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[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
I noticed problems with stock music player and RockOn. I switched to poweramp and no more problem. I also had a problem with slacker and then I performed a clean install of this rom by flashing back to stock DI18 via odin, flashing stock EC13 via odin, and then flashing midnight 5.2. That cleared up my slacker problem. It also feed up some nand storage. I was getting error msgs that I was running out of storage before doing all of that. Previously, I just updated from v4-v5.2, as each new release was offered. I never ran into any problems until 5.2. After the clean install (actually, after the gps fix), everything works great.
[Epic 4G Android Development] altimuh:
I thought it wasn't advisable to restore data - but restoring the apks was ok...?
[Epic 4G Android Development] altimuh:
Medic - a few questions:

When Bonsai 4.1 is finally stable and released, are you planning on midNIGHT v6.0?

Any plans on incorporating the following tweaks:

Keyboard - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1025533

GPS - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1029152

Hulu - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841472

Before 6.0 any way to get the silent/vibrate option back (that froyo took away)? I know that Bonsai 4.1 is supposedly taking care of that...

Not trying to push you - you got A LOT on your plate - just curious!!:)
[Epic 4G Android Development] dewey1973:
No concerns. Just a little more work to keep up on any issues. I would have assumed that if someone was having a problem with one, it would be a possible problem for the other.

But I'm not opposed to putting in the effort for such a great product.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JojoSteez:
So I was finally able to flash 5.2 (was moving and didnt want to flash til I got internet running again). Everything is running fine except I somehow lost my voicemail and market apps. Anyone got working apks for these? I found a couple of market apks but they just FC on me. Thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
did you flash standard upgrade zip from v5?

found at www.lostandtired.com .. click android development; download mindnight extras; then open with 7zip and copy the standard upgrade out and flash it ... then reflash the standard upgrade for v5.2

the one for 5.2 just had what was needed to update from 5 not all the apps
[Epic 4G Android Development] JojoSteez:
I didn't flash the upgrade. I was on 5.1 and everything was backed up already. I did just flash it now and got voicemail back and the market, but it's the old market? How do i update it to the new market?
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
It well update on it's own eventually.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Anon9mouz:
Is this all in the extras bc I might have to try this
[Epic 4G Android Development] sloheim:
Hey everyone,

I'm a former Epic Experience user, looking to upgrade to a more maintained ROM, and it looks like midNIGHT has the most flexibility and fewest general complaints.

Right off the bat though, I'm having trouble ODINing to the EC05 modem. I downloaded the EC05 FULL.zip file linked in the original post. I start up ODIN, choose the PIT and MD5 files that were included in the zip (victory_8G_100528.pit and EC05 FULL.tar.md5), but a couple seconds after starting, it fails the hash check.

I've re-extracted the files, re-downloaded the files, restarted my PC.. everything I can think of that would cause hash check failures. Nothing works.

Has anyone downloaded the files recently? Here is the link I'm using...

http://www.multiupload.com/YLWNL9GMCZ

Otherwise.. any suggestions? THanks in advance...

Here's the logfile...

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> EC05 FULL.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
You need to delete the md5 extension and leave it .tar extension.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sloheim:
Ah. Well. THATS not confusing and obvious. :)

Thanks. This will be tomorrow night's project then!
[Epic 4G Android Development] budderocks:
There is no need to Odin the EC05 Modem. As stated in the OP instructions and the instructions at lostandtired.com, midNIGHT will install the EC05 modem whether you are on DI18 or EB13. The instructions for the Journaling ON version of midNIGHT talk about using Odin to get to EC05, but not this version.
[Epic 4G Android Development] ksmullins88:
hey rob,

just wondering if you could put the samsung video editor in a zip file for me so i could run it or just the .apk.

if not thats fine, but thanks either way
[Epic 4G Android Development] troy22:
Very nice rom! I m coming from srf 1.1.0 and i like this rom a whole lot better! Thank you.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Anon9mouz:
U can save the apk out off the system/app folder if u didn't delete it or u can get it out of the rom itself
[Epic 4G Android Development] kgbcapthowdy:
anyone have infrastructure wifi tethering working?
[Epic 4G Android Development] kwazytazz:
nope, every time i try, it reboots on me. i tried it on adhoc but i was getting extremely slow speeds like .50kbps or so whereas if i use the speedtest app i get 4mbps
[Epic 4G Android Development] kgbcapthowdy:
well i was using acs and they had have it working, any idea why this rom doenst work with it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
Rob, please check PM
[Epic 4G Android Development] Slimegod:
If I'm already on EC05 all I do is flash if I want this rom
[Epic 4G Android Development] SwimDrewid:
Yep.

Sent from my fully armed and operational epic battle station
[Epic 4G Android Development] budderocks:
Just make sure you are rooted with CW3.0.0.6 OneClick. Just follow the instructions step-by-step and you will be good to go...good luck!
[Epic 4G Android Development] xtkxhom3r:
i just flashed this rom and my camera doesnt work... anyone else having this problem?? also the gallery doesnt detect any of the pics that are on my sd card
[Epic 4G Android Development] jvjidNite:
Sounds like a bad flash. This rom has been one of the best, if not THE best most stable rom i have used. Very well done medic... ;-)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Scott Summers:
I had to reformat my memory card.

I 'clean' flashed twice to no avail until I reformatted the card using the phone. No issues now. Only bad thing was the wait period involved in making the backup to my computer and recopying the content back.
[Epic 4G Android Development] xtkxhom3r:
ur the man bro!!! after i formated the card it was good to go
[Epic 4G Android Development] vizionforever:
Version Differences from 5.1 to 5.2? Thanks!

Currently downloading 5.2 53mb and 102mb Have been running 5.0 and then 5.1 patch...Confused about 5.2 53mb is that zip a patch like 5.1? Looks like it is just a bunch of extras? Is there a changelog? Dunno, looked and could not find the answer so here I am...I think I might just stay with 5.1 for a while as Mybackup never really seems to remember my programs shortcuts, so inevitably I have to reinstall them and my shortcuts / ringtone preferences calendar etc...Does TItanium backup do all this better ? Thanks in multiples, V
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
first (as always) do a nandroid backup from CWM.

this file: midNIGHT_ROM_v5.2__BYOR_Edition_.zip is the rom.

Flash that first.

You already have v5 so you have the midnight extras folder already.

then flash

midNIGHT_ROM_v5.2_Standard_Upgrade.zip

that file only contains those extras that needed to change to run with v5.2 ROM.

Hope that helps
[Epic 4G Android Development] vizionforever:
K prolly gonna wait 5.1 has been working pretty stabily for me... I've seen some peeps having trouble with 5.2 running ext 4 and I'm pretty happy sometimes I lock up but never any data loss and pretty fast so u

cant have everything right? ps. found the changelog on http://lostandtired.com/android-development Sometimes i just feel dumb :| thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] jdelano:
No problem; I've been loving this ROM series since version 2.5.

My only issue ever was on 5.1 .. just starting the video camera, lol ... goes show you ... each phone can be different.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chrischoi:
I am experiencing FC's. Opening set up FC's. If I skip through, Settings FC's. I wiped, cache, dalvik x 3 each and tried flashing 3 times and get FC's. Any insight?

Thanks.

Yes, I did learn about Autism. The facts during installation was very clever. :)

Thank you!
[Epic 4G Android Development] vizionforever:
Yea tell me about it....They must have used different chips / hardware for the phones...I bought mine second hand so they are of different hardware runs...If we ever intermingle our laptops/phone combos windows 7/Samsung drivers have a fit; this relates to hours of work reinstalling drivers :(...I have since learned to keep each phone teathered and flashed on its own computer...
[Epic 4G Android Development] rkjunior:
having an issue with the rom.... i basically started from scratch..

ODIN's back to DI18 than ran the upgrade.zip to get to EC05.... Once that was done, I oneclickrooted using the CW3.0.0.6... Confirmed that completed... Booted into CW, let it convert to EXT, then flashed the Midnight 5.2 ROM and now my phone just continuously boots.. I get the SAMSUNG screen, then it vibrates once, then 3 times.. then reboots... over and over..

I've successfully installed ROMs before, including older versions of Midnight -- not sure what's up with this one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chrischoi:
Make sure you wipe. Redo the install. Sounds like a bad one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] rkjunior:
Wouldn't installing Eclair with ODIN and doing a fresh install of EC05 do the wipe or am I missing something? Should I format the SDCard?

When I try installing 5.2, I'm coming from a fresh install of EC05 using the update.zip (using the stock Android recovery) from the Eclair DI18 fresh install (from ODIN).

Once thing I noticed, after running through CW's stuff to convert to EXT and after wiping the caches, when I do the install of 5.2 - the install runs through the first few "questions" very quickly and the status bar jumps up to about 3/4 of the way complete.. Obviously it's running through without completing something but I can't figure out why.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mis3:
Did you remember to flash 5.0 first before flashing 5.2?
[Epic 4G Android Development] droid newb:
Does this ROM have free wifi tethering like the Frozen ROM?
[Epic 4G Android Development] rkjunior:
That could be it -- no, I didn't. I thought the 5.2 was the complete package. Nowhere in the instructions does it say to flash 5.0..
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
You don't need to flash 5.0 first. Just re flash 5.2. Sometimes it takes a few times.
[Epic 4G Android Development] rkjunior:
thanks..

I did notice while running the oneclickroot, the "busybox" install was throwing an error of "No Space Left on the device". Is this normal? When I reboot the device, the SU icon is there..
[Epic 4G Android Development] budderocks:
I use Wireless Tether for Root Users from the market with this ROM.
[Epic 4G Android Development] buggerritt:
@rkjunior I've never seem that happen from installing one click root. You may want to reflash EC05 with odin. A format of the sdcard might also be in order.
[Epic 4G Android Development] rkjunior:
I actually shut down Norton 360 entirely (just the AV was off) and ran the one-click twice.. It finally went through... The 5.2 install failed the first time but I ran it again and it finally went through.... Just being difficult for some reason!
[Epic 4G Android Development] dragonslave02:
sound stops working

Ok so this has only happened twice to me but I will getting a call and my phone vibrates but has no sound and after answering there is no sound at all and I have to restart the phone to get it back. any thoughts on why this is happening and how to fix it because im at a loss.

Im running with just the standard update zip on v5.2
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Anytime I try to play a video file that's 720p or bigger it the Video Player comes up with an error window saying "File cannot be displayed or played". I've tried playing the videos in Rock Player and they don't work there either (either jittery, don't play at all, or only display the first frame while the sound plays in the background).

For reference: all the files are in the mp4 container and are h264 or standard mpeg file type. I've even tried using TubeMate to download videos in 720p from YouTube and those don't work either. I've tried using an external MicroSD and same error.

All of these files work *perfectly* on my Galaxy Tab and any computer I try them on.

For reference, although it wouldn't make a difference, I rooted the device the second it came out of the box.
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
did a bit more research...found weird things.

Transcoding my videos to FFmpeg (still 720p) even up to around 2,000kbps (didn't try higher) bitrate...the videos worked fine. In h264 they didn't work at all. Currently transcoding a video a few times to test a theory...but I'll report back in a few minutes.
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Ok even transcoding the videos smaller than the screen display size (960x540) doesn't make them work if they're in h264. I'm completely lost on this... I'd appreciate someone else trying this stuff out too and seeing if it's just my phone...
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
Tegra2 has no NEON support so neon version of Rockplayer will not work.

Also Tegra2 cannot decode high-profile H.264 video, which might be your case.
[Atrix 4G General] metaldood:
So can it run 720p mkv files then?
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Very strange...since Motorola listed H.264 under the codec list for the Atrix...

So what kind of limitations are there? I mean it plays *some* H.264 but not all...so where's the line? Pretty strange that it doesn't play the *MOST* used format in the world lol
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Haven't tried MKV but I've definitely narrowed it down to H.264. amtrak was definitely right, but trying to figure out what kind of limitations that entails.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrmgic:
You're going to want baseline codec, no b frames most likely.

Try handbrake - (http://www.handbrake.fr)

and put these settings in the "Advanced" tab commandline box

ref=5:bframes=0:me=umh:subq=9:mixed-refs=1:8x8dct=0:analyse=all:cabac=0
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Have you tried it and seen it working? I'm encoding now using my normal H.264 profile just with 0 b-frames. Anyway to use the baseline codec without using the commandline? Don't want to have to do that everytime
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
MKV is a general "container", the actual video is conpressed in different ways.

I'm not really familiar with the difference between high-profile and baseline, but lacking such support is disappointing.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrmgic:
These are the settings that worked on the Zune HD, a device with the original tegra chipset from nvidia.

Those settings would be transferred over to that device without being re-encoded by the software, so I figure they are pretty much guaranteed to be supported by the Tegra 2 unless nvidia removed some of the featureset.

You should only have to enter the settings once unless you start manually changing the profiles..
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Well I'm trying a transcoding right now with the commandline settings from the post above...it definitely takes a *long* time to encode with these settings (at least 3x as long).

At this point it's just better to encode in FFmpeg. It encodes *very* quickly and the loss in quality is unsubstantial for same-size files.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrmgic:
I didn't really think about the encode time.. I have an i7 at home.. so it only took about 20 minutes for the average hr long tv show..

Maybe if you've got a shorter clip to test it would work better.. I'd love to see the actual video specifications for the Tegra 2.. but nvidia hasn't seen fit to post the exact profile specifications.

This makes me think we may be out of luck for high profile h264 on tegra 2 platforms, though..

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/boxee-box-ditches-nvidias-tegra-2-for-intel-ce4100-pre-orders/ It was one of the reasons cited for boxee box ditching tegra 2..
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Aaaand doesn't work. I put the settings you used into the commandline and the file still doesn't work. Apparently the Atrix 4G just doesn't play well with H.264...
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
heh I'm encoding on a Q9550 OC'd to 3.6Ghz. One of the best processors available for transcoding files aside from applications that use both the CPU and GPU in conjunction. It doesn't take *long* but for a 4minute 720p video (around 120Mb) it took almost 8 minutes. Encoding the same video with the normal H.264 profile takes about a minute and a half. Encoding it in FFmpeg took about 35 sec.
[Atrix 4G General] alton987:
This make no sense at all a captivate will play L.3 720p MKV's all day and this phone chokes on lesser material? Something is wrong here, plus the whole excitement around a dual core tegra chip is that you will not have to re-encode anything just drop a file and play. In the brief time I with it today it was chocking on almost any 480p or higher video I threw at it. I also tried multiple video players from the market. These same videos even played fine on a inspire 4G except the L.3 720p that only play on the captivate.
[Atrix 4G General] alton987:
After doing some more research apparently the tegra 2 for all its power sucks at High Profile H264. Which is almost every H264 file on my PC and on the internet. Since my captivate plays High L3.1 720p's I thought for sure this would.

Sigh I guess this isn't my dream phone...
[Atrix 4G General] metaldood:
Can someone upload a video to youtube showing the quality of 720p video running on Atrix???
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
That's the thing...I encoded a few videos in other codecs and they worked great...even at 1080p and over 2,000kbps bitrate (basically what BluRay ends up converting down to for the most part). The processor wasn't even taxed at *ALL* (something like 18%). The problem with the high-profile H.264 is that the Atrix refuses to play it...not that it struggles with the actual video output.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrmgic:
The thought is that the tegra 2's gpu cannot hardware decode high profile H264..

What codecs did you use that worked well?
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
Used FFmpeg, older mpeg4, the standard iPhone4 profile on Handbrake (which is H.264 but don't know what version). All worked flawlessly. The 1080p video I was talking about I encoded in FFmpeg.
[Atrix 4G General] sanketss84:
After reading all the posts here , it feels sad that such a wonderful phone cant play something which works smoothly on most of the phone , why claim it as the worlds most poweful.............

I was almost all set on buying the phone in the week it launches not i am having second thoughts.

can this issue be solved by motorola via some software update or some 3rd party software for android play hd videos in h264 or is it a tegra 2 issue.

Do other tegra 2 phones face similar issues.

I dont want to convert my videos everytime i want to play it on my mobile , it shud work out of the box.
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
It's Tegra2 lacking the power... Also since Tegra2 lacking the NEON instruction support, it's harder to soft-decode
[Atrix 4G General] Tanmomon:
This is a cause or MOTO Tegra2 shield? Suspected before Tegra2, take a look at 2X the performance of it, LG is a very great importance to the video, if you still can not broadcast to the basic problems can be identified as Tegra2。:p
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
完全看不懂你在说什么。。。

Sry totally dont get what you are talking about...
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
It is absolutely *not* a problem of power.

A core 2 duo can play 720p high-profile H.264 and use about 20% of its total power. The Tegra 2 is about 60% as powerful as an T7200 (2.0Ghz)...which is *WAY* more than sufficient to play the required videos.

They've actually disabled playback of these types of video files...it's something they've done deliberately.
[Atrix 4G General] sanketss84:
Does that mean bye bye HP H.264 on Tegra 2 phones.
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
I mean the integrated dedicated decoder of Tegra2 cannot handle those formats. It's not about the general computing power.

Samsung Hummingbird can decode 1080P h.264 videos, obviously ARM Cortex A8 cannot handle such work.

Also I doubt the computing power of T2 to be 60% of T7200... ARM cannot beat x86 on same clock speed as ARM is reduced to maintain battery life. What's more, the x86 processors do have instruction sets like SSE, while Tegra2 dont even have Neon support...
[Atrix 4G General] sanketss84:
So it can be enabled later with some software updates.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrmgic:
Do you have a link about the Tegra 2 being anywhere close to a core 2 in cpu power?

An Arm9 cpu and an Intel core cpu aren't even remotely close in power.. one wouldn't expect them to be.. seeing as one is intended for embedded devices and the other is intended for laptop and desktop computers.

The tegra gets away with playing HD video due to offloading the workload to its GPU.

Here are the details of specs of the tegra 2 from wikipedia -

Tegra 2 (T20/AP20H)

Processor: Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, up to 1 GHz[12]

8-Core Nvidia GPU

Graphics: GeForce ULP (Ultra Low Power).[13] Double 3D graphics performance of Tegra 600 series (10%-30% faster than the PowerVR SGX540[14] and 25%-100% faster than the Snapdragon Adreno 205)[15]

Lower Power DDR2 / DDR2 (DDR2-667, 166 MHz)

No NEON instruction sets from ARM

1080p H.264 Main Profile/VC-1/MPEG-4 video decode

1080p H.264 video encode

JPEG encode and decode

Dual-display support

Camera support (up to 12 megapixels)

Single-channel memory controller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra

Here are the basics of the different H264 profiles -

H.264 Profiles are discussed in depth on Wikipedia, but to simplify the considerations for the average user, I will focus on the Baseline, Main and High Profiles.

Baseline Profile

I/P slices

Multiple reference frames (–refs <int>, >1 in the x264 CLI)

In-loop deblocking

CAVLC entropy coding (–no-cabac in the x264 CLI)

Main Profile

Baseline Profile features mentioned above

B slices

CABAC entropy coding

Interlaced coding – PAFF/MBAFF

Weighted prediction

High Profile

Main Profile features mentioned above

8×8 transform option (–8x8dct in the x264 CLI)

Custom quantisation matrices

http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/h264-profiles-and-levels/

The Tegra 2 should definitely be able to handle H264 video, it's just not going to handle high profile H264 since it isn't designed to do that in hardware.
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/nvidia-kal-el-quad-core-soc-and-development-platform/#3887350

In a CPU test between Tegra 2, T7200 C2D, and Tegra 3 (Kal-El) the Tegra 2 came out to roughly 60% of the power of the T7200. Sure, that doesn't account for all the different uses of processors...but general video decoding should be upheld by those numbers, give or take.
[Atrix 4G General] sanketss84:
Is MKV supported out of the box on Atrix.

also which are good 3rd party paid/free video playback apps for android.
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
The only benchmark was Coremark. I checked its website and found some very contradicting scores (two Core i5 650 at 3.2GHz gcc4.4.5, one 10380 and another 13050. also another i5 560M at 2.67GHz got more than 20000).

Also the programs ICC compiled is more efficient than gcc on x86 platform.

So the score NV provided is not convincing to me:D