Dear Forum Folks:

I am building an H.264 media player that can decode elementary streams. I have it working ok, but the decoder always buffers up quite a few frames before displaying the first image. This is an IB (no P frames) only elementary stream I am decoding. I have noticed that if there are I frames every 5 frames, the Android player will start to display on the 7th frame. If there are 10 frames between I frames, it will display on the 12th frame and if there is 24 frames between I frames, it will display on the 18th frame. Is there any way around this?

I have read a lot of stuff using Google and there are suggestions, but no real answer. Just seems to be a hanging issue. However the drone guys figured out how to get around this since their player has very low latency so there must be a way to get the Android player to not buffer up so many frames and display on the 1st available I frame. Can you advise how to do this?

Thanks,
Tim

Just a few minutes ago and it saids "iphone images transfer" So my question is if you had one, why would you need another 5 Gigs added into another system, and have it transfered to an android such as this one, and able to search for it on in windows dir? That seems pretty odd.

Is anyone else having an issue with Google Play where you go to update apps and then apps from days/weeks ago suddenly show an update? I tend to go in there once a day and check because of this.

I am switching from my Redmi Note 9 Pro back to my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and I want to carry over all of my playlists. I'm using Mi Music and Samsung Music. I have over 3,000 songs and I don't want to have to go through all of them any put them all into playlists (again) if I can avoid it. I've tried many things but it's not nearly as easy as it should be. All of my music and playlists are downloaded to the phone and SD card directly as MP3 files directly into the music app.

Thank you very much in advance for any help you can give me.

Hi,
I might need to apply for Political asylum due to my own government or whomever else involved not allowing me to even get any legal access in at least 7 years and I am an innocent victim, witness and loyal USA citizen by birth and should be plantiff against my own government possibly but can't even find out anything since none of my attempts at trying to actually get really needed help for actual human rights violations commited against me and my family members and possibly friends and who knows how many more people have all been blocked, stolen, intercepted or rerouted ,changed, vanished, altered or something else like that and been especially bad since learned that I am on the Snowden list back in 2015 and worried about how long I have been illegally hacked or on and off..not sure since can't get legal help or rights even. And I'm not a traitor or a spy ...looks like more to me and my family members and possibly friends as living unwilling, no consent, no representation,no knowledge of them doing this until being terrorized and tortured and spied on and still haven't been able to even speak with anyone at all in person face to face yet at all...all legal access has been blocked. Whomever is doing this and has are sadistic murdering torturers thieving lying criminals themselves and not my fault or my family's fault either as well as never volunteered or consented or agreed with anyone at all ever to be a guinea pig for someone's else ever and never leaked my own or anyone's else's information either btw... actually have only tried to get legal help and being ignored is torture treatment as well as not once have I ever even got a phone call back or email or letter or reply or any money or any checks or anything and at all and was never working for anyone illegally ever either or did anything wrong and this is not a scam only worried that people have stolen my identity and been allowed to obviously by my own USA government or other governments as wouldn't they even warn me as well and assist? Why hasn't anyone responded yet in person as all my communication gets hacked or hijacked relentlessly?!? And i never allowed anyone to speak for me or on my behalf ever not even anyone given power of attorney for minute in my life..if anyone has they stole my identity and much more including every minute of my life and especially since 2015 and earlier please send real official help..only requested help that has still never arrived ever at all that I can even understand especially since I need Human face to face verbal communication in English please is required but I'll post on this message board as hopefully it will expose the frauds who are preventing me from obtaining Human rights and civil rights and privacy rights and even common courtesy from anyone as whomever has done this is that frickin mean and I'm not and never have been btw...they use Force/magic/hacking abilities btw and I have nothing to do with that and no one in my family members living or dead has any of those abilities and never has not do I know or friends with anyone that would do this at all in my entire life. Btw I don't discriminate but not sure why or who keeps using that as excuse themselves to prevent me from even reporting human rights violations commited against me and other people.

I have an Lenovo M10 Android tablet.
I know how to delete my search history in general and have turned off various fields in the site settings........
but recently search history tabs have started appearing beneath the search bar on Google's home page - (see attached pic).
I'm constantly removing them in order to get a blank page.
How do I prevent this search history from appearing ?
The recent search display still appears even when I've cleared my history.
I've already turned off all my activity fields
I'm using 'Chrome' as my browser - all history settings turned off.
'Google' is my homepage.
If I search for something, let's say 'depop'.......then every time I open a new tab on my tablet, a 'depop' link appears under the search bar, (see attached pic again).
Previously this did not happen.
Basically, I don't want to see any recent searches appear when I open a new tab.
Thanks.

I bought this as nearly new on Ebay some weeks ago, and the condition is perfect. The battery life is really poor, yesterday it went flat on me mid afternoon without heavy use.
I have an app called accuBattery which doesn't show any anomalies
I have set it so the screen goes dark after just 15 secs of not being used
I'm about to give up. Any ideas please

Is there a way to assign a drive letter to an android phone?

I recently purchased a Pixel 4A. I’ve been attempting to connect the phone to my laptop PC via a mapped drive letter. I have been able to do so using WebDAV. I ran the code “net use X: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx” entering WebDAV’s assigned IP which may have done what’s expected. However, when I open File Explorer, I do not see “X” drive as an assigned network drive. I can locate the drive from a command prompt so apparently the drive assignment worked. However, when I enter a DIR command to see what’s located in X:\, nothing is listed. What I’m looking for is the DCIM folder.

What my ultimate goal is to write some simple batch file or powershell code to copy all photos from the phone to a specific laptop folder. I want to do this with little/no additional input from the user (i.e., a simple one click operation).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,
Steve K.

Bizarre, Gboard trys to predict what i am going to say when posting or replying to a post on Facebook mobile.(the only app that has this issue).
all instances of predictive text are off except "show suggestion strip" which i HAVE to have one on order to access the microphone for voice to text. IF i turn off "show suggestion strip" FB does not try to prediction what i am trying to type. Latest android on Samsung A525G.

any thoughts?
thank you

Can not install any other version higher Than -
apk - VLC for Android 3.5.0 Beta 3 (arm-v7a) (Android 4.2+).
1- ( what I tried) deleted Android 3.5.0 Beta 3 - tried to install 3.5.1( message -app did not install) - tried to install 3.5.2 -get message -app did not install.
- tried re-installing - 3.5.0 Beta 3 - app installed successfully . Does this mean that my android TV is - android version - 4.2 & that all vlc version past 3.5.0 are made for more recent android version ??

install any other version higher - app did not install
- https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/video...ownload/?redirected=thank_you_invalid_referer - This is not on https://get.videolan.org/vlc-android/3.5.0/

Take a look at this. 60 home runs in 60 seconds. Hats off to this kid!

https://www.mlb.com/yankees/video/judge-s-60-homers-in-60-seconds

I have noticed that the Z Fold 4 as as well as the 3 I had briefly charge wirelessly very slowly. They never finish charging anywhere near the estimate given in the always on display.

This is kind of a problem for me.

Danny

I actually have a 5a, but there wasn't a category. I'm running Android 13 and have installed the one update to it as well.

I've noticed that a widget on the home screen of the phone was still present, but had turned red. It was semitransparent so I could still sort of see the widget. I then removed the widget thinking that was the problem and that area of the screen remains red. I didn't knowingly change any settings, nor can I find anything to change the color of this area.

Anyone have any ideas on what is going on?

TIA

I am new to Android & have encountered an issue - I need to store more than 1 user name / password for a single website. Specifically, gmx.com where I have several email accounts each with a different password.

I am using the built-in feature within Android, not an app. Using a Moto Stylus phone.

From what I have found so far, Android appears to catagorize username/passwords in alphabetically order & only allows 1 username/password per letter - thus I seem to be only able to store 1 username/password for gmx.com.

As I say, I am new so maybe the above info has errors, but if so, proves I need some guidance which will be much appreciated. TIA, Joe

After turning on my travel Samsung Galaxy J2 phone to update software (as needed), there was a symbol in the Status Bar I had not seen before. It was a circle with a line through it. That symbol is not shown on the Status Bar page in the manual.

I re-started the phone and the symbol was no longer there. Anyone know what that symbol was/is?

This morning, when I turned my Samsung A-21 on and prepared to send a text with an emoji, I was shocked to see that the skin tone of all the "People" emojis had been changed to dark grey. I'm running Kaspersky Anti-Malware, but it didn't report any infections.

Anyway, how can I change the skin tones of all of them back? All the "help" instructions I've found (and there were very few of them) advise us to choose the Google DBoard, then long press any arbitrary People emoji and perhaps move your finger left or right, but I've tried 50 times and nothing even hinted that something might be happening!

Other "help" suggestions state blankly that I have to root my phone to change the skin tones, which is clearly gibberish since how would that explain how the colors got changed on my non-rooted phone in the first place!

May I ask some knowledgeable person to guide us, please?

I have an extremely specific use-case. I work for a rideshare company, and I have Buick Intellilink for on-dash nav capability (which is awesome). I just have to plug the phone in. BT automatically pairs when the phone is directly connected. The problem is that because the car is turned off & on so frequently, every ~5th connection to intellilink essentially freezes the BT audio, meaning when a call comes in, the car recognizes it, but can't initialize the audio. The 'rebooting' process is time consuming since the car has to be turned off long enough to sever the connection completely, and the phone needs to be rebooted - meaning I lose the ability to take a call, costing me a fare.

I purchased a BT speaker with 2-way communication, and it works wonderfully......... but only when the phone isn't plugged in to Intellilink, which overrides the external connection.

What I would like to do is permanently block BT to Intellilink so that it *can't even try* to connect, thereby leaving my external speaker as the only valid BT connection. It doesn't appear this is an option in any version of android, but is there an app or other option that would allow me to system-level block a BT connection to a certain address?

Does anyone know what this icon notification is on Samsung? The cloud looking one to the left of the Instagram notifications …thanks!

When on my computer i hook my note 9......
I get the charge symbol but it doesnt charge.

Why would this be???

Hello...

I've discovered an issue with my phone and I'm not sure whether it's a glitch or something I have done by mistake.

Every time I try to add a contact, whether via my Contacts list or WhatsApp, I keep getting the same message - "Can't add contacts to read-only accounts". This has been ever since the latest Android update.

Please can you tell me what I can do to fix this problem? I've tried looking for permissions etc via Settings, but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Fingle

I have used a Samsung Fold2 and now recently a version 4, during using the Fold2 I noticed that my media files would go missing after a few weeks of moving them from the cloud to the phone. Not all the files, but all the oldest ones that where before the most recent ones I copied. So its like a batch thing.

I recently bought a Fold4, and less than a week of using the phone it has done the exact same thing. First batch of mp3 have just gone, vanished, not even in recycle bin. Only latest 5 have remained.

Previously, I had an S8, no issues there at all.

So, I was hoping it was a faulty phone, but it doesnt look like that when its now happened on 2 phones. Something on the phone is probably doing this, either a weird setting, a reset of some kind, or an app - but I hope its not an app.

Anyone else seen this issue ?

How can I enable logs to see what is happening ?

How can I trace whats happened to those files ?

This is probably a niche use, but I'm sure there are other users who can think of plenty of circumstances where in they might want to use the front panel to do things and not just rely on the main display.

I make videos - some are video reviews and others are for our VFW Post. So I don't have to memorize everything I'm going to say, I smooth my script in Word and import it into an app called Nano Teleprompter. This overlays the camera app with my script on a transparent background - I can adjust the scrolling speed, among many other features.

The problem I'm experiencing with the Fold devices is that I'm stuck using the main display's camera, which can't compare with the rear cameras. I could shoot the video with the front camera, and that's an improvement... but I'd rather use the teleprompter app on the front display and record video with the rear cameras. That means forcing the phone to use the front panel with the phone open.

Is there a way to do this? Does anyone here know of some obscure setting in developer options that would allow this?

Hi
I have a samsung galaxy s6 edge phone which is stuck on Samsung Logo
after Samsung sent updates after 5 years no clue why ,
Is there any way to get my data out of the phone , Sadly I did not have it backed up

Please help , Thanks

It has been said in many places that the Pixel 6 phone's, once updated to Android 13 cannot be downgraded back to 12. I read today on XDA Developers that they can help you do it. Read the article at:
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-downgrade-android-13-to-12-google-pixel-6-series/amp/
Good luck! (◉‿◠)

I have an unrooted Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and a 2022 Peugeot 2008.

Is it possible to show OBD2 data (such as revs) in Android Auto?