documents To Go they only use a bit different method to scroll down the pages or they use a different render method.

HTC Desire has 800x480 screen. When I read a page and then move to the next one the page shows up instantly but if I scroll down for more pages, then after a 3rd or 4th page, other pages don't show up instantly but I believe that this is normal behavior (namely the device is probably to slow to cash in those pages so quickly, that's my theory. I have the device speed limitation in my mind but unfortunately I'm not a dev to explain things more precisely nor the correct knowledge to make right assumptions).
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
Layout preservation made sense back when PDFs were only printed or displayed on big computer screens. Even the creator of the PDF format agrees that the original point doesn't work anymore. Adobe puts text reflow in its own Android app.

Copyrights that restrict export of text from PDFs are usually irrelevant, because most copyright laws have fair use clauses that allow for exporting/converting/copying content for personal use. Copyright is not really meant to restrict making copies, but to restrict distribution of copies.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
The DMCA has no such clauses. :-(
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Right: APV only renders one screen ahead. Rendering further ahead would increase memory usage by about 3/4 of a megabyte per screen, and would require a render queue with prioritization. I tried to implement that, but my effort was so buggy that I abandoned the effort. Post an enhancement request on the project's Issue page and I may eventually get to it. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
I worked around 10 years in an advertising agency and saw the rise of the PDF format from that point of view. In my opinion the whole point of the PDF format was to minimize the costs from layout to printing and to optimize the workflow in prepress. Furthermore the offset printer no longer had to manage multiple software packages and a large array of fonts - all he needed was a CTF or CTP machinery and the PDF, which has all pictures and fonts embedded.

As a side effect you could distribute the same file with lower picture-resolution via the web.

And THIS is imho the real cause for the rise of the PDF format.

Why the long babble?

Because I think the typical Android-user who comes across a PDF on the web don´t want to convert it first to epub or html via Calibre on his PC but to read it on the spot. Unfortunately many times these PDFs are made for viewing with a PC so the text reflow option (that was, what I meant in my first post :) ) would be a blessing for this app.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I suppose it depends on one's main use for a PDF reader. I deliberately copy the PDF files onto my Android device rather than downloading them with the device.

How about instead have APV export to html, and then launch an ebook reader, or maybe even just the browser, to read it?
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
If the export is easier to implement - why not :D

I´m no programmer, but if you grab the raw text out of an PDF and send it to another app, an ebook-reader would be preferable: most of them have features like color-invert and choosable font-size and/or zoom.

I personally use FBReader, which has all features I need - especially useful for me is the connection to ColorDict, a translator-app, cause I frequently have to look up unknown words.

But maybe it´s best to let the user decide to what to do with the raw text.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
1. I fixed a unicode search bug. I'm particularly interested if the search now works for CJK languages. The fix is in pre14.

2. The text export will have to await after the 0.3.0 release. My current priority is getting bugs out.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I found a cache size bug that shows up on devices with larger screens. If you have a screen any of whose pixel dimensions exceeded 1224, the render ahead was silently disabled to save memory. Now 1280x800 and similar screens will still work with render-ahead. In pre 15. We're getting close to official release of 0.3.0.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I posted a release candidate for 0.3.0. We're basically ready. The problem with smooth forward scrolling on large screens has been fixed. An option to increase cache size has been added. The long-tap context menu has been improved.

There are two features that I'd like to implement but that aren't going to make it into 0.3.0: (1) export to text file and launch an ebook reader to view; (2) double tap on paragraph to fit the paragraph to width. (These two features are actually closely related--they both require paragraph detection logic.)
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
Where is the rc 0.3.0 posted . Where is the link ?
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
The link is in the first post. http://code.google.com/p/apv/downloads
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
I would really appreciate a test report from an Android 1.5 device.
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
Installed the update. Very useful changes . Especially cache related.

I have set it to 10 mb (max). Is it right.?

And plz change the icon . everything is just superb except the icon. Sorry for that but it looks horrible.....

Nevermind.. Keep it up.

Thanks for the goodwork again.
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Sure, but probably 4 mb would be better at conserving memory.
[Android Apps and Games] germanhoss:
Excellent - it´s much smoother now :D
[Android Apps and Games] techvish81:
I.ve a lot of memory free and dont want to conserve it if performance boosts by setting it max.

Thanx
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Yeah. My A43 was a bit memory strapped, and if I used up too much memory in an app, the Launcher had to reload its icons which could take a long time given how much stuff was moved out to flash. People whose devices have more RAM will benefit from more cache.

It might make some sense to detect how much RAM there is an set the extra cache size accordingly. (The basic cache size is linked to the screen resolution, by the way: it's basically set at around 2.5X of the screen size, and then the extra cache gets added.) But I think that'll be for the next version. Plus I can't do much with APV right now since my A43 has been sent in for repair/replacement. :-(
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
It works much smoother now with the cache options. Still it needs some work but I'm really glad for now on this progress. Please continue your fine developing!
[Android Apps and Games] muntius:
I think I've fixed problem with Android 1.5. Could somebody test 0.3.0-pre17 on 1.5 device?
[Android Apps and Games] arpruss:
Thanks for all the bug reports! We've now released 0.3.0 in the Market.

I would suggest that bug reports get posted in the Issues section of code.google.com/p/apv
[Android Apps and Games] sark666:
I almost forgot about this app and thought of it today with my frustration with not being able to set a specific zoom setting. Afaik, this is the only pdf viewer that allows that. Thank you! Well, it doesn't actually allow you to specify a number for the zoom but tapping by 5% increments is good enough.

I pretty much always read pdf's in landscape but a nice touch might be to save a zoom setting based on orientation. Just for some polish.

You mentioned wanting to have a page width detection for auto-zooming, which is understandable but that's what frustrates me about the other pdf viewers. Some of my pdf's have a very large font for the page # and it's outside the main body of text and so I have all this wasted screen real estate for page #'s. I'm testing this on a nook color so with a 7' device screen usage matters.

Anyway, if you do implement auto-detect down the road, please don't lose the ability to set a custom zoom setting. And I'm glad it seems saved per pdf file. But I was quickly flicking through pages in a pdf and the zoom seemed like it increased by a factor of 4. Everything was huge. It's a bug that's probably difficult to replicate but I thought I'd mention it.

I'm hoping pinch to zoom gets added down the road. It's handy if a pdf has screen shots (I'm mainly reading tech manuals). But with pitch to zoom, maybe once someone has zoomed in and then wants to zoom back out, I wonder if there could be a way to make the last zoom setting 'sticky' so once someone gets close to their prior zoom setting it kind of attempts to stay at that setting unless the person persists and forces to zoom out further.

Basically I'm thinking of a means of zooming in on a pic or what have you, and then an easy way to return to the prior zoom level, without having to click zoom - several times.

Thanks for this great app, I see lots of potential here.