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[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
I didn't find the option to view contacts list from Messaging, Email, or Gmail apps that came with X10. So, it is getting frustrating to send message to multiple users as I now need to type few characters from each person's name to bring their contact information. The problem is when I have several people to send the message I tend to forgot who I already selected.

My question is, is this an Android 1.6 lack of feature or X10? For messaging I downloaded Handcent SMS which has the feature to select contacts from list like any dumb phone has. I am surprised several little and basic features like these are missing in X10.

I hate using apps that don't blend well with the nice Bluish interface of X10. So, apps like Handcent SMS spoil the rich experience of X10 but I have no choice but to use as selecting multiple users is very important.:(
[XPERIA X10 General] rvictorg:
yeah a little annoying I agree, but you can totally customize the look of Handcent you know right?? Just use backgrounds, colours, and fonts that match the blue SE Timescape theme.
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
I only see Sense or iPhone theme on Handcent SMS. Font's I can select System Fonts. I am trying to get the same dark blue background like in the default SE Messaging app.
[XPERIA X10 General] rvictorg:
I'd say try to set the backgrounds in Handcent to the blue SE ones included on the phone, like either of the two in "Wallpaper Gallery" you can choose when you want to set your Wallpaper. I'm not sure where exactly they're located on the file system, I just briefly looked and couldn't find them, but maybe someone else knows or maybe it's possible to download them online somewhere??

Furthermore, there's 4 different font packages available for Handcent on the marketplace, I'm sure you could find a font similar enough to the default one of the SE messaging app, then set all font colours to white and you're golden. Please post your results and if you happen to find where those SE Wallpapers are located, thanks
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
Thanks. Got it all setup to close very close in theme to SE's blue. I had to download the wallpaper from online as I couldn't locate the one sitting somewhere in the system folders.
[XPERIA X10 General] Flamso:
Is there a problem with selecting more than one contact? I mean, I can send one text to different people using the default messaging app. Just compose a new text and write a couple of letters that the contact starts with then select it and write a couple of letters for your next contact. Works perfectly for me!
[XPERIA X10 General] kiwi45:
I have contacts with multiple numbers (home, work...etc). It seems there is no way to select the alternative numbers using the default messaging app.
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
That's the only way possible. But it would have been better if showed the contact list with a "check box". That is how it is on most phones and messaging apps. Having to type the first two characters is not going to be easy when trying to send message to several contacts as you need to remember who you already entered plus the worst part is if one of your contact has two mobile phones and the second is listed as "Other" number, it will never show up by entering couple of characters. You have to open that contact from Address Book and choose that number to send message.
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
Yes. This is a pain as one of my friend carried two cellphones. One work cell and one personal which he carries mostly on weekends. I can't chose his personal number from Messaging app. I have to open the contact and choose the number to send message.

I hope SE engineers are reading this forum. They really need to implement lot of these simple easy changes in their next update.
[XPERIA X10 General] Flamso:
Oh, I see. Well then, I've only got one number for each contact. Can't help you then. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pimpol10:
I need an expert's advice. I'm trying to remove a few stuff I don't need off of WM6.5 2.1 Silence 12 Rom Kitchen. I was successful removing many things so far, but ran into so problems trying to remove Internet Explorer & the Titanium UI(but keep the honeycomb menu) Any help will be appreciated. Thanks MIke
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NilsP:
As far as Titanium goes you can remove or exclude the bronze and bronzenonea folders and you still have the start/today menu and the lockscene.

As far as IE goes that is a little more complicated since some of the stuff in it's folders are needed by other functions. I always leave IE in.
[HD2 General] highlander777:
Hi

I just bought a second hand unlocked HD2

I am on Orange. The phone will pick up 3G but I need to sync with Exchange. At work we have our own APN options. So , I have go into the connection tab but from some reason , there is no Cellular 3G,GPRS option, only GPRS. The phone does sync, but I don't think I am getting a 3G connection

With my previous phone Diamond 2, when I did the same thing, the 3G was an option

Am I missing something?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
The Ultimate HD2 & coreplayer 1.3.6 setup, 3800kbps wvga (h264) no single frameskip.

This isnt a joke, i finally found the problem of coreplayer on our HD2,

this will solve all your problems with coreplayer:

settings:

go to select page then video:

Video Output: DirectDraw (before you change this make sure there is no video running on coreplayer cus it will freeze your device, otherwize,

go to DirectDraw page and change Overlay to YUY2, then change Output to DirectDraw)

DO NOT USE GDI and RAWFRAMEBUFFER- unless you like choppy or framy(lol) videos. (make sure you have 1.3.6 one to get max performance with DirectDraw).

now this is important:

go to select page then DirectDraw:

uncheck

Overlay with colorkey

uncheck

Use blitting instead of overlay

check

Use device streching for blitting.

Overlay: YUY2

go to select page then Advanced:

Soft-Drop tolerance: 0.300 /0.200 /0.250 ( personally i use 0.250 it seems better )

Hard-Drop tolerance: 0.000

check

Disable AVC deblocking filter

( EDIT: about AVC deblocking filter:

with h264 you can see some annoying squares on the video sometimes, now i recommend to uncheck this option and use TG01-D3DM drivers from chainfire, although in 3800kbps videos you will receive skips sometimes, but dont use such high bitrate with coreplayer XD tried 2000kbps one and works smooth with deblocking enabled)

after you have done all this coreplayer will run very fast,

BUT we havnt finished yet!!

playback will still have slowdowns, and this isnt related to the settings,

it is related to a bug inside coreplayer, which affects the autoscale feature of the snapdragon.

have you been wondering why benchmark is so high while playback lags a bit?

I explored this thing, i can tell you that when i check "Play movie in backgroung", and watch the cpu speed: it goes down from 768MHZ to 400-300MHZ randomaly then goes back into 768MHZ, interesting isnt it?

when it drops down to 300-400 it has lags, and when it returns to 768, the lags stop.

the final solution:

http://www.netripper.com/leo/cpuspeed/LeoCpuSpeed_v2.zip

this program will allow you to keep the CPU in its position or make it full 1GHZ.

all you have to do is open it then tap "Disable autoscaling" and you will have Full 1ghz speed.

you can explore yourself by re-enabling autoscaling ("(Re)enable autoscaling")

then activate movie playback in background through coreplayer, then go to this software and watch the speed dropdowns.

now the "Disable autoscaling" is perfect for coreplayer, it also use 1ghz instead of 768MHZ, and also does not drop down randomally.

it is recommanded to activate autoscaling after finishing with coreplayer, so you can use more battery, it barely affects the speed of everything else but coreplayer, because it automatically increases to 1ghz when you switch between apps, but does not stay 1ghz inside the app itself.

(im not a native speaker, i hope you could understand this.)

enjoy guys.
[HD2 General] MoHed:
Core player does not work anymore!!

Followed these instructions to the letter.

Core player stopped playing videos!

Had to hard reset and restore. Beware.

Edit: I am using (and paying for!) version 1.3.6

I hard resetted because reinstalling did not solve the issue.

Hard resets are almost painless when you backup regularly (I use SPB backup... excellent).
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
maybe you are not using the 1.3.6 version of coreplayer

thats why it didnt play any video (DirectDraw works only on 1.3.6 and one more version - at the others you get green screen)

anyway why hard reset? you could reinstall coreplayer..
[HD2 General] myth1001:
It worked for me though.

The benchmark for video with following properties reads 140%. :D

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 848x480 23.98fps

Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 128kbps

It plays smoothly. =)
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
glad this works for you,

dont forget the fix for the cpu slowdown, cus without this the benchmark is only a number, and the playback will be with lags.

can you post your bit-rate?
[HD2 General] myth1001:
Thanks for the tip! :D

Btw, this might be kinda off topic, but do you know how to get the htc volume slider (volume slider as in HTC music player) to work in coreplayer when I press the volume rocker?

Currently, the video will pause whenever I press on the volume rocker to change the volume.
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
Umm i have no idea,

maybe you can search google, but i have another solution:

theres an option around coreplayer settings to make the video keep playing when it exits fullscreen, so all you have to do is increase volume, then go back to fullscreen and the video keeps playing..
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
working

"you are good, you are very good "

No more lost frames, works indeed but now quality is not so good, I see lots of artefacts on my lower framerate videos.

Maybe I messed up some settings ?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
i guess you did, go over the color settings etc.. ( i use 0 on brightness )

there is absolutely no drop-down in the quality,

if i play the same video also in album - you cannot tell which is which if i show you both in fullscreen.
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
I made those brightnes settings and the artefacts are still visible .

???

Thanks for help
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
ummm i dont completely understand what "artefacts" is lol, (not a native speaker sorry, i used dictionary but the meaning doesnt make sense xD, maybe you should try to explain this better)

i do understand that the quality isnt like before, this means you messed up with the settings somewhere. i do not see any drop-down in the quality of my movies.
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
Artefacts are little squares on the screen when is lot of movement

Sorry for my poor english
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
got it, do you say these werent there before? actually this is common with flv files.

one more question: does it happen when the screen goes black?
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
yes these apear after your settings

I had first part of settings ( yuy2 ) and I guess they apeared after I did the second part of settings ( soft and hard drop )
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
nope this is defenetly not related to soft and hard drop, im thinking now with my hd2. but tell me if you mean those squares when the screen goes black, cus somehow in the past i solved this.
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
when the screen is black , the squars are not visible

when I watch any movie, video they are very ugly ( in some grey area )
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
i cant notice any squares, once i had them left on the black screen, but i solved this, there are no squares!!

try use videos with higher bitrate, usually low-quality videos cause squares, also i would recommend to go back to the default settings to see if theres any difference which i guess there isnt.

EDIT: try unchecking Disable AVC Deblocking filter, and tell me if this helps. (this massivily drops the benchmark)
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
strange because I did not see them before

How I can reset to the default settings ?

install again ?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
Try enabling avc deblocking filter (in the edit last post)

im going to sleep... 2:00AM here, Cya.
[HD2 General] mobiemi:
when I enable avc deblocking filter those artefacts are not so visible

but now freezes the playback, is not so fluid like before

when I disable avc filter it is smooth but with larger artefacts

I give up and go to sleep, thank you a lot,

to be continued
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
yes but they shouldnt be visible at all if they werent before,

go to application data folder and rename the coreplayer's config file so the default settings will be restored, check the quality, then retutn to my settings & see the differences.
[HD2 General] chris5932:
Whats the benefit of all this? if I get your point you use netripper programm to scale the cpu at 1ghz all the time, isnt this killing the battery?

Cseers
[HD2 General] Wildcopper:
It's better to change the directdraw settings before switching to directdraw, doing otherwise may crash your HD2.

Also, checking "use device streching for blitting" is useless if you uncheck "use blitting instead of overlay".

Otherwise, I have smooth videos without having to disable deblocking.

Thanks a lot for the CPU speed tool though, it can be handy and it's good to have :)
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
actually with only checking "use device streching for blitting" i get 10% more benchmark, you dont really know how it behaves.

but for high quality videos AVC DEBLOCKING FILTER must be disabled, you cant notice anything but the lags when it is enabled.

my point is that: first to let you get the benchmark twice as it was before, then stabilize the cpu - this fusion will let you play any kind of video, without lags.

the only problem we noticed is with some videos which disabling the deblocking filter affects them badly. (on highres with high bitrate you cant notice difference, but with deblocking on you get lags)

not killing the battery, it consumes only 25% more battery which isnt much at all for short periods of time like 2-3 hours.

you must re-enable the scaling after you finish with coreplayer in order to save battery.

dont leave autoscaling disabled while your not using your phone - this will defenetly kill the battery.

also, if you dont like to use full 1ghz,

as i have mentioned,

you can only keep the cpu in its default position, click the 768MHZ button. (in order to disable the slowdowns caused by coreplayer)

then re-enable scaling when you finish.

it is important for the battery to re-enable scaling when you do not use coreplayer or a program that needs more speed!!
[HD2 General] SnapCount:
Very nice find eeeeeee!!! :)

Your tweak not only fixed the blockiness (is that even a word??) when viewing divx shows, but is also fixed the lag spikes :)

The only issues that i have now with CorePlayer is blockiness when watching wmv files and some audio sync issues :(

I think wmv files doesnt like the Overlay of YUY2. Changing it back to Auto fixes the blockiness
[HD2 General] azahoth:
I like this tweak, tempted to try but raw frame buffer does look quite nice, I watch movies whilst streaming from my local network, would this help with the buffering issue I sometimes get?
[HD2 General] bokechukwu1:
i second this all this tweak does is make my entire phone freeze when I go into core player, not worth it going back to original settings, thanks for the efforts though just doesnt work for me
[HD2 General] wardh:
Works perfect for me! Thanks!!!
[HD2 General] wineds:
these modifications also work well with the freeware tcpmp :) good find!
[HD2 General] lemonspeakers:
What do you mean, you dont see the squares? I've encoded a video that shows no pixelation on my computers screen. If I play it with HD2's default video player, is its very smooth without any pixelation AT ALL.

However, I see A LOT of pixelation using Coreplayer! Why is that?
[HD2 General] Wildcopper:
You cannot accelerate blitting... if you don't use blitting.

I just made the test to be sure, with the processor on fixed speed, on the same movie, same duration, with and without that option, and there's absolutely no difference. So your 10% are certainly observer error, either you didn't do the bench on the same duration or on the same part of the movie or on different movies, or you forgot to turn off CPU scaling for one test, or you changed other parameters too.
[HD2 General] Wildcopper:
Yep, I tried that too, with the speed fixed at 1GZ (without autoscaling) TCPMP now reads my videos with AC3 audio smoothly.

Maybe the guys who work on TCPMP version could include that feature directly as an option into the program?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
you have to change to YUY2 before you change the output to directdraw.

now reinstall coreplayer, dont start any video, modify it and then do not touch the directdraw settings again, it should work.

you're right, my mistake was that i wasnt using fixed speed, so it randomaly showed 10% less. thanks.
[HD2 General] brandi:
Stupid? All my vidoes play at full quality with 200%. what are you doing wrong?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
Becuase you werent using h264, use h264 with coreplayer while deblocking is disabled you will see some little squares...

EDIT: using chainfire's TG01-d3dm gives more benchmark. (although i would not recommend his opengl drivers cus of battery life and bugs sometimes)
[HD2 General] dr_derqami:
on2vp6 files

Ok
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
nice, but were you using it with deblocking or without?
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
you should try 3800kbps video then say "no matter what the settings are",

we are trying to figure out how to achieve best quality.

when i enabled avc deblocking i got same quality with htc video player on mp4 h264 video.
[HD2 General] MerLinh:
What about smooth zoom? is it on or only 50? default is only 50...try that if you didn't already
[HD2 General] eeeeeee:
no its on 100%, although you cant see the difference between 100 and 50.
[HD2 General] BlueLux:
Just wanted to post my experience with the settings mentioned here. Using the settings in the first post (without checking "Use device stretching for blitting", not sure if it does anything...), Coreplayer runs smoother than ever.

First, using DirectDraw gives a much, much clearer/sharper picture than GDI.

Second, using LeoCpuSpeed fixes the autoscaling problem, which I wasn't even aware of earlier. I had problems with streaming YouTube videos, or any other streams for that matter, that they used to start stuttering after a few seconds. I thought the buffer settings were to blame, trying out all kinds of numbers, but nothing worked. Then I checked LeoCpuSpeed, and show the numbers going crazy, from 300-700 mhz up and down. Fixing it at 768 or 998 mhz fixed all the problems. Now YouTube videos on Coreplayer look better than ever!
[HD2 General] Naumanafzalzia:
Thank You. It's amazing. HD2 is really nice device after making so many registery tweaks :-)
[HD2 General] xlr8me:
Just want to add that I too have used the OP first post settings in my TCMP player with avi support and it works amazingly well.

Thank you so much.. this is an amazing phone..:D
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Coming to this thread a little late - but I've certainly found that ticking "use device stretching when blitting" makes a huge difference to performance even when you don't tick "use blitting instead of overlays". It's connected somehow to the "smooth zoom" setting - this needs to be set to "on" or "always" and not to "50%" to get the benefit.
[HD2 General] damnshah:
guys,

you might want to check v3 of LeoCPUspeed as it has overclocking abilities...its not massive but it's always fun to try out;p
[HD2 General] ruscik:
Do not get what is the point as my HD2 was playing dvd quality movies with no problem before while I can not play even 720p as core player max resolution is 1008x1008
[HD2 General] Kev007:
thanks eeeeeee!

i really think i noticed the difference between your recommended settings and those applied by default. I've been watching movies regularly, content to the max! :D

i did notice one thing though, these settings don't play nice with videos being streamed over a network (over WiFi). i frequently encounter a 5 second pause that isn't present when default settings are applied.

this is just a heads up to those who keep a media server at home and stream your videos (i think this is perfect for watching movies in bed :P )
[HD2 General] F0RCE:
on my htc hd2 works without lags (LEO CPU OFF) if I change some more settings to:

- Video ---> SmoothZoom(always)

- Pixel Aspect Ratio ---> Auto

- Zoom ---> Fill Screen
[HD2 General] Umyd:
my friend,

at this point you say:

"go to select page then Advanced:

Soft-Drop tolerance: 0.300 /0.200 /0.250 ( personally i use 0.250 it seems better )

Hard-Drop tolerance: 0.000

check Disable AVC deblocking filter"

excuse my peasantness but how do you get the 0. value for soft-drop tolerance in TCPMP?

when I click to enther 0.250, my keyboard changes to some numerik one. It's just numbers and I can't type the point after zero.

I know the post was for coreplayer but has anybody done it with tcpmp? can anybody help?

HD2 Leo

thanx
[HD2 General] bizarrex:
my friend, just put 250 without any point, cause in tcpmp its measured in miliseconds already. saludos
[Desire Themes and Apps] jankos:
How to change the screen when there is incoming call and the Desire is locked. I mean the screen with "drag down" and "drag up". The problem with the default screen is that very often during picking it up from my belt case I decline the calls thanks to the very sensitive display. :o

I've tried lockbot, but it doesn't change caller screen :(
[Nexus One General] D200P13:
is there a app that turns off/disables the wifi when you leave the range? blackberry had an app for this and am hopeful android does too but i cant seem to find any so was wondering if anyone knows of one.
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
I'm going to bump this because i've been looking for this same program.
[Nexus One General] crachel:
i think juicedefender (the payed ultimatejuice actually) claims to do this? it never worked for me though, but apparently it does for other people. give it a shot
[Nexus One General] D200P13:
i found 1 that sounds like it would of worked but cant find...

Sanga Wifi Enabler will automatically enable your wifi adapter only on those

locations where you actually use it.

When you are at a place where you don't regularly use your wifi adapter, Sanga Wifi Enabler

will turn off your adapter, thus greatly improving battery life.

Includes also bluetooth management.

also found and tried this BUT i didnt see it turn off my wifi when i went in town and noticed my GPS never stopped so i had to turn it off because i felt that along with my unused wifi being on i was using gps non stop...

Wifi Auto Enabler

Active or desactive automaticly Wifi in one or many zones saved . This soft not use Gps for save battery but use Gsm location .

(CELLULAR ( GSM ) LOCALISATION MUST BE ACTIVED ON PHONE PARAMETERS )
[Nexus One General] wick12345:
I use one called Y5 it turns off and on my wifi based on my location. It seems to work well.
[Nexus One General] D200P13:
now this looks like it might work! many thanks.

i figure the best way to make a working app is to save my location via cell towers around me like how phones without gps can guess your location within a area by triangulating the location. saving that specific location on an app just monitoring not using gps sounds like it might do better on battery with check ever so often (30min,1hr,...). once my location saved and i am in it the app triggers on the wifi. if im out of the area it truns the wifi off. im just sayin heh.
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
I saw a thread cant find it. Market constantly FC after downloading and trying to install, any fix?

Says error is process com.android.vending
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Settings - Applications - Managed - Market - Uninstall Updates
[Hero CDMA General] redram38:
This happened to me after using Metamorph to install the new lockscreen. I seem to have issues every time I use Metamorph so I just stopped using it. It may work ok for some, but for me it just caused to many issues and I had to always use nandroid to restore back.