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MAJOR STRYkER posted:Is there any app that is like a heatmap for cell signal? Maybe it shows where you are on a map in relation to towers and can track your signal strength? opensignal streaming to and from a pc/phone: I use XBMC and its library features so all my shows and films are organized. Then I use Upnplay which acts as either a client or server without transcoding the stream or needing to fully buffer. Upnplay then either prompts me to play the media in XBMC (plays on a tv or pc) or an android media player. Here I use Diceplayer since it's one of the only players that uses HW acceleration for media and has full codec support (ac3, aac, dts, mp3) every other solution I looked at required running some sort of server and then involved transcoding the stream..this works flawlessly. Apps I use often: Brightness Widget A widget with 8 step and auto selection. More useful then HTCs 3 step control. Music Just get the 4.0.1 version if you haven't already. Especially if you are a music beta user. Requires you to root to remove the GB version before installing the ICS version. Worth it. Perfect Viewer CBR/CBZ reader. Fast, prefer this one over comic reader mobi since it's free and not 15 bucks. Only thing you'll miss from CRM is the intelligent text zoom, PV has a much nicer UI though...and it's free. DICE Player Again, best mediaplayer I've used hands down. Tons of updates, well worth buying. There is a trial version in the market too. Alarm Clock Extreme Dumb name but really really good alarm app. Way more options then the stock alarm. For instance it has a scaling volume option where the alarm slowly rises in volume the longer you ignore it. Still works with voice actions, so if you tell your phone "set alarm" you'll get a prompt to do so in either native alarm or ACE. Barnacle Wifi Tether (ROOT ONLY) The best tether app I found out of all the ones I tried. Nice features such as showing you a client list and a down/up meter to see how bandwidth is being served up. Chase Chase bank app. Deposit checks using your camera. Convertr Converts anything to anything else. Seriously, time, space, distance, volume, you name it..it's here. Really slick GUI. File Explorer My file manager of choice..if rooted, goes deeper then /sdcard..smb, ftp built in. GasBuddy Shows you the cheapest gas prices around you. Key Ring Scan all those loyalty cards into your phone and then take them out of your wallet/purse forever. I was a bit dubious but I have yet to run into a cashier that wasn't able to scan the barcode off my phones screen. Really useful if you're lazy and you don't care about rewards..just scan every different card you come across from friends/family. ]Lifedropper Using your camera, whatever you take a picture of inside the crosshairs will return a color value. great for designers...see a color in the wild, capture it exactly for use in photoshop later. LucyPhone I have yet to try this, but in theory looks drat cool. You input a customer service number and the program will call you and connect instantly as soon as a live operator appears. Basically they wait on hold for you. Roam Control (root needed?) Works without root in some devices. Force roam/never roam control. This saved my rear end in a blackout when the sprint tower was down but the VZW tower wasn't and my phone refused to roam on its own. Volume + Increase the volume on your ___ XBMC remote Great free remote app from the XBMC team. Way better then any of the paying apps I found on my last platform. SABControl Plus Remote control for SAB..the best of the few I tried in terms of options/features. Samba Filesharing Turns your device into a SMB share, which you can then mount or connect to over your LAN.. Headset Button Control I had a crapload of earbuds with a one button inline control. Natively android would call the last person in my calllog when I would press it. This program lets you reconfigure exactly what happens based on the length or number of clicks of a button in different programs. Total godsent. Wake On Lan Pretty straightforward. Send the magic packet over lan or outside of the LAN if you have a dynamic ip solution set up. Really useful. Groove IP Readds VOIP to google voice. Now you can make and receive calls over wifi in addition to SMS and MMS that the normal GV app supports. Yes, you can use your tablet as a phone with this. Even more useful if you've got a sprint enabled GV account. Call Faker Clicker Pro Basically once this app is on, you click the power button on and off in your pocket - based on a set value that you configure..then your phone rings. It'll even launch a fake call screen with a real contact of your choosing..aaaaand if that's not enough, you can record a sound file that will play back when you answer your fake call so outside observers won't think your talking to dead air. A lame as this program sounds it's gotten me out of some terrible conversations without hurting anyones feelings. Ad Free Android (ROOT ONLY) Ad blocker. Screen Filter Lets you go under the normal values for screen brightness. Great if you're in a really dark place and the min bright is still too bright. NY Subway Map A zoomable high res MTA map of the NYC subway system (same thing you'll find on the trains/platforms) Doesn't require a data connection so it's useful underground unlike something like hopstop NJTransit Rail The best train schedule app for NJTransit commuters out there. Being able to still see trains prior to the current time is really useful and the only app that does this. zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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scarymonkey posted:Yea, non starter for me as all my devices (and yours) are too weak to play most of my content which is in 1080p, even with Diceplayer's HW acceleration. Also a non starter as 3G, let alone 802.11g can't handle the stream bandwidth needed for such content. Not sure what you mean by this. I can handle just about everything except high bit rate 1080 stuff over g. Over /n and it's fine. My phone has a qualcomm m8660/1 gig of RAM. It's a 960x540 display so playing 1080 content on it is pointless. Sending 1080p content back to another renderer (phone --> xbmc) works. I haven't tried to use UPnP over 3g, but I'm not sure why you'd want to? If I'm not inside my LAN I'll use ftp instead. The last time I "streamed" something outside of the LAN was at 250~ KBps and it was through a file explorer app. A SD res file worked beautifully, a 720 mkv would eventually hit a buffer point and stop until it caught up..maybe once or twice per 30 minutes. Upnp/dlna isn't the way to go if you're outside the network, but an ftp with enough bandwidth works for sure.
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scarymonkey posted:Nice that you have a high end dual core 1.2ghz cpu, most of us don't. Even a Tegra 2 CPU can't handle a lot of 1080p content. The video source resolution shouldn't matter, it is what it is, the video can be 4k video, that doesn't negate the fact I want a way to watch it on lets say a 3" 320x240 device over let say 802.11g. I'm not quite following your ftp "streaming" solution, as far as I know no Android video player I know of can stream from an FTP source and no Android ROM i know of can mount an FTP source as a file system mount. Also trying to stream 9 GB of video over a 250 KBps connection at any acceptable watchable frame rate just wouldn't work. That's why transcoding is done, so you can stream content at a bitrate that's more suitable to your device's capability and available bandwidth. Dual core devices are the standard now, I'm not sure what to say there. Technology won't go backwards from this point so I guess upgrade your phone or tablet? Technically you're right, I could have a 4k video that's compressed to hell and uses the same bandwidth as a 720x480 file, it'll just be totally unwatchable, so I'm equating higher resolution = higher bit rate encoding. Here's a clarification on "streaming" over FTP. I'm running an ftp server on my media path. using any FTP client app (let's say AND FTP, or the FTP client built into ES File Explorer) I input the ftp address (this is dynamic so I don't need to constantly update the host IP whenever it changes). Once I'm connected, I can long press any media file in the FTP app, which will then pass through to a media player. The mediaplayer is using the ftp protocol to "stream" the file..I don't get any complex options such as precise playhead control that a media protocol would give me like DLNA or upnp, but it works..As you go up in bandwidth you need to match that in connection or else you'll see buffering in effect. A low bit rate SD encode doesn't require much bandwidth to stream properly.. So again, not sure what you mean exactly when you say it's impossible. edit: i'm using bandwidth and data rate (bit rate) interchangeably here...could be confusing. zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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scarymonkey posted:If I was interested in streaming SD content I would go back to using my PocketPC. I don't feel like my HP TouchPad and Evo 4G are quite end of life yet, hell I barely reached the one year point on the EVO. And no seek support? No thanks, on a low bandwidth connection loss of signal is almost a guarantee, I don't feel like watching the first 5 minutes of a movie 20 times because I can't seek to where I left off. Also, as stated before most of my content are in bitrates that would cause a 60 minute watching session using the ftp stream method over 3g consist of 55 minutes of buffering and 5 minutes of watching. I don't see why the touchpad couldn't do this with a stable android rom running on it. It's got the hardware for sure. If you're looking to stream 1080p films to your phone or tab over 3g, I really don't know what to say. I think the best you'll get is maybe netflix streaming at a compressed 720p with a bunch of buffering. Higher then native resolution playback over WAN is a niche thing. I hate to say it. Most people aren't playing 1080p content on a 720 display or under. It's overkill. If you're doing HDMI out on to a 1080p tv or something, how many people are really going to be doing that over 3g or 4g instead wifi? And even then why not just go DLNA/upnp wirelessly to the TV instead? I could see it being an issue once we're all using 1080p tablets, but by then OTA connections should hopefully be 4g and up and 3g becomes what edge/1xrtt is now. I'm pretty happy with SD, 720p, 1080p playback within a LAN, and then SD and 720p playback outside of LAN with the caveat there being of no playhead control. The tech isn't the bottleneck for 1080p streaming outside of a lan, it's the data connection.
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Space Crabs posted:discount item finder I liked the idea of your app, but it was one of those things where it would rely on stores and users to adjust the database in real time right? Apps that use that kind of crowdsourcing and are popular tend to have some sort of rewards system for contributing. People need to be bribed to do anything basically.
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It's one of those things without investors or capital for serious advertising the only way it'd work is if it was officially affiliated with a large chain or something. I feel for ya man, you've got an interesting idea born out of actually being in that industry and seeing the lack of anything existing but no real way to breakthrough and get the userbase you need. And, you don't want to spend more money on this venture without any kind of return...I think all I would do is refocus like you said. Make it a local app if hopefully you're in a semi large populated area. Target a smaller section of stores and then hound the local press, then try and branch from there once you're seeing any sort of success. I wish I had better advice for you...
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Jan 30, 2012 22:37
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LastInLine posted:That's because he always unlocked the phone with the back of hand which doesn't leave the greasy streaks. You can just use a pattern that repeats over itself like a figure 8. There's no way to guess where the pattern starts correctly including csi style grease examinations or whatever.
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Started noticing Pulse is injecting ads randomly in feeds. Not sure when that started, but it rubs me the wrong way. Place a banner ad at the bottom of the UI? Sure, ok. Add in a fake story about how amazing this tech product is sandwiched between 2 legit articles? Feels incredibly dirty. I liked it more then greader or flipbook, but now I need to switch to something else. Any recommendations for a decent rss reader?
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WastedJoker posted:Flipboard? I like the UI sometimes, but it tends to lag on a TF700 and I really don't need a "magazine" layout of rss feeds. gReader is on the opposite side- could use a little design love. I'll check out flow, and taptu and see how they feel.
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Radbot posted:I'm a big fan of http://forecast.io - the Arcus app that some dude made for it is terrible, but its pretty for a webapp and has a very accurate prediction model. Weather Bomb has been the best weather app I've found. It's incredibly slick once you learn how to use/read it quickly.
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Something got pushed to me silently that broke Location Services related to the service framework. Wondering if any other HTC users are experiencing this? Apparently google is aware of the issue, but it kind of breaks now entirely and obviously any app that relies on that like weather, facebook, foursquare etc etc. I don't know if I'm so thrilled with the silent updating of services to combat fragmentation if it means it can just break some poo poo on certain phones. Seems specific to 4.1/4.2 phones with sense and something that was just pushed in the last day or two. Factory reset fixes it. edit a good indicator of this is the persistent card that now needs you to turn on location services, regardless of whether it's on or not in the settings page. zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 20, 2013 |
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Here's another thread about the location services issue. I'm surprised I'm the only one hit by this bug in here. Something in the new silent play service update changes a path for location services that I'm guessing works on stock but not HTC sense devices properly. I get that moving to background api updates over an entire OTA will combat leaving users behind, but if they only test on AOSP and then it breaks non stock devices when they push it, what's the point? I can either wait 6-8 months and get the proper working update, or get one that breaks everything without telling me at any time. One step forward, two steps backward- the google way! zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 16:17 on May 21, 2013 |
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Thermopyle posted:
Great on paper, but the reality is they can or will only test on AOSP devices. Considering the majority of android handsets aren't stock I'm not in love with the idea of them pushing untested updates without any prompts. I never thought I'd advocate carrier updates but here we are.
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ThermoPhysical posted:If the OEMs aren't doing it with the correct APIs, then it's more their fault for trying to deviate so much so that they're "special". I agree with you guys, but this is very much denial. Think about the one and the s4. Very little differentiates them hardware wise outside of their proprietary features. That's exactly what gets marketed and where the competition is now. When every phone is using the same processor and ram etc etc, why choose one phone over the other? Unless LG, Samsung and HTC merge I don't see them all switching over to stock en masse. I'm not sure what google can do here, but the fantasy that the majority of users will be on AOSP is just one shared on tech forums and blogs. Let's be honest with ourselves. With that said it's kind of scary that they don't test anything other then AOSP if that's the case. This bug with HTC/LG phones kind of shows that it's pretty likely. Catch 22 for google, as always. I think once they hit a certain market share they should just clamp down. Use some leverage and take a chance on pissing off your oems. At a certain point what are they going to do? Start their own casino?
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