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[Off-topic] sjsharksfan420:
http://bit.ly/yhqSxU

Currently casting some caps & bruins..

SJ sharks & STL Blues game will be on later.. pre game live in 15 mins.. mobile friendly of course..

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[Off-topic] boborone:
how do you like aokp op
[Off-topic] sjsharksfan420:
The latest AoKPb32.2FD16 is pretty sick. I don't have one issue with it. But lately its need a toss up between CNA, CM9b3 and AoKP, I think I like AoKP the best..

Are you using it too?

sj

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[Off-topic] boborone:
I'm still on GB. Team Noc's Blend. I go between that and stock rooted so I can use the NASCAR apps. I'm waiting for all the bugs to get worked out with ICS to upgrade. I'm over the whole flashing somethiing new 3 times a week. I just want something stable that I can customize to my liking.
[Off-topic] sjsharksfan420:
The nascar apps work fine for me on ICS. The sprint TV app does not though. But I don't use it anyways so no loss for me.

sj

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[HTC Rezound] goldy253:
I'm on stock non rooted rezound and I can't save any new contacts. If I try I can go back through my call history and see the people I've saved as contacts there, and on my text message thread but they won't show up in people. I unchecked auto sync because it says sync is unavailable right now. But still no go. Any ideas?
[HTC Rezound] putney1477:
I am having the same problem. I put a new contact in, hit save, back out to home screen. Search for the person and nothing comes up
[HTC Rezound] g8-rez:
Look in your contacts, there is a drop down on the top of the screen that will show google, sim, phone. There will be check boxes next to each one, along with the number of saved contacts in each on. Make sure all are checked. they will then show up.

Also be sure when you do save a contact that you are saving it to the right place, either google, or phone. Whichever one you want.
[HTC Rezound] putney1477:
Duh me! Thanks.

I've noticed that I have some contacts saved under phone and some saved under Google. Id like them all to be under Google. Any quick way to transfer.them from phone to.Google? .thanks.
[HTC Rezound] g8-rez:
I never found an easy way.

I thought I would be able to edit each contact and just change from phone to google, but even that wasn't possiable. So I just ended up going through one by one and saving all the phone contacts to google ( on my computer with the google email). Is not very easy, but the only way i found to do it,
[HTC Rezound] putney1477:
Thanks, that's what I had eneded up doing as well. What a pain in the you know what lol. But now at least they are all synced up.to Google.
[HTC Rezound] EmerikL:
When I was on my Dinc, I had all of my contacts on the phone. I found a tutorial somewhere that had me export my contacts to my sdcard and then import them back in, this time to Google. I don't know if that will work anymore, but it could be worth a shot.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ganggreen30:
Does anyone know the best free VPN to use? I found droidvpn in market. Any useful information from anyone thanks guys.

LG optimus v jerryscript backside iho 2/29/2012
[Off-topic] Strike_Eagle:
That's my question. I have a bunch of Japanese Vocaloid Music in FLAC and i can't really hear any different between FLAC and Lossless Mp3.

Between 128k and 320kbps, i can hear a different , but not between FLAC and Lossless... Because i just wondering why many people (like RIP Steve Jobs) doesn't like Lossy and have to come up with something by their own?

I mean like, how could they even hear the difference?
[Off-topic] DexterMorganNL:
FLAC is just to big in file size that's all and with standard headphones you not going notice an difference.

I downloaded flac files just to convert them to ogg 192kbps.
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
O M actual G....

If you're not listening to FLAC on Beats headphones then you're like a total nobody.... :rolleyes:

To answer your question, it's a lot of crap....

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[Off-topic] dexter93:
I don't know about you, but I can hear the difference.. the flac sound richer, with more details. And of course on my beats headphones it is obvious, while on any regular headphones is a minor improvement, but still noticeable ;)

@ctm: you don't really like people that enjoy good music at its best, do you? :p
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
You couldn't possibly be more wrong.

Beats Audio is akin to adding salt and pepper to food without even tasting it first.

Contrary to what dre would have you beleive, adding more signal across the entire frequency spectrum does not "bring out the best" in music....

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[Off-topic] exb0:
I agree with this.

I personally CAN health a difference between FLAC and 320kbps mp3 files.
[Off-topic] dexter93:
Who said about beats audio? That's off... I set my eq configuration. I'm talking about the headphones. They are quite well built and surely better than any pair I've ever had ( sorry, never had any other hq sound headphone). What I want to say is that if you have a decent pair of headphones you can listen the difference between flac and 320 mp3.
[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
I can tell the differnce between youtube rips and cd quality :p but never really compared much beyond that :p
[Off-topic] phatmanxxl:
I can.

....
[Off-topic] Strike_Eagle:
I have a gaming Headset , Turtle Beach 5.1 MW3 Charlie... It is a good Headset.

Between 128k and 320k, i can notice the difference when the bass and beat of the songs is actually higher and more powerfull, the sound is more completed ( i know this because most of 128k Songs sound really weak to me. If i buff the sound volume of the 128k songs up, the sound will be like "Fragile" , i don't know how to describe it.

But between 320k and FLAC , i listened to them like 15 mins yesterday , just 2 songs, but in difference format but i can't even judge which one is better...
[Off-topic] jaszek:
I personally can hear the difference. Which is why I got a record player. Lossless audio from a vinyl. It sounds so much different than mp3.

Sent from my ghdudsjihfr using dhhcdfhuf.
[Off-topic] dexter93:
Vinyl will always be the best.. ;)
[Off-topic] lamborg:
if heard with good headphones, then I think yes. With normal ones no.
[Off-topic] 0maZ:
I dont care about it. I care about bass.
[Off-topic] dexter93:
We are talking about audio quality here... :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] Strike_Eagle:
People all say Beats audio is gimmick, i don't know is that is true...:|
[Off-topic] dexter93:
The beats audio is good... Only if you know nothing from equalizers. If you know, its crap.. its not worth all that "glory", but still its a tad better than androids original
[Off-topic] eksasol:
I swear I can hear the diff between 192kbps mp3 and lossless, given a quality IEM like Etymotic.

It's best to encode music in FLAC anyway since its lossless and Android phone support it. Otherwise I still prefer 128kbps ogg over 128kbps mp3, and you save disk space.

Besides the headphone, I think it's more important to get a phone with a Wolfson dac or something quality, this is the reason why I'm still using the Galaxy S after using the SII and Note, they don't sound as good and has unbalanced bass.

If you're looking for decent headphones, check the head-fi forum, its a site for headphone geeks, although I haven't post there for couple years.
[Off-topic] Nicgraner:
Then you sir, are deaf.
[Off-topic] 757VaPtown:
I would say you dont hier a difference unless each file is played on a set pf external speakers not cheap **** nice ones like my set up ill post a pic
[Off-topic] :
Legacy speakers
[Off-topic] Strike_Eagle:
Talking about phones, Windows Phone currently not supporting (yet) the FLAC file type... so i guess i would stick with Lossy 320kbps for awhile.

About Headphone, as i spoke, i got a decent 5.1 Gaming headset for PC, and a Munitio 9mm Billet for phone, they produce a really good sound (not like a cheap HTC basic headphone, i used to defend for it, but now i don't)...

I will try it pretty soon, we have a reall nice sound system at home ( not the best, but i will try the FLAC and Lossy on them tomorrow )
[Off-topic] kurt99:
Simple i am not
[Off-topic] mg2195:
Its kind of a huge difference...sounds so much quieter

And Beats Headphones are soooo over rated...at least in my opinion
[Off-topic] cementmixer:
It all depends on your sound card, your speakers/headphones (headphones are better to hear the difference) and the production quality of the music track.

The difference between FLAC and 320kbps MP3 is definitely there.
[Off-topic] Strike_Eagle:
By the way, what kind of software do you guy use to listen to music?

I have Zune for my Windows Phone and thinking about having Foobar installed for FLAC files.

And, do i have to do anything else to have my 5.1 headphones run ok? I have them configured in the Audio system and the sound card as 5.1 Audio.
[Off-topic] McDonaloid 2:
The differences are in encoding most people won't hear the differences but quality headphones or speakers are needed to hear them but like I said they way these two formats encode makes the difference. Although I've heard people can't hear past certain frequencies, even though audiophiles feel different there is a difference between the way they sound. Mp3 at 320kbs sound good to me but flac has sort of an extra boost in some low sounds of certain tracks and it sounds more digital but mp3 has a fuller sound like the bass is increased in way and has a more analog feel. Anyway it just comes down to you, you like mp3 cool, you prefer flac? Cool and if you just can't tell the difference then hey at least you won't be picky aboot what format you choose and if that's the situation stick with mp3 more common anyway.
[Off-topic] eksasol:
Apple and Windows phones will never support OGG and FLAC (unless you install some third party software of course.) I'd say for portable listening, LAME V0 setting (~245kbps VBR) is good enough that I can't tell the difference. 320kbps is overkill in term of being playback by a cellphone to me, especially when most don't have a very good quality DAC and has lots of interference (hence being a phone).

I use foobar2000 for the desktop but I can't recommend it since its a somewhat complicated program. Clementine is a very good player and has converting capabilities (its a light version of Amarok which is bloated).

Aside from being influenced by the equipment used to play the music, FLAC is called lossless because it retains 100% of the information, so in this case its the MP3 lossy encoding that influence the coloration of the sound.
[Off-topic] Abhijeet Dhuri:
i have bose AE2 and yes i also cant get the difference between flac and 320kbps mp3 !! i play flac songs on my n7000 ( Galaxy note )
[Off-topic] veeman:
Beats are teh best. Dre is a god.
[Off-topic] alexemme:
imho , from 320kbps to FLAC there isnt so much difference ,

u'll probably feel it only with a very expensive and high quality headset.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I can tell the difference, but only with my high end amped headphones, not with my PC speakers. It's not significant enough a difference to make me want to re-rip my music collection though. Most of what i have is at 320kbps now and i'm happy with that. I've even tried a load of 24/96 FLAC songs, some studio releases, some Vinyl copies, and even they don't improve enough on the SQ to make it worthwhile changing. I don't notice a difference between 16/44.1 FLAC and 24/96 at all.

I'm an audio enthusiast and in my experience people would be much better served looking at other aspects of their audio chain. Essentially better hardware and/or software. Nobody is going to notice a difference in file quality using a smartphone paired with 'Beats' crap, especially on a noisy commute to work or in the gym. The only time it would make any sense to even worry about that is at home and even then only if you have the hardware to notice the difference.

If you want to maximise SQ and be portable you need a good portable player paired with some good buds. Worrying about bitrates is the least of your worries really. If you're at home and are using your PC, you need a good DAC, headphone amp and some decent cans, or you need to output to some good separates driving a decent pair of speakers. People using Bose or Beats who can't hear a difference..guess what..it's because you're using Bose or Beats. Get your head outta your asses!

Personally i have no issue with digital playback. I don't miss the analogue hiss and crackle of vinyl at all. The problem doesn't lie in the playback. The problem is in the recording and mixing stage of music production. Now that the last great studios have all gone digital, or closed completely, the music being produced is all pro-tools, autotuned crap with no dynamic range and clipping all over place because the levels have all been maxed out. I have songs like Bohemian Rhapsody that sound great being played back digitally because the dynamic range was preserved during the remastering. If it were made today, by today's sound engineers and studios, it would sound like crap. Nothing to do with the playback media at all though.

The reason i listen exclusively to older music is because it come from an age where it came out of the studio sounding good. Nothing does any more, so no matter how good your hardware, most music is going to sound like crap now anyway and there is nothing in the world you can do about that!

Of course the other thing that happens a lot is that people use EQ during playback and wonder why everything sounds like crap. If your SQ is so bad that you feel the need to use DSP effects, stop and think. All you are doing is degrading the quality even more when what you should be doing is saving your monies for better hardware.
[Off-topic] PureLogic:
alright. kidding aside, personally, i think FLAC is not worth it. the huge file size is not enough to justify the miniscule quality difference from 320kbps mp3. you'll have to have a highly trained ear and a really good output device to notice it. and im sure it has a somewhat placebo effect to it... "omg! its lossless and 5x the size. it has to sound better!". its just not practical and convenient in my opinion.

2¢
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I see no reason not to have FLAC for home use, if you have the hardware to expose the quality difference and can be bothered to re-rip your CD's. You can still use MP3 for portable use where storage is limited and SQ is less important. Storage is cheap for home media so file size is the least of the issues really.

I can't be arsed to re-rip so i'm sticking to MP3. If i were archiving all my music for the first time now though i would rip in lossless, and then make MP3 copies for portable use.

As i said before, most people would be better off improving their hardware before thinking about formats and bitrates though.
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
96kbps cloud streaming master race reporting in.
[Off-topic] edisile:
Never tried FLAC, since I'm very happy with my 320 kbps mp3 files and because of lack of storage space and good hardware. Now I just got a new pair of headphones and I was also thinking to buy an external DAC since I have some spare money... Even though I just can't go under 320 kbps. I just can't even stand 256 kbps mp3 files.
[Off-topic] sokool27:
320 kbps cbr mp3 is just a waste of space. V0 vbr sounds pretty much the same with smaller filesize.
[Off-topic] Vyper512:
I would say that it is just a waste of space. The placebo effect is huge in the audio industry. Not worth it ^_^
[Off-topic] maximome123:
On my stock nexus headset I can't feel difference betweend 120 and 320kbs
[Off-topic] jRi0T68:
It depends largely on both your hardware and the recording. If it wasn't done well in the studio, you won't see the benefit. I've got some songs where I can clearly hear a difference in the level of detail, others not as much. I prefer flac in some genres, while in others I stick to 320.

Excreted from my Nexus 5

[Guide] Headphone/Earphone Buying
[Off-topic] baptiste28:
On my GS3, the difference can be heard, especially with a high-end headphones, compared to basic headphones.
[Off-topic] veeman:
I like to listen to 38kbps audio on my Beats.
[Off-topic] baptiste28:
lol masochist ^^

38kbs... :eek:
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
And you listen to this constantly.

[YOUTUBE]2Z4m4lnjxkY[/YOUTUBE]
[Off-topic] Dirk:
If you play back music using 'Beats', everything sounds like it's encoded at 38kbps anyway.
[Off-topic] jRi0T68:
More accurate to say it sounds like you've plugged in all your subwoofers, but forgotten to plug in the actual speakers.

Excreted from my Nexus 5

[Guide] Headphone/Earphone Buying
[Off-topic] hanisod:
Exactly!

And my answer is yes, there is a difference

But it's really small to stupidly increase my music collection size (I have more than 20GB of music in 320kbps, which is good for me and most people)

I don't want to imagine the size in FLAC :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] Matt95.:
I think also there is a difference between MP3 320kbps and FLAC but only if listened with audiophile hardware...

Inviato dal mio Galaxy S Plus :D
[Off-topic] exb0:
Why the HELL did you dig up a 2 year old thread -.-
[Off-topic] amatig:
Yep
[Off-topic] BlackSoulxxx:
Yes, I can heard the diffrerent.....LOL that's why I prefer to use FLAC and spend the monet to buy bigger sd card...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Scyke:
Hi I'm running juggernaut 5.0 and I have this problem where my market will downgrade to an older version and then update to the new version. Anyway I can keep it updated?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkside79:
Yea use Titanium back up and freeze the market updater app. After that reboot device and problem should be fixed! Good luck!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 3vilN1n@z:
"Not Supported" message

I'm having an issue with the Market (Google Play): About 70% of the apps I look at in the Market tell me "Your device isn't compatible with this item".

At first I thought it was a botched ROM flash (tuesday -new beggining) so I did a full wipe & reloaded the same ROM; same issue (about 90% of apps gave that error).

I recently loaded Paradox II (the 3/05 release) and did a full wipe as directed (flashed the wipe util's that were posted). Before restoring any of my apps I checked the market for the paid ones I use that were installed while on the rooted factory ROM (like MyBackup Pro) and got the same message. Some of the apps that "weren't supported" when on the Tuesday ROM were all the sudden supported & downloadable.

I had all apps backed up with MyBackup Pro and installed just the apps (no settings) using the BusyBox option. Every app worked just fine & market links restored but when going to market to update one of the installed & working apps, it'd say not compatible.

Thinking this was a market issue, I uninstalled the updates, cleared data/cache, and installed various versions of Market (including the new one) that were talked about in other threads about Market errors... did not fix it.

When going to the Market on my computer and looking at apps that are installed or were installed pre-custom ROM, it has my SGH-T989 grayed out. I checked build.prop and couldn't see anything with the device identification that looked wrong.

This is preventing a lot of my installed apps to not be able to be updated... Any ideas as to what is causing this? Did I fubar something when doing the first custom ROM flash?

Here are some of the major apps that are saying they are incompatible:

Adobe Flash Player

Astrid Task

Documents to Go

Dolphin Browser HD

DropBox

MyBackupPro

SuperUser
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] born2gethard:
Take out all the market related files by using root explorer or something similar hen find a new market .apk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 3vilN1n@z:
Is there a list of these files anywhere that you know of? I ran in to an issue a while back on my G2x when doing something similar to this after a failed theme flash.

Under system/app I have marketupdater.apk but nothing else...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] born2gethard:
/data/app. Mine is called com.android.vending
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 3vilN1n@z:
Update on this issue...

I cleared the cache/data for Play Store, uninstalled updates, turned off data, cleared cache/data for Market, went through and deleted all Market related apps/folders:

data/data/com.android.vending (folder)

data/data/com.android.vending.updater (folder)

data/app/com.android.vending.apk

system/app/MarketUpdater.apk

system/app/vending.apk

- I reinstalled the last version of Market that was posted on goo then let it update to Play Store. This resulted in more apps being "compatible" but still had quite a few coming up as "incompatible" (that I had installed & knew worked on the GS2). After further research I found a scenario on another Samsung phone that the lowering the LCD Density caused this same issue. After setting it back to 240 & reinstalling the Market again, the issue was resolved...

I would love to lower the density again but don't want to mess up the Market. Does anyone know of a tweak that will allow this (I'm thinking a build.prop mod)?
[G Tablet General] NavyKwonMA:
Hello, I recently purchased my parents a use Viewsonic G Tablet upc300-2.2 the market on it is completely different and doesnt have a lot of the apps they they wanted so i sent them a .apk for the new market, they installed it and replaced the stock market but now it wont run and keeps force closing. Any ideas? thanks in advanced
[G Tablet General] DaggerDave:
Have you tried doing a market "fix"? See this thread, Part 3 explains how to do it, just ignore the stuff about updating flash player.
[Off-topic] :
Anyone else play?

If so add me in game

"Debel" or "Debel 104"

-Tyler Debel
[Off-topic] - Swift -:
Minecraft DYE! LULZ

Sent from my X8 with Beats Audio.
[Off-topic] rockstarar:
lol i used to play this game so hard.

--sent from my glacier.
[Off-topic] SteveG12543:
I used to play it... Only 99 I got was hunting. But I did get to 23M XP in it ;). Like 8 months ago I gave my buddy everything I had that was worth anything significant, but I kept 1gp for myself lol.
[Off-topic] monkeychef:
I must have put at least 2000 hours into that game...I hated myself when I realized I became a "Runescape Vegetable".

Get out while you can, go play something more productive like...BF3?
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Wow, people still play it? I remember waiting for 15 minutes for it to load on Dial-up. lol
[Off-topic] qaz2453:
I used to be addicted to that ****

Was lvl 115

Thank god I quit... my life would have been ruined :)
[Off-topic] SteveG12543:
I put in about 2100 hours myself. Spread out over like 5 years though, but still.
[Off-topic] monkeychef:
I had about 6 years or so, still feel horrible for it.
[Off-topic] scoffyburito:
No no you need to play www.realmofthemadgod.com

AOKP 4 LYF
[Off-topic] icepally:
This is still around?!?

Sent from my SGH-T989
[Off-topic] scoffyburito:
Quick dial-up, took me an hour and a half :D

AOKP 4 LYF
[Off-topic] :
My sister still plays. she's got loads of everything,
[Off-topic] bol7z:
Was such a good game back when I was 12, good old runescape classic.
[Off-topic] hawkeye2188:
Talk about bring back memories:D I havent played it hard in at least 4 years.
[Off-topic] tekken179:
Still play since 2006 :D Awesome game <3 check my signature :)
[Off-topic] xviruz:
Haha, I couldn't stand the new 3D look when it came out.. thankfully I'd stopped playing by then.
[Off-topic] gh123man:
i quit some years ago, right around freshman year of HS. now im a freshman in college, super nerd school, but i have a friend, i looked at his play time counter. it said...

268...

DAYS

(bro got less then 100 days short of a year of strait rs. )

EDIT: and yeah, he still plays
[Off-topic] :
Yeah I play a little.

-Tyler Debel
[Off-topic] :
What's up ex rs players
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
What happened to Xboarder this time?
[HTC Amaze 4G] xndabox:
Nosey much?....:)
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Ya, maybe a bad question from the lack of response. The amaze forum is an odd one for sure. Was just wondering. I saw his threads are closed.