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[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
Will do. UPS finally got updated and they say that it's supposed to be delivered by end of day today...

One more comment that I can make wrt a32(hoping a43 will be similar as well) WiFi: the a32 seems to have about as good range as the gtab and NC which is pretty good for such a device. I'm just mentioning this because @ archosfans I'd read threads about poor WiFi. Maybe I just got lucky.

1st a32 was DOA BTW(probably deeply discharged batt), looked like a return unit as it wasn't sealed, a32 was out of it's shipping sleeve(missing) as were the USB & headphones also missing twist ties and packaging. So I exchanged it for a clearly new one. (I'm just mentioning this since I got mine from Sears and I remember someone mentioning that their gtab from Sears appeared to be a return unit... ) Actually I'm kind of surprised that Sears is still in business as most times that I stop by to look for something, e.g. USB card reader, it's nope we don't have any of those... Seems like they have next to no stock of anything, and alot of empty space in the elctronics section of the one that I went to...

[EDIT=c. 2p EDT]

OK it arrived not too long ago, but had to let it sit and warm up close to room temp before I wanted to start charging, which it's doing now. Just did the basic setup so far and started downloading 2.1.08, it came with 2.0.71 loaded on in(A32IT came with original Android 2.1)... will try to get in some usage time this afternoon/night. (Charging should go fairly quickly since I'm using the NC charger w/Archos cable 1A charger... used it last night on the A32IT and it charged it faster than by USB port on notebook and it seems OK...)

First evaluation: touch screen seems OK, but again I haven't done much besides the setup and look in the "about device" in settings...

...and yes this one apparently unlike the A32IT, actually did have a small plastic protector over the camera lens... I could just barely make out the tab to pull it off when held at a certain angle... double checked the A32IT again and it didn't have one... Screen protector is difficult to make out as well as the pull tab was pushed down and flush w/edge of case... best to remove it as it's only for shipping protection...

[/EDIT]
[Gen8 General] jimcpl:
cutterjohn,

So how is it working so far? How bad/good is the touch vs. the Gtab? Also have you installed market, and tried apps from there?

Jim
[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
Yep, wonder of wonders it unexpectedly got to be actually sunny yesterday afternoon, so I ran out to check the display. Lowest setting is entirely readable, whilst max brightness is barely legible as was to be expected...

Back to touch screen, when I say "difficulties" in browsing what I really meant was how with EVERY resistive touch screen Android device that I've used when attempting to scroll a web page it's either sluggish, "bounces back"(difficult to describe, like when you want to do a small or delicate move and the screen adjusts but removing your finger it jumps back to about where it had been), or wildly scrolls(these are the worst since it is more readily controllable with capacitive screens, but with resistive it seems to be a bit slower to register touches which makes stopping this more difficult).

But as I mentioned in other applications, touching for turn pages or swiping it seems to work better than many, and I've had no problems using the default keyboard. On the A32IT it was more of a matter of size than anything else, i.e. portrait mode the keyboard is nearly useless w/o a fingernail or stylus, and landscape is big enough that if your careful fingers will do but sylus still gives best performance.
[Gen8 General] jimcpl:
Cutterjohn,

Thanks for the great info! Much more than I would've ever expected :).

My situation is that I'm still "on the fence". In the past I've "collected" a few tablets, and I guess I'm a bit of a packrat... never got rid of any of them, but I'm trying be more discriminating nowadays, lest my wife starts trying to get me to dump some of them.

The A43 sounds pretty good, and you've covered a lot, which I greatly appreciate. I think I'm a little comfortable w the screen situation, but I'm concerned about the "longevity", esp. the small /system partition, which apparently hasn't been cracked.

I'll keep watching, and maybe if I can find a deal, may just try it if it's too tempting :).

Thanks again!

Jim
[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
np. I'm hoping that the screen is just a matter of getting used to using a resistive screen with a finger.

I've got an old pocketpc case which is fits into. It's perfect heightwise, but the A43 is MUCH thinner and narrower than the old pocketpcs were, but it also has a little pocket which I stick a stylus into and enough extra space to put some earbuds in with it as well and not damage the screen... so I'll always have the stylus around with it.

As a side note about the screen a user in a thread on archosfans suggested people download an app called DrawNoteK(simple drawing app), which I did and it seemed to track my finger pretty well and the stylus/fingernail better of course. I'm pretty much of the opinion that resistive screen problems are just a matter of them reading more contact area(multiple locations) when using a finger v. a fingernail/stylus which has a much smaller point of contact. After all all of the old PDAs used to come default with a stylus...

app storage: yep, still stuck at I guess where they had it originally. I think that it MIGHT be possible to manually change it but I haven't looked into it too much. I've hardly use any app storage space on any of my tablets so far. [EDIT2] Another problem with increasing storage in stock fw is that devices like my A32IT and the A28IT have no other memory expansion options, other than USB host. My A32IT IIRC w/stock fw 2.1.08 had a little over 6GB available for media, and I've already used half of that or more... Iwouldn't mind giving up another 300MB for apps, but not the 2GB that many people wanted who had 43, 70, or 101s. [/EDIT2]

longevity: well, Archos'll probably have their gen9 this fall with a cortex-a9 and maybe more memory. (So I'm kind of on the fence about keeping the A43, but I still have a few weeks to return it to Amazon... just want try it some more and see if any of my quibbles end up as deal killers with lengthier usage... I'm just still not entirely sure about the touch screen.)

[EDIT]

...and I played some video streamed from my notebook last night uPnP(mediatomb) which worked OK and looked pretty good on the A43IT's display. The kickstand seems to be kind of a useless "feature" on this though, and feels pretty flimsy(semi-rigid plastic). Likely the stand will be one of the first things to get broken accidentally, but I'll probably never use it again...

[/EDIT]

[EDIT3]

Forgot to mention this above, and I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but Archos have an additional fw available which is a version of the Angstrom linux distro... voids the warranty though, so I won't be trying it unless I decide to keep it in the end, and then I'll wait a year for the warranty to expire...

[/EDIT3]
[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
minor update:

I've started to get some FCs with various apps, nothing horrible/continuous like I got with early versions of stock gtab fw, but worrisome.

Got one yesterday after running the camera app, and had one the day before but I didn't really pay attention to what it was as it didn't re-appear but since getting one from the camera app will be paying more attention. I suppose that it could possibly be a low memory condition sine Archos chose a subpar 256MB RAM spec... and yes I usually use system monitor to kill just about everything periodically... Limited memory is just another reason to NOT install Google apps & market as many of those seem to want to be permanently in RAM...

I suppose that I need to look into this some more, and additionally use the A32 more often to see if it starts occuring there as well, since they're basically the same hw... also need to do some research as I quite like the A43 form factor(little wider would've been nice) and there's nothing comparable ATM... (nor will there be apparently, as I have no doubt that Samsung will continue their egregious pricing practices with their player... you'd think that they had Apple, Motorola, or Sony quality & support levels with their pricing!)

gTab stock 3588 fw wasn't too bad, MUCH snappier and stable than the earlier ones... installed this on my way to TnT lite 5.0.0...
[Gen8 General] jimcpl:
Hi,

I've been reading the stuff about the Samsung Player also. The 5" is the one I'd be interested, but I want to see how locked down it is/will be.

Jim
[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
glad that you have excessive amounts of cash to spend on low quality korean junk... (face it, they're not worth their asking price, if they halved it maybe...)

anyways Archos is now being frog junk, incapable of connecting via ssh/scp/sftp w/o FCing likely the dimwitted decision to go with a "whopping" 256MB of RAM... an excessively moronically low amount of RAM given how relatively "cheap" it is nowadays, but go figure out frogs...

buh-bye archos junk... (sad but these POS are going out with the trash like they are...)

F--- for frog crap Archos

[EDIT]

OK, at least for the A32 a reboot -> I now can xfer stuff again momentarily, but my gods what a POS hack job on android with such monumental memory leaks that cause it to fail after running for a while... what sort of monumental midget intellects decided to try to phail hack Android?! i.e. Archos Android == memory leaking POS...

@Jim better off spending $400 on another good gTab rather than an overpriced toy regardless of form factor... hell, even the Nook Color does better for almost half the price although it's 7"... just wonder when B&N are going to get off the pot and cough up their updates sine ATM they've seemed to've managed to pissoff all their attracted devs for apps for their mythical appstore... (they missed ALL update targets for Q1 2011 so far and only a couple of weeks left to make up for it... but maybe they can now publish a book about how NOT to start an app store for everyone else...)

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[Gen8 General] jimcpl:
I didn't realize, until doing further searching, how much the Samsung Player was estimated to be priced :). They haven't announced pricing yet, but it sounds like th $400 range (shock!).

More waiting :)...

Jim

P.S. Sorry about you problem w A43, but thx for posting that info.
[Gen8 General] cutterjohn:
Yeah, "wonderful" Samsung and their egregious pricing scheme... I just wonder who buys their products and then actually thinkthat they got a deal?

anyways, a reboot fixed my memory leaking... not great... but... not much choice in the size range... just wish that archos'd get their act together... 256MB is just too little memory for them to have major memory leaks like that as all I had been doing before trying the file xfer was listening to some music, AND I KILLED all running processes after the first failure -> whoops lower level memory leak...

[EDIT]

I'm pretty sure that it was a memory leak, because it would FC on me every single time that I drilled down to that directory, but was fine(as above) after a reboot... I'm going to have to watch and see IF I can get it to happen again after opening a few programs, but all I'd been running before was playing music w/WiFi on... at least that didn't start FCing on me...

[/EDIT]

(I had been hoping for another OS update by now actually... and maybe a kernel upgrade to something actually recent, but... nada...)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdave12118:
My daughters evo isnt allowing her to connect to pc via usb disc drive. When she pulls down the notification bar after plugging it in to the computer there is nothing.... no choose charging, disc drive, etc. We went in to settings and manually hit disc drive and nothing. It's charging fine but can't get to sd card to flash roms, themes, add music etc. We even tried her back up roms and can't access disc drive connection (cm7, kings unleashed and acs elite 2). It's not the cable or computers because my wifes and my evo are connecting fine. She's a flashaholic and going through withdrawls lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Dave :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehunni:
What rom is she on right now? Might have to flash a rom that's already on the SD to get that back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdave12118:
She's gone back to all 3 backups and none of them will connect to disc drive. Her 3 backups are cm7, KingsUnleashed, and acs elite 2. She downloaded and flashed a theme yesterday and everything connected fine.... today only charge works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehunni:
Try doing several format alls and then flash a rom from scratch.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdave12118:
If I do that Shell only be able to flash from rom manager if it doesn't work. Come to think of it..... I was going to unroot it and exchange it at sprint but no disc drive connection may be a problem. ****!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nothingface80:
So i just ran this[Stock Flash][Odin]EB13 Extended CW2.5+RFS or CW3+ext4 2/24/2011 inc. Root+Redir and now i i have the phone ! comp symbol on my screen . i can get back into cwm 2.5 but thats it anyhelp
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iSaint:
There are literally 3 threads today talking about this same thing dude -_-

Anyways

Batt pull----> Power + 1-----> odin with auto reboot checked

Follow directions in the thread to setup odin
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nothingface80:
sorryman i got a flipping out baby and i gotta get out the door. thx for the reply
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiGi760:
Well that's no way to get help.

Short answer, you need to odin it again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bedwej:
Hey XDA :)

I was wondering if there is a circular battery (percentage) indicator replacement for the DFT "Stock" Desire ROM?

I ran a search for one but all that I could find was .APKs which leave an ongoing notification on the notification bar and the standard Desire battery indicator stays in the top right. I'm looking for one which is similar to the one from CM7 (I think...)

but preferably a blue circle rather than a green one. If that makes sense.

Any help appreciated, thanks :cool:

EDIT: On a side note, if anybody could give me a heads-up as to how I would make the max volume louder? (For the internal speaker AND in-call?) Thanks :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bedwej:
Please? :\
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bedwej:
Still looking for battery indicator
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] manhktqd:
You can go website "touot.dakra.lt", not www and get one you want
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bho15:
When I used the command prompt this is the error message i get:

C:\Users\FS>cd ..

C:\Users>cd ..

C:\>cd Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot flash radio radio.im

g

sending 'radio' (24832 KB)... OKAY [ 4.080s]

writing 'radio'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 4.080s

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.150s
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andywright1982:
its because you dont have eng s-off

follow http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855403 to fix this
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bho15:
In my HBOOT it says i do have S-OFF:

ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
Yep, that is the problem.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guide144:
I believed, you confused it. Ship s-off and eng s-off are different. You need eng s-off to flash radio.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
Yes radio s-off will allow you to revert your radio to older version but you need engineering s-off to actually revert it.

Sent from my super slick Android device.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] cyanide911:
As you know our phone isn't really equipped to play most videos we throw at it, so what video bitrate/resolution/framerate have you found to work the best on the Optimus one?

And please mention which software you use to convert.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
THIS IS IT....

xvid codec 640*360 max with ~1Mbps and mp3/aac audio are played without conversion...(your Sitcom episodes)...

Havent TRIED h264 or DIVx playback ...on the box though it does say DIVX resolution upto 320*240..

files with ogg video(theora) and ac3 audio dont play without conversion

No 720p,1080p/i playback possible...FOR ALL HIGHER resolutions/bitrate u need to convert ..i have a personal converter favourite....hassle free and its just a GUI for the wonderful FFMPEG program...herehttp://miksoft.net
[Optimus One, P500, V General] cyanide911:
Really? Mine struggles to play 624x352 24fps .mkv files. Unwatchable.

Which video player do you use on your phone?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] masteryx:
I use Handbrake for all my videos. Starting from the "iPhone Legacy" profile, here are the settings I use to create H.264 files:

- Video: 480 x 320, H.264 (x264) codec, 768 Kbps bitrate, FPS same as source

- Audio: AAC (faac), stereo, 44.1 KHz, 128 kbps bitrate.

Image and sound are crystal clear, but of course, you can find your own favorite settings (just don't mess with the advanced settings, our CPU only handles the basic H.264 profile).

I use RockPlayer (the free version) for playback, because it can render .srt subtitles.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kewlsid05:
Hey, is that mik_os' company?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
Lol I m pretty sure its not mik's company and I never said I cud play mkv files ...that container is a ***** ..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] cyanide911:
Yeah it is. And thanks for that link, it works great.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rakesharr:
I'm using the m video player. It is pretty good and plays with subtitles. Loving it. Just that the phone doesn't support higher resolution mp4 videos. Jus the audio plays and the video drags. I use demo player to play flv. Some videos play fluently while other drag and drag!! :cool:
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
Also ppl if you are into h264 (like masteryx is)

U could try "any video converter" here http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

It is wonderful i m using it...At these setting

h264 778Kbps 480*320

mp3 48Hz 128kbps

in .avi container..Conversion is faster than handbrake
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
http://developer.qualcomm.com/dev/chips/msm7x27-chipset-family
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kushdemonsdesire:
Hey...i am nt able to see any high resolution video sice past 10 days....i cud see those videos earlier bt nw whrnrver i wana play it gets stucked and then it sayd cant play video error 1,48...can u help me please?? :-(
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Ghostello88:
I was wondering the same thing! *.mkv wasn't really a good experience on p500
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nehctuk:
so all of a sudden my touch screen does not work and i think its the software cause the system keeps crashing but i cant get into recovery cause i cant use my touch screen... any help would be awesome on cm 6
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
First off, this has nothing to do with android development, it belongs in the Q&A section.

Secondly, you can get into recovery without your touch screen just fine. While your phone is off, hold vol down + power, which will bring you into hboot. Use vol down to highlight recovery, and then press power to select it.

If you do not have s-off, you will see a screen with a !. Press vol up + power, and flash update.zip (assuming you have clockwork update.zip on the root of your sd card), and then proceed to reflash your rom.

If you do have s-off, the hboot recovery option should take you straight into recovery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tzatlacael:
WTF I have the same problem! It just ramdomly started yesterday, I touchscreem wouldn't work on opened keyboad and today afternoon I was typing something, after I closed the keyboard the touch screen doesn't work anymore!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iDaZzLeFatHoeZz:
This should be moved to another thread, Nothing to do with Android development
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tzatlacael:
Ok DO NOT RE-FLASH A NEW ROM if your are in this situation!!!!

because I tried it and still touch planel doesn't work and I was stuck at the setup!!, thank God I recently saved a Nandroid backup, but when i went to ClockworkMod the optical track pad is no longer working neighter!!!

so I couldn't select anything!

I went to cmd on my PC and did adb shell then nandroid restore {location in sdcard}

it restored oh yes!

Optical Track Pad aiin't working neighter touch panel, like this i can hardly make calls with the keyboard, launch apps, but can't handle things that require touch or optical pad.... I can only use Tab button and enter to do little.

Fu...I need to revert everything back to stock adn get my waranty replacement..

why this had to happen?? I haven't done anything these past week :S
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardkorekid:
This happened to me also I posted my thread in q&a i believe tho, anyways tho my power button stopped working so i couldn't get into recovery. If you need a way to get back to stock without touch screen use the esprimg.zip from the factory rom champion build thread just search for it on xda. after going stock mine was still not working but I was atleast able to do a warranty exchange. hope this helps at all. Oh also this happened to me soon after flashing to CM7.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoareyou:
The same happend to mine a few months ago, your flex ribbon has torn, you have to send it into T-Mobile for an exchange!

Also, wrong forum
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiztidnutzzzzz:
Not sure if its the same issue or not. But my screen will become unresponsive and soon after which ever launcher I am using will crash. Also using CM7. Was running nightly build before. Hmmm strange all of a sudden several of our phones started crashing..
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00468:
You can still slide open and use the physical keyboard to select things...however I would get the stock esprimg on your device as soon as possible. Your ribbon could tear even more and leave you with a black screen and no luck of getting a replacement if you are with a custom rom.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoareyou:
That happened to me and I had to go through Asurion, and what sux, is that the next day, Asurion ran out of slides and offerd people G2's instead.......
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tzatlacael:
The last thing I did before I also experienced this, was that I tried to get S-Off and couldn't make it, rebooted but everything was fine, and before that I had gave a try to CynogenMod 7.... Days later I was experiencing 20kbps download and later the touch panel failed also the optical pad, so I unrooted before it'd get worst, I got my warranty replacement and now I better send the damaged one back before 7 days, otherwise they charge me $200.
[Nexus S General] choclacte:
Hi,

I rooted my Nexus S but somewhere around got lost and panic. So don't have any backup. Will try to explain everything in order to see if anyone can help me.

Followed this h**p://nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s/ guide and did everything. was going well. But after the bootroot step things got messy. Now I can only enter recovery mode, and even upload ROM's. But none of the Back, Search or Home key on the phone work. Even tried to install Stock Google 2.3.3 but it doesn't install at all. Anyone can say if it was the Bootrood and how I can revert. Or is my Nexus S bricked...

Thanks and sorry for the bad english.

R.