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Hi,
I am currently loving my Touch Pro 2 and agree with most people on this forum that it is currently the top Windows Mobile at the moment. I have found TF3D to be highly responsive and fluid but felt a little limited by the lack of customization in terms of the number of program shortcuts it supports. I previously came from the Omnia with Winterface loaded which worked well interms of the amount of shortcuts you could enter. After doing a search on here I have seen that Winterface may cause a problem with TF3D so I didn't want to risk running it.
I recently downloaded an update for Kinoma Play which used to be my primary music player on the Omnia and I have found that it is ideal as both a music player and application launcher. It must have gone through a big facelift recently as I hardly recognized the interface. It works on the same pinciple as Winterface (Iphone rip off) although it's not meant to be a today screen replacement so it works as a nice addon for TF3D. After playing around with it you can have up to 9 home screens that scroll from left to right or up and down with 15 icons on each (135 shortcuts available) as well as a seperate favourites folder.
It has a nice slick interface that currently intergrates Music, an Orb streamer (which I stream all my music over wifi), Photo viewer, Video player (poor codec support), Facebook, Twitter, Last FM, RSS, Mobihand app store and too many others to mention. I thought I would post a Youtube video so you can see how it works on the Touch pro 2 in case anyone was in the same boat as me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAkxI0VlxI
meddleuk said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAkxI0VlxI
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Nice, thanks for posting that!
(I'm a leettle jealous of your phone...can't wait until it comes to Sprint.)
-- Charles Wiltgen
New Music player that leaked today, works well on my A7
Here is the Link: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/04/05/download-new-android-music-play-3-0-336/
Good find.
Seems like the album view needs multi touch to make it worth it though. Can't zoom in on album covers, makes it impossible for albums that I don't have album art for.
netstat_EVO said:
Good find.
Seems like the album view needs multi touch to make it worth it though. Can't zoom in on album covers, makes it impossible for albums that I don't have album art for.
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This is one situation where I believe Honeycomb will still be possible on the A7. This player was designed for HC, as it was supposedly taken from the Xoom. The program loads and works just fine, but some features are inoperable. Maybe I'm just the eternal optimist, but one the kernel is released, I'll bet someone can load HC.
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This is one situation where I believe Honeycomb will still be possible on the A7. This player was designed for HC, as it was supposedly taken from the Xoom. The program loads and works just fine, but some features are inoperable. Maybe I'm just the eternal optimist, but one the kernel is released, I'll bet someone can load HC.
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Honeycomb or no honeycomb, the issue I mentioned will remain the same as there will still be no multi touch to support zoom in/out in the albums view.
Well, good and bad news.
Good news is that this actually does work correctly on the A7...
Bad news is that there is no multi touch support in the app to make the albums view more readable.
Tested it on my evo, it is what it is I guess.
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Its working very good for me too.Is there anyway that the + and - buttons like on the browser could be added for zoom in and out,just a thought.
But hey I like it and it does work correctly like you said,so Im happy with it either way.
Thanks for the pass along.
It has replaced the stock music player. Removed the original one last night after tinkering eith the new one awesome find.
Good day,
Can anyone with a real live Galaxy Nexus (or even another handset hacked and running Android 4.0) confirm if the music-playing-alphabetically bug STILL exists? If you aren't familiar, let me explain. This problem is well documented and has existed for years in various versions of Android. (Do a Google search for "android music alphabetical order" and you'll see years of posts from all over the Internet, about tons of devices, regarding this issue.)
As briefly as possible, the bug is that media in non-MP3 format (notably M4A and WMA) ignores track numbers in metadata tags and instead gets sorted and displayed alphabetically. I had great hope that this would be fixed in Google Music, but can confirm that this application on my Galaxy S II running 2.3.4 still does this wrong.
To duplicate, just do the following: place a full, correctly-tagged, album in M4A or WMA format on the phone using any method you like (USB Storage or MHL via Windows Media, makes no difference) then attempt to play the album in real life track order. It doesn't work. Android refuses to read the tags on anything except MP3's and thus defaults to alphabetical order. (It ignores embedded album art too, for the record. And just to confirm: YES. All my music is meticulously tagged, and even a tagging app on the Android phone confirms that it sees the track numbers.) It's an M4A- or WMA-and-Android problem.
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
Thanks much,
Adam
it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me.*
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I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix
gokpog --
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten completely about the existence of MediaFix. It's even installed on my GS2, but I use the device so sporadically I forgot all about it. (As you may have detected from my post, I just picked it up again for the purpose of checking out Google Music.) I suspect you'd agree with me that such a utility shouldn't even need to exist, but hey, a fix is a fix.
Still, I'm quite interested to see if Google has addressed this properly in 4.0.
Again, thanks,
Adam
Hi
gokpog said:
I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix
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I'm going to check this out and see if it fixes the album art bug. I am anal about properly tagging my collection and it burns me that the media services screw up the album art all the time. I mean come on all the mp3 in each album all have the same art, album, and artist and it still assigns random wrong art to albums and tracks. I just don't get it.
EDIT: looks like it only works for mp4. Oh well.
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leew1979 said:
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
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Since when does iOS or Android support WMA?
Solved... ish...
It was really an accident that I learned about the WMA bit. Windows Media Player understands and syncs to the phone but insists on conversion of MP4 to WMA, with no way to turn this off -- as verified flatly by an official Microsoft answer. The Galaxy sees and will play the tracks but refuses to read the tags or album art in the WMA file. I would have been willing to (grudgingly) accept using WMA files on the phone, but not at the expense of making the original problem worse. Natch.
After some more research and testing I have ascertained that -- bafflingly -- the problem is directly related to the method of file transfer. MP4 files (but still not WMA as discussed above) which are put onto the phone using the MTP sync protocol get recognized fine, tags, art, and track numbers... All correct. The problem is therefore that files written using USB Mass Storage are the screwed up ones. (Sorry, DoubleTwist, you lose too.) So, in a roundabout way this seems it will be fixed with the Galaxy Nexus in that it only supports MTP. Someone geekier than me, please feel free to speculate or flat-out school me on why this difference exists. I do understand that MTP works at the logical file level rather than the lower block level of Mass Storage, and thus I can understand why the Galaxy Nexus can't support Mass Storage (no way to dismount the single partition)... but back to the Galaxy S II, I am still perplexed at how the phone fully understands files laid down one way but doesn't for the exact same files laid down another way.
So now, for me it's either manual copies in Windows Explorer (sucks, no way to easily and automatically add new albums using smart playlists, as I do with iTunes for my iOS devices and Zune for my WP7 phone) or use a media manager which supports MTP but which also doesn't force WMA conversion. This therefore knocks out WMP and Songbird. So far, then, this means it's either Kies (and hell will freeze solid before I use that garbage routinely) or MusicBee which seems to work fine, but damn, this has been a long way round a problem which shouldn't exist at all... And which would also seem to leave Mac and Linux users still out in the cold, as MTP is basically a Windows-only technology. Bah.
Any other suggestions, anyone?
Regards
Adam
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My Tab Pro has poor quailty when playing some videos (not all) usually live streaming but some video playback. Lots of horizontal lines and overall bad quality. Its bad enough that I cant watch a movie. This wasn't always the case but started about a month ago. Also, I'm not able to view any website videos that use Adobe Flash Player, no matter if I'm on IE, Chrome, Dolphin, whatever. I checked with the website and my isp and they're both telling me it's my device that is the problem. I've only had this tablet for 8 months, how can this be???? Am I missing something?
You have to google adobe flash for 4.4 (don't have a link, sorry) . Then use dolphin browser and make sure is is set to appear as a desktop. This is the only browser I have found to work with Flash. Post back if you need more explicit instructions.
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Yes, I found a YouTube video a few weeks ago that walked me through this process and it worked for awhile ...but then one day...poof....no longer worked...I hit the blogs and read that there was an update that came through that disabled something a having to do with disabling Adobe Flash Players that were downloaded manually??? I really don't understand, but it made sense that whoever had an android 4.4 and above could not use Abode Flash Player. My daughter just purchased a tablet and had the same exact experiences at the same time as me, so it seemed to be true. I'm just looking for an answer for my Galaxy Tab Pro.
Flash player is still working just fine for me in dolphin. Also as a flash browser Puffin browser works with all flash content ive come across with no trouble whatsoever.
Hello,
I've got a problem with some media files, I'm not finding any reasonable answers and my brain is gonna blow up!
I manually copied (I mean without smartswitch) videos from my old phones (P20 pro, mate 20 pro) on my note 10 plus. The gallery preview is working well, but I can't play them well. I have the sound but not the image.
I only encounter the issue with videos that have been encoded in h265, those in h264 are well played.
The h265 videos produced with the note 10 are played without any problems of course, and most of the h265 videos which are not from my old phones are fine.
I tried to install MX player with codecs, VLC, it does not solve the problem.
The best result is on MX player, by activating the SW decoder. I have the image, but not smooth at all.
Do you have any suggestions, ideas about the origin of the problem ? It's really painful not being able to consult all of my medias...
I put you a sample video that I'm not able to read, if you ever want to test on your device and confirm that it does not work either.
https://we.tl/t-Iu2aanB98E?src=dnl
I tested the clip you send and was having the same issues you said. But I have downloaded some h265 clips and it is working fine
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Thanks for trying. It confirms me that the problème comes from the file. And I played the same video in my old phone and my computer, and it's working fine of course.
I'm just wondering why a video recorded on a Huawei (aac, h265) couldn't be played on a Samsung which is using the same codecs to record videos...
Is there any reasons...? I'm lost.
H265 codec is very complex, for example it supports 15 different color spaces etc and not every option is implemented on every device, so I would speculate some codec setting in your old phone is not implemented in the new one. I would simply recode it on a PC to settings I know work on new phone, changing as little as possible to preserve quality. I use xmedia recode, with nvidia codec it is extremely fast and you can highlight multiple files and do all at once. You can probably finish recoding the files before you figure what in particular is not working and knowing the problem still doesn't guarantee solution. Who knows, the incompatibility may have been there even on purpose.
I was able to play your video clip with no issues on my note 10+ using both MX Player and Samsung Video Play. Both are set on default.
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Actually xfaega is right, your video plays fine on mine as well with stock Samsung player.
joining the party. works on diceplayer, MX player. didn't use stock player. unlocked note 10plus
Hummm.... That's strange.
Maybe the beginning of an explanation. I'm in Europe so my note 10 plus works with the exynos chipset.
Maybe you guys, have the snapdragon version?
I was waiting some système updates to see if it fix the problème... Still Not working
Have you tried using mx player?
Of course.
With mx player, It's working only with the software option. I've got an image but it's not working fine, really jerky.