yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Accessories] gfranzoi:
I guess you would need at least a 5v 700mAh battery (to match the charger output). I really don't know how it would work but I'd give it a try.

Here is a picture of my liveview now, I'll paint the battery black today.

img189. imageshack. us/i/1297340520654.jpg/ (still can't post any links)
[General Accessories] david832:
I use to have right about now, the same problem, just uninstall all the apps in your phone, i read the pairing instructions at the sony's page, it works perfectly!

enjoy it

sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/updateservice/xperiax10?cc=gb&lc=en
[General Accessories] ns0418:
hi guys

has anyone tried the liveview with the HTC Legend? I am runnning the stock 2.2 froyo
[General Accessories] protorix:
Hi there,

everything my LV does is what you see below. Resetting does not have any effect. I have to empty the battery by leaving the lv on. Than I can reload the battery and connect the device, but the connection breaks up at some point and everything I see than is: green LED, no clock, battery status.

What´s wrong?

Thanks
[General Accessories] kpjimmy:
Have u tried updating the device from SE?
[General Accessories] protorix:
i updated it...three times,so update does work, and every now and then the device itself works. but very unstable and most of the time I see, what I posted.

(...perhaps it has to do with the installed plugins? hmm ..
[General Accessories] JCreazy:
Maybe when SE comes out with the new version of the liveview, the problems will be fixed
[General Accessories] ardsar:
Spoke to customer services in the uk, and pointed them to this forum topic. They kept on telling me that they have not heard of such problems. Suggest the rest of you do the same.
[General Accessories] LoRd D:
can anyone mail some plugin for me?

I can't access to market!!!

E-mail : danials4385@gmail.com
[General Accessories] uzi74:
Just let you know, that the my LiveView is working fine on my Samsung Spica with the 2.1 firmware, but I had serious issues with 2.2 unofficial one (disconnect when screen locked, random disconnects with not locked screen).

Is there a way to get Exchange mail or gtalk notifications onto my liveview?
[General Accessories] ardsar:
I do not believe there are any apps that support this. There is an app for a gmail plugin, you could ask the developer of he could support such a request.
[General Accessories] uzi74:
I've checked in the meantime what the OpenWatch guys are having: they could solve the Exchange notifications via k-9 mail and they have gtalk support, so it must be possible to implement a plugin for liveview as well.

(I don't really find contact details to the developer, I've added a market review and appended the question)

Maybe I'm also going to download the LiveView API and check how difficult it is
[General Accessories] ardsar:
Try the option email developer in market! I think you would be better emailing the guy that has already developed the gmail plugin.
[General Accessories] kpjimmy:
The gmail plugin IIRC is actually lilhermit, the awesome dev for trackball alert for the nexus one.
[General Accessories] mathiosn:
has anyone succsesfully cleared the liveview cache? I delete everything from the phone but all missed calls and messages are still in the liveview device.
[General Accessories] frankman:
To delete the messages shown on the liveview, you have to uninstall and reinstall the liveview-app.

SE answered my question about it with that the next update of the app will have a option to delete messages. The messages are not saved in the liveview, they are saved in the applicationcache.
[General Accessories] dr.bahaeddin:
Thx for the information mate
[General Accessories] muralidharan:
I too have bought live view two days back. it is working on anf off. after installing and updating the software for which i have a to buy a new usb cable it has completly stopped working.

It is not synchronising with my nexus one, I have installed live view managr from the android market and updatedth software from sony ericcsonlive view site.

The device does not connect to my phone and the display goes off. Infact before updating it was workin on and off. can some body please help?
[General Accessories] LockeOn:
Same thing happened to me but just a few hours after my repairs, so I thought I broke it but it seems that it is not my fault. What helped me at the begining was lifting upper right corner of liveview with some leverage inserted between right button and liveview case. Now it doesn't help.
[General Accessories] muralidharan:
sony lv erratic functioning

Such a big company and s product which does not work as declared.

I am very much disappointed and hope the company takes some positive steps to attend to this.
[General Accessories] muralidharan:
The cache is not getting cleared at all.

The worst part is my nexus one which is one of the best phones i have ever used

HANGS
[General Accessories] fivef:
liveview cyanogen mod 7 repairing issue

I have found a solution for the repairing problems occurred on my desire HD with cyanogen 7 RC 1.

copy this file with e.g. root explorer to your SD card. edit it with e.g. astro as described below and then copy it back with root explorer. Restart your device.

/data/misc/bluetoothd/[device bt id]/linkkeys

your linkkeys file has to look something like that:

00:1D:BA:DD:8C:57 FF579860A41CD5A627D9D1596526715C 0 4

00:01:95:08:20:6F 809CC84592E6C1B06AB750170C365812 0 4

6C:23:B9:9B:4A:85 5AF503E766858EA7916D46C16DD31A34 0 4

The last entry is my liveview.

I just changed the last two numbers from I think

-1 0 to 0 4 so that it looks like the other entries.

The 0 is the linkkey type and the 4 the pin lenght.

But I don't know what the 0 stands for.

Have no time for futher research.

I just know that now the liveview automatically reconnects without an annoying pairing prompt.
[General Accessories] ardsar:
A conversation with SE......

Please wait while we find an agent to assist you...You are currently in position number 1 in the queue.You have now been connected to an agent.Emma: Thank you for contacting Sony Ericsson UK Chat Support. My name is Emma, how can I help you today?

John Smith: hi emma, i have a liveview device, but it does not stay connected to my htc desire. It is very frustrating

John Smith: when it works it is great, unfortunatley it is not reliable

Emma: The only thing I could suggest is that you either reset the device or update the software on the devicwe

John Smith: i have

Emma: Ok, you do also have a 12 month repair warranty on accessoriess

John Smith: the device is not faulty, others have the same issue and are waiting for sonyE to fix it

Emma: These are the only things we can advise

John Smith: can you not advise when the software will be fixed

Emma: There is no problem with the software

John Smith: apart from the fact that many users can not get it to work - how can you justifty what you have said. Have you read the feedback on the android market??? have you read any forums. Sony you need to wake up, this is not working. I would like to raise this with your software development as obviously they have no internet connection and do not look at feedback about the products they develop

Emma: I can pass your feedback on

John Smith: i point you to this forum, where you can clearly see your device has serious issues http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=830734

John Smith: also, if you just look at the feedback rating on the android market - it only has 3/5 stars - not 5 stars because it constantly disconnects and then will not re-pair

Emma: Ok

John Smith: so, where do i go from here?

John Smith: apart from watchdog

i never got a reply after that!
[General Accessories] dazultra2000:
Being a helpdesk manager myself, I can't totally be angry at poor "Emma".

She doesn't know any better. All she has is probably a very shoddy knowledgebase, and possibly a piece of paper with a list of "do not admit faults to customers" issues that they cant accept liability for.

She won't have any technical knowledge and certainly would fall apart into an emotional wreck when someone starts taking about real world actual technical issues to her.

Most of the stuff they have to deal with is "How do I make my phone silent?" or "How do I add a contact?".

I never bother with "technical support" lines and always dig a little deeper and go straight to at least 3rd line support because these lackeys unfortunately have no tech background at all and only just about manage to read from a script.

They would have no idea what to do with a forum URL and asking them to look at something on the Android Market would be like asking a plumber to perform a coronary bypass.

It's all about finding the right person to moan at!
[General Accessories] ardsar:
That's partly the point, she wouldn't tell me who to contact. Never mind, it makes a nice paper weight
[General Accessories] uzi74:
I have a very strong feeling sandbox plugins are increasing instability exponentially. I don't know the reason, but so far I have only the gmail plugin enabled, everything works fine. As soon as I start playing with some sandbox plugins, like music control or call contact plugins, the LV starts disconnecting randomly
[General Accessories] aljmay:
Fivef's fix seems to be holding for me... getting excited!
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
I'm searching the file in my Galaxy Tab (Froyo), but I cannot find it.

Any ideas? :confused:
[General Accessories] fivef:
Perhaps in 2.2 the file is located somewhere else. Do you use cyanogen mod 6?

try searching for "linkkeys" in root directory with root explorer.

Your device has to be rooted to see these files/dirs.

The fix only fixes the annoying pairing prompt, each time the liveview trys to reconnect to the phone.

It doesn't fix any connection problems.
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
I do not use cyanogen, I'm using original SysOp, only rooted using z4root.

I located "bluetoothd" folder and it has a sub-folder with my bluetooth key id... but it is empty :|
[General Accessories] aljmay:
OK, 24 hours later and fivef's fix works great. It doesn't solve all the problems, but gingerbread seems to not play well with liveview, you continually get asked to re-pair. With this fix, you can connect by just pressing the top-right button on the watch. At least, as long as the liveview services is running. Anybody have a reliable way to keep it running? I've tried everything on this forum. Still, with this fix the watch works way better and is usable.

I did notice my phone isn't sleeping much any more, not sure if that is related. Where's my droid power doesn't seem to implicate liveview at all but I guess until now I've not managed to stay connected for more than an hour.
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
I'm trying it on my Galaxy Tab ("original" Android 2.2 Froyo)... I made the modifies to linkkeys file yesterday evening and I'll try it today for about 12-16 hours.

I will let you know how the trick works on it.
[General Accessories] bibi2_75:
hi guys

my fix for htc desire hd (fresh rooted htc rom 1.72.405.3, Radio_12.28g.60.140f_2 6.05.05.27_M3)

so the dhd must be rooted!

tested from clean install !

install automateit (1.5.0) from market

every default, create a task:

when screen go off, start an application ... the liveview!

no more trouble from the watch when it try to reconnect !

been working for 2 days (reconnect without trouble even after a night!)

before... had to start manually liveview before my watch reconnect

cheers from France!:p
[General Accessories] cvenk:
for the bluetoth diretory in data folder I don't have anything (empty) like the others. I have tried CM7 RC1 and nightly 11. and MIUI 13HD.

Any idea what is going on.
[General Accessories] paladin-7:
Unfortunately this method didn't help me. Motorola Milestone, CM7 RC3 (Android 2.3.3) by nadlabak.
[General Accessories] ollegut:
This fixed the re-pairing issue on my Nexus One with CM7 (nightly #12). Thank you so much!!!
[General Accessories] zbt1985:
hey guys i'm running cm7 on my vibrant and can't get it to even find the liveview. it will find my headset, but not the liveview...any ideas?

thanks in advance!

<edit> i'm dumb, got it figured out...
[General Accessories] jobrima:
Has it worked?
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
Not too right. In the last days I have big issues with LV battery, since I changed linkkeys file... Maybe because it tries to reconnect too often
[General Accessories] danbec:
I've kind of replicated the issue on HTC Desire.

When the Liveview app is off, triggering a connection from the device (top right button push twice) will start the app but something goes wrong: the app is visible only in the task list, and is taking up a huge memory amount (and power, the phone gets hot).

In some cases this is enough to freeze the phone.

In other cases the freeze happens when the LiveView app is killed.

In all cases even once the connection is somehow established, if lost it does not recover automatically.

Very crappy software.
[General Accessories] mcnob:
We just have to hope that SE let the source code out of the bag soon so the clever dev-types can sort it out for us cos this thing is useless otherwise.
[General Accessories] zipr0:
Same issues with the Desire HD. Pairing was a pain from the get-go. After that, the bluetooth connection keeps on dropping. Once it's dropped, I have to re-pair the device as it won't re-establish the connection, no matter what I do.

Also, the Live View software crashes regularly, making battery pulls necessary.

This, together with the fact that GMail notifications aren't supported, makes the whole device completely useless. I really hope they fix this soon
[General Accessories] apprentice:
My review

I was very excited about this little gadget and thought that the Sony Ericsson brand and the cost of the device assured me of its quality. However I am actually very disappointed in it.

Firstly the screen, although AMOLED, really is quite poor. The resolution is low and the colours are all washed out. The strap that comes with it is a bit crude and when worn as a watch looks very unstylish.

Next and most importantly, connection; I succesfully connected to my HTC Desire HD but it loses this connection - a lot - and it's not because I am too far away either. I can't stress how the process of reconnection is extremely frustrating and takes a lot of attempts. It defeats the entire purpose of this device. Now I know there have been issues with BT connectivity on the DHD but I see other makes and models having similar problems with this gadget. (Samsung Galaxy S, Desire, Wildfire)

As for transferring of data, that seems to be fine once connected, but don't expect all features to work with non Ericsson phones. I could not use media player function and calendar reminder for example.

The user interface is a bit fiddly too and one feature to 'remote control' your phone to show the full version of an article you have on the LiveView, is hit and miss too.

Now obviously this is a new device with a lot of potential from developers to introduce their own plug-ins, and software updates may eradicate some of these problems. But for now, I feel that it's too buggy to be useful and you are best waiting for it to be more established. It may be fine with SE phones but as it clearly states it is compatible with all Android v2+ phones, so I expect more reliability.
[General Accessories] lukacs.attila:
You're wrong... If you check LV's webpage, it CLEARY states (well, somebody removed the explanation), that the music control feature is not working with non-SE phones. Check out the *.
[General Accessories] unikum:
hmmm the music controls works for me.
[General Accessories] lukacs.attila:
Wow...

Maybe your ROM has different BT controller? Or Sense causes the problem? Sounds interesting.
[General Accessories] mc0upe:
i've got an epic 4g and a mw600. the mw600 does control music on the galaxy, my liveview is on the way, i'll let you know if it does the same
[General Accessories] gadgetgaz:
The music controls are working for me too (Nexus1). It still disconnects itself a lot though and rarely reconnects. The liveview app in the phone says its connected but it is not. Usually turning the liveview off and on again will re-establish the connection.

My biggest problem is the battery drain on the liveview - 6 hours! I will see what it's like with half of the features switched off. 4 days my backside!!!
[General Accessories] cisoprogressivo:
Same problem here:

High CPU usage

Frequent disconnection

Music control dosen't work

On a italian SGS
[General Accessories] baleanud:
Frustrated, much

Galaxy S with stock 2.1 Eclair.

Connection drops a lot, renders phone unuseable at least when LiveView runs out of battery.

Cannot clear notifications. They do show as not-new, but I'd rather not have them after doing the "Clear Notifications" action.

Battery life poor. Without any fb or twitter or rss barely 10hrs.

RSS implementation poor. Why would anyone want to see on a watch-type-display the url of the item? Beyond me.

If I delete an SMS frmo the phone it is still on the LiveView. Why?

How much power could a flashing LED consume? What's the point of having to check all the time for notification? Vibration is almost none given the non-rigid strap mount.

And the watch feature... yeah! Screen switches off after 20sec.

Overall, nothing but an idiotic implementation of a good idea in my view.

I can only hope that once the SDK/API is published some good apps will apear.
[General Accessories] lukacs.attila:
I have a feeling that the device's an independent OS, and it's not Android.
[General Accessories] mcnob:
Music controls only work with stock android music player, even through Sense but until the connection dropping issues are dealt with, it doesn't matter anyway.
[General Accessories] N23:
Works very good with my G1 - sometimes connection drops...

battery drain is okay, about half in a day - now i'm waiting for the SDK...

or are there yet any plugins to get the e-mails pushed to the device?
[General Accessories] N23:
SDK is out:

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/w.../download/liveviewmicrodisplaysdk?cc=gb&lc=en
[General Accessories] mcnob:
That's awesome news, thanks.

Naff all I can do with it of course but hopefully the intelligent programming types can do something with it that SE couldn't be bothered to in the first place.:rolleyes:

Have passed that link about a bit....get the word out...;)
[General Accessories] N23:
good, spread the news that the developers can start working :cool:

btw. the tutorial looks also very nice

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/w...viewmicrodisplaydevelopertutorial?cc=gb&lc=en
[General Accessories] Orka82:
We cant do anything to the BT-connection or the LiveView software in the phone with the SDK i'm afraid. The connection and so on are managed using the sw in the LV-unit and the LiveView-app in the phone..

SE need to fix the connection and the LV-app problems.. now! ;)
[General Accessories] mcnob:
Someone found a DFU mode by holding the 2 hardware buttons for an indetermined period of time. Apparently, it just comes up with "DFU" on the screen so the ability to fudge with the firmware IS there.
[General Accessories] N23:
DFU Mode:

Switcht the LiveView off and than switch it with both hardware buttons on.

To leave the DFU Mode just hold the power button for about 10sec.

It shows a USB-Plug on the display and the letters DFU - but it doesn't gets detected on my mac...it would be too easy ;)
[General Accessories] jobrima:
Ok thank's
[General Accessories] ardsar:
Liveview on desire hd appears much more stable on the leaked gingerbread roms with HTC sense. However as the roms are only betas, there are bugs that causes force closes. Hopefully when HTC release the Rom, Liveview should be more usable. I went a whole day with no disconnects!
[General Accessories] hibiskus:
btw, can anybody try to pair LV with some android TAB? I am about to get one tablet, so I am interested how does it work?
[General Accessories] dazultra2000:
That's good to hear. I was wondering about that. Fingers crossed!
[General Accessories] ardsar:
Well after several days on leedroids gingerbread with HTC sense Rom, I'm not getting constant disconnects anymore.
[General Accessories] jarekt:
Hi. I'm fighting with LV and Moto Milestone (now with official 2.2.1 rom but before with CM7) and there are 2 problems:

1. LV application is killed by a system in case of lack of memory (in Milestone there is permanent lack of free memory)

2. LV doesn't autoreconnect with liveview app automatically

ad. 1 I use Automateit to launch LV application when screen off but i'm still looking for solution to make LV app permanently in memory. Maybe solution to start app in background used with Automateit will by enough but I haven't found one.

ad. 2 The most elegant solution i found is http://tasker.wikidot.com/liveview

but it's not the simplest one. There is much simpler method based on free Automateit software but i need simple app that just connects with BT device when triggered and I still haven't found it.
[General Accessories] LordSnow:
Is there a way to download the LiveView Application outside the market?

With the latest version of my ROM I can't find it in the market (floyo 3.4 by xcyanogenmod for x10 mini pro).

Maybe I'll use the 3.3 w8ing 4 the next update ^^
[General Accessories] dazultra2000:
Just made the jump to gingerbread and it is indeed a hell of a lot better. I still get occasional erratic behaviour but it links back up to the phone (even when it's in my pocket!) straight away again. It's nearly worth having.

Doesn't seem to retrieve my social network feeds very reliably though, and doesn't vibrate every time it manages it - but at least I don't have to keep switching it and my bluetooth off any more! :)
[General Accessories] skodri:
Hi!

I just wanna ask if somebody tried this liveview on htc desire redux rom?

I'm really interested in this accessori, but i dont want to buy it and then have it in my room unused. :)

thank you :)
[General Accessories] cyansmoker:
-1: Key is not longer valid

0: Happy link key

This would definitely explain why 0 is better than -1 ;)
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
In the android market there is an update for liveview application.

They added the possibility of resetting notification count and to choose music player.

I did not noticed any other differences. Do you?
[General Accessories] de_MarK:
I've noticed also possibility to select Twitter activities. No connection improvements though. They said something about new firmware but I cannot find it.
[General Accessories] diggedy:
Ive tried the new app. Ive found a "up" button appear in the plugin menu and now the music info appears when using the stock music app. Other than that I havent seen any improvements.

Im using an Arc and it disconnects after about 15-20 minutes and will only reconnect if I unlock the screen. It works fine with my motorola Defy. Has anyone else had trouble with any of the new phones?
[General Accessories] Myzhar:
To solve reconnection issue you can use "AutomateIt" from Market.

After the installation you can configure it so launch LiveView Application every time the LiveView try to connect to Bluetooth.

In such a way LiveView Application can be waken up when Android put it in sleep mode.
[General Accessories] marco.it:
So far from here, with new updates and new FW, anyone of the owners would reccomend this gadget?
[General Accessories] de_MarK:
I don't recommend it if you own HTC Desire with stock froyo firmware.
[General Accessories] marco.it:
I own a Desire with RCMixHD ROM, a port from DesireHD.
[General Accessories] diggedy:
Ill give this a try. Liveware manager is supposed to do this too but it seems to fail when the phones asleep
[General Accessories] ElmarK:
I have DHD, original ROM with all oficial updates on the DHD and the LV. Still the old probs. Shame on SE.
[General Accessories] Orka82:
Should we use "BT Device Disconnected Trigger" or "BT Device Connected Trigger"?
[General Accessories] zbt1985:
I use both just to make sure!

but would love input on what better to do
[General Accessories] alex1080:
Guys,

Am I right that LV won't work 100% with 2.3, and there is a strong problem with connection for HTC DHD firmware users?