So I currently have a Thrive but looking to get a Flyer since I miss my old 7 inch Samsung tab and how portable it was but I have a couple questions?
1. Is there a difference between the wifi HTC flyer and Sprint's Evo View other then the 3g radio? (different rom, codecs, stock apps, color?)
2. Once flashed to 3.2 is there a way to get back to 2.3 if needed (US model)?
3.Will it run apps made samsung 7 tab or dell 7? (ex: Gameloft HD game for
Samsung Tab)
4.What codecs does it play natively? (H.264,avi,mov,mkv,divx?)
5.Is there tv-out?
6.Are the speakers and good/loud?
7.What the best Honeycomb and Custom 2.3 roms out now (I'm asking for experienced opinion for this one)?
8.When on Honeycomb can it run Tegra 2 app/games?
Lastly,
9. Where the cheapest place to get one (best buy has them for $300)?
If you can answer some or all or these it would really help me decide.
I trust XDA members opinions over stupid reviewers on the web.
Thanks Everyone
The Stock ROMs are the same for wifi or 3g.
The processor is not Tegra 2 so cannot run Tegra specific apps.
Other than Samsung proprietary apps, anything that ran on the Sammy 7 should run even better on the Flyer.
As of yet if you flash to HC, you cannot go back on US wifi only models, that is being worked. All the HC ROMs have pretty much the same features and issues as they are all built from the same leaked base.
There is HDMI out via the MHL Micro USB port, requires small MHL to HDMI adapter.
As far as I know BB has the best price.
the stylus is neat, there is a Ebay source for $30.
The speakers are good, the internal Mic is excellent.
Thank you
... anyone else wanna share some input?
synplex said:
So I currently have a Thrive but looking to get a Flyer since I miss my old 7 inch Samsung tab and how portable it was but I have a couple questions?
1. Is there a difference between the wifi HTC flyer and Sprint's Evo View other then the 3g radio? (different rom, codecs, stock apps, color?)
2. Once flashed to 3.2 is there a way to get back to 2.3 if needed (US model)?
3.Will it run apps made samsung 7 tab or dell 7? (ex: Gameloft HD game for
Samsung Tab)
4.What codecs does it play natively? (H.264,avi,mov,mkv,divx?)
5.Is there tv-out?
6.Are the speakers and good/loud?
7.What the best Honeycomb and Custom 2.3 roms out now (I'm asking for experienced opinion for this one)?
8.When on Honeycomb can it run Tegra 2 app/games?
Lastly,
9. Where the cheapest place to get one (best buy has them for $300)?
If you can answer some or all or these it would really help me decide.
I trust XDA members opinions over stupid reviewers on the web.
Thanks Everyone
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1. Yes. 3G Flyer is GSM, for AT&T, T-Mobile, stuff like that. Evo View is only for Sprint, and Wifi is, well, Wifi only.
2. No there is no way to go back. @globatron is working on a downgrade method, but it is not complete yet.
3. Well if it is a game made specifically for the Tab's hardware then it may or may not run. But most apps (non-gameloft) will work fine, even better than the Tab.
4. DigitalMD has a great explanation:
DigitalMD said:
As far as video formats, the Flyer supports all the standard Android supported formats. The stock player will only play standard formats that it has built-in codecs for.
AVI and MKV are not formats, they are containers and it depends on what is actually inside. For non-standard formats there are a number of 3rd party players on the android market that will play just about anything but if it does not match a hardware codec, performance may be degraded, but it will play.
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5. Again, haven't tried it out, but look here: http://www.myhtcflyer.com/htc-flyer-accessories/anyone-tried-tv-out-yet/
6. Speakers are amazing. They work great, no fuzz or anything.
7. HC, I don't know, all ROMS are really almost the same. GB Roms, IMHO, LeeDroid + FlyHigh are the best, they are both fast and have good Overclocks. Westfire is OK. This is personal choice.
8. Tegra 2 is hardware. The Flyer doesn't have Tegra 2, so no go.
9. Best Buy. Flyer for $299, Pen from ebay they are pretty cheap.
As far as video formats, the Flyer supports all the standard Android supported formats. The stock player will only play standard formats that it has built-in codecs for.
HTC Flyer Supported Audio formats
aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9)
HTC Flyer Supported Video formats
3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)
The stock player does not recognize the .mkv extension. That does not mean there is not a comparable accelerated codec necessarily.
Because...........
AVI and MKV are not formats, they are containers and it depends on what is actually inside. For example a .mkv file could contain a standard mp4 format. For non-standard formats there are a number of 3rd party players on the android market that will play just about anything but if it does not match a hardware codec, performance may be degraded, but it will play.
If you are rooted, you can install ChainFire3D, which has a Tegra-2 plugin. If it works, you'll be able to run Tegrazone games.
I've not actually tried it on my Flyer as I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Asus TF anyway, but did use it on my 7" Galaxy Tab and it worked fine.
Regards,
Dave
Hi guys,
I had bought Samsung galaxy tab 10.1
I am having problem with playing movie 1080p BluRay x264 and also sometime with the full hd movies downloaded from bangbros and realityking site.
the movies are playing with pause what i can say playing slow.
I think galaxy tab 10.1 is HD then why its is not able to play. on the other hand same movies and running smoothly on my Samsung galaxy s2.
If I need to do anything.
one more thing I want to inform my s2 is rooted and tab10.1 is not.
Can't compare the two devices as they use different processors and therefore have different degrees of support for hardware decoding. The tablet is on the shorter end of the stick but you can encode files at 720p that play beautifully on it. Want to be able to throw any old video downloaded off the Web at 1080p at it? look elsewhere, regardless of what Samsung marketed it to be able to do it's just not cut out to do that.
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I have not sold my old Galaxy Tab 7 yet and I already have my shiny, new and rooted Tablet S.
I keep my movies on my networked media tank on my LAN and I stream movies to my tablets over the network within the house.
I managed to load the cifs.ko module and mount the network media player on both units. I use BS Player Lite on both units (although I have also tried mobo player and mx player on the Tablet S).
So here is my question: The Galaxy Tab is able to play even 1080p mkv's without breaking sweat, basically anything I can throw at it, whereas the Tablet S struggles with some of the 720p mkv's and cannot even start the 1080p ones without freezing. Is this normal behaviour? Is it because the screen has a greater resolution and the Tablet S has to work so much harder than the 1024x600 Galaxy Tab?
The Tegra 2 CPU used in the Tablet S struggles with HD content encoded using H.264 and the High profile. It's a known limitation.
For videos you encode yourself using H.264/x264, you should use the Main profile.
For downloaded HD content that is already encoded using the high profile we're all out of luck
I usually use MX Player Pro on my tablet, but I've tried Dice Player and it is somewhat better at playing high profile stuff, so you may want to give that a try.
Thank you! I did not know this. So actually the hardware in this dualcore tablet is weaker than the 2-year-old Galaxy Tab? Or is this only a driver issue?
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Thank you! I did not know this. So actually the hardware in this dualcore tablet is weaker than the 2-year-old Galaxy Tab? Or is this only a driver issue?
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When it comes to HD video playback the Exynos 3110 CPU used in the Galaxy Tab has the upper hand, yes. I was a bit surprised to find out that the Tegra 2 wasn't better at video decoding myself. And no, AFAIK it's not just a driver issue, so it can't be fixed through software/firmware.
Heh. Thanks again! This is a real eye-opener. To tell you the truth it never occured to me to check whether a newer chipset / tablet would actually have lower performance than the previous generation. One would think they upped the resolution of these tablets to 1280x800 to meet 720p HD requirements....
I'm using Dice Player, it has HW acceleration.
I was mildly disappointed with the Sony's high-res Video playback capabilities after I also upgraded from my venerable GT-P1000 Galaxy Tab. Now I use MX Video Player and it seems to do alright, but the Sony's hardware accelerated mode as mentioned above is very finicky about its x264 video.
Also, even if an app claims to be hardware accelerated, chances are extremely good it's probably not. Built-in Hardware Acceleration won't go live until ICS and when video players use the "Hardware Decoding" option (note that its not the same), they just use the Sony's built-in chip and all the video players will deal with it pretty much the same.
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I use Real Player and Mobo Player and have rarely any problems.
A help if you are having issues is to shut down all of the unneeded apps, clear out your ram and shut off the data connection.
Hi,
quick question. How is Tegra 3 doing in regard of video playback?
Has all the issues of Tegra 2 been sorted?
mkv 720p HP is still problem (had Galaxy Tab 10.1 for few weeks and on all players from the market such files were "no go").
Has any one tried files recorded by full hd camcorders - m2ts/mts ?
Videoplayback is much better. It's not even a day and night comparison.
For camcorder files it's a little bit hard to say. I think 1080p/30fps should work. Everythink above could be a problem.
Hi all
I have search xda and the net but I have not seen a solution or maybe just did not search well, but I'm trying to stream a full HD file (.m2ts) from my nas, When it starts, the video starts stuttering, I have try different plays that were mention here but nothing. I also have read that it is not possible to play it on the gs2. I just bought my young son a no name brand, cheep ass 7" tablet from china for 60 euros, this thing has a 1.2 arm7 processor, 512mb ram, and this thing can stream HD file (.m2ts) no problems. My gs2 has much better hardware then this cheep ass tablet!
Is there a solution that I mist?
thx for the help all.