yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Hi to All and specifically to Singaporeans,

Do you live in Singapore and are quite peeved that you cant read straits times in your Windows Mobile handset?

Well this is the app for you. With UI similar to metro, it allows you to read full articles without the need to visit Straits Times' website on your phone.

Now with offline reading capabilities for your transit needs!

The app needs CF3.5 and is created with the help of the excellent sliderlist by Obelix_A

Current Features

- read full articles available from StraitsTimes.com Free

- view pictures and captions related to the articles

- change font size for articles

- offline syncing

- low-bandwidth mode (by displaying images only when articles are read)

- auto updater

Planned Features

- reading of articles from a specific date

- bookmarking articles

Known Bugs/Issues

- application is known to crash for Omnia2 and OmniaPro devices, upon a selection of a section

download fromhttp://appslah.com/stmobile.cab Version 0.694

i would appreciate feedback and feature-requests.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dandruff333:
hey shank1986 i love you straitstimes app but i am unable to run it after i flashed my hd2 with ChuckyROM. I was using the stock 1.66 SEA rom prior to that.

look forward to your response!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Hey dandruff333,

What error message do you see?

As of now there is only two known issues/bugs

1. Samsung omnia2 and omniscient pro crash with an out of memory exception upon selection of a section

2. Devices with different regional settings crashes with stack overflow exception.

Is it either of these or something else new? Kl possible please do paste a copy of the error message. would be much useful in resolving the problem in a shorter period of time.

Thanks

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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dandruff333:
Hi shank1986,

Sorry for taking so long to get back. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, it might be related to bug #2. Attached some screenshots which may help
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
hi there,

this problem is fixed. you can download the update from the same URL.
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Hi to All and specifically to Singaporeans,

Do you live in Singapore and are quite peeved that you cant read straits times in your Windows Mobile handset?

Well this is the app for you. With UI similar to metro, it allows you to read full articles without the need to visit Straits Times' website on your phone.

Now with offline reading capabilities for your transit needs!

The app needs CF3.5 and is created with the help of the excellent sliderlist by Obelix_A

Current Features

- read full articles available from StraitsTimes.com Free

- view pictures and captions related to the articles

- change font size for articles

- offline syncing

- low-bandwidth mode (by displaying images only when articles are read)

- auto updater

Planned Features

- reading of articles from a specific date

- bookmarking articles

Known Bugs/Issues

- application is known to crash for Omnia2 and OmniaPro devices, upon a selection of a section

download fromhttp://appslah.com/stmobile.cab Version 0.694

i would appreciate feedback and feature-requests.
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] bigfilsing:
like it .....a lot ....many thanks
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] aoao4040:
It looks a lot like the WM 7's UI, but well, at least I can read news without digging through my RSS.

Thanks!
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
thanks thanks, it will also help if you all help review the app on market place :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Hi to All and specifically to Singaporeans,

Do you live in Singapore and are quite peeved that you cant read straits times in your Windows Mobile handset?

Well this is the app for you. With UI similar to metro, it allows you to read full articles without the need to visit Straits Times' website on your phone.

Now with offline reading capabilities for your transit needs!

The app needs CF3.5 and is created with the help of the excellent sliderlist by Obelix_A

Current Features

- read full articles available from StraitsTimes.com Free

- view pictures and captions related to the articles

- change font size for articles

- offline syncing

- low-bandwidth mode (by displaying images only when articles are read)

- auto updater

Planned Features

- reading of articles from a specific date

- bookmarking articles

Known Bugs/Issues

- application is known to crash for Omnia2 and OmniaPro devices, upon a selection of a section

download fromhttp://appslah.com/stmobile.cab Version 0.694

i would appreciate feedback and feature-requests.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
GOOD JOB!

I'm SO downloading this.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
thanks for the support :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Some initial comments and thoughts about this app:

- The tick at the top right feels naturally clickable. I guess that's because to the average windows phone user, that top right has always either been an "OK" or a "X" so it's somewhat natural to assume whatever icon is on the top right is clickable

- The physics of the flow of the menu items are very very sensitive. If I drag them for a distance equivalent to half of my screen height, they disappear for quite some time before they bounce back. It is also kind of laggy. I understand alot of this has to do with windows mobile OS itself, so I'm not blaming you on this. This is really a good UI effort.

Otherwise this application feels way beyond good comparing with the average windows mobile application. Its metro-like UI is REALLY appealing for a change for my windows mobile device. All functions are working great and browsing the news is a pleasure.

Definitely recommend this app to any windows mobile users in Singapore. I'm gonna spread this app to some friends and partners of mine in Microsoft. I'm sure they will be impressed with this! Good work!

Tested on: HTC Touch Diamond 2 (Topaz) running Windows Mobile 6.5
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Most of the best pillars of this app would not be without the input or ideas of fellow users. thanks once again for the input.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
oh ya, and here is the app compared against other variants on other platforms:

[YOUTUBE]<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mm2_ajPtMr4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mm2_ajPtMr4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] hazeline:
I have tried it on Omnia II and the application is well designed but abit of laggyness in scrolling up and down in the tiles section and the stories text section, if u reach the very end of the text, and overscrolls it, it will take a while to jump back to the text area. Overall i find the application simple and light :)

Btw, i noe the app through aeronex haha...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Wow! Great! Haha I guess the developers network for Windows Mobile in Singapore is indeed quite small! ^^ I know of several other windows mobile developers also working with not only Chris but also many other peeps in Microsoft.

In any case, The HD2 has the most capable processor, so I'm not entirely sure if it's a very fair test, but I can definitely vouch that this user interface is the best I've seen. I love it!

Apologies about the font + and - actually. I just realized that your app already has the small and big "A"s which in my opinion is more than enough. Very strange I missed that just now, apologies ^^
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
CNA app also done. will PM you when i have a beta of it ready
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
i am glad its working for you. i am still trying to find a permanent fix for my other samsung users who face the "outofmemoryexception". Do let me know if the app hangs for your device or what nots errors. So far this problem seems peculiar to the two samsung devices only.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Okae. Yeah, Ismael. The other Chris ^^
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
lol ya

anyhow, on a side note, got a nice email with some good news from microsoft this morning
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Great! All the best for that! :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] hazeline:
ops, haha after the second try of the app and after i click on a news title to load a full story, i experienced a out of memory exception, it will go on and on even if i restart the application. Would you want the error details?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
haha not to worry, am looking into that issue. hope to get it sorted out by this weekend
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Congratulations on being featured on the frontpage! Read it on the twitter widget on my nexus this afternoon!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
lol did not know until you informed me bro. wow, XDA is as supportive as what i always heard them to be. Thanks
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Clound:
Ooooops... this should be on the general apps forum instead of TOPAZ forum???

DLing.... :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] aeronex:
Think there's more than one thread about this ^^
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] shank1986:
yea, did not know the best way to find sg winmo users here... so resorted to that
[XPERIA X2 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
Hi to All and specifically to Singaporeans,

Do you live in Singapore and are quite peeved that you cant read straits times in your Windows Mobile handset?

Well this is the app for you. With UI similar to metro, it allows you to read full articles without the need to visit Straits Times' website on your phone.

Now with offline reading capabilities for your transit needs!

The app needs CF3.5 and is created with the help of the excellent sliderlist by Obelix_A

Current Features

- read full articles available from StraitsTimes.com Free

- view pictures and captions related to the articles

- change font size for articles

- offline syncing

- low-bandwidth mode (by displaying images only when articles are read)

- auto updater

Planned Features

- reading of articles from a specific date

- bookmarking articles

Known Bugs/Issues

- application is known to crash for Omnia2 and OmniaPro devices, upon a selection of a section

download fromhttp://appslah.com/stmobile.cab Version 0.694

i would appreciate feedback and feature-requests.
[XPERIA X2 Themes and Apps] the0ne:
here is a quick video

[youtube]WhQTa-mSnTc[/youtube]

love the metro look :)
[XPERIA X2 Themes and Apps] shank1986:
hey thanks for the review.

just a correction, only some articles has an image associated with it, as such it only loads the image if the article has one. other wise it does not show the image.
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
just a little media_profiles.xml Mod for Testing...

Rodriguezstyle Video Driver Mod V2 Beta Test Release for Nexus One (Froyo)

Modifications:

-just the settings up to max. 30 FPS

-780x480 Resolution to 800x480 Pixel

-Encoding Quality from 90% to 100%

-Buffersize greatly enlarged (100% More)

-Bitrate greatly enlarged (50% More)

-Cleanup for a faster VideoMode Boot

Driver Download

http://www.mediafire.com/?tvymzijnzxt

Backup Download

http://www.mediafire.com/?0hiyygjllnm

easy to use is a update.zip

Please Report if you find some Bugs or Problems with Video Recording...
[Nexus One Android Development] solidus175:
Re: [Mod] Rodriguezstyle Video Driver Mod V1 Beta Release for N1

Wow..just tried it in low light and it looks impressive...can't wait to see how it does in day light :) Good work!

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[Nexus One Android Development] B3astofthe3ast:
just did a quick test video, couldn't really gauge the increased quality and framerate at this hour, but I did notice the extra resolution. Awesome work!
[Nexus One Android Development] phunghoang24:
it's still 25 FPS ! checked!
[Nexus One Android Development] elmerendeiro:
does it work only with froyo?
[Nexus One Android Development] seanowns:
Wow I may have to move over to Froyo finally.
[Nexus One Android Development] docsparks:
Hold your horses still. Current froyo roms are still a bit buggy.

Took me 3-4 day to notice all the things not working 100%, and

had to revert to an older build of Cyan 5.0.6 to make my N1 usable again.

keep up the good work though guys
[Nexus One Android Development] 1wayjonny:
What formats are you guys testing the video in and what player are you using?

Thanks I have seen a few video players that played my 720 mkv but it was choppy what player is most of threads using?

Thanks

** EDIT **

This looks like a video driver for recording is that right?
[Nexus One Android Development] djdarkknight96:
Lmao, yes!

Op, thanks for this!
[Nexus One Android Development] commodoor:
Wow sounds great gonna try it tonight. great job

@docsparks i'm using Froyo sinds it was released and it is stable for me. there are some tiny bugs no denying but not tha anoying.
[Nexus One Android Development] kwanyin:
just downloaded 2 file, but don't know how to make it work........
[Nexus One Android Development] vegetaleb:
Yep where do you push them?
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
install the zip in Recovery mode of your rooted phone...
[Nexus One Android Development] jblazea50:
do we flash both files?
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
no !!! the backup it´s just to go back to the normal 800x480 Driver
[Nexus One Android Development] gn00my:
wow , thank you !! i just love my nexus :-)

now all we need is the final release of froyo
[Nexus One Android Development] 1wayjonny:
Eh figured that, I got excited because I thought this brought some decent video acceleration for decoding. My eyes were reading too fast ... =)

Phone is quite capable of running videos well we just have no good video players out
[Nexus One Android Development] bong_sniffer:
Please mirror or update link...i've been waiting for this for sometime...link is dead.

Thanks kindly :)

EDIT: Looks like Mediafire is down..
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
Mediafire is Online...
[Nexus One Android Development] l3wish:
You can always adb push media_profiles.xml /system/etc

adb reboot :)
[Nexus One Android Development] Cusciolino:
Sorry for my off-topic question but is it possible to improve drivers audio/video on HTC HEro? It has the same camera hardware of nexus..... or not?

Recorded audio is so terrible on Hero.... :(
[Nexus One Android Development] L10nH34Rt:
I don't think they share the same hardware, but still we haven't even managed to improve audio on the Nexus yet :p
[Nexus One Android Development] iamwhoamnot:
will this help increase frame rate in 3rd party video players like yxflash
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
Its no driver mod, lol its just a change in values in the media_profiles.xml . If u really want to make a driver mod, look in the kernel to edit the drivers for camera, venc etc and then u can call it a driver mod
[Nexus One Android Development] pilot-calc:
can i install the driver with recovery amon ra or recovery original?

thanks :)
[Nexus One Android Development] Meltus:
Hey, nice work Rodriguez, it works great :)

The only problem i am having with it is that i can't ever seem to hit more than 20fps. Tried in various different lighting conditions but it never seems to get any higher :(
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
It will not go over 20 fps because of some dirty codec and drivers. It's set to minimum 20 fps to u get the minimum right now. We have to edit in driver files to increase it ;-)
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
that´s not right nothing in the xml turns the FPS to 20

we need just a higher Cam Clock Freq. to get the stable 29-30 FPS

at the moment the Phone reaches the FPS they can reach with the standard Cam Clock Freq.

and this is not much.. but I´m to New on Kernel Modding to do this.. and Froyo is new too so nobody knowes much of Camera stuff in Froyo

but I prepare the xml to get this in future with the right FPS settings & with more caches/buffer for the better Videomode...

I´m not New on this, search for "Dirty Rodriguez W995 Camdriver" i add VGA Resolution to a SE Walkman Phone and this is not so easy... so i can say Phone´s Camdriver is my speciality.. :D

info:http://forums.se-nse.net/topic/43277-rodriguez-hd-camdriver-for-w995/
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
Adding reolutions to a limit are easy, if u try adding 720p u will get a kernel panic or an OMX error even if u clock the camera at a higher frequency, i have been working on it for months, i am just waiting for Froyo Source to drop so that i can continue my work, hope it drops soon. I have already reached the 30fps target of video, now what i want is 720p. If u wanna help me shoot me a PM

BTW its not the XML but the codec source, it was in the codecs that made it drop frames in 2.1 . I have all the encoders source too . i have already seen it. H263 gives u a min of 8 while h264 pumps this upto 20. This can be further increased
[Nexus One Android Development] dsixda:
Awesome bro, I've been looking for a mod like this! I tried it now in my hotel room, and the frame rates seem to be smoother than before in the indoor lighting conditions! This has always been my #1 pet peeve on the N1 -- the fact I cannot take decent videos indoors due to crappy fps.

By the way, there was a thread in the Desire forum where they were saying that you can increase the frame rate of the video recorder by simply decreasing the brightness setting - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=665558. Unfortunately we don't have this setting on the N1 camcorder app, but perhaps we can hardcode it somewhere in the XML file? (Or probably in the kernel later.) This would definitely improve the indoor videos.
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
Indoor videos improved because of the new encoder h264 implemented in froyo, indoors its the same even without this hack, they upped minimum from 8 to 20 in froyo
[Nexus One Android Development] ianken:
So this is not actually a driver mod. Its a configuration file tweak that may or may not work for you.

As tobthe driver, the video hardware bits live in the radio module. At least for decoding. I was under the impression that encoding was also in hardware. If so then driver tweaks would be problematic.
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
Nah, u can boost the fps like i did in my hack for 2.1 cyanogen mod giving 30fps on h263. with h264 expect a lot more. Waiting for froyo source to drop
[Nexus One Android Development] pikipirs:
Huh? I just tried to shoot a video in the dark (not even complete darkness) and the fps is <10 :confused:

Cyanogen's rooted Froyo, Froyo kernel, Froyo radio, media_profile.xml from this thread.

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 6s 177ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 000 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 4 000 Kbps
Width : 800 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.667
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : [b]9.713 fps[/b]
Minimum frame rate : 4.310 fps
Maximum frame rate : 10.870 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.072
Stream size : 971 KiB (99%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2010-06-06 19:41:38
Tagged date : UTC 2010-06-06 19:41:38
[Nexus One Android Development] dsixda:
8 to 20?? That's news to me....

Personally, the stock frame rate when outdoors is fine... we should aim to increase the lower light quality first before trying to fix what isn't broken.
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
its dropping frames right now, some problem there. Its the same thing that happened with me when i used the froyo radio and omx libs in eclair. Can u get me the logcat. Could be due to increased bitrate and resolution.

BTW h264?(avc) codec implemented has minimum fps 20 in low light condition acc to the source of avc encoder i have with me. they cold have changed it and changin the value from 24 to 29 wouldnt do anything for low light. It would still be the same until u clock camera at its max and edit some more values in encoder source :)
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
Reworked...

Update...
[Nexus One Android Development] dsixda:
Unfortunately, I am still getting 9fps indoors, and 10fps with flash. Would be great if we can somehow get the minimum fps to be hard-coded so that it isn't that low.
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
Let the froyo sources release, i will try erasing the frame drop in the codecs, the frame drop is there, i have seen it in the logcat too
[Nexus One Android Development] _Opiate_:
I'm sure when the source drops for 2.2 things will begin to accelerate. :)
[Nexus One Android Development] dsixda:
I think it's dropping frames because it's trying to keep the image quality the way it is.

For example, on the Milestone the frame rate is constant but the picture is noisier in low light because the ISO is increased to compensate. You get noisier videos in low light but the frame rate is still very good. The Nexus is using the opposite approach. :(

So, I don't know if it will be stable if we increase the minimum frame rate, unless we do something about adjustment of ISO
[Nexus One Android Development] charnsingh_online:
yes it will be stable, the camera has just to get the frames no matter what the image quality is. the image quality is to be decided by the encoder.
[Nexus One Android Development] Asoseil:
i just tried to flash the drivers but i have 8 fps for the videos
[Nexus One Android Development] crunked:
flashed the driver and it distorted up any still photos i took. flashed the backup file but it didn't revert back to the stock froyo video settings. how can i revert to the original settings?
[Nexus One Android Development] tontonHD:
You got crunked!
[Nexus One Android Development] rodigezstyle:
the backup file works !!! but haves still the 800x480 Resolution push the Original file to system/etc if you don´t want it
[Nexus One Android Development] vegetaleb:
This is the best camera driver for N1, my photos are now about +2mb instead of 800k meaning way less jpeg compression :D

The only thing I would like to be fixed is a better audio capturing when recording videos,sound looks like 22khz 64kbs while it should be the double
[Nexus One Android Development] 021311:
JPEG is def better,

but video has only 14.05 fps on my phone

where as the original has 16.41 fps

under the same conditon
[Desire General] dunetails:
HTC have made a press release via Twitter, going to update when I get to a WiFi point and let you know the details. Fingers crossed for divx, I can't imagine this is Froyo

http://smartadopter.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/new-european-htc-desire-and-legend-over-the-air-update/
[Desire General] JustinL01:
Nothing for my desire, on O2 in UK
[Desire General] LBTaylor1984:
on O2 UK installed, noticed the open office icon changed. other than that exactly the same. Even the facebook contacts isssue is still there.
[Desire General] GrenW:
Sounds like the one Vodafone dropped last week. Not noticed any differences other than the office icon myself. Don't use Facebook tho ...
[Desire General] dunetails:
I started freaking out a little, the update took it's time to install and I thought I might be in a boot loop. The moral of the story is not to panic.

No 720p recording, no DIVX support.

Text messages display the message count. Erm, looking hard for anything exciting here.