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[Desire Themes and Apps] benchmark75:
I have tried a few but this one i liked the most 'Exchange Rates' its free in the app market.
[General Questions and Answers] wintermute115:
I'm not sure this is the right forum, but I can't find anywhere more appropriate...

I have a WinMo 6.1 phone (AT&T Fuze-branded Touch Pro), and I recently discovered Androkkid (http://www.simosoftprojects.com/androkkid.php), and I'm impressed, but I need to figure out how to make a couple of features work before I can be really impressed with it.

At present, I have an icon labelled "Voicemail", which I can set as type "contact" (which means that when I click on it, it dials my voicemail), or as type "voicemail" (which means that it tells me how many voicemails I have waiting for me, but clickin it just takes me to the dialler. I'd really like it if it can display the number of voicemails and automatically dial my voicemail when I click on it. Is there a parameter I can pass into the dialler that will tell it to automatically dial a specific number?

I also have an icon which displays the number of missed calls, and takes me to the dialler; I would like this to instead take me to the call history log.

I'm sure these are trivial problems, but I've been unable to find anything helpful on the Googles. Thanks for your time.
[Desire General] davehodgkinson:
Hi,

I've currently got a Touch HD and use the internet sharing feature quite a lot, pairing my phone to my laptop via bluetooth and using the 3G connectivity to browse the web at a fair speed.

I can see that the Desire supports tethering via USB (that's stated on the specification page on the HTC webpage), but will I be able to tether via bluetooth and connect through the phone in the same way (or the equivalent Android way)?

Thanks!

David
[Desire General] brummiesteven:
http://www.androidactivity.com/
[Desire General] williap:
Hi guys

Sorry if this is a stupid question but how do I set up the frequency of when friendstream,news widgets update as I cant find it and it's doing my head in :mad:
[Desire General] badgerarc:
Go to the apps page, click on Friend Stream. Once friend stream has loaded up, hit the Hardware menu button and choose settings. Select Accounts and sync and you should be able to specify update times for each service.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jonrobertd:
Ok so I had to warranty my Tilt @ due to a dead TOUCH screen. (no response to touch) The oil slick migrated to one side and killed it.

If yours has the slick, warranty now!

Now I am restoring the warranty one and the phone part doesn't work when restored.

the only difference is it is not Hard SPL. Will this be a problem?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ultramag69:
Its best if you have the same OS on the handset before running backup.

Files that are needed may not be present with another rom....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
The good news is that you can selectively restore your PIM (outlook, contacts, etc.). However, the bad news is that with a different phone, you really should reinstall all the applications.

I'm assuming you already tried the ROM upgrade option when restoring?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jonrobertd:
Yep tried all the different ways, No luck.

The only thing different is SPL tho. Same ROM RADIO ect.

Now just redoing all the mods done is the fun part.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
Wait a minute, you tried restoring just the PIM and it didn't work? It should have restored your emails, contacts, and calendar settings...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ultramag69:
Not if the OP did a total backup... You need to choose what type of backup you want to do before you try to reinstall - system backup that backs up everything or custom that you pick and choose....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
Even with a total backup - which I think he did - you can selectively restore, so a full backup is probably best.
[Desire General] s4vva:
Hi I have just started using handbrake and I am a little baffled. What settings or programs do use to encode video for the Desire?

I tried one encode to .mp4 using h.264 codec however I only get the sound and no video. Any help would be appreciated....
[Desire General] JaykaySLO:
use Mpeg-4 instead of h.264 at 800x480px, works fine
[Desire General] david_inuk:
I use the built in settings for the iphone and it works fine!

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[Desire General] s4vva:
Hi how do you set the size to 800x480 and maintain the original aspect ratio?
[Desire General] JaykaySLO:
There is no way. 800x480px is the max resolution to use. If you have a file with a lower res, leave it at that.
[Desire General] s4vva:
Oh I see, I'll give that a go....

It's really odd that there isn't a decent video player app out there.....
[Desire General] snapilica2003:
you can set the width to 800px and pres the keep aspect ratio. that will set the height to whatever is needed to keep the aspect ratio.
[Desire General] c2k8cook:
If your after a decent media player try nemoplayer (I cant post the link to the thread but the thread number is 598509)

I converted a video to 850x480@1.5Mbps, it stuttered a little with the default player, but played perfectly with nemoplayer.

As for conversion, I have found Xilisoft to be very good, I paid for it to convert videos for my iPod Touch as it has great default profiles and its very quick as it uses all 4 cores of my CPU.

For the settings it depends on the video but I have been using the following settings for x264 MP4 video, these settings should work with any video converter.

16x9 video:

1000Kbps

192Kbps audio (for movies and music videos, 128 might be good enough for most)

resolution 800x450

It leaves the smallest of boarders top and bottom but it retains the corrent aspect ratio

4x3 video

800Kbps

192Kbps

reolution 640x480
[Desire General] JaykaySLO:
that`s an overkill. 800 Kbps @23 fps, 96k audio is well enough. It plays fine on default video player. Smaller file size as well.
[Desire General] c2k8cook:
I tied 800Kbps and found it looked no better than the music videos I purchased from itunes which are smaller again and have a lower resolution.

I suppose the best thing to do is play about with bit rate for the video and go with what you are happy with, file size isnt a big issue for me when it comes to movies or TV shows as I tend to only have one or two on the SD card at a time.

As for audio please anything lower than 128kbps should be illegal :D
[Desire General] Flexikon:
There's actualy a very nice thread on these forums discussing the settings for the HTC topaz and which programs to use, but since google turns up this thread as the first one I guess I'll add a little comment here as well.

Any converter should work to convert video to the right format, it doesn't matter which one u use, as long as your converter has the options to set the video bitrate, audio bitrate, aspect ratio, frames per sec and maybe some extra audio settings. I use format factory and It works great.

Mp4 format with AVC H264 videocoding is the way to go. how you turn the settings out is up to you and the space on your SD card (or lack of one).

I use the following settings to play HD video on my HTC Topaz:

-MP4 format

-AVC (H264) videocoding on 512 bitrate (you might go up to 768, but will lag longer videos which you encode from a HD source) and a 800x480 resolution.

-AAC audiocoding on 128 bitrate (indeed the minimum for people with sufficient hearing-capabilities, otherwise you might wanna go lower than that, but not advised as you can definitely hear the difference) and 44100 sample rate.

-Framerate of 25 (fixed, no real need changing this anyway, it's the best framerate out there, any higher will probably slow down your video on mobile devices)

-aspect ratio of 4:3 (you can pretty much set this one however you like, as long as you don't let it decide automaticaly. if you're not sure about your aspect ratio use this setting)

These settings work great on Topaz and are probable to work for other HTC models, as long as they have a maximum resolution of 800x480. One more thing is to notice that your HTC device (at least starting from Topaz (touch diamond 2) has the ability to playback HD content. You can test above settings with videos downloaded from the HD sample site from microsoft. point is the HD playback only works on the standard player coming with your device (windows mediaplayer) because the decoders are not freely given to other developers and therefore no other video playback program has them implemented in their mobile player.

Hope this helped.
[Desire General] zaphyr:
I installed Nemoplayer, but it only displays the videos in my DCIM folder? I have tried to move my test video over to that folder too, but it still can't find it. I converted it to mp4 with format factory, at 320 x something so the size should be ok
[Desire General] UtahNL:
I usually encode in .mp4 h.264 base profile, max 3 ref frames, 800x640 res max and no cabac or b frames. At constant rate factor of 24 image quality is great and file size impressively small.
[Desire General] alphagamma:
Tested on many videos, only mencoder needed, can't get any simpler:

Put this as one line in convert2desire.bat:

mencoder %1 -o "%~n1.mp4" -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -vf dsize=800:480:0,scale=0:0,expand=800:480:-1::::,harddup -sws 9 -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=24:force_cfr:bframes=0:nocabac:no8x8dct:global_header -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=2:raw -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -srate 44100 -delay 0.3

Then run "convert2desire.bat tobeconvertedvideo.avi"

The resulting file will be tobeconvertedvideo.mp4

Lower crf to have even better quality and larger file.

The -vf parameters will always output a 800x480 file and other screen ratios will be correctly scaled to fit inside 800x480.

Mencoder download:

sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/MPlayer%20and%20MEncoder/revision%2031139/MPlayer-rtm-svn-31139.7z/download

I must say the screen of the Desire is top notch quality!

It is ridiculous how crisp everything looks for such a small device.

Let me know if this script works for you.
[Desire General] boge:
Anyone tried doubletwist? It looks like itune, and if we sync video, it will convert it to the format that standard player in desire can play.
[Desire General] UtahNL:
I agree on the audio delay in your script, the desire seems to delay video by a little.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliano:
Okay, I'll be quick and simple.

I'd like to use a 3.5mm mic with my Eris.

I KNOW the 3.5mm jack takes input, because there are headsets for the Eris that also have mics on them.

But I want to record audio, and as such need a decent mic. The eris would be perfect for recording, otherwise.

Only issue is.....I can't seem to get a normal mic on its own to work.

Sure, the Eris recognizes that I've plugged something in and gives me the headphone symbol, but, it doesn't use the mic. It just keeps using the normal, internal mic.

Why is this?

Is it solvable?

Or am I just stuck with not being able to use a decent mic to record Audio on my Eris?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lemcott:
Plugging in a normal mic with a 3.5mm jack on it will not work. the little plack bands on the jack separate different currents of ground, and positive currents for the mic and left and right speakers. plugging in a mic with a standard 3.5mm jack will contact with separate nodes within the jack, and trigger the phone to recognize it as headphones.

what you CAN do is take a headset for the eris (or any phone really, it's all the same jack except for a handful of rare cases) and open up the mic on that wire, detach that mic, and replace it with the mic you are trying to use. just simple stripping some wires, twisting, and covering with electrical tape.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliano:
Yeah, I figured that out.

TRRS and not TRS.

So there's no chance of screwing anything over electrically if I wire any sort of mic to a headset?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lemcott:
I want to say you really can't screw it up... too bad... I mean, the headphone jack is really really low voltage, never peaks higher then 5V, and if anything really did screw up, it would just be the jack itself, the phone would still be totally fine, just with no headphone/mic support.

but really. there is a positive and negative wire on the cord, and a positive and negative wire on the mic... and depending on the mic (anything over 100 bucks is different), it doens't matter which side plugs into what (I would still try and keep it +/+ and -/-, but it should still work.) the only way you could screw this up is if you tried to do all the cutting/twisting while plugged into your phone, or the + and - are touching when you plug it in. don't be stupid, you'll be fine.

either way, i feel safer adding in: I'm not responsible if anything bad happens.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliano:
Hahaha, Of course.

I'd never blame another for any idiocy on my part. I know better. XD
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverramsrt:
Just a suggestion and I know you might not want to spend the money, but I have seen a few blue tooth microphones on amazon and different places.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliano:
Thanks, but money IS the issue here.

I'll look into it later, though. :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostsync:
I'd look for an adapter. If they exist, and they probably do, you could probably get one for 2-3$ on Amazon and not screw up a mic cable and a headset.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilliano:
Yeah, I've been looking into it.

An adapter, that is.

But now I to hope someone releases a piece of software that allows you to hear your mircophone input- or rig up something weird to allow the boom operator to hear the sound he's recording.
[Desire General] android_ant:
Hi all,

When i have set up exchange emails i got prompted to enter an unlock password ( which pops up everytime i try to unlock the phone as well as the swipe to unlock)

is there any way to disable the password unlock and just keep the swipe to unlock? its quite frustrating having to hit the power button, slide to unlock then enter a password on top of it all..
[Desire General] cez10:
lol how did u do it? i want to set up a password for the phone but duno how lol
[Desire General] android_ant:
it came up when i entered exchange settings for work emails - it said the domain or something of the sort needs a secure password for this mailbox..
[Desire General] abats:
try lockpicker, you can find it in the market. you have too enter a password because your company exchange server enforces it as a policy btw.

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[Desire General] android_ant:
Thank you very much!! worked a treat!
[Desire General] glumardok:
Thx also from my side! Lockpicker, in addition, has brought back the lost-find details (my name address, etc.) which I have generated by using "Antivirus" (free) from the Market. They were not shown any more after the installation of Exchange. My phone is secured in addition by HTC's screenlock - that's sufficient protection, I think, and much easier than to enter a password.
[Desire General] kazgor:
cool info about LOCKPICKER, will have to try it out... did try TOUCHDOWN instead but did really like look&feel of it.

Just hope HTC exchange can handle multifolders outside of Inbox and even better can just show all UNREAD emails rather than having to flip between all the folders 1by1.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] southsko:
Happens with new ROMs. Doesn't happen if Apps2SD is not on, so its something with one of my apps I think. I tried to repartition also.

I did search, but got a lot of "Black screen" results. Can someone look at my logcat?

Thanks
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolemnWishing:
You need to do a clean wipe of all your apps, dalvik-cache, cache, data, etc. Then, reflash your ROM again, sign in, then flash your theme over it and it should work.
[Desire General] gogol:
Hi,

Can we connect our HTC Desire to a PC via USB cable, and then connect to the internet via that PC internet connection?

We are able to use this way on Windows Mobile 6.x + Microsoft ActiveSync.

Thanks.
[Desire General] MasDroid:
I think so, please try the following:

* Make sure you have installed HTC Sync first and have your SIM card inserted in your phone.

1. Make sure your phone’s data connection is turned on.

2. Connect the phone to the computer using the USB cable.

3. On the Connect to PC screen, select Internet sharing, and then tap Done.

Hope that works.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
I am wondering, if I have mobile broadband card that I use to catch 3G internet...could I attach the Desire via USB cable to my laptop and share the internet connection between both my laptop and phone?

Not tethering (using phone's internet as main internet source for computer) rather -

Mobile Broadband Card ----> Laptop & Desire?
[Desire General] MasDroid:
I'm not entirely sure this would work as the phone might resort to using it's own variety of data plans.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Well...I have been wondering if you could share the internet connection from a broadband card between a laptop and mobile phone (connected via USB cable). I guess I will just have to try it out when my phone gets here.
[Desire General] gogol:
That is the other way around :)

You have described phone internet sharing or tethering.

What I meant is like this:

1. Your desktop PC is connected to internet

2. Connect your phone to the PC using USB cable

3. You can now browse the internet in your phone ... using internet connection from the PC.

Reverse tethering. We can do this with WM + ActivySync (I dont remember the exact option).

Well, we can forget about this ... I have searched last night and Android simply cant do it.

Why we need this? Sometimes, at work, we cant connect our phone to the office WiFi and 3G is not available.
[Desire General] ninja.rogue:
I also have this need.

In case HTC ships updates on-the-air it would be much better not to lose some of the limited 2GB data plan per month I have.
[Desire General] wuthton:
Can you not just set up your pc as a wifi access point and the connect your phone via wifi?
[Desire General] gogol:
That is a way, creating wifi adhoc, but sometimes you cant (restricted by security policy).
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
Screw security policy! ;?P

Using a adhoc connection would be the simplest (and best?). But if you can't (not allowed) to set up a adhoc connection, you could (unless bridging is forbidden, but then tere's not much you can do..) connect a wifi router/ap to your ethernet card (if it's in use, use a USB-version). Bridge your network connection with the ethernet card and the router/ap and then connect to that..

A long shot? Perhaps! But it should work. If you set the ap to not broadcast its SSID it's harder for others to detect..

And you should be able to run a router/ap on batteries..

Just an idea.. :?D
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Yes, i understand what you mean now, this feature was available on WM and ActiveSync... i remember setting it up while going through the ActiveSync Wizard, but AFAIK, i could not find a similar option for this with the Desire :(

EDIT: Could you not try setting up Ad-hoc mode on phone and PC (the PC will have a wireless network adaptor), then turn Internet Connection Sharing on in Windows, and connect the phone to the PC?
[Desire General] gogol:
I did, but it does not work with my work laptop. Probably restricted.

But I found a WiFi access point already :D Installed by my co-worker ...

Well, this feature is not really important, but useful ...
[Desire General] MasDroid:
I agree and it's a shame... this was useful when I had it working on my WM device.
[Desire General] golightlygl:
Could someone please explain how to do this. I can see how to set up the ad-hoc network and to set it allow internet sharing. But a wi-fi scan on my HTC Desire does not find the network.
[Desire General] siscopiso:
unfortunately reverse tethering or connecting the phone through computer's connection (through an ad hoc wifi) is not possible, which quite frankly is very annoying, hopwfully they will fix this in an upcoming ROM or something.
[Desire General] bharath063:
[q] same prblm but diff device

i have an android tablet. I want 2 connect to the net. But dont have wifi @ home. any way to connect my ericsson phone (or any other 3g modem) via bluetooth or usb(yes the tab acts as a usb mass storage host) to connect to the net as the tab doesn't hav a sim card port. And my tab is Augen Gentouch78 v2 tab not rooted and with stock rom

Any help would be appreciated
[Desire General] Rageypeep:
I don't think that there is a way to do this at the moment with out flashing a Rom, however I'm using RCMix S GingerSense Rom, it seems that HTC Sense version 2.1 has added "internet pass-through" as a option when you plug the phone into a PC, however will HTC leave this in if/when they do an official release I don't know.
[Desire General] *damo*:
Yeah, if you install a sense 2.0 or 2.1 Rom it has an internet pass through option which allows you do do that
[Nexus One General] hugonz:
Hi all,

So, I'm trying to establish whether it is possible for the community to add DivX support. I see commits like these:

https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/q...it;h=69023cf85787ff454ce0549f532f9aecfad2ae29

https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/q...it;h=208bf6e29780fd15bfd0f6d6575a26ae78591378

that add at least the start of DivX support. But I haven't been able to get it to build, and even then, it's not clear to me if things like a DSP firmware image or something else (presumably proprietary) is required.

Any insights?

Edit: this was originally posted in the Development section, as it is a development question, but it has been moved to General. There is no question that many people would like Divx and other codec support. This thread was supposed to be specifically about getting Divx support in OpenMax/mm-video working.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
+1 10 char
[Nexus One General] hotweiss:
I would love to see this also...
[Nexus One General] alijavaid:
Me tooo :D
[Nexus One General] 1wayjonny:
Using a program from the market I was able to watch a 720 MKV on my nexus the picture was fine and sound was fine.

Only issue was video was delayed while sound went full speed, other then this it was awesome looking.
[Nexus One General] hotweiss:
What program?
[Nexus One General] sousafrui:
Re: DivX support

i don't know what app the other guy is thinking about, but you can find in the market "yxplayer" (trial) and with it you can play at least videos like avi etc etc kn your N1. i think it wilk be hard to find a full free app for that goal. if you find, post here the name please.
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
This:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/lgs-snapdragon-powered-lu2300-android-handset-gets-official/

LG Snapdragon 2.1 handset touts DivX playback, I wonder if it's a software decoder that can be ported?
[Desire General] Yves Winkels:
Hello

Tomorrow i'm getting my HTC desire.

I actually want to know what are good programs to synchronize.

I only need an agenda and my hotmail.

Any idea's?

Thanks
[Desire General] dpk:
It is very good, coming from WinMo, it is really awesome.

I added my Gmail (Calendar, Email, Contacts), and Facebook, plus it syncs weather, stocks etc. with the click of a button :D
[Desire General] Yves Winkels:
Yea I know but you can't use your hotmail account in Gmail right?

Or am I wrong?
[Desire General] SteveEdson:
you can set up your gmail to receive your hotmail, create a gmail account then go to settings>accounts, itll receive your hotmail but gets it about 15 minutes later.

Or, you can go onto the normal mail account on the desire which is very good, insert your email address and password and itll configure everything, you can set it how often to check for new emails. Takes 2 seconds :)
[Desire General] dpk:
aah sorry, Steve is right. I find it easier to have them all linked through my gmail personally.

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