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[Android Software Development] pyroboy1080:
Thanks

alix776, thanks for the valuable input, upon reading it, I would have to say that it's probably not a good idea to continue developing it, because, as you said, users would suffer from a poor user experience, and it wouldn't be available in areas with poor 3g. Perhaps it will be something that's in our future with verizon soon rolling out their LTE 4G, but for now, I think it's best to let it die. I think I got beat to the punch anyway, because there is a project that is scheduled for release in the very near future. It's called "Wikitude Drive," and is an AR (augmented reality) gps navigation app, which uses the camera to produce the image you see. This idea is a major improvement on mine (well, I bet other people thought of it too, so I can't really take credit for it) in many ways:

- Live imagery ensures that the image is consistent with what the user sees from the driver's seat

- Instead of showing the angle that the camera that took the street view images, the user sees exactly what they're doing, no matter what, which is great, because if you stare at the screen, you are less likely to lose sight of where you're going than if you were looking at a nonvolatile resource

- The image is produced locally on the phone, rather than using the 3g connection, which means a much happier carrier, and also a better user experience than with street view.

- It looks way cooler than anything I could design with street view, as the AR features make for a very nicely rendered UI.

I encourage anyone who runs across this thread to check out Wikitude Drive at the developer's website http://www.wikitude.org/drive

It seems that the app was (is?) in beta this summer, and was scheduled for full release this August, but it has been pushed back many times. I'm sure it will be out and in our pockets soon enough, but until then, I'll be patiently waiting. It looks quite worth the wait, and I bet they must be working very hard to encounter and fix bugs that they find.

Anyway, I wish you all well, and thanks for the interest. :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mynameisjon:
Hi,

I have a Bluetooth Keyboard and I was wondering if there is a way to map a key on that keyboard to function as the four soft keys (Back/Options/Home/Search).

The keyboard works fine but having to go back to press "Back" etc kinda defeats the purpose.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biffy:
I'd like to do this too, did you find anything out Jon?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iynfynity:
why does google dev doesn't give us android users a google chrome browser?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
hey. i am trying to make a flashable zip to do a few mods, including a translucent notification tray, and a modified notification bar. i would reccomend you try it out. the only problem is, i dont have the neccesary files. i could always download fresh, but that would take too long. could somebody plz send me services.jar located in /system/framework/ from the newest fresh? thats all thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
Here you go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
thanks metal. saving me a bunch of time downlaoding. try my theme when i am done with all the smali and baksmali. it will be in the theme section.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
No problem, happy to help. I'll definitely check it out, always looking for new themes.

Check my first post :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IroniX2:
ok here's the deal,

a friend of mine has a htc desire with a weird rom on it, he asked me to change it to something more "normal".

So i flashed Pays-rom v2.2 a2sd+. it all went fine untill i tried to install apps, i always wend back to the splash screen and then back. so i desided to flash a new radio on it. i flashed radion 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2 on it and after it went totally fine, rebooted and it was all ok, but when i rebooted it again it refused to start.. i tryed everyting and it simply would not start. i plugged it in the charger and the led didnt turn on.. but after several times of pulling the battery in started anyways, and worked just fine. :confused:

I showed it to him, and he wanted to have an overclockable kernel so i downloaded one, through Rom Manager i set it to flash it, and upon reboot it never woke up again.

I tryed to pull the battery several times and still no turning on and still no led on charge :( . i dont understand, because on my phone (htc hero) i never had sutch problems.

any help would be apreciated.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali_loly10:
Do u have access to your recovery menu

If so then load it by

Pulling the battery an putting it again

Thn hold volume down and power

Thn navigate by the arrow keys to recovery and press the power button

Now your in recovery

Mount as usb storage

And put a new rom on the memory card and flash it

That's it

Remember that next time you should do a nandroid backup from the recovery menu everynow and then especially before flashing themes and radios

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali_loly10:
Really hope this helped you because when it happened to me i was actually freaked out

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IroniX2:
Nope, could not power up at all. But I figured out that if I pull the battery for 2 hours, I could get it to boot. So I reverted everything back to how it was and as long as it does not power off it work :confused: thanks anyway :-)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
I reformatted (factory wipe) my phone and also formatted my sd card (to remove apps2sd, only using froyo2sd now).

Before the wipe, I was using MixZing with no issues. All the albumart for my songs (embedded into ID3 tag in mp3) showed up with no issue.

After the wipe/formatting, i retransfered about 7gb of music to my sd card, and the album art is not showing. It's not showing in the stock player, in MixZing nor the new winamp player (which i didn't have previously).

I don't know for sure, but I think album art is the responsiblity of the media service in android, not each individual media player, so i'd like to force android scan for album art in mp3 files. Oddly, the poweramp (beta) player (which I also didn't have prior to the reformat) sees that album art just fine, but I believe that it has it's own code for reading artwork)

Is there anything I can do to get this artwork to show back up, i know for sure it's in the the iD3 tags, as I've copied files off of my N1 onto another computer and it shows up in winamp on that computer.

Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
bump. please help!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Just use an mp3 tagger from the market to reload the album art...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highvista:
You're correct that Android's media scanner should process any new music files when you mount your SD card. It creates thumnbnail images on the SD card and indexes them for use by media applications via the Android API. I have a music app that uses this facility. From what I can see, FroYo puts the album artwork thumbs into a folder on the SD card called

Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs

Note that each album thumb file is numbered and without a typical image file extension. If you want to look at a file as an image, you'll need to explicitly open it with an image viewer as a JPG file.

Make sure you don't have a file called .nomedia in the top-level directory where you store your music on your SD card. This tells the Android media scanner to ignore the directory and all directories contained within.

So, I'd suggest mounting the SD card on your computer via a USB cable, checking the above directory, unmounting the SD card, waiting 10-15 minutes for Android to index the music files, re-mounting the SD card, and checking the directory again, to see if there has been any change.

Good luck!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
Thanks I'll try this out. I've gone into the phone and wiped the media storage (Applications -> Manage Applications -> "All" tab -> Media Storage -> clear Data) and that didn't rescan the atwork. I'll check for the .nomedia tag.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
I looked on my SD card, and that directory wasn't there. I also tried to create it, and yet, there's still nothing there. :( oh well.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highvista:
Sorry to hear it's still not working. :( One more thing you could try, to at least see what's going on, is installing the Android SDK on your computer and, with your phone attached via USB, issue the command "adb shell" from a DOS window--assuming you're using a Windows box. Then, at the $ prompt, enter "logcat". This will output log messages. After this, mount and then unmount the SD card. You'll see a lot of messages fly by, but amongst them should be information on the media scanner doing its thing. Or, possibly, you'll see some relevant error messages.

Good luck!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have created a logcat and excluded all the extra unneeded lines. I'm sure more can be removed. I did this by running "adb logcat | tee logcat.txt", then after a while, exiting, and then running "egrep -v" on terms from the log.

cat logcat.txt | egrep -v "dalvikvm|Tethering|WifiService|WifiMonitor|wpa_supplicant|WifiStateTracker|QC_CORE|NetworkStateTracker|Gmail|CalendarsList|ConnectivityService|CalendarsEvents|ActivityManager|GTalkService|CalendarLayoutFiller" > logcat2.txt

My Logcat File (stripped of unneeded info)

I can't seem to find any info on this error in Google. Most of the errors i got were this one:

E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art

I have tried a variety of things to fix the issue

1) Reformatting my SD card again (for the 3rd & 4th times)

2) Clearing the android "MediaStorage" data (Applications->Manage Applications->"All" Tab->"MediaStorage"->"clear data". Then reboot and after the reboot and open the stock media app and wait. Loaded songs again, but not album artwork

3) Looked for Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs as suggested, and I see that this directory did not exist. I tried to create it manually, just in case, and nothing changed

4) Change media folder structure around (originally and currently at /sdcard/media/music/[Genre]/[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Song Title].mp3) I've tried /sdcard/Music, /sdcard/media/MP3

5) ensure no .nomedia files in any directory structure in the path

6) Completely uninstalled Winamp, MixZing & powerAmp from the phone

7) Cleared "MediaStorage" again, with all apps uninstalled

8) Tried reinstalling all the players above, PLUS DoubleTwist player. I have gotten some of the players to read 1 or 2 files successfully, however, i can't consistently reproduce how it got it to do that.

9) Poweramp seems not to rely on the MediaStorage utlity to read the album art, and instead reads it on it's own (so successfully gets it from the file). Would continue to use it, but it's beta and still constantly crashes, plus no lock screen widget

10) Gotten "Album Art Grabber Free" from Market, however, I have alot of non mainstream songs, so it can't find artwork for about 60% of my collection, so still not ideal.

11) Gotten "SDrescan" from the market as well.

12) MixZing will download album art, but downloads it from internet, and runs into same problem as "Album Art Grabber Free", plus, stores it in an app specific folder, not in the common folder, so artwork is only available in MixZing and not other players.

I had this working before, I can't believe formatting my phone and SD cards so that it was "stock" has given me a problem like this. ANyway, thanks for your help!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
I've had problems with Mixzing...

Best way to deal with Mixzing is to hide your media from it (I place a . in front of the folder name, ie. Media becomes .Media).

Open Mixzing, and delete all the media (it can't find it, so don't worry, but it will delete the database).

Reboot.

Remove the . from the folder name.

Use mp3tagger to update album art.

Relaunch Mixzing, and rescan for media.

Hey presto! Fresh new database!

Has always worked for me... :-)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruineraz:
So i upgraded to the latest nightly for CyanogenMod (v227 -> v232). I also ran the fix permissions script. Either one of those two (i'm thinking the fix permissions) fixed the issues, and everything works fine now.

:)
[Captivate General] appydawn87:
I was wondering if anyone else experienced EXTREME improvements today after updating Google Maps?? I am to 10-20 meters of accuracy compared to the normal 400 meters. It actually shows me at my house which is WAY WAY in the country!
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
Most of the time I'm at 10 meters, sometimes it'll get to 5 meters. Maybe it's improved, maybe not.
[Captivate General] mudfarmer:
Mines still off by 5-6 miles. Odd because when i first got it my location was only off by 1/2 mile.
[Captivate General] alaiwy:
I didn't get to drive but I did get a very fast navigation lock that never happens for me. Also I got a lock inside my house within 10 meters. And the navigation lock was also inside.
[Captivate General] oswade:
Well I tried it with GPS off, here in australia, and my location was only 2 houses off. This is a massive improvement. But that's just based on cell phone towers i guess.., dunno about actual GPS improvement but that would also be nice :)
[Captivate General] tysj:
Noticed this as well. Was in Orchard Supply earlier and tried out the GPS because my brother was asking about it (he's been thinking about getting captivate). Was able to get a very accurate lock INSIDE the store showing in about 20 seconds where I actually was in the store which was nuts (actually it was pipe fittings aisle :P). Tried navigation home from class during the afternoon and it took about 10 seconds to get a lock and never lost me the whole way. My GPS was working fine before but now it's even more accurate/faster.
[Captivate General] zeamany:
I second this. I tried with the GPS at home. Locked very quickly, and about 10 meters. Navigation seems working fine too.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Sounds like GMap finally defaults to use A-GPS mode which means faster lock. Accuacy? Not affected.
[Captivate General] drfubar:
TRY THIS

Referring to INDOOR accuracy with GPS module off.

I'm noticing that if I have WIFI AND USE WIRELESS NETWORKS ON, the indoor accuracy has improved massively. If I turn WIFI OFF but leave Use Wireless Networks ON, I seem to get standard cell tower location of 500 - 1000 meters.

So, Im assuming this update has enabled Google's version of Skyhook in maps.

Im pretty sure thats what it is since I dont have to be connected to an access point for it to work. Just have WIFI ON.

Nice.

Everyone should disable Skyhook from the LBSmode. I had it disabled since my phone got updated to JH7 but for those how don't...

My settings from factory are:

Skyhook OFF

GPS plus OFF
[Captivate General] larmor19:
I to see a improvement. I drive 80 miles one way to work and never lost lock. This has never happened before.
[Captivate General] emuneee:
What is GPS plus?
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Wi-fi location fix has been in Google Maps for a long time now. It is not new.
[Captivate General] rbtconsultants:
Here's my opinion on this. I have nothing to back this up other than what I interpret from behavior I have seen, so it is strictly my opinion/guess.

Ignoring any GPS hardware or software issues there may or may not be, I think that Google Nav has issues from time to time. I don't know if it is because it relies on 3g data to paint maps and determine routes or whatever, but I think it seems to "lag" sometimes. And if it gets a bit off track, it takes too long to recover. Maybe it does it more on a system that struggles with GPS accuracy a bit more, I don't know.

So, my guess would be that an update to Google maps would not contribute anything to a faster GPS lock or more accuracy from GPS, since I guess this happens at the OS level.

However, what we see when navigating, is Google NAV(maps) interpretation of the GPS. So, when it teleports you off the road maybe it's because it isn't smart enough to think, "Hey, a car doesn't just teleport off a road, so I'll wait a couple more seconds to see if it returns before I show it off the road". It already does this to some degree since your accuracy under good conditions can be 10 or 15 meters which could easily put you on a lawn or sidewalk but NAV continues to show you on the road.

So, maybe, Google Maps updates can help make the Nav experience better by being smarter about interpreting GPS data and showing your position within the context of driving a car down the road.

My $.02

Bob
[Captivate General] drfubar:
So do your maps show better accuracy or not? Since that is the topic of the thread you might as well refer to the topic. Or are you just trying to show everyone you know better?

One thing is that the feature was there, another is if it worked properly.

Now it works. Before it didn't.
[Captivate General] appydawn87:
My navigation isn't the best but I am thrilled to have a quick lock in the boonies where I live... GPS worked decent but lagged in little rock our biggest city.... but I haven't been to the city since the update... I'll let everyone know if it can now navigate there. ... I know my location contributes to the issues!!!! But again I was thrilled to be getting locks!
[Captivate General] Futan21:
I updated Maps yesterday and the AGPS sometimes says I'm in Georgia now(I live in PA), lol, in the middle of a highway no less. :P However the GPS is working better. I got my first lock ever as well as the first time my GPS has ever seen more than 3 satellites(saw 6).
[Captivate General] rbtconsultants:
All I can say is that I would be VERY surprised if an update to Google Maps helped GPS locking, how many satellites it sees, or accuracy at the GPS layer on the device.

However, I would not be surprised if a Google Maps update helped with navigation use or even placing you on a map, since it Google Maps can modify it's interpretation of the GPS position.

If your GPS was spotty before, then thinking you are seeing more satellites or better accuracy, using something like GPS Status, is just a placebo.

However, this is pure speculation on my part. I suppose it's possible that Google have modified something at the device layer that controls the GPS chip, but I'm thinking not.

My feedback would be to exchange your phone if your GPS is spotty. I did and my new phone has pretty much perfect GPS.

Bob
[Captivate General] fldude99:
How can you tell the actual accuracy in ft or meters in google maps?
[Captivate General] baseballfanz:
If anything for me GPS lock is take longer than before update.:mad:
[Captivate General] newter55:
If it is of by that much it is only giving you a network provided location...not a gps position. Turn off use wireless networks to see a gps location

Sent telepathically using vulcan mind meld app.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Yes, whenever wi-fi is on and there are some wi-fi signals nearby, the accuracy is way better than cell tower trianglation although not as good as GPS (about 2 or 3 times the accuracy range of Captivate GPS). I've been using this feature all summer when I toured various university campuses when inside the halls. Is that good enough envidence?

Google has been offering wi-fi geo-location for years (even being sued multiple times for collecting private information). There are even (3rd party) PC drivers out there that you can install to use this for positioning on your PC/laptop without a GPS receiver.

Just because you're ignorant, doesn't mean it didn't work before.
[Captivate General] rajendra82:
Tap on the blue arrow at your location.
[Captivate General] drfubar:
Haha touring universities? thats what u did last summer? Ok little one this is an adult conversation, take your little teeny bopper horemones to see those pictures u use to entertain yourself and leave the topic to the adults. bye now.

Ok back on topic. Google's wifi positioning is now correctly functioning on the captivate. It was not before.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Sorry, take your BS elsewhere. I was touring universities with my son. Grow up and admit you were wrong.

I had my first smartphone when you were still wearing diapers.
[Captivate General] newter55:
I don't dount your age, but the feature never worked for me either.

Sent from my speak and spell
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Did you have the ' use wireless network for location' on in phone settings and turn on the wi-fi? It only works when there wifi signal nearby and probably have to be in google's database. Like I said, it worked for me in various cities during summer.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Yes I did and could never get anything more then a cell tower location when gps could not get a lock. Perhaps the database theory is relevant.

Sent telepathically using vulcan mind meld app.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Most places I tried were big cities where probably Google spent a lot of time collecting all the wi-fi data. I was also supprised to see it is working in my neighborhood, 50 miles out of Washington D.C. Those Google trucks do travel to a lot of places:) And of course, my own wi-fi router is already in Google's database :(
[Captivate General] edgeman:
Travelling between arkansas and texas, I go the back routes and due to the hills, I'll lose gps lock at times, but recover pretty quickly once levelled out. Locks seem more stable at the tops of hills vs. in the valleys (for obvious reasons). The latest google maps update is nice... to me, it seems to have improved the stability of the lock (currently running 2.1 update 1 - thinking about the froyo leak release).

The voice nav feature is quite awesome too, as I can be texting and doing other things and still getting "voice alerts as to when to turn" - which would be near impossible if the GPS wasn't functioning extremely well since seconds matter when in this mode. Usually, the voice command is within seconds of the impending turn... quite accurate and timely. BTW - there are times when I lose tower signal but keep GPS signal - no problems - the voice nav still works like a charm.

...just my personal experiences...
[Captivate General] YoungGun821:
Didn't you read the sticker on the phone when you first get it? "Don't text and drive" :p

I updated the other day, haven't noticed much of a difference. Always worked fine for me.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Ok just tested after upsetting maids and can confirm that using wireless networks now works. It will locate me precisely with gps turned off. This was not possible before (for me at least) so the update to maps certainly has enhanced this feature.

Sent telepathically using vulcan mind meld app.
[Captivate General] a.vandelay:
i updated friday and drove home from work with navigation. i live in pittsburgh so the roads are as complicated/screwed up as any city, and i do not take the route suggested by google (traffic).

overall the lock times seem improved to 15m accuracy, but never better than 10m accuracy and it often had me on the wrong road (6-lane highway) but claiming 10m accuracy -- that's bad. i'd rather it say it doesn't know where i am then have it insist i'm somewhere else. every time i deviated from the suggested route it lost me and lost the signal for some reason and had to start over.

oh, and my phone is one of the first i think, i pre-ordered as soon as i could. so my conclusion is no improvement :(.