yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
The artifacting comes out because the pixels rendered for smaller screens (i.e. on our Captivates) are unnoticeable until they're enlarged on bigger screens. I guess some people are so used to watching HD signals on their HDTV sets and when they see something non-HD, it's not good enough.

As for our Captivates, on my setup, it's fine. I don't have any signal loss just because I'm using a camcorder cable. It's not HD by any means. It's, what, 480i at best? As for the wiring, it is wired correctly. The plugs are just mislabeled (for use with our Captivates) ;) LOL

I love this feature on our Caps. I see that the HTC Incredible had just come out with their USB to TV cable version which I'm sure is more expensive than this $0.21 cable! :cool:
[Captivate Accessories] Mac11700:
My understanding of it is as to how it is encoded.I understood it to be 720x480p so..in essence wouldn't that make it HD..

Mac
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
There you go. The iPod folks, not having HD on their phones (I think), see the artifacting because the videos they watch are probably not HD quality.

BTW, 720x480p is not HD. HD starts out at 720 (on the horizontal aspect). That is, 1280x720.
[Captivate Accessories] Mac11700:
Thanks..either way..with the quality of Blue Rays and DVD's videos I have trans coded and have on my phone I don't want any artificially induced artifacts showing up when I push it to a larger display.A better cable with better connectors will help..What I am watching isn't some crappy you tube downloads..or poor quality sdtv broadcast..Also I'll be using this cable to connect up to my Integra 9.8 for home viewing..so I'll be able to utilize a fine HT system for it every now and then too..;)

Mac
[Captivate Accessories] Dani897:
there are artifacts because the cable can only handle about 320x480 (less than dvd but better than vhs) do to the encoding. its an analouge signal with color and brightness handled at different frequency ranges. pushing more resolution through the encoding blurs the image.

there are additional artifacts because video cables for what ever reason (im not an engineer but i have few ideas) are a very specific impedance 75ohms or something, google it!. and using an audio cable with near zero impedance in its place causes artifacts! i can tell you this from experiance. it will cause artifacts even if the signal is at the correct resolution.

it is rumored that the micro usb to hdmi works on the epic but does not yet work on the captivate. i dont know if it ever will but we can all hope!

dnla is cool for movies at home but doesnt work for travel unless you bring a second dlna device. dlna also doesnt work for gaming, a bluetooth remote and hdmi cable is a killer combo for travel but as of now it doesn't work as far as i know.
[Captivate Accessories] Mac11700:
Well..the video didn't work properly. All I got through it was torn badly. Audio worked good though. Called them this morning and got a refund..shipping included.

You know..we have their top of the line multimedia phone..and AT&T can't supply you with the correct cables to do the job..Kind of frustrating to say the least.

Mac
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
Yeah, it's too bad they don't have all of the accessories. But I can only guess it's probably because there's less than 1% of the Cap users that will be doing A/V output on their phones. With a number that low, they don't want to waste valuable storage space or inventory control whatever. (Just guessing)

Get the $0.21 cable and just plug the red in the yellow jack, and the yellow plug in the red jack. White goes with white.
[Captivate Accessories] Dani897:
Yeah they need all that space for the iphone accessories that apple makes them carry.

Though with the coach ending and apple considering a cdma version and stocking ipads in verizon stores the iphone accessories don't completely obtain my local store any more, now they are pushing thee windows phones, att must have something against google. They seem to support yahoo. Maybe why t-mobile gets all the google experience phones.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Accessories] Gnortiz22:
I bought the cables from a post earlier in this thread. The ones for $.21 from amazon, and no matter which way i put them all i get is a gray scrambled screen. I can see bits of my phones screen on the tv but barely recognizable.
[Captivate Accessories] johnny13oi:
Hey mac, those regular super cheap ipod video out cables are correct. The pinout is just a little mixed up but like everyone else has said you just need to swap the colors out. The phone can push out 480x320 at best through those cables. You are pushing a video signal through a composite video connection. Composite video will never be able to carry a high definition signal. And yeah you'll see artifacts. You're stretching a 480x320 resolution to your high definition TV's resolution maybe 1920x1080 if you have a 1080p TV and on top of that you're carrying the video through an analog connection. No matter how high quality the cable is you cannot carry a good enough video signal for a clean picture.
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
That's strange. Try another TV. Or, make sure the cable (both from the phone and to the TV) are plugged in tight. If you have a skin or a case protector on your phone, it might be preventing plug from going in all the way so maybe there is a leak from the audio to the video. Mine works fine as you can see.
[Captivate Accessories] XGX5309:
I have the same issue. And I've tried all the possible combinations. None of them work. Defective jack? Did anyone ever have any luck with the MicroUSB to HDMI cable?
[Captivate Accessories] Mac11700:
Defective cable I would say...

Supposedly Samsung has the mini usb-hdmi cable in production..but no eta on them yet from my inquires with them.

Mac
[Captivate Accessories] airbillion:
I have the same issue. I have tried 3 different tvs and 3 different cables all with no luck! Picture is always a grey scrambled mess. Anyone else have any ideas?
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
Are you sure you guys are using the Red & White + Yellow jacks on the back of the TV (and not the Red+Green+Blue) ?
[Captivate Accessories] airbillion:
Yes, I am using the y,r,w jacks & I switched them in every configuration possible with no luck at all. I hope it is not a problem with my phone. All I see is a grey scrambled mess, when i change screens on my phone the scrambled mess also changes, but I have not been able to get a clear picture.
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
That is strange. I'll look at my configuration again when I get home. Give me 4 hours. Darn...4 more hours 'til a 4-day weekend! Yeah!!!
[Captivate Accessories] airbillion:
Thanks. Hell yeah on the 4 day weekend!
[Captivate Accessories] xlcr:
Not to sound patronizing, but have you checked the "TV Out" option under settings?
[Captivate Accessories] RexEscape:
So I checked out my config. Red plug goes in the yellow jack in the back of the TV. That's all you'll need for now. And yes, put a Checkmark on the TV Out and make sure you've selected NTSC if you're in the U.S. (and have an NTSC TV); or PAL if you're in Europe, etc. You know the drill. Also, on your TV, make sure you've selected whatever Input selection you've plugged into; either Line 1, Line 2, or Input 1 or Input 2, or Composite or whatever. Gotta go. Turkey's burning!
[Captivate Accessories] alphadog00:
I have a 2 cables (r,w,y) - one cable that came with camcorder works by reversing the yellow and red. The other cable came with portable DVD player (7" screen), and gives me the scrambled screen no matter what i try. The cables look identical.

Short answer, some cables don't work - period. I can't tell you why as it looks just like the good cable.
[Captivate Accessories] Dani897:
Just buy the right cables people, I can try to explain it but someone will always ignore it and give bad advice after I give good facts. Unless you don't care about poor video and un balanced audio you need the cables with the correct color combination. The yellow video cable its not equal to the red and white audio cables, google it if you must. Rca Audio cables are negligible resistance,

video cables, either composite (yellow) or component (rgb) as well as digital audio aka spdif (yellow or orange or black) cables are 75 ohms impedance.

Using audio cables in place of video cables causes artifacts in the picture. It's bad enough that you are scaling 720p video down to 480x800 and pushing it through a cable that can only handle 1/2 - 3/4 that resolution. Why make it even worse by swapping in compatable cables?

S-video, component, vga, dvi, hdmi and any that I missed were invented because composite wasn't good enough and you are going to compromise it more?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Accessories] tepickytoo:
hey, can you give a direct link to where i can find the best cables? or should look for them in the samsung websites?
[Captivate Accessories] snapplefish:
Hey guys,

did some research, etc, splicing of my own, and the cables you guys are buying are probably wired like this: http://pinoutsguide.com/CellularPhones-P-W/samsung_galaxy_vidout_pinout.shtml

For the captivate, however, the sleeve (marked ground in that diagram) is the video output. I too was having the grey screen problems, until I resoldered the cable I had.

Best of luck to anybody else trying this; make sure to ask the seller before buying, double check, etc.

Also, for anybody who's curious; the guy here ( http://androidandme.com/2010/07/news/samsung-captivate-galaxy-s-video-out-demonstration/ ) does a demo of the composite in/out, and links the cables he uses ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000I1D0BW ). Looks like camcorder cables are configured correctly for the Captivate, and the cable linked is priced pretty reasonably.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] webstar1:
Hi all, we have such a beautiful phone and rather than saying "samsung did a crap job" we should look at the bright side which is our screen ( also our hardware but thats not relevent at the moment :D). Everyone post wallpapers which really show off our screen. Heres a few

Please posy what u find, thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] EgFox:
http://www.960x800.ch/ :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] webstar1:
finally a reply, i thought this thread was down the drain as well. COME ON PEOPLE SHARE! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] BlackDino:
Nice looking wallpapers, thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bikeboydk:
Maybe if you try the app Flikie Wallpapers, the are many beatiful pictures.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fluidd:
Very nice wallpapers! Keep em' coming!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] webstar1:
I WANT INPUT, NOT COMMENTS :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xero2002:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8859702&postcount=116

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9022280&postcount=132
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] webstar1:
Nice xero2002

U kno u dont have to make them, u just share ur findings
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xero2002:
Those are all from someone else.

I just resized them to have the proper resolution for the SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cantIntoCode:
Nice images thanks :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MAMBO04:
Already an official wallpaper repo thread, post your images there cos its the main one :-)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ShinyBuddha:
Hey all,

Mozilla just released the updated Firefox browser for Android yesterday.

Click me for press release

From the TL;DR section

*including reduced memory usage

*improved text rendering

*60% install size reduction on Android (from around 43 MB to 17 MB)

*Actions like panning and zooming are faster and smoother

*page load times are reduced from our previous beta.

*On Android 2.2, we’re now around 25% faster on the SunSpider Javascript benchmark than the stock browser

Known issues:

*Users who have a large desktop profile using Firefox Sync may see some performance issues

*Adobe Flash and other plugins are not supported yet

*Text does not wrap to fit the screen after zooming in, as it does in the Android browser (bug 578179). The Easy Reading add-on has some proof-of-concept code to do this.

*535793 - Fennec will load an error page in place of the desired page while connecting to a network and loading a page at the same time

*609366 - If a user changes their network during the middle of a update, the browser packaging may break to the point a re-installation is required.

Download link

~SB

edit: QR Code

edit 2: Known issues
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
I'll give it another try......

Skyfire sucks, Dolphin is too bloated, Xscope v6 sucks, Xscope v5 doesnt work on Vibrant that good (better with lag fix). Using Opera now, very nice browser but needs many improvements.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
I dont know if its the "Core" kernel, but this browser freezes second time now when i play with it
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Ste11a:
Thanks for the info and download link. I didn't try the first release because of the size. Giving it a try now.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
This will be a good browser when its finalized. Endless features thanks to current and future add-ons
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ShinyBuddha:
Agreed...they just need our input on the bugs for testing. It's still a little slow but much better than the initial release.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] 30Glock:
Very buggy for me w wifi, Uninstalled for now :(
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
I also noticed that ALL browsers (except for stock and Opera), that work super fast on Nexus, actually lag on Vibrant, so this might also be the case here. I use Xscope v5 on Nexus and it flies, yet i find it unusable on Vibrant even with voodoo lagfix, but it works fine with ext2 lagfix.......weird

will test out "Core" kernel for battery drain and if i get the same results as with JACs, then i will switch to voodoo based kernel again and give this browser another try
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] jzero88:
Yeah freezes for me too. Sux.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] iynfynity:
still laggy. question, why don't we have a google chrome on android?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] down8:
MUUUUUCH better than the last one.

The last one actually froze my phone. This one is doing quite well.

-bZj
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ShinyBuddha:
Updated OP to include known issues in case no one bothered to check them out...

~SB
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Emama:
But i changed to chrome in desktop already,

Offtopic: why doesn't the default one come with tab browsing...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] heygrl:
XScope is garbage, I have no problems with Dolphin, and Opera is disgustingly slow as of recently. This one shows some promise but Firefox is still taking up a ton of ram.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
Xscope is not garbage, well V6 is. V5 is very good, Vibrant is just "slow" and cant run it without issues. Opera on the other hand is very fast and gui is nice in my opinion. Dolphin is just way to bloated.......and also slower then stock.

Tomorrow we are getting Opera 10.1 Beta and this should be the best browser for Vibrant, but stock Froyo browser is already pretty good (aside from no tabs)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] heygrl:
Other people have problems with the slow rendering of XScope. There is no reason at all why it would render pages slower than Firefox. That's why I said it's garbage. Opera Mini has huge response times, it doesn't work as well as it used to and it's rendering pages worse than when it originally dropped.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
The reason why it renders pages slow (sometimes very slow) is Vibrant. Xscope V5 flies faster then stock on my Nexus. I remember using ext2 lagfix and i believe that fixed Xscope as well.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] heygrl:
It's rendering the same page. There is no excuse for it to be much slower than any other browser rendering the same exact page other than it's the browser.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kolyan:
perhaps there is something in the code that doesnt work good on rfs.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] androidcee123:
As much as I love and respect Firefox and Mozilla as a company, there Android browser isn't quite ready for prime time. There are no major problems, per se, but it takes a loooooooong time to load, and more than a few times it just didn't load the page. In contrast, Sammy's native browser, on the very same hyperlink, zips right to the url.

That being said, I do understand that we are still in the beta phase and that it will be tweaked prior to a full release, if it gets that far. Added to which, being a long time PRIMARY USER of Firefox, I look forward to great things from Mozilla in the future! besides, just like with all their products, they are constantly updating them, so I know that this browser will become a viable alternative in the very near future.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tréo500:
I can only looking to my new emails of the past 2 days :confused:. How can I set it up to see them al in the new stock stock ROM 3.14 ?
[Fascinate General] Talek:
Recently I noticed my Fascinate would skip constantly while playing music - like every 30 seconds maybe even more often. For me, the mp3 player is one of the most used things for me on my phone. I don't want to double fist a phone and an ipod or something if I don't need to!

After looking back I realized that although the problem was recent I had been having minor skipping for quite a while - but not often enough to really take notice. Anyway, when it finally started skipping all the time I couldn't stand it anymore.

I've done a lot of searching and testing with this issue and have resolved my problem.... sort of. Lot's of people seem to have this problem and others don't...

So, it seems a lot of times widgets can be the problem. So after uninstalling "battstat" the skipping went down to 1-2 times a song... Hooray? Still less then ideal - I shouldn't have any skipping! Then I got rid of "beautiful widgets" and that minimalized the skipping even more. I finally got rid of "widget locker" while I was at my widget uninstalling spree. So far NO MORE SKIPPING!!! Hooray! ... ...

BUT

This is less then ideal. Many people have perfectly working music playback AND have all their widgets. I on the other hand, it would seem, can only have widgets OR flawless playback - not both. Say it ain't so Joe! Is my phone just one of the flawed, I should return this because all hope is lost, phones? Or is there still a chance to get this phone working like a charm?

Seems like a software thing to me though which should suggest that my phone itself is ok... otherwise playback would be constantly bad... But I'm no IT person so I can only make educated guesses based on limited research really.

Anywho, I guess I'm just reaching out to the community to see if anyone has any idea on if I'm screwed and can no longer have my widgets. Or if there is something else that can be. Hotfixes? 2.2 fix?

I've very sad about my very plain looking phone right now. =( To a point that I have actually stopped stalking the forums and finally posted something...

EDIT: Not sure if it really matters but I should just note. My phone is rooted, de-bing'ed, de-bloated and of course has clockwork recovery. NOT de-odexed, NO voodoo or lagfixes, and NOT running any roms (just used Titanium Backup to freeze all the bloated stuff) - waiting for 2.2 before I start getting really deep into phone fiddling.

Thanks,

-Andrea
[Fascinate General] deaffob:
Yea same for me. I deleted Battstat because Winamp was skipping. Sad to remove such an awesome widget.
[Fascinate General] cckeeler:
I too have had this problem but haven't been able to figure out what is causing it. I noticed that if I load a rom and wipe first it starts doing it, but if I start with my stock backup and load the rom without wiping, it doesn't do it. I actually returned one to the store for this issue. Do you happen to have anything on your sd card that you had on another phone? I have a theory that had something to do with it, but I have nothing to back that up with.
[Fascinate General] Talek:
No, my SD is clean from any old phone's data. I was having playback problems on Pandora as well. =/ Also tried all sorts of different music players but they all skipped just the same.

Been playing around with different widgets... Beautiful widgets was causing problems but I put it back on for the 3rd time and my phone is happy... for now at least (knock on wood O_o ). The two main culprits are Battstatt (MAJOR ISSUES) and very sadly TypoClock was causing problems too (not nearly as bad as battstatt but problems none the less). With these two widgets removed I've had almost no skipping. Think I heard 1 during my 30 minute drive home (yay traffic!) - which could have just been the phone lagging b/c of an update or sync or whatever.

But this still leaves me with the same issue. Basically there is just a band-aid over the problem. But why are only certain phones doing this... and more importantly can anything be done to have a happy phone - widgets, music, and all?

At the very least, I hope this thread has helped or can help others who have been having problems with their music playback.
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
I've noticed this when frequently flashing ROMS. I have concluded that following these steps fixes the problem. Disable voodoo(if applicable) restore original mbr. Odin all the was back to stock after backing up everything wipe data/cache and load the ROM of your choice on a clean slate and then restore all and problem should be fixed. Worked for me. Music playing skip free.:-)
[Fascinate General] keith.mcintyre26:
It seems to do this when there is an app poling for data.
[Fascinate General] werdpark:
Same thing here. Removed TypoClock and it went away. It still concerns me though.
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
That's weird. I have both Typoclock and Battstatt on my Eris and music plays awesome. Lag can't be a problem with this issue. Just my 2 cents.

Sent from Eris with Froyo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbcross:
Apparently, the EVO uses a different user dictionary file from the core Android dictionary. Does anyone know what the location is or even if there is an app available similiar to User Dictionary in the market? Even with the Froyo update, the built in dictionary editor does not allow underscores or other non alpha or numeric values. Anyone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gingerbred:
Missing tons of paid protected apps on Market. Like Navigon..

Can't see any sign of Backup sync working for bookmarks/settings etc..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
I lol'd =))

More on topic - google usually takes a few days to do it. I think.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
If you have an unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code and have updated it to the new firmware Android 2.2 (FROYO) can you please do a check for us and post it here.

Go to contacts and create a new contact then scroll down to the post code part of the address input field. Can you put a post code in? (Alpha/numeric) or is it a ZIP code (Numeric only).

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeb99:
No UK postcode :-(

Upgraded last night and just checked - unable to enter letters!

Not impressed with the lag running K9 and other things, though. JM1 with OCLF was much better!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
I should have said those who did not upgrade using the Nordic JPM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wingerj:
XEU phone - also unable to enter postcode details in contacts.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HarpingOn:
Yeah, seems it's not a nordic issue. If you check the official bugs thread, people who never had nordic get numeric zip codes only. So I think my *# to get back to xeu may well have worked, and what we're all seeing is a JPO bug
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkimmortal:
Using the leaked JPO here - not accepting UK postcodes.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] obakesan:
Hi,

Upgraded to official 2.2 via Kies this morning using unlocked / unbranded SGS. Can confirm the Zip code only. Just checked and field says "zip code" and is numeric only.

Cheers,