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[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Ok, here goes

Yes I know that lots of threads about this subject have been posted but I have not had luck on ressurecting them. So I just want to say

USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!!!!!!

Im seriously getting mad about the amount of threads that have been opened saying " my phones dead, why?" Or/and most saying " iv got a hardbrick whilst unlocking the bootloader,what should I do?"

These questions are now considered SPAM. Use THE SEARCH BUTTON. We have asked you over and over again, yet you still dont listen!!!!! WHY?

This will hopefully be the last thread about this. Any more posts about the same problem will be considered SPAM and will be closed. Thank you for your cooperation.

And if you want, post this in other sub-forums but keep a link or reference to this thread on it.

-wilbso
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
seriously though, people have gotta stop posting threads that have already been made ಠ_ಠ
[XPERIA X8 General] Rahat34:
hey i noticed one thing under your MY WORK: answer to can we run ios on x8

rofl !!!!

man you really have witty humour :D

ps-yes x8 community is getting short!!!
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
hahahaha! Thanks :D lots of people tell me about my humor!! lol

Ahhhh, yes my answer to a wierd question! did you like my fully explained answer? :D;)
[XPERIA X8 General] n1kolaa:
way you just donT bought 3gs ?
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
cant this understand i .....
[Fascinate General] droidstyle:
suggestion: dont knock others contributions to the community...makes you look like a....well ill let you fill in the blank.
[Fascinate General] icemanwbs:
Well sir, although I appreciate your attempted contribution to the community, I must strongly disagree with your "reasons" for thinking "THE GUIDE" is in some odd way " inadequate ". Many in this community have used, and referred many new users seeking help and advice, to this Guide with great success. Also, as mentioned by above OP, don't knock the hard work and contributions by other Devs. It really does make you look like a......well you know.
[Fascinate General] Ronjoe:
Sorry, I was in the wrong frame of mind when making the guide. I didn't mean to offend. Rather, I hoped that the comment would prompt the other guidemakers to fix their mistakes.
[Fascinate General] dsrhokie:
All I can say is that droidstyles guide has been my flash bible and has never failed me. If there were any errors, why not simply PM him with suggestions? He has always seemed to appreciate and incorporate feedback.
[Fascinate General] landshark68:
Let's see......You've been a member since January 2011 and in a little over a year you've only managed to contribute 7 posts to these forums. You haven't been helping people, answering questions, and providing guidance on a daily basis like the members you are disparaging and insulting first with your OP "oh look these other people are morons and have made completely confusing guides so I'm making one that is so much moar better", and second after your insulting demeanor is pointed out to you, you say you weren't in the right frame of mind then go right back to insulting by pointing out that the other guide makers need to "fix their mistakes." Pretty much confirms you are a........well you know.
[Fascinate General] Ronjoe:
--snip--

EDIT: Sometimes saying nothing is better for eveyone involved.
[Fascinate General] mkuehl06:
I guess I can see your side of it too. However a simple search would have landed you on droidstyles guide. But some of the comments have gone a bit too far. Its not like your an 11 year old named twinkie
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drziddo:
Hello guys!

Volume level of speaker goes low by itself.

I want to know how to fix it and if Im the only one with this issue.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leonironchef:
Issue is well known, you could use latest roms which will fix this, get volume+ by meltus our get voodoo sound to up the volume
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drziddo:
Im using cm9, latest nightly. And not fixed yet, at least not for me.

Voodoo sound? Is that available for GNex? Is not as far as I know...

Will try volume+, but sucks have to use an external app for this.

Thanks anyway!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
Voodoo sound is not available. I believe supercurio made a thread about this a while back. I'm sure you can find it. CM9 and AOKP don't touch the volume afaik. Codenameandroid does but I don't know if the increase is significant(look in their changelogs). For now I use Volume+.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] merge5:
I use volume+ too. The speaker is certainly not the best but does get the job done. Probably my biggest issue with the GNexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
He said the volume goes low by itself, not low volume generally. Or is that also a known bug i didnt know about?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wayneb02:
It could be with the way you have your phone placed. Sometimes the speaker is covered up a bit and it ends up being more quiet
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] singular9:
My phine does not have virtual buttons, only hard home search mnu and back buttons.

is yhere any wy i can getthem for free nd without root.

these buttons replace hard buttons in the new er phones.

thanks

phone - lg thrive, 600mhz

"There i nothing faster than slow"- movie, cat in the hat
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Free.rockstar:
try "ics launcher 1.3.0.2"

it got three buttons on screen however they are kind of useless :p

search it on Google

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you can also use button savior but it requires root permission
[Eee Pad Transformer General] misteroh:
I saw there was a thread kind of about this but that got derailed...

I'm using Dice Player, MX Player, and BS Player. BS seems to work the best, but still not as good as Dice was back in HC.

Does anyone know if it's just a matter of those apps having to be optimized for ICS?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] haddis:
Well it's not ICS that is killing some 720P file, it's the Tegra...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
i find ICS a lot better than HC, but still unable to play high profile 720p mkvs without lag.

DicePlayer is even worse than honeycomb though. MX and BS player are barely watchable.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] AndroidLonghorn:
Have you restarted at least once since upgrading to ICS? I had video issues that went away after restarting.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] garpunkal:
I'm having similar issues :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] DarkLG:
I can play mkv normally but audio seems to not work.This is using the stock player.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] hanybv:
I confirm the same, Bsplayer plays the audio but not the video . As for the Dice it always crashes ! I will lnstall Revolution HD 3 and see if this will play the 720p videos !!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bob dylan:
all those having issues- you need to reboot.

also bare in mind that video playback issues are not the OS's fault, Tegra 2 is underpowered to play video at 720p and 1080p, always has been, always will be.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] hanybv:
I disagree , before ics i had revolver and i was able to play 720p without any problem. I rebooted 7 times after the update but still nothing , even the camera stopped working in panoramic mode !
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bob dylan:
me too, you need to do an ICS reinstall, my video playback is the same as on revolver now.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
rebooted around a dozen times between lockups and just actual reboots, i've noticed no difference in any app.

i find it strange that people seem to have very different experiences than me. i have no issues getting them to play, it's just the lag.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bob dylan:
do a reinstall of ICS.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
and how do we do that.

i don't mean to be a ****, but in all your posts i see you give nice suggestions, with no help. how about including some help in your future posts.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raduque:
Seems about the same for me. High profile really tears apart the Tegra2. I love this tablet but man the Tegra2 sucks.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tweaked:
Wtf? You are a member of xda...why do you not no how to install a rom? There are like 5 threads in the dev section on how to install ics .....you want hand holding you should walk up from the basement and ask yer mom...

Not to be a Richard........
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Hearmeman:
yep

tried to played 720P

yestarday

very very choppy

same files that i play usually on HC that plays smooth

i personally reverted back to HC
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Squire-au:
There was a thread somewhere about best settings for Handbrake for encoding mp4 to suit the Transformer. These are the settings:

"Start with the Regular/Normal Preset

Container: MP4 File

On the Video tab, choose:

Video Codec: H.264

Constant Quality: RF 24 (Lower number is better quality but higher file size, I wouldn't suggest going lower than 20 in this case)

On the audio tab change the Mixdown to "Stereo", bitrate 160

On the Advanced Tab:

Maximum B-Frames: 0

Uncheck "CABAC Entropy Coding"

Uncheck "8x8 Transform"

Uncheck "Weighted P-Frames"

After those changes, you can save these by clicking on Presets -> Save Preset and name it something like "Transformer". "

This is an exact quote of the post, I don't have the original on hand to thank the original poster. But he does deserve my thanks, as this made 720p video beautiful on my FT101.

Doesn't work so well when streamed via wifi, I think 802.11G is a little too slow, maybe I need to go to 802.11N. Works fine via a portable hard disk, or a microSD card, or even a USB stick. If you have the dock or the usb converter adaptor thingy.

Sorry for those who don't have access to a grunty PC for converting using handbrake, I guess my post isn't much help to you. I'm waiting until I get my TF101 back from a warranty repair to try a few things out, including ICS. I'm currently running Revolver, and I'm VERY happy with it.. kudos GNufabio.

PW
[Eee Pad Transformer General] blestsol:
Wth does that have to do with being American? You like blanket statements?

Sent from my Rizzy Rezound
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
well one person got reported for being a douche.

and yes, i'm well aware of how to flash a rom.

most of us here however are running stock ICS from the update with no root or anything like that. So simply saying reinstall ICS is not a very intelligent statement.

If i have an issue with my nexus i know how to back it up and reinstall because i have CWM installed.

however on this, as i just said, i'm running a totally stock device. i've never rooted, never installed a custom recovery, and i don't want to.

and personally, i also think the suggestion of installing ICS is BS and won't make a difference.

anyway, thank you @squire-au for that. i have seen that post and have been hoping there would be another way since totally encoding can take a very long time. but i will be testing that out overnight to see what happens.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] caspersghost:
****. just. got. real....

I agree though, 720p is very stuttery now when it was fine before the update.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jonahex2099:
As a test I just did this with a 1080p encode of one of the Planet Earth episodes (took just about forever) - the only diff was I dropped it from 1080 to 720 and it plays perfectly on ICS (stock OTA, rooted)...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
out of curiosity, how long was an episode and how long did it take. also what was the file size of the 720p files after you were done.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] misteroh:
Re-encoding should NOT be an option.

The Tegra 2 is limited but it obviously played the video files fine before ICS. Like I said, I'm hoping that the issue is in the video player apps and all they need to do is optimize the apps for ICS on our TF's. Which they better do. I mean, wasn't the TF101 the second or third best selling tablet last year?

Maybe it's a kernel issue? I was overclocked to 1.5 ghz before the ICS update but I don't think the limitation is the CPU
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raduque:
If your source video is a High Profile, even in Honeycomb, its going to be borderline playable. You're overclockin, so your tablet was able to simply brute force through the file.

A standard, or baseline encode plays fine up to 8Mbps bit rate, personally encoded and tested.

It's a matter of horsepower, and the Tegra2 simply doesn't have enough.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] linuques:
Have you guys considered that most of you playing HP 720p videos on HC was probably running an overclocked kernel?? Maybe at 1.5 ghz...

Remember that overclocking isn't possible yet on ICS, that may be the cause of the problems.

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At 1.5ghz technically you have 50% more horsepower than at ICS stock of 1ghz. Can help alot with decoding, since the Tegra2 chips lacks the NEON instructions that would make multimedia processing faster.

We should wait for custom built kernels, with overclock and other optimizations.

Also there is tons of new ROMs popping up in the dev forum every hour. Any time now the video issues may be addressed.

CM9 already have a alpha build that improves Quadrant scores, maybe also improves video decoding. Someone should test it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] HTCHD2ireland:
I was playing 720p footage recorded on a GoPro all last week on Honeycomb and it was nice and smooth on the stock player. I have just updated to ICS and now when I play this same footage it is definitely a bit choppy in comparison. Whether there is more resources dedicated to to the new OS or whatever I don't know but there is definitely a noticeable decrease in quality. I might try a factory reset to see if that does anything but I'm in no hurry yet. Otherwise I am liking ICS so far.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jonahex2099:
Can't remember the exact length of time it took...maybe 30, 40 minutes...and was a little over 3gb - which did seem rather large to me but then I generally don't watch any vid on my xformer outside of netflix and my already encoded episodes of Firefly (dvd rips, so 480p)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
well 30-40 minutes isn't that long. 3gb makes me a little nervous. don't want my 7gb movie rips getting any bigger.

Also i find it interesting about the overclock. i've always been on stock, so i've never been able to play high profile 720p mkvs on any player without issues.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jonahex2099:
3gb isn't ideal either but like I said, generally it's not what I do with mine - just wanted to see if I had similar issues as the OP.

I've always been stock as well, never even rooted until after this update, but I want to say I had similar issues with 720p BEFORE the update. This particular encode I played with the stock player as well...should probably try it on one of the others I had installed before the update....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deadman3000:
It's the high profile that kills the Tegra 2. Avoid that and they should play just fine. I use Plex for streaming video from my PC as it transcodes on-the-fly. However I have had issues since ICS whereby it would not play smoothly at all. It turned out that Plex has a new setting to do with direct play and direct streaming. Once I turned those off it was a lot smoother. A lot of apps tend to take backwards steps IMHO and forget about those running older hardware. No doubt with the new options Plex for instance would run fine if you have a i5 server and a Tegra 3 tablet. But I digress.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jake21:
As I commented in the other thread; I have no issues with ICS, 720P mkv and dice (i use dice because it can handle the subtitles).

These 720P are baseline profile (the exact switches i use to produce are in the other thread). With high profile (under HC) the speed was fine but there was very high artifacting (i.e,t he quality was much better with baseline; and I could use a lower crf to offset the compression issue).

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My understanding (i might be mistaken) is that the quality of high profile is the same as baseline but high profile offers higher compression by using b frames; unfortunately this also requires more work to decode (play) (as an example my razr can software decode 720 high profile better than the tegra hardware decoding).

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Anyways after a bit of testing (under HC) I gave up on high profile and went with baseline; and repeating what I just said those videos play very smooth and very clean with dice under ICS.

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Hum I noticed that some of you are streaming the data which I did not test; I'm playing from sd card. Is it possible the issue is with data delivery as oppose to playing - or perhaps the combination of the two is causing excess cpu load ?)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] themac:
What really, really makes me crazy is why Nvidia didn't help in creating a Real video player.

They told us Tegra2 can play everything up to full hd. They showed us any tipe of video, in any resolution played smooth. They showed us tegra zone with incredibile games. They can full hd everywhere. I trust them.

The platform is now mature. ICS is also here.

They're working with google really hard, as far as we know.

We just miss a real video player. This would be an astonishing advertise for them.

Simply i don't understand why they don't make such player .

Ok, i'll stop whining...

...whyyyy ???

...now !

:)

TheMac
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raduque:
nVidia lies through their teeth on the desktop side, why would they be any different on the mobile side?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
ah good point.

regardless it's still disappointing. and the reason why i stopped caring about getting a tegra2 in my phone. now i wish my transformer has the same soc as my gnex.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] garpunkal:
how do you reinstall on stock rom and recovery...?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sbliner:
Just an FYI..

That my HP Touchpad (running ICS 4.0) can stream (from my NAS) and play a MKV 720P video with zero stutter......while the TF101 ICS occasionally stutters/slows/speeds up.

(Played on both systems with BSPlayer Lite...hw mode enabled and used)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] abufrejoval:
ICS and Plex combo broken on Transformer? (not on NI Adam)

I also noticed the Plex issue, which is a real shame, because Plex was my solution out of the codec/container nightmare of Android...

I had upgraded my Notion Ink Adam (Tegra2 as well) to ICS when the first alpha came out (now running the CM9 beta) and there are no issues with Plex there (nor on my Galaxies (Note, S1, Players)): I configured Plex on the server to limit transcodes to 4Mbit (roughly the equivalent of 720p and more won't show on the display) and had 1080p movies as sharp and fluent as they can get. Even 8MBit worked well enough, but doesn't make sense with the internal screens.

I had to resort to indirect play (soft decode) on the pre ICS HoneyComb releases for the Adam, because the GPU accelleration was missing for video. Even at 1.5GHz overclock the quality was never quite as good as it is now with the GPU and without OC.

On the Transformer Plex had worked just fine with ARHD 2.3.2 (using direct play by default) so I really didn't expect any trouble with ICS on that device, but even though everything else went fine, Plex stuttered and lost the network connection. The network came back and went again and playback was just plain unusable.

I used iPerf to test the network, but I get better than 30Mbit/sec and no network drops. Large file copies are never fun over WLAN but they do work as well. Local playback of all iPad spec MP4 video works great and even many 720p mkv work just fine (except DTS sound...).

My current the theory is that there is something broken with this Transformer ICS and Plex, but I can't put my finger on the problem.

Your view on Tegra2 not being able to cope with more than 4MBit/sec worth of video is rather strong. I've had plenty of issues with HD material on all my Android devices, but I've seen this mostly as a software/driver issue not a hardware limiation. Android is very picky about the container formats, codecs and settings it will support. ICS is a vast improvement over Eclair and most in between, but still won't decode many files I have. Whether it simply recognizes that the data rates are beyond what it can do on Tegra 2 or whether it's something else I don't know. But I do notice that for many 1080p mkv files with software playback via the Mobo player I get sluggish video but only 50% CPU load. While a 1.5GHz dual core TI OMAP may be able to do 1080p software only decodes due to NEON and better DRAM bandwidth, I'm not sure that it couldn't be done even on a Tegra2 with proper GPU support. Far lowlier devices do TrueHD playback but perhaps they pack a better video unit.

After a year of trying to find out where exactly the various Android devices had their specific limits on video and audio I was so glad to have hit across Plex to sort out all these issues...

And now the tablet I love most refuses to work with Plex....

I just hope they find that bug soon!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] HTCHD2ireland:
Further to my earlier post, I have showed the videos to friends that were watching them previously on Honeycomb and without prompting they said the videos were not as smooth and a bit more washed out. A better stock player in collaboration with Nvidia as suggested would be a nice thing but hopefully some sort of update will iron out these kind of niggles in the coming weeks
[Eee Pad Transformer General] browngeek:
I tried streaming some 720p mkv's over my network via ES File Explorer last night.

The following players had smooth playback but no sound: BS Player Light, MoboPlayer.

The following players have sound but choppy playback: Dice Player Ad, MX Video Player, Stock video player.

Where possible I tried to change between HW and SW encoding as well, although that didn't affect things much.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] misteroh:
This is kind of funny...

The stock video player actually handles much of the 720p videos I was having trouble with after the ICS upgrade perfectly.

What in the world... Hahaha
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Gizoman:
Well i was suprised too when i upgraded to ICS (Revolver4 beta 1.3). 1080p MKVs ran smooth in MX player on HC (1,5ghz OC). I cant remember if it ran on 1ghz becouse i OCed right away, but i know that 720p did play ok. Now on ICS even 720p are not whachable, just so laggy and stutering. Not just videos, everything is a bit slugish in this first official ICS build.

On my SGSII (no OC) 1080p are smooth (GB).

I think its the drivers that are to blame or the players. In my opinion Tegra2 can bare the load, but the software can not.

Will have to wait for some polishement.

Maybe in ICS 4.1.6 :p
[Eee Pad Transformer General] cspiby:
Maybe it's just Asus drivers which suck? Anyone tried the GPU driver from a Xoom for example?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] turtlelord:
No issues with playback per se but with streamed content from my NAS.

Occasional/frequent (from every 4 to every 10 minutes) hang ups of a second or two before resuming.

Same thing with seeking/skipping. Under HC it worked with no discernible delay now under ICS it takes a good few seconds to react.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] abufrejoval:
I see this happening for DTS audio tracks

Some had sound others didn't so I used Windows tool called "MediaInfo" to look at the source files.

Found DTS sound tracks as a common denominator for no sound and that really isn't a big surprise considering the licensing hassles involved.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] usagent27:
From what i am seeing this is a Issue with ICS. Dice worked perfect on HC now i get stuttery playback