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Can we have forum for Sony Tablets now?
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Sony tablets are the best of all tablets now - we need development!
Sony Tablet S update to 3.2 !!!!
I have been using my Sony Tablet S for a couple of days and it's awesome. I got on it this morning and a 3.2 system upgrade notification popped up! I'm now running on 3.2!!! I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong area.
Root?
Has anyone found a way to root it?
Awesome, you must be joking!
Awesome - you are surely joking.
1) DLNA 'throw' is incompatible with most devices (including PS3, LOL)
2) The memory card only works as a 'transfer' device - you can not accessit directly from inside an app (epic fail for me and my 32Gb of music on an SD card, that will not fit in my 16Gb Tablet S, and shouldn't need to)
3) adb for android development is not supported and so I can't even test my apps on the thing
Most epic fail android tablet ever.
No I wasn't joking I was giving my opinion of the tablet from what I have used or experienced with it. Just like you gave your OPINION! I have tried the dlna with my VAIO and it does work (LOL)but not on my PS3 so can not comment on that. I have a 32gb SD card in mine and can access all my files with a file manager app, so I have been able to listen to my music and watch my movies that are on my card without a problem. The remote app is very awesome and controls my TV, surround sound and DVR's in my living roomand bedroom. It might not be the tablet for you and maybe some others but to say epic fail.. for you maybe but not everyone.
magick86 said:
Has anyone found a way to root it?
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+1 please. Many thanks in advance
+1 open a forum plz
Yes. Let's root it. It is an awsome device and let's make it better.
BTW: ADB does supported.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17624941#post17624941
Kaz Taguchi said:
The following procedure has confirmed that ubuntu 11.04.
1. Enable debug mode for sony tablet S
2. Add line /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="054c", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
3. Change file mode
sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
4. Add line idVendor to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
0x054C
5. adb kill-server ; sudo adb start-server
6. finish!
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derf09 said:
No I wasn't joking I was giving my opinion of the tablet from what I have used or experienced with it. Just like you gave your OPINION! I have tried the dlna with my VAIO and it does work (LOL)but not on my PS3 so can not comment on that. I have a 32gb SD card in mine and can access all my files with a file manager app, so I have been able to listen to my music and watch my movies that are on my card without a problem. The remote app is very awesome and controls my TV, surround sound and DVR's in my living roomand bedroom. It might not be the tablet for you and maybe some others but to say epic fail.. for you maybe but not everyone.
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Hey there I got the Sony Tablet S in Japan over the weekend, and it's a sweet little device. I've been burned by faulty iphones in the past, so I thought I'd try something different. I went for the 32gb option, but after installing and transferring podcasts and the whole works, it's not going to be enough! What app file manager are you using? ...Really glad I didn't go for the 16gb option.
I've had no problems with the remote control app, and really like the Android Utorrent remote access app. My only beef with it would be the slow rotating response time which gives a bit of a "cheap" feel to the interface, but overall it's a cool device!
Jpku said:
Hey there I got the Sony Tablet S in Japan over the weekend, and it's a sweet little device. I've been burned by faulty iphones in the past, so I thought I'd try something different. I went for the 32gb option, but after installing and transferring podcasts and the whole works, it's not going to be enough! What app file manager are you using? ...Really glad I didn't go for the 16gb option.
I've had no problems with the remote control app, and really like the Android Utorrent remote access app. My only beef with it would be the slow rotating response time which gives a bit of a "cheap" feel to the interface, but overall it's a cool device!
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You want to be using "File manager HD" to search for files on the SD Card. I also use "mx video player Pro" which you set to search the sd card folders by default for movies etc!
jkr284 said:
You want to be using "File manager HD" to search for files on the SD Card. I also use "mx video player Pro" which you set to search the sd card folders by default for movies etc!
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This is exactly what I use.
quick question guys I really want to buy this thing but I cant get a real answer as to the sd card transferring and playing media from the it. If i have a video on my sd card can i play it from the sd card or do i have to transfer to the hard drive of the tablet. thank you to anyone that can help
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quick question guys I really want to buy this thing but I cant get a real answer as to the sd card transferring and playing media from the it. If i have a video on my sd card can i play it from the sd card or do i have to transfer to the hard drive of the tablet. thank you to anyone that can help
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I think the posts above cover this. You can not play video off the SD Card using the default Video player included with the tablet, but there are third party apps that you can downlod from the App Market that will play video from the SD card.
anyone have problem with the SD card keep getting remove? i have a kingston 16gb class 10 SDHC inserted, but after a few hours it say SD card removed... but the card is still clicked in the slot...
also which player is best for encoding rmvb videos? i tried a few, some are either lag, or is very blur...
one more question, which image viewer is best for pictures on SD card cause the "file transfer" app can only view picture one by one... cant swipe to next picture. i tried using astro file manager, i can swipe to next picture but it makes the pictures blurry.
Thanks heaps for your help, I'm off on a trip soon and wanna pack as many videos into an SD card as I can, and MX Player seems to do the trick (I got the free version for now but it's great enough). Cheers again for the tips!
Just on the video, I use Any Video Converter, and followed someone's advice to convert to a Motorola Zoom tablet. These settings work fine, but does anyone have any full details of the video specs so I can get the maximum resolution? Sorry about the questions, but the Japanese language manual I got was pretty damn short of information about the product itself...It's basically just a guide to the main features!
Does anyone know if you can hook a external hard drive up to this and play media directly from the external? I know you can with the SD Card, but wasnt sure if the USB port will allow it or not. I ask cause i have a 500gb External full of movies, tv shows and music, that i would rather carry as opposed to try and figure out what i might want to watch or listen to later, and then transfer them to a SD card.
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Does anyone know if you can hook a external hard drive up to this and play media directly from the external? I know you can with the SD Card, but wasnt sure if the USB port will allow it or not. I ask cause i have a 500gb External full of movies, tv shows and music, that i would rather carry as opposed to try and figure out what i might want to watch or listen to later, and then transfer them to a SD card.
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The Tablet S wont power an external hard drive. i do wonder if it will read one though
3vilhomer said:
anyone have problem with the SD card keep getting remove? i have a kingston 16gb class 10 SDHC inserted, but after a few hours it say SD card removed... but the card is still clicked in the slot...
also which player is best for encoding rmvb videos? i tried a few, some are either lag, or is very blur...
one more question, which image viewer is best for pictures on SD card cause the "file transfer" app can only view picture one by one... cant swipe to next picture. i tried using astro file manager, i can swipe to next picture but it makes the pictures blurry.
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I'm not sure about the SD issues that you are having because I haven't experienced any issues with mine. I'm using a 32gb SanDisk. The app I use for picture viewing is called Quick Pic and in the settings you can add the folder sdcard2 and it will access your pictures without transferring them.
derf09 said:
I'm not sure about the SD issues that you are having because I haven't experienced any issues with mine. I'm using a 32gb SanDisk. The app I use for picture viewing is called Quick Pic and in the settings you can add the folder sdcard2 and it will access your pictures without transferring them.
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Haha, I just download that from market today, it have the feature I want but is not as smooth as the built in image viewer... hope it will improve soon...
I did not write this up, so a thanks goes to the original author of this... Ahmad Rafiq from HACKSlurp. I just thought it was very useful, and may be worth adding to this forum, so enjoy!
Do you have a large collection of movies and pictures stored in your external hard drive and you just can’t decide which stuff you want to move to your Android tablet’s 32GB SD card especially when you are traveling? You can actually stream data directly from your portable hard drive to your tablet essentially increasing the storage capacity of your tablet beyond SD card.
Here is how you can do it!
Step 1
You need to prepare your external HDD by formatting it to FAT32. If you have stuff in your hard drive, which is in NTFS state, you should move it temporarily to some other media while you prepare your hard drive.
This is perhaps the only downside to this procedure. But depending on your usage you can make this step worth your effort. This is just a one time only step so don’t be afraid to carry out the arduous task of moving your items from and to your HDD.
Step 2
Connect your portable HDD to your tablet.
Step 3
Make sure your USB switch state is set to ‘Host’. Get this free USB Mode Switcher app (requires ROOT access) if you don’t know how to do it.
Step 4
Switch to your file manager app and wait for it to detect your hard drive. It might take sometime for the app to detect your external drive during which time you should keep refreshing, but once it has detected, the streaming is flawless.
If you have followed the above steps properly you should now be able to watch your HD movies on the go!
The same procedure can also be applied to nearly any USB device like pocket drives etc. This can really come handy as you can transfer your documents from your pen drive to your tablet and edit them on the move!
I work full time, so I havent been able to test this on the sony S, but I plan to this coming weekend (tomorrow), I will add notes as to what I discover, after paying around with it a bit. I know it works on my Acer Iconia, lets keep our fingers crossed!
You say you need root access in order to do it successfully. I don't think anyone's made an exploit to obtain root access for the Tablet S yet. If I'm wrong, you better be sure to tell me how to obtain!! So many things I want to do once I get root!
Good luck though, i'm highly interested in this idea of external hard drives and thumb drives.
Yeah that root access part kinda threw me too. Im gonna try it this weeken, and will report back. I am also going to see what I can do to root this bad boy! I hope I can make something work.
Ok I've just hooked I'm my usb hard drive and so far i'm having mixed success.
Firstly the usb powered option did not work. The light on my HDD came on but i couldn't feel it spinning.
I attached a mains connections to it and it started to spin. A message popped up on the tablet saying "Recognising media" it asked if i wanted to open the Sony data transfer app that comes pre-installed. I declined and tried to view the files via a couple of different file managers but couldn't seem to find the HDD in either of them.
So i went to the Sony data transfer app and it recognised it fine. from there i can either stream from the HDD of transfer the files to the tablet. All the files tested were 720p TV & BD rips and they worked fine with MX Video player.
Sorry this so long winded but hope it helps.
I did all this without going through targazzi's method.
Probably not what you are after but if you have a nas drive you can connect to it wirelessly very easily using built in dlna app. It plays mp4 3gp etc videos no problem and i imagine other files will be supported as long as you have an app to deal with them properly. Another option is file expert app from the market - i mapped same drive as a network drive in it and can see all files. Haven,t bothered putting an sd card yet
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ps3taker said:
Probably not what you are after but if you have a nas drive you can connect to it wirelessly very easily using built in dlna app. It plays mp4 3gp etc videos no problem and i imagine other files will be supported as long as you have an app to deal with them properly. Another option is file expert app from the market - i mapped same drive as a network drive in it and can see all files. Haven,t bothered putting an sd card yet
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I was able to connect my PCH using dlna and I could see all my files but couldn't play most of them and the ones that I could play were stuttering.
Vinny1967 said:
I was able to connect my PCH using dlna and I could see all my files but couldn't play most of them and the ones that I could play were stuttering.
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I used to have an issue with my DLNA server as the videos either have no sound or the video is stuttering. After several trial and errors, I was able to find the right setting for most of my DLNA devices. I use Freemake video converter (it's free, Google it)... then use Freemake to convert the videos to MP4 with bitrate not more than 1400 kbps, and AAC (stereo) audio format. Hope this helps.
well i didnt get a chance to play around with it over the weekend, I ran outta money before I could buy the USB cable for it. (Sad seeing as how its only $14, but thats life when your married with kids, and in the military, dumping your money into stuff to prepare to go to a field excercise for a few weeks)
requires ROOT access?
So your Sony Tablet S been rooted already?
Tergazzi said:
I did not write this up, so a thanks goes to the original author of this... Ahmad Rafiq from HACKSlurp. I just thought it was very useful, and may be worth adding to this forum, so enjoy!
Do you have a large collection of movies and pictures stored in your external hard drive and you just can’t decide which stuff you want to move to your Android tablet’s 32GB SD card especially when you are traveling? You can actually stream data directly from your portable hard drive to your tablet essentially increasing the storage capacity of your tablet beyond SD card.
Here is how you can do it!
Step 1
You need to prepare your external HDD by formatting it to FAT32. If you have stuff in your hard drive, which is in NTFS state, you should move it temporarily to some other media while you prepare your hard drive.
This is perhaps the only downside to this procedure. But depending on your usage you can make this step worth your effort. This is just a one time only step so don’t be afraid to carry out the arduous task of moving your items from and to your HDD.
Step 2
Connect your portable HDD to your tablet.
Step 3
Make sure your USB switch state is set to ‘Host’. Get this free USB Mode Switcher app (requires ROOT access) if you don’t know how to do it.
Step 4
Switch to your file manager app and wait for it to detect your hard drive. It might take sometime for the app to detect your external drive during which time you should keep refreshing, but once it has detected, the streaming is flawless.
If you have followed the above steps properly you should now be able to watch your HD movies on the go!
The same procedure can also be applied to nearly any USB device like pocket drives etc. This can really come handy as you can transfer your documents from your pen drive to your tablet and edit them on the move!
I work full time, so I havent been able to test this on the sony S, but I plan to this coming weekend (tomorrow), I will add notes as to what I discover, after paying around with it a bit. I know it works on my Acer Iconia, lets keep our fingers crossed!
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OK, I looked and I looked, I found a few threads on Motocast for Xoom and another device..........Has anyone used this on the Photon with a PC and what do you think?
Here is my delima. I used to have everything in folders on my PC, then I would drag-&-drop them to my SDHC Card, over time create some playlist, listen at pleasure, add some more.............
I just got new Gaming Desktop with 1.5TB HD and2.0TB Photom USB Drive. I listen to all types of music............Long story short, I have over 100Gb of music and videos I have on these. Putting my music and videos on Photon will never work. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I want to create playlist on PC and use Motocast to listen to music.
I have Windows7, so I put everything into C:\users\davidksims\music (videos, pictures, documents, etc. ). The only videos that show up are the one that were on the phone originally, not the ones I moved. Same with the pictures. When I attempt to open music in Motocast on my PC I get connection error.
I like the though that I can access ALL of my media content anywhere, anytime. I know I'm not normal (I have over 18,000 songs, 5000 pictures, and currently 15 HD Videos) but if this works.............
I could move EVERYTHING to External USB, then only move the media I actually currently listen to over to Desktop and assign to playlist to save on the phone, but that takes away from purpose of Motocast?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
EDIT: I forgot, after I loaded all my music and crap. I opened Media Player and ran update library. That should run until Christmas!!! 24 hours later and I'm at 8% update!
133 views and no opinion? Anything is better than nothing, just need an idea please.
Never heard of motocast before but I shall check it out.
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
Lokifish Marz said:
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
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I got this list from Motorola Motocast and Photon is supported: http://www.mymotocast.com/supporteddevices
Lokifish Marz said:
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
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I got this list from Motorola Motocast and Photon is supported: http://www.mymotocast.com/supporteddevices
EDIT: I see it now, no wireless.
Have you tried ZumoCast?
Try, Tonido you can stream you mp3&4s right off your Computer.
OK, I got ZumoCast, everything seems to work correctly except music. When I attempt to click music tab, I get:
"An error has occured that prevents the application from running:
Unable to get the property of the value 'Get': Object is null or undefined"
Any suggestions? Oddly, when I tried in MotoCast, I got same error. When I was uploading music, I did notice that some music could not be uploaded because of DRM (Copyright) error? If I get software to clean it up, will that cure it?
Thanks again, guys!
Thoughts on ZumoCast comment?
I read that MotoCast is very buggy for the PHOTON 4G.
deedscreen said:
I read that MotoCast is very buggy for the PHOTON 4G.
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No, I ment my trials with ZumoCast (which is also Motorola BTW!) Everything works wireless BUT my music.
Would something like this work with an external hard drive connected to my laptop?
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slicedcheese said:
Would something like this work with an external hard drive connected to my laptop?
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In Theory, yes it should! When I installed it, just like Motocast, it took the Windows7 defualts (c:\davidksims\users\music...........or Video, or Documents, whatever), you have the option to change it to........g:\myUSB\music. The only difference I see is, with Motocast, you can select MANY different folders, I did not see that in Zumocast?
Therefore, with Motocast, you can have music all over the place. But why? Organization is the key IMO.
I just wanted to say, I upgraded Motocast, it appears to be working now! (some parts anyway?)
c9chen said:
Have you tried ZumoCast?
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Love you man it works ALMOST like a charm exactly like I want it. My documents, music, videos, pictures all from home at my fingertips anywhere!!
The only 2 issues I have, off/on, sometimes the streaming music hiccups which is annoying. Second, HD videos, streaming, forget it.
BUT..........................................................
Download whatever playlist(s) you want to the phone, good to go. Same with Video!!
@ whoever ask about USB access, yes!!!! In settings (or whenever you install it) you can have it look for, let's say music, in as many folders as you want. It groups them together. For instance I have backups to my 2TB external, I see c:\users\davidksims\music and J:\music. When I get on ZumoCast, you have to pick a place. Now remember, if USB is not on, it will show it but it will be disconnected.
Thanks all!
EDIT: When you open ZumoCast and go to music, it initially takes a minute to see everything. after that your good to go unless you close ZumoCast, then it will do it all over again! Good Luck!
I like Zumocast. Although I haven't used it to listen to music.
anoroc44 said:
I like Zumocast. Although I haven't used it to listen to music.
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It baffles me why Motorola advertise MotoCast (which is unstable and only works on 2 headsets) when they have ZumoCast that is stable and works on almost all devices, and I never heard of it until I started this thread?
I use VLC Direct Pro...it works well enough.
Nerorising said:
I use VLC Direct Pro...it works well enough.
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Looks good and sounds great, but no documents? (which is just as important as music/video.) I remember back @ 7 years or so ago I had 4Gb SDHC and I was the bomb. I started with 32Gb @ 2 years ago and, technically, I could fit the most common of my files (music, pictures, video, *.PDF's) on my card, but with new technology, why when I can take my entire desktop with me?
I will keep VLC on my list if I get tired of free ZumoCast.
Hi all, i am a new Sony tablet S user.
Very happy about the device.
I'm trying to listen music directly from sd card, possibly with default sony player,or with music android app.
For the moment no solution, the last chance is for me to create a linc in \ pointing to \mnt/sdcard2, but i don't know how to do that.
For the moment i don't wont to root.
As anyone an idea, or an alternative free app i can use?
thanks for the help...
Jack
Try Poweramp - a very good music app.
Wow,io works fine.
Thanks a lot....
Do you know any other with better interface?
Poweramp works, but the interface on tablet in not exiting like the sony music,or default android music...
Did anyone tryed out with the link in / to the sd location?
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I dont know of another app that looks as flashy as the native one on the tablet, though it's possible to fool the app into thinking the music on your sd card is actually on the internal memory by rooting and applying an init.d script on boot.
HOWEVER, it seems that the ICS update allows access directly to the sd card, so hold tight and try that when you get the chance!
Just wait for ICS update. It's already rolling out. It will then read the files from the SD card. Check the video.
Sent from my super powered calculator.
I'll do as you all say.... thanks for the information!!!!!!
Sent from my Sony Tablet S using XDA
Hello,
I'm now using an other phone and I want to use my X10 as music player for in my car.
I only want a music player on my phone and nothing else. Is this possible?
main1990 said:
Hello,
I'm now using another phone and I want to use my X10 as music player for in my car.
I only want a music player on my phone and nothing else. Is this possible?
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Yes.
You'll still need the core operating system and it's dependencies.
You can probably delete approx 30-50 applications from within /system/app and free up a running environment of over 180MB of RAM
Even on a stock GB 2.3.3, I'd still root the device and use a modified Kernel like DoomKernel v6, just so you have the best the phone has to offer.
Off interest, the above configuration does allow for .mkv 720p (H264,AC3) movies to be played too.
The camera could make a good travel video recorder too. This way your friends don't laugh at you when you say you saw a man driving a sofa with a coffee table down the M25.
It has been reported that a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10i will support a SanDisk 64GB MicroSD card reformatted to FAT32.
But like anything there have also been tears :crying: reported too.
I have a 32GB SanDisk card in mine and been running it that way for over a year.
If you store Google maps offline, you can use your phone as a Navigation system as well and it "shouldn't"[citation needed] need a SIM card in it or any WiFi/3G access.
I've run my X10i without a SIM card for months and it works fine using WiFi only.
The Sony Ericsson X10i natively support .wma files which is a bonus. Newer Sony phones don't, however the newer phones do support .flac natively.
I use Neutron Music player with .ogg and .flac files which are mostly streamed from my NAS.
Dr Goodvibes said:
Yes.
You'll still need the core operating system and it's dependencies.
You can probably delete approx 30-50 applications from within /system/app and free up a running environment of over 180MB of RAM
Even on a stock GB 2.3.3, I'd still root the device and use a modified Kernel like DoomKernel v6, just so you have the best the phone has to offer.
Off interest, the above configuration does allow for .mkv 720p (H264,AC3) movies to be played too.
The camera could make a good travel video recorder too. This way your friends don't laugh at you when you say you saw a man driving a sofa with a coffee table down the M25.
It has been reported that a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10i will support a SanDisk 64GB MicroSD card reformatted to FAT32.
But like anything there have also been tears :crying: reported too.
I have a 32GB SanDisk card in mine and been running it that way for over a year.
If you store Google maps offline, you can use your phone as a Navigation system as well and it "shouldn't"[citation needed] need a SIM card in it or any WiFi/3G access.
I've run my X10i without a SIM card for months and it works fine using WiFi only.
The Sony Ericsson X10i natively support .wma files which is a bonus. Newer Sony phones don't, however the newer phones do support .flac natively.
I use Neutron Music player with .ogg and .flac files which are mostly streamed from my NAS.
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Hello,
Do you know where I can find the firmwares and what apps I can remove?
main1990 said:
Hello,
Do you know where I can find the firmwares and what apps I can remove?
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u can find the safe to remove apps list from the flashtool thread..
main1990 said:
Hello,
Do you know where I can find the firmwares and what apps I can remove?
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What music player are you going to use?????
DonutHD ROM comes with a pretty good stripped down environment and generally quite stable.
If I remember correctly it has all the social media removed already with only about 96 system apps of which maybe only another 10 could be removed if your wanted to take it to the extreme. Such as gmail.apk, email.apk, gtalk.apk etc, etc.