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[HTC Inspire 4G] hotrodwinston:
This is a newb at rom flash so better to set him up right the first time than have him run into problems and never try again - thus ending what could become a awesome developer.

my method:

have md5 checked rom on pc

battery fully charged (check with something like current widget or battery calibration from market)

I use 4ext touch recovery

phone connected to pc

wipe data/factory reset

format all except sd

.(if coming from stock or changing from gb to ics vice/versa)

.mount usb storage

.backup sd card to pc

.un-mount usb

.format sd (if rom supports it I will partition a ext for apps and a swap)

mount usb

transfer rom

unmout usb

unplug from pc

flash rom

reboot

enjoy!

(please follow directions from developer on restoring apps/data)
[HTC Inspire 4G] BoostedEK:
Thanks for the details.

So would ROM Manager be safe to use on the inspire? I've seen people complain about it, is it only because it's not supported for their devices?
[HTC Inspire 4G] zelendel:
Well the thing is that some roms do not Like CWM recovery. Most roms come with 4ext recovery built in. I would just use that to flash roms.
[HTC Inspire 4G] pckiller00:
+1, I hardly use CWM all use, mainly use 4ext Touch Recovery and most ROMs will have that built-in, IMHO..I prefer 4ext Touch Recovery over CWM for flashing ROMs, interface is clean and easy to use :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] hotrodwinston:
+1 on 4ext touch - way nicer than pressing buttons.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schismal:
One minor annoyance I've always had with WP is the lack of adjustable privacy settings on images or albums. People often ask to play with my phone, since it's an OS that's unfamiliar to most, and they can end up flicking dangerously through my pictures. I've had similar experiences with friends' iPhones, so that isn't a WP-exclusive problem.

But this becomes especially troublesome with the Pictures live tile that randomly grabs an image from my phone and slaps it on my start screen (or, with slightly less annoyance, as the background of the pictures hub). Now, I think this is a great feature... but there are some images I'd rather not be displayed on my main screen, and I don't want the only solution to be unpinning the tile.

Laugh all you want, but I can't be the only one who's encountered this. :p Is there some core functionality that I've missed or an app that will ensure that images in a certain album are protected from being displayed around other parts of the phone's OS?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OGCF:
I just looked it up and there's a couple of apps in the Marketplace that can function as hidden picture albums. You just copy them over into the app and delete the originals from the Hub.

Also you can actually control what the Pictures live tile displays. All you have to do is take a couple of photos and select "Mark as Favorite" from the options. Then you'll see those photos appear under the Favorites section and those will be the only ones rotated onto the Pictures tile.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schismal:
Thanks for the help! I didn't know that about the favorites--I've only ever marked one photo as a favorite, and I could've sworn it still rotated through everything. But maybe there's a threshold value of marked pics that will keep WP from digging into every album?

Not sure how I missed those apps on a search, but I found them now. Thanks again.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkSeL:
There's a better solution.

If your main concerns are the tile and the background, then you can add pictures to your favorites, and it will only show those as your tile pictures/backgrounds.. Maybe only favorite pictures you want people to see.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] viiv:
What are the known official firmware versions for the Xperia P by region? Or is there only one version so far? Can Xperia P owners report their firmware version with your region please?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiej79:
I was wondering the differences between them for everyday use need good music player with dsp and stability
[Android General] damianmb:
Hi all,

I'm writing this because I really don't understand what's is the point with Apollo.

It seems that the developer was copying things from Play Music and trying to make an app from scratch.

But, it totally lacks features and doesn't address any previous shorcomings:

No Various Artists grouping

No Replay Gain

No settings at all

No album arts stored in the files/folders

Albums downloaded are bad resolution and not able to change them

Not so smooth interface

No folder selection to play music from

Unstable (Sometimes it just stopped playing)

Seems somewhat heavier that Play Music

And on top of this.. it is integrated in CM9 and with version 1.00. Then, voodoo sound doesn't get integrated. Not only that, but there is a plan to charge for "premium" features, like what? Change the album art or pick it from the files itself??

I'm happy with CM9 as they are adding features and addressing issues, but this Apollo is annoying.

Really.. Am I missing something?

I don't know, I think that Play Music is so much better than this one.
[Android General] vap_66:
You're missing the fact that Apollo is still a work in progress.

I'm using Apollo over PowerAmp Pro because the DSPManager from CM9 is incompatible with the latter (in my case, at least).

Trimis de pe Defy CM9
[Android General] jalem:
I think the biggest problem with Apollo (and all other 3rd party music apps) is that it isn't able to integrate with my Play Music library. This is of course a failure on Google's part for not providing an official API.

I've been moving toward uploading more and more of my library to Play Music so that I don't have to carry so much around on my external SD card, opening up more space for storing videos, pictures, etc. Eventually Apollo isn't going to have much to work with...
[Android General] vap_66:
Well, not everyone has unlimited data plans and not all areas have good coverage. Also, I like to keep my data locally (at least important or large stuff).

Trimis de pe Defy CM9
[Android General] jalem:
I understand that. I certainly don't have an unlimited plan or the greatest coverage 24/7 either. But you can sync stuff from your Play Music library to your phone while on WiFi for offline playing, so you can kind of have it both ways.

And I guess that means you could potentially sync your Google music and then play it through Apollo. (Assuming Google syncs them as normal mp3 files and not some weird encrypted DRM format.) But it's still annoying to need multiple apps installed.
[Android General] zequav:
Yep, that's retarded. I love the artist photo dowload, but why not use the album art that is already there (either inside the MP3 or in the folder) instead of downloading a craptastic low res image? I hope that's not supposed to be a future premium feature (I can only think it will, since using a local picture seems easier to implement than downloading it).

Also, no AlbumArtist/Band support, it seems. I have compilations and OSTs and they appear spread in the Artist tab, instead of appearing once under "Various" or "<Name of the film>"

I was removing Music.apk and replacing it with PlayMusic.apk before flashing. Will do the same with Apollo.apk for now.

(edit) Reading the author's google+ comments:

it seems local album art will be reserved for paying users, although most people there are asking for this feature. Goodbye Apollo, then; going back to Google player.
[Android General] damianmb:
Yes, I was using apk replacement a while ago. I really wanted to download flash but I guess I will have to use PC, edit and then flash.

What I would really like to know is how difficult is to implement Replay Gain that is around for a while.
[Android General] resetreflectt:
I can't stand how Apollo won't use the album art that comes with the songs. If it already has album art it'll still show the "Apollo - Illuminate Your Music" art since it can't find it online...even though I already have it.

It's stressing. And the art it does find is so grainy and low quality.
[Android General] ericsdeadinside:
My biggest gripe is that Apollo doesn't use the equalizer. I just flash the old original cm9 music whenever a new build comes out. Even though it's kind of cpu heavy.
[Android General] keksberg:
I simply can't understand why such an app can make it's way to cyanogenmod...

It has no settings at all, you aren't asked if you want to download covers or use those in the music files, the app simply starts downloading.

This is not the way a cyanogenmod app should be or behave!

I tried the January version of Apollo... well there are the missing settings but the rest of the old version is really slow and often not responding.

So I switched back to the old cm9 music app.. it is a nice feature of ICS that you can deactivate system apps ;-)
[Android General] swiftk1:
i expected it to be on the market by now
[Android General] Bushmaster78FS:
I guess one can freeze the app and use something else but I liked it for what it offers. It still seems there is much work to do. It works with DSP. That is nice. Downloads artist pics, but when you click on them, you get a FB's timeline type, rectangular frame where you can't really see the pic. Add some settings, and include a dark theme, don't let us download it.
[Android General] damianmb:
Same feeling here, rest of CM is working really nice. Also battery is nice, I can get 1 day with normal usage.
[Android General] rnrstar:
It's in the market from today, 5.31. Description is lacking imo. Cost: 4.64. No free version listed in developer's other app section. Weird thing:i downloaded app from web and market showed as the app already installed. If true that it's the exact same app as the 5.21 release, it's definitely not worth the price at this point. Imo. Also, imo, based on developer's track record, I'm not sure how quick updates will be.
[Android General] Felimenta97:
The dev said it would be 2.3+ compatible. Could you send me the link to the app on Play Store? I can't find it
[Android General] rnrstar:
Hi,i think someone might've been trying to steal the dev's work. Was wondering this after my first post as there was no communication from Dev's site today. i can't find the app in the market now either. maybe Google took it down.someone did link to it on dev's g+ page in the comments section today. But someone there also suggested the app was probably not official. Sorry for the confusion. I'm just as curious as the next person to see what the official app looks like, hence my 1st post.

Edit: just checked link on Dev's g+ page and link still is live. The app in the mkt is listed under the developer name: living water. another issue is the mkt icon is not the Dev's official icon which should've been a red flag for me. sorry again.
[Android General] Gio2178:
I cant seem to find it in the market
[Android General] Felimenta97:
Anyone have news about the Market version? He said almost 2 weeks ago that it would be on Play Store in a couple of days, and nothing until now...
[Android General] rnrstar:
i don't know how long the play store upload process takes but for some reason this taking so long doesn't surprise me; might be awhile longer (but i hope not). If u catch comments in Dev's g+ page, he has been absent since like the day he posted on 5.21. Some communication might be good from him
[Android General] tylerlaczko:
Change

Where can I submit a request for the app?

One feature that I would really love is being able to listen to music by folder. It seems to have everything else but this. EG Artist, album, genre, etc.

I store my workout music in a workout folder and I would like to be able to just select that.

I know I could create a playlist for each folder but then I need to update it all the time.

PLEASE ADD FOLDER PLAY OPTION.
[Android General] yer_momma:
Just went to open a voicemail in gmail that was sent in .wav format and couldn't open it. Apparently Play Music is not installed by default on CM9 and Appolo doesn't support playing mp3's or .wav files when other apps request it or does not properly associate itself with file types. I installed Play Music and now I can open mp3's and .wav files from all apps.

way to f*ck up a simple task Cyanogen team.

/rant
[Android General] kibosh1981:
Seems a bit harsh.

I understand you frustration but as they say.... don't bite the hand that feeds. Perhaps you were in charge over there everything would be perfect.
[Android General] CooLoserTech:
I just use CM Music which is the older but better version of Apollo. Try it out from seeingpixels
[Android General] damianmb:
Yes, that's for sure and thank you for your understanding, I feel so better now!.

Let's not criticize anything, let's not progress and don't ever complain about your job because you are lucky to have one.

Perhaps, you can live fine in your conformity, perhaps you can improve your grammar(even though mine is not perfect in any way) before posting.

Perhaps, you can suggest something or some constructive criticism instead of just saying that I should develop the application by myself.

:cyclops:
[Android General] damianmb:
Thanks, I'm currently using Play Music. It does a decent job and has integration with the lockscreen. Only thing I'm missing is the Replay Gain but every music app that uses it is paid (and I don't like them).

DeadBeeF player, the free version does Replay Gain but is just a folder player and doesn't integrate with lockscreen.
[Android General] icechen1:
It's a work in progress, yeah. I'd give it some more time before really judging it.
[Android General] billcouper81:
Needs More Work

At first I was really impressed with Apollo. It looks really nice and runs very smoothly on Rootbox (was using it on 1.3 and now 1.4)

After a few hours the "pretty-ness" of the interface became old and I started to care more about the shortcomings of this music player

It's definitely GOING to be something very special. Mad props to the developer, we all give devs **** but they're doing this for free we must remember. But, we must give them feedback, even if it must be negative :) So here is my rant

I was impressed with the fact it downloaded *most* album art and also photos of the artists! Wow that is so coooool!

Less impressed that the artist photos don't fit the frame on that Artists page. It's using a 4:3 photo and fitting it to a wide frame and it just looks stupid. In reality it's useless because 90% of the time you are looking at the bands torsos (or knees) but can't see their heads!

I was not happy that it didn't find all the album art. So... I installed mediamonkey on my windows pc and fixed ALL my id3 tags to have the correct "artist", "album artist", "album name", "track name", "track number" and also EMBEDDED all of the album art INTO every single file (both MP3s and FLACs).

Not impressed that Apollo refused to recognise the embedded album art. I have albums in the list with no art, yet every single song on my phone has a good quality cover built in.

And for the life of me, I cannot fix a couple of my albums. One shows in the list with a lower case name yet all of the folders, files and tags are all capitalised I even replaced the MP3 version with a FLAC version with 100% correct tags and it still shows wrong. I even reset the Apollo data and cache (which caused it to re-download all of the art again and some of it was different the second time around - some were better but others were worse). And I have another album that shows <Unknown> for the artist even though all the tags are correct. Maybe I have different versions of ID3 tag on my files? I don't know

*** It would be really nice if it came with an ICS black/blue theme as well as the white theme

*** It needs to give PRIORITY to embedded album art

*** It needs to download WIDESCREEN format artist photos if it wants to fit them to a wide frame (if that's too hard, don't use a wide frame!)

*** It needs to recognise the Album Artist tag (eg for "Various Artists" compilation CDs)

If it had all those things, I would happily pay for it, because it just looks sooo pretty... but for now I think I will be switching back to one of the other players that will at least use the embedded album art ffs

It's the kind of "pretty" app I would keep on my phone JUST to piss off people with iPhones.... Look how sexy my phone is compared to yours.... then I would have to choose the one artist out of 20 that has a decent artist photo and show them the artist page so they can see how pretty it is (yes, I did have one artist photo that actually WORKED in the widescreen aspect frame and you could see their FACES omg)
[Android General] PlayDude77:
It's a great looking and fully featured app. But I have a lot of music on the cloud since my Nexus S and its 16GB of storage aren't nearly enough to hold it all. Apparently the version of Apollo I'm running in RemICS 1.2 doesn't seem to support Google Play stored music. :(
[Android General] Holstener Liesel:
I'm glad Play Music has lockscreen integration as well, so this can be replaced without pains. Apollo may be a work in progress, but as such it was definitely not ready to be baked into the default system. It's got way too many interface issues and is by far the most annoying part of my CM install. Take the 'artist' view: You can't scroll quickly, getting through a long list takes forever. Names are unreadable on most phones because they are abbreviated into oblivion. The covers it downloads instead of using embedded ones are (in my case, which is a rather large collection) completely chaotic. It just reuses pictures from other artists all the time.

So what I get is an 'artist' view where I cannot identify the artist, because the names are unreadable and the pictures are just 20 or so images that are applied to about 200 artists.

And what is the deal with this inane, obtrusive tagline ("Apollo. Illuminate your music") which is everywhere? As another poster said: this feels really out of place with the rest of CM.
[Android General] valenparra:
I just want to say one thing:

The MUST have feature of a music player is FOLDER BROWSING.

That is what Apollo is missing the most
[Android General] leblvin:
Can't read MP3s

Can anyone tell me why it can't read any of my MP3s?

I have used PowerAMP for a while and it plays my files just fine, but for troubleshooting's sake, I uninstalled it. So basically :

No music player other than Apollo is installed.

It can see the playlist files in the same folder as my MP3s, but not the MP3s themselves.

If I try to open a MP3 through a file manager (i.e. Astro), it says "MP3 file type unknown"

I have tried rebooting (duuh), clearing cache and data of Apollo and deactivating it and reactivating it though app manager...

Any clues??

This has been going on since CM9 (I am on CM10) and has endured full wipes/factory resets, rom changing, external sd-card formating.

EDIT : It seems that my mp3 file extension is correctly tagged as audio, but Apollo is not viewed as a valid MP3 reader by the system, so it doesn't even propose it. I'll search what could be interfering.
[Android General] damianmb:
Solution is simple: Freeze the program with TB and never use it again :cyclops:. There are simply no advantages over stock google play.
[Android General] vNa5h:
where are the downloaded album art stored

path?
[Android General] balente84:
Looking forward to adding up the folder play options

I love Apollo, but the only thing that bugs me is the absence of folder play.

Could you please add this feature for the next update?

Thanks!!
[Android General] nicopilami:
+1000000 :laugh:
[Android General] muradmohdzain:
I deleted some of the song in the folder but Apollo seems does not refresh the list.. how should i refresh the list?
[Android General] ooie:
I'd really like to see the Last.fm support.
[Android General] metalrules321:
thats it !!... the development for apollo seems to be over !!! :( ....wasnt too bad....but the album art issue drove me nuts !!!
[Android General] vNa5h:
What's up

Is the developer dead :p
[Android General] damianmb:
Finally lol
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Ok so this has annoyed me for ages now and I can't figure out whats the problem, even after 10-12 hours of searching. Basically if I don't have a SIM Card in my phone, videos (Youtube & recorded ones) play perfectly well, no problems. When there's a SIM Card in it when I play a video (both of the above) O get a white flash for a second and the video lags but the audio comes through fine. Any suggestions?

INFO:

HTC Desire HD (Inspire 4G in the USA)

2.3.5 stock OTA update

Sense 3.0

Crap load of apps (NOT THE PROBLEM)

No Root

S-On

I do know a little about Android (might be Root & S-Off soon) but not too much. Help would be appriciated a lot!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hadobac:
Try MX Video Player => Problem solved.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Will it work for Youtube too?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Help? Please?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teichopsia:
Did you try the previous suggestion? When did you first notice the problem?

Have you tried a different sim card? Same sim card in a different phone?

Wifi vs data connection?

Sent from a dream.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lincolnep:
A bit more of a drastic fix would be to switch from stock to a custom rom like IceColdSandwich i moved from stock to this and the speed differentness in the rom is huge! tho you do lose sence
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mate996:
Currently I'm using the Android Revolution HD 7.0.4 and I don't have any lag. It runs smooth :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hevlaska:
try another sim and see if the problem persist. It happened to me once, i never noticed till i switch on simlock.

The was some minor scratches on the sim which cause difficulties for the phone to read it. Indirectly, the phone allocates certain amount of resource to load/read the sim repeatedly which MAY(or may not) explain your lags.

Just sharing my personal experiences, this may or may not be the case for you. Do try other suggestions as well. Btw, im using MOBO player as my video player.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
The main thing I'm worried about is Youtube, cause I watch a ton of videos before I sleep (oh the joys of insomnia!) So if that goes im kinfa screwed. The 3rd party video player solved the lag for the locally stored videos (ones on the SD Card) btw
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
I always use WiFi, sim works perfectly in Nokia N95 8GB & 3GS, first noticed it a while back but ignored it. Ill try another sim later on
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Tried it with two different SIM'S (O2 & Vodafone, both UK) to no avail :( Maybe flashing a new ROM might help? (rooting seems to be a very enticing option now)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Slightly different question (still related to thread); when I flash gapps with CM7 (7.1.0) I need to install zip from SD card right?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teichopsia:
Gapps is supposed to be flashed through recovery. If that's what you meant by from sd card, yeah.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Thanks guys, hopefully CM7 will solve this (flashing it tomorrow) if not, then its back here :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oik01:
stock is very slow and eventually lagged with me too ... one thing i did at the time was used timelines app whenever the phone would slow down to see what was using up the cpu.... turned out the sense app " stocks" was going crazy and loading up by itself and taking up most of my cpu when i was on other apps even though i had never used it before. terminating it and eventually uninstalling the app solved it for me at the time ( had to get root and titanium backup for that. ) hope this helps.. ..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInTheCorner:
Yeah Sense kinda lagged me out too (always only had 100-50MB free RAM, CPU went crazy if I launched certain apps.

ETA to cyanogenmod: T Minus 1 hour