yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color General] pokey9000:
Usually portable audio front ends include a mute circuit to suppress the pop when the power for the amp turns on and off to save power. But that's besides the point...

My ATH-M50s give a lot of hiss when plugged into the NC, and at 38 ohms are somewhat less sensitive than most cheapie headphones that these amps are usually designed to. When I get a chance I'll try some higher impedance phones.
[Nook Color General] stwallman:
Might be worth taking your headphones into a B&N store and trying another NC out to confirm its not just an issue with your unit.
[Nook Color General] rah002:
Have the same issue with the NC and bose QC3 head phones. Plugged in a cheap pair of ear buds from the airlines and no hiss.
[Nook Color General] doomstalk:
The amp is definitely noisy-- the worst I've heard since my 1st Gen iPhone. I guess they had to skimp somewhere.
[Nook Color General] toryb*stard:
Yes, pretty hissy sound. I can live with it, I think, but it's bit disappointing.
[Nook Color General] dahackermd:
Ditto. The hiss using my Ultimate Ears makes the Nook Color unusable for audio or video in a quiet or normal environment.

It might work on a plane where the ambient noise is so high.
[Nook Color General] mtl171:
Pretty loud hissing sound with both apple earbuds and image s4's.
[Nook Color General] M0RDECAI:
I noticed this too the first time I used Pandora...

Typically, for me and I assume it's the same for most pepole...

A reader likes to read in a quiet environment and therefore when they do decided they want to use the audio on their nook it is for music at a lower volume in a quiet setting. So this static / auto shutoff problem is blaringly obvious.

Any chance this will/could be fixed with an update?

If not then the audio feature will be useless for me :(

*edit*

Also... the static only gets worse (louder) as you up the volume. So listening to the music at a higher volume doesnt mask the static it only makes it worse
[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
I have the same noisy audio. I am very serious about my audio equipment, but I don't put the NC in that category. Yeah, it would be nice if it sounded great, but the hiss would not bother me for video & I prefer to listen to a quality MP3 player if I listen to music. I would actually rather make adjustments to a dedicated player, while reading, than use my ereader to change screens & make adjustments. The other factor is the impact on the battery life. I guess maybe not a big deal on the NC?, but surely with an eInk reader. I hope you can find a way to live happily with yours.

Cheers,

kev
[Nook Color General] drafnel:
Ditto for me too. Hiss makes Pandora unusable when using my ultimate ears. I'm definitely disappointed, and a little less eager for flash support now.
[Nook Color General] conan1600:
I have no problems at all with audio on my nc. In fact i haven't had any of the problems i've heard on the forums as yet. Hope i never do :)
[Nook Color General] CBJamo:
I think there might just be inconsistency in the NCs, neither mine nor my brothers have this audio hissing problem, or the problems with the bezel/frame, or any of the other problems the have come up on the forums. Maybe they are being built at multiple factories and some just suck? or maybe they just don't do any quality control? Who knows, I would check out the NCs with other headphones (although it sounds like you use these headphones all the time, so it's unlikely that they are the problem) and your headphones with other NCs.
[Nook Color General] MilkManTech:
OMG... the nook color sucks at playing music when using the Panasonic RP-HC700 Noise Cancelling headphones. The static is almost unbearable. I posted a recording of it on youtube under the user name MilkManMOM. (I can't post links and be helpful yet) Grrrr...I'm angry now at B&N.
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
No audio hiss from headphones on mine. If yours does, it's defective. It's also still under warranty. Stop just complaining to us about it and have B&N fix it.
[Nook Color General] jerrykur:
Try a different set of headphones. My Bose IE2s are fine, but my Senhiessers have a lot of hiss, especially when I use an inline amp.

My quick test leads me to belive that earbuds meant for mp3 players work fine, but head phones have issues. This might be an impedence issue.

sent from my NC
[Nook Color General] jerrykur:
sent from my NC
[Nook Color General] therealguppy:
Its either a Impedance issue or Frequency issue. When using my good Sony Headphones which are Frequency Response : 5-24,000Hz I get a Ton of Hiss, but when I'm using my Crappy Work Speakers which are Dell 215, which has a Frequency Response of 100 - 20000 Hz I get No hiss at all.

I have not tried the Official Nook head phones but they are Frequency response: 20 Hz-18,000 Hz

My guess is that our Head phones are just too good for the Nook and we are hearing the Hiss in the Higher Frequency Range that "Normal" Headphones often can't reproduce. I have had the same issue with cheaper MP3 players you end up hearing the electronics in the device working. Good MP3 players and other media device normally have this sound filtered out or have things shielded in such a way that it minimized the effect.
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
Ummm, no. First, anything above 20kHz is inaudible. Second, if you do have extraordinarily rare "miracle ears" and can hear slightly above the normal range, nothing above 20kHz would sound like a hiss... it would be an incredibly high-pitched whistle. Try playing around with a tone generator and see for yourself what extreme high-frequency sounds are like.

Oh, and I assure you that your Sony headphones cannot produce 5Hz and 24kHz tones, no matter what their marketing department claims.
[Nook Color General] therealguppy:
Yeah your right, and I knew that at some point in my life, but I guess I'm losing my mind.

After doing some more research on this it, Other people seem to think its a problem with High sensitivity on the good headphones....

The Sony's I have are 105 dB/mw...

I kinda doubt that is is it either, maybe it just a combination of factors. and we will just have to try different ones till we find ones that work well.
[Nook Color General] norazi:
ok ive done some testing with 3 different nook colors.. kept taking it back due to the hissing.

ths "hissing" is inherent with all nook colors, i think its just SNR noise due to a low quality dac/chip.

however it is only pronounced using certain outputs:

- using my sony in-ear headphones, the hiss/staic is barely audible. you can only tell right after you hit pause and the music stops but the sound chip is still producing "audio"

- using mysennheiser hd555 headphones, the hiss is a little more pronounced but once again only detectable in certain situations (ie quiet piano or vocals)

- using my logitech portable speakers, the hiss is extremely loud and pretty much makes it impossible to use the nook color as an audio source for a portable boombox using my speakers

so i think all the differing opinions is because each person has different headphone setups and also people have different sensitivity to certain frequencies.. but i can say without a doubt there is a pretty bad SNR with the nook color compared to say a sansa clip mp3 player which is legendary among audio enthusiasts for having clear audio output. this device clearly was not made with high quality audio in mind. i am perfectly fine with that since it was designed as an cheap color ereader and id rather have them skimp on audio hardware than say the fantastic 7" IPS panel. but just know that it will have awful audio using some setups
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] califrag:
So I'd really like to have the middle 'soft-key' that pops up the b&n popup menu remapped to open the zeam app drawer instead. Is this something that is possible with an easy fix? I am fairly adept with adb, know the basics on how to use setprop and sqlite3 to change simple settings but don't know where to start on this. Any help?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] johnopsec:
I'd like to remap both that button and the "last book" button to "back" and "menu".
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] xboxexpert:
Dude can you please tell me what clock that is and if possible post a apk for it also the weather and if its any different the battery. Actually all the apk's for me to get the exact same home screen would be great.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] fortuno01:
Clock on top is called simi clock. I believe the weather is using beautiful widgets.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] califrag:
It's

gTabSimiClock (Clock 3x1 with Date Text size 20)

PalmarySoft Weather (Weather Quarte)

BattStatt (Battery Small)

Also not sure if you want\need them but there is also

SetCPU Widget

adbWireless Widget

If you need those let me know and I'll up them too
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] h8rift:
FYI....the little status bar at the bottom should be controlled by framework-res.apk in /system/framework.

On other android devices, that is where these ui elements are located.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jsmith.nook:
Yup, it's in there.

Unpack framework-res.apk and the images in question are:

framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/stat_arrow_down.png

framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/stat_arrow_up.png

The stock NC boot animation is also there at:

framework-res/assets/images/nookcol_512/

And I believe the 'n' image that appears on the slider to wake the nook up is:

framework-res/res/drawable-mdpi/ic_jog_dial_unlock.png

The next question is would it be possible to alter and repack this apk? I'm guessing not since we can't sign it with B&N's cert.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ds_x_man:
Hi guys,

After foolowing all of the post about updating i9000 with froyo 2.2 i decided to try it but i have problem..

I have made JIG to enter in download mode because 3 button combo didnt work..

I have sucessfully flashed it via ODIN 1.7 and wiped data and cernel but my phone stucked on Galaxy S logo and vibrates from time to time..

Is there any solution?

BR,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ds_x_man:
i have solved by flashing with firmware I9000XFJP7
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cq914:
ummm.... for curiosity purposes how did u manage to solve it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jitendra.Bachhav:
Hi All,

I want to know the BIOS of Android Phone.

Can you provide me some knowledge based links related to this..

so it helps me in my study.

- Jitu.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santacruzdz:
I cant beleave that we need to "wait please..." when we execute an app..with such strong config 1 GHZ...i just find it too slow...is there a solution to that in the next update of wm7 ? or should i go back to my android super fast phone...??
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xylias:
or you could just go away, troll. If you really had a Windows Phone 7 you'd call it Windows Phone 7 and not wm7.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
There's no need to make the same thread in loads of different places
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santacruzdz:
I cant beleave that we need to see "wait please..." when we execute an app..with such strong config 1 GHZ...i just find it too slow...is there a solution to that in the next update of wm7 ? or should i go back to my android super fast phone...??
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim Coleman:
1. It's down to the app developer to code properly

2. Android, super fast? You're joking. Or a troll.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmelo76:
Well, it is.

No comments closed ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgetmyname:
Hi all,

I have an SGS 9000 (portuguese model, unlocked unbranded). Its on Samsung 2.1 (+Voodoo). I would like to update this through Keis with the 2.2 Samsung. Of course, I shall disable Voodoo lag fix first.

The bootloader is the 2e version, and I have both Recovery and Download modes enabled via the buttons (power+Home+Volume.. etc).

* Will the patch from 2.1 from 2.2 flash a 3e bootloader, or disable in anyway the ability to enter Recovery or Download mode?

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
I can't speak for your country or network provider but the update will almost certainly put 3e on your phone, this shouldn't stop you from entering recovery or download, but kies has a mind of it's own, which is why I don't use it. After the install enter download and flash cwm or 2e recovery with odin
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgetmyname:
> I can't speak for your country or network provide ...

Under which circumstances would you be able to speak for my country or network provider? Do you work for a government organisation, such as the Foreign Office or Dept of Trade, or for a mobile telephone operator? If so, please declare yourself.

Back on topic:

Thank-you for the info about the replacement of 2e by 3e.

Looks like I won't use Keis as I don't fancy taking the risk of loosing these functions, and then having to downgrade firmware; Far too scary for me because if these bits go wrong, then the 'phone could be bricked, whereas just flashing new operating systems is not a problem.

Is there a Samsung 2.2 release available from SamsungFirewares?

Settings -> About Phone states I have :

Baseband version I9000XXJM1

Build version ECLAIR.XWJM2.

I don't really know what this means nor how it affects the 'phone when upgrading from SamsungFirmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Under which circumstances would you be able to speak for my country or network provider? Do you work for a government organisation, such as the Foreign Office or Dept of Trade, or for a mobile telephone operator? If so, please declare yourself.

Fairplay, it was badly worded, but you knew what I meant.

I didn't mean to scaremonger when I said about kies having a mind of it's own. You always run a small risk of something going wrong regardless of whether you flash the phone through kies or odin, if you don't know what you're doing kies is the safest bet, but to get back to 2e you need to flash recovery through odin. If you read the posts on how to do this and follow the steps exactly you should be pretty safe.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgetmyname:
Yep, I knew what you mean, but could not resist :)

I am quite content to flash with Odin, rather than Keis, but only when I know what I had to do. In particular this means, exactly which files should I flash.

I can work out the correct order from the various threads, but exactly what we shall see. I seem to remember that the SamsungFireware site did note what should be flashed.

Next step: Where is that Samsung Firmware URL?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mika91:
Hi,

I have an azerty DZ, and when using hardware keyboard, it seems impossible to type some symbols, like "<", ">", "^"....

Only available symbols (using symb. key) are brackets, 3-dots, Yen and copyrights.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reycat:
If you post your .kcm.bin file (as you can read in the Norwegian keyboard thread) and detail what symbols you need, I'll give it a try.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mika91:
Ok, I attached french keymap.

The important miising symbols are "^", "<", ">" and "~".

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reycat:
Ok, this is my first try and I don't guarantee it'll work :)

Shift+FN+C ^

Shift+FN+N ~

Shift+FN+, <

Shift+FN+. >

I hope it works
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtcom:
I've got a Desire Z and can't seem to get the < and > chars no matter what I try -- what's the trick?

(stock Euro Desire Z with English)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinfinity:
Well, without modifying anything: no. It is indeed impossible.

There are two files that can be fairly easily messed with:

/system/usr/keylayout/vision-keypad-wwe.kl and

/system/usr/keychars/vision-keypad-wwe.kcm.bin

(there are multiple files in those directories, so it may well be that the files used on your device aren't the -wwe versions and altering the -wwe versions doesn't do anything)

I changed the keylayout-file to make arrow keys out of the (ridiculous) shortcut buttons, right shift and question mark (it took me a while to realize that DPAD_LEFT corresponded to a DOWN arrow, which makes sense if you look at the optical trackpad in landscape mode, but can be quite mystifying if you don't).

The keylayout-file is plaintext and can be modified on your phone using a terminal and vi.

The keylayout-file only maps hardware buttons to the intended functions in the OS. The keychars-file maps these to actual characters, including what is produced using FN and Shift (or both!). To be able to type the 'missing' characters, I added them in my keychars-file as characters that appear when pressing FN + Shift + <key>.

The keychars-file is a binary file, so you'll have to use two simple tools to edit it. See this post from the G2 forum (the entire thread is quite useful, actually):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9208893&postcount=31

A little heads up: the capacitive buttons share the same keycodes as the ones on the keyboard. Ergo: assigning another function to the search or menu buttons in the keylayout file will also assign that function for the capacitive search and menu buttons.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtcom:
Perfect -- thanks :)

This should be in the WIKI...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Ah, good info, so that explains why the capacitive buttons stop working on custom ROMs that were designed for the G2 with its different hardware keyboard layout.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinfinity:
That's very possible, though I remember reading someone solving that specific problem by changing the permissions on the files.

Certainly something to keep in mind, though.

A very informative page for tinkering with all this:

http://source.android.com/porting/keymaps_keyboard_input.html

And some commands:

getevent (first few lines show which events are handled by which devices and subsequent lines can be used to determine keycodes and such)

getprops |grep hw (shows the key handling devices, useful for confirming which .kl-file to edit)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cycloid:
Fat Free Froyo, sys on NAND, data on EXT2 partition

getting a lot of corruption issues, e.g. woke this morning to find it locked up, so had to reset, lost two apps, google account settings and my wallpaper

will try moving the dalvik cache as per this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853852 but I don't know how to open a terminal!

I thought I could solve this by regularly backing up and then restoring whenever I am forced to reboot but when i try i get a ton of errors (supposefly mke2fs related) and it says it couldnt copy.

so basically I'm shafted, help!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] l1q1d:
You need to clean data or connect to a linux machine, and try to check the disk
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cycloid:
My ubuntu partition is not booting on my laptop since i swapped the wifi card, lol, today is not my day!

Are you saying the failure to backup is because the data partition itself is bad?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cycloid:
Seems to be fine now. I had a ton of corruption after a crash last night. rebooted a couple of times, clearing dalvik along the way and then on the off-chance tried to restore /data and it came back. Seems like it WAS backing up and only a handful of files were throwing errors.

Got myself a terminal emulator and ran mount -o remount /data, shutdown, cleared dalvik then did a new backup and this time it ran without complaints.

Hopefully now if i get any crashes and bad things happen I can just restore, as I have all my email/apps/accounts set up just right :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] clemsyn:
You might want to try my latest Kaisimg.nbh. It's on the Kaiser thread page 7.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cycloid:
Indeed, have been keeping a keen eye on that thread and spotted the recent excitement, thanks :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
I would like to know how to turn off the blinking light when low battery comes on.

Swyped from my HTC EVO 4G via xda app
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchellvii:
I'd like to turn off the annoying popup that keeps reminding me my battery is low. I get it, my battery is low - they don't have to remind me every 30 seconds.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
Yeah that's what I want to know, it is annoying..anyone know how?

Swyped from my HTC EVO 4G via xda app
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbgreen89:
I dont think their is a way... But if their is i would definitly like to know!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sekigah84:
Might want to contact the ROM makers directly to have this added. They might be able to make a standalone flashable tweak to the notification reminder setting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovethyEVO:
I have tasker shutting off the leds when the battery level is between 0 and 15% and the leds come on. Tasker is not free but for this kind of control the price is worth it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacoballen22:
Okay just got tasker but have no idea how to use it.

Swyped from my HTC EVO 4G via xda app
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] creage:
Sorry, if question been asked before, please help me to find correct link if any.

Is there any way to have a clock widget just as on the lockscreen one? I have default one, which is too small - I'd like to have it as big as on lockscreen.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] tristinian:
I too would love this
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kalavere:
Buy a DHD and port Lucid for CM 6.1 for me! :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
I dont think he meant hed buy a phone just to port a theme...

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kalavere:
I'm glad we cleared that up, I was seriously expecting him to buy a £500 DHD today and have it ported by tomorrow. :rolleyes:
[Desire Themes and Apps] fllash:
Do you mean you want Lucid ported to CM6.1 for the DHD?

If so, I could do that for you.

Josh.
[Desire Themes and Apps] mr.r9:
:eek: Me toooooooo:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kalavere:
You really could? I would love it if you could!
[Desire Themes and Apps] fllash:
Sure thing, check back tomorrow :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
If i gave you a .zip with some taskbar icons in, could you port them to the new DHD framework, if i gave you my framework-res.apk :confused: :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kalavere:
Thanks mate, I really appreciate it. You must give me a donation e-mail address when you are done, I can't take your time for free. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] -sky:
AuraxTSense 8.1.2

Hey man,

I would really love to have the modded Sense theme from AuraxTSense 8.1.2 by NeoPhyTe.x360 for the latest Leedroid-Rom. I would just flash AuraxTSense Rom itself, but I am experiencing problems and Leedroid just works perfectly for me on my Desire.

Greetz!
[Desire Themes and Apps] fllash:
Nah :P If you're gonna donate, donate to Cyanogen or the MIUI team or something :)

Yep. All I need is your framework-res.apk and that zip with the icons, and i'll whip it up.

Josh.
[Desire Themes and Apps] shawe_ewahs:
fllash do you know how to create a Metamorph theme? This can be the most easy way for all people can have here favourite theme on "any" ROM.

This is my theme for AuraxTSense 8.0:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2T88DOKS

And this is my "MetaMorph" theme, but ROM don't boot if I try to flash it:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JD9CGPL4

In MetaMorph themming, all people can see all images, and replace it easy, withou need to recopile any .apk. I think the most best way you can help others is learning how to do a MetaMorph theme ;)