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[EVO 4G General] Gregalous:
AFAIK, there is a Voice Dialer app and a Voice Search app. Voice Search seems to work great, Voice Dialer, not so much. If you don't have the newest version of Voice Search, go to the Market and search Voice Search (it's the app by Google, Inc.)
[EVO 4G General] dodgeboy:
You are correct--they are separate apps. The Voice Search app actually sends the audio to google, and their servers (which evidently are far more accurate than the phone) transcribes it into text for searching. The voice dial app doesn't send the audio up, and it sucks nuts.

Dave
[Desire General] rock_80:
I recently followed the unrevoked guide to root my phone and put on the clockworkmod custom recovery image (for slcd http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=748618). Everything appeared to go smooth, unrevoked said it was a success, been using it for a few hours now and all of a sudden it wont boot sits at the htc screen, I also can't boot into recovery mode (shows a black line at the top of the screen then powers down). Its a brand new telus desire. Anyone know where i go from here to trouble shoot this/reset the device.

last thing I did was copy over a froyo rom to the sd card and try to install it using clockworks rom tools from the sd card, however that process just rebooted my phone. So i assume it didnt do anything.
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Ill try and update this post as soon as i see birdman put out his supposed lag fix for the x. If someone beats me to it feel free to post.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] ixobelle:
the heartbreak Kid.

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[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Lol lol use to worship that guy. Alldroid claims that they have access to a developer droid x that may hold the key to unlocking te bootloader, looking foe donations to buy, may be the best chance that we have. Everyone please head to

www.alldroid.org come on

What's ten bucks gonna do to anyone? I want this ***** unlocked.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] suzook:
What lag?????
[Droid X General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
I solved the Lag problem within a few days.

Dump Blur, Load ADW.Launcher. No Lag.
[Droid X General] HostileJava:
Yes, what lag problem?
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Don't know, i would assume lockscreen, the only place where there is lag. As well as the app menu.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] Enndr:
Yup.. I use LauncherPro and most of the lag issues have gone. No lag from desktop to desktop (7 in use) and no lag in the app drawer (5 across).
[Droid X General] Roland Deschain:
The "lag" is due to a lack of caching by the native UI. Use LauncherPro and you can have it cache everything, and you're good to go.
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
I didn't start the new to topic as to say that i have lag, just that whatever he had coming shud b cool. Sorry guys didn't mean to mislead

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] iamrobk:
Yeah, I just stopped using Blur and use LauncherPro and the device is as fast as I could ever want it to be. FroYo will make this thing perfect (or at least good enough for the next 22 months or so until I have an upgrade :D)
[Droid X General] metalheadzaid:
I sincerely hope it's somehow related to the recent Galaxy S "lag fix", that made quadrant scores go from 800-900 to 2000-2200 =O

droiddog.com/android-blog/2010/08/galaxy-s-lag-fix-makes-phones-fly/

Oh, how happy I would be.
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Yes that's what i was referring to originally, hoping for something similar to the galaxy s lag fix.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Saw where D2 got 1458 in quadrant. Granted when i first tested my x it got 670 and went way up after thy so maybe that was just abad run. But if that's all the increase we get from froyo ill b pissed considering every other phone tripled or quadrupled its score. That would be freaking ridiculous.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] suzook:
The dev X got over 1500 with 2.2....and thats with dev apps running on it...so we should see atleast that or better than that. You have to keep in mind the x and droid2 are spec'd similar.
[Droid X General] hijackerjack:
What the hell are you talking about? lol. It got ~800 LOL.
[Droid X General] drew630:
800 on 2.2 with JIT enabled?? I doubt that. Maybe on 2.2 without JIT
[Droid X General] NegativeOne:
A question on this note...

What exactly do you mean by getting rid of blur, and what is involved? Sorry, noob here, but I'm trying to learn...
[Droid X General] iamrobk:
There was a screenshot where someone (presumably someone testing 2.2) did Quadrant and got an 800. if it's legit, it was probably just JIT wasn't enabled and the developer stuff was on.
[Droid X General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
Well, you don't really "dump" blur, you just load/use another home/launcher.

In the market you will want to look at adw.launcher and launcher pro. There are others, but I think these 2 are the most popular around here.

Once you install it, you can make it the default home launcher when you press the home key.

Some remnants of blur will still be there (It's probably going to be a little bit longer before someone figures how to completely extract blur without breaking the phone).

The alternate launchers do a better job of caching data in the app drawer and widgets, so the tend to run smoother/faster.
[Vibrant General] GameOver69:
Hey I was wondering what you guys thought was a great alternative to the stock Samsung music apparently. I'm looking for something that is very functional but is also very sleek and stylish. Also hopefully it comes with a widget as well. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks
[Vibrant General] talltexan:
theres always tunewiki
[Vibrant General] }{Alienz}{:
I would say MixZing. It is not the "sleekest" looking but it certainly is the best-SOUNDING. It has a full 10-band EQ with each band customizable to 12.0db. It also creates playlists based on what you are currently listening to and can get album art/info automatically + suggest new music you may not have. It has a lock screen widget for changing music without unlocking the phone (or you can use a separate program which allows you to switch the song by shaking your phone, even when off). Finally, the developers are VERY friendly and receptive to support and suggestions and are actively working to improve it.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
3 by filipe abrantes
[Vibrant General] Freedomcaller:
i use one i wrote, but it tottaly sux...
[Vibrant General] CappyQ:
The CyanogenMod Music application. Download CM5 for Nexus One, and install the Music.APK. Awesome look, nice standard functionality and excellent widgets.
[Vibrant General] os2baba:
Just out of curiosity, what is it about the stock music app that you don't like. I have tried a lot of music apps on the G1, but the stock one on the Vibrant is the best one I have used.
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
On the G1 and the Cliq I used MixZing and I thought it was great. At this point I'm using the stock player, seems to work pretty good. I would use MixZing or DoubleTwist, I've heard good things about that player.
[Vibrant General] ytj87:
+1 for the stock Vibrant music app.
[Vibrant General] zerosource:
The thing is that most of lyrics apps don't support this stock music player.

I tried Mixzing but I like 3 (cubed player).
[Vibrant General] moddin:
meridian is pretty good. the headset controlls work for it.
[Vibrant General] jkcheng122:
I'm using MixZing, Cubed (3) and Stock player each had one problem I can't stand.

On the Cubed: it keeps recreating/duplicating my playlists, making several copies of each m3u list I have except only the last entry is useable.

On Stock: m3u files not recognized.
[Vibrant General] 98classic:
+1 for tunewiki, auto lyrivs and cover art download, widget looks ugly and no lockscreen controls though
[Vibrant General] atljogger:
One reason not to use the stock player is that it can't sort music by artist once your music library gets above a certain size. There is a thread in the Captivate section about this "Music Player -Not enough space in Music Database"
[Vibrant General] southpaw773:
none of this would be a problem if google would get with the program. if the music player in android 3 is the same as android 1 then i hope someone slaps google with a wet noodle.
[Vibrant General] liverpoolfchero:
I just use Real player, works great for music, videos and pics, cant go wrong :)
[Vibrant General] PathogenX:
Doubletwist is really good
[Vibrant General] superchi:
I like MixZing mainly because it automatically retrieves album art and it has a decent widget. It also sorts music very well for me and the lockscreen widget is something I use a lot. My only gripe is that it's not very good looking.
[General Questions and Answers] sugaman1:
I have a question regarding the notification you get when your phone is locked. When your screen goes blank or turned off, when you bring the screen back on and you have a missed a call it shows on the screen. I have turned off all notifications that I know off. My question is, is there anyway I can turn this notification off also. Thanks for any responses.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] samo_nz:
WIFI Controlled by location, eg. You select area's on Google maps for wifi coverage, wifi is turned on only for these locations and off elsewhere, saving battery.

If latitude is used then could location data be used from that service?

What do you think?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chopes:
I would love something like this. Had a feeling something existed already but I can't find it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xxmonsterx:
check out locale
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pakraider:
There's a free app already that does this--Y5 Battery Saver

Very buggy though when I tried it, so it wasn't usable.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] antikryst:
i use locale for this. though i installed a cell plugin so it doesnt need gps to be on.

basically, it turns on wifi when im home and turns it off when i leave. apart from that... i also have locale turn off almose everything + brightness to 0% when i hit 30% battery.

lastly, i also have locale turn off syncing at night to squeeze in some more juice during the day without having to charge.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] harmohn:
'Tasker' is good at this and then some!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ImSoHungry:
Couldn't have said it better, better yet, I have it set to turn wifi on at home and then when not home it turns wifi on for a minute every 15 minutes to check and if it recognizes a familiar SSID, it will connect!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] harmohn:
...nice setup mate :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyItsLou:
Does anyone have a work around for the 30 fps cap the Incredible has on the GPU?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
What 30fps cap?

More like, it just doesn't have enough balls to hit 30+ fps, most the time ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyItsLou:
hahaha true true. I've read that HTC has capped the EVO and the Incredible at 30fps on the GPU.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
No, just the Evo. Something to do with HDMI.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyItsLou:
I would expect a higher quadrant score with the 1ghz processor the Droid X almost puts up the same numbers and it's running 2.1.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
The GPU is making up for it. Quadrant is very GPU oriented.

That and the OMAP is faster. So its a lose-lose situation for us. The GPU in the X walks all over ours.

Kind of like integrated graphics vs a discrete graphics card in a computer.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyItsLou:
Makes sense...too bad though I'm the type of guy that always has to have the latest and greatest don't get me wrong the incredible is a great phone can't beat the form factor but I wish it had a little more power under the hood in the area of graphics processing.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
I agree 100%.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muerte_X:
It's pretty interesting actually. I thought the same thing, until I saw quadrant run on a droid X. It does get higher fps in most of the 3d tests, (the rotating planet/moon is really choppy and in the low teens of fps)

Anyway, because I had nothing better to spend my money on, I bought the advanced version of quadrant.

The GPU does score a bit higher in 3d, though for whatever reason the I/O (read/write test) scores crazy high compared to anything else. That's where the most

of the score is coming from...

but on topic, there is no framerate cap. Download fps2d fro the android market and see for yourself.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeeBG:
It's interesting that you say that. I've been doing a lot of development work lately on the DInc and when transferring files I have been getting blazing speeds... much higher than on any other solid state/card reading device I own (why couldn't Nvidia stick a sexy little GPU in there... *sigh* just have to wait a couple years).
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stigmato:
I think the lack of 3D performance on the Incredible is due to the drivers HTC includes for the Adreno GPU. I've read that the drivers they include aren't optimized or tweaked at all.

I remember there being a thread a while back about porting drivers from the Samsung devices using it since they were getting much better performance out of the same GPU. Anyone remember that or have any new info on that development?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hexto:
I'm very disappointed with the Slackdragon chip. I hate the slow downs during game play. Asphalt consistently crashes on this phone.

The guys using the more than 3yr old HTC Vogue just got a new kernel and are enjoying over 30fps on Neocore. I have never reached 26fps. Granted they have DZO who's a brilliant programer but there is no reason why a phone that's years old and is not even an Android phone (at least not native) should be anywhere close to our phone. That phone came with a 400mhz chip and no drivers for the GPU.

I love the form factor and screen on this phone but I doubt any amount of overclocking will ever solve its problems. My next phone will definitely not have Qualcomm chip.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
I enjoy the phone for what it is.

Otherwise I would have returned it. If someone bought this phone thinking it was a gaming powerhouse...LOL?

Buyer beware, research first.

I will take a 1ghz CPU over a 550mhz CPU, even if it plays games better. I need it to be fast as a phone, not crappy slow except for games.

When Android starts being GPU driven, then I will pay more attention to faster gpus.

You can have the fastest GPU of all, and still run like crap. Ask Samsung Galaxy S owners who are suffering lag and slowness due to apps installing only to sd internal storage ;) But hey, they run games fast!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hexto:
Dude I didn't buy the phone to replace my xbox but it'd be nice if games didn't crash on my phone. On paper the snapdragon seems great but in all actuality the first Droid isn't far behind at all at half the speed and it out performs this phone when overclocked to 1.2ghz.

I still really like this phone especially now with Froyo but that doesn't mean I can't wish the snapdragon chip wasn't a slacker. I did my research and unless I went with the iphone (which I'd never get) I was not get better 3d performance...on paper. Even video slows down on this phone sometimes. That just doesn't seem right
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
Take Froyo on both phones.

Run Linpack with Moto at 1.2ghz, and Dinc at 1ghz.

Chuckle at how much higher score the Dinc gets.

The game performance is about the same (with oc'ed Moto Droid taking the lead), but the rest is not even in the same ballpark as the Dinc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trunksta:
It's likely capped at 30 fps to sync with display refresh rate (otherwise known as v sync ) and yes with modifications to the drivers it will be possible to increase this. But as for now I agree with adrenaline and enjoy the phone for what it is.

Don't get me wrong I'm always game for more performance but even at stock clock speeds the incredible is plenty fast. Faster gpu would be at the bottom of my list for tweaks to be made. Even so I'm sure someone will be working on it soon enough.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mars_bd:
I accepted and installed the 2.2 OTA Update as soon as it was pushed out. Yeah I know, Big Mistake (re: rooting). Please forgive me, I'm new here.

Anyway, ever since the update I've been experiencing intermittent (but more often than not) network errors, 404s and an assortment of other data-related issues when connecting via Wi-Fi. It seems to occur whether the Mobile Network is enabled or not. I experienced none of these issues before the update.

A few examples:

Attempting to use Android Market throws "An error has occured..." or "A network error has occured. Retry, or cancel...".

Viewing pages using the stock browser results in "Web page not available". At the same time, Opera Mini is unaffected.

Weather shows "No weather data available" and throws "Connection error | Sorry but the connection dropped while your weather information was downloading...." when I try to refresh.

Entering text in a form field via voice recognition throws "There is a problem with the network connection.".

Pandora throws "Service unavailable" errors.

These issues don't occur all at once or with any regularity (that I can see). Market might work fine while the browser fails. Sometimes the browser issue only affects certain certain sites (and most often google.com (?)) while others work fine. Sometimes affected sites only partially load, or load everything but images.

My Wi-Fi sleep policy is set to 'Never'. I have a solid router and a very strong signal with (effectively) zero interference. Obtaining an IP address is never a problem; my connection is never dropped.

Performing a ##3282# Data Restore doesn't help, nor does a ##786# Full Reset. I just performed a Full Reset and am having problems even before installing any apps.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas for fixing it?

-thanks

Edit: forgot to mention that I'm currently operating on 3G only. Might have a chance to test in a 4G zone later on this evening.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mars_bd:
Alright, I think I've pinned this down to my ISP's crappy DNS servers, though I haven't had a chance to test on a different one to confirm. However, I manually configured my Wi-Fi connection to use OpenDNS servers and things have worked fine all morning. Then, just for kicks, I set DNS back to the ISP (gateway) and the issues returned immediately. Switch back to OpenDNS and no problems.

This leads me to another question: is it possible to manually configure DNS, yet still obtain a dynamic IP?
[Desire General] Beowulf_pt:
I have the Samsung Galaxy S 16GB but am about to return it due to the useless GPS and get a Desire (or eventually recover the money and buy a Desire later)

How accurate is the current Desire's GPS? Can anyone show me some MyTracks paths for instance?

Another thing that worries me is audio quality on the 3.5mm as I use the units a lot for music. How well does it behave with audiophile headphones? Including low-impedance ones.. any background hiss, etc?

The Galaxy S is really excellent at audio and the screen is amazing but I really need a well-balanced unit that includes a reliable GPS.
[Desire General] steve228uk:
I have never had an issue with the GPS but I've only used it for in-car navigation every now and again. The sound on the Desire is acceptable for me. I'm using a pair of Klipsch Image X1s and it sound the same as, if not better than the iPod.

It does however seem to have a volume limiter on it which is bloody annoying! Still it's not an issue if you have a decent pair of 'phones.
[Desire General] mornixuur:
Same expeirence here. Music quality on headphones is at least the same as on the ipod classic (old 80GB model). Gps outside has a quick fix (usually within 10 seconds) and i haven't had any signal los yet (except for tunnels and inside buildings).
[Desire General] pigbrother:
A My Tracks sample for GPS accuracy. Unlike the Galaxy S, Desire never lost the signal.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...874704971674600592.00048b2dcdedf643cc518&z=14

Audio quality is almost as good as Galaxy S. Maybe a little bit noisy, but it's a phone after all.
[Desire General] Sonorov:
h t t p://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&z=14&msid=106701584406805964837.00048ad075c8a785906d6 - another patch from MyTrack

Audio quality is at least comparable (or better) with iRiver T60 and better than in most ipods. I'm using Koss Porta Pro or AKG K416P headphones.
[Desire General] sudkcoce:
10 sec or less GPS fix on desire is only if using AGPS (you have the 3G so it can load satellite data). Otherwise it takes more than a minute. It helps if you are not moving.
[Desire General] Beowulf_pt:
Thanks for the feedback.

I don't really care about the fast fixes. Don't mind waiting at all even if the initial gprs assistance is off. That I care about is accuracy and keeping the locks after the inicial fix. That is something the Galaxy can't do.

I gathered some more feedback about the audio and while the Desire seems weaker in that area it should be good enough for normal use.

One thing I'm now wondering is if it suffers from the same "lag" or occasional pauses that I got on the Galaxy. Sometimes it would pause for 2 or 3 seconds while some IO was happening, sometimes more. Perhaps I'll post that in a different thread.

Meanwhile if anyone has more GPS tracks (google maps is fine) especially driving in town, I'd like to see them. The ones I did with my Galaxy S are just scary and full of zig-zags... don't want that again.
[Desire General] FSake:
I’ve used my desire to track routes with Maverick when out mountain biking in Portugal. I put it in my shorts pocket and it tracked me very accurately without any variations. I haven’t really used it in my car while driving. I can give it shot today and see what results I get. Obviously it’s not going to be as accurate while driving as it is when cycling because of the speed factor but I will let you know later on.
[Desire General] Bomaster:
I have used my desire since I got it in April, as my Ipod, and Tom Tom and cycle computer. It does all these thing very well. I agree about the headphones, should be decent quality. Have not experienced any problems with music play back, while doing other things. Gps seems very accurate. The desire is now my main music device, there are several music apps which are better than the stock player, Mixzing is one and it now has an equalizer, which I don't use, but is there if you need it.
[Desire General] FSake:
Hi Beowulf_pt I’ve uploaded two tracks I recorded yesterday when I was out driving. Both of them seem very accurate and don’t deviate or jump about at all. The 2nd one is over 34miles long and is very accurate. A lot of the roads I went down have tree/hedge coverage on both sides too. I you want to get a good idea of what the roads look like you can go onto Google earth street view as all of Northern Ireland has street view. I’m very impressed with the performance of the GPS on the desire anyway.

I hope this helps.

http://www.trialsworld.com/hosted/9%20Aug%2010%20Track%201.gpx

http://www.trialsworld.com/hosted/9%20Aug%2010%20Track%202.gpx
[Desire General] Beowulf_pt:
Thanks for taking those, those don't have many low speed driving with lots of turning probably but in any case are very accurate, really pretty good.

If anyone wants a good laugh, this is what the great Desire's rival produces.. the mighty Samsung Galaxy S:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...09658333539209.00048d2c2727adf4f601e&t=h&z=13

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...09658333539209.00048d44b071f0237417b&t=h&z=14

I tried everything (except plugging in an external antenna yet) but it loses lock so often and is so imprecise that tracks look like that and navigation is pathetic.