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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jabbafat23:
Strange, I've got an Avatar rip that I dl'ed and put straight onto the Desire that played with no problems, looks awesome as well. Plays through the default player or through Rockplayer as well
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Yeah,I am also trying this with Avatar.I have downloaded two versions,one 1080p that obviously doesn't play at all,and a 720p one that plays but is really really laggy.

Can you tell me more info on the copy of Avatar that plays ok on your device?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lohpsch:
I do it in two steps:

1. PocketDivXEncoder, just to have a "clean" AVI in 640x480.

2. SuperC, no resize (I find PocketDivXEncoder better for resizing).

Video MP4, Codec MPEG-4, 15 Fps, 768 kbps

Audio AAC-LC, 44100, 2 channels, 128 kbps

Perfect, IMO.

:)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Thanks for the reply my friend but that's not what I'm talkin' about...I want high quality when I watch movies.Strangest thing is that I try to make my videos have the same settings that the Desire uses for the videos taken with its camera.To no avail so far!

Also,if anyone uses handbrake I think it would be a more productive thread!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigbrother:
I'm using AVS Video Converter now and my files works flawlessly. The settings are H.264 baseline@L3.1, 720p resolution (or native WVGA, as you like it), up to 8000kbps (without any problem for Desire) bitrate, no CABAC, MP4 ISO v2 container. Handbrake lacks some advanced settings, maybe you should try to change it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
But dude,it's a paid program,Handbrake is free,that's why I use it.I will try to find a cracked version though...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
@Pigbrother

Man,can you please share the settings you use for H.264 with me?I encode again and again and,although it does play on the Desire,it lags like ****!

I do a H.264 @3Mbps,but I am confused with the advanced settings of it and probably that's where it all goes fuzzy!

I managed to snatch a copy of Avatar with Handbrake that plays well,but it's MPEG-4 @2Mbps(although it seems that higher would play no prob).But H.264 is better,so I want that if possible! :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigbrother:
Here they are.

I'm using the default player with hardcoded subtitles (you can select them in the advanced tab, bottom of the screen)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Dude,this is STRAAAANGE!

Following your instructions and settings pigbrother,I got a small length video(a 1080p trailer of Harry Potter 7 I downloaded from youtube),I converted it according to what settings you used with a 3250kbps bitrate and 720p and it played super smooth while having the best quality I'd ever seen on a mobile device!Then,I converted Avatar with exactly the same settings and it wouldn't play!I tried stock video player,mVideoPlayer and RockPlayer but none worked,it just said it couldn't open the file.The only thing I can think of is that there is some sort of limitation regarding the size of the file to be played(mine was 3,8GB),because the only playing copy of Avatar I got was an exactly 2GB big one I got with Handbrake.

Please guys,If you can think of something help me!

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
So,guys,this is interesting.I made another copy of Avatar using AVS and I used some higher profile settings(like CABAC) to make an 720p H.264 mp4 file @4Mbps and checked the option to split it in 2000MB files.Total size is about 4,8GB for 3 files and it plays like heaven!The picture of it is the absolute best I've seen until now!

So guys,there is no meaning in disabling all those advanced options as they only give better compression and quality(while making the process of conversion slower however,mine took 7:30 hours with my E8400 Intel Core2Duo).You should only put a limit to the bitrate so that the output file doesn't get bigger than 2GB.

So that's it!Now,if there is any way to make the conversion using the PCs GPU which will make it far faster I'll be happy!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jabbafat23:
Video

Frame W/H 720*400

Data Rate 1750kbps

Total Bitrate 1918kbps

Framerate 29fps

Audio

Bitrate 167kbps

Channels 2

Audio Sample rate 48 kHz
[Desire General] zoltrix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=750888

Im trying to push the recovery image at step 5, but the unrevoked program goes from "Pushing recovery: c:\ etc etc etc" to "Failed to push recovery"

Any ideas?

I just installed HTC Sync with teh drivers and that doesnt work.
[Desire General] zoltrix:
Guess i should have done my research first lol

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

woo! flashed!

EDIT: now when i try to boot into recovery, the phone stays stuck on the white HTC screen.

When i rooted, it booted into it fine. But now that i turne it off, and rebooted into recovery with rom manager, it gets stuck at the white htc screen. ( also tried doing it via the regular vol down+power recovery)

EDIT 2: it seems to work through the adb shell and reboot recovery command... :S
[Desire General] zoltrix:
anyone know?
[Desire General] slimdizzy:
Try booting without your sdcard in. If it boots then your sdcard might be corrupt. Reformat the card and reboot, all should be good.
[Desire General] sutepm:
Mine got stuck at the white screen too, so I plugged in the usb cable to the computer and all ok.
[Desire General] !PANDA:
bit risky! give your phone some time.. I brickedmy nokia cos I was so impatient, learnt a lesson :D
[Android Software Development] solidkundi:
Hello Everyone,

I'm a graphic designer.. and I (for some reason ) am so sure this is possible on an Android phone... but the question is.. is it worth their time? i hope my $20 dollars and other possible donators... can help answer that question!!

Here's The Concept: (sorry for the long essay)

I would like to use my android's touch screen to be my little helper when i'm on my graphic programs... either photoshop/illustrator.. even my html programs.. i would like a dedicated screen with Tools and Options that i usually use...

This could be done in many ways.... one would require a "server" application and displays the shortcuts according to the App in focus...

or...

You can make android as the HID thing (Sorry!! Thats as technical as i can get..)....so it sends "macros" to photoshop ... but this doesn't really require a server cuz HID thing shud be multi platform?? if i'm not mistaken...so instead of detecting.. there would be applications we choose which will show the appropriate buttons....

Here's one example: Photoshop

While one Photoshop, I would like Cuboid Buttons for Basic Tools(Marquee, Paint Brush, Eraser, Move tool..... ) on an array of screens and with fixed items like the "Undo" or "Layers" "Characters"... which will bring up the proper dialogue...

I'm willing to donate 20$ to the person who can do this :D... i hope others can feel my frustration and want to help too... so we can get this going...

Plus.. there is a "Clingo" accessory for phones that can attach any device to any monitor!!! from the looks of it... it could very well work with my idea!!

Thank you for taking your time reading my big essay!!! (sorry)
[Android Software Development] DKuntz2:
I may not be a developer for android, but I know that if anyone does it, it'll cost them more than $20 of their time...
[Android Software Development] jobarjo:
I think you should learn the key shortcuts or buy a keyboard with extended keys that you can program.
[Android Software Development] solidkundi:
@DKuntz2 i know it will be more than 20 dollars... thats why i started my donation at 20 ... whoever is feeling like donating to this cause... can hopefully make it worth for the developer....

@jobarjo Yeah, I already know the keyboard shortcuts ... but theres alotta features on the photoshop that are not possible through a simple keyboard shortcut... and besides.. i only used Photoshop as an example, this can be implemented with Word Processors... Web Browsers.... Full screen Media player with controls on the side... I don't know theres alotta potential...

i just hope people find this 'donation' worthy as i do.... a guy can hope right?
[Android Software Development] DKuntz2:
It sounds like what you really need is the Optimus Maximus keyboard; http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
[Android Software Development] solidkundi:
Thanx.

but I am already familiar with the optimus..and that it can change the whole keyboard to pictures...anyways i just thought the guys would want this on their android phone.. rather than wasting $2400 US on that.!!!

I hope ill be able to make this on Google's App Inventor...

Peace.
[Android Software Development] Skye Menjou:
You can't.

You need a "server" application on the computer which you can make or interact with a GAI app.

You also may need to interact with Photoshop in a way because its not just sending keyboard shortcuts because some tools don't have that.

I am unsure if you need to make a photoshop plugin for that or you can call some functions in the photoshop.exe.(I don't even know how my 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator calls the functions and such in Photoshop)

Google apps doesn't allow this functionality and I am unsure if it ever will(and even if it will it won't be soon)
[Android Software Development] solidkundi:
well that sucks doesn't it...

thanks for that.. i hope i'll be able to make something out of google inventor ... i have soo much ideas... but they're all either novelty or something very specific to me...
[Android Software Development] SilentMobius:
This would be really useful, but hard, the way I see it you could do it using HID:

An android App that communicates as a slave device to a desktop machine.

Could use bluetooth and pretend to be HID but you'd have to write the HID layer from scratch in java as Android only does HID as the master (and even then only in CM6)

This would send keypress events which may be enough for some apps, but generally you'd need to map those events to some other combination of actions, under windows a combination of http://www.autohotkey.net/ and http://www.autohotkey.net/~Micha/HIDsupport/Autohotkey.html may do the job.

Implementing HID under Android would be the had part (for me). The rest would need to be configured per-feature-per-app
[Android Software Development] Skye Menjou:
I do know there are several keyboard applications availble so keyboard shortcuts and keypresses aren't really the problem.

I am just unsure how you would link into photoshop tools without key combos.
[Android Software Development] MacaronyMax:
You can get for iphone, good idea saves a lot of time :D
[Android Software Development] Skye Menjou:
If someone is skilled enough to edit this to something with a Tools gui or allowing to asign a picture and hotkey to a button on the screen and pass on the hotkey to the server..

http://code.google.com/p/remotedroid/

And maybe remove the mouse functionality or put it in a tab.
[Android Software Development] solidkundi:
I think ... we can make an "Action" file.. for most of the commands... and then send the respective keystroke .... that could work also..... and like u said have tabs

but i wudn't need mouse in there...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jagger2k:
I have just debranded my tmobile G2 and i am now running thr 2.1 generic htc rom. I just need to unlock the phone.

Does anyone know where if there is a free or cheap way to do it?

Thanks in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Can't unlock for free. Someone else can recommend you a place as I haven't bothered.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
no free way, unless you call tmobile and get them to unlock it.

the way ive unlocked 2 heros is by using express-codes on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HTC-Unlock-Co...698131?pt=UK_Phones_Software_RL#ht_1773wt_911

there are other sellers, but i can actually recommend this guy from using his codes.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jagger2k:
Thanks just ordered one. Hope it works.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mikemac:
Did the code work Jagger2K?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jagger2k:
Yea it worked great. I can highly recomend the guy in the above link. I ordered it at 1.30 am and it was sent at 3.30am.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] gaz31:
I can also recommend the above seller,bought the code earlier tonight and received within 10 mins of buying.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] alphas_hero:
hi,

I unlocked my htc hero a week ago.

If I update my mobile software (firmware), I have to re-unlock it ?

thank you
[Hero, G2 Touch General] keithsipa:
No, unlock is permanent.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rtorbs:
Im currently locked to orange but have also purchased a code from the link above but aside from the being able obviously use different sims are there any other advantages to unlocking ?

Reason I ask is because im pretty sure that when I first rooted and loaded a custom rom I used an orange specific radio.....but more recent threads suggest radios are region rather than network specific....

I dont currently have any issues being locked so want to be sure there will be no adverse effects from the unlock.....

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
No other unlocking advantages AFAIK, although orange uk is known to have issues on some of the radios if locked (to be fair, I think it happened only once or twice).

But I think that is all over. Radios are region/hardware defined, not network defined. Unlocking doesn't cause issues. In fact, unlocking was the way to use the "non orange" radio most recently on an orange phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] alphas_hero:
thank you........:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] BoogWeed:
This being a community of highly skilled devs, surely someone can figure out how we can unlock our phones without having to pay for the 'privilege'?

Even the guys we are buying the codes from must have figured something out or are buying the codes from elsewhere?

How exactly does this work? Where do you enter the unlock code?

I thought once you install custom firmware you phone will be unlocked... :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
They are buying their codes direct from HTC. And a method of unlocking for free is known, but it needs done before every boot, so it's not usable, as it needs a PC and home-made serial terminal cable to send AT commands to the radio chip IIRC.

The radio requires the code to allow access, and the codes are randomly assigned/generated, so there's no algorithm to reverse engineer.

You insert a SIM that your phone won't accept, and then you get asked for the unlock code at boot, just like entering your SIM PIN.

And at £6.75 for an unlock code, I'm not gonna spend hours on looking for a method I'm afraid, since I can't justify the time to myself.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
dont see how this place having devs means that you get to unlock your phone for free. this place is for rom development mainly, if you want methods on how to unlock, there are forums like gsmhosting that deal with that.

the guys that sell the codes online havent "figured something out". they are providing a service which they also pay for, they are basically middle men. i suggest you research how unlocking via code works.

to unlock via code, you put in a sim that isnt allowed, eg a tmobile sim into an orange locked phone, then itll tell you "sim restricted" or thereabouts, and ask for the code. thats where you enter it.

custom firmware has nothing to do with unlocking, although in certain cases (eg orange firmware) custom roms or downgrading is required to unlock the phone.

still doesnt mean that custom roms actually unlock the phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rtorbs:
Just been on eBay to leave feedback for express codes whom I bought an unlock off only 2 days ago...looks like they're no longer registered? Either way code worked so not too fussed.....
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
if you had a look at his negative feedback, most of them had follow up comments by him which were removed by ebay. i managed to see one or two of them before they got removed, and they were basically things like "your wifes using the phone as a replacement for you lol", things like that. nearly all of his neg feedback had follow up comments removed.

was quite funny, but i think that it may be because of those comments that hes no longer registered. only a hunch mind you.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Steven_belfast:
Greetings folks,

Got one of these codes and happy with it,

Used the code on Sensehero B5.1 and worked great.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gavincol78:
This morning I have used this particular ebay member and his price has dropped to £5.99 and I had my unlock code in less then 10 minutes and worked first time :D RESULT!!!! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
Bloody hell,... BARGAIN!!!! I paid £4 for a turbosim and thought that was cheap at the time!? £6 for unlocking is amazing.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
It sure was a bargain almost to good to be true, so I emailed my IMEI number beforehand and had a reply saying yes they have the unlock code so ordered for £5.99 (I thought £5.99 is nothing compared to £30 from my local unlock shop) and in less then 10 mins I had the code and worked first time WITHOUT the need to re-enter the code when changing sims

OH and trying to get an unlock code from 3 UK if you buy a secondhand phone is impossible unless you know the previous owner and even they charge £15
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiogoLamego:
Good night friends i have a big problem and i need your help...

I was following a tutorial http://theunlockr.com/2010/06/07/how-to-root-the-htc-desire/, but I was wrong in the file. then I called the desire and put the correct files in SDcard. so far so good, but when I was doing to try again to puff image disappeared and never ...

connects the mobile phone vibrates, gives those sounds from the official start of rom ... image but not see her.

someone help me? I am very worried ...

thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrainMcFly:
you have a new slcd-screen?

then look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=748498
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiogoLamego:
I do not know: (and if you have a SLCD? how can I reverse the situation?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiogoLamego:
thanks ;)

my desire work again :D
[Captivate General] ewingr:
I have a friend that sent me this message today, which sounds like a great idea:

I've been messing with setcpu and trying out some underclocking profiles. Underclocking while the screen is off as well as reducing the CPU power has gotten me 75% battery left after 8 hours. This is with constant emails but no wireless, bluetooth, or gps. This is better than I was getting under windows mobile.
[Captivate General] ConceptVBS:
Using a complete black background as your desktop background screen also helps with battery life. The black areas dont use battery power.
[Captivate General] zeezz:
If you install one of the cpu meters, it will show that there is automatic underclocking... mine says it has been running at 100MHz for 76% of the time (1 day uptime).

Android System Info will tell you this.

Now, I'm not sure if this is the same as what you are doing though.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
You know, I believe that is correct. I don't know if he is getting any advantage or not. I'll forward the info to him and see what he thinks.
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
That only helps if you spend a significant amount of time on your phone's home screen or hit buttons a lot when the phone is in your pocket.
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
I've found that the best way to save battery life is to use manual brightness. Auto brightness is just too bright. In fact some newer firmware hidden on samsung's site does make auto brightness a bit dimmer.

Using manual brightness I get about one hour and fifteen minutes of screen time per 10% of battery. I get about an hour per ten percent at work, where it's brighter. I get about half that with auto-brightness.
[Captivate General] irus:
I think one good way to test which i am going to do to tonight is charge your phone and right before you go to bed unplug it and let it run through the night and in the morning see what sucks the most battery. i'm going to assume it should be "phone idle" but if its cell standby then something is sucking data, someone correct me if im wrong :).
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
Just flash to jh2 out jh3. I'm on 16 hours and have 50% left
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
I know my 8525 (a precursor to the tilt) had excellent reception. It was far better than average. This captivate is not as good. In my experience the captivate has average reception. I've had much worse.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
Well, my buddy that told me about the topic I used to start this thread just stopped by.

He is playing with an Android 2.2 ROM that has been installed on his HTC HD2, which also is undervolted a bit. And of course, tweaking with SETCPU>

He said he is getting email and messages etc as normal; has full CPU and good power when using it (BTW...the Quadrant readings on his phone is coming in at over 1700). His phone has been up for 24 hours, 15 minutes when he stopped in, and he had 58% battery left. Before he started tweaking (and I think before the undervolted ROM), he was getting 11-12 hours on a charge.

Sounds pretty good to me.
[Desire General] febelus:
From today my phone doesn't seem to connect to 3g/gprs network. the 3g icon is down and antenna is ok. i can do call but i can't connect to data network. i try to mount my sim on another phone and all work and another sim to desire but 3g not work. so i try to do a factory reset but not work....

what's the problem???
[Desire General] freakzone:
Hi, did you check in settings/wireless if mobile network is enabled. And if you upgraded to 2.2 maybe your operator APN is not there anymore. Did you do something like flash radio, rom or something else which could cause it. Also do you have a backup of your old system.
[Desire General] febelus:
mobile data connection is on and i'm with not rooted original froyo update.
[Desire General] freakzone:
Then go to settings/wireless/mobile network settings/access poin names. Some people reported they lost the access points after the update and needed to enter them manually
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
seems to be a problem all around the world at the moment, a lot of data networks seem to be down
[Desire General] Deleted member 2496007:
From another thread, Orange network was down yesterday and is still not working properly. You on orange?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stringman:
So after reading up and finding that video playback isnt brilliant on the tp2 i thougt i would do some tests.

my goal was to find an easy way to watch films. I dont really want to have to convert all my films to mp4 and use the htc album, but i dont really want to have to switch of sense and soft reset every time i have a spare 1/2 hour.

So using the same footage I ran multiple formats on the following players:

coreplayer, TCMP, Media Player and HTC album.

Not really sure how conclusive it is ( and there is certainly more testing that can be done)

i am going to try using MP4forHD to convert the file a last time and try that on all players

have a look at the results and let me know what you think
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] rr5678:
So basically what you're saying is that the only videos that work are the original AVI and some MP4s with coreplayer without Sense turned on. That sucks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cbeck:
Interesting results. I have never bothered trying with sense or spb mobile shell off, but for most videos I watch (640x320 or something close, i.e., vga resolution), they seem to work ok on the tilt2. I get some annoying pixelation with TCMP, but the default windows media player seems to play them pretty crisply and smoothly. the only tradeoff there is WMP is pretty low on the totem pole feature wise.

it also seems odd to me that your results get worse when sense is turned off. It's more intuitive that it would work better if you have more ram available. Could this be an issue with a custom rom you flashed? I am using the stock ATT with spb mobile shell. Did you try a different media file?