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[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Zune Automatically converts videos to a format that is usable on the phone.

Just because it's an AVI video, that doesn't mean the phone can play that specific codec. Also, some bitrates, etc. may not be supported (not sure on that).

Windows Media Player does the same thing for Windows Mobile 6.x, and even DoubleTwist does the same thing for Android devices.

Also, Zune uses MP4 formats. There is no Windows Media player in Windows Phone 7. It's a Zune HD with a phone.

This is like complaining why iTunes is converting you WMAs to AAC before syncing them to you iPhone... ... ... ...

Media Synching software has been doing this for close to a decade, if not longer.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Bolox a 720p Family guy blue harvest in divx (my own copy) was converted to mp4 but resolution was not lowered.

A 720p family guy something dark side in mp4 was converted to mp4 but resolution was not lowered or audio adjusted.

A stock resolution death race in wmv was at first not recognised by zune but worked ok in WMP and microsoft movie maker as a wmv file. After that zune suddenly recognised it but still converted it to wmv before copying.

A mobile resolution 320x240 family guy seazon 8 in wmv was not converted at all it was saying converting percenteg went to 5% and then suddenly 100% and it was syncing.

There is an issue there with zune not knowing what it does.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
What is bolox?

There are different version of the Windows Media codec. That's not telling much. Do you have a list of which WM Codecs the Zune HD/WP7 supports?

Most media players will transcode unsupported formats to a supported format when you sync files to the phone.

Lots of them will also convert pictures to a supported format as well.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Yep right wmv being microsoft code wmv = windows media video yet it still transcodes them. On top of that PC with no extra codecs just what is in win7, plays it so why it would not be the same?

On top of that I compress videos always with the same profile. Some videos get converted some do not.

One more windows live movie maker from windows essentials 2011 has option to save in windows phone format. Which is specific resolutions and codec (mp4) with no ability to change anything in that, unlike other profiles, yet zune still converts that to mp4.

Check your facts before posting. Microsoft introduced those profiles just wp7 release and they do not work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
Ruscik, I am following a similar issue and am trying to push MS into enabling avi containers, but like you mention this issue is much bigger then I initially thought.

Would you please be so kind to raise your concern in these posts:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8987038#post8987038

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...7/thread/b71af2ac-9f72-4b10-a5ee-eaa29c1933e7
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Back from holiday and posted my greef on ms forum plus many more.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vadra:
I bought the HTC Advantage X7500. It’s block on A1 and there is German rom. I would like there to give England a new rom and unlock for operator.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scirio:
Been two days now that the stock Gmail app has stopped marking read emails as read. They still look like they've been read and the subject text loses its boldness indicating it has been but the new message counter indicated that it hasn't. Logging in to Gmail from a PC also shows they've not been marked read. Forcefully marking them read doesn't do the trick either.

In the app I can use GMail style searches (which are awesome and I love by the way) to find unread emails and they show up, in bold, and unread. I'm talking about doing a search like "is:unread" by the way.

I want to reinstall Gmail.apk but not sure wher to get it... link?

UPDATE: Duh, its in the market.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
hi all.

I have this phone 3rd day now and here are issues I discovered while using it.

It is a great phone,but needs serious update from guys in HTC.

-Navigation feature is utterly useless.it is so damn slow.in compass mode it is showing wrong direction.also I miss footprints implementation with Google maps.I know,you can open certain footprint in GM but I meant full support.this is only my suggestion but all in all navigation app is horrible and I think once used,it slows the DHD down.

-Sometimes it lags like hell.at least for me.I have installed only apps I've used before on old Desire and there I had no problems with slowdowns or lag.I am using app from market called "SystemPanel".basically it shows all your phone activities an running processes.it can also monitor phone performance over time.this app is showing that every time I wake up DHD CPU usage rises to 100% and stays there until I switch screen back off.then it drops to almost nothing.unfortunately it doesn't show which processes are using this much resources.this app always pointed me to the right direction when I was tracking down defective apps.i have already emailed the developer about this.it could be compatibility issue with this app and new DHD.it also shows that right after reboot almost 75% of RAM is in use.really?this phone has a huge RAM and if this is correct reading,than HTC did a lot of bad coding while making this new Soft.after some time of use my DHD becomes sluggish and lags a lot.I got rid of Samsung Galaxy S because of it's lag issue.I never had any similar problems on old Desire and it has much smaller RAM and was running on 2.1!

-Sync function is a bitt dogy as well.it takes ages to sync all the accounts and it took few attempts to sync with my Google account.I've seen someone posting about this,so I know I am not the only one with this problem.this brings me to all new

-htcsense.com.nothing seems to work right.at least for me.and this was one of the most highlighted features when this phone was announced.

-Camera software is not what I expected.I doubt it is hardware problem.it is just poorly programmed.in low-light conditions quality simply sucks.and I just don't understand why camcorder cannot work on higher frame rate.

-flash support is not that good too.If you select option in browser to "always use" after a while of browsing od flash sites phone gets so slow reboot is needed.after such a long time Adobe still cannot make proper mobile version.that is a fail by me especially when these days mobile devices are in almost everyone pocket and are widely used for web browsing.

That's about it.sorry that you had to read such long post,but that's my DHD experience so far.

My point is that guys un HTC software kitchen should sit down and fix this IMO rushed release and give as an proper update.until then this is great hardware being hold hostage by poor software.it is unacceptable for phone with such specs to be performing like this.

Come on HTC.we know you can do better.

Please share your experience too...
[Desire HD General] Endr1:
I agree. I've gotvl the very same issue. I would really like to use stock android 2.2 like my old n1 waiting for a very necessary update
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
stock ROM is one solution.but i enjoyed HTC Sence on Desire.i hope they wil fix this one.

thx for confirming.at least i know i am not the only one with this problems.
[Desire HD General] teihoata:
I swapped out htc sense for launcherpro and also stopped all the syncing that htc sense requires like facebook for sense, twitter for sense, htc sense, stocks, news and weather.

I then set profiles within setcpu to allow for performance when the screen is on while scaling back the processor whilst the screen is off.

Installed spare parts and sped up some of the animations and bam! my desire hd is as fast as my nexus one was with CM6 with over-clocked kernel and all the lag has disappeared. I also have over 30 apps I have installed myself.

The problem with flash I'm sure will be fixed sometime, everyone is experiencing this slow down.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
i have purchased LauncherPro before.did not want to go down that road,but i think i will swap Sense for this launcher for a while to see how it performs.
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Does the lagging also occur when your're running stock? Do you use a task killer?

My phone has no programs with lag!

Oops sorry my post was a question to the OP
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
i don,t know what you mean by "running stock".

and no.i don't use any task killer.don't think it is needed in Froyo.
[Desire HD General] Antlink:
Ive found a lot of the slow down is from programs starting up and starting in the ram most I found from htc :/ I've used root and a auto memory manger (one that uses the system, not an app killer) and now my phone runs great :) next step is full root and a custom rom to fully cut out the bloat : D
[Desire HD General] berek9999:
Have you people who are suffering from performance problems installed the OTA update? It was supposed to fix some performance issues IIRC. My DHD is blazingly fast and i have around 100 apps installed. I run SystemPanel too and haven't seen any high cpu use.
[Desire HD General] hapid:
Unfortunately I have to agree as well. Lags the whole time, ages to load the picture gallery with about 200 photos. But the worst thing, it is not supporting ActiveSync with Exchange 2010, for me incredible! I feel like on HD2 at the beginning, great hardware but bad software. On DHD I was sure that the software must be better but it is disappointing. I never had such lags on the HD2 even with the worst ROMs. I am also a bit diasappointed from the home screen. On HD2 with Co0kie home tab I had a lot of more information as I have now. The Market, for me the biggest improvement, is not really working since the begining, needs 20 retry to download a 1 MB app. I am sure HTC will fix most of the software problems but currently it is disappointing.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
i will give this a go.

it is a shame that in the end i have to get rid of HTC software.i know some may not agree with me but i like HTC's software.i loved what they did since i had my old Touch Pro.Manila made that phone different from others that time and ever since i was buying HTC phones for their innovative approach.i cannot believe they screwed up so much this time.but i've seen them fixing their mistakes before so i still have hope.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
yes.i applied OTA as a first thing after first boot.before i set up any account sync or installed any software.

EDIT: I got DHD after the OTA was released.
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
I meant "out of the box" I'm asking because you seem to point to the HTC software as the culprit for your lag problems, but it is not so clear to me why you come to this conclusion. I also use CPU monitoring aps, and my CPU load is mostly 0%. So how do you know it's not another app? Did you do a reboot? what happened after that.

I know it is not needed to run a Task killer, but it could be the reason for your lag, that's why I asked.
[Desire HD General] kingcedz:
Maybe it needs gingerbread :)

Having said that, there is already report gingerbread will be out (on at least one handset) on 8th Nov. I m not convinced HTC will update DHD to Gingerbread for at least a few month given their track record with the past model. There will probably be only 1 update for the life time of DHD.
[Desire HD General] Endr1:
Is launcher pro a valid alternative to the sense? I mean will use more power and drain my battery faster? To use the memory manager should you get root? With Paul's visionary?

I am not giving up on sense just yet but I would like to know if there are alternatives...
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
well i noticed this after a few first hours of using DHD.that was before and after i added 3rd party software.the main reasons why i think that the cause of this lag is HTC software are...

-after a while of using Navigation app phone started to lag

-if i add navigation widget and then i navigate to that page on the home screen there is almost instant lag.

-it is not only Navigation app but some others too.like friend stream,htc peep etc.this apps worked fine on old Desire.i was using them on daily basis so i am sure.

-almost every other non HTC app i use runs smooth.

-when i sync my Gmail only,it is just fine.but if i use HTC sync all widget it is just painfully slow and it is slowing down the whole phone.

can you please recommend me an CPU monitor app you are using?so i can check my DHD with it.
[Desire HD General] Endr1:
Market is down.

The app is system panel and costs 3$.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
i stated in my first post that this is an app i am using to monitor my phone.

problem is,it is showing me constant 100% CPU usage while phone is on but it doesn't show which app is responsible for this being such i high value.SystemPanel always worked without a problem for me and i always found defective apps with it.but in this case i have no idea how to track it down.SystemPanel simply doesn't see it or registering it.confused here a bit...
[Desire HD General] berek9999:
SystemPanel works fine for me and usually shows < 10% cpu. Maybe you have something installed that's not fully compatible with the new Sense that is causing the problem? It seems there is a genuine problem here with quite a few people reporting it. The difficult bit is working out what it is of course since it's not affecting everyone.
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Try OSmonitor, in settings you can set it to show processes according to CPU load etc. I also use that app for looking at differnt logs eg. battery logs.

Perhaps you can also try SeePU for showing CPU and RAM usage in your notification bar! I like that I can see what's going on!

I'm trying to replicate yor problems using Navigation and Friendstream, but it doesn't slow down. You didn't install the youtube update by any chance?
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
it might be.but so far i haven't been able to track it down.

thx for suggestions.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
yes.i installed this update but after a while i uninstalled again.

i will try your suggested apps and report back.
[Desire HD General] Tezray:
My first hd was useless it lagged typing, the camera was rubbish and slow sometimes loaded up Orange and wouldnt go normal until closed several times and opened again. The photos took so long to load I gave up trying to view them. The sides of the screen were Sharp metal. The camera looked like it was facing downwards. I swapped it for another one and the new one is like a dream come true absolutely amazing none of the problems the old one had. Also the first one had proximity problem out of the box but new one was fine. Guess I had a faulty one but it was one of the very first ones.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
well.my is one of the first ones.i think.but my screen fits perfectly and camera seems fine too.loading images in gallery is one of my problems too.hope it is not faulty unit.

i instaled OSmonitor and it is also indicating over 95% of CPU load.

it states that process

"/init" is responsible for this.i have no idea what that is tho.

UPDATE:

the rest of many other running processes are showing zero or minimum CPU load.and my RAM is down from 638 to 113.that is too much being used.i think
[Desire HD General] wakers:
I must be lucky my dhd is lag free and I've been on holiday this week constantly using navigation with no issues at all mine is totally stock prob got 50 apps installed and running perfectly had a hd2 before and could only dream of getting it as smooth as this :)
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
lucky you,then ;-D

i hope this thread will help me and others with similar problems to get our DHDs to the state like yours is.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
OK.i did some research and for all of you with laggy DHD please install free app from the market called OSMonitor.

then see if your CPU is being used to almost 100% by process "/init"

seems like it is not unknown problem and all other types of phones are suffering by this.

bad news is i haven't been able to find any solution for this.some people are actually saying that it might be a hardware issue.hardreset did not solved this for most people. :-(

if i'll find an answer or solution i will report back.

please if you find anything share your finds.
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Could you post a logcat log? I'm not sure if I can see what's wrong, but I'm sure there will be some more advanced users who will!
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
not sure how to set this app to make a log which could help to locate this annoying problem.what type of log should i use?
[Desire HD General] Tezray:
I installed it and my /init was at 0% in sleep. Everything except Android using 7% and xda app using between 17% and 42% was at 0%. I had 250k free and CPU between 7 and 10%. I did have several other apps open too like fringe, news. Shame I don't have that other phone aswell it had every single problem going.
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
download alogcat from the market. I think this is the easiest way!
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
the thing is that after reset everything goes back to normal.for a while.then something triggers this (what might be loop) and /init file starts eating up resources again.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
yeah.did that.but in settings there is more types of logging this app can use.i don't know which i should use to create the right log.
[Desire HD General] mazzuli:
I suppose they're gonna fix htcsense.com and android market.. After that I'm perfectly happy.
[Desire HD General] combat goofwing:
im new to android and i thought once you ht the home button in an app that the app closed yet on system panel it shows all sorts of apps still running?
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
If I am correct than if everything works as it should and you hit the back or home button app goes into some sort of sleep mode.it is in RAM but,but it is not using CPU.obviously there are exeptions when app needs to be running all the time therefore it is not going into this sleep mode.once your RAM gets filled up Android should start closing unneeded apps.I am quite new to Android too,so I might be wrong on this one.
[Desire HD General] berek9999:
I just tried OSMonitor and /init is showing 0%. MY RAM is also showing about 113Megs so I think that's probably ok and not the cause of the problem.

Have you thought of rooting your phone with VISIONary and then using Titanium Backup to backup everything, and then uninstalling stuff to see if the problem goes away. Then you can just restore it again with Titanium Backup. Bit of a hassle but might be worth it to see if you can narrow it down to one app.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
I did a hard reset this morning.all I did was setup my accounts and did not install anything except OS monitor.after about half an hour problem was back without me touching the phone.

I am more confused then I was before.I just don't see a reason why a hardware fault should be causing this sort of issue.hope there are clever people out there and knows the answer for this.
[Desire HD General] Endr1:
Happy to report some solutions. I have cheked with Osmonitor and my process are all fine.

I got rid of facebook app sync and kept only htc facebook sync with only feed and NO contacts sync. I cancel weather, news and all the other htc stuff. Finally sync is running smooth.

Location app and widget is really horrible, got serious memory and code problems, just do not use it, it will produce lag.

Spare parts to kill the animation of the windows.

Visionary + Set Cpu to get profiles to reduce battery usage when screen is off.

With this config I unplugged at 9:30 and with 20 min calling, 20 min bluetooth music, 3 sms and 10 mails, the battery is at 90%.

On standby it uses 1% per hour which is nearly my n1 consumption...

We will see at the end of the day, I'll post results!

No reboot in 36 hr.
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
I don't have Facebook account active and I have no idea how to remove weather and news.this cannot be removed.the closest thing to"removing"these two is set to sync once a day.

I've started considering return of my DHD.I am pretty disappointed here.seems that lately HTC is struggling with quality control and with hardware quality...
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Why don't you post a logcat log? It should be interesting to see if something can be found there! Maybe that way we can help other peolpe with the same problem. It seems a FroYo related problem.

Have you tried a factory reset yet? Why are you now saying it is a hardware problem? I thought you said it was a softwareproblem caused by HTC Sense?
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
Ok guys.

I think I made a progress on this one.

Here is the whole story...

When I bought the DHD I took it out of the box switched it on and after first setup screens instantly applied the OTA update.after reboot i then installed all my apps and pretty much since then I had experienced lag and sluggishness.then I installed SystemPanel and OSmonitor and booth were indicating constant 100% of CPU usage.

This morning I did hard reset twice.not via settings but Power button+volume down one.

After phone booted and passed initial setup screens problem was there again.I tried not to set up any sync accounts did not install any 3rd party apps and even disabling sense did not solve this issue.

But then I removed battery for a few seconds and performed hard reset once again straight after I put battery back.

It has been 5 hours since then and my DHD is blazing fast.in fact since I have this phone I don't remember it to be so fast.

For testing I installed all my apps again,set up all accounts to sync,played some videos,YouTube,used navigation app for some time,played angry birds...

I keep OSmonitor on my task bar so I can keep an eye on CPU usage.it is absolutely normal.most of the time is on zero.I restarted phone few times and so far the problem seems to be gone.I hope it will stay this way.fingers crossed.

But one more thing I did and it might be important.I disabled FAST BOOT function.

Still testing this out,but I can honestly say this is a first time I see a real DHD.superfast and stable.

If you having this issue try this.you have nothing to loose.

Will report back later.
[Desire HD General] wakers:
happy days :-)
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Good news! Hope it stays like this!
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
so after almost 24 hours of testing with about 70 apps installed and every account available set to sync i haven't been able to reproduce this problem.my CPU usage is back to normal and DHD is fast like it has never been before.finally i am falling in love with this phone.without the constant lag i was getting before this is the ultimate android experience.i think battery life has improved ass well but it is too early to say that for sure.

i think OTA update installed on the phone messed up something and when i removed battery and performed hardreset right after it sorted this out somehow.

but i am no expert.

anyway.if you suffer from problems like mine were try my solution and share your findings.
[Desire HD General] rogueblade:
Judging my the OP's sig I don't anything will ever make him happy. He is too good for this world
[Desire HD General] polystirenman:
or he is just a gadget freak...:-D
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
The /init is what we should be looking at, when the phone is running fast then the /init is at 0%...wait for the phone to lag and check the /init and you will see its at 95% - 100%...every single time it is this process that is causing the lag...I have no idea what it is or what its doing or what it is used for but Id bet that once the /init can be sorted then there will be no more lag..

EDIT - After reading other forums it seems that the /INIT problem is related to Froyo itself, people have gone back to 2.1 and the problem never came back, updated to 2.2 and the problem was there again...from one of the forums...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7da0c666e8ffbc36&hl=en

EDIT 2 - I use Watchtower to monitor the /init in the processes tab and its a free app..