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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
You are short on details, so we can only guess at your preferences, whether you are a demanding videophile or just want a decent rip, with minimal effort. Whether you convert on a PC or on the S5 and numerous other questions..

Since it's not at all clear what you goals are, I'll just describe what works well for me, with very good, high quality results.

Using Handbrake:

Use the Android preset, which is quite good. This defaults picture size to 720p. I have done a lot of side by side testing and while I would default to 1080p for Blueray rips intended for viewing on a projector, TV or notebook, there is no visible advantage on a 5.1" screen. As well, ripping to high standards at 1080p often exceeds 4 GB, which is problematic on the Android filesystem. Whereas 720p results in a viable 1.5 - 2.5 GB file.

Confirm that large files size is disabled. i.e. choose 32-bit chunks.

On the Video tab, choose frame rate = same as source

Preserve ad hoc subtitles, the ones that the original English movie occasionally puts on screen when someone speaks a few lines of foreign dialog. On the Subtitles tab, choose Forced only.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casual167:
Thanks for your response. Yeah sorry, I should've been more specific in what I was trying to do. Since all my videos are currently formatted for 1280x720 on my Evo, I wanted to see if there is a conversion for the 1920x1080 that would look better on this phone. I'll give what you said a try and check it out. When comparing the two side by side, the S5 seemed to be a little darker so I wasn't sure if it was because of the lower resolution of 720. Just wanted to get it to look as crisp on the S5 as the Evo
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
I wouldn't recommend that kind of conversion. First, what you are thinking of doing is called upconverting.. and it never works well when you start with a lower resolution source. If you started with a highbit rate blueray.. that is one thing. And event then it's arguable if there is any visible advantage to 1080 on a 5.1" screen.

But I'll bet good money that upconverting from your lower resolution rip will noticeably degrade your picture. Yes, it will have more pixels in the end but since they are interpolated pixels from a lower resolution source, you can expect all kinds of undesirable video artifacts to accompany that.

Crisp could refer to several things. I suspect that your S5 is simply revealing inherent quality limitations of your current movie rips that may not have been obvious on your previous phone. The way to get that kind of crispness back on the S5 is to make better quality e.g. higher bit rate, mutipass (HQ) encoding and so forth. Simply upconverting will do the opposite of what you are aiming for because the extra pixels will tend to be blury + add random artifacts from an upconverted source.

Second, the dark picture you refer to is no doubt a minor gamma difference between manufacturers. You could in theory lighten all your movies to make them subjectively brighter on the S5. But again, it will degrade the picture a bit at the same time since the frames need to be modified and transcoded. Trust me that you will soon adjust to a gamma difference between devices after a short amount of time unless the difference is huge.

Most videophiles don't play movies at full brightness anyway as picture quality is better at an intermediate screen brightness. So unless you are viewing in a brightly lit room, you could just increase the S5 screne brightness a little bit to more than compensate for the lower gamma.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casual167:
3740

Ok that makes sense. I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff so I appreciate you taking the time to explain it. I kept looking side by side and couldn't figure out why there was such a difference. Colors seemed to pop more on the Evo which I thought was weird but I sort of understand why now. Skin tones and everything just looked like it had less contrast. I spend a lot of time traveling for work so watching things is like 80% of what I do on the phone and getting the right format is important. I was looking at getting the LG G3 so would that mean that it could look worse because of the bigger size and resolution or would it be the about the same?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
The S5 screen is better than the G3 IMO. But you can decide for yourself.

If you want crisp images or images on the S5.. just encode your movies from high resolution sources e.g. bluerays --> 720, with high quality settings e.g. high bit rate. Converting existing movie rips from 720 --> 1080 though won't give great results.

The apparent lack of crispness or contrast is just the effect of having a more capable screen on the S5. A better screen will be both impressive when you have a high quality movie. And disappointing when playing something lower quality because it is also more revealing of flaws that would be less obvious on a lower resolution screen.

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[XDA Assist] spaboleo:
Hey everyone,

I recently purchased an ebook reader that runs Android 4.0.4 and by that allows a lot of native Android apps to be used with the battery friendly eInk screen:

Evernote

Pocket

Feedly

Press

Dropbox + Dropsync

Google Docs + Drive

Google Books + Magazines

Amazon Kindle

Umano

Audible

etc.

...all seem to work fine, along with all the usual reader apps (Moon+ Reader, Aldiko, FBReader, Cool Reader etc.) :svetius::laugh:

It's the Onyx Boox Lynx T-68 (https://onyx-boox.com/shop/onyx-boox...id4-bloetooth/) and – despite some massive issues with boot-loops, on which the guys from Onyx are working – I think it might be a promising device.

I managed to root my device using Towelroot (version 1), so apps from unknown sources can be installed, even though the "security" settings menu is hidden in their modified settings.apk.

Titanium Backup, Super Su, Busybox, Universal Init.d all work like a charme.

Right now I am hoping to find a way to mount an ext2 or ext4 partition on the external sdcard to move data hungry apps (like "Pocket" and "Evernote" with their offline archives) to the external sdcard, as the internal 4GB (2.2 available) are way too limiting.

I think a forum for this device could be interesting, as I can imagine that besides discussing modifications to the existing firmware, as well custom ROMs could be developed.

The ROM itself looks pretty close to stock, even apks like "phone" or "contacts" are still on the device, however not accessible.

The modifications made by Onyx seem to be mainly cosmetic to improve the UI for touch input on the comparably slow eInk screen.

I was able to pull the OTA update.zip, which could be a starting point for further development.

From what I can tell the recovery it comes with allows to sideload update.zip files from the external SDcard by default. :cool:

However, I am not sure where to request the forum to be opened? :angel:

Thanks in advance for any hints. :svetius:

:fingers-crossed:
[XDA Assist] Darth:
Hi!

Here is the forum thread for such requests....

>*General discussion*>*About xda-developers.com*>**** New Device Forum Requests ***

Good luck! ?
[XDA Assist] spaboleo:
Thank you!

I was totally searching with the wrong keyword :/

I used "forum device suggestion" and ended up in all those topics were people want help with their buying decision. :angel:

Thanks a lot...now wait and :fingers-crossed:
[T-Mobile LG G3] gotag3:
Eventually it seems that my G3 always enters a state where hitting the play button in any media app (spotify, npr one, youtube, etc) doesn't really work. It'll play the audio for a split second and then immediately pause. I can hit play again and the same thing will happen. The only way to fix it so far seems to be rebooting. Any ideas what could cause this?
[T-Mobile LG G3] BACARDILIMON:
I sorry bro not having that issue. Are u using a case or a screen protector?
[T-Mobile LG G3] gotag3:
Yep, using the iCarez glass screen protector. I'm not sure that that's the issue though, since a restart fixes things.
[T-Mobile LG G3] BACARDILIMON:
I know their was a way to turn on a feature to show screen touch points. Meaning if it was you would see the touch points messing up your video playback and confusing the phone. You might have bad hardware.
[T-Mobile LG G3] gotag3:
Ah great idea! I'll do that next time it happens. Thanks!
[T-Mobile LG G3] Skizzy034:
For cheap screen protectors, I have to admit, they rock.

Edit: I'm talking about the non glass ones.

---------- Post added at 07:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:57 AM ----------

Its a feature in the developer options menu.
[T-Mobile LG G3] gotag3:
Just to follow up on this, looks like it was caused by an app misconfigured to use accessibility to watch media notifications instead of the new notification API in kitkat. Things seem to be okay now.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] 3lMghraby:
As there is a confirmed rumor that htc will announce a wp htc one m8

Will there be a way to convert it into a windows phone one This is the HTC One (M8) running on Windows Phone

http://bgr.com/2014/08/01/htc-one-m8-for-windows/
[HTC One M8 for Windows] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Wow man this phone isn't even out yet so it's not possible to say if there will be devs and if, if they can port it ... Wait until it's released and devs want to try to port it
[HTC One M8 for Windows] alwin006:
Wrong section + nobody can't answer that question yet...
[HTC One M8 for Windows] deviatesaw:
BGR is your source? SRSLY?
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Stephen:
Thread closed,

It is unlikely to be able to convert our m8 to a windows phone with out a custom bootloader as the hardware is different between the two devices.

Many thanks,

Ghost
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cloudzee:
Okay so i have Galaxy S3 i747 for AT&T. I had downgraded it from 4.2.1 to 4.1.1 using a guide from this site for unlocking the device. Now I wanted to upgrade to the latest version. Now OTA was not available on the phone. So I used Odi3n to manually install the firmware, and after the phone restarted from completing the flash and it showed succeeded and went to the install screen. It finished and never turned back on, I have tried the SD card debrick but it doesn't seem to work. This is also my work phone so if anyone could please help me! I am out of ideas
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehl.ey14:
help please, i got onto serious trouble, my home button is hard to press :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechMinerUK:
What do you mean exactly? Please go into more detail as "The home button is hard to press" doesn't help.

Is it spongy and only works after applying pressure or is it solid and makes a cracking noise when pressed
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehl.ey14:
it works after applying pressure and on some parts sometimes lower then upper
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VannM:
looks like im not the only one

yeah, i need to apply pressure from different point

i think its dying (maybe)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechMinerUK:
Try using a very small amount of WD-40/Water displacement fluid in the button, it should free it up

If not sounds like a replacement is in order
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ZenithV99:
I am having some rooti issues with my i747, and I already have a custom rom installed. After installing SlimKat 4.4.4 today, (previously running Liquidsmooth v2.1 4.2.2), I go to check my root privileges using RootChecker, and it tells me that I do not have proper root access. Given that this device has been rooted prior to my installation of SlimKat, and the fact that Superuser has been working fine for me in the past, I try to re-root using ODIN, and that wouldn't work either. Also, updating Superuser is not an option, due to my root access being lost. Is there a way to root my device without having to go back to the stock ATT rom, or is that my only option?

~ZenithV99
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pre4speed:
Try flashing this in recovery.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6mifyhsp6z9d04/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.01.zip
[General Questions and Answers] Karim Tarek:
SOKP-V-1-KK444-KTU84Q .... didn't support any call recorder like : ACR recorder , call recorder

failed to record , and error on installing Alsa mixer :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VinnyCh4se:
I have a spigen hybrid neo case and a rhinosheild high impact screen protector but my case always peels my screen protector off I'm gonna keep the rhinosheild but does anyone have a suggestion for a case that doesn't push on the screen
[LG Optimus G Pro] NardVa:
I'm on stock KitKat for the E980. Every time I turn the speaker on during a call, I lose speaker phone sound sound for music afterwards. Any fix?
[LG Optimus G Pro] stulzerl:
Your not the only one. I had the same problem and only fix was restarting the phone. I think its a bug that came wuth the kitkat upgrade
[LG Optimus G Pro] NardVa:
I went back and wiped everything and did the restore KitKat update for the E980. Now the speakerphone works.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadabt:
My TMO LG G2 has notification light glowing continuously since 2 days. The green and cyan light glows alternate. There are no notifications or alarm pending.

I have tried this

1.Reboot

2. Disable Notification LED from settings

3. Cleared Cache

4. Killed all apps

I am using stock rooted kitkat ROM and have never installed Light Flow app.

Any suggestions to resolve this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Leo G:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/legal-mobile-phone-unlocking-bill-to-be-signed-into-law
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] NighthawkXL:
Mind you, this isn't a law per se... it's a deferral of the current law. Unlocking remains illegal under the definitions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, this law grants a exemption for one year from the law however (The Liberian of Congress granted this same exemption a year or so ago). Ultimately the Library of Congress will need to readdress the DMCA (or Congress themselves) before we have permentant solution. Also, take into account this for unlocking to move to other carriers NOT unlocking of the bootloader since a lot of people seem to get that mixed up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Leo G:
It's a start.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mike.s:
Also, it doesn't require the manufacturer/carrier to make it easy (or even possible), it just makes breaking the protections they put in place legal. It really doesn't change anything, since US carriers will already unlock phones after the subsidy is recovered.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ElDunio:
I buy all my phones off the internet, then they come factory unlocked. :)

Best way to get a good deal for your needs and at the end of the day the phone is yours. You can sell and upgrade as you want, not are told :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NikolaFiko:
Hi, as title says, i would like to replace screen off mode on my N9005 with app NoLED. App has option to always show clock when screen is off and its jumping on the screen, so (i guess) it won't burn my pixels. Turned off LockScreen (keygard), so after pressing power it turns off screen and few seconds after that it shows jumping clock (if enyone knows how to remove that few second delay it would be great, tried to launch every single NoLED app activity with Tasker and Secure Settings plugin and no luck). App also shows app icons when there is notifications. Long tap on icons opens their app, also, triple-tapping screen "unlocks device" (closes app). App can be also closed with single physical button click, so i plan to change that with Xposed Additions to double or triple tap (for security reasons).

Battery saving part:

Using FauxClock app set performance profile for NoLED with:

-min and max cpu freq: 300MHz

-cpu governor: powersave

-gpu max freq: 200MHz

-gpu governor: msm-adreno-tz (haven't changed, don't know which is the best, other options are: performace, simple_ondemand)

-Eco mod enabled

Is there more things to tweak for battery save?

I keep wifi and gps always on, and turn on bluetooth, data and nfc just when i need them. Plan to change wifi scan interval with tasker, also, use Intelli3G to turn 3G on just when data is enabled. Used System Monitor and noticed that, when NoLED screen is active, processor, most of the time, runs on 1 core (300MHz as set) and on 60% and up, is that ok?. Note 3 has AMOLED screen, so, i hope it won't drain my battery. Screen Brightness is set in app on 20%.

Most important question is: will these settings damage my phone in any way if i use them for a longer time?

Also would like to hear your suggestion for battery saving.

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] FoxxYou:
Hi

I just want to ask some help.

So fitst of all I live in Philippines but my phone is SGS4 AT&T i337.

So I planned to install custom recovery and I have searched some bids and I came up to goomanager.

I'd follow the instruction very well and it was success.. But when I boot to recovery mode. It was directly on download mode. Lately I found out that my recovery was destroyed etc.

So now I don't have a recovery mode and my root access was also gone.

So does anyone help me how to fix it?

Please help. I've search soany thread non of it help..

I think I also tried the terminal emulator thing..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
You need to use Odin. Do you know what firmware version your on? You need to use that version in Odin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] FoxxYou:
Its mf3 sir.. What will I do to Odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
If you're sure you have an i337 and not an i337m if it were my device I'd update to nb1 firmware by flashing the nb1 tar file in Odin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] FoxxYou:
Thank you for your reply..

Do I need to install all the necessary files?I'll check it soon..

Can I use mobile Odin?
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] xfiarc:
My canvas 4 (a210) doesnt perform well when using headphones.. tested with stock headphones and sony xb300

surprisingly its working well with the radio but sound is degraded when using everything else (music player, browser, youtube etc) means that the actual device is capable of producing good quality output but something is messed up from the firmware side :rolleyes:

anyone else having the same problem.. please advice ?

thanks guys :cool:
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] yogesh.kalyana:
Yes it does and it is very easy to fix

Just root your phone and install purexperia z2 rom by nero d

Which gives u amazing sound experience ...use it everyday

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2747910

sent via J.A.R.V.I.S™
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] xfiarc:
Thanks for replying bro.. but im afraid to root the device coz it might void the warranty.. btw my phone is only 1 day old :)
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] ceasar47:
Just go for poweramp music player and disable stock player.... U will be satisfied.. [MENTION=5168065]xfiarc[/MENTION]
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] xfiarc:
thanks for your suggestions.. yeah poweramp sounds much better than the stock one.. :good:
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] ceasar47:
There is a thanks button for thanking..... :D
[Micromax Canvas 4 A210] yogesh.kalyana:
thanks from my side caeser

here is your thanks you need! haha
[Android Apps and Games] opssemnik:
Thanks to the guys at original thread: -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2676662

About:

Hello guys, here i bring Milk Music Ported from the S4 (i believe, read the original thread for more info)

Its a free music streamer, but this version is modified by Samsung. its like a spotify

ss: (sorry for being on a emulator, i needed to test :P)

Tutorial:

:How to install: just download and install samsungradio.apk.

:How to enable explicit songs:

-if you have already installed Milk Music:

Clear data and force stop (in this order) Milk Music (In settings will appear as Milk)

Install Samsung Account

Open Milk Music and sign in using a Samsung account (you can create one)

Profit

- if you haven´t installed Milk Music:

download and install both, Samsung account and milk music

open milk music and sign in using a Samsung account (you can create one if needed)

Bugs:

-If you get a Restricted Location, i cant do nothing, its a server side check for your IP, you can use some vpn like tunnel bear or vpnreactor and use it without any problems, just rememember to clear data of Milk before using vpn, or else it will rememember your device isnt allowed.

Downloads

Milk Music (samsungradio.apk):

http://d-h.st/mup

Samsung Account (SamsungAccount.apk):

http://d-h.st/8Jq
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Godadallen:
I am having a problem configuring my blue tooth - Galaxy 4s connection so that talk back button is active in S voice. Whenever i close s-voice, the talk back button reverts to being off. Is there a way in Tasker to turn it on and off? I am new to Tasker, so please be spefic.

If S voice is not the way to go, I am open to anything else.

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] inquisitor:
Hello world.

Already some months ago, when I got my TyTN, I noticed, that when a SMS was arriving the phone would light up the display, but the SMS would only be displayed and notified after 10-20 seconds.

Today I switched to the latest Radio ROM (1.20.31.10) and now it takes even more until the phone has processed a SMS. Now I have to wait eagerly at least 30 seconds, watching the illuminated display, until I can read a message.

Is this a common phenomenon on the TyTN?

regards,

Inquisitor
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] shadoefrizon:
Well I haven't upgraded any radio-roms (to afraid :-)) but lighting up and then around 10 secs until I see the message.

Same thing with MMS's and sometimes even calls (but only around 5 secs)...

So I think it's a feature ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Lurker0:
If this is a multipart SMS, the phone turns on to start receiving the first part, but shows it only after receiving the last part.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] inquisitor:
Shame on me!

Thank you Lurker. Those two SMS were acutally multipart with arround 180 bytes each, but I didn't realize that, as both SMS were written in capitals and looked like one SMS. So the suspected extra delay doesn't come from the new radio ROM but from the multipart messages.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Icarusu:
Help me out guys i really need save my phone.

i have been trying to update my 2.3.6 to 4.3 (Jellybean) through Odin since I always got some weird stopping at 69% on Kies, but i seemed to fail on odin, Odin was failing to do it so i tried other odin ver and got stuck on the ''NAND Write Start'' thing, i exited odin and then tried something else i'm very stupid so i used a pit for the wrong version of my android to..help in whatever it was i dont remember, together with the ROM.

i didn't check if my phone was aleadry bricked after i force closed odin in patching in the first time so i don't know the root of the problem.

and i don't know if this is Soft or full brick but i get stuck at Firmware Upgrade encountered a issue, Kies does not help in it when i type the cellphone info into that option, it gives me a error so no way through kies. i didn't do any way yet to try to save it i'm really unsure what to do i checked really a bunch of different posts so its really confusing, i really get in panic when stuff like this happens so forgive me, i hope anyone can help in somehow, also, if better i need to save it in a way without having to wipe my stuff because most of my apps data are in the phone, but i dont mind if theres no other way than using wiping in one of the steps.

i don't really know how to follow if you link me over a thread so its better if you post the explanation here.