yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] smithisize:
So, TiBu is great and everything, but is a real pain in the butt sometimes because it just restores all the files directly which can cause compatibility issues.

Is there an app out there there backs up data and later re-injects settings, so to speak, into the existing system, to avoid incompatibility?

For an example of what I'm talk about, ex WinMo users can observe PIM Backup, how it injected messages and contacts into the new system database.

I realize this can be lengthy, but worth it in my opinion if possible.

Any ideas?

Regards

Smith
[Captivate General] RepublicanDaddy:
I recently used TiBu, but I long pursed my apis and chose "view in market" then installed directly from the market (took longer but avoids the compatibility/corruption issues), then chose to install data only for each app.

Hope this helps ya......
[Captivate General] LBCaptivate:
I used this http://global.mobileaction.com/product/product_AM.jsp It seems to work pretty good as long as you have a wireless network at home.
[EVO 4G General] stevo760:
What are the best sites for getting rom lists and other hacks besides XDA???
[EVO 4G General] vj092887:
Google forum mobilism. They got all kinds of apps. I check this site everyday and they update regularly
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
good news.. you found it.
[EVO 4G General] aseercte:
Cool

rocking the **** out of cm7
[EVO 4G General] MBeattie:
It don't get better than this. 95% of outside sites will either link you back here or have originated here anyway.
[EVO 4G General] sacluded:
I like goodandevo.net. Not too much rom stuff, but everything else.

Sent from my HTC Evo.
[EVO 4G General] montecristo1:
Android Forums

http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/

PPC Geeks

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-4g/

Good and Evo

http://www.goodandevo.net/

Live Wallpapers

http://www.livewallpapers.org/page/6/

Most of these sites all overlap with XDA developers... but we are all looking for the same thing... info, apps and wallpapers....
[EVO 4G General] Ruki_Uki:
Thanks! These were very helpful

Sent from MYN EVOlutionary cellular....uh....mini tablet?
[Xoom General] Jrockttu:
Anybody else notice about half an inch of pixels on the bottom of the screen are slightly darker than the rest? When I have it in portrait orientation it is noticeable on the left or right.
[Xoom General] Droid.Modr:
I can't say that my unit has that problem.
[Xoom General] Jrockttu:
It's not really easily noticeable, but in portrait mode I can see a difference between left and right. It's a faded gradient.
[Xoom General] Jrockttu:
Nobody else notices this problem when viewing a white screen in portrait?
[Xoom General] Jrockttu:
This review seems to suggest that at least one other person has the same thing as me:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/02/24/review.xoom.ipad/index.html?hpt=Sbin

"We did notice a slightly discolored band running down the edge of the screen on one side, but since we can't compare it to other Xooms yet, we don't know if this is a problem with our review unit or a more general manufacturing defect."
[Xoom General] csseale:
Nothing like that in mine
[Xoom General] burningembers:
Honestly, its just the Xoom's crappy screen. Some people notice it, some don't. Some are more sensitive to it, some aren't.

Just like the blur on LCDs, the flicker of CRTs, and the flicker of overhead lights in retail stores.
[Xoom General] randytheshiv:
ive tried 3 movies so far. monsters vs aliens, toy story 3, and v for vendetta. all mp4 1080i bluray rips. all i get is choppy and soundless. any suggestions or work arounds?
[Xoom General] keitht:
Same here with 720p and 1080p MKV. tried several. No sound and choppy. I don't even know what formats work. Video playback needs a lot of work.
[Xoom General] randytheshiv:
you think it'll be a quick kinda thing? i used to have an epic and it tore those mkvs apart with pure awesomeness. i think proper video playback should be necessary for a tablet.
[Xoom General] HorsexD:
I Read Somwhere that this is Tegra 2 Problem. Somthing about having trouble rendering high profile Videos.
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
No its software, I was able to play a high quality 720p mkv perfectly on my tablet today; however the audio didn't work. If it can do the video, it can do both. Its a software issue.
[Xoom General] Aaron636r:
Yeah, I was excited for HD Video while on my plane rides almost weekly. Nothing but choppy and no sound. Horrible!!
[Xoom General] randytheshiv:
i like software issues. that means, hopefully, an easy fix is on the way. i see alot of otas in the future.
[Xoom General] rothnic:
This is not a software issue. The tegra 2 cannot handle the bandwidth required for h.264 high profile. This is a known limitation.
[Xoom General] keitht:
It is absolutely horrible. I doubt a quick fix but hopefully something will be done. I can say if you do not own a Xoom and high quality playback is important to you, do not buy it until something is done. I refuse to convert everything to something that works. Hell, my Samsung Captivate phone can play these same files flawlessly.
[Xoom General] roebeet:
That's correct. Same chip as the GTAB, the Adam, the VEGA etc. Sounds like the same issue with high profile videos. GTAB owners have been dealing with this for months, sorry to burst your bubble.

This chipset limitation is allegedly the reason why Boxee dropped the Tegra 2, last year. Use the excellent "mediainfo" to check your h.264 videos - if it's listed as high profile, it will choke (especially at 1080p).
[Xoom General] neonflx:
I am considering purchasing the xoom my local BB has plenty in stock, i travel a lot and watch a lot of videos while traveling

i currently have an Archos 101 which by the way plays everything i throw at it flawlessly, so maybe i'll wait and see if the video playback gets better after some roms begin to appear
[Xoom General] keitht:
I left my comment already post #9 in this thread. I think you will be disappointed but that is me. Good luck.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
So you guys are saying that all android tablets will not be able to play hd mkv files? WTF. Android has failed in the tablet market then. My single core epic4g plays them flawlessly. The single core iPad plays them flawlessly with xbmc. You are telling me a dual core CPU and an eight core gpu can't handle a 720p video??????

What use are the tablets then if they cannot play hd video? You don't need a dual core processor for browsing the internet and playing YouTube videos.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Couldn't agree more my friend. I think this will be corrected at some point but it is frustrating out of the box you can't play a decent HD video while I just saw a new Motorola Xoom commerical on CNN showing one playing flawlessly.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Holy crap, just read the anandtech review of the optimus 2x and it's not giving me a lot of confidence in Tegra 2. They specifically talk about how limited the video playback potential is and how h.264 videos have to be in a ridiculously specific format to play. Basically NVIDIA has been lying and has refuses to respond to its lies.

Edit: Basically, unless you specifically encode a video to fit within the parameters Nvidia needs, the video will not play well. There are very constained the limited parameters that the Tegra 2 seems to support, which may explain certain videos working without sound and others not playing at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4144/...ra-2-review-the-first-dual-core-smartphone/14

Its pretty disheartening to be reading threads where people are making fun of baseline profile back in 2008. WTF Nvidia.

Edit2: Just went through a ton of my media and all of it is High Profile at various levels. Ugh. God I hope I am wrong about all of this.
[Xoom General] bd85:
Can't it be the same problem that Samsung Galaxy Tab have? That it's the audio that is the problem. That its handle video good but have no codec for multichannel sound.

My Galaxy Tab can play 720p perfectly only when the movie have stereo sound. If it have 5.1 it cant play. So the file need to have only stereo sound.

Can some whit a XOOM try some HD movie whit stereo sound and also try some movies whit multichannel sound. And report back how it went.
[Xoom General] rothnic:
You aren't wrong unfortunately.

Here is a good portion of an article talking about it: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4181/...-a9s-coming-to-smartphonestablets-this-year/3
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Not true, the Galaxy tab plays 720p mkv with 5.1 fine, as long as it is encoded as AC3, which the majority of files are. You probably have files that are DTS encoded. That is the Galaxy tab's only limitation. And even that can be converted (audio track only in about 15 minutes) if necessary to play on the tab. I watch movies and TV shows as 720p mkv every single day on the tab. I am amazed that the XOOM can't do this. I was so close to buying one - looks like I dodged a bullet, can't stand the thought of going back to encoding everything after using a galaxy tab and a captivate, which play everything. Here are the properties of a file which plays fine on the Galaxy tab for comparison. Notice way down in the Audio section - Channel(s) : 6 channels

Format : Matroska

File size : 1.09 GiB

Duration : 42mn 0s

Overall bit rate : 3 727 Kbps

Writing application : x264.exe

Writing library : mkv2rls x264-tv version built on 2011. febr. 17

Video

ID : 1

Format : AVC

Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile : High@L3.1

Format settings, CABAC : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames

Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC

Duration : 42mn 0s

Bit rate : 3 336 Kbps

Width : 1 280 pixels

Height : 720 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.151

Stream size : 982 MiB (88%)

Writing library : x264 core 88 r1471 1144615

Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=30 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=0 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3336 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Language : English

Audio

ID : 2

Format : AC-3

Format/Info : Audio Coding 3

Mode extension : CM (complete main)

Codec ID : A_AC3

Duration : 42mn 0s

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 384 Kbps

Channel(s) : 6 channels

Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Bit depth : 16 bits

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 115 MiB (10%)

Title : English

Language : English

Text

ID : 3

Format : UTF-8

Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8

Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text

Title : English

Language : English
[Xoom General] rye&ginger:
Its really, really, REALLY stupid for Motorola to put out a tablet that cant play video, while 1-2 year old tablets and phones do it just fine!

I was going to go down to the US to buy one this weekend but I will not now.
[Xoom General] StuMcBill:
I am considering getting one of these when they are available in the UK (either this or the LG Optimus Pad), but I only have DVD rips (in both DivX and XviD formats) and old TV rips. Nothing HD. I assume I would be able to play these with no problems?

Stew
[Xoom General] angryclubs:
Yes. No problems playing back non-HD stuff.
[Xoom General] paulshields:
Just to confirm what Digital Man says - the Galaxy Tab has no problem playing high profile video with multichannel sound. So long as audio is not DTS encoded. In fact the built in video player is very impressive and uses HW acceleration. Just did a quick check on a movie I was recently playing and it's:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=26
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@0.0
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 4mn 22s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 13.5 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 35.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.271
Stream size : 421 MiB (93%)

This played fine on the Tab. I'm a bit concerned if there is a hardware limitation on the Tegra 2 as I had my eye on the soon to be launched Galaxy Tab 10.1 which also uses this chip. Samsung are usually good at video playback so if this is something that can't be corrected by software I may skip a generation. Would seem a shame to have to re-encode video to baseline when there's a lovely 1280x800 screen waiting to be exploited...
[Xoom General] bnr32jason:
This problem doesn't make any sense to me, how can the Tegra2 not be able something as simple as a 720p MKV file? What about files encoded in other formats like VC-1?

I'm still waiting to receive my Xoom in the mail, but I don't think I will let this stop me from enjoying it until a solution is found. I'll just use a program like Handbrake to convert the videos I want on the Xoom to a format that will allow them to play well.

I'm sure some workaround other than converting the video will be found eventually, but until then, I'm not gonna let this little problem ruin the device for me. Maybe I'm too used to my iPad, I was constantly having to find workarounds to pretty much everything I wanted to do on it. LOL.
[Xoom General] StuMcBill:
Perfect thanks. How does SD content look on it?

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Xoom General] blk98gt:
What program are you using to play non-HD stuff?
[Xoom General] angryclubs:
RockPlayer Lite from the market.
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
So are we actually gonna get a fix on this? I mean how can you make all of these absurd claims of HD and u don't have file format support
[Xoom General] muyoso:
They can make the claims because technically it does play 720p and 1080p video, but just in a format that no one really uses.
[Xoom General] bishop72:
guys, don't know if this will fix the problem but try QQPlayer from the market. So far it has played everything great on the Xoom
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
So what HD video formats will it support?
[Xoom General] techs1200:
My videos were all encoded using handbrake.

Long story short, only RockPlayer can play my video files without the choppiness.

Re-encoding the video didnt fix it, QQPlayer didnt work.

RockVideo works.
[Xoom General] Dr.Preston:
Sound will not work if it's surround sound. Needs to be stereo or mono.

As for the video, Nvidia has no excuse as to why Tegra 2 cannot handle high profile h.264. My old iPod touch plays my DVD rips better than this.

It's not really a dealbreaker since most of my movies are 1080p ripped from my blu-rays and I was going to re-encode them to 720p anyways. So far my tests are showing I can get almost identical quality with the baseline profile as I was getting with the high profile with relatively minimal increase in file size, at least if the video is animated and I'm using constant quality. I'll do more experimenting and my post a thread with my findings regarding the best h.264 settings to use.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Rockplayer does not work for me. I even downloaded the one from the web that allows you to choose hardware or software. Choosing software, my Xoom made some weird loud popping sounds and had to reboot it. Scared the crap out of me. I am trying Handbrake to convert a movie to see if it can play that. Not ideal since it will take 1 hour just to convert a 2 hour movie. Not very happy with this. I hope that other tablets do not use this Tegra 2 processor if that is the issue because it will be a disaster for Honeycomb tablets in my opinion.
[Xoom General] nbajwill55:
Hi everyone, just wanted to throw my 2 cents in...

I ripped Twister on Blu-Ray with DVDFab using the following settings:

Video: MP4 video, 1280x720 resolution, 23fps.

Audio: 95 kbps, 2 channel, sample rate 48kHz

It looks awesome to me. I know it can get better and I'll work on that later today, but I just wanted to share what worked for me so far.
[Xoom General] keitht:
I used Handbrake to convert a 720p MKV high profile using the universal preset to mp4 and it plays perfect on the Xoom. Unfortunately, it took one hour to convert.
[Xoom General] ckeegan:
In the stock player?
[Xoom General] keitht:
Yes sir. And since that post, I converted 3 other 720p mkv files mostly TV shows and they all play and look great. So for now, I guess this is what I have to do and hope that a software fix or app or codec or whatever comes around where I do not have to spend the time converting.

A tip though.. if you use the Handbrake app, choose the "Universal" preset on the right but also change the video size to the same as the source before you start.The video size will try to change it to a lower res by default. Just match the one that it shows for the source and you should be good.
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
I have tried several times to conver to mp4 and it looks crappy on my screen. What am I missing? I'm using handbrake.
[Xoom General] keitht:
I have converted 5 so far and not a single issue. What do you mean by crappy? Is it choppy? The quality of the picture?

I have attached a screenshot of what I am doing in handbrake. You need to make sure in step 3 that you change the width to the same as source. For some reason it does not adjust the "Display size" at the bottom until you switch to another tab then go back to the tab again.
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
The quality is terrible. The source size is 1280 x 534. It's only letting me put it in 1265 x 528. I am in Universal mode, output settings is mp4 and the video codec is h.264. The source is 720p. Anything i'm doing wrong?
[Xoom General] keitht:
That may be your issue. You should match the resolution. I am not sure why it is not allowing you to do that as every one I have tried so far allow me to do that. Sorry, wish I knew what to tell you. Perhaps someone here can jump in.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
I just tried it on a dvd i have on my computer. It also won't let me choose the resolution, it will let me go down but not up to match it.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Once you enter 720, switch to another tab then go back to the original tab. Does it change? That is what I have to do for mkv files I am trying to convert. Have not tried a DVD. But the number does not change for some reason until you go to another tab then return.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
720 is in there automatically. I have tried that since you suggested in before, it allows me to go down but not up. I can get close to the orig, but not right on. I don't have another file to test to see if its just the dvd.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Don't know sorry. I will try it later and post if I have the same issue and have a solution. In the meantime, you may find answers using google.Here is FAQ list:

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ

You may want to try the "Normal" preset under regular as well. The Universal one I have only used for existing high profile mkv that I want to convert to baseline mp4 so they play on Xoom.
[Xoom General] codeman05:
Thanks, just started using handbrake last night. So far I have done 6 blurays and they all look and play just fine in the stock movie player.
[Xoom General] iceytea:
Universal settings take way to long and make the vid a bit too big. Have you tried creating a custom mode?

I found that redoing h.264 high profile to h.264 main profile(see the link) and dropping motion estimation method to diamond, Subpixel ME & Mode Decision to 0, and avg bitrate to 4000 kbps makes for a lower encode time(20ish minutes for 1 hour on my i7 920 win 7 64bit). Excellent quality too vs original, at least to me.

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63258/kw/video/p/7901,7906
[Xoom General] keitht:
Your speaking another language to me. I need a universal translator. Is there a way you can export your preset and post it here?
[Xoom General] iceytea:
Hopefully my link works, heres my Xoom setting.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6751018/Xoom.plist
[Xoom General] colbyb25:
I can almost guarantee that the issue is software, mostly codec related. It is not the Tegra 2 processor, the Notion Inc plays HD videos just fine, which is evident in the review that was posted here on xda and on youtube.

I am sure it will be fixed soon.
[Xoom General] keitht:
Thanks. Imported and trying now. Can this same preset also be used for DVD conversions?
[Xoom General] socomdark:
i just tried watch a 720p mkv file while overclocked at 1.5 ghz. the playback is smoother but its still not quite there. So far ive only used rockplayer though so ill try other video players and see if their is any difference though I doubt i will see it. Will post back here if anything changes otherwise just assume no luck

Edit: I actually got decent framerate using qq player. There's hope yet
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
imported that preset and it's gonna take 4 hours to convert... sound right?
[Xoom General] emcd4:
According to this article:

http://internalcomputer.com/availab...aximum-performance-in-a-mobile-phone.computer

"The video decode block of Tegra 2 can smoothly decode 1080p H.264 high profile video at bit rates up to 10 megabits, and the company demoed this capability on a pre-production tablet at CES."

Specs:

	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
[Xoom General] keitht:
Depends on your hardware and the source video. On my system, it takes on average 45 minutes to convert a 720p mkv 2 hour movie and 20 minutes to convert 1 hour 40 min standard DVD.
[Xoom General] diaa08:
i accidentally launched a video that would not play from astro (i was just going to delete it), and it played! seemed random, but it was smooth and all that. had no idea astro even had a video player in it.
[Xoom General] fishtaco254:
Alright i'm giving it a try on XOOM preset. I'll let you know what happens.
[Xoom General] Arun01:
I use Total Video Converter.It works great & supports all formats.
[Xoom General] ckeegan:
Just wanted to confirm for future readers, that this preset does produce excellent results.

The only change I made was to adjust the average bitrate in the video tab to match the average bitrate in the file I was converting.
[Xoom General] SS2006:
Badaboom for me

built in preset

FASTER transcode times since its using my GTX 260, not CPU
[Xoom General] clovis_ll:
i tried this preset but it made the movie file big. i converted a 2 hour movie and it came out as 3 GB!
[Xoom General] cwizardtx:
I'm trying this now. I've been very unhappy with the results of Any DVD Converter Professional.

I like how it gives you the preview, although I wouldn't mind the ability to turn it off. Controls are simple!

Another note, watching this thing is pretty impressive.. I already know that I will purchase this software. The CPU usage on my machine is like 72% average decoding with this while everythign else pegs the CPU at 100%. This is awesome usage of the additional horsepower of a good GPU.
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
Try the videos on this page:

http://www.tools4movies.com/2011/03/xoom-720p-1080p-high-quality-settings/
[Xoom General] muyoso:
LOL, he can't be serious with this encode:
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
It works for me with his software.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Of course it works. Its the same encoding level used for ipods.
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
And this means what?