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[Android Apps and Games] smeddy:
@OP: I think you should be aware of your feedback of the Market at the minute (by the way, I posted earlier on here to say how much I love your app etc and I still stand by all that).

But there's now two point of views: From reading your thread on here, I understand and accept your logic and will gladly pay.

But without reading this thread, just reading the change and the comments on the MarketPlace: I'm not surprised there's angry people now, arguing you did a bait'-and-switch' on them. From "always free", to an update and trial without warning is, to the end-user, a shock-tactic. It may have been better to wait a month, but updating the description to warn of the changes, or keep the current version free but stop developing it.

Part of me is ready to pay, and the other half of me has been stirred up by the comments on your feedback, enough to make me think: "screw this, I'm just never updating this app again, not to make it go from freeware to trialware".

So while I'm fully supportive of your move, I think you should take steps to improve your relationship with your end-users, who after all are those most willing to pay you money. it's takena dive in the last few days, and perhaps could have been averted by copy/pastying your OP onto the Android description.

Anyway, all the best!
[Android Apps and Games] bongd:
I feel the same way. I stream most of my stuff anyway with VLC Stream and Convert. For something I don't stream, I've already paid for great media players. I agree with your sentiments exactly.
[Android Apps and Games] bemymonkey:
I'm another one of the users you've miffed with your strange tactics. Reading "Will be free forever, I plomise!" one day, and then "Trial version!" the next day, has put me off your app for the time being.

I have nothing against paid apps (hell, I buy quite a few of them myself), but treating your users this way is not acceptable... even if I understand the reasoning behind the switch to a paid app, the way you went about the switch was absolutely horrendous.

:(
[Android Apps and Games] raven369:
I feel bad for you man. You seemed to have made quite a few angry when you said VPlayer would be free forever. You should have made VPLayer a paid only app from the very beginning because once VLC comes out a lot of people will jump ship.
[Android Apps and Games] McHale:
I understand the wanting to get paid part, but you made such a point to say FREE FOR EVER!!!! Had you not done that, you'd find more people less animated about the change. Also tack on the fact that the product is STILL in Beta and has some significant issues for some people. I'm in agreement that the early adopters who helped beta test (and some even donated) should get it FREE FOR EVER!!!! as you promised. New people after that would have to pay. But as others have stated, it's your app. Do what you want. Just be aware that VLC is coming soon and many will flock to that. Lowering your price to .99 will yield you a lot more money and a lot less angry people.

Due to the change from Free to Paid, I uninstalled the app yesterday or the day before as I had issues with it on some files that the stock player did not. I'm not about to pay for it when I know VLC is coming and it's got better support and will truly be free for ever.

-Mc
[Android Apps and Games] EleCtrOx666:
I hope that, if you make it a paid version, donaters like me will get it without repaying it...
[Android Apps and Games] alain57:
I found this sad

If every one think that way we will only have beta versions for free

When you do an app for free you do it because it is a hobby

Or because it is a helpfull. For finding a job

Not hoping you could buy the latest phone that comes out...

Some people does it the right way

A free version that work well and that can be usable all days

And a donator or a plus version with new stuff or faster update or better support
[Android Apps and Games] MordyT:
You nailed it. You really did.

Spot on!

Which brings me to... if we can't trust you why the hell would we pay for something?

Is a lie and something you should be ashamed of OP

Remember a company called Shazam? Same thing, from a free product (that they didn't promise would be free) to paid. Only thing is every person who used it got the full version for free...
[Android Apps and Games] yangtsesu:
我不懂英文。直接说中文了，省得我翻译过去你翻译过来。这个播放器不错。我现在手机上安装了三个播放器，QQ影音，rockplayer还有vplayer.QQ影音画面不好，rock影音不同步，vplayer是最好的。但是我没有途径去付款，而且我也没有为软件付费的习惯，我设备上都是免费软件。希望能提供一个广告版本的，而不是试用的。我现在在等vlc，暂用QQ影音。
[Android Apps and Games] nghj:
hi, just wanna drop a post saying that i use vplayer and i like it a hell lot,esp playing MKV files. i really respect ur decision to make it a paid app but unfortunately, we dont get paid apps in our market here. so hope you can make some considerations, eg: continue to let us use older versions with less functions for free.
[Android Apps and Games] nghj:
out of topic but soundhound > shazam IMHO :D
[Android Apps and Games] bertbusdriver:
I definitely sympathize with OP here. I've used Vplayer and I love it. OP has given some very valid reasons for switching it into a paid app. After all, people are demanding that he add support for all of these different phones, and he has been working very hard to provide support, yet he would have had to pay out of his own pocket to acquire these devices that previously were not supported (nexus s, etc.). Not only that, he's invested so much time in writing the app, I think it's only fair that he's compensated for it. I will gladly pay for Vplayer. Even though OP went back on his word, I think people are being pretty unreasonable. After spending so much on your phone, you can't pay $5 for a high quality video player?!

OP, any plans of adding embedded subtitle support for .mkv? (.srt, .ass, .ssa) I have a lot of files with embedded subs...
[Android Apps and Games] suomaf:
My suggestion is leave Vplayer as free forever so you can live up to your promise. Then do a Vplayer+ (or whatever name you want) ads (free) and a Vplayer+ Pro (donate version) This way you can get your cake and eat it too. Almost everyone is happy, and get the complainers off your back. Vplayer as what you have done, you no longer need to upgrade, and focus your energy on the new player and really earn that 0.99 or whatevery you like to charge.

My own 2cents.
[Android Apps and Games] thinhletien:
1$ or 2$ i thought,it s good for ur hard work. In the other hand, rockplayer **** me off cause have delay in some flv file, not stable. I will buy ur app.cheer.
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
As I hinted towards before, I don't believe this really to be the reason. I can guarantee he wont go out and buy every device possible. This just isn't reasonable. Someone reports an issue on a phone he doesn't even like, you think he'll go and buy it so he can debug it? No he wont.

Someone else has said he doesn't even have a system in place for people to send bug reports to. This isn't the reason, I'm more sure of it now. He has seen how popular it is and want's paying for his hard work. This in itself isn't a bad thing, as I said, I would prefer if he'd just been honest about it.
[Android Apps and Games] elvis56:
Pretty much everything about vplayer has been said I think and I agree that if it was only about development he could publish and share the source code. However this seems to be about money only.

To the people considering paying for vplayer: If he can change free forever to limited trial version what's to say he won't change lifelong updates to pay for every version on every device you own?
[Android Apps and Games] MercuryTangent:
The dev originally said this will be free forever. He gets as many people to beta test as he can and then switches to a paid application. This "bait-and-switch" tactic is unacceptable.

Developer: Why haven't you responded to defend your position? Why hasn't anything we've said been taken into consideration? You post " I wanna change VPlayer to a PAID app" with a little crying emoticon, tell us you're going back on your promise of "Free Forever!!!" and then don't bother to even come back and acknowledge our responses? Such a frustrating move to make, and then to have you completely and utterly bail on us after doing it?! That's dirty no matter how you look at it.

Developer, be a man (or woman) of your word. Post a free version on the Market, give a version with more features for a fee.
[Android Apps and Games] Newklearx3:
I'll I hear from some users here and comments in the market is " I'm so cheap that I just want to get great apps for FREE"

Get with the 21 century!

He put time into this app let him do what he wants, you don't like it? Well make your own damn app that does the same thing. ( Rant done ) :mad::mad::mad:
[Android Apps and Games] networkmagician419:
Forget vplayer or pirate it... I'm uninstalling the free version now
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
You sir, are an idiot. Try actually reading the responses.

( Rant done ) :mad::mad::mad:
[Android Apps and Games] Triskite:
Eww.. the Cleveland show..

I want an ad supported app.

Also, can someone make an app that blocks any app you specify from accessing the internet so I don't see ads on ad supported apps? Thanksss
[Android Apps and Games] artesea:
Dev used free app to fill market with 5* ratings. Even though the price is cheap I can no longer trust the OP to sell a second key.

Would have been happy to see Beta left to retire in market with a new version as paid, or even ad supported.

Will now wait for VLC and just use the last beta, although expecting that to time bomb in the next few days based on the older one which expired.
[Android Apps and Games] drousy:
I completely agree that you should be paid for your hard work but be careful next time before you indicate something "will be free forever". I see your app reviews on the market and this seems to be the primary reason people are upset and uninstalling. I think your app is great and am willing to pay for it and I think many others would too but many people aren't goin to check xda for your announcements of goin to a paid version. I only found this thread after reading thru the reviews and someone mentioned there being an explanation here for the sudden switch from ' free' to ' trial'. Granted there are a lot of ignorant people on android and in the market who won't take into account your time and effort but many would understand the switch had there been a quick explanation in your update. I was almost a little quick to judge myself but I refused to believe the dev of a great app like this would actually pull a ' bait and switch' as so many are claiming. On that note, you are entitled to do as you wish with your software and updates but I just think a simple explanation in the market itself might have saved some of the bad reviews.
[Android Apps and Games] Newklearx3:
Yeah, saying "free forever " screwed yourself. But other then that it's fair.
[Android Apps and Games] esocid:
Agree that dev made a bad move in handling this. I have no objections to paying for apps, but the "bait and switch" is a shrewd way to get people to buy it. I uninstalled and will wait for VLC, and will be paying/donating for it.
[Android Apps and Games] gaui:
You can't go on saying that an app will be free forever and then suddenly force people to pay to use it. That's dishonesty and people, such as myself, do not like that. You just have to stick to what you've said and deal with it. Else pay the consequences (low rating).

However, you could leave this app (VPlayer) like it is on the market FREE (like you stated earlier) and make another one that is a paid app and you will keep on building on/updating/refining/making better than VPlayer.

Just my two cents.
[Android Apps and Games] cu_ninja:
While I understand where some of you guys are coming from this situation is systemic of a bigger problem on Android. As android users we simultaneously want great, iOS level apps or higher, but don't seem as willing to pay for them. To get polished apps we have to financially support the devs.

In this particular case, the dev could certainly have handled things better from a marketing perspective but come on, VPlayer is an excellent app that deserves our support.

One last thing, I don't understand the whole "I can't trust you anymore" stance. If it was a good app before, then by the dev's original post, it should be even better, now that he will have the resources to improve it.
[Android Apps and Games] w4s:
How can Vplayer play a list? just a single file only?
[Android Apps and Games] MordyT:
I know, I only use soundhound these days.

You sir are a dumbass. I have paid for apps 2 and 3 times as much, the money isn't the issue, the LIES and CHEATING is. Do NOT write "VPlayer will be free forever" and then turn it into a paid app. How would YOU like it if your company gave you a car and said "For as long as you are employed you have this car, then one day you woke to find your driveway empty? "We changed our minds and LIED to you. Sorry we broke your TRUST". You would sue them.

While this is a much smaller scale, you get the picture

No, you don't understand judging by your post. If I say something and then do the opposite, I expect you NOT to TRUST me and lend me a penny.

No one has ANY problem with supporting the dev. NO ONE. We have a PROBLEM with a LIER. A person who speaks/types FALSEHOODS. TRUST is something you earn, not granted. And if you can't trust the dev, why the hell would you give him a red cent?
[Android Apps and Games] kikan:
if you like, that we pay for your apps, it have to work with out any problems all the time on all versions...

do your app is working like that?

no!

so why you charge it?

regards

Kikan
[Android Apps and Games] McHale:
Personally, I believe the "FREE FOR EVER" switcheroo was in the plan all along. Had he started charging for it from the beginning, it'd have been just another video app. But by boasting "FREE FOR EVER!!!!" and coming on XDA and having us all Beta Test aggressively for him, he got much faster buy-in and users using the app. What better way to tell people potentially interested in buying your app then have all of them download it ahead of time.

It's a ****ty thing to do and VLC will solve this issue fast enough and he deserves every bit of negative feedback he receives.

Don't be fooled. This was planned from the beginning.

Many users on XDA spend MUCH more time creating ROMS or utilities for free for the good of the community because they feel they have received the same type of goods. I uninstalled it as soon as he changed it to trial and even if it went back to fully free, I'll never install it again. How do we know his software doesn't grab your personal info so he can sell it for money. It wouldn't surprise me one bit after this crap.
[Android Apps and Games] Newklearx3:
Now you're just being retarted. If you think he's taking your personal info then take the apk decompile it and look through the code otherwise. Stfu!
[Android Apps and Games] drzodiac:
Only if you make it an over priced asp like 4.99 that would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] MordyT:
I think it was his plan to start charging from the beginning. There is only one other reason to have a timebomb in the file... to keep all beta testers on the same page. And that is not needed so much with market since it informs users when updattes are around
[Android Apps and Games] defoks:
VPlayer was a real shock to me, I mean an application in android phone can play all this media types with no problem, if they have 10 stars I would gave it gladly.

I'll be glad to pay for it, but please consider offering more payment options other than PayPal, I don't have an account, and I can't have one (my country is not supported :( )

Good luck with the development of VPlayer ;)
[Android Apps and Games] oh4kju:
Aspect ratio problems with Desire

Good job! This can be used to stream live DVB TV from Dreambox. It's MPEG2 TS.

But could you kindly fix the issues with aspect ratio? In HTC Desire, everything flagged as 16:9 will be cropped in top and bottom. It crops quite a lot; the channel logo and subtitles (encoded in the picture) are totally lost! This happens in live streaming and file playback as well. Videos with 4:3 aspect ratio seems to work better, however the picture may be too narrow. I tried the aspect ratio setting; it's possible to see the whole picture but then the aspect ratio will be wrong; 16:9 is shown like 4:3 etc...

We have PAL standard here so it's 720x576/25 fps. Please note that these kind of streams do not utilitze square pixels! The video stream itself can be 720x576 pixels for example, but it must be scaled if it's shown on square pixel display:

720x576 4:3 must be scaled to 768x576,

720x576 16:9 must be scaled to 1024x576 (it's anamorphic)

Something is going wrong with this, because it crops so much. Maybe it's supporting NTSC only? I hope that this info will help to cure the problem.

I also noted that theres' some issues with A/V sync, the audio is not exactly in sync with the picture.

However - this was so promising that I decided to buy this. I hope that you could fix those little issues in the future.
[Android Apps and Games] timothydonohue:
no offense people, but you can't entirely blame the guy for wanting to make a few bucks on his hard work. maybe if people had been willing to hand him some donation money for the app, he would have kept it free, but you guys asking for handouts and then complaining that it isn't free anymore.... well, i'm not sure what to say. yeah, he said it was going to be free forever, but that position became untenable.

maybe you shouldn't have updated. i'm still rocking the original, never updated, and so i still just have it, no trial, no nothing. maybe it won't do everything an updated version will do, but it still works for the most part.

seems to me that the version i have IS and always WILL BE free. just the updated version isn't, lol. maybe you shouldn't have updated ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Newklearx3:
Well put, enough said.
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
Not really. He tells us we should have supported and sent donations ... then says he would rather cheat the dev by not updating???

Yeah, erm, good point...

I think he also totally misses the point of why people are annoyed, so no, not "enough said "
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Can someone confirm for me (as moderator) the free version now expires and then does not work anymore ?
[Android Apps and Games] Newklearx3:
Are you going to pay? If not, shut up. Everyone's acting like the app is $50. It cost as much as a damn cheeseburger. It's pathetic. Like I said before. If you don't like it code your own app that does the same as vplayer(oh wait, most of you can't)
[Android Apps and Games] vud911:
Yea I can confirm it. You need to purchase the Unlocker to keep using it. The free version is now a Trial version.
[Android Apps and Games] gaui:
If you update it. :D
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
OK, thank you.

The developer is fully in his right to make it a paid version, whether we like it or not.

XDA does however not allow trial apps, and since we have heard from both sides here, I'm closing this thread.
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] drac667:
MeeGo 1.1 seen running on HTC HD2.

http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2010/12/meego-11-running-on-htcs-hd2.html
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] shubh.27hd2:
We all know that...
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] drac667:
I swear I did a search before posting this, but somehow failed to do it properly... I need to drink a coffee :)
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] shubh.27hd2:
Well there was a thread couple of days back as who wanted to have meego..
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] drac667:
Yup, found it.
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] ramy911us:
we hope that will get stable and usable soon.
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] nafets.f:
I wait so long of a new version from ubuntu ore a useable version from meego
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] Hamsn:
Having Stable OSes like Android and Windows, its less likely that Ubuntu and MeeGo will make up for the daily-use ROMs. The number of developers who spend time on Android are much much more compared to the MeeGo and Ubuntu, and moreover the latter are just a port, all the features may or may not end up working.
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] theslam08:
Thats what they said about android on this phone ;)

If it gets traction, ever, we'll see :).
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] tobiascrystal:
I have been watching the meego forum, did I miss something? Is it working now?
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] Marvlesz:
It is working, and it was working before .. But not available to the public and not working properly :)
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] bhasan:
Bayazid

where can i download meego
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] Tachi91:
Nope... Meego has been pushed to the bottom right now... Nowbodys really paying attention or care about it... Just us who try to keep the idea alive

By working you mean fully functional.. NO
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] bombasbal:
no more meeGo or is it still alive
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] Marvlesz:
Apparently, a foot in the grave and a foot in life. :)
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] HD2_(ab)User:
New Old News :D
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] yurchik92:
why project is stopped?
[HD2 MeeGo Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] kanded:
wow its cool. i want to get it soon.
[Folio 100 General] tobr:
Where can I download correct adb windows driver for windows7 32bit?

Are they android device specific?

I would not like not to mess my windows setup with wrong versions of drivers :-)
[Folio 100 General] metuskale:
Hi, if you can wait more or less 1h I will upload the file u need to work with folio ; )
[Folio 100 General] tobr:
That would be great. Thanks.
[Folio 100 General] metuskale:
Hi, you must change the "android_winusb" file for this mine and should work (extract it from rar).

You will find this file in "***/android-sdk-windows/google-usb_driver

(I assume you have the last Android-SDK),
[Folio 100 General] tobr:
Thanks, it's working. Anyway I am going to install complet development enviroment in linux under vmware.

+1
[Omnia II General] noelablon:
I am using an Omnia I8000 with this specs:

pda i8000jpja2

csc i8000xsgja3

phone i8000xxja1​

and what I want to know is what ROM I should use in order for me to UPGRADE or HAVE A STABLE release.

I was actually pretty excited about my Omnia 2 before especially when it says it is upgradeable to WinMo 6.5. My problem was my camera. It keeps on saying that I have to upgrade my camera firmware. So I went to their service center and have it fixed.

My first visit (Yes, there are more) resulted to my Omnia 2's upgrade to WinMo 6.5 from 6.1. I was pretty excited but when I checked the camera - DANG! It still doesn't work. So I visited them again, after a few more weeks since I am very busy at work.

Second visit (They fixed it!). Yes it was indeed working. They told me that they only reformated my device. Okay. But after months, it went back! The damn camera firmware is asking an update again.

Third visit (They fixed it again!) Okay, this time they said they have replaced the damned chip of the camera. Okay, I was happy but then after a month or 2 - you've guessed it - the camera isn't working again.

Now, I am tired of going back and fort the service center. They may have free service but it is very disappointing. I have never been frustrated on a phone before except this one.

Don't get me wrong. I love my Omnia, but this camera issue is so frustrating. Now, I think if I could hold on to the best ROM for this device I'll probably fix this issue (hoping that re-formatting would help). If it works, then I won't have to go back and forth the service center. Next visit won't be free anymore because warranty expired already.

PLEASE HELP ME GUYS!