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[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] VTEChump:
I am using Amazon to rent/download videos for my Note, assume this should work for the 7.7 also.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20720792&postcount=67

Wish Amazon would just release an dedicated Android app already.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
I will have to try handbrake again I looked at it once before while using original tab but couldn't get it to work guess because noone ever mentioned the other program. Too bad this can't be used for blue rays would love to have seen the quality with the 7.7 screen but I guess betters can't be choosers.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
What I am looking for is to be able to buy the movies no point in just renting them.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Masterface7:
Yea i don't think there is a free way to rip bluerays anydvd is the only tool i have found to do it and it is like 100 bucks.

Anyway i personally used dvd decrypter for the first step so i dont know about the hd decoder program but after the dvd is on your hard drive handbrake should work the best.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
i tried what you suggested but the quality is crap, it is very pixilated not smooth at all. i followed the all the instructions as per the guide but not happy at all with the result. what would you recomend i do or is there something i am missing?

EDIT: i think i found a solution, instead of encoding the file to mp4 i encoded it to mkv, i played back a sample on the tab and it is a lot better, its dvd quality (not great but it is better than nothing) but the process is estimated to take about 22 hours instead of the 40 mins or so if using mp4. :-/
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] VTEChump:
You can purchase movies from Amazon as well.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Will have to give it a try, it states i can download the movie but for kindle wonder if it will work on the tab, only one way to find out
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
So I was able to get a movie from amazon and download it to my laptop. The file was saved as a .wmv file, I tried to transfer it to the tab and it would not allow me to due to license restrictions ( I dont get it I already payed for it what else do I need ) it also mentioned to convert the file as an option. I tried using handbrake to convert it from .wmv to .mkv, it got to 2% convertion and then got an error message and handbrake stopped, tried it twice and same issue. So I have come to the conclusion that I should just give up because it is getting to complicated to get a simple movie to the tab.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] murmur70:
Try transferring using Windows Media Player.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Masterface7:
I can't tell you what the best settings are but if the quality is not high enough you can change it to make it higher. If you are using the constant quality slider you can slide it up to 18 or 17 or even 16. If you are using a target file size and you are converting from a dvd you can use lets say 2048 MB and see if that is better. I would stay with an mp4. You can try each codec to see if you prefer one over the other. h.264 is supposed to be better but i guess the other one is a quicker encode i am not sure though.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Stoned Rodent:
Not sure if this is much help...but an app called 'remux' (for Mac OSX) copies video files into a new 'container (say mkv to mp4), but does not re-encode the video stream itself. So, would remux-ing the .m4v video file would remove the DRM, or is it embedded into the actual video stream? I've yet to try this myself having never used the iTunes store for getting video files.

Hmm, answered my own question--Googled 'remux m4v to mkv DRM' and found an ehow.com webpage that could that be helpful (Wow...that makes me look incredibly noob-ish, lol) So, hopefully this post is somewhat useful/relevant, and I'm using the correct forum etiquette (OK to reference other websites considering the DRM issue?). Regardless, enjoy those Samsung 7.7's. That AMOLED screen must rock for HD vids, etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silasje1:
Hey guys,

The Neo has builtin Noise Cancelling in the phone. Does this work when i use a diffrent firmware than SEMC firmware? Would like to know ;)

Thanks in advance
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kormatoes:
On stock yea
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad0007:
I have some problem with all windows phone rom's: the other people that i'm talking to the phone say that they bearly hear me in comparation using a wm 6.5 rom or a android rom?

Can i fix somehow this problem?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ROCOAFZ:
Which phone do you have? It could depend on where the microphone is... and you maybe covering it up. Also do you have a case on the phone that maybe covering the mic?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skyseel:
Hi,

I have searched and tried almost everything to get voice input (for use with iris, google search, ...) working. Did uninstall, reinstall, update, downgrade, still nothing. I'm running latest Oxygen + franco kernel. Any further help resolving this issue is much appreciated! :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yannn007:
Install voice search (you may also need TTS (text-to-speech) library) ;) Then it should work...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skyseel:
You didn't read my post :) I DID install Voice Search, I tried everything - removing whole voice search from system, installing older / newer version. As stated in first post, NOTHING works :(
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yannn007:
What about TTS library - do you have it? Iris wasnt working for me too (it said no speech input) but after I installed voice search it worked ;) What kind of errors do you get ?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skyseel:
Where do I get it? If I search market I get tons of Apps responding to query "TTS Library". If you have any link, I'd appreciate you posting it.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yannn007:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.marvin.espeak&feature=search_result

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.voicesearch&feature=search_result

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox&feature=search_result

https://market.android.com/details?...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kZXhldHJhLmlyaXMiXQ..

Install all these and try if it works :D

Also you need to have data or wifi active if you want google voice serach to work ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skyseel:
Figured it out. As it turned out, voice search isn't supported in my country. So I had to google for APK (version 2.14). Everything started working then. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brianmat:
I'm trying to diagnose a very odd issue that started this morning. I woke up and checked my phone and instead of getting the normal screen I just had a battery image showing 100%. I've never seen that charging image before today. I could not get to my phone screen so I rebooted the phone and now the screen will immediately power itself off after a second or two. I have been able to get it to the phone screen a couple of times, but if I touch the screen it powers off.

I am running Juggernaut 4.1 and have had no issues before today. I didn't install or update anything yesterday although I can't get to the phone to see if any auto updates have been completed.

I went into clockwork and I was able to navigate though and wiped both cache and dalvik hoping that would clear it up. After reboot it was the same behavior.

Before I spend my entire Sunday wiping and reloading my phone can anyone give insight into this problem? Most of my searches for screen issues have popped up the general display problems with the greys and blotches.

ETA:

Not sure why my brain didn't process this first, but I am actually able to unlock the phone (sometimes) with widget locker. If I tap the screen outside of the status bar then the screen powers off. I can interact with the status bar but I can't click the screen to get the phone into USB storage mode so I can't get anything copied off. I'm going to do a recovery backup and re-install Juggernaut to see if that clears it up before I start thinking hardware issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] avarize:
Not really to experienced with an issue like that, but perhaps before you fully wipe you could backup and restore the same backup. I had a application issue that I couldn't fix and even though the backup would be the same somehow it fixed it.

Sorry I couldn't offer you more.

As far as the battery showing up, I see the screen all the time when it's shut off charging.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OnlyHD:
Hi i want the original rom for Huawei Sonic because i use flash rom and i don't have WIFI,BT,GPS shortucts on the notification bar :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OnlyHD:
Can sameone help me?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruscan.calin:
here is the link also instructions here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1142381
[General Questions and Answers] BILLARAS.T:
OK Heres The Deal I Got A Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V And On The Second Day I Rooted It After that i started to install cracks apps on to it and then after afew days it started crashing( It Wouldnt show me the unlock screen and i had to take out the battery and boot) But Now After I Tried To Use The X Unlock Tool And Failed The Phone Is Stuck On Booting( I Click The Power Button And Then It Writes Sony Ericsson and reboots untill i take out the battery Plz Help Me I Dont Know What To Do!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] jbarbosa93:
Man i help you later on my work room add me on msn. I help you. At 19h00 o'clock(lisbon time) I help you.

João Barbosa, if you want more help add me on messenger: jbarbosa93@hotmail.com
[General Questions and Answers] spark2331995:
Simple way

Reflash rom or wide data
[General Questions and Answers] temoinlove:
i hope any one help you
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deltatux:
Hey guys,

I just got my TF201-CG rooted and am running on Android 4.0.3 (9.4.2.11 firmware) and I was wondering if there's a way to get some compiling tools (gcc, make and etc.) installed on Android so I can compile software directly on my tablet.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

deltatux
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] DJ H-Up:
Wrong section. Please use Q&A sub-forum!

MODs, please delete or move this!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
hey have any of you guys installed a custom roms on the SGS2 i have the phone rooted and i was contimplating installing a custom rom just wanted you guys information on how safe it is to do so. I was acutally looking for a nice ICS custom rom but apparently i would need one for my kernel(XWKL1). What would happen if i install a custom rom of ICS ment for a different kernel would it brick my phone?

thanks in advance for any information.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3311:
Yes it is safe if you know what you're doing and for you that means don't go anywhere near an ICS ROM try a Gingerbread ROM first but before you do that read and read and search and search.

Just practising my speed typing....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
wow thanks for such a quick reply so for example if i were to install the Omega rom i would need to get one for my kernel version only right? Then if would need to revert all i need to do is flash my old insecure kernel back and i would be back.

edit: - i didnt see B3311 post. ok i am a lil confused now if i were to install a custom rom ment for a differnt kernel would it work or would i brick my phone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaukassus:
Kernel version doesen't matter.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suarez7:
Search, Read, Backup and try. Everything you need to know is in the threads. Please read friend that is the only way you get to learn. Look at me. Been reading upon the threads once i had my galaxy s2 just before xmas and i have read upon two months before i got my phone. Now even though i only joined recently i know near enough what i need to do regarding as rooting and flashing roms and themes go. But i still search whenever i can for what i need before i have to ask questions. And most of the time it is right there infront of you. Also another thing if you think the search engine is crap on xda use google. Most of the times it gives you what you are looking for.:)

Not having a go but today mininum have been two three threads what rom is the best and what one to use and so on. Anyway good luck with the flashing and hope you enjoy whatever you choose
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
And the key to all the reading is that you are less likely to brick your phone more likely to be able to recover from problems.

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suarez7:
True but even with all the reading at least you will feel more comfortable about going about and rooting the phone and flashing a rom. That way at least you do not have to expect others to spoonfeed the information to you. Also when you flash a rom for the first time you will feel great about yourself cause you did it all by yourself than asking others to help you. Hope that makes sense.. and to what you said also you have a great point and i always read your posts when you help people JJe as you are one helpful guy.:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
Hey, I just contacted Google and advised them to remove the Google search widget that comes standard on every android phone's home screen.

It useless I told them, nobody seems to even notice or use it. Heck, why search when you can just ask?

Still waiting for there reply.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
to be clear i never asked which rom was the best and which one to use. I have been reading up on all the different roms available i have narrowed it down to the ICS and the Omega rom and i know how to flash the roms the instructions there are quite clear my only query was about the kernel version for which i could not find a solution. Now i have another question since you guys are saying the kernel version does not matter then why are they country specific and suppose i use a kernel ment for USA would that mean when ics finally got released here for the sgs2 i would need to reflash my phone with the gingerbread 2.3.6 version before i could get the official ICS update from kies?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suarez7:
let me make this clear. Different variants of the s2 hence why you see different forums. If you have an international version then you are safe to flash whatever you want in this forum here. So if you see USA version I would steer clear it as it has nothing to do with the international version if that makes sense. Regarding your other question well yes flash BBL to stock official ROM and that is it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
thank you very much for the reply i am in india so i do no think my version is the international version. stuff was soo much easier on my good old N8.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suarez7:
I think you are using international version of the I9100g version.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
The kernal is not related to country or carrier. The csc is.

Practically all custom roms come with working kernals and modems for the rom.

As for getting the official upgrade, you can reflash your original firmware, but most here just download the new official firmwares from the Intratech thread or sites like sammobile and flash it with Odin. No need for kies. I don't use it at all except for when I first got the S1 in 2010.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
ok i finally installed .Illusion-xT v1.7.2 - XWKL1 2.3.6 from

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1403044

and also i like touchwiz so i installed the touchwiz apk mentioned below in the same thread i have an app called AppZorter which basically just sorts the apps in the application menu but when i try to do it i get an error that "No suitable Version of TouchWiz was found on your device". I searched the forum and found an updated touchwiz

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1061883

now can i directly install this version or will it affect the illusion rom?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattyh77:
Best asking on the illusion thread.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentwitness1:
i would but i am not allowed to post there as my post count is under 10
[TouchPad General] Animec:
I was getting some strange behaviour in CM9 after playing movies with MX player, and discovered that it could be resolved by forcing MX player to stop via the app settings menu. In the process I also discovered something I haven't seen before in any version of Android:

every single app on my touchpad had an active "force stop" button!

I realise that this does not necessarily mean they were running. However, it's the first time I've seen this and I'm curious as to the explanation. None of the apps had been manually started, and few of them are likely to have been started as a part of sync jobs etc.

Anyone know what's going on?
[TouchPad General] staymunch:
android opens up apps and stores them in the ram so when u click on them they open up faster. However there are some poorly developed apps that stay opened no matter what and hog memory.
[TouchPad General] Animec:
I may be misreading your post... are you saying android loads apps on its own volition and keeps them in RAM? Ie. even without the user starting them?

Let me clarify: all apps--even apps that were not started by me--had the "force stop" button active. Ie. they were all (apparently) pre-emptively loaded into memory. I didn't mean that I started all my apps one after the other and then discovered that they were still in RAM :)

I realise Android handles processes differently from Windows, but this is something I haven't seen with any froyo or gingerbread ROM. Hence my confusion :-P
[TouchPad General] sitlet:
That's how android works (and linux), not just ICS. It "loads" apps to fill up it's ram so when you click on an app, it may not have to fully load it if it's already cached. Again, they are not "running", just cached. Unlike Windows, Linux uses all the RAM it can, as it's pointless to have say 500mb of ram free when it can fill that up with pre-loaded apps. This is exactly why task killers are a no-no, as when you kill apps, android sees that free RAM space and will just load those apps back, thus causing an endless cycle.

So basically, don't worry about it, let Android do its thing. The only reason you should ever "kill" or force close an app is if it's not responding.
[TouchPad General] Animec:
Aight, I'll have to take your word for it... I was just baffled because I've never seen it in the other ROMS (ie. apps loaded before they were actually started by the user) :) Perhaps it's because there's more RAM to fill up on the touchpad, who knows.
[TouchPad General] stuffandcrap:
:eek: Uhm, not to be a jerk, but none of that is true.
[TouchPad General] staymunch:
umm not to be a jerk but umm yes it is. Now u go read!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6426198#post6426198
[TouchPad General] stuffandcrap:
Ok, sorry, I wasn't trying to be mean, I just thought your post was very misleading.

So, I did read that link, and I still think you got the facts wrong.

First of all, managing memory in a way that you don't clean up after closed/idle processes is not the same as "pre-loading as many apps as it can to fill up the RAM"

So, a statement like this doesn't hold.

No it's not. It would be pointless to go through the overhead of opening processes when they are not needed.

If you read again, you'll notice the article says "Android starts the process when any of the application's code needs to be executed", not "starts processes preemptively".

What Linux does is try to avoid deleting memory blocks unless they are required by a new process. If, as you said, it tried to keep RAM filled up at all times, the OS would be unusable.

Hope that makes sense.
[TouchPad General] quarlow:
It might also be important to note there is a difference between a service running, and the app running. For example Google Voice may have a service running to keep me updated regarding voicemails, but the app isn't running. In the running services I will see an entry for Google voice with an option to stop, but going to my apps and clicking force close on Google voice does not stop the service. I need to stop it from the running services menu, and if I do it pops right back. I see many services running, but I don't see many apps running, on mine.

As I understand it, apps will not resurrect themselves, but services will. I have also understood it that apps remain loaded in the RAM, after opened, but not of their own accord. RAM takes the same amount of battery full as it does empty. So clearing the app out of memory uses processor cycles, and then uses more to reopen the app later. The system is designed to operate at a certain capacity, and will free up RAM as needed. I have also heard experts say only poorly written apps stay running in the background unexpectedly. And that task killers should only be used for rouge apps.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[TouchPad General] joenathane:
Windows also caches RAM... According to my understanding Android doesn't do pre-caching like full desktop OSes do, rather it'll keep applications you've opened in memory as long as it can or until the OS feels it needs the RAM for some other operation.

Windows caching 3.6GB of my RAM
[TouchPad General] brorex:
there is a setting in developer options to limit the amount of background apps you want running if you don't want them all running
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] canecbr600:
OK guys, I want to get CITYID running, and I think I need to get the stock dialer going to do so. What apk's are needed to do this? I am on ICScrewD's latest. Thanks for any help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
it's running stock contacts.apk just themed. Download a kl1 base from i9100 forums if you want to remove theme and put contacts.apk to system/apps
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Does anyone have the inductive battery door for the Rezound along with a case? I was wondering

1) If the inductive door will fit with a case one (even if some slight mods to the case need to be done

2)If the range of the inductive charger is enough to go through a case like the otterbox.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wonshikee:
http://phota.me/liD3

Was a lot easier than I expected.

I made this for several reasons:

1) There's no cradle charger for the GSM version, and even if there was - wouldn't work with my Ringke Slim case

2) For **** and giggles

The back came out crooked because I didn't account for the curvature of the phone properly lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
Hey man whatever works! If it gets the job done who cares haha
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] bagelicious:
So I was emailed a link to download the .apk since it won't show up in the market on my View, but it keeps force-closing. Has anyone been able to get this to work?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] nubyw00tz:
Not to be captain obvious, but the force closing probably has something to do with the app not being compatible with the View (that's why it's not showing up in the market). I use Reddit News Free as my Reddit app. It is really smooth and is quite nice on my View.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avio07:
Whats the best rom available right now for the N1? I haven't tested my N1 with anything in a while been running MIUI but I'm finding it to be sort of laggy now with apps installed.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theshawty:
Fastest? Hmm, pretty much any CM7 self-kang.

This one by samuaz is really fast: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1416894
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avio07:
Is that the most stable rom available for nexus one right now?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestX0019:
with multiple full wipes to include system both are stable for me

with ICS by samuaz you need to follow op page exactly
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestX0019:
Temaseks latest CM7 Kang with scroll zip is BLAZING