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[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Haraldr Blaatand:
This is not about "how do I make a boot animation." I've got the packaging and installing down.

This is about how to fix, tweak, and optimize the animation images to get a smooth consistent animation.

I have a boot animation that I'm working on. It's based on the stock animation. I just want to tweak it to my likings. Also, I've made a splash screen that is a composite of animation frames, plus HTC and unrevoked logos (see attached preview).

I have 3 parts to my animation:

Fade from splash to stock frame 10 (replacing the Droid) (avg size ~120kb)

Bulk of the stock animation (begins around 90kb and drops to 21kb)

Loop of the eye with the red dots moving (all ~21kb)

My problems:

My fade section is yielding some black screens (maybe I'm pushing the CPU too hard and it just skips frames).

The loop is WAY too fast. (small frame size = FAST playback?)

Doubling the frames for the eye loop results in a choppy, not much slower animation. It looks like a caching thing to me.

So... Any tips or suggestions for working around the animation "bugs"?

My gut is telling me it's a file size (speed is controlled by data bandwidth) and/or compression issue (speed is controlled by CPU rendering time).
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Haraldr Blaatand:
Compiled tips

List of tips and tricks

???
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruggerxpunk:
I did a search and maybe I'm blind but I planned on trying out the Desire Z ROM today and now I can't find it...

Did someone force it to come down?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermaine151:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=813289
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruggerxpunk:
Thanks and close thread... and I feel like they should put Desire Z in the thread title... lol
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IncredibleDoes:
NO point for the Z now, since HD is not getting worked on... Sense is fine.

ID

but, ill put desire z just for you :)
[Desire HD General] saquib:
I know on some other Android phone's (e.g. G1 http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/volume-increase-hack-found-18107/), a software modification has allowed for much higher volume.

Not sure if actually increases the speaker volume as well, or just through headphones?
[Desire HD General] waxfresh:
+1 for the speaker!
[Desire HD General] Café King:
Agree! The speaker is WAY too low!!!

/CK
[Desire HD General] vibez:
+1 here too
[Desire HD General] Electic:
It would be nice, the speaker is crazy quiet.
[Desire HD General] who knows:
i wonder wot the reason was for them to keep it at that level of sound and is way to queit
[Desire HD General] wiwaxia:
Or it possible use the front speaker for avi/video/streaming?
[Desire HD General] YumYumHD:
It seems everyone has the low volume speakers.

I noticed that Angry Birds seems to be a little bit louder than other things.

Anyway, I highly urge everyone that thinks this is a problem to give this feedback to the HTC customer support. Obviously this is the only way to get an official fix for this quicker, if at all.
[Desire HD General] appelflap:
Wonder if the speaker can handle a increase in max volume.

Anyway, aren't there hidden service menus on the Desire HD that can be triggered with a phone code? In the service menus of a phone there are always some nice parameters to tweak.

I tried some general codes, but none of them seems to work (except the *#*#INFO#*#* of course, but that's a general hidden android menu... even works on the emulator)
[Desire HD General] Thyrus:
until we get access to the rom via Bootloader, there is no general tweak we can do.

However, just for music, try PowerAmp from the market. It has a great pre-amp setting to boost the volume (be careful not to blow your speakers though) :)
[Desire HD General] Café King:
We want increasement in the general speaker volume... Not just music :)

/CK
[Desire HD General] adwinp:
You can do that, but you will need a script to do that at every launch, since /system write is not permanent.

Furthermore, after each time you adb push the files, you need to restart mediaserver in order pull in the new settings.

Last but not least, you will need to modify the DHD audiopara, since the G2 might not work well.
[Desire HD General] anoniem:
To make the long story short... SPAM HTC's EMAIL!!:mad:

WE DIDNT BUY THA F*CKING PHONE FOR THIS ISSUES ...

And they thought they could fool us ... with their Dolby and SRS enhancements!

Disguzting!!
[Desire HD General] who knows:
worse comes to worse ill rip this open and find a replacement speaker, i cant even hear it ring in my pocket and im missing calls
[Desire HD General] YumYumHD:
I experienced the same, missing calls because the damn volume is just too low!

Also, when you use the speakers when having a phone call, you can't even hear the person unless you're in an absolutely quiet room... The same goes for music, youtube, navigation..... Anything!!!??!? :mad:
[Desire HD General] zen123:
I returned mine because of the low speaker volume. I was missing 99% of calls because I couldn't hear the phone ringing. In my business I just can't afford to miss calls. As I sold my normal desire to get this phone I had to buy an Orange San Francisco to use till something else comes along.

I was playing with a friend's Nokia N8 & have to say the speaker quality & loundness is outstanding on it. Also used as a phone its much better than the DHD. Shame the OS is a bit dodgy.
[Desire HD General] Semi666:
speaker

I am not sure if you are speaking about speakers of DHD in general or just about external. Well, Ive sent back my DHD to Vodafone because call speaker was so useless that I could not even hear other person when I had TV on. Hopefully it was just one bad piece but its apparent that HTC fcked up DHD with poor quality speakers in general. I am waiting for my phone replacement and even when I know that it would be hard to say DHD goodbye I am afraid Ill have to if speaker quality will be that bad again :(
[Desire HD General] dubbeld00:
http://www.bel.fi/~alankila/android-dsp/

Why don't we use this... compile libaudioflinger and DSP Manager, in which we can set presets (you can +10 every channel of sound, so it comes out 10x louder).

Good luck compiling... I couldn't find an example :)

http://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_base <-- libaudioflinger is in /libs/ (yes it's default in Cyanogenmod)

http://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_DSPManager DSP Manager android application, yes everyone should be able to compile this one ;)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] shadowillusion:
Hi,

could someone try it in your Mini or Mini Pro?

I don't know if I'm right but I had tested it a moment ago. I shoot a video with my Mini at the same way Rikard @ SE product blog did with his X10 in auto-focus test and the focus automatically readjusted... I don't know if Mini has the same behavior in 1.6, but if it's not...

If it's not, then although SE hasn't added HD Video Recording, they had added Continuous Autofocus in Video Mode since 2.1! And I thought continuous autofocus is more important than HD (VGA is enough for me :p )

Bear in mind, that it may struggles more in low light condition... You can try to turn on the flash light :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] siddharthsai:
Yes it has continuous AF + the camera shutter speed has been improved..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Subl0w:
Have they added zoom?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] siddharthsai:
no zoom , but you can use 3rd party apps for that!!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] --__LoRiS__--:
what's the best camera zoom app name?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Samberoony:
is there any tap to focus apps?
[Vibrant General] adinis78:
Ok so i started this thread as a result of what happen to me. He is my story, i was on Bionix Fusion 1.1 w/Voodoo and of course i had that backed up along with Bionix 1.9.1 w/Voodoo and JI6 w/One Click Lag Fix. I was having issues with a app (Beautiful Widgets) where i was trying to have the weather how up on the notification bar but it would not come up automatically unless you went into the app and selected "save & apply" every singe time, very anoying. I contacted the developer of the app and the last thing he asked was if i was running the stock launcher. Since Fusion uses Launcherpro i decided to restore my JI6 w/One Click Lag Fix. To my shock when i ran the restore i ended up on Android System Recovery and could not get pass that even if i tried using the other 2 restore points (Bionix Fusion 1.1 w/Voodoo, Bionix 1.9.1 w/Voodoo).

I posted my problem in the Q&A section hoping for a solution but of course i got nothing back, so i found a thread regarding someone being stuck on the Android System Recovery screen just like me. It was mentioned to use Eugenes Froyo that does not brick and then flash the stock JFD rom. After many attempts i finally got my phone up and running but little did i realize that my entire phone got wiped clean, meaning i lost all my songs (over 100) 2 .avi movies, a few wallpapers and all the different Roms and Mods i had installed. Basically my phone ended up just when i first bought it. I was very upset i lost everything but glad that i got my phone up and running again..

So what to do to avoid this? when doing a back up using CWR and if you are running Voodoo, MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE VOODOO BEFORE BACKING ANYTHING AND THEN SAME THING GOES FOR WHEN RESTORING, MAKE SURE VOODOO IS DISABLE. I believe this is a very important point to note but no one has ever mentioned it anywhere in the forum. Yes they advise to do backups before doing anything, they advise to disable Voodoo before flashing anything but never this. If i had known this i wouldn't have spent hours freaking out and wondering what was wrong and looking all over the place and waiting for someone to help me out.

Now i have to spend more time installing everything that i lost and getting my phone back to the way i had it before this happened. I hope this helps and that maybe it goes up in the sticky so people can easily find it.:cool:

I would like to thank jdkackley for bring up the fact that Voodoo needs to be disabled while backing and restoring.

P.S. i still can not get the weather to come up automatically on the notification bar, still in constant contact with the dev of Beautiful Widgets app.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I'm assuming you checked "Temperature Notification" in settings.... You didn't say. Are you restoring app + data each time you flash a new rom and not changing the settings of BW's?

I dont understand why you would need to keep going in and clicking save and apply... have you deleted the app, and the downloaded it again?
[Vibrant General] adinis78:
Yes i did click the "Temperature Notification" and still nothing, every time i restart my phone i wait about 10 minutes and nothing so i have to go into the app and click save & apply, i have also un-installed and re-installed the app and same issues. Thank you for your insight, i still have not heard from the dev in regards to me running the app on the stock launcher so i just have to wait and see what he/she says.

But the main reason of the thread was because it has not been mentioned about how to properly backup/restore if you are running Voodoo.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Do you have any apps like a task manager or autostarts?
[Vibrant General] adinis78:
only task manager i have is the one that came with the Fusion 1.1 rom nothing else and no auto starts.

EDIT: ok it seems to be working but i only get the temperature in the notification bar about 10-15 minutes after the phone is turned on and is finished with the boot sequence, i thought it should come on automatically. E-mailed the dev on this and waiting for a reply.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I just turned on the notification bar temp... rebooted.

It took about 4 minutes and the temp is showing up.

I have autostarts installed which prevents a lot of apps from opening on boot. Not sure if that helped with my better time. I also have BW set to refresh on wake (and the automatic refresh is like 8 hours or something long).

A great developer... I'm sure he can figure it out. You may want to ask if a logcat is needed... you may want to try an app like autostarts too (free for the 24 hour window, cant hurt).
[Vibrant General] adinis78:
ok been keeping an eye on my phone since my last reboot 2:10 local time and it is now 2:25 local time and still nothing so i guess we can disregard my edit from last post. i will try the refresh on wake and see what happens.

EDIT: well my phone has been up for 7 minutes and still nothing, very aggravating. just have to wait on the dev.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jmmmmm:
Ok, I know I have brought this up before but this new thing has happened twice now and Im really curious about if we can just fix it.

If my screen locks while in landscape mode, the lockscreen displays in landscape mode then quickly jumps to portrait. From the looks of it, everything is displayed correctly. So Im thinking it has been disabled on purpose by the devs maybe in a much earlier version of a kernel that maybe didnt support it? Maybe we can give it another go with the wonderful new kernels that have been released? I know its a small small small thing. :rolleyes:

Thanks for all your work devs!!! :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Moonystorm:
I know this one is old :O

But i have this too It looks perfect why is there not a way to enable it :?
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
Following the update, any picture I take with my camera is blurry. It doesn't matter if I keep the camera still and/or the subject is still.

Anyone else seeing this and/or have any ideas as to how to fix it?
[Vibrant General] kbjcooke:
Someone suggested holding down the shutter button for a sec before releasing it. I've tried it and notice when the sound is on it'll actually make a noise when it's focused. I hth you!!!
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
Did you do ok before the update?

If not I can suggest some tips...

Don
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
Yeah, my pictures were turning out well prior to the update. It could be coincidence and something else changed, but the update is the most likely culprit.
[Vibrant General] kmfisher:
I've got the same issue. My picture quality has gone to crap in the JI6 update vs. the JFD update. They always come out blurry no matter how still I hold the camera.
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
On this forum others have fixed errors following the update by performing a factory reset...has anyone who had this blurry camera issue tried this? If so, did the blurriness go away?
[Vibrant General] sj_martin:
Have you tried cleaning the plastic/glass element in front of the camera? Sometimes I get a finger smudge on it and my pictures will turn out blurry.
[Vibrant General] YatimaMeiji:
I second this heh you'd be surprised at how important this is. But I haven't noticed any problem, works fine for me.
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
I have tried cleaning it...but perhaps I need to use the right cleaning product. Any recommendations?
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
jesus. use your t shirt.

perhaps you accidentally set the focus mode to macro?
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
I have noticed that after the update, specifically the need to get a lock with the focusing square prior to taking the shot, is critical. Just tapping the shutter button to get a shot gives me blurry pictures most of the time. Not sure if its really the update or not or just me.

I have found if I push the shutter button down and hold it down until the focusing square goes green indicating a focus lock, then I can hold the camera still and compose my shot, as long as I do not change the distance between the subject and the camera, I can trigger the shutter by pulling my finger off the screen shutter button without bumping the device, I get much sharper pictures. Camera shake equals blurry. In this new high def world we demand sharpness more then ever.

In addition with all cameras, the sensor (or film in the old days) needs a certain fixed amount of light for a proper exposure. With automatic cameras the brighter the ambient light on the subject the faster the shutter speed will be. Fast shutter equals sharper focused hand held shots. If its darker the camera compensates by opening the shutter slower (longer) and raising the ISO to get the same fixed amount of light into the camera. In low light if you move even slightly the shot will be blurry and grainy from the high ISO and slower shutter.

Sorry if this is all well known "camera 101", just trying to help. This really is an exceptional point and shoot camera and over the top for a phone. I hope the update didn't jack up your cameras and a reset and/or the above tips does the trick for you guys.

Don
[Vibrant General] DLarva:
Update:

After trying many different things I finally talked with TMo support and they sent me a replacement phone.

My old phone had a few additional problems that this one doesn't have, so I'm glad I did the replacement. However, the new phone also doesn't seem to be capable of taking good photos.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I used to be able to take great pictures with this phone without trying, and now I go out of my way to setup the perfect situation and the pictures are still blurry.

The only thing I can think of that changed on the phone is the OTA update.

Furthermore, taking video works just fine. So it is something about the Camera software or something I'm somehow doing differently than I did during my first few months of ownership.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toffeerevelsFTW:
Is there a way to get paid apps free?

Also wheres the best place to get new themes/widgets for free?

Thank you.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Yes. Not allowed to be discussed, but if you want an app support the dev.

The Market.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
Android applications usually cost between 0,50 to 3 dollars.

I know the paid Market is not accessible to every country so far, but really we should all try to support devs in any way we can.

And yes, acquiring paid apps for free is not to be discussed here.

*sent from my X10i
[General Topics] fazz:
Like a few of us out there, I've been trying to find a release date on Sony Ericsson's new LiveView gadget and until recently, I had almost given up.

Play.com has dropped a lot in my regular used sites (in the 8 years I've been buying from them), but was extremely surprised when I saw this: http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/-/531/688/-/17279126/Sony-Ericsson-LiveView/Product.html? (also a little shocked at how cheap the device is priced too)

I'm also at the current stage of moving from my old HTC HD2 to either a HD7 (WP7) or a Desire HD (Android 2.2).

I've also been a heavy user of the Sony Ericsson MBW range since day one and now very looking forward to replacing my current MBW and using the new LiveView product.

I know and understand that the LiveView was designed for usage with Android v2 OS and above, but does anyone think that LiveView could possibly work with a Windows 7 phone OS? I know it maybe too early to be asking this question, but it's a valid question for me right now, as I'm sure it is for many others too.

I guess this question could be better answered after the 19th November, but I'm hoping some of you out there may already know and could enlighten me. [^_^]
[HD2 General] unvisigoth:
Hi to all. I've bought my HD2 some weeks ago but I've noticed early a very poor sound quality. I have searched through XDA and other forums and I've found that many people had this problem. I've flashed ALL radio released for Leo with many Roms but the result was more or less the same: volume too high, crackling sound, distorsions. I've read somewhere (I don't remember where) that a guy had resolved flashing the latest Artemis Rom (v 40). I've made this final attempt too and, miracle :), the sound in conversation was very very better, with no crackles and no distorsions. Sure it's not the best sound I've ever had from a phone but to phone is not an ear torture anymore. Why I must bought a phone worth about 500 euros to not have a very good sound it's another problem, although with a 100 euro Nokia I've a very good and clear sound. Anyway....... Perhaps are the latest drives released by HTC with 3.14 Rom or perhaps a magic trick by Sternas (Artemis' cooker). But I've resolved a major problem in my phone :)

I've written this post so who has the same problem may knows that all tricks and registry modifications made with old roms are without effect. Only using the latest rom can solve the problem.

Perhaps any new rom solves the problem, but I've tried only the Artemis. If someone has experienced the same with othere releases can write it down.
[HD2 General] hagba:
I am on stock ROM and I never had any issues with voice,actually its one of the best I have ever had.

I used Artemis 3.6 and 3.7 they were very good ROMs but WIFI was very weak,I changed the Radios 4 times but didnt solve issue.

I would like to use Artemis 4.0 or 4.1 but it doesnt support HSPL,therefore will have to wait for a new HSPl or will stay with stock 1.66.since there is no upgrade for my phone on HTC South East Asia website.

However I am happy for you that could solve your problem.
[HD2 General] unvisigoth:
Sorry that HTC not released a version of new rom for SE Asia. I'm not much expert but perhaps you can try the method described here to flash a stock rom bypassing htc controls and then flash the new artemis
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sunshine4u:
hi i have just installed the ROM manager software from the market and after deleting this my hero flashing option screen not coming its shows like that i have attached the pictures please help me i have hard reset the phone its start working but the flashing options still gone & i m unable to install any other ROM ,suggestions from the Experts are needed thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ampicillin:
Just try pushing recovery via adb .. if you know how to use it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bonesy:
Do you mean fastboot isnt working? (3 skating andoids) it wont boot? or recovery doesnt work?

in the clockwork rom manager it has an option for broken recovery...

other than that put the recovery.img on the sdcard (the root of it) then connect the phone and type adb shell flash_image /sdcard/recovery.img
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sunshine4u:
i have tried it with ADB its gives message

usage : Flash_image partition file.img

but it doesn't boot in recovery mod what to do now ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Steven_belfast:
I know this mite seem a dumb question but you are holding " home " & " Power " right ?

Have to tested using flashrac and amon ra ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sunshine4u:
whats these thing i dnt knw about them please provide the link for that