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[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I'm a former desire owner and very dissappointed GS owner. How have you found this device compared to desire? My experience has been one of great dissappointed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lyno:
I'm totally the opposite!

I love the screen, the video capability and the overall performance.

totally wipes the floor with my desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I take it you have issue with the lag ging freeze, ram issue, or gps?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lyno:
I've been using it intensely, running all sorts of apps and 720 videos and as of yet, no lagging.

What's the RAM issue?

Not tried GPS yet, will do today.

What about the apps that don't appear?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AshMa:
This is driving me crazy! I keep checking out these forums, trying to figure out what problems are really going on with this device and it's insane how some folks are having issues that if are real, should be happening to all but that doesn't seem to be the case. I have an iPhone 4 and although it's nice, it's lacking in so many features I would call basic. I also have an Evo that has build quality issues but overall performs well. I hate the looks of the Droid X and so I'm trying to decide on the SGS, Evo and iPhone 4.

Going to check out the Captivate today in store and really give it some testing and look for some of the issues mentioned on this forum.......
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trinikartel:
Here's an issue that no one mentions but is definitely prevalent. Not all headphones with inline mic work on the SGS. I got pissed that my vmoda vibe duo sounded like pure crap but the headphones included worked fine. After a quick forum search I found out that alot of users experience this problem and as far as I know, there's no way to "know" which headphones (with inline mic) will work for sure. There's a "dirty fix" which is to tape down the talk button on the mic but i'd rather not have to deal with that.

I told my bud working at AT&T to check to see if the Captivate has that problem but he only had access to the stock headphones at the time...I'll update if he confirms or denies the same issue on the Captivate
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
Not sure if you have flashed a new ROM yet but this sounds like you cannot see protected apps (some, but far from all paid apps are protected). Could you post your ROM versions (dial *#1234# to see them). If this is an issue with the protected apps, there is a solution in my FAQ thread.

I personally find it impressive that you got Kies to recognize your phone correctly in Windows 7 x64. I have done everything short of a complete Windows reinstall. So far without success. I personally find it one of the biggest shortcomings of Samsung regarding this phone. Software support this crappy belongs in the previous century and is simply ridiculous in the year 2010!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dakine:
Im using win7 x64 and kies works ok. I had to install twice because the first time i plugged the phone in too soon and that fubarred the driver install.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AshMa:
I guess I'll add this to the list of things to consider when testing the Captivate. It really seems like there are people who get the device and don't want to hear about problems like parents who don't want to hear about their children doing wrong. Every device has some type of problems but there should be no issues with talking about any problems in a place like this......
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
So first of all about Kies ... it is not really supporting the android phone if I undesrtood well

For instance the samsung app are not android app

That's why it say's that your phone is not recognized

I think we will have to wait for a new version of Kies

On my side it doens't work on my vista 32 but it doens on another desktop on vista 64.

I already re installed the soft 3 time but still have the problem of MTP failed ( and WM11 doens't work neither )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Insin:
I had no problems with Kies in Win7 x64 and identifying my device.

I have a problem with Kies in general. It sucks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmackem:
win7 64 and kies worked ok for me on me laptop and desktop. but your right it is pants!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] johnsonab:
I haven't really used Kies yet. What is it supposed to do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trinikartel:
Yeah I know what you mean. Tested the vibrant today with iphone headphones and they didn't have the same issue. I showed the chick working at the t-mobile store what I meant with my own phone and she was pretty surprised at that problem.

My at&t bud told me he told his product manager and she tested it and it was fine. He's gonna personally test it tomorrow as well.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mordok19:
Hi, I've tried rooting my phone using the guide on xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480 When it gets to the end it just say's Update Terminate, Update Fail . Now when I restart the phone it goes to a multi colored screen. Is there any way I can solve this?.

Thanks

Mordok19
[Desire General] codeXcalibur:
why do you start two threads about the same topic?!!
[Desire General] killerkilley:
oops didn't mean to, computer was being slow so pressed refresh

sorry all

:rolleyes:
[Desire General] killerkilley:
p.s thanks alot im on it now with the website you gave

thanks again
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMind76:
Hello, i would like to know iof its possible to run htc sense on mey omnis 2 and how can i do it. Is it also possible to change the OS from windows mobile 6.5 to android, or the new samsung bada? again, how can i do it.

thanx.

TheMind
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gianni8:
hi. sorry for my bad english. i'm looking for a topaz rom with the zoom in manila, the one with the lens in the top bar. someone help me?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !Aman!:
just try the available roms here and u'll find urself
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yonu:
please delete wrong sub-forum
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Have spent a bit more time working on Live Wallpapers, and the newest one pulls your album art and shows it on the home screen, a bit like the screensaver OS X comes with.

Features:

* Accesses your Android album art library (if you see it in Music Player, you see it here...)

* Shuffle feature

* Compatible with LauncherPro

* Very fast (approx 0.5 seconds on first load)

* Smooth scrolling between screens

* Periodically changes individual covers

* Opaque setting to make pale text easier to read.

Update:

Thanks to the team of beta testers who did a great job helping me identify bugs and implement a few new features. The Album Art Live Wallpaper is now released to the Market for 99p, and a demo is also available for free.

Album Art Live Wallpaper

Album Art Live Wallpaper (Demo)

Free copies:

If you encounter a serious problem in the demo (for example, it won't load on your phone) and you work with me to fix it by sending a log entry etc, you get to keep a free copy. ;-)

Update v1.1 (16/07/10):

Just uploaded version 1.1 to the Market. Amongst other fixes this addresses an issue where incomplete album art collections resulted in a large number of grey Android tiles (missing artwork) showing on the home screen. The app will now make 10 attempts to find a replacement tile before giving up and moving on.

Update v1.2 (19/07/10):

Various bug fixes; possible solution for Droid users ("Use internal storage" option), greyscale rendering.

Download the demo below or on the Android Market. It's only 99p and took a huge amount of time and effort to get to this point, so if you like it, please buy it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] yayramen:
It looks snazzy enough, I wouldn't mind being a beta tester.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dudebro:
I would really like to try this out. I put a lot of music on my phone to listen to frequently.

wouldn't mind being a beta tester for you if you need anymore.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Scridgeon:
I would love to help test as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] imfloflo:
I'm in to be a beta tester for this awesome project.

an option to specify a folder from gallery will be awesome too.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] JupiterDroid:
PM'ed you mate;)

JD
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Wisefire:
Sign me up! I love my music, and I would love seeing it everywhere else! :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MvP77:
This is why i love the zune player on windows, i love seeing the all my album art as the music plays. Great idea!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gtrplr71:
sign me up looks great!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Amdathlonuk:
I'll be a beta tester!!

Still trying to find a 250Gb SD card to fit all my music on :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mahleek20:
Would love to be a beta!!! Sign me up!!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sputnik99:
only two testers? Let me be no. 3.

errh... waited to long, now I am not no. 3 anymore.

Anyway...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kitsunisan:
Are you guys just posting here, or pm'ing him? He did specify a pm to let him know. Just checking. ;) Also, let him know about your phone, what kind it is(most likely N1 if you're reading this thread), what rom you're running(which I forgot to do, it's Cyanogen 5.0.8), and what kind of home you have, I'm sure he'd want to see a wide mix of home replacements to see if any of them have any issues.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] leyvatron:
+1 on picking the folder to display.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cdw9800:
count me in this looks nice
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] AbsoluteDesignz:
I'm down for whatever...count me in.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stibbs:
Let me know how that works out for you lol

I'm interested in beta testing also.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] doaneramma:
Me too!

+1 tester here, sounds like a phenomenal idea!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rammaggot:
I wanna be a beta tester too ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Dallas Johnson:
count me in too!

also another idea would be to have this

as a background to the waveform live wallpaper

that would be sick when listening to music :]
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Crussader:
how is the battery life impact?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
@CEDude - Negligible. If you turn off auto-refresh it should use no more battery than a static wallpaper, and even with auto-refresh on it's only re-drawing a single tile at a time, not the whole wallpaper, so again, minimal impact.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Thanks to everyone who got in touch asking to help beta test - it was rather like being buried in a sea of email...

I've now found some beta testers who should all have received a copy of the app by now, although I'll make sure that everyone who contacted me gets a personal reply.

One suggestion that came up several times was for Now Playing album art to be highlighted. This is technically possible, but it uses an unpublished interface to do so which is frowned upon by Google. I say frowned upon, since you'd be booted from the Apple App Store for doing this. How about as a "use at your own risk" feature in the next version?

Cheers,

Dave.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Apaca1ypse:
Beta testers

Still looking for beta testers? I keep a TON of music on my phone. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] :
No i dont think he is,

I was the forth reply and he still nailed me;)

Just gonna have to wait for the app now mate....

JD
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Crussader:
just what I thought... just wanted to be sure of it :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Break Action:
Can i be your tester?!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Update:

Thanks to the team of beta testers who did a great job helping me identify bugs and implement a few new features. The Album Art Live Wallpaper is now released to the Market for 99p, and a demo is also available for free.

Album Art Live Wallpaper

Album Art Live Wallpaper (Demo)

Free copies:

If you encounter a serious problem in the demo (for example, it won't load on your phone) and you work with me to fix it by sending a log entry etc, you get to keep a free copy. ;-)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mobilehavoc:
Doesn't appear to work on stock Droid Incredible. All my music has cover art but this can't seem to pull it, just shows grey androids. Would be cool if it worked. Might have to do with Sense I suppose.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] karyney:
Scanned the barcode with my stock Droid, didn't find it in the market. Also did an actual manual search for it and came up empty-handed. Was really looking forward to checking it out too. :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bmullis:
Like her said tried scanning it and searching for it manually was unable to find it
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] doaneramma:
Few things

OK, so far loving it. But I had a couple of suggestions.

First, why not have the covers have a flip or fade transition in stead of just changing. How much more process/power could this use? Just to add some animation to the whole thing.

I also noticed that the center verticle seam is not quite centered. I know its a nit-pick kinda issue, but its enough to bug me. This only seems to be in portrait because its great in landscape. PS: Using ADW, Weather Widget and Retro Widgets.

There was something else but I'm too tired to remember. Here is a couple screen shots.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] faizalmzain:
it doesn't seem to display all my album arts, just a few only.

is it because the limitation of demo version?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Crussader:
is there a way I can get it through Paypal? :( I can't buy it from the market
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
ARGH! What is it with the blasted Android Market and Live Wallpapers? As a developer, it's impossible to take Google seriously as a competitor to Apple when they ignore huge issues like this.

More sensible answers:

I've attached the demo APK to this post, so you'll at least know if it works on your phone.

You're more than welcome to buy through PayPal - david [at] pocketgamer [dot] org. If you cut and paste a copy of the transaction into a private message, I'll build you a version of the full version with your name in it and email it over.

Missing album art:

The app uses the Android Mediastore library to find its album art. If you use a different player, that's fine, but you'll need to open the default Android player at least once and let it index your collection. They restart the Live Wallpaper.

Cheers,

David.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Break Action:
Please make option to make wallpaper black-n-white.

With Great Regards
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mobilehavoc:
I don't believe the default music player is available on HTC Sense devices which means this won't work on the Desire, Hero, Evo, Incredible, Legend, etc...

If that's the case, you should add this comment to the app description. Uninstalling.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] imfloflo:
@mobilehavoc Have you try the album grabber apk from the market to retrieve album covert art
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
MobileHavoc - the testers on the Evo and Desire phones reported no problems. I believe the HTC version stores the album art in the same place (it should do, it's where Google specify it should go), but players like DoubleTwist work differently.

I do say in the description that if you work with me to get it working instead of leaving a negative comment, you get a free copy of the fixed, full version. So far it appears to have worked well and I'm getting a lot more feedback than any of my other apps did.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kitsunisan:
I've been testing it on some of the older home replacements out there, Bettercut has some lag, but no real issues. DX Top works fine as long as you don't use the cube or fade transitions, if you do, you'll see slowdown when switching to a screen with widgets. No force closes on either of them though.

Man, I had no idea how much DX Top has changed, it looks pretty good. Sticking with adw of course, but its stepped up a bit.

I am seeing one thing on the wallpaper though, I have a couple of blank spaces on it. I should have more than enough album covers to fill everything, but I still get three or four funky squares with it set to medium.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mobilehavoc:
I'm happy to work with you to get it to work but I don't see what it I can do. I have a HTC Sense 2.1 device, my music has album art, it's there in the HTC Music player and everything else works great. I wasn't trying to be negative, just saying that unless you change your app/wallpaper it's not going to work because I can't really change it on my side.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Update v1.1 (16/07/10):

Just uploaded version 1.1 to the Market. Amongst other fixes this addresses an issue where incomplete album art collections resulted in a large number of grey Android tiles (missing artwork) showing on the home screen. The app will now make 10 attempts to find a replacement tile before giving up and moving on.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Demo v1.1.2 uploaded

Buy link fixed (d'oh).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] imfloflo:
What is the changelog of this 1.1.2 version please. No more beta test version in PM for new feature ?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Aladar42:
I dunno, it works weird.

Running the demo version here, and, while admittedly I have only about ~15 covers in the phone, it just displays about 4 or 5 all over again, so some of them are there 6 times, while some only once..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Only change is a spelling mistake fixed. :-)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oklahomatulsa:
Hell yeah...Sign me up Please. I would love to take part. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Break Action:
Please make grayscale drawing, like in standart Music software background, when selecting theme in album.

With Great Regards.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] manyoshu:
Got it working on my Incredible

Okay guys, I REALLY enjoy this wallpaper and I wanted it to work so much on my phone that I did extensive experimentation on it (at my place of work, no less - luckily I work in tech support) and after it all, I got it to work! I'm an avid reader of these forums, but I wanted to share my findings - this is a N1 forum, I know, but perhaps this information can be put into the DInc section as well.

I'm not a beta tester or anything, but like I said, this is a live wallpaper that I could totally get behind, so I did whatever I could to make it work.

I did my research on what makes album art tick, finding that embedding the album art into the songs is apparently the easiest way to ensure success with music players and the like. With that in mind, I did work on cleaning up my tags and used any programs to embed album art into them. That was the first step.

1. Embed album art into tags / clean up your tags

After that, I noticed that my phone would not find all the album art, and that if I deleted the files from the 'albumthumbs' folder in the phone, the results would be erratic at best (i.e. other art comes up, but not the ones that came up before). I don't have too much music on my phone - maybe a dozen albums at best - but I did finally think that my folder structure was making it hard on the DInc to find my album art (it was MP3/artist/album/song.mp3) With my tags all cleaned up, I figured that if I just put all the music files into the MP3 folder straight, then maybe it would help.

2. Put music files straight into MP3 without folder hierarchy

But before I could see if my results would yield success, I noticed one final thing. Aside from the tip above, this is, in my opinion, the most important part of making this work. BOTH the SD card and the internal phone memory had their own 'MP3' and 'albumthumbs' folders. I thought maybe this would make things problematic. With my music in the SD card, I decided to delete the two folders from the internal memory.

3. Delete MP3 / albumthumbs folders from the memory opposite your music

After all that, I gave it one last try and there was all my album art, making a functional and very aesthetically pleasing wallpaper for my phone. I do have repeating album art, but that's likely due to my smaller number of albums, so it's nothing for me to really worry about.

I love this live wallpaper and I hope all this information helps anyone with an Incredible, who wants to get this particular wallpaper working! Music lovers, this is the LWP for you.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alvinleephd:
would be interested in the beta if its still open
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alvinleephd:
i have a ton of music but it's only showing grey droids for me..

using N1 stock froyo frf91
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Update 19/07/10:

The developer interface to the Android Market is down at the moment (real professional, Google...) but version 1.2 is ready to roll.

Changes:

* Greyscale rendering added (on request). Looks very cool IMHO.

* Support for users with music in Internal Memory (Droid Incredible users?). Google gives absolutely no info on how this is meant to work, which has made it a nightmare to troubleshoot.

I originally assumed that users saw their 4GB of internal storage as a pseudo-SD card, but obviously not. There's now a setting in the options menu to enable this. The Incredible users I contacted didn't reply when I asked them to test it, so I have no idea whether it works or not. Sorry.

Notes to users:

* I spent a lot of time experimenting with playing an album when the cover is double-tapped. Sadly, this is impossible at the moment without manually indexing the music library.

* A few requests from users for the time between updates to be increased. The album art is only updated when the wallpaper is visible (as per Google guidelines), so it seemed a bit pointless to extend it past a minute.

* I've had a few emails asking me to remove the demo tag in the demo, and suggesting I move to a "donate" attitude. Considering the grand total of $11.47 I achieved for my last wallpaper, this isn't going to happen in the near future.

If it works for you, and you like it, please buy it! It took a lot of time and effort to get to this point.

The update will be added the moment the developer console comes back online.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zaapx:
i would really like to buy it, but in mexico i cannot access paid apps...

is there any way to buy via paypal and download it from my computer?

thanks in advance
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Break Action:
David Horn

Thank you for Grayscale Rendering! COOL!

PS: Already bought, waiting for the new version.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Thanks Break Action - version 1.2 is now on the Market.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nobnoobody:
I would like to purchase this LWP but it does not appear in the market for me.

Motorola Droid

CyanogenMod6-07162010-NIGHTLY-Droid

FRF84B

Froyo obviously.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ganstakillerz:
Cool theme I like the idea.

Just wondering how easy is it to create an add-on or separate theme which selects random pictures kept on the phone e.g. holiday snaps kept in a photo directory on the phone?

Would be cool to have a photo montage of favourite pictures as well as album covers.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] barroomhero:
This is a great idea!

Do you think it would be possible to pull from last.fm data?

I don't keep a lot of music on my phone, so it would probably look kind of boring. haha.

Just an idea...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] meanderingmark:
Hi David,

I've just tried out the demo wallpaper on my HTC Desire. Although I love the wallpaper, it is a bit too "busy" and makes it hard to see my icons and widgets. I tried using the opaque mode but it didn't seem to make much difference. Maybe you could allow varying degrees of opacity?

I'd post screen shots but my phone is stock (un-rooted).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] David Horn:
Hi Mark,

There are varying degrees of opacity; under "Enable Opacity" in the settings, choose "Opacity Level". I find that greyscale rendering with medium opacity provides a good readability compromise.

Cheers,

Dave.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dudebro:
just wanna say the last update fixed my force closes when enabling and disabling opacity... thanks and looking forward to future updates.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] meanderingmark:
ha ha doh! that's much better. love it. i'll buy the full version now. thanks!