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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
You're asking mostly people who haven't waited... do you really think you'll get an objective answer?

How pissed off are you with 1.5? Have you seen/used 2.1? Did you like it? etc etc etc
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kieranc:
Then if you install 2.1 stock, it'll lock the phone down removing the possibility of ever rooting it, no?

Personally I'd root it and go with modaco latest if you want it roughly as stock but with some bugfixes then you've got the option of using custom roms in the future or whatever you want. you only need to root it once then you can do whatever you like.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ng LC:
why shouldn't I use the Bluetooth file sharing features on the custom rom?

Alright,now I have another question,is jit enabled rom better than the non-jit custom rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danltn:
JIT enabled ROMs will be almost definitely faster than non-JIT roms.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shotgunfool:
Use the official 1.5 rom for a week to two weeks, then root and install a few different custom roms for a week to two weeks and then see what you prefer, you can either stay rooted on a custom rom or you can revert back to the original 1.5 official
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shenye:
there is a reason why Google was invented. e.g. you would be able to find stuff on ROMs like http://android.modaco.com/content/h.../304106/revote-for-best-2-1-rom-w-benchmarks/
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ng LC:
I know google was invented to search for things,but I just can't really find the answer that I was looking for...

Edit: Alrite,there is another question,can I still use Chinese Keyboard when flashing the custom rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
Is that an app or built in?

if built in, maybe - check with the rom creator first

if app - yes...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ng LC:
then,

does Kimera custom rom (android 1.5) have chinese input support?

and how about the Modaco custom rom (also android 1.5),does it also have chinese input support too?

and if u say that there is an app to enable chinese input,what is the name of the app?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ng LC:
alrite,I think the first question about custom rom chinese input support was a bit noob,I should have just ask

is there an app to enable chinese input,what is the name of the app?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
OIC - i've no idea. Sometimes the custom rom's have support for other languages and keyboards, some have better support than others. Check the market before or check with your preferred rom developer before flashing!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty3656:
I have the 2.22.23.02 radio and the Danger SPL installed. I want to flash the 2.22.19.26I radio. Any concerns about Bricking phone?

I have a bunch of static on my bluetooth headset and am looking for possible causes.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
If you read ANYTHING about flashing radios/spls, you would know that all radios are compatible with all spls and there is no risk of bricking as long as you do your flashing through FASTBOOT.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philosophics:
the only thing i've EVER used fastboot for is changing the boot image and flashing dreaimg.nbh

how do you.... i dont even wanna know...
[TG01 ROM Development] kan827:
Can anyone build up the CHT WM6.5.5 ROM for TG01??:confused:

Thanks a lot!!!:o
[TG01 ROM Development] xufeng:
i want simple chinese rom ,best is wm6.1
[TG01 ROM Development] ffboy2009:
i already made many version of simple chinese roms

go to pdafans
[TG01 ROM Development] kan827:
Don't you have the Traditional Version ROM??

Thanks!:o
[TG01 ROM Development] ffboy2009:
haven't get the plan to cook CHT roms..

sorry
[TG01 ROM Development] kan827:
Oh.. It dosen't matter...

Hope I can find the CHT rom soon...

Thanks...:(
[XPERIA X10 General] oneonezerosix:
with the x10's huge screen, i'd like to know where i can get high def movie files to put on my sd card.

anyone know?
[XPERIA X10 General] wertzius:
u cant play high def movies... the highest resolution is 854x480!
[XPERIA X10 General] quanganhle90:
thats illegal sir :D
[XPERIA X10 General] tuxStyle:
Even if you buy the blueray disk and reencode them?
[XPERIA X10 General] quanganhle90:
he asked for "download" :rolleyes:

if you are to encode movie for x10, I think there is no point encoding it more than the screen's res, cuz it will look the same anyway :D
[XPERIA X10 General] oneonezerosix:
i didn't say download. look again. but even with a redeem code with dvds and blu rays, the file formats are mpegs
[XPERIA X10 General] oneonezerosix:
they don't have to be high res. just decent quality so i can enjoy movies on the x10
[XPERIA X10 General] quanganhle90:
nah I was just kidding :D

I guess hd mp4 from youtube would work, not sure though, I'll try and report back :D
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
For encoding, try Handbrake. It works really well using the iPhone preset (just make sure to adjust the video width to 854 pixels).

A Blu-ray rip of an episode of Dexter I have looks amazing.
[XPERIA X10 General] oneonezerosix:
what is handbrake?
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
Google it! ;)

http://handbrake.fr/ it's a free Windows app that allows you to re-encode video files.
[XPERIA X10 General] SmokinSteveO:
Anyone try and encode an HD movie on handbrake ?

I convert a 8gb 720P movie, set the bit rate at 1500...The vid took about 8 hours convert, and ended up being 3gb when done...set at 854x480...I also tried designating the output file size to 1.5gb, still took 8 hours...Been using Handbrake for a while now, quite familiar with the "advanced" settings, but taking so damn long to convert 720p movies. Love it none the less...
[XPERIA X10 General] J48BLE:
What site can you get movies for the x10 on?
[XPERIA X10 General] yetep:
... non warez site; )

Sent from my X10i using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
My conversions of BD rips of 1hr TV shows seem to take a bit over 60 minutes each. That's using the iPhone preset with an 854 width setting.
[XPERIA X10 General] gr00vy0ne:
i concur, the X10 is capable of 720p playback. I've converted my own AVCHD 720p files and they play perfectly fine on the X10....which is AWESOME.
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
Technically, it's not playing 720p. The 720 refers to horizontal lines of resolution, not the vertical lines. 1280x720 is the resolution of 720p.

The X10 is capable of playing what YouTube and other sites call "480p", which is pretty much what DVDs are encoded at.
[XPERIA X10 General] oneonezerosix:
this is great guys. thanks alot, im going to try to download handbrake and convert my mpeg movie files
[XPERIA X10 General] Astral07:
i agree, x10 can play some really HQ files though i find little use of it, a "normal" 350mb episode or 700mb movie will do fine when coverted to .mp4

it's a pitty x10 doesn't have TV-out capability...i had X2 and it worked pretty nicely

is there any way that picture from the x10 could be sent over wireless or am i just talking nonsence :) maybe an app that would show on your PC the screen which is on X10
[XPERIA X10 General] Cinner:
This is incorrect. Yes, the X10 is capable of playing 480p, but you make it sound like it can't play anything above that resolution because the screen itself is 480p.

If you play a 720p video on the X10, it will be downscaled to 480p, but the X10 is still decoding the full 720p video which takes quite some horsepower. I used Handbrake to convert a 1080p Youtube trailer to 720p, which the X10 plays, but not without some stutter. Maybe my bitrate setting were a little high and the X10 could play it smoothly on lower encoding settings, but the fact that it plays a perfectly fine quality 720p even with some dropped frames is still pretty impressive.

And no, it's not really usefull to playback any video with a greater resolution that the X10's native screen resolution, but it's fun to play around with IMO. I do wonder if the media player has GPU acceleration. If not, that these results are all the more impressive.
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom Software Upgrading] brewhoxs:
No need BlackBerry for just PUSH EMAIL!!!

I guess we're no longer need BlackBerry anymore if you can't buy BlackBerry device for just Push Email, cause we'd still can use our device for Push Email in real time. Using System SEVEN Mail program app, we can enjoy Push Email in our Windows Mobile device.

Click here for register and then try to login

Click here for download the program and the follow or choose this link

Select an download option for your mobile device compatibility, for more supported devices please click here

... and one more the most important thing, it's totally really FREE program!!!

Get it now guys cause i'm already try it on my O2 XDA Atom device with original WM5.0 shipped ROM and it's really work great! ;)
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom Software Upgrading] xda2_haseeb:
hmmmm... I'm not much of a Blackberry fan, I ain't a Apple fan either, i am not some Android fan, neither i would call myself a Plam fan ;) what i know is that i use Windows Mobile and for now it fulfills all my needs and i am expecting a great release of Windows Phone 7.0 OS... Well, i'm not a Microsoft fan either, im just a Technology enthusiast who likes what works the best for him :)

But still the thing is that every OS has its own specialty and i guess it can't be replaced by another OS so just buy what suites you the best :) and Enjoy!!
[Touch HD General] aldana:
Hi,

I have my HTC Touch HD for a year now and in the beginning pictures taken using my device were sooooo perfect that people could not distinguish between the HTC pictures and those taken with a (Sony) digital camera.

Since a while now, the HTC Camera is NOT the best picture... I did several hard resets and it does not help. The HTC Camera takes good pictures, but after 1 or 2 seconds when capturing the image, the picture gets dark en blurry.

Any idea what's going on here...?

Please help.
[Touch HD General] gerryjoson:
I think the focussing mechanism wears out after time or gets dust in them somehow, I've had this with a few pocketpc's that have had autofocus cameras, they're not exactly a high quality piece of hardware as a general rule imo.

Personally I'd rather a fixed focus camera with better lenses and maybe a macro mode for close stuff, autofocus tends to be pretty slow as well
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pskin132:
Hi

I am i new user to the android market and HTC phones, Only a quick question can i get he sense UI on HTC magic(VODAPHONE). If so could tell me how and post a few links.

Thanks

Nathan :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] raduque:
You'll have to "root" your phone to be able to load a ROM with Sense on it.

I recommend reading and understanding the following link before you think about rooting: http://androidandme.com/2009/09/hacks/why-not-everyone-should-root-their-android-phones/
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pskin132:
Ok i have read the link that you have gave me and decided i want to go ahead with the rooting.

Could you help with that?

Cheers
[Touch HD General] aldana:
Hi Guys,

I recently installed the new Opera 10 for mobile on my device and it works fine BUT when I access the web browser through the Touch Flo, I still get Opera 9.5 which came by default with the device. How can I uninstall Opera 9.5 OR how can i tell Touch Flo to open the new Opera 10...?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] BearJ:
Hi all. I have an AT&T Tilt that's a little bit behind in software updates. It's currently on WM6 (AT&T ROM 1.57.502.2) and has a radio ROM of 1.27.12.11.

I'd like to play around with Android, but as this is my backup phone I don't have an active SIM card for it. WiFi should be fine for playing, I will get a SIM for cell data later (assuming that will work).

Anyway, I've tried installing Android a few different ways and I've encountered a number of different failures. I'm using the SD card method, formatted as FAT32. I'm starting to wonder if it's because I'm not running WM6.1 and the latest ROM. I thought the radio ROM was only in relation to actually getting cell service, but perhaps I was wrong.

Any thoughts? I'd like to avoid upgrading the WM install if possible as restoring all the data will be a bit of a bummer, but it's possible. If so, I'd like to stick to an official AT&T ROM. Should I try WM6.1 or 6.5?

Thanks for the help!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
You should upgrade, there should be a newer AT&T stock rom available.

The roms linked here : http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Kaiser_ROMs are all stock and should not need HardSPL in order to use them.

I would however consider flashing at least HardSPL and getting the latest generic stock rom, since this will work with android on SD.

If you are unsure, stick with the latest AT&T stock one.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] BearJ:
Thanks for the advice. I'd like to stick with stock on this phone.

I did get an official unlock code from AT&T. Any idea if the new ROM will undo that?

What did you mean about the hacked ROM running Android off SD card. Won't the official ROM do that too?

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cheapusenet:
there is really no upside to keeping everything stock on it.

flash hardspl, and flash nand android. seems to work the best.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] nahrwoldinternet:
I've tried every one of Fresh's radios, but so far I can't seem to get EVDO rev.A on my nTelos Hero. I can only get EVDO rev.0.

I'm an nTelos customer in the Virginia Beach area. I'm currently running DarchLegend 5.0, but any 2.1 radio that gives EVDO rev.A on nTelos Virginia Beach should work. Thank you all for your help.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Spikemonkey:
As I am also in the Beach on nTelos; this information would greatly benefit me as well. I am also only getting EVDO rev.0. I am running Bittersweet 1.0.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anethema:
I'm just curious about something.

I recently moved from the iPhone to a Nexus One.

While I noticed there are a lot of ROM cookers etc (thanks for your great work guys) the development community seems kind of thin?

For example, on the iPhone there are full sets of all GNU tools. Anything you can use in Linux/Darwin they have for iPhone. There is a full apt packaging system will full console tools. The full OpenSSH suite has been made supporting all the wireless administration that I've come to love on my phone. Basically, it makes it feel like a full computer in my hand.

Now, I love this Nexus One, but I wasn't sure what the reasoning behind no one out there doing development on this kind of stuff. You'd think a phone running Linux with all code available would attract hordes of eager coders.

Instead we get weird crap like "dropbear" that has to be recompiled yourself to even work right, and even then...haha.

Not much as far as package management in the console, and our tools come from Busybox! Just seems very odd to me, but there must be reasons that I am not seeing.

This post is really not meant as an insult because I love this OS so far etc, but it just really suprised me that full sets of standard tools are not available.

Anyone know why?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olearyp:
Because you have to replicate the entire standard GNU/Linux userspace, which is a bear. Most of the work is done on the Android userspace instead, and you can find the fruits of those labors on AOSP Gerrit (http://r.android.com/) and the CyanogenMOD repository (http://github.com/cyanogen/android_vendor_cyanogen).

The best bet for getting a standard GNU/Linux userspace is to just boot Debian.

For future reference, this is probably not considered the correct forum for this discussion (probably Android General or the generic Android Development, not too sure.)

EDIT: Just to address some more specific points, Android has a package manager (those .apk files you see everywhere) and Busybox makes the most of the limited internal memory and provides enough tools to manage the Android userspace.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anethema:
Sorry I thought the development forum would be the right place.

The iPhone 2g/3g have only 128mb of memory, and since gnu tools aren't resident in memory there is no problem having a full compliment of them on the phone.

The problem with debian is it is not really a nice UI for a phone. It would just be nice to have my phone, plus having the GNU tools underneath.

It isn't like its a dealbreaker, it just struck me as odd that all the proper tools have been built for the iPhone, and using it really feels like a full computer you're SSHing into, where as an open source Linux based OS on android basically is lacking all of it, minus the limited functionality provided by Busybox and Dropbear (like..dropbear really?).

These things have more memory and comparable processing speed to computers running windows 98 and early XP, so there is no reason not to have everything available to you when you need it.

I'm kind of a sideline commenter here as I'm not a coder, but it just struck me as odd.

Thanks for your reply!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olearyp:
NP, it's side discussion though. "Here's a complete set of native GNU tools" would be a dev forum topic. :)

Nonono, not RAM. Flash memory. iPhone has tons of it. G1 (where most of the developers got started, mind you) has very little. Further, the partitioning left limited room for additional binaries. There's some ways around that (symlinks, mostly), but they aren't elegant, and are subject to wiping at inopportune times if you aren't careful.

I'm curious about your use case. "It would be nice" is, well, nice, but is there a need you have that the existing tools aren't fulfilling?

I'm not sure what's with the Dropbear hate. :) There are not many use-cases for SSH servers on a phone, so few people have worked on it. I'd think the Android-phone-powered robot guys are the most likely to need it. But again, Dropbear is going to perform a whole heck of a lot better on a G1 than OpenSSH, and the G1 is the origin of all this stuff.

Remember, Android is explicitly not GNU/Linux. You might call it "Android/Linux." The fact that the Android userspace is open-source means that the alternate (and exciting new) userspace is attracting development, instead of people trying to port GNU just so they can use their closed-source iPhone. This is, in fact, a Good Thing, because it can result in improvements for all Android users (via contributions to AOSP), not just that subset of geeks (read: us) who mod their phones.

Understanding this difference is key to understanding the development pattern. People aren't working on the GNU userspace for Android phones because the Android userspace supplants it. The tools we have do what is needed, nothing more. In fact, `am' and `pm' are more useful in the Android context than anything that's left out of Busybox.

Back to my use case comment above. What is it that you need?

No problem, it's a good discussion.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anethema:
I guess it is basically that you don't know what you need until you need it. I treat my phones like this basically like little computers. Certainly on a laptop/desktop no one would bother questioning why you need general tools you use to get jobs done.

For the iPhone there was a need for unique certification to apples push servers so phones that were basically 'tricked' into activating could still get push messages via these servers.

I wrote a tool called Push Doctor with phone based scripts and with a donor style one server side. Basically I was generating these certificates and people could download them. The whole thing on both side is just a bunch of shell scripts. One running on the phone, one on my and cert donors computers. Now this may or may not have worked in busybox as I haven't tested it, but I just mean you never know what you are going to use stuff for, and having a nice standard set of tools across all Linux platforms can be nice to have for this reason.

As far as the space issue, I think that whole thing seems crazy as well. You're right there is a ton of space on the iPhone, but the G1 came out after it, and the Nexus One long after it, so its too bad 'space' is still an issue these days requiring ugly hacks to circumvent.

Regardless the tools could be distributed as part of several core apk's which people could install if they wish.

Like I said above, these are hardly embedded devices anymore. It's not like there's 4kb of ram and 5 mips CPU.

As far as dropbear, it isn't that I hate it, I just think even the G1 has comparable speed to the first iPhone (not in the Graphics/UI but certainly as far as the CPU is concerned) and running something as insignificant as OpenSSH should not be an issue. I've never personally heard of dropbear, and have no idea what their security track record is, but I do know OpenSSH's. It is a VERY widely used package with a lot of eyes on it making sure it is doing what it is supposed to be doing.

Apparently the default dropbear will authenticate any password if you enable passwords and you have to build your own from source run about 50 commands, all to get it going.

Where is the APK for a working dropbear, or apt-get install dropbear? Can you even have APK's for system level packages? Everything I seem to find tends to be a custom download from someones site whcih you have to 'push' to your phone, try to follow some 50 step guide to hopefully get going, etc.

I am loving a lot of facets of this OS, I'm just curious where the community is to work on this stuff, get it going, and make it easy. Android isn't really -that- young.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olearyp:
Market Enabler is in that class of application, and, like other "rooted" apps relies on shell calls to Busybox on the backend--ugly, but keep in mind this is an attempt to explicitly defeat the Android security model. BB is sufficiently standard and POSIX conformant that it hasn't posed any difficulties for these kinds of applications.

So-called "native"--that is, ARM binary--applications aren't supported by the Android platform in the conventional way. In mid-2009, Google released the Android NDK which permits ARM binary libraries to be intermingled with Android applications via JNI. Since Android is explicitly intended to be compile-once, run-anywhere (which is why apps run on a VM), this is only recommended for computation-heavy code. However, the Mozilla project is using the NDK to directly port legacy code (Firefox/Fennec) with a thin Java interface to the Android system, so such a thing is possible.

This doesn't really make sense for the GNU toolkit, though. The SSH case; you could certainly set up an SSH server to run as a system service using NDK+JNI to connect any SSH library you like. The fact that this has not happened leads me to believe that there is little demand.

In general, the needs of existing developers appear to be met by the tools available.

Based on everything you've mentioned--you may want to take a look at the Android Scripting Environment.
[General Questions and Answers] Haggis2009:
Is it possible to create a shortcut on the windows desktop that takes me straight to the SD card in my phone via activesync.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Penguin_02:
My phone is not detecting my memory card. When i connect the phone to the computer i can open up my memory card folder. I tried putting in a different memory card and it doesnt detect it either. It just all the sudden didn't detect it this morning. my memory card seems to be fine. i think something is wrong with the slot or the phjone help please.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] huggs:
Just to be sure its the reader and not the card, I would try the card in a different phone and see if that phone reads it. If the cards ok, then it must be your phone. If thats the case then it looks like you'll be taking your phone back and exchanging for a new one.