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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viper2g1:
I am trying to figure out why in my contacts they about a quarter of them show facebook information with the facebook picture attached to the contact picture, and then the rest of them do not show the facebook picture but when i go into edit on the contact at the bottom shows some information like their full name from facebook, phone number and email, also showing an exclamation point with "Facebook contact information is not editable on this device" which I believe is normal. How would I get this person's picture to show when the phone already thinks the facebook account is joined? Oh and when I try to join it the person does not show up in the join list.

Unrelated question: Does anyone know a fix for slow app scrowling in 2.2 STOCK froyo? the 3D effect is nice but when I had a launcher from the market it would scroll with one swipe of my finger from the top to bottom, now the same swipe would get me just a couple rows down.

Thanks everyone
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blas4me:
Facebook syncing

In facebook people have first and last name, If you want them to sync properly edit the contacts information to match facebook name, and that should clean things up. If not let me know.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamhlj:
Thats the one thing about the HD2 I liked... You can manually match your contacts with your facebook contacts. I don't think you can do that with the N1, unless you know what all of your friends facebook ID numbers are.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viper2g1:
My contacts already are named just as they are in facebook.they have facebook information at the bottom of the edit contacts area. Just no picture.. how do I fix this?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quelltextfabrik:
You can do that with Android, too.

-> Go to contacts

-> Choose the contact you want to assign a Facebook-account to

-> Hit the menu botton and "Edit"

-> While in "edit mode" hit the menu button again and there should be a "Join" button

-> It should suggest some Facebook contacts

Attention! though, some user report, that this can change the name of the contact. Before saving make sure the contact is filed under the name you want (by editing the name if necessary).

You can revert this operation the same way but chose "Seperate" if you joined two contacts that don't fit anymore.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr_Bag:
If the contacts fb info is already linked to the correct contact in your phone book and its just now showing the pic, you can tell google to use it manually by;

- Going to the contact without the image, click in to there contact card and select edit from the menu.

- Then scroll down to the facebook section part of the contact info and click the profile pic shown

- a dialog should show up with the option "Use this photo"

Select that and it *should* add the image as the contacts profile pic.

If its that the accounts simply aren't linking, ensuring they had the same name worked for me, but i imagine if your still having no luck with that, the manual join described by the guy above should do the trick.

Hope that helps
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viper2g1:
Fixed by restoring phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
If you check "use all contacts" in stock phone contacts app, the pictures appear.
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
Does anyone know the radiation (SAR) rating of the HD2? I tried searching, but I didn't find anything.
[HD2 General] spamtrash:
google -> HD2 SAr -> second link = softpedia = 0.631W/Kg...
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
Lmfao, I couldn't resist trying the whole 'Google' thing for myself. :p
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
Thanks. :o
[HD2 General] lude219:
Just say that you're too lazy to Google...

I mean, all you have to do is type in 3 words, HD2+SAr+rating, and you get your answer.
[HD2 General] :
You know what the worse thing is ...

SAR Information

0.631 w/kg @ 10g (Head)

0.725 w/kg @ 10g (Body)

From the HD2 User Manual, Appendix, Page 303 ...

http://www.o2.co.uk/deviceinfo/device-pdfs/htchd2eng.pdf

EDIT:

I meant it was worse, because, you google it and it does not tell you it is in the owner manual either ...
[HD2 General] BumAround:
so is it considered normal or on higher side of the scale?

(yes, too lazy to googling around)
[HD2 General] :
In the United States, the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) requires all cell phones to comply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) SAR limit of 1.6 W/kg in 1g of tissue

Quoted from this site ...

http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/sar.htm
[HD2 General] lude219:
Every country has its own implementation. For instance, the FCC's acceptable SAR rating is different from those in Europe and Asia. Before the mobile world implements the SAR rating, most phones 2-3yrs ago would be around 2w/kg...now two years later, most of the phones are under 1w/kg. The FCC has a maximum SAR rating of 1.6w/kg for mobile phones (and about 2w/kg in EU), so for having .63 is very impressive. As phones progress, expect this number to get lower and lower as technology gets better and better.
[HD2 General] BumAround:
Just the short answer (in bold), please, lude219. It's safe. Thanks. :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wondercoolguy:
Ive read several things on battery consumption and one the things is being in a bad service area. I am currently not in a bad service area (atleast I don't think) but my phone keeps swtiching from 3g to H and then H to 3g. Is this a problem if so what can I do to fix?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpm:
If I look at phone info whilst on 3G, I notice its switching between UMTS and HSPDA. Is the same thing? I also believe that battery life isn't as good as others report. Could this be why?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnoggle:
Your phone's connection idles at 3G and when you make a request, it switches to HSDPA and then retrieves information. It is normal to constantly see it switch between the two if you're using your data.

This is how I always understood it and am pretty confident this is what you are seeing.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temperbad:
I think the phone idles on 3g but when ya use data say in browser it'll kick up to H...

I think idling down to 3g saves power. But I don't like the 1 or 2 seconds at first when ya do data it has to switch to h taking the couple seconds. Now if ya instantly go to another page Its faster cause its on h. But if I wait lime 5 seconds it'll drop back to 3g so next page I go to it'll need to bump to h again...

Annoying but whatever
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wondercoolguy:
well I use juice defendor so when it snaps on when I take it out of sleep it snaps to 3g and then to H. So I'll pay closer attention to see when the phone takes it to 3g vs when it accesses the H.
[General Questions and Answers] ZANIUM:
I am trying to compile android from source and here's my setup : -

-> Ubuntu latest on VirtualBox With all latest updates required from compiling along with source and kernel.

I need to know how to configure android kernel menuconfig for Htc BlueAngel.

Can any one point out some good tutorials for it where I can learn how to compile and configure Android kernel ?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] thefunkaygibbon:
Now there is an update on timescape (which I have only noticed after root) that add the 'themes' option to the menu

This lets us choose out of 5 themes that SE have given us access to.

So, the question is... can we hack in our own background for this theme. I am guessing not as it appears that Timescape now has 5 apks and odex files (one for each theme)

At a guess I would say that we need to build an entirely new version, which won't be possible without the Timescape source code.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] nerrisse:
This makes me sad. I would love to make my own theme for Timescape.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Zeok:
Ive installed the new timesacpe and I have the theme option but its empty, and iveard when your ib widget view mode that you can re agrrenge them and I cant all I can do is shake them any thoughts why?

L
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] chiefy009:
How do I get the update ?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] zax10:
In theory you could take one of those theme apk and try to edit it. Just a theory.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] BAttitude7689:
can anyone upload an .apk of music blaster its not in the market any more and my titantium backup is not working and im going to wipe my phone and flash a new rom but i dont want to loose "music blaster" because it a great app could anyone upload this apk please
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] derekwilkinson:
Just use titanium backup to back it up.
[General Questions and Answers] helix111:
Hi,

This is the first time for me to post a Request, and since my Samsung Intrepid isn't on the list below, I'm posting here. I hope it's not out of order, if it is, then Admin please do not delete, but just move it to the appropriate place and email me as to new location.

I'm running Titanium, and one thing I've been looking for high and low, on this and other forums, is an app that allows me to put the day of the week, in addition to time & date on the taskbar.

Haven't found one yet, which is surprising. Anyone know of one that'd work on Titanium WM 6.5, or can create one? :-)

I'd also like to be able to put the day of the week on the cclock panel on the Today screen, or else have a separate panel that shows time, date, day of week.

Now, I know you can alter the .cpr file, BUT unfortunately I'm not a developer, and don't know what to put in the Titanium xxxx.cpr's at the various resolutions. Also, I'm rather nervous about experimenting here, since these files are in the ROM, and if I screw up my phone in the process, my warranty may be voided.

So, to make a long story short, I'd just like to be able to install another panel, or whatever, something like a Titanium plugin, like notifications, that I can install/uninstall w/o touching the ROM.

Again, I'm rather surprised there isn't anything like these apps to place the day of the week on the taskbar & Today screen. And leave it to MSFT to leave something like this out, ESP since they had it for the previous WM OS's. 8(

Well, that's why I'm posting here. The Xda forum is an invaluable resource, and I've learned a lot lurking and reading thru some of the incredibly long threads.

Any help for my 2 requests would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] helix111:
No response?

I'm surprised there isn't any response or interest.

Well, I found battclock, Zuinige's excellent program, to take care of the day on

the taskbar, but nothing for on the Titanium Today screen.

There is canalog clock, but it's way too big fot my blackberry sized screen on my wm samsung intrepid.

I was hoping someone would have some suggestions, or maybe develop a cclock panel alternative not as huge as canalog, or digital like cclock with thday and date thrown in.

I found coding suggestions for modifying the titanium.cpr, but they're all different and 2 are for the Hero, so that's a deadend.

I know there are a lot of developers on this board; I'm just surprised no one's come up with an "enhanced" cclock.

Anyway, just a request, if anyone'd care to help. Thanks
[Desire General] robnil:
Hi

I cant find any documentation on if google maps for android actually works with compass mode?
[Desire General] ferus:
Do you mean that the 2D map view should rotate according to your position?

As far as I know the compass only works in StreetView mode (and then of course in Google Goggles app).

Although I might be entirely wrong :)
[Desire General] :
yes compass mode works but the map doesnt rotate. the blue triangle rotates.
[Desire General] robnil:
oww... that sucks a bit doesnt it? Should be fairly easy to make the map rotate... but its better than nothing i guess. On my blackstone I have to move 10 meter in quick pace to get a gps-bearing... quite anoying when your on foot
[EVO 4G General] jasongthang:
I went to upgrade handcent yesterday, and I get the error "installation error insuffficient storage available."

I don't have apps2sd or anything. Just rooted with a stock rom. I went through my sd card and phone to find all traces of a handcent file, including com.handcent.nextsms, and deleted, but still doesn't work.

Any other ideas?
[EVO 4G General] goose61282:
I'm running DC 2.2.2 and just started having the same trouble. With any apps not just handcent. I rebooted the phone to no avail. I'm also not using App2sd.
[Touch HD General] Nenor:
As the title says. Installed the latest version of CHT and now I want to uninstall it. It hangs the phone on both the program uninstall screen and also when it asks me to uninstall "older" version if i try to install CHT again. How do I completely remove it manually? I deleted all CHT files in the windows dir as well as all registry settings matching co0kie and it still detects it and won't uninstall. Please help!
[Touch HD General] clc:
I ran into the exact same problem. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks.
[Desire Themes and Apps] roakes:
Are there any 4x4 photo frame widgets available? Can't seem to find one trying to sift through the amount of porn apps that are on there cluttering it all up.

I just want a nice big 4x4 photo on one of my home screens, any ideas?

Thanks

Russ
[Desire Themes and Apps] Necroman_AI:
HTC Sense have a photo widget for that...
[Desire Themes and Apps] roakes:
Not a 4x4 one?
[Desire Themes and Apps] hikki6139:
May be a little later XD

You can try this.
[Desire Themes and Apps] aso1:
nice topic
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stewie-droid:
This question is for developers. Can devs replace crappy compression codec on Evo recording cam to record with h.264 to improve quality of vids we shoot by far. Current cam codec is SO bad that 720p does no justice for the cam. Basically in my view camcorder is useless. H.264 would change the whole game for this phone. Would love to see the rom with h.264 video camera codec. Would any shead some light on this ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkrechel:
they cant do a whole lot with any camera settings till the source kernal is released. Who knows when that will be heh
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Petronic:
Do you even know what the current cam codec is?

It's MPEG-4 Part 2 (generally referred to as "MPEG-4"), which is most commonly known for it's implementations in divx/xvid.

It's not as trendy as H.264 (aka MPEG-4 Part 10 and/or AVC), but generally quality isn't what people take issue with when choosing h.264 over MP4 - it's filesize. When you get into higher resolutions with higher bit-depths, being able to compress a stream allows you to work around issues with slow write speeds.

I think you really aren't familiar with video encoding or codecs in general. You should educate yourself a bit more before announcing that a simple codec change will resolve the camera woes with the Evo.

h.264 is currently patent encumbered, which is part of why you don't see it implemented so widely.

Swapping out the codec isn't going to be a magic fix to improve this camera. It's limited by it's very design. Consider the 720p video a novelty and try to only shoot in situations with lots of ambient light and it'll be far more usable.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexgrip:
I agree with you. But x.264 is not involved in any patent issues, is free, and works very will with the best container format available to date... mkv.

Now the phone will do hardware decoding of x/h.264 but you are right, I don't see any advantage other than the smaller file size. You are right again, on one of those P labeled cams the h.264 stream is much smaller than that of mpeg-2/dvd or others so it works well on those crappy hardware writers.

Changing the encoding profile of this camera would not fix your issues OP.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stewie-droid:
I've never seen bad quality from h.264 codec but then again i agree i have not research enough on the codecs comparison enough but that's why i'm asking. I just know it looks horrible. Somehow camera pics are acceptable. Thank you for the input.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neodorian:
I could encode an h.264 video in a low bitrate and low resolution and it would look bad. The codec is only one factor involved in the end result. Different codecs can squeeze better quality video into a smaller file size but it comes at the expense of CPU use and other bottlenecks. In this case I don't think the choice of codec is what is holding back the video. It's probably more about processing power and overall architecture.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amdchip:
I'm not sure that implementing x.264 compression for the EVO would solve anything. From my experience in order to have better quality with h.264 over h.263 it requires much more processing power due to the higher compression complexity.. This would all have to be done real time by the phone.

With the great hardware being sported by the EVO I wonder if a more unorthodox approach could be implemented to attain the highest quality possible.

How about this:

Capture video using a real time lossless compression. Maybe huffyuv?

Once captured let the phone recompress the source to x.264 or whatever via a background service or at a scheduled time like 3am or something

Maybe via this method a higher frame rate could even be achieved?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Petronic:
Uncompressed 720p@24p with 8-bit color would be something like 45MB/s. (That's excluding audio.)

No current SD card supports those write speeds.

I'm not sure that you could losslessly compress it down to something that'd support even a class 6 card.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amdchip:
Eeeeek!!

I checked it out and you are right on the money.

(8 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 105 MB per/sec) / (2.33:1 huffyuv) = 45.06

Still I wonder if better video quality could be achieved via a capture now (large file size) compress later (small file size) solution.

Certainly, considering your well taken point, we would need to keep things within the requirements of the EVO's hardware (sd card included). Probably would need to keep the data rates within the EVO's stock microsd specifications in order for it to be viable for everyone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billobob:
The iPhone 4 can record in h.264 and its processor isnt *that* much more powerful than Snapdragon (and the camera is similar--same company, same sensor size, same features, just 5MP instead of 8MP). What it comes down to is lazy coding by HTC
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calkulin:
I don't know if you guys have looked in the build.prop file but the settings are in there. I just don't have alot of time to play with them but here's what's inside. Sprint/HTC changed the line in 1.47,ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps, to 8000000 from 6000000 on 1.32, so I'm guessing that's how they upped the Mbits in the upgrade. I could be wrong and the change may need to be in the kernel also but play with them and see.

#
# This file describes the media capabilities and profiles
# using system properties.
#
# Note: The property key and value has some length
# limit as defined by PROPERTY_KEY_MAX and
# PROPERTY_VALUE_MAX, respectively
#
# WARNING: We may not use system properties for specifying
# media capabilities and profiles in the future
#
ro.media.enc.file.format = 3gp,mp4
ro.media.enc.vid.codec = m4v,h263
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.width = 176,1280
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.height = 144,720
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.bps = 64000,6000000
ro.media.enc.vid.h263.fps = 1,30
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.width = 176,1280
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.height = 144,720
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps = 64000,8000000
ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.fps = 1,30

#
# Increase SKIA decode memory capability for progressive jpg file
#
ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap	= 20000000
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLAofficial:
I may not be a...

developer but when you are talking about codec you are talking my language (I am an editor). H264 isn't that great itself and won't make the EVO's footage look any better yeah you get some more detail out of the H264 but the real reason the camera doesn't look as good is the variable fps in different lighting conditions. The variable kills it. The cam should be fixed at 24fps or 30fps. If that can be done you will see a major difference. I'm not sold on the white balance either. Also I would love to have h264 but the difference in the two is compression. H264 is better but again FPS is key.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dougie2187:
I agree as well as most of the other people that h.264 won't help by itself.

Though one thing it would help with is allowing to bump up to a higher bit rate and or FPS and still maintain speeds sufficient for Class 2 SD cards. So, even though it won't do anything by itself, it will help in that you could in theory record higher quality video to your phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunYunZ:
Das troo, I emailed Omnivision about the issue, they said that their Evo is great there, and that I should contact HTC about it and had said they created the driver/software for it.

"Hi Steve,

I’m sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues video performance. The HTC EVO we have here works great. OmniVision only makes the sensor. HTC makes the drivers and software that run the sensor. Unfortunately, you will need to contact them with any issues.

Sorry, I couldn’t be more help.

Scott"

Then I had asked them if they have any samples they used. And sent me a video they just recorded.

"We just went outside and took this simple video. Hope it helps.

Scott"

Currently uploading right now, i'll edit the link.

EDIT: here you go

bit.ly/c0lwOb

What do you guys think?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Holyrolla:
Not able to post links yet I'm guessing. Just type it out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunYunZ:
you don't see the link? its a bit[dot]ly link. But yea i can't post links yet, so I used the URL shortening.

bit[dot]ly/ c0lwOb
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Holyrolla:
That video is pretty clear, but jumpy as well (expected). Wondering if they tweaked it or installed the OTA update on it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunYunZ:
Thats what I wondered to, but I guess not.

We are using one of our employees phones he bought from Sprint. All of the drivers and software are stock and from HTC.

Scott
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mecha2142:
Good god, that video sample is hideous! Look at this video comparison done between the Evo and the iPhone 4 in the exact same scene. There's just no competition between the two.

[youtube]zruAaXHkiF4[/youtube]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raadius:
Good god, our Evo sucks mighty ass in the 720p category.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stewie-droid:
Indeed sir! In my opinion video cam is pretty useless with what it puts out.

Iphone4 was good enough. Colors and contracts were ok and it look good.

Evo has good specs camera and everything points to software/codec.

I wish one of the devs would experiment with it. BTW someone mentioned that kernel source code is needed for that!? Is that going to be released at some point?

How does obtaining source code for kernel works? BTW we would need that also for fixing camera on overclocked/underclocked kernels.