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[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
By default the app uses the built-in player but you can switch modes to make it use a different player with more features. Go to Help+Settings, last tab.

I found ways of getting music in isostore faster for the user, one of them involves downloading from skydrive, the other involves direct file transfers between the phone and a desktop companion.

For WP7, what you propose is pretty difficult. But I can do this on Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8 app (I am building a companion app which runs on Metro). Once I can get myself a windows phone 8, this will get sped up considerably
[Windows Phone 8 General] SilverHedgehog:
I'm not sure third party apps can change things in the music library. Still, even if it would require its own player, I say go for it, because the native WP8 player makes me sad.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
The app is almost ready for public release. I am just waitting to finish the 8.1 version and make them both public at the same time.

You can download the phone version from the link in my signature.
[Windows Phone 8 General] sukanaher:
[MENTION=4622571]mcosmin222[/MENTION]

Yes, I was talking about WP8, - I didn't realize that your app is for WP7 actually ;P Dunno how things looks like on WP7 regarding xaudio2, on WP8 you got C++ support for it, and I have tested playing some random music with it and in fact, it works. Equalizer works - not the best EQ I've seen in my life but its something.

[MENTION=3120335]SilverHedgehog[/MENTION]

Nope, there is no write access to the music library on WP8 device, you can only read songs names and that's it. Not a big deal. But anyways, with a custom player there are following issues:

1. Player has to have its own music library within app isolated storage, so now you have 2 places where you have your music stored and that is inconvenient.

2. Player must be put in a background, and yet there are no "legal" ways to use proper multitasking. And even if we put this app in a background as geolocation app (so it need to use GPS time to time as well), - there will be no integration with a system itself - so no quick controls and stuff.

I was talking about completely custom 3rd party audio player, without any single standard mechanism used.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
C++ for WP8 only works for native games. You can not build a player app that will run in the background using C++. So your library is useless, unfortunately.

My app fully supports WP8 as well.

As I said, there are ways to legal ways to go around the problems you just mentioned, and my player does that already. But you can not use C++ to do it. My decoders are written in pure C#.

You can not avoid "standard" mechanisms when working on an operating system. Even if you wrote all with ANSI C++, you would still depend on the system.

if you want, we could collaborate and use your library for winRT.
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=4622571]mcosmin222[/MENTION]: You can create native "component" (a C++/CX DLL) which is usable by non-game apps just fine. It *should* even work with background agents (there's no technical reason it wouldn't; is there a policy against it?) so I don't think that would be a problem. Marshaling data across the ABI does impose a small performance penalty but it shouldn't be significant for audio data.
[Windows Phone 8 General] sukanaher:
Yes, that is what I was saying, C++ component, which implement all audio functionality using xaudio2, it completely manages all buffers and offsets and just plays audio :) All the rest is C# code, which calls component in a separate thread - there is no such requirement when calling xaudio2 engine from games, but from regular app it has to be in a separate thread. I am not really sure right now because I was doing this research almost a year ago, just when got my ATIV S; from what I can recall, C# CG impacts in some way audio buffers processing by the system, basically that is what GoodDayToDie said. So this rest of the code is also responsible for working in a background by implementing pseudo geolocation functionality. And thats it! We got a background app which plays music :)

I've done this - I know it works :)

But, there is always some but, there is always something that just not play nice.

1. Music must be stored in app iso storage.

2. No integration with quick controls for music playback

3. Additional desktop app, that will transfer music to WP8 app iso storage

I really don't think that a regular users will ever go after such solution, which requires additional app to be installed. Another thing is that is requires user to learn new way of playing his/her music, - such app will never succeed. By success I mean attraction of at least half of a million users.

[MENTION=4622571]mcosmin222[/MENTION]

I am not saying that your solution will never succeed, if you are using standard methods and do not require user to change his/her habits - there is a good chance :)
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
Oh well...it is worth the try...

But I don't think it will work(just a guts feeling xD).

But I expect some stupid policy to stop it, especially those related to p/invoke.

EDIT: Hmm...this might actually work. I tried adding a reference to a C++ runtime lib project from a C# background audio agent and surprise surprise, it worked.

I stand corrected then :)

not sure how this all relates to dll's written using ANSI C++ though.

I do not believe the marshaling overhead would be too great. It probably would be small enough to work even with apps requiring better performance.

[MENTION=4283710]sukanaher[/MENTION],

Do you have the component already ported to WP8? If so, can you share it please? It would speed things up considerably.
[Windows Phone 8 General] sukanaher:
[MENTION=4622571]mcosmin222[/MENTION]

I haven't understood correctly - you were talking about using background agents, I was talking about multitasking by imitating geolocation tracking app, - well, I am not sure if this will work with background agents due to the fact, from what I remember, there are 2 types of background agents on WP8 - I got no idea how things look like on WP7. So, there is a local music playing agent and music streaming agent - in both cases you do not have access to a raw audio data, to raw bytes, you just specify network source or local source and thats it.

If you are planning to use xaudio2 and all its benefits - you will need to extract audio PCM data from file and audio stream as well, so you will need your algorithms working with a raw bytes (an actual file) - it is not possible in case of background agents on WP8 - they just load your file or stream and thats it - you cannot access its data.

For proper music player, you will have to implement everything from scratch, no background agents, proper, android like multitasking, access to a music library, access to a system, system integration, basically you need everything that is not available on Windows Phone 8 and from what I observe will not be available in 9 - MS just holds this functionality for them selfs, thats it, we are limited to the minimum.- that is why I am thinking more about dumping my WP device.

Yeah, I have an xaudio2 wrapper lib written a year ago somewhere on my PC - it is a mess, it depends on my other libs and it is just a static linking lib, it is not a component. If I would ever share this, I will have to prepare a proper static library or component, but at this moment, besides daily job, I'm involved into other projects.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
Ok, long story short:

Yes, you can access the stream of raw bytes from local storage. You may or may not do the same with online sources.

No, MS does not use a different kind of multitasking system. The difference is the MS player can actually access to user library.

Maybe, we can implement an equalizer filter which can be applied before the raw bytes get to the player. This can be done with C# too, so it is not required to use C++ at all (the difference in performance is minimal anyway) However, in order to do such a thing, one must implement media stream sources for the file formats which usually do not require streaming (like mp3, mp4, wav etc), so we can have access to the raw bytes sent to the player. This is very time consuming, and the reward isn't really all that big. Sure, if you have codecs in CX that are usable in WP apps, we can do this...

The only thing MS does to impair a proper music player is access to the user library.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
double post failure
[Windows Phone 8 General] sukanaher:
Anyways, we have strayed off topic a little bit, but from what I can see - there is no interest in such application, that will sync music to PC using wireless :(
[Trophy General] manohar7:
Hi,

I plan to buy the below mentioned phone from geb.ebay.in,

New HTC Trophy – 16GB – Black (Verizon) PagePlus 3G Windows Smartphone

my doubt is, whether i’ll be able to use it in India using any SIM. Can anybody explain me what this (Verizon) PagePlus exactly is, the listing says No Contract required, does it mean that any sim can be used in it?..,if not, is there any unlock procedure for it.

Thank you.
[Trophy General] thals1992:
Usually US prepaid phones will be SIM locked to the carrier it was shipped with. You will have to call pageplus about unlocking the SIM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LiLTrippz:
I'm on stock rom, I'm with wind mobile, when I go to mobile networks to search for a network it comes up with "WIND Away" I cannot get WIND Home where i can't make a call at all right now. my model is i9250m which is suppose to work with wind mobile, I've used this phone with wind but after i factory reset, it's not not working. any help would be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sheytoon123:
Make sure your phone is not set to use "2G only".

Wind Away = Rogers (2G and 3G)

Wind Home is 3G only

Galaxy Nexus supports Wind's 3G band (UMTS band 4) so it should work. Are you in an area with confirmed Wind (home) coverage?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LiLTrippz:
I've I'm on the 30$/m plan unlimited data call etc , and it always worked on my RAZR v. Today with the Sim in i brought it around with me and i noticed that i had siginal and it kept dropping and now i have no more siginal? any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] choakchaih:
I used Samsung Mega, with Andriod 4.2. Firstly, when I activated the magnification gestures, it worked well. It zooms in only the screen area - except keyboard layout!

I just realized that it doesn't be as it was! With triple-tap to zoom in, it also zooms the keyboard layout. So I can't type the keyboard correctly.

I don't know why this happens. Probably, I did try some launchers last week, e.g. Nova launcher, etc. Finally, I uninstalled it all and set back to default one (Standard).

I tried to reset keyboard input, turned off and on the magnification gestures. It didn't help.

Anyone can advise how to fix it back?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] choakchaih:
I found the root cause now. Battery Doctor made this feature crashed! I uninstalled it and it is back to what it should be!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] jimmbomb:
Good job following up with your findings
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] davidberrysmith:
http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
Info:

I have windows 7 64bit, new HTC ONE(unboxed yesterday), HTC Sync Manager version 2.1.77.0,usb debug is enabled

Im trying to connect my new HTC ONE to my computer, my computer recognize the device open it as media device

the Sync Manager recognize the device and start Connecting.. it stays in "Connecting.." for a long time( more than 30sec), and then it says no Phone is connected.

when i enter my phone from Explorer(Computer->HTC ONE) i have Internal storage:

** sometimes i have files and folder inside

** sometimes i have only folder inside

** sometimes i have nothing inside..

** when trying to copy somethin from it, it just trying to copy untill timeout.

i tried many things on the phone (Disenable\enable USB Debug,resets and more...)

tried to reinstall Sync Manager many times.. tried reseting my computer...

I would really appreciate if some1 could help me solve this problem.. cause i cant insert files into the phone... and its annoying.

Thanks to every1 who tries to help me!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guich:
What do you have to do?

Because is better don't use HTC Sync :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
i dont understand what you mean..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guich:
You will use HTC sync for do what?

Because is better don't use it, use only the phone for transfer files on sd :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
I wants to transfer files from my computer to the phone..

But like I said, I can't access the files.. and I thought I must have sync manager
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
this is the main problem: cant transfer file from PC to PHONE it just wont copy.. and sometimes tell me my device has been disconnected or stop working
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guich:
Which os you have on your pc??

Because the mtp protocol is for windows, but if you have xp or mac you need use a program, not htc sync.

If you have linux, you have to co figure the mtp :)

Sent from One with Tapa4
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
I wrote above, I have windows 7 64bit
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guich:
Yeah, sorry, didn't see.

However, if you open the device manger, you can see mtp device? Or something like this?

Without any error? (Yellow triangle)

Sent from One with Tapa4
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
I can see it, can even copy files from my phone to the pc..

The problem is the other way
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margolis:
well.. I dont know why, but suddenly the problem stopped..

you can close the thread.

thanks for your advises guys <3
[Java for Android App Development] wasim memon:
I am working on project in which user can select apps that he/she want to hide. i just want to hide app icon of other apps from drawer. (like hide it pro)

is it possible ??

i have got some info from stack overflow but that is not working.

so if any one know about it please help me

Thanks in advance.....
[Java for Android App Development] pnikosis:
You can't hide other apps from the drawer, as you don't have access for modifying their activities properties (for hiding an app you should deactivate the activity wit category home).

In order to achieve what you are trying to do, you should develop your own launcher, that should keep a list of visible apps for displaying the accordingly.
[Java for Android App Development] wasim memon:
but then how hide it pro work ???

i know that using root permission we can hide it from drawer.

there are many apps (vault,hipe it pro) can do the same task without own app drawer.

in touchwiz launcher also i can do that but that is launcher so it has it own drawer.

so please if you know any thing or some idea about it then let me know.
[Java for Android App Development] mynote:
Ist pretty easy but you shouldnt do that if you dont want to use your customers.

disable ...

PackageManager pm = _context.getApplicationContext() .getPackageManager();

... disable ...

pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(new ComponentName(

"com.xda.yourpackage",

"com.xda.yourpackage.StartAcitvity"),

PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED,

PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

... enable ..

pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(new ComponentName(

"com.xda.yourpackage",

"com.xda.yourpackage.StartAcitvity"),

PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,

PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

................................. to validae if ist visible ...

ComponentName componentName = new ComponentName(

"com.xda.yourpackage",

"com.xda.yourpackage.StartAcitvity");

if (pm.getComponentEnabledSetting(componentName) == PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED) {

return true;

} else {

return false;

}
[Java for Android App Development] wasim memon:
Thanx mynote for coding.

but how do i get other package.startactivity . i mean user have selected xy app , yz app so how do i can get that thing for those apps.
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
You can get a list of all Activities an app has from the PackageInfo: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInfo.html#activities

A way to find the start Activity for a package would be using this method of PackageManager: http://developer.android.com/refere...l#getLaunchIntentForPackage(java.lang.String)

Then get the ComponentName from the Intent using this method: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#getComponent()

(Untested but it should work. ;))
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] sipuncool:
I'm trying to install cm 10.1 beta 7 on my HTC Pico using TWRP 2.4.1.0 but it gave me error why?

can anyone know how can i install dis rom?

now im on cm 9.1

plz reply
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] shortyoko:
Which error? Most errors in recovery are due to bad zip, so try downloading again, or try deleting some apps from the zip first, then flash.
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] sipuncool:
cm 10.1

I don't know which error. but I download the packege direct on my mobile using uc browser.

should i download cm 10.1 via laptop then move through data cable then flash?
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] shortyoko:
Well except giving it a try, maybe your connection f****d up at some point, and the zip came out corrupt, also you can try deleting some apps from the zip and giving it a chance at least until the new one downloads ;)
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] sipuncool:
yes u r r8 when I'm download the package that time error comes at least 3 or 4 times.

that's why it gave me error?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] visheshsahlot:
I am using the leaked 4.3 for note 2 and cannot find developer options in the settings, I have searched everywhere and did not find it, anyone of you who knows where it is please help me out

I want to basically decrease or remove animations to save battery
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxld:
touch build number in "about phone" 7 times to unlock
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo45215:
okay, so silly me...to get the tab ui flashed the mod yesterday...ended up in a bootloop...i could get into recovery so i flashed the PA rom ...got a bootloop still.. logcat showing many errors...flashed the MCR ..it booted up but would only show the select "trebuchet" screen once and dissapear...i flashed the stock flashable zip ...it booted up but keeps showing the systemui has stopped error...now i m kinda freaked since its a relatively new device for me and i really am lost short of flashing stock using fastboot!...any ideas folks?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gothic4:
Use nexus root toolkit it will help (run flash stock and unroot)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo45215:
Well I found out the problem....it was a deodex mod and my ROM was odexed...and then the MCR ROM freaked it out even more by deodexing all the data.....just did a clean install of the stock ROM and it worked...:D
[Android Apps and Games] Bhambya:
Hi everyone,

I have been working very hard on this one. It is a free torrent client for android. Hope you like it!

Flud is a simple and beautiful BitTorrent client for android. The power of BitTorrent protocol is now in the palm of your hands. Share files with ease from your phone/tablet. Download files directly to your phone/tablet.

Features :

* No speed limits on downloads/uploads

* Ability to select which files to download

* Ability to specify file/folder priorities

* Magnet link support

* NAT-PMP, DHT, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support

* µTP (µTorrent Transport Protocol) , PeX (Peer Exchange) support

* Ability to download sequentially

* Ability to move files while downloading

* Supports torrents with large number of files

* Supports torrents with very big files (Note: 4GB is the limit for FAT32 formatted SD cards)

* Recognizes magnet links from the browser

* Has option to download on WiFi only

* Ability to change theme (Light, Dark, Light with dark actionbar)

* Modern (Holo) UI

* Tablet optimized UI

Many more features coming soon...

You feedback is very important. Don't hesitate to drop us a mail if you find any bug or you would like to see a new feature in the next version.

If you are giving less than 5 stars, please leave a review telling us what you didn't like in the app.

Get it from the play store

Version 0.9.4.1 (16 June 2014)

* Fixed a crash on Android version below Honeycomb.

Version 0.9.4 (16 June 2014)

* Added "Force reannounce", "Keep CPU awake", "Download only when charging", "Play notification sound" options

* New option to enable/disable tracker exchange

* It is now possible to edit torrent name

* UI modifications for tablets

* Updated Openssl to fix the heartbleed bug

* New translations for Czech (Čeština) and Hungarian (Magyar)

* Killed many bugs

Version 0.7.1

* Fixed a critical bug which caused Flud to stop running in the background

* Fixed some crashes

* Minor UI changes for tablets

Version 0.7.0

* The UI is now tablet optimized! (Currently for android 3.2+ only)

* Added dark theme

* Added basic Italian translation

* ETA is now displayed in the torrent list (Main Screen)

* Added "Share magnet link" option

* Bugfixes

XDA:DevDB Information

Flud -Torrent Downloader, App for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors

Bhambya, Bhambya

Version Information

Status: Beta

Current Beta Version: 0.9.4.1

Beta Release Date: 2014-06-16

Created 2013-10-04

Last Updated 2014-06-20
[Android Apps and Games] Souroking:
Download link not available from mobile app plz fix it mate

||""Playing Asphalt™ 8 Airborne on my sgy. :p :p LoLz.

Joke of the year. Gameloft devs will die if they hear this. :p""||
[Android Apps and Games] teorouge:
Flud is good, I've been using uTorrent so far but recently it just crashes upon launch so I discovered Flud: and I'm happy with that! :)
[Android Apps and Games] mynote:
ill try it on my p7500 tonight. How about Battery? Does it run as "foregroundservice?"

Or is it within the Background with return_sticky to avoid Memory leaks/high battery consumation?
[Android Apps and Games] teorouge:
Actually don't know, I used that to download a couple mp4's and it did that fast and easy: it didn't eat my battery right away but I used that for like half an hour only.
[Android Apps and Games] Bhambya:
I runs as a foreground service only when a torrent is active. Unlike tTorrent or aTorrent who keep a foreground service even when no torrent is active. As far as I know that is the only way of avoiding the service being killed by android when low on memory.
[Android Apps and Games] mrwormburn:
Will try this tonight.
[Android Apps and Games] victorharsh:
Good nice app

one request:

Ability to set global download/upload speed limit or particular torrent speed limit feature.
[Android Apps and Games] Bhambya:
You can already set global download/upload speed limit. Ability to set speed limit for each torrent is a planned feature.
[Android Apps and Games] rickmatic:
I download straight to my extsd with utorrent. I can watch or listen to a previous download while another download is running. With flud my music player and video player don't open when a download is running. would be nice to be able to download and watch at the same time.

Galaxy s3 4.1.2 stock based rom. No tweaks or mods installed. Stock kernel. No overclocking or any of that good stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] shree_tejas:
Can you post the apk for people who dont use the playstore please?
[Android Apps and Games] Rhabdomancy:
Could someone explain to me whats is the encryption level thing and ip filter? Thx
[Android Apps and Games] PunchUp:
Well encryption is encryption. It's self explanatory in itself.

IP filter blocks a list of known bad servers
[Android Apps and Games] heorung:
Will download torrent on my phone reduce the lifetime of my SDCard? Can you implement a write-cache(with setting to change cache size) to reduce the number of writing data to sdcard?
[Android Apps and Games] Rhabdomancy:
Idk why but i get rly slow download...
[Android Apps and Games] Skeese:
[MENTION=4145252]Bhambya[/MENTION] Any update coming soon?