I just switched from a Fascinate. I really hated that thing, but I was calm enough to not slam it against a wall.
I have a few questions on the TB. Searching revealed some scattered comments on these, but I found no clear answers.
1. I have this guy all set up. I used to use Titanium backup. OOPS, it looks like, in order to root for Titanium Backup, I will lose everything. Is that the only option for rooting, and if so is there any backup that can save me from the couple of hours of reinstalling/reconfiguring the load of stuff I have?
2. The USB refuses to work properly on my PC. I installed it on a work PC, and all is well. My home PC just refuses. It is like it has a poor USB connection, it comes and goes. I tried all four USB ports, and no luck. I suspect all of the ports are on an internal hub. Any suggestions for a more reliable connection? My USB ports work fine for other things.
3. I have a bluetooth stereo headset. My previous devices would allow me to pair the phone AND the stereo. So I could listen to music, or make/take a call. The TB looks like it is paired for both, but only the phone works. If I drop the phone pairing, then the stereo works. But I can't get both to pair as I always had before. Anyone else found this?
4. The auto backlight is poor. Too bright in the dark, not full bright in the sun. Manual brightness settings are adequate. I dislike manual, but I quess I must use it. Does anyone know of a better widget then the built in one? It just has three settings, and I don't care for those.
5. The video player isn't too good. It doesn't play many of the videos that I could play on my previous device. It also only appears to display thumbnails of the videos, no titles. It is pretty hard to tell the videos apart (or even play many of them). Is there a prefered video format for this device, and/or, does anyone have a prefered player?
worwig said:
4. The auto backlight is poor. Too bright in the dark, not full bright in the sun. Manual brightness settings are adequate. I dislike manual, but I quess I must use it. Does anyone know of a better widget then the built in one? It just has three settings, and I don't care for those.
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I like https://market.android.com/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel&feature=search_result the most. Very simple and effective, not to mention free.
1. Nope. That's the only root method.
2. Maybe it's a bad USB cord? I know I have an extension for USB that isn't good for much more than power.
3. Never used a stereo bluetooth device so I'm going to pass on this one.
4. If you root there the notification power toggles includes brightness with a lot more options. You can also modify the settings for auto-brightness with some ROMs (CM)
5. Not sure on this one either. Most of my video watching on the device is streaming. I did try to put a video on and it wouldn't work but I'm not sure what format it was.
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2. Maybe it's a bad USB cord? I know I have an extension for USB that isn't good for much more than power.
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I tried all varieties of cords.
Don't anyone have a suggestion on the video format, or a better player?
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Hello everyone-
I'm not sure how many of you have experienced this problem before, but whenever I use the TV-out feature on my vib to connect it to my standard-def tv via the 3.5 mm jack to av cable, I get a strange annoying electronic buzzing sound from my television. I've made sure the cable is plugged in all the way on both ends, and that the region is set to NTSC, but it just won't go away. It seems to stay no matter what rom I use, so I think it may be either a hardware problem with my phone or with the cable itself. Any help would be appreciated? Thanks.
-much ablidged, bobofosho123
Have you tried a kernel with voodoo sound, and adjusted the settings with supercurio's app?
Have you tried another cable?
s15274n said:
Have you tried a kernel with voodoo sound, and adjusted the settings with supercurio's app?
Have you tried another cable?
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I haven't tried another cable, but I a running bionix-v 1.3.1 with the sound app, but I'm not sure what the optimal settings are for TV-out specifically, or what specific options I should adjust within the app? Thanks.
Can anyone else offer me any advice? I'm eager to solve this issue, thanks.
have you tried on a different TV?
Yep, I still get the same problem, and I've never had this problem when I connect any other device to my TV.
Try a different cable. With the first cable I used I didn't get any video signal and loud static. With the second one it was absolutely perfect.
might be think stupidly but are u using edge by chance?
intruda119 said:
might be think stupidly but are u using edge by chance?
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I don't see what edge would have to do with a the tv-out function on my vib. But no, I'm using wifi, and I have all data functions turned off (i.e. I don't have a data plan anyway.
Sorry to open a new thread, I cannot really find any help on this, that I can understand at least.
I have several device at home with Android of different versions.
How do I transfer files or pictures, music and so on between them?
Do I have to use an app. which is suitable for all the different version of Androids, or does Android have a "built-in" way to do that.
My devices are paired with it, but I could not find out.
Any help, guide, tutorials idiot-proof?
Thanks
it should be a built in feature. nothing special should be needed. you first have to pair both devices together. make sure devices are discoverable when you do it so they can connect. then on prime search for devices. then you should see your phone up there. select it. then it'll send a pin code message to phone for you to confirm. confirm on the phone then confirm on the prime. now devices should be paired up.
now to test it, take your phone and go to your picture gallery. select one of your photos or videos. then press option to share it. then select BT. then a pop up should appear on phone showing your prime. if not then press scan for BT devices. then select the prime on it. after a second or two, your notifications on the prime will go off. press it and it'll tell you a BT device is trying to send you something. accept it. then it should start transferring the file. you can see the progress bar in notifications area. when it's done it'll let you know.
if any issues or still can't get it to work, just post back.
p.s. glad to hear you got your prime back
...thanks man, it worked like a charm between ATP and Galaxy S Plus mobile..
Thanks aga.n.
bimbobo said:
...thanks man, it worked like a charm between ATP and Galaxy S Plus mobile..
Thanks aga.n.
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no problem. I use it all the time to transfer files from my Motorola Atrix to prime. like pictures and videos. now if we can get this wifi direct in this new update working, we could use that instead and the file transfer and different capabilities would be alot faster and better.
I've been having an issue where the my phone won't connect to the tablet through bt for the main purpose of file transfer. Thank you for explaining how it is done as I was able to pair the devices but it would not "connect" like it would with say... bt headphones or my laptop. With the laptop it sets up a whole profile in the bt settings for file transferring or audio but the the various phones I've tried to connect with I would only get rename or unpair. I thought that "connect" status had to be established for any transferring to be done or to use the bt gps apps.
I tried what you suggested and it worked for transferring pictures in the gallery. Thanks
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I've been having an issue where the my phone won't connect to the tablet through bt for the main purpose of file transfer. Thank you for explaining how it is done as I was able to pair the devices but it would not "connect" like it would with say... bt headphones or my laptop. With the laptop it sets up a whole profile in the bt settings for file transferring or audio but the the various phones I've tried to connect with I would only get rename or unpair. I thought that "connect" status had to be established for any transferring to be done or to use the bt gps apps.
I tried what you suggested and it worked for transferring pictures in the gallery. Thanks
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glad to hear you got it working. it doesn't need to "connect" or say it for pics, video, and file transfers. As long as both devices paired, you should be good. it only needs to connect for BT tethering, head phones, and things like that on prime.
After i get out of my car where my bluetooth was connected, i'll turn BT off. However, sometimes the system still trys to push audio through BT, not the speakers of the phone. I know i can get around this by going to my Youtube App, and there's a litle icon at the top that looks like a tv with a wifi signal. i can touch that, and it will ask if i want BT or local (i forget what it really said). i press the local and get it back.
is there an easier way to do this? I have the ME7 build, rooted via the method provided here. I have a Hyundai Sontata, 2011.
Thanks
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After i get out of my car where my bluetooth was connected, i'll turn BT off. However, sometimes the system still trys to push audio through BT, not the speakers of the phone. I know i can get around this by going to my Youtube App, and there's a litle icon at the top that looks like a tv with a wifi signal. i can touch that, and it will ask if i want BT or local (i forget what it really said). i press the local and get it back.
is there an easier way to do this? I have the ME7 build, rooted via the method provided here. I have a Hyundai Sontata, 2011.
Thanks
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I got around it with soundabout from the market. Lets you control various outputs during different media modes.
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I got around it with soundabout from the market. Lets you control various outputs during different media modes.
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I didn't like that app.
and YT now changed their interface. I can go to google's Play Music App, and they have the icon that i can use to disconnect the Bluetooth.
any other ideas?
The sound card on my laptop is ageing and was not very good to begin with but the one in my phone is great. Is there a USB (not wireless) solution for my PC to detect my phone as a sound card and have the DAC in my phone process the digital audio signal and for me to listen through my phone's headphone jack?
Basically is there a solution that allows me to use my phone as an external usb headphone DAC/amp?
I've done some googling but not found any viable solution yet.
The first one I found that works is WiFiAudio, which you can get to work over USB by enabling USB Networking.
You have to run software on the PC (I tested from Windows 10). Don't know if there's Mac software but I'll be wanting it as well.
play.google.com /store/apps/details?id=com.vnd.wifi_audio
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The first one I found that works is WiFiAudio, which you can get to work over USB by enabling USB Networking.
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it's called USB Tethering in android, which is located in Portable Hotspot section.
We'd like to elaborate here a little as it took us some time to figure out how exactly to use our android as a sound card for a PC.
There's another app out there - SoundWire, which we used and known for some time, we haven't tried WiFiAudio, but found it. Think it's pretty similar.
So what those apps do is they let you connect to your android via LAN (WiFi in most cases unless u got ethernet cable in your phone) and they let you transmit sound to your phone. It's pretty simple and straightforward. The drawback is audio delay, which increases with buffer size. But good video player like MPC let's us change audio delay so we can make it play faster than video to compensate for that, takes a little time to figure out the delay tho.
SO we wanted to try it over usb cable, maybe it'd reduce/eliminate the delay heh. (it doesn't) That's how we found this post and we got kinda stumbled on "enabling USB Networking". Tried to look it up, read wiki and all. Turns out it's called USB Tethering in android, which is located in Portable Hotspot section. After enabling that - it adds a network on the PC, provided it's connected via usb cable ofc. Turned off all networking on android (WiFi, mobile) And it works. Though had to type in IP manually.
So now it can be used as a usb sound card without WiFi or anything. Still has a delay tho.
upd: Using a usb cable allows to reduce buffer size to minimum without getting any stutter leading essentially to no noticeable delay. Which is great.
Hi All,
What does everyone use to show their phone screen (and control) from their PC?
I would like to set this up for when i'm at work instead of looking down on my phone all day.
I tried a few apps, there was one that worked: "screen Recording and Mirror" but it was too expensive!
Any other options out there?
I want it to be on same network as I don't have an HDMI cable for MHL.
Thanks,
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Hi All,
What does everyone use to show their phone screen (and control) from their PC?
I would like to set this up for when i'm at work instead of looking down on my phone all day.
I tried a few apps, there was one that worked: "screen Recording and Mirror" but it was too expensive!
Any other options out there?
I want it to be on same network as I don't have an HDMI cable for MHL.
Thanks,
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I had the same idea and tried vysor. I think I tried another app as well but over usb2.0 it wasn't pleasant. The amount of lag you get will drive you to just pick up your phone lol