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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistaj:
I use "Contact Widget". It's free on the market and works great.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/br.livroandroid.widget.contatos

I don't believe it works with facebook sync, but I don't use facebook sync at all anymore anyway. "SyncMyPix" (also free on the market) will grab all your facebook photos for existing contacts and add them to your google contacts. You can do this once and remove the app since all info is updated to the actual google contact. Or you can use it to update periodically.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.nloko.android.syncmypix
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milo.d.venus:
You're looking for a shortcut, not a widget

Look under shortcuts, not widgets.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottcwhite:
Very simple in Froyo. Find a blank space on your phone and long press. Choose custom shortcut - press "select activity" - scroll down and pick "DIRECT DIAL". Next choose the contact from the list that pops up with number you want and press it. It will then add a 1 click dial icon to the home screen with picture.

Be sure to pic the correct contact and number from the list. For example if your kid's phone has "Mom" as a contact with a home/work/ & cell number when the list pops up to choose from you will actually see 3 "moms" listed with the three different numbers.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] agentaaron:
I was in the market and under my dowloads section, it shows there is an update for the native Gmail app. It fails everytime I try and install it.

I have tried both with the SDcard mounted and unmounted...any suggestions?
[Epic 4G General] Roisen:
How should I encode HD videos for my Epic? I'm starting with 1080p ultra-high bitrate.

Should I encode the video to match the Epic's resolution 800x480, or stick with some even fraction of 1920x1080, like 960x540 and let the Epic scale it to the screen?

What's the maximum bitrate the Epic is able to handle? What's a good codec to use?
[Epic 4G General] Roisen:
Bump 10char
[Epic 4G General] jonny4:
did you ever get an answer to this, I need to find this out too.
[Epic 4G General] tmspyder:
Assuming you are wanting to encode from bluray I follow this method. should work with most video files I would think.

http://www.knowyourcell.com/samsung/samsung-epic-4g/epic-4g-guides/526581/how_to_convert_videos_and_transfer_them_to_the_samsung_epic_4g.html

I have made high quality full length movies from both bluray and dvd around 1gb in size. and they play and look great.

Edit: I normally "rip" the movie only files to hd and mount em as an iso rather than from disk.. Not sure if I can name the "sly" software I use to do so as it sits in the grey area between legal and not
[Epic 4G General] Karade:
I use handbrake and encode to 800x400. The advantage is most films can be reduced to 1 to 2 GB depending on source. Sometimes I crop sides a bit if original is 2.35. I playback on epic with mvideoplayer. For some reason, sometimes mvideoplayer sometimes does not do mkv embedded subtitles well but there is an mkv subtitle extractor android app.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Ok 2 things to note...

1) if you keep your SD card as Fat you gotta break up the video if its too large filesize. I think 4gb is it..

2) Realistically speaking our phones have the processing power to play 1080p but its locked :(...so you'll have to re-encode them to less until someone figures it out...I would keep the aspect ratio the same though..so if your dealing with 16:9 1080p..make it 16:9 720p...if you change the aspect ratio it will make the video stretch...
[Epic 4G General] stevesprivateaccount:
I think you mean Transcode, not encode. Typically most recording devices encode at the source, because storing raw video in HD has a high capacity and performance requirement.

These are the formats I've played with:

DivX, XviD, MPEG4, WMV, MKV

I've liked MKV in general.
[Touch HD Android Development] ho.angii:
wow these changes sound so promising. downloading and soon to be testing. gettting ever so closer to have a fully functional android. =D

keep up the good work devs
[Touch HD Android Development] dizzyman:
Device: Blackstone

Battery Type: Original

Battery Volume: ?

Detects usb conection, but can't use as usb storage...

Detects if is usb or ac charge...

mic, not perfect, have to pull volume down to activate.

i will do more tests

Sorry, my english... portuguese... to english....
[Touch HD Android Development] dizzyman:
change to english or not... nothing change, only japonese keybord
[Touch HD Android Development] Spidersoft:
1.) It says permission denied, what I'm doing wrong?

2.) USB connection is detected, but no mass storage detection

3.) AC / USB charger seems to be correct

4.) (only) reboot works

Device: Blackstone

Battery Type: Original

Battery Volume: 1350 mAh ???

Additional: no mic without pressing volume +/-,no speaker on incoming calls (also after pressing +/-)
[Touch HD Android Development] x PIGI x:
Blackstone

Original battery

Wifi not working

Incoming call mic only works after you press volume down
[Touch HD Android Development] joveen:
ac and usb charging detected properly.

switch from ac - usb - detects usb

switch usb - ac (with a delay after the battery info says unplugged) - detect.

switch usb - ac (quickly) - doesnt detect.

shutdown button reboots the phone to windows.

USB detected on PC.

USB mass storage didn't work.

Teethering detects USB as connected.

Turn on wifi - gets error with this image. with the 17 th build image it works.

Mic is mutted on receving call. We may need some state machine tweks to get it done.(guess)

Any one facing issue with re detecting signal once it is lost?

Enable GPS - battery level suddenly goes down. Disable GPS it comes back. Is it expected.

Device: Blackstone

Battery Type: Original

Battery Volume: 1350 mAh
[Touch HD Android Development] kulwant:
May sound weird but where to copy these files to test them..I'm a rookie at android..:)
[Touch HD Android Development] x PIGI x:
Where can I find this file?
[Touch HD Android Development] dizzyman:
battery seems to be almost... fixed... i boot my phone and he says battery volume 42, 8 hours later... i have 14 of volume battery, no wifi, no calls, standby 8 hours with half battery...

in win mobile he says 20%, in android he says volume battery 14, nothing like before.
[Touch HD Android Development] willcor:
hi camro ,

i have a blackstone ,with stock ROM 6.1.........

overall FroYo 2.2 with your updated kernel , is running quite smoothly this morning.( lets hope it stays that way!! )

previously ( few days back ,till yesterday) had sound problems ,but change ...cmd line, accordingly to your suggestion , in you "fix for battery "thread (your post 89 )...yesteday morning and sound had been stable ever since.!

i have wifi , no problem.

battery is much better with your fix ....thank you

shutdown ..button ..

reboots the phone..(which is perfect for me )..better than switch off (,as i can get into windows... without taking cover off.. etc.etc..reset button.. )

plse, keep it like that !!!.. ?

but.....

i must add...

that yesterday before i made the relevant kernel changes i also notice

android battling with redetecting signal ..( i have good reception ..3g and gsm in my area..) as joveen in post 8, states "issue with re detecting signal once it is lost?) and after i replaced it with your updated kernels i still had these issues.

i tried replacing ,all old kernels etc etc ..no luck

( so i am convince the updated kernels... dont play a part in it..!!.. ?? )

but ..(and thats, the point i want to make...)

... i noticed every time ,

android... battled to "redetect signal " ..i had "deep sleep issues...???

and if i had constant signal ..i had nothing ..!!!android woke up every time

( just thought i will add it )

thank you.............. camro, alex, acl, jonpry, phh, oliwe..!!!!

good luck

willcor
[Touch HD Android Development] joveen:
Regarding redetecting signal -

I tried at a place where the signal levels is not that good.

the battery doesnt seems to be consumed !! .. I doubt if the android is trying to detect the signal. If it had tried the battery consumption would have increased. (Not sure if this is valid.. It is just a guess from my side).
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
normal, WM is not a hint for correct %vol.

@USER which are testing dlackstone: !!

if you have don't have a blackstone device, then i would need a log from real 100% to 0% - best would be, if you can hold the current stable (like: diplay always on, all other apps closed and sync deactivated), then do logging as it is describe on #1 posting.
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
at first, thanks, your previous feedback was great, will try to take a look on different minutes ...

for your last feedback:

redetecting ? what do you mean ? usb or battery ?

please can you explain that more in detail ?

for usb mass storage -> maybe this you must activated somewhere in the phone, for USB, there must be 3 diff models of using... (tethering, usb mass storage, usb debugging, etc..) - but haven't found this - not yet tested
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
thanks for report,

redetection signal on data connection (3g, 3g, e,) - i'm wondering about, normally nothing changed for this part in kernel.

but if see something in the log.

if you can reeproduce this problem, then make catlog + dmesg, maybe we can find the problem. i never seen such problem on my device ...

have you played with the tethering ?

because since i tried it to activate, i can't disable the tethering/hotspot - maybe this is the problem ..

i must backup + delete my data again and then try it again - without tethering or hotspot .
[Touch HD Android Development] joveen:
Hi Camro,

I meant "Redetecting the 3g/2g signals once it is lost".

In a place with low signal, the battery should be consumed more. I am not seeing that with my black stone.baterry almost remains same. Seems like android is not trying to redetect the signals once it is lost. Is there some logs/kernal message to see if it is searching for signals.
[Touch HD Android Development] x PIGI x:
Where can I find a file image where features wifi, thanks
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
DON'T click/test wlan hotspot !!! it could be, that you have problems after using it !
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
catlog -> grep for "ConnectivityService", there you'll should a part of it ....

fori played with hotspot, and i can'T disable it -since now always "ConnectivityService" will try to set some part for wlan hotspot... must remove my data and install my apps again ..
[Touch HD Android Development] luilly:
Hi Camro.

Diamond (DIAM100) come with original battery of 900 mAh, already have you got headers for this or have to built it??
[Touch HD Android Development] CeasarRAPH100:
Device: HTC Touch Pro GSM RAPH100

Battery Type: Original

Battery Volume: 1340 mAh

Tried V4 kernel in my TouchPro.

Incall mic now works fine.

Shutdown hangs with usb connected (haven't tested v5 yet).

When charging 93% is reached maximum, when booting into WM it shows 100%, so battery is fully charged but not shown in Android.

93=>0 in 5h50min

battery logfile is attached

Again many thanks for all devevlopment efforts !!
[Touch HD Android Development] PANCIO:
W O W !!!!!!!!

Now incall mic works fine on my Blackstone !!!!

great camro ....thank you again for your fantastic job !!!!

what can I do for offer you a beer ????? :)
[Touch HD Android Development] outerdepth:
Thanks man!!!!!!!

I agree with Pancio. My in call mic is working perfectly now as well as my battery status meter. I am running the T-Mo Touch Pro 2 with this kernel installed and it is working swimmingly. The led stays orange all the time, but I don't even know that this is something Camro was addressing. Regardless, I don't care about that. Now the phone only lacks a camera, and we will pretty much have the Rhodium android working perfectly.

Thanks Camro.:cool:
[Touch HD Android Development] Kenia1234:
Great work Camro and co.!!!

When this project started I never thought it would have grown so much!!

Thank you!!

Everything works well now...

Battery meter is accurate now...

Mic works!

USB storage still not properly but it isn't a problem at all!!

Please make camera and NAND boot working and we will have a really functional android!!

Down with Windows Mobile!! :):)
[Touch HD Android Development] willcor:
hi camro,

replace ,kernel v4 with v5 and shutdown is working 100% again...!!

no other problems , all is working ..wifi, sound ,mic etc etc..!!

( blackstone with stock 6.1 rom )

thank you ..camro and to Cotulla .. for the fix ..!!

good luck ,

willcor
[Touch HD Android Development] uexpress:
Tried V5 kernel in my TouchPro (RAPH100)

Device: HTC Touch Pro RAPH100

Battery Type: Original

Battery Volume: 1340 mAh

Tried V5 kernel in my TouchPro.

Incall mic now works fine.

Shutdown is working.

Battery meter is accurate now.

But i always face problem on sound setting... whenever i restart using Haret.exe my device will get no incoming call ringtone... need always restart using GEN.Y DualBOOT application, anyone facing the same problem as mine?

Cheers.

Thanks camro...
[Touch HD Android Development] kulwant:
Is it for Blackstone too?? If yes can you give me the link where you downloaded it from..Would be super glad..:)
[Touch HD Android Development] uexpress:
You may find the V5 kernel link at the main post.
[Touch HD Android Development] kulwant:
I have rootfs-20100917-f4eabbb on my blackstone...Is it a release after that??? I really can't find the download link anywhere in the post...:-s
[Touch HD Android Development] Christian Troy:
so here it is

kernel v4

Diamond 100 with stock battery (900 mah)

It seems that the screen wakes up after 3-4 rings while receiving a call, didnt noticed this behaviour with "stock" xdandroid firmware, is it casual or is it related?

Btw i'm posting my BATT logging ;)
[Touch HD Android Development] uexpress:
Get the latest rootfs here from the rootfs build service provided Stinebd for XDANDROID

RootfsAutobuilds

Get the latest Initramfs here from the Initramfs build service provided Stinebd for XDANDROID

InitramfsAutobuilds
[Touch HD Android Development] dzeen:
uhm, looks like with the latest kernel (v5) i'm having issues with sound - ringtones, mic, incall volume - nothing works :( during incoming call instead of ringtone i hear some morse-code-like sounds

Device: Blackstone

Battery Type: Original

with v4 everything was ok

upd: after reboot the issues have gone. usb-connection works via droidexplorer.
[Touch HD Android Development] luilly:
Thanks, thanks, thanks Christian Troy. I can't get the log. Maybe log closed during try. (only log for 10 min).

Post my feedback, Christian Troy, tell me if feel the same...

Diamond (DIAM100)

Battery Original, 900 mAh

Try with Kernel v5

1. Incalls sound works, but during call, if screen going off, mobile phone hangs.

2. Mobile phone wakes up after more than six seconds before displaying an incoming call. Too long and people hang call.

3. USB detected with/out screen on/off but i couldn't find the right drivers for windows (i have installed Android SDK's with Windows USB Drivers). Windows show un My Computer a HArd Driver how UNFORMATTED:

Windows Admin Devices dettect:

HTC XDA USB DEVICE

doesn't dettect:

CDC Abstract Control Model (ACM)

CDC ACM Data

XDA

4. Battery seems full charged at 96% (Restart device and Windows shows 100%).

5. Camera Still not work.

6. Sense Auto Location Network not work too.

This night try again get logs from my battery.
[Touch HD Android Development] Christian Troy:
1. i confirm, but i think it's a known bug

2. yes, sometimes it's faster, sometimes slower, i've configured ledeffects so i see the circle and the phone buttons havin' some activity

3. i connected to my laptop and appeared two icons in the notification bar (usb and usb debug) but i cant tell you if it's been detected by my laptop 'cause it's a PPC powerbook and there's no sdk for this device... maybe i'll try later with my desktop which has linux on board

4. i noticed that if i charge it by usb, with ac yesterday it said "charged"

5. this is another known bug

btw, i failed the first logging because i quit the terminal... try to put first "airplane mode", then kill all tasks (i use advanced task killer), then start caffeine and for last start the terminal, type the right commands and then unplug the charger... leave it there alone without closing the terminal dont do the same mistake i did :D
[Touch HD Android Development] dzeen:
can anyone check how network (not GPS!) location service works with the latest kernel? for example, foursquare tells me that my location is not found. never had this issue before.
[Touch HD Android Development] bethybabes69:
wifi broken

Using Blackstone;

Upgraded kernel to v5, now wifi is broken for me, it says 'error' in the wifi menu.

Anyone else seeing this issue?
[Touch HD Android Development] bethybabes69:
Working ok here.

Without GPS, Google Maps gets my location correct within 1.5km using GSM location using the latest kernel.
[Touch HD Android Development] dzeen:
wifi works in my blackstone, just tried to connect to wpa-psk network - ok.
[Touch HD Android Development] bethybabes69:
Thanks Dzeen, please, in your wifi/advanced/ settings, has Android detected the MAC address of your wifi device? Mine hasn't using this kernel, I'm going to start Haret with Winmo wifi enabled, see if it detects it.
[Touch HD Android Development] andycted:
v4 on blackstone

WiFi - ok

InCall volume - ok, most of the times, otherwise push volume down

Call answer, show screen - seems ok ?

Tethering - used Easy Tether and it works ok

USB Mass storage - NO, stops before mounting and creates some instability

Linpack with 710Mhz and xdandroid 2.2 - 4.1 - stable

Linpack with 650Mhz and cm 6-ext2 - 2.0 - unstable too

Charge level - ok

Battery consumption - excellent !

Battery charging/Leaving phone on sleep - after a whole night there, it wouldn't turn on anymore, had to pull battery

Rarely gets stuck, for random reasons

Good work.

Side question: do you know why a game such as 'Drop' shows the background all garbled up ?
[Touch HD Android Development] bethybabes69:
WiFi?

OK, kernel V5 broke my wifi, tried deleting configs but still broken.

A downgrade to V4 has fixed it. :(
[Touch HD Android Development] dzeen:
yes, mac address has been detected correctly.

uhm, i'm still having no luck with gsm/wifi location service :(
[Touch HD Android Development] arrrghhh:
Are you using the new system.ext2 file? That really has absolutely nothing to do with this thread tho.
[Touch HD Android Development] bethybabes69:
My bad, ignore my previous WiFi comments

OK, Kernel V5 ~ WiFi is working now after a CHKDSK fixed some errors on the SD.

My bad, I must have unplugged early on my SuSEbox.

To summarise, Blackstone with V5;

Everything from original list, except mnt issues to access SDCard is working here.

Great job to Camro & Crew. :)
[Touch HD Android Development] ho.angii:
v5

- wifi - working

- bluetooth working

- incall mic working =D

- 2g/3g network detection good.

- all poweroff modes working.

- No deep sleep problems for the whole day. only once when first booted. the screen stayed black but you had to do the swipe thing to unlock and the screen turned on.

- Gallery is working. pretty fast in detecting all images. i was wondering, how come it does not detect videos? Do you have to put it into a folder that android has to recognise?

- battery drain seems to be good. found that when you go on wifi or turn phone on from sleep battery level drops down 2-3% and once turned off immediately the level returns to as it was before. was able to get the phone to fully charged but once the cable was taken out batt level drop to 94% and then went back up to 98% in 1minute ish.

on winmo battery level stated 95% and once booted onto android level drop to 88%. currently charging but if on winmo it would have stated charged but on android its still charging at 89% in 5mins of charging.

- USB detected but no mass storage. i found if you went and turn on USB storage. it unmounts the SD card and you cant access your files after that. you would have to soft reset and then reboot into android again inorder to look at your SD card files.

- receiving call screen is kinda delayed in appearing when the phone is asleep.

i could only overclock up to 65MHz anything above that hangs. anyone have similar problems? some boasted of up to 710MHz with the other kernel but i dont know about this one.

however great job camro and good work crew. thanks for getting these out for us.

Ho.angii

Blackstone froyo v1.6 + camro battery testing V5 + overclocked at 65MHz <3

1350mAh battery
[Touch HD Android Development] mudenza:
using the latest kernel on the xda page, complete disaster for kovsky, keeps on restarting
[Touch HD Android Development] dmostert:
V5 Best kernel by far!

I'm on a Touch Pro.

All the basics are working!

BlueTooth connects, but does not seem to work? (No headset, OBEX FTP...)

Still occasional reboots

USB Connects, but can't access SD Card from windows (ADB Works)

3G Connection seems to go all the time even though I'm connected on WIFI

Can't send Text Messages (might be my phone & provider)

This almost feels useable on a permanent basis (until I upgrade to a proper Android! )

Thanks for all the effort!
[Touch HD Android Development] EmielFB:
blackstone - stock batt

location/GPS NOK

InCall NOK - echo for caller

Battery OK - high consumption, although less (indicator seems somewhat ok)

USB OK - no mass storage

Any solution for the echo?
[Touch HD Android Development] forfune:
Hello,

thanks for sharing

logging used v5 version on blackstone org bat.

energie rom 5.2.21.680 (21680.5.3.9) with manila disabled.
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
disaster - can you explain it a littel bit more in detail ?

can you boot up ?

can make a CALL and test INCALL sound ?

can you SHUTDOW (power off)

can you connect to USB (adb) ?
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
thanks a lot, i adjust now the parameter for blackstone a little bit..

here a present for you ...see picture ...

as you can see it is erally very good, but with the new adjustment it will be more better :)

@all: i know, that i must adjust the parameter from 100% to 93%, this is because i miss some log data of different devices, because this range (where the batt is almost full), theerit is very important to see, when the bat switchoff and doesn'T get any more current from the charger. if i have this values, then i can adjust this, too.

at the end of next 2 weeks i'm sure, that we have a very good algo for battery.

after that - full concentration on battery consume :)
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
for you also a small present for your effort :)

and the algo parameter i will update on next kernel ...

but here you can see my changes - and how it will the next time ..

(but it will be better as the BLUE line, becuase in the algo, there is also rounding + avarage + extrem values remover)
[Touch HD Android Development] camro:
perect, i had no log data on diamond...

also attached the picture of new algo (BLUE)

the orange was the old value (was also not bad, but will be on next kernel better -as you can see in picture)
[Touch HD Android Development] iarspider:
Battery log for AT&T Fuze (RAPH100?) with OEM 2500 mAh battery attached.

Can do a test with stock (1340 mAh) if needed.

Charge meter seems to be fine.

USB charger detected correctly, haven't got AC one at hand.

WiFi - works

Cell functions - unable to test (roaming is too expensive :mad:)

Power off - works!