yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Eris General] bftb0:
Hi crax0r,

The folks at Android (aka Google) provide these instructions for installing the drivers. It involves installing their SDK first, and installing Java for that, and an IDE called eclipse.... UGH.

The HTC "Sync" Application that hoovnick is referring to can be found here.

It has been so long ago that I installed drivers (on a WinXp x32 laptop) that I can't remember what order I did things in, whether or not the driver used by HTC sync is sufficient for fastboot but not adb (or vice versa), whether I did the SDK install first, etc etc etc. As a matter of fact, it's been so long ago that the computer that I did it on is now dead, and here I am using a Linux machine.

For all I know, the order you do things in affects the outcome - it sure seems like a lot of folks with Windows 7 complained about driver troubles.

One thing is for sure, though - setting up the entire Android SDK (+ Java + Eclipse + ...) in order to install a device driver has to be the worlds most roundabout way of doing a driver install.

If you are considering using the "fastboot" method to install Amon_RA's recovery boot, you might try just installing HTC Sync first, and see if that is sufficient for getting fastboot talking to the phone. That install is way, way easier than setting up the SDK to get a driver installed.

The other thing which is an option, if you are a little bit Linux-savvy, is to boot one of those "Live CDs" (Ubuntu, SuSe, etc) on your PC - there are no drivers to install in the case of Linux, you just need to be running as "root" on the Live (linux) CD to get fastboot to talk to the phone. The downloads (fastboot for Linux and the Amon_RA recovery image) are small, and they will both easily fit in the /tmp folder of the Linux (Live CD) boot on the PC.

Once you have Amon_RA on the phone, you won't need the SDK any longer, unless you want to start doing dev-like things; that's why a one-time boot into Linux would also work.

bftb0
[Droid Eris General] crax0r:
I <3 Ubuntu. It's amazing!
[Droid Eris General] hoovnick:
bftb0, I am trying to install only the driver from the SDK tools, but when I follow the instructions for a fresh install, and point windows to the folder with the driver in it, windows says it can't find a driver there. What am I doing wrong here?
[Droid Eris General] bftb0:
Excellent. Just remember to always run fastboot as root, and if using adb, then the first time after you boot (the PC), run adb as root.

The reason is that by default, Ubuntu won't let an unprivileged user access the USB.

Since I have adb and fastboot in my Ubuntu (regular user) PATH, I usually just do a

$ sudo `which adb` blah-blah-blah

or

$ sudo `which fastboot` blah-blah-blah

bftb0
[Droid Eris General] bftb0:
I don't know - I've already forgotten everything I did with the driver install in Windows, and I don't currently have a working Windows machine. Sorry I can't be of more help. As I said, the troubles people have been having seem to depend on which version of Windows (Xp/Vista/7), whether its x32 or x64, phase of the moon, etc. Seems like people run into snags on Win7 or x64 versions of Windows more than Xp-32, but I don't know why that is.

Keep plugging away at it. If you are looking for resources to help resolve the problem, I would go look at docs relating to Windows driver install troubleshooting - the driver install problem seems to be a Windows issue, not really anything to do with the SDK.

bftb0
[Droid Eris General] HanSolo2012:
Sounds like what happened to me. i had to hit the icon at the top of my phone that showed the usb cable.. i had to switch charge only to disk drive "mount as disk drive"... folder popped right up on my windows machine asking how i wanted to open the file
[Droid Eris General] jopusm:
I have the SDK running and my phone being recognized on my computer with Vista but I have another one running XP 32 bit and windows will NOT recognize the .inf? Any ideas? I deleted all previous HTC drivers and tried that approach but nothing seems to be working.
[Hero CDMA General] EZ2Hate:
I found a thread where someone else asked this question but it was a few months ago and they didn't really get a good answer. I just bought a Motorola bluetooth speaker phone because it was on a wicked sale from newegg and I was hoping it would be a better car solution than the little battery operated speaker I picked up. While the bluetooth device seems to work well for calls it doesn't route the turn-by-turn audio from google navigation through it. It also doesn't seem to trigger the google voice search/dial/command app you get when you long press the search button. Is there a fix for any of these problems? Probably my own dumb fault for not researching it first.

Thanks.
[Hero CDMA General] familyguy26:
I think I have the same speaker you do. Is it the T505? I never tried Google navigation because 1.5 is more stable than 2.1 for me so I switched back. However I have tried Sprint Navigation and it does turn by turn perfectly.
[Hero CDMA General] comintern:
It works over BT but it goes through the A2DP (stereo) profile, not the HSP (headset). From your description of voice search, I'd guess if doesn't support HFP (handsfree). Search Wikipedia for "bluetooth profiles" for more info. Best thing I ever did was to get a bluetooth enabled stereo receiver for my car -- works flawlessly for both streaming audio and handsfree.
[Hero CDMA General] EZ2Hate:
Its the Motorola T215. According to the manual it supports handsfree and headset profiles. When I pair it with the phone it appears to use the headset profile. I guess its not a huge issue since the phone still does a pretty good job of picking up voice commands on its own if I long press the search button. And I can hear the navigation cues alright thru the phone speaker. Thought maybe one of the clever coders on this board might come up with an app or a mod to make this work.
[Droid Eris Android Development] jcase:
Koush is working on Rom Manager right now, with a couple people from our irc network.

Currently eris has no roms listed in rom manger, the devs need to add them themselves.

Rom manger works quite nice, and reduces questions/headaches.

If your a dev, please check out this url and get you rom, hacks and patchs.

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/03/rom-manager-and-third-party-roms.html
[Droid Eris Android Development] northmendo:
Any idea if clockwork recovery is stable for the Eris now?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Spencer_Moore:
Wow i would do this, but I have no spare cash to waste on a premium service :(. If i get the opportunity I'll check it out though
[Droid Eris Android Development] Spaz007:
If all of the developers used this I might consider buying it.
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
My hero has lost ten percent is its battery on just seventeen minutes is playing with it. Battery and phone are only three months old. Sits on usb charge all day because I use pda net for tether. RAM is free at 65 mb. This sucks.

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[Hero CDMA General] daPorkchop:
Do you have spare parts? If so SpareParts > Battery Usage screenshot
[Hero CDMA General] notasimpleway:
Losing ten percent while using your phone for nearly twenty minutes is not alarming. Or did I misread your post? What are you doing those twenty minutes?

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ccpgclap:
:confused:Hi everybody ,

I have a Major problem with my MIO 268+ , I have formated the SD Card because I wanted to install another GPS in it and now all is KO!!!

When I restart my MIO 268+ a message appears :

" Impossible to find navigator file in SD Card "

and if I click OK the same message appears again ,

:ocan anyone Help Me Please by posting if possible

the " navigator file " ?

Many thanks...
[Droid Eris General] rllong1:
Ok, so I bought an Eris about a month ago and got the OTA update like an hour after I bought it. After that installed, I was interested in rooting my phone only to find out that this could not be done because I have the stock 2.1 OTA. After playing with my phone I was able to install custom Roms' but I thought this could not be done if you had stock 2.1. I am still new to the whole "root" community and was just looking for clarification on how this happened. I am now running the Senseless Rom.
[Droid Eris General] Sheen160:
You only couldn't root if the hboot version was 1.49. Which some were and some weren't. You were a lucky one and got 1.47 s-off or something like that.
[Droid Eris General] ahjee:
If your flashing custom roms then you have root. Your eris must have a 1.47 hboot instead of 1.49. The leaked versions of 2.1 have .49 which is currently unable to gain root through. Eris' that come with android 1.5 will have an hboot of 1.47 so eris' that recieve the OTA for 2.1 will still be rootable because the OTA dosent install a new HBOOT but is more or less a patch

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[Droid Eris General] rllong1:
That clears it up. Thanks
[Droid Eris General] tazzpatriot:
mine is 1.49 and i got my rooted
[Droid Eris General] ahjee:
Really? Did you have a rooted

.47 first then some how retained it when "upgrading" to a pb00img.zip or rom or something? Cause I have leak v3 with a .49 and I haven't been able to root no matter what I try

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[Droid Eris General] bftb0:
There has never been a 1.47 S-OFF in the wild. Maybe at HTC, but not circulating publicly.

The first thing that the HBOOT flashing process (using a "PB00IMG.ZIP" file) does is replace the bootloader on the phone with the replacement version which is inside the PB00IMG.ZIP file. So, no - nobody ever "retained" their 1.46 S-ON, or 1.47 S-ON bootloaders during the root flashing process. After rooting - because you now have full control over the phone - it is indeed possible to put whatever bootloader you please back on the phone. It is rare that anyone does this, except maybe for testing purposes, but it is possible.

The bootloader which gets installed by the rooting process shows the following two lines at the top of the display:

[SIZE=+1]

PB00100 XC ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-1.49.2000 (PB0010000)[/SIZE]

I know this because I am staring at that screen right now. This is how you identify the bootloader from the ROOT ROM - it says "1.49.2000" and "S-OFF".

Now, the "locked" bootloader that is present in the Leak-V1, Leak-V2, and Leak-V3 PB00IMG.ZIP files says something slightly different - the version number it will report after it is installed is: 1.49.0000, and it will report S-ON in the top line.

You can see why people get confused when others say things like "1.49", when that could mean two radically different situations which are nearly polar opposites..

The bottom line is that if you have a bootloader which says 1.49-something-or-other, just check the top line in the display (the part that says either S-ON or S-OFF). That will discriminate between "rooted" and "might not ever be able to root".

bftb0
[Droid Eris General] orkillakilla:
Aw come on.don't crush our hopes and dreams of rooted leaked phones lol.there's always hope :)

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[Droid Eris General] xxjekelxx:
i went from 2.1 ota to root also. Its the same steps as going from 1.5 to 2.1 root. just follow the steps at the unlockr website
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FishFan319:
like the title says, can I restore Apps+Data without rooting, or do i lose all data, settings, scores in games etc.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FishFan319:
I've tried searching it, and using Astro, and MyBackup. Anyone?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stillryan:
I've flashed 6 ROM's in the last 2-3 days just to get a feel for them and see what i like. My question is whether flashing alot over a few days can mess with anything on the phone. I want to see how the ROM's are and see what i want to use (or make my own if i get the time to learn how) but i don't want to mess anything up.

Would if be a good idea to just do a hard reset periodically to make sure i get a good wipe, or am i fine just doing a wipe before any flash i run? I don't want to do anything like brick the phone, or make the market not recognize my phone properly.

I guess i'm just being overly cautious, but i want to make sure i'm not messing anything up. Wouldn't look good at work if it's ME who bricked my phone.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dave2582:
I don't think it will be a problem flashing many roms. What I did when I first tried different roms is that I make notes on why I liked/didn't like it. Some people on here wipe data/factory reset, some people don't. If some roms are upgrades from the previous rom you had, then you don't have to do a wipe. I usually wipe data/factory reset if I'm trying a whole new rom.

You can't really brick your phone as long as you are within the CDMA hero guides. Just don't go flash happy. Make sure you read the instructions.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stillryan:
I definitely am following the directions completely, even double check them just to be sure. I'm not new to flashing ROM's, was doing that on my old windows phones all the time, i just realized that i had never done this many in only a couple days.

I do a factory data wipe/reset each time i try a new ROM, i'm pretty sure I'll be fine, just wanted a second opinion.

Thank you
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crown510:
As long as you follow instructions you'll be fine. I'm on same boat been trying many roms but purehero is a keeper for me. Alysious rocks! !

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghost77:
Whoever has one can you check some things.

1. How high of a encoding level for h264 does it support , for comparison Nexus one does Baseline 3.1 anything higher then that will not work , main will stutter/crash and high woun't even start.

2. Can it playback h264 in MKV container ?

3. If yes to MKV is it full support with subs or some partial video only ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghost77:
To answer my own question it seems person at samsunggalaxy forum managed to run.

720p mkv Format profile : High@L3.1 with CABAC on.

Effectively makes Galaxy very awesome Video player :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toss3:
I wonder how well it does with re-encoded 800x4xx sized files. :) Also native AVI and AC3 support ftw!

Probably gonna watch more movies on my phone than on my projector.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenkiller:
720p mkv plays great.

So does re-encoded video files...i migrated all my HD2 encoded files over without a hitch.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Perrosky:
the only sad part is that it doesn't have mini hdmi output like the EVO 4g.:mad:

bUt I'm still getting it anyway , since I see that ass an add on for when you go a friend house and want to play a movie you have in the phone on the tv.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marsupial99:
Wow, this thing can play .mkv files and supports ac3 audio. I am excited...:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
yes.. the Galaxy S can play 720P MKVs flawlessly.. but it cannot read the embedded subs. I'm searching for an application that can play MKVs with subs..

I posted this at the Themes and Apps section but no one replied.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cryingfreeman83:
try mVideoplayer
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
UPDATE 2:

mVideoplayer v2.2.0 now support embedded subs from MKVs (only for SGS) :D :cool:

UPDATE 1:

mVideoplayer v1.6.7 above suports .ass (Sub Station Alpha) subtitles. Download mVideoplayer in the Android Market.

thanks to h4m74ro for pointing that out.

updated the instructions... you can find the original post here

Apps to Download to your PC

1) MKVExtractGUI

2) MKVtoolnx

-this is needed by MKVExtractGUI, copy the MKVExtractGUI into the installed directory of MKVToolnix

Apps for your Phone

1) mVideoplayer - download in Android Market

Instructions:

1) Extract the subtitles using MKVExtractGUI, the extracted subs will be in .ass format. This will just take a few seconds to complete.

2) Rename the .ass subtitles exactly as the video file name except the extension (.ass).

3) Copy the MKV file and .ass subtitle to your phone and play using mVideoPlayer..

enjoy... hope this can help someone.. :cool:

if anyone knows a better solution. please post it here!

thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m3keni:
nice one. will try this tomorrong tsong! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Straputsky:
Would anyone please be so kind to test this workaround with the following file?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFU871QV

it's from www.yibis.com and uses Soft-Subs. Unfortunately they now use variable framerate, so I'm not sure if the video will play at all. Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Straputsky:
Thank you very much! :)

No problems cause of the variable framerate (out of sync or something like that)?

Well, well - that means I have to do some robbery to my banking account... :o

I envy you, cause you already have your phone and even the 16GB-Version. This one is unavailable here in Germany. Don't know why. Maybe Samsung thinks we are to poor and should save our money for Greece. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ferdimage:
THIS phone is a BEAST with media playback!! its like a mini bluray player!!

yeah it does 720p movies with ease, but waste of space if your just gonna watch on your phone, i understand if you are gonna play it on a HD TV output,..

My method is Rip Bluray into MKV original quality with AC3,

reencode with Xvid4PSP to res 800x448 and at x264 High Profile 3.1 with all high quality settings eg: Cabac etc and boom light size file with SUPERB quality!!

Iphone 4 users will only wish to that they can play MKV on the fly without re encode :P (with 4" and Super Amoled no challenge here)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfary:
there is the usual tv out from the phone from the headset plug.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obispal:
The phone also supports DLNA out, so if you have a ps3 or xbox you should be able to stream things to you tv through that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
and DLNA..... but I haven't tried it so I don't know about the quality. Hope it's HD! :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Straputsky:
I think that's the problem. As I said, it has a variable framerate. That means the framerate goes up to 30fps under some circumstances (afaik when there are fast moves). If the player stays at 24fps, it will loose some frames each time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbr01:
I've been testing DLNA. It works actually pretty good. Just turn on XBMC on your pc, enable DLNA. Get your phone, open DLNA program, select to remotely play your files. Pick your file, pick your XBMC player as station. (must have wifi on off course). And off you go.

720p mkv HD with 5.1DD. Works absolutely perfect. You don't get a preview on your mobilescreen, it's just streaming so 1080 might even work. I have btw an upload of about 1.2 MB/s and download of 2.2 MB/s to my wifi. (3.2Mbit d and 0.5 Mbit up via HSDPA :)).

The only thing that doesn't work properly is to view the videos that were made by GS. It only shows the first seconde or so before it's skips to the next file.

(DLNA works as well for music and photos)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Yah, maybe. But the MediaInfo says your vid have Constant bitrate. Maybe I'll try to look for other Variable Bitrate vids from other subbing groups and test it again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Straputsky:
Wouldn't count on what MediaInfo says. The coder said that he used vfr and videolan also gives some strange results when I look for the codec details. But as it seems, we're not the only one having problems with the new codec. They changed again the framerate. Seems they now use a constant 30fps playback. Would you mind to test it with the new one (episode 456)?

My phone will arrive Saturday or Monday, anyway. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Wow, glad to hear that. I hope you can get it ASAP.. Can you give me the link for the ep456 so i can test it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Straputsky:
Everything is on www.yibis.com (unfortunately most downloadlinks are in the comments at the moment). Here we are:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T96SF7EV
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Hi there, I tried to the video & I hate to say this, the video still stutters. But this might be only for my unit or the Ecclaire build or the FanSub group. Hopefully it'll be fine when you test it on your Galaxy.

Best regards...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vosszaa:
I put about 20 avi and 10 mkv files to the phone to test the playback and I found that 3-4 avi and 1 mkv files will not play(file not supported).

Why is that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Does all your videos have the same codecs? If not, tell us the codecs used for those vids that you cannot play.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vosszaa:
Is there a way that I can check the codec from within the phone? Otherwise I have to wait till I get home and check it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pika007:
I tried uploading some MKV's to my phone, but when i try to play them, it shows the first frame and doesn't do anything.

Anyone got a lead?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Can you post the MediaInfo?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pika007:
There ya go

Complete name : C:\Downloads\[Eclipse] Toaru Majutsu no Index - 22 (1280x720 h264) [14526419].mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 335 MiB
Duration : 23mn 39s
Overall bit rate : 1 982 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2009-03-08 15:00:57
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes / Yes

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.0
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 23mn 39s
Bit rate : 1 825 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.083
Stream size : 302 MiB (90%)
Title : Toaru Majutsu no Index - 22
Writing library : x264 core 67 r1120M 8544346
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=22 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=1825 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : Vorbis
Format settings, Floor : 1
Codec ID : A_VORBIS
Duration : 23mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 160 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 27.1 MiB (8%)
Title : 2.0 Vorbis
Writing library : aoTuV Beta 4.51 (UTC 2005-11-17)
Language : Japanese

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Title : ASS
Language : English

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : SRT
Language : English

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Prologue
00:00:19.900 : en:Opening
00:01:50.000 : en:Toaru Majutsu no Index - 22
00:21:54.700 : en:Ending
00:23:24.700 : en:Preview