yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
LOL, yeah the threads become a bunch of silly noob questions. I don't remember how it was installed honestly there have been so many updates I lost track and since Clockwork is useless for me at the moment I haven't thought about it. There is a thread over on XDA that someone was able to make an update using FROYO that is 2e so that Clockwork works with it. I haven't tried it yet today. I was watching to see if many had trouble with it. I'm guessing they used a kernal that is based on Eclair and used Froyo ROM, but I am not 100% on that, some are using it with the current Cog 2.2 beta 5.5 so I amy give it a shot. here's the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=804226
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dave the Knave:
Am I the only one who giggled at the typo in the thread title? Cockwork?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbong777:
NO i giggle as well....in embarrassment ...especially when I found I could not edit it..

BTW just tried loading Cognition 2.2 5 ROM with clockwork....no go

I have taken the clockwork.zip off the phone left the Cognition on and going to root and install using Rom Manager.....
[Android Apps and Games] Fl1nt91:
Hello

Is there a program that find the lyric of the song wich is actually playing?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] metallicavix:
instant lyrics lite is pretty good

Sent from my ADR6300
[Android Apps and Games] jeffervesce:
Try shazam
[Android Apps and Games] 11RJB:
Tunewiki is great, and will display the lyrics of whatever song it's playing as if it's a sing-a-long
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] jatilq:
I used to have a Vibrant and backed The two movie files and wondered if there was a way to play this DRMed movie on the Fascinate (shame we didn't get anything extra like a movie on this version considering it's not 16GB)

I'm able to use media hub ripped from another Galaxy S device, just wondering is maybe the avatar APK or another file can make this play. The movie is the perfect size & quality to show how impressive the Super Amoled screen is with the headphones 5.1 sound.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] CouchSpud:
Did you get media hub to work completely? I have it, but whenever I try to enter "My Media" it FC's on me.

Sorry that I have a question rather than an answer for you.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] magicriggs:
I already tried to get avatar from my buddy's vibrant. The file is in .dcf which is basically a format to prevent reproduction. I tried turning into .apk and unzipping and even tried to find a file conversion...no luck. It wasn't like transformers on the HD2, those movies you could just drag and drop in any folder or sd card. T-Mobile got a little bit wiser. But no I can't get avatar to work on any other galaxy s variant. Can't even play it on the desktop. :(
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
Weird. I have a BRRip of Avatar of my fascinate that I use to show everyone the screen quality. It was a drag and drop process.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] jatilq:
I can do that, the point is using the one from Samsung. On the DX it will give a drm error. Just wondered since this is a fascinate
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] magicriggs:
are you sure it was the avatar from the vibrant. Cause when. I pulled it off the phone it was a .dcf file.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
No sorry I misunderstood you. uTorrent is where I acquired this. Maybe remove the drm with some sort of converter....
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nrw2001:
i downloaded a BRRIP from torrents...

used winavi to compress it down...

- Generic mp4 format

- max width x height = 800x480

- i used 160kbps audio.... not realy needed that high of quality but i like it that hi.

- single file - yes

produced an amazing copy of avatar sitting at about 2.2 GB

on that note, what are some other suggestions as to awesome visual movies such as avatar. i like having beautiful movies to show off my fone! lol.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
Iron Man 2 in 720 looks great on this phone. My dad was amazed.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] RacerXFD:
Keith, how did you do that? I tried to copy over the drm infested version from the blu ray and tried unlocking the apple drm. I can't get a solid copy to work on my phone.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
Torrent from isohunt. DRM free. Not supposed to talk about warez here so flame on...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] RacerXFD:
I don't think it's illegal when I own the blu-ray/dvd/digital copy version and I can't get it on my phone because of DRM on my blu ray... Just my thoughts.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
I totally agree. This is why we steal.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] sonofskywalker3:
exactly. for most people DRM creates a problem, it doesn't solve it. The harder something you own is to legally use, the more likely you are to resort to piracy. why don't companies get that?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=owOG5zoFw-0
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] jatilq:
Great not I'm going to have nightmares tonight!
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] chrimage:
I know that the G2 has a "newer" car home app, and I thought it was the latest one until I read this:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/10/car-home-for-android-gets-personal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OfficialGoogleMobileBlog+(Official+Google+Mobile+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

The "newest" car home allows you to add your own shortcuts to it, give car home its own background, and change icon tint color. When you search for it in market, it does not show up.

I am guessing there is little we can do for this without root, but I was wondering if anyone may have an APK that we could install for the updated car home.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] kratos911:
You can use appbrain to update Car Home.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] panguin:
Holy ****. Thank you. I have been looking for a way around this. :D

You're awesome, and you should feel awesome.:cool:

This post should be stickied.

THANK YOU.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] gottijr:
may i ask what is the exact process of updating car home?

thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] borodin1:
I second that. I thought that I updated mine through AppBrain but I don't see any difference (ie few empty spaces for icons and no way to add custom shortcuts).

Can someone may be very nice and upload a working apk or a link for us? Not that I'm lazy, just not sure which one is the right one.

Thank you in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Turbo Brian:
i updated to the newer car home on my nexus and liked the ability re-arrange and add shortcuts. i was missing that on my G2. even tho the app is only for the droid and n1 officially, it works just dandy on my G2. i found the apk via a google search. try this: https://sites.google.com/site/droidlife54/home/com.google.android.carhome-1.apk?attredirects=0&d=1
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] droiderisuser:
This a theme for Xtrsense. I have tried to get as much orange as possible in this theme. I am not done with this completely yet because there are some more things I want to change but I have not had time to do it yet what with life and all.

This theme is largely based off of droidkevlars theme kevlarmash. So most if not all credit goes to him.

Also thanks to zach.xtr for a great rom.

Anyhow here is the theme with some screenshots. If anyone can think of something else they would like to see in it or how to do some new things feel free to let me know.

Disclaimer: The only rom I have tested this on is xtrsense. I am sure it will work on most 2.1 roms however I can not confirm this. If anyone can confirm this for me that would be great.

Disclaimer pt2: If you do this you are doing it at your own risk.

Just wanted to add if everyone wants to post a request for a color other than orange, once I finish with this I will make a new one in whatever color is most requested.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] zerocool79346:
Man if you could make a tarheel blue one, that'd be awesome. If not i'll survive tho haha.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] ErisLove:
it's not working on my phone tried several times using metamorph, says file not written correctly

sucks, bc it looks really cool! i tried re downloading on card but still nothing

any suggesstions?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] droiderisuser:
I do appreciate the color suggestion but Tarheel blue is against everything I stand for. I would have to burn my eyes out before committing such a sin.. (cough) go duke (cough)

I will take a look at it. Have you tried applying it anyway even though it gives you that error when you unzip?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] ErisLove:
it doesnt give me the option, it just kicks me out of metamorph all together
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] droiderisuser:
I was able to duplicate it. I am not sure yet what is causing but, once it kicks you out if you go back into metamorph and click on apply theme it should have it listed as an option and let you apply it even though it kicked you out initially.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] zerocool79346:
Haha ah well. It was worth a shot.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] ram911:
Very nice theme especially considering Halloween. I have run it for four days with no problems. I did get the error message when I unzipped with MM but going right back in showed the xml file in my list of apps.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Comicazy:
Could the OP or anyone tell me what clock is being used in those screen shots? Or where I could find some themed clock widgets? Thanks.

Comic
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] droiderisuser:
It is beautiful widgets
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
Another creation of mine.

This is a blank live wallpaper that allows you to set your own video as a live wallpaper animation!

Lots of codecs and formats are supported.

You need to have your own video (preferably in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 or divx) and set it in the Live Wallpaper's preferences. You can also set an entire folder (and optionally all its subfolders) and the Live Wallpaper will choose between all videos inside (randomly or not, your choice).

If you don't have any videos to play with, try this one or this one or this one. Download them with your computer and transfer them on your Android device, or downoad with the Android device directly (a common download destination is /sdcard/download). Then select one of them with the Video Live Wallpaper. (BTW, these videos are all reencoded electric sheeps designed by cqfd93 of the electric sheep project. Original links to the sheeps: 22906|22706|22551)

The preferences of the Video Live Wallpaper include Help which should help you get started with making your video(s) as live-wallpaper-friendly as possible. A copy of the same help document can also be accessed from here if you want.

Use the following link on your android device or scan this QR code:

Alternatively, you can get the Video Live Wallpaper from this link:

VLW-084b.apk [via mediafire]

Or you can get it from the bottom of this post if you are registrered to xda-developers.

0.84b is the most current version.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrCDWJR:
great job! trying this now
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] frankinstine:
Awesome job, it does work with some mp4 videos too, just a thought, you can try adding zoom out and timed
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Naffets:
Sounds great, but how much does it hammer the battery?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrCDWJR:
i havent seen too much battery drain with this so so far so good.

@OP are there any ideal settings for the best quality or performance?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
trying this now, has google added slovenia to to market list (so you can release paid apps on market?)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mssmison:
very cool app :) Good job.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
Depends on the codec of the video. Mpeg1, mpeg2, mjpeg and divx are amongst the best, x264 (mp4) is not great because it's complex to decode. See help for details for the best codecs and resolutions/frame rates. Or just do the similar to the sample videos: 560x420 (4:3), 20 fps (can go up to 23.976), divx codec, 2500-3500 kbps.

A tough one, since the rendering is heavily optimized on the idea that the entire video doesn't have to be decoded.

What do you mean by timed?

No, not yet (what a shame since we're in EU, we can't even buy paid apps yet).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bud760:
awesome app!!! :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
LWP is added to the market. The link and the QR code are added to the first post.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheMorpheus:
Just downloaded, it seems very interesting!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
New version published:

0.82b, published 2010-10-13

- fixed a bug where changelog kept showing in settings. Sorry about this!

0.81b, published 2010-10-13

- fixed a bug where selecting certain directories would cause force closes

- fixed a bug where selecting a different video file would have no effect (thanks to rod for discovering the bug)

- corrected grammatical errors in help
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cr6:
Great app and premise, but imo doesn't really seem worth it since the quality of the video and fps have to be lowered so much. I'll go ahead and download this to see just how much the quality is degraded as I've got some great hidef videos I wouldn't mind having as wallpaper. Has this been an issue with anyone else?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] paulk_:
I haven't had a problem with the fps of any of the 720p youtube vids I've downloaded, though 720p ends up looking pixellated. 270x360 looks better. Using http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92jyNSaNmT4 and it looks pretty good.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
No reason not to try and experiment. For example on my Nexus, a 1280x720 video in MPEG-1 format will play at about 15 FPS if I disable frame skipping.

If I wanted it faster, I could crop it down to 720x720, which would then be able to be played at 20 FPS.

If I cropped it down further to 432x720 (which is the same ratio as the phone's 480x800 display), it would easily play at 25 FPS which is enough for my eyes, but still in full display's resolution.

If you know how to use ffmpeg, then this command will crop and convert a 720p .mkv file down to 720x720 at 20 FPS .mpg:

ffmpeg -i "720-input.mkv" -an -vcodec mpeg1video -vb 8000k -vf "crop=280:0:720:720" -r 20 "720-output.mpg"

Or this command would crop it to 432x720 at 25 FPS:

ffmpeg -i "720-input.mkv" -an -vcodec mpeg1video -vb 8000k -vf "crop=424:0:432:720" -r 25 "720-output.mpg"

Wicket video! :)

Flv and Mp4, while they work, are not the best formats to use with VLW. Try to convert them to .avi (divx) or .mpg (MPEG-1) for even better results.

Find your own way to convert, or use the free ffmpeg tool in one of the following two ways:

ffmpeg -i "original.flv" -an -vcodec mpeg4 -vb 8000k "converted.avi"
ffmpeg -i "original.flv" -an -vcodec mpeg1video -vb 8000k "converted.mpg"

(bitrate is overrated at 8000k, but the quality will probably be very good)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cr6:
Thanks for the info, I'll definately give it a try!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
Would any one care to donate a little time to make a video tutorial on how to use this live wallpaper? How to select a file to play, how to select an entire folder, what options are there, what video sizes are bad, etc...

I would embed it in the main web page of the app (and of course thank the author):

http://android.ccpcreations.com/vlw/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bryce2010:
best video specs

Hello pikipirs et all! :)

I donatated $10 bucks because I really like the idea of true video wallpaper on my N1 and hope that you continue to develop and improve the app!

One can find lots of great video loops on the net that can be used. Some of them look great (i.e. Wallpaper attachment). Others look poor quality (i.e fs21 attachment). And others stop all together sometimes.

So I guess what I would like is simple, step by step instructions on how to convert or optimize a video so that it looks great and runs smoothly. I've tried using MediaCoder for example to convert the videos that look bad to MPEG1 (which you indicated in the help section was the best format) but they still look bad. What is the best format? Size? Resolution? Frame-rate? So that it looks perfect and how can one convert a video to these specifications? Can any video, formatted correctly, look good?

Oh and another suggestion would be, instead of the app randomly picking videos and switching them all the time, what about the option to only switch it when you 'wake-up' the device so that it doesn't cut into another video while you are viewing it but continues to loop.

Thanks again for the great app. Like I said some vids I've found look great but still, it would be nice to know how to make any video look as good.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bryce2010:
Thanks a lot for the detailed response. Some of it goes way over my head though :confused:

I've had some success with video converting software i.e. MediaCoder. But a lot of the programs are very complicated and technical. I guess you need a lot of understanding about it all which I don't have. I was just hoping you knew of a program or technique that would optimize the video for the program and could provide simple, step by step instructions. But as you say if it really depends on the video itself then maybe that won't help much?

I'm on windows and some scripts for FFmpeg would be great. Trouble is, I have no idea how to use or even how to install FFmpeg! :eek: I went to the download page and I got a tar file - no clue what to do with that! Then downloaded another zip file, extracted it, but clicking on ffmpeg.exe does nothing.

Have you tried MediaCoder? What do you think of it? Looks more user friendly then FFmpeg. But there are so many options it's very technical as well. I tried it to convert the videos to mpeg1 but the videos still didn't look good...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wngmv:
This is a great idea!!! I hope it wouldn't be draining my batteries but have to give it a try!

Thanks a lot!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ysun86:
Great apps but I found out that the memory usage keeps on increasing once I slide my screen or open/close apps. Its like memory leak or something. Is this my problem or the apps?

Dev : xperia x10i with 2.1 generic global, using LauncherPro plus v0.7.9.0 as home.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ysun86:
*Removed. Double post.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
It could be a memory leak, I haven't really checked for it (I have to first learn how to do that in android).

I did notice the app randomly crashing, it might be related to the memory increase.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ysun86:
you can dl the apps called System Panel and you can constantly monitor the memory usage of the VLW while it was running.

You will see the VLM memory usage keeps on increasing each time u close and open the System Panel.

you will get random crashes for small RAM devices such as Hero.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] tscherry70:
Video LWP Source Code

Would you willing to share the source code for this? I've been struggling to create a wallpaper service that plays video, and i'm having issues with MediaPlayer and Surfaces. I was wondering how you got around some of these issues.

Thanks

Todd
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
I'll try that as soon as I have some free time.

No source code. To tell you the truth it woudn't even help you that much. I didn't use the MediaPlayer nor any surfaces directly. It's kind of inefficient the way it's currently made, I've been trying to learn a lot of these stuff myself. Here's a hint to get you started: the decoding core of VLW is the ffmpeg library. The rest can be found on the net. That's where I found it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] abru:
Awesome app!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
New version published:

0.83b, published 2010-12-06

- fixed a bug where memory consumption would slowly raise and eventually crashed the app

- a new feature/setting called Rendering mode is introduced
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] forcedv:
Great app and great idea. Well done.

I want to convert a video to best show off your app on the Galaxy S and as it'll run a short time as a quality demo, I'm not too concerned about battery or system resource drain.

I understand that the container should be .avi and the height 480 and the FPS between 20 and 30.

Question is, what's the best width figure, so the video looks good scrolling from far left to far right?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kotysoft:
Many thanks!

Awesome work, I love it!

ATM I testing best format for my Z71
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pyrator:
Innovative, creative, and 100% pure awesome!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
Width doesn't matter. If you want the same exact behaviour as with static wallpapers, the width should be 2x the height, so 960 in your case. However I recommend true 480p resolution (width should be either 800 or 854 for the 16:9 format videos).

Generally though, the video will always be left-aligned on the far left, and right-aligned on the far right home screen, regardless of display or video resolution.

One other option is to make videos portrait (480x800 instead of 800x480). This would make videos very clean but woudn't scroll because the video would exactly fill the entire display.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] d3tox:
Agreed. This app kicks ass.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikipirs:
New version published:

0.84b, published 2011-03-20

- fixed a bug which prevented this app from working on certain devices like Dell Streak (thanks to guyver3869 for testing)

- fixed a minor memory usage bug, still working on the bigger one
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] android01:
Great app!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zmbutt:
Awesome !

Thank you :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ikaruga1111:
Source Code?

Any chance you'll post the source code?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chichoCRZ:
Very nice work on the Live wallpaper. Worked great on my nexus one. :cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] yoandy10:
Awesome!!!

Just wanted to let you know that this works wonderfully with MP4 videos. I created some wallpapers with video editing software - The Format Factory (it's free online). After much much trial and error to see which settings work the best, here are the settings I use:

1. Click on the "All to MP4" option

2. Click the "Output Setting" tab

3. Make sure your settings look like the attached picture

I included some of the wallpapers I created and use.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shadowsfall7:
To pikipirs

Man, I LOVE this app!!!

I have a couple feature requests that would make this app KILLER!!!

I create really short videos to use as LWP, like an ocean with waves.

The video clips are only around 5 seconds each.

Anyway, I would love to see a loop counter and/or a time counter option

Loop video X amount of times before going to the next one in the folder or

play video for (Say 1 hour) then move to the next.

That way, we can have a nice variety of videos, even real short ones, and not be bored.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wicked1067:
Guess this thread is dead huh?

Does anyone else with an EVO or any other phones have trouble getting .avi's to show up or work with this app?

I am making videos to sell but some phones they dont work on without installing arcMedia as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Warmo161:
Thanks, i've been using this for a few days now and i'm gonna stick with this one!

But, can you give us links to more videos we could use for this?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GramiFIN:
thanks i love this one :):)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TommyX235:
nice one!

is like dreamscene for Win 7
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rkmiks:
This is the most perfect of its kind . So many thanks for this application.

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There is a suggestion , Use lower FPS , it will make it more smooth and disable audio coz thats really not needed.