Hello all,
I have just got myself an Archos 80 G9 Turbo (1.5GHz, 1GB RAM) with the 250GB HDD. It is mainly going to be my car media center/SATNAV to replace my A5 500GB.
Once I got it I upgraded to ICS and installed my favorite player PowerAMP and whenever I start playing a track the music stutters and skips a lot. It is practically unusable. It cannot play even 1 straight track.
What do you guys think my problem is? Any ideas?
FOXTEiN said:
Hello all,
I have just got myself an Archos 80 G9 Turbo (1.5GHz, 1GB RAM) with the 250GB HDD. It is mainly going to be my car media center/SATNAV to replace my A5 500GB.
Once I got it I upgraded to ICS and installed my favorite player PowerAMP and whenever I start playing a track the music stutters and skips a lot. It is practically unusable. It cannot play even 1 straight track.
What do you guys think my problem is? Any ideas?
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Sadly this is a generally how the G9s run. Especially the HDD version. You could try a format in recovery and then flash 4.0.7 (downloaded from archos.com)
Well, that means I have taken the wrong decision buying it. Is there anything to do to avoid this happening? I though the Turbo 1.5GHz 1GB RAM would be fast enough for my needs. Silly me.
Does it skip using the Music App that came with the Archos?
There was a discussion (can't remember if it was on XDA or ArchosFan forum) that said only a handful of music players work correctly with the HDD.
PowerAMP was one of the ones that had troubles with the HDD.
Edit - Found the Post, it includes some music apps that work well with 250GB models. The post suggests gonemads player or rockbox as alternatives: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=62440
Thank you very much lancewindew. This is very informative.
Do you guys think that I might kill the spin up time if I change the HDD to an SDD type. I've seen people here do that, but they were not speaking about MP3 players, they were looking for pure access speeds/battery gains.
FOXTEiN said:
Thank you very much lancewindew. This is very informative.
Do you guys think that I might kill the spin up time if I change the HDD to an SDD type. I've seen people here do that, but they were not speaking about MP3 players, they were looking for pure access speeds/battery gains.
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I have heard great improvements switching to a SSD, wouldn't hurt if you can do it right
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Hey Guys.
I thought about the following:
Would it be possible, to turn the Archos Gen8 Devices into 1080p Multimedia Players?
I don't mean to overclock the device to make it work.
Im talking about conventional MediaPlayers like the "Western Digital TV Live".
The Archos hast way more power and is just able to play 720p - 1GHz should be way enouth to play a 1080p movie - the Western Digital TV" hasn't got 1GHz at all.
Would it be possible to use a custom Linux which is just programmed to play Media?
I mean that the 1GHz Processor is JUST used to play media and nothing else like Android-OS and stuff?
I hope you understand what i mean, like booting into "SDE" and boot "MediaPlayer Linux" instead of Android OS which just allows you to play media and make 1080p finally work
best whiches
Erich
gomork booted ubuntu netbook remix on his a101 it is far from usable from a day to day basis
i think it would be difficult to get hardware accelleration for smooth media playback (let alone 1080p)
is it undoable ?perhaps not...... but you would need a lot of development time and a lot of know how to pull it off....
this at least gets some support....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836022
erichbitch said:
Hey Guys.
I thought about the following:
Would it be possible, to turn the Archos Gen8 Devices into 1080p Multimedia Players?
I don't mean to overclock the device to make it work.
Im talking about conventional MediaPlayers like the "Western Digital TV Live".
The Archos hast way more power and is just able to play 720p - 1GHz should be way enouth to play a 1080p movie - the Western Digital TV" hasn't got 1GHz at all.
Would it be possible to use a custom Linux which is just programmed to play Media?
I mean that the 1GHz Processor is JUST used to play media and nothing else like Android-OS and stuff?
I hope you understand what i mean, like booting into "SDE" and boot "MediaPlayer Linux" instead of Android OS which just allows you to play media and make 1080p finally work
best whiches
Erich
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the A70H CPU running at 1GHz is nowhere near playing 1080p content. the DSP and HW accelerators can play 720p but not more.
so the answer is a plain: no
Moved to general as not android development
Hello,
I have been considering to make a setup for a music jukebox fed by a NAS HDD. There are quite a lot of dedicated product for multimedia player, but they all require a display to browse the NAS files (except the squeezeBox touch, wich looks almost like what I would like to have, but requires proprietary soft, not working with any NAS).
Basically, I want to manage music for my living room, but I want to keep any display away as much as possible.
So I thought that a kind of small tablet could do the job.
Requirements :
Acces to the NAS via network, preferably via ethernet.
Stereo output (any kind even if digital is prefered).
Small display 7 inch ok, 10 inch maximum (I don't want any angry birds invasion).
Cool file browser, preferably with music management (artist, style, album tags... CD cover if available).
I discovered that Archos made cool tablet and that OS may be hacked, so I can expect to find a good rom for this kind of use (or may be cook my own, though I don't look forward this)
More of all, you can find cheap Archos 7.0 home, Arnova... devices.
So now I think the best is to ask to those who already know the more about the device (and I would apreciate any advice for I might need something else).
So far I know there are no decent android tablet with ethernet port (I'd rather not have to rely on WiFi), but may be there are some adaptor.
Thank you for reading. More thangs to come for those how will take time to answer.
Not sure exactly what you want but it sounds like you should look at MPD, the Music Player Daemon. I set it up on my file server (a linux box, not a NAS) and there are android clients for it that let me control it from anywhere I get wi-fi. I've also seen MPD run on openwrt devices too... google "mighty ohm wi-fi radio" for more.
Thank you Jimmy,
Indeed, I found some soft that could do the job. I guess you recommend this project. Sounds like very promising.
In fact I have more question about the hardware. I don't think the Archos 7 home provide any kind of ethernet port even through an adaptor. So I'll need to set up WiFi (I don't use WiFi at the moment, for I prefer wired solution). I discovered that it is possible to hack the Archos tablets, but I don't know for now what are the gen8 and gen9. I suppose that Archos 7 home are g8, but not sure for now.
May be should I consider some other hardware issue, but since I only intend to read music I suppose the archos 7 home should have enough CPU power.
Another alternative seem to be an Archos9PC, but first it is more expencive, then it runs Windows I really don't know.
You are wrong, the Archos 7 Home ( you are in the wrong forum for that ) is Gen7.
Gen8 ( 8th Generation ) is the Archos 70 Internet Tablet.
While the HT has enough cpu power, i don't think you will be happy with it, but who knows.
The Gen8 has UPnP directly in the Firmware and the std Musikplayer allready has an option to use the "normal" twonky ( or whatever is running on your NAS) Server.
You can use a OTG Cable and a USB-Ethernet adapter, but Wifi is alot easier.
fzelle said:
You are wrong, the Archos 7 Home ( you are in the wrong forum for that ) is Gen7.
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Ok, If I understand well, gen7 won't be possible for rom change. NoGood.
fzelle said:
While the HT has enough cpu power, i don't think you will be happy with it, but who knows.
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Thank you for the advise. I suspected something like this. I'll keep on reading.
ZeGuido said:
Ok, If I understand well, gen7 won't be possible for rom change. NoGood.
Thank you for the advise. I suspected something like this. I'll keep on reading.
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I suggest as I do. Run NAS with the DLNA. Setup a western digital hd media player to your audio/video system. Use the "bubble upnp" app on your Archos to controlled it all. I use this method and am able to play content from the NAS to the WDHDTV or straight to the tablet or vise versa... from tablet to WDHDTV... bubble does it ALL.... if you want video too...HD video maybe? Use a PC/Linux or some Box to run TVMOBILI on your box and have it index the NAS instead of the built in NAS Dlna... it is better Dlna server and supports MKV without transcode... and also supports AllShare (Samsung TV protocol) so you can just use your Samsung TV as your player instead of WDHDTV player... I have all 5 things running now and I have many options in my media arsenal
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sublimejosh2000 said:
I suggest as I do... "bubble upnp" app on your Archos to controlled it all
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Looks like the kind of app I'm looking for. Thank you Josh.
I do NOT want anything but music, for I 've banned TV and internet from the living room. (TV and net have dedicated place). I don't want to set up a LinuxBox either (I'll probably do that for the HDTV in another place, but one thing at a time).
So the questions are :
-Would an Archos 7Home be good enougth for that ?
-If yes, is it possible to change the ROM of the Archos 7 home for a homecooked optimized rom ?
-is there somewhere an option (as for Archos9PC) to cradle the archos 7 Home whit a ethernet port (to avoid Wifi) ?
Finally, considering the NAS working along with bubble upnp, is it required to install some soft on the NAS and are there some kind of incompatibility (that's one of the drawback I see with the logitech squeeze box touch)
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.
I've started using the Coursera app on my phone (which is an app which lets you view massive online open courses for various topics). One of the best things is that there is playback speed control, so for professors who talk really slow, you can crank it up to 2x speed and run through the video in half the time.
But now that I have it on my tablet, the option isn't there. I suspect maybe it's because my tablet is on an older version of android, 4.4.4 instead of 6.0. Does anyone know if that's the reason, or is it because of something else?
And since my tablet is a Chuwi Hi8, upgrading isn't really an option for me, is there any alternative solution to an upgrade if what I suspect is true?
Thanks for any answers, really appreciate it!
I bought an LG V410 tablet with the intent of using it in my car as a media hub. I got a tablet data plan yesterday and was excited to finally use the tablet as intended. I installed CM 13 so only the basic Google apps are installed. But when I finally get around to using the tablet, I find that having Google Play Music running in the background and Google Maps open, navigating to my destination kills the background music.
Is there some way I can free up memory so that navigation and background music can work simultaneously?
You can try something like this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartprojects.MemoryLocker&hl=en
If that doesn't help, you might look into seeing if your kernel supports swap and you can try creating some virtual RAM from an SD card.\
Also, you should freeze any other non important app that you don't need to use if you're just using it for media.
If your plans were to use it as a media hub then you really didn't research it. Maps will eat up most of your ram. Always has and always will. Depending on the media player (on board is normally less ram hungry) that will eat up a good amount as well. There are some work around that kinda work. Not stable or don't hold for long before acting up.
I would just get a diff tablet for it and maybe use this one as a control device.