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[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
But I want to ask it regardless, since I don't fully understand how it works.

I read on here in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1080194

that the play has hardware acceleration support for some video players. The one mentioned in that thread is moboplayer. He said that it was mkv 720p with subtitles. However, whenever I've tried to play mkv with hardware acceleration, it says it cannot and uses the software instead, which is quite slow.

Now, I could overclock and get it to play better, but I'm wondering if there is any mkv hardware support in the play after all. Because I converted a slow video to mp4 and the hardware acceleration actually worked with that and was flawless, even better than overclocking, even when underclocked. Which I would rather do, since it should save on battery power.

tl;dr Does the Xperia Play really have mkv hardware support? Because I don't want to convert things, since it takes ages.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faisaldante:
Yo man ye there is I use Diceplayer, its pretty epic player it plays my mkv through hw i think its the only one, i used to use mobo now i use this. It plays my anime and stuff. So try it out it costs money though no free but really its worth it through hw u save urself loads of battery. I just download or rip mkvs then put them on and pfft they work. ITS AWESOME
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
I just got the trial and tried the file that doesn't work well. It says "The video could not be hardware acelerated. Would you play using a software player?"

I assume it meant "would you like to play" =)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
perhaps qqplayer or rockplayer
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
Hm, qqplayer was slower than moboplayer and rockplayer was also slow, since it wouldn't use hardware either. Also, the software decoder had artifacts all over.

Best I've found is MX video player. It has software fast mode.

But still, does this mean that the play doesn't have any hardware acceleration for mkv?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
OK I not sure
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logseman:
Maybe you need a particular codec pack for your chipset (Snapdragon).
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
I'm not sure that there is one. I've google'd around a bit, but haven't found anything useful.

Oh well =(.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrishox:
if you are playing anime, the codec most sub groups are using for the latest seasons of shows is hi10p h264 which cannot be hardware accelerated as of yet, even on a pc.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrishox:
btw, i'm using diceplayer (used mobo player too but it wouldn't load the subtitles) and i'm able to load 720p h264 high compression (i found an as resource intensive video as i could.) and ran it fully in software decoding.. though i have doomlord's 2ghz kernel installed.

at 2ghz the video ran flawlessly and at 1.4ghz it ran really well most of the time, but lagged during some of the more resource intensive moments, though it never lost audio sync. the only problem I have is that none of the video players out atm support ordered chapters, but we're gunna have to wait for vlc for that one I'm sure.

one of these days i'm going to get around to compiling androids vlc from git. from what i understand it's really mature at this point and running pretty well..no big bugs.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
I'm aware of hi10p and the only way to get those running is to convert to mp4 with handbrake (since it's a nice small file), but it takes a while. I looked for a converter that uses CUDA, but the only one I found also took a while and output a 900mb file or so and it didn't even work =)

I'm also using the 2Ghz from DooMLorD, but as I said, it'd be nicer to be able to use hardware acceleration, since it'll use less power. Also, I converted Angel Beats, episode 3, since the OP has a high framerate. When I compared 2Ghz to hardware acceleration, the hardware acceleration was actually superior, even when running at about 600Mhz. Not that I suppose it matters, since it's hardware, but still.

So yeah, this is pretty much why I wanted hardware acceleration. Also because I have a huge backlog of stuff to watch and it'd be nice to do it when I'm outside too.

Incidentally, I tried the diceplayer trial and I found that MX video player was faster. When I had just installed 2.3.4 for the first time, the Angel Beats OP played pretty well, even on 1Ghz, but now that I've had it installed for a while and installed more things, I think I've messed it up somehow, since it's a bit slower. That, or the updates have made it worse, since it's on 1.4c now I believe and I started on 1.3.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrishox:
not that this actually helps you any, but i just tried mx player and it actually supports subtitles even better than diceplayer, and it supports ordered chapters, plus it does properly support hardware acceleration. i was able to play ao no exorcist at 1ghz. i'm actually really suprised. i never expected to be able to play stuff at stock clockspeed.

maybe you have a lot of stuff running in the background. you could try getting a task manager and killing all the stuff you dont need before you start watching videos.

i don't really have anything running in the background on my device since I just reflashed it yesterday and haven't gotten around to putting hella stuff on it yet.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
But was Ao played in hardware mode? And was it an mp4 or mkv?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrishox:
it was an mkv, and after looking back, it was running in software mode. we might just be s.o.l. most anime subs groups use really obscure and specialised h264 profiles.

mx running in fast software decode mode is the best i've seen so far though.

did you used to have hardware decoding on the old version using new anime release? like gg's or commie's releases for example?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MizuhoChan:
I've not had anything run with hardware when using an mkv container, even though it's h264 and I thought the play had that codec.

I suppose I could try a few old videos, but even if it worked, I'd have to convert the newer ones, but I wanted to avoid that, which is why I wanted it in the first place =)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Passa91:
So I'm buying my mum a Nexus S today and it got me thinking... how was I going to set it up for her so it was easy and intuitive to use?

My question is - what do you guys do for your non-tech savvy friends and relatives? I'm thinking of going the CM7 route for my mum - AOSP with some nice tweaks. I considered MIUI but at least CM7 will allow an easy transition to ICS when it comes out.

Share, discuss.
[HTC Amaze 4G] antiquezip:
As the general rule of thumb - you should always do a Nand backup before flashing anything and I assume you did.

After installed a theme and for some reason you found it doesn't suited your taste, you can uninstall it by go into recovery and restore your system instead of restoring the whole Nand backup or re-flashing.

Recovery/backup and restore/advance restore/(choose a Nand) and restore system

It save me some times and setup
[HTC Amaze 4G] chuckyy05:
is there another way. ?
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
I believe some roms have theme managers, but based on what we have so far I don't think so. Bytecode who makes custom roms for the Optimus One had a theme manager at one time, not sure how stable it was though.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chuckyy05:
okay thanks... so much trouble. grr
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
Re-flash the original rom.

It's much faster and easier than restoring a backup because factor in the time it would take to actually produce the backup, flash the theme decide upon it and then restore.

Or you could just flash the theme, decide not to keep it and flash the rom. Voila, back to normal. I'll never understand why people like doing things the hard way.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Grooveoriented:
How about creating a backup in Titanium of [Desktop] HTC Sense before theming and restoring it after? I've created that backup before when switching ROMs and it's restored it in original condition.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Perry977:
exactly! i do the same way u do....just flash the rom and ur good to go:D
[HTC Amaze 4G] theinitial21:
anyone know what this does? its about 11 mb. just want to make sure i dont update something if its going to affect me
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
are you rooted, customer recovery? your request is pretty vague. if it's the .6 point release it's just bug fixes. I installed it day one and have had no issues.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
Does it affect root?
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
I don't think so, even if it did it's a quick fix. The point was more that there was a total lack of information in the OP. maybe I should have told him it would turn him into a troll :O
[HTC Amaze 4G] theinitial21:
nope not rooted. was then battery started overheatin on my phone so i unrooted it and was able to swap it out at the retailer i bought it at. so just wanted to make sure if this would hurt my phone if i was to try to root it later on.
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
Rumor has it that it addresses the overheating issue.
[HTC Amaze 4G] theinitial21:
did it anyway lol, we'll see what happens ;)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
I was on gtalk with faux123 and sent him the OTA update. He took a look and determined that the .6 update disabled the HTC information mining and logging. I'm not saying that it did not effect the heat issue, but it was mostly for the logging.
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
Good to know Binary
[HTC Amaze 4G] theinitial21:
mining and logging? what do you mean? sorry for the dumb questions...
[HTC Amaze 4G] gravis86:
HTC was tracking what you do on your phone, for their own personal benefit.
[HTC Amaze 4G] theinitial21:
so they had taken that off on the update or added that to the update....
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
They stopped it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ickedmel:
HTC information kinda monitors your phone for issues and when they happen gets reported.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayj48x5:
how do i root my phone on here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 524887357c:
You can try using z4 root, use GOOGLE search software:p:pI use Google Translate to answer you, my English is poor
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Are we supposed to guess what phone you have? :p It takes different methods to root different devices so you have to state what phone you have.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dustinhayes93:
HTC Aria Ice Cream Sandwich Port.

To turn on the wifi, click add network and type either the network name, or part of the name. This will make your network connectible. For some reason the browser will not work. But it IS connected to internet because I have installed the Gapps and i can connect to the market perfectly. Market downloads however do NOT work.

Is Calling/Texting/Mobile Data working? My aria will no longer connect to At&t network :(

Installing Launcher Pro makes this run allot smoother!

I've included a File Manager for installing apps :D

Working:

Touchscreen

Some calling/texting

Wi-fi

Bluetooth

Accelerometer

Audio

Home Key (Hold for built in app killer)

Not Working:

BROWSER!!!

HW Accel

And lots of other stuff

.

Version 5 : http://www.mediafire.com/?f838vfsul88c8op

GAPPS:

Here is the old download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?keeq2qianal175t

I am not responsible for ANYTHING that happens if you use this. Its unstable.. Be warned.
[HTC Aria Android Development] kaboose01:
Awesome can't wait to test it out. Although I gotta question does mobile data work?
[HTC Aria Android Development] dustinhayes93:
Not sure. Where I live I don't get cell reception... So I use wifi to call and text. Ill have to revert back to cm7 sadly until they fix wifi =o
[HTC Aria Android Development] kevina90:
thats the kernel. I'm pretty sure we dimon2242 already has ics booted but doesnt want to realease until it is more stable.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DanGeorges:
It loaded and worked on my Aria.

Worked as in:

booted

I could navigate to settings

Apps showed up and "sorta" launched

Wifi, of course, didn't work.

Didn't try GPS.

Slow as molasses

VERY small font - fuzzy graphics

Reminded me of Windows Mobile with some of the menus

Restored previous CM7 without problems (the comment about bricking scared the @#$% out of me!)
[HTC Aria Android Development] dimon2242:
here is my collection! if necessary, will create a mirror! yet almost nothing is working!

http://narod.ru/disk/32557370001/LibertyICSAlphaTest.zip.html
[HTC Aria Android Development] zhuoyang:
dimon2242, something you need to change

in the build.prop

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

change hero to liberty (this should solved almost any problem)

and don't forget adreno 200

this build is compile for armeabi-v5te

look for build that compile for armeabi-v6
[HTC Aria Android Development] Karting06:
Hello.

The ARMv5 is not a problem on thr Wildfire it works. You must only change to armeabiv6j. Or anything other in the build.prop.

Has you bricked your phone??
[HTC Aria Android Development] zhuoyang:
I know that not a problem but armeabi-v6 is highly recommended and optimized for msm7227 processor (600 Mhz processor with adreno 200)
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
I wanna try but I don't want to brick my phone. :( I'll wait till there's a more stable version. Cheers on getting it to work though. :P
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
This is a pretty good start. It runs better than I expected for a first release (especially one like this). I had no problem restoring my nandroid backup after using this rom.

The Good/working:

- Ice Cream Sandwich :D

- It boots (approximately 3-5 minutes for first boot; a few seconds for future boots)

- Rooted!

- Touchscreen

- Fair speed for rom a like this (in early stages)

- Installation of apps - You have to sideload/restore apps (at first) since there is no market nor file manager pre-installed.

- Most apps

- Widgets & Animations

- Vibration

- Multi touch

- USB storage* (* You need this app for it to work: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.protocol.x.USB&hl=en)

- Image viewing with a different image viewer app (e.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tdfsoftware.fivfree&hl=en)

- Other minor things

The bad/not working :(:

- G-Sensor/Accelerometer

- Adreno GPU

- Video Playback

- Sound

- Camera and Gallery

- Wifi

- Bluetooth

- Other minor things (probably)
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Did a backup, wiped everything on my phone, installed this rom. It puts me into hboot menu every time I try to boot the pone. Ah well...back to CM7 until details get sorted out.

Good start guys...can't wait to see this develop!
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
Did you wipe cache partitions and dalvik cache? Have you tried booting from recovery?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Yes...I tried everything you said.

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
After flash (Dalvik cache)?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Yes.

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
Well that's strange. I flashed this rom and then restored my nandroid backup after use without any problems whatsoever. Here's exactly what I did:

1. Made a nandroid backup

2. Wipe data/dalvik cache/cache partitions

3. Flash

4. Wipe dalvik cache/cache partitions

5. Reboot (from recovery)

It then booted up with no problem (approximately 2-3 minutes since it was the first boot. Other boots took about <45 seconds).
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Re-downloaded the file and followed your steps exactly and it worked. Not sure what the deal is...done this a thousand times.
[HTC Aria Android Development] JazzyCarr0t:
So nobody's Aria is getting bricked?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Mine is not, had an issue but I was able to get into clockwork easy enough to restore a backup.

Finally got it working, nice to check out but lots of stuff not working as has been stated.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dustinhayes93:
Seems like its doing ok... Maybe that first install I had something went wrong... My battery was close to being dead too and some have said that low battery can cause it to say "Cannot erase boot" or whatever. I think its safe to try. :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] WithAria:
Reboots?

I was exploring the phone and so far the phone had re-started 5 times in less than 10 minutes. Is anyone facing constant reboots?
[HTC Aria Android Development] kaboose01:
Flashed and booted fine. Actually shocked how little space ics takes internally. Other than that no issues.... Besides what's known already.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DanGeorges:
I installed this ROM a few days ago and didn't experience any rebooting.

As I posted, it was a bit slow and the display icons fuzzy. The text was very small - increasing font size helped a bit.

From what I could see, ICS is very Windows Mobile-looking (menus, sliding windows, etc.).

Very strange.
[HTC Aria Android Development] SoCalHTCFuze:
I just donwloaded this and gave it a whirl. I'm impressed and rather like it! Some notes to others:

First install I only wiped the Dalvik Cache and it boot looped on the ANDROID boot screen. I then popped the battery and back into clockworkmod, formatted the system, cache and data... reinstalled and then rebooted with success.

You will need to immediately place the phone in airplane mode or get nagged to reboot due to a found sim over and over. Once that is done, the UI navigation is pretty clean and easy to navigate.

In fact, I'd venture to say this UI as of now is snappier than my overclocked CM7 and extraordinarily similar to the adw launcher. I wouldnt say the icons are fuzzy as much as they are a bit smaller than our display is used to, but very clean looking. lots of things work to give you an idea of where its at.

I am now very eager for progress, I may start myself here shortly to attack some of the features that are not working as I see great possibilities with this even on our old Aria!

What I would look to fix first:

1. SIM and Carrier detection - creates basic functionality

Seems our Aria is not even close to dead yet!!
[HTC Aria Android Development] DanGeorges:
Strange - I was able to make calls...Didn't have to put it into Airplane mode either.

Maybe it's because I don't have a data plan?

Anyway, the version I tried was not snappier than CM7 - and hesitated on a few apps (e.g., gallery).

It never could detect my SIM card contacts nor could it find photos on the SD Card.

But to be fair, I had it installed for only about 1 hour.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
No. None here and none reported.

I did not turn on airplane mode and did not experience any reboots (not even one for the entire time of using the rom).
[HTC Aria Android Development] SoCalHTCFuze:
I didn't get any reboot, only repeatedly prompts to reboot to complete when the sim was detected. Rebooting doesnt solve this.

"SIM card Added: You must reboot your device to access the mobile network"

Other than that, not bad.
[HTC Aria Android Development] SoCalHTCFuze:
After turning airplane mode on and off, I went into carrier settings and had it lookup carriers between nag messages... it seemed to hang for a bit but then found my carrier. That message no longer apears and the phone now makes calls.

EDIT:

It seems I'm in the minority on this one. I've reinstalled several times with nothing changed. In case it helps others, I'm on AT&T in San Diego. Perhaps its carrier/network specific since it eventually is able to lock in and the message goes away.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Did no have sim card issues, was able to make phone calls right off. No rebooting on my phone.
[HTC Aria Android Development] JazzyCarr0t:
I'm stuck on the android boot screen. I followed all the steps.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
How long did you wait (while it was there)? Have you tried retrying the process?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Darius_bd:
.

Yay, I could run ICS and as most ppl report, it runs nice. Much better than the G1, as I thought it would be. Couldnt play much with it as nothing works but looks great and maybe overclocked would run much nicer. Maybe there's some hope with CM9!

No fuzzy icons, clear text, ICS looks really polished.

Now wished I could take screenshots to boast about it, but didnt work either :/

*crosses fingers *
[HTC Aria Android Development] Karting06:
For the constant reboot : it can be due from the touchscreen.

I am very happy that it works ;)
[HTC Aria Android Development] unsivil_audio:
Is this an aosp build or an actual HTC port? Couldn't we just pull all the drivers from cm7? I would think ICS would be backwards compatible with gingerbread.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Darius_bd:
Not quite so:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...ogress-report-original-droid-to-lose-support/

The team is also facing challenges due to framework changes in Android 4.0 that "break compatibility with older proprietary camera and graphics drivers."

For example.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dagwud:
That was kind of fun.

Back on CM7 pretty quickly, though. ICS kept telling me it had detected a sim card and I had to reboot. So I'd reboot, and get the same notification.

All the same, I'm intrigued by the effort. Thanks!
[HTC Aria Android Development] SoCalHTCFuze:
Thats what I'd keep getting. Turn on airplane mode and you can navigate without the nag. Or you can play with the carrier detection and it eventually will find one and you can make calls, sim message doesnt come back unless you change data modes or reboot.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Darius_bd:
.

Ok! Now I tried the Wilfire port flavor of ICS and it's super fast :D Oh gosh, I never thought this possible, how come?

I tried the russian version before and it looks perfect, but it's kinda slow. The wildfire one is fast but yes, the icons and fonts are too small and they look kinda fuzzy.

Wow is so fast. And not even overclocked...

*big grin*
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
One of the major changes in Ice Cream Sandwich is that it supports hardware acceleration for the UI. Hardware acceleration is why the iPhone's UI is so snappy even compared to much more powerful Android devices.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Darius_bd:
Uh no no, my comment was geared toward the slowness showed by the G1 with ICS in a popular vid. I know ICS has hardware acceleration but I doubt very much that it can be integrated that fast with Aria's hardware. Even the russian version posted few posts back with the correct kernel was slower than the one with the wildfire kernel. That was my surprise, that even clocked at 600, ICS was very nice and fast. With more optimization and some overclock I bet it can run as fast as CM7 runs now. And that would be just jaw dropping.
[HTC Aria Android Development] JazzyCarr0t:
I saw the android boot screen when before I fell asleep and when I woke up the next morning, it was still there. And I tried the process about 5 times.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
That would be jaw dropping. I had no hope of this running on the Aria and here it is and not half bad...simply amazing.

Now to try v2. Thanks for your work guys!
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
You'll have to try the entire process again. Some people didn't get it to work the first time (I did though :D), but when they did it again, it worked for some reason.
[HTC Aria Android Development] SoCalHTCFuze:
Yes. Make sure you Format System, Cache, and Data, then Wipe Dalvik Cache, and then instal from zip. That should get you past boot loop.
[HTC Aria Android Development] JazzyCarr0t:
Trying again now. I remember when the chacha and wildfire roms were released, a lot of people had the same issue with the wildfire version but the pico de gallo(chacha) version worked fine.

EDIT: No luck with getting past the bootloops.