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There are lots of threads regarding installing new roms and many of these lead to Droid-Den (server currently seems to be down). Is there a simple guide to restoring nandroid to get you phone working again if the rom you install doesnt work OK?
 
Quick question, and sorry if it's already been posted:

I added a folder to my sdcard called /video, and transferred a few videos from my computer to the sdcard, but I can't find the videos I put in when I get back into phone mode.

Is there an app someone can recommend I look for, for videos, or should I be looking somewhere in particular on my phone to find the videos?

Thanks!
 
Do you have a file manager installed? If not install either astro file manager or estrongs and then you can use one of them to view the folders on your sd card.
 
uaTO said:
I added a folder to my sdcard called /video, and transferred a few videos from my computer to the sdcard, but I can't find the videos I put in when I get back into phone mode.
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Are the videos of a type that are recognised, and so playable, by the phone?

Unh.
 
So, the files are in MKV format. Can someone recommend a decent video converter? There seem to be a ton of them out there, and I don't want to download some random crap.
 
uaTO said:
So, the files are in MKV format. Can someone recommend a decent video converter? There seem to be a ton of them out there, and I don't want to download some random crap.
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Rock Player - Redirect Intelligence Corp

Rock Player plays mkv so you don't need to convert, it also plays subs.

RockPlayer is an embedded platform, high performance, almost all format video player. With optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core players FFmpeg decoder, RockPlayer Android platform has become the highest performance of the most extensive format support for video player.

RockPlayer can support audio and video container format: avi mkv rmvb mp4 mov wmv asf wma wav mpg ts mpa dvd au mp3 mid ivf aiff ogm ogg cda flic d2v aac roq flac drc dsm swf pls pmp.Audio and video encoding format AAC AC3 DTS FLV4 LPCM ALAW ULAW MPEG Audio MPEG-1 MPEG-2 RealVideo RealAideo Vorbis AVC VC1 XVID DIVX SVQ Theora Bink Theora Bink basically includes all popular multimedia formats.

Advantages about RockPlayer:

No more transcoding: Nevertheless avi, rmvb, flv or mkv, RockPlayer plays almost any format as on your PC. With its innovative features, RockPlayer will reform your video experience on mobile devices. Green!
Best Experience: better performance, higher image quality, higher resolution!
Dual Core Playback: Beside the high performance engine built-in, RockPlayer also make most of the OpenCORE inside Android system; you may switch the engine freely.
Handy Features: resume playing, subtitle support, battery prompt over the video view.
 
balders said:
Rock Player - Redirect Intelligence Corp

Rock Player plays mkv so you don't need to convert, it also plays subs.

RockPlayer is an embedded platform, high performance, almost all format video player. With optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core players FFmpeg decoder, RockPlayer Android platform has become the highest performance of the most extensive format support for video player.

RockPlayer can support audio and video container format: avi mkv rmvb mp4 mov wmv asf wma wav mpg ts mpa dvd au mp3 mid ivf aiff ogm ogg cda flic d2v aac roq flac drc dsm swf pls pmp.Audio and video encoding format AAC AC3 DTS FLV4 LPCM ALAW ULAW MPEG Audio MPEG-1 MPEG-2 RealVideo RealAideo Vorbis AVC VC1 XVID DIVX SVQ Theora Bink Theora Bink basically includes all popular multimedia formats.

Advantages about RockPlayer:

No more transcoding: Nevertheless avi, rmvb, flv or mkv, RockPlayer plays almost any format as on your PC. With its innovative features, RockPlayer will reform your video experience on mobile devices. Green!
Best Experience: better performance, higher image quality, higher resolution!
Dual Core Playback: Beside the high performance engine built-in, RockPlayer also make most of the OpenCORE inside Android system; you may switch the engine freely.
Handy Features: resume playing, subtitle support, battery prompt over the video view.
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Thanks a lot!
 
Does anybody know if there's a way of tagging photos of people when you upload them to Facebook? I'd say (after a couple of months) that's the biggest annoyance/disappointment I've found with the phone so far.

Oh, & does anyone also know if there's a way of getting the photos in the gallery to display with the most current photo first when you open it up? At the moment the earliest photo comes up & to get to the most recent one (probably the one you're most likely to want to use) you have to scroll through all the others - is a bit tedious.

Thanks.
 
i've problem with wma audio files played in native music player
it seems that all the tags on wma are ignored, they are recognized as unknown artist...but when i got them on my pc it shows the artist and album name...
anyone has solution to this ? in case i still want to use .wma format files and the htc native music player...tq
 
defoxie said:
i've problem with wma audio files played in native music player
it seems that all the tags on wma are ignored, they are recognized as unknown artist...but when i got them on my pc it shows the artist and album name...
anyone has solution to this ? in case i still want to use .wma format files and the htc native music player...tq
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If you are on Froyo, this is a known bug with no workaround yet ( I believe)
 
uc24681 said:
Hey,
How do you close browser, or after i viewed a page on internet how do I log off
Thks
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I think you'll find this question answered in the "General Android Advice" section of the first post in this thread.

As for logging off, surely any site that you've logged into has a "log off" or "logout" link.
 
uc24681 said:
Hey,
How do you close browser, or after i viewed a page on internet how do I log off
Thks
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No real need to "close browser", just "back up" out of it, to main menu 9using the "back" key on your phone.
With regard to "logging off", if you mean logging off a website, out of an account, then you should of course have a "log out" button on the site. if you mean (and I guess you do) "log off" the website, then again use the "back up"/"return" key on your phone.
(Android will take care of the rest)

Cheers
 
fixxlevy said:
OK, so after having nose about this site and finding a few other people complaining of the same storage/contact/space issues, I noticed that somebody mentioned that they'd had success with clearing their 'contact storage' data, so I gave it a go and serendipitously enough, it flipping worked. I totally can't have FB on active sync duties either, but that's fine. I really do think that this pain in the arse glitch should be sorted out at source, however- not everyone has the resources nor the inclination to go trawling websites for solutions to 'phone-based problems and for such an advanced piece of kit, it seems strange that there's no cap on how many times a contact from the same source can be suggested and it's beyond me why it's then kept on the 'phone to slowly (or actually quite swiftly) fill the thing up so that it comes to a grinding shoe-thrown-into-the-works stasis and also I genuinely don't get why programmes and the like are sent to the 'phone- it's not as if we couldn't back everything up to the PC quite easily if the memory card was being upgraded or whathaveyou- I'm sure that it wouldn't be too much of a chore for some HTC minion to write that into the HTC Sync.exe, right? Yes, I can root the thing- no, I've never done it before, but am quietly confident that the comprehensive instructions detailed on this very site will see me in good stead. I'd give this 'phone a 4.8 styled rating IF none of the strangely obvious issues existed but, as is, it drops a whole star for all the nonsense that I've had to go through. As do HTC generally.

Rant ends.

fixxlevy
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Where can I locate 'contact data storage'? This has been bugging the hell out of me too!
 
Shazbat said:
Where can I locate 'contact data storage'? This has been bugging the hell out of me too!
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Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All.

Press Menu again after the list has fully loaded and select "Sort by size". The Contacts Storage should be near the top of the list, or you can find it alphabetically.
 
Eris Ed said:
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All.

Press Menu again after the list has fully loaded and select "Sort by size". The Contacts Storage should be near the top of the list, or you can find it alphabetically.
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Thanks. I knew it was there somewhere, I just couldn't remember where to look!!
 
Shazbat said:
Thanks. I knew it was there somewhere, I just couldn't remember where to look!!
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Quality guys, might want to mention that this clears every single contact in your phone :mad: can't quite think how to thank you enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
incsmiro said:
Quality guys, might want to mention that this clears every single contact in your phone :mad: can't quite think how to thank you enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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what's the problem?

Eris Ed only showed the member how to file the contacts storage application data.

only an idiot would press the "clear data" button without making a backup or thinking twice.....you didn't do that, did you?
 
Evil Genius said:
what's the problem?

Eris Ed only showed the member how to file the contacts storage application data.

only an idiot would press the "clear data" button without making a backup or thinking twice.....you didn't do that, did you?
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Fortunately I had made a backup (albeit a couple of months ago) and in fairness the previous post was talking about an unecessary amount of data backing up duplicate contacts that occasionally needs clearing. As far as I'm concerned my contacts should be there on the phone unless I physically go and select/delete them (obviously not but hindsights a wonderful thing isn't it!) my point is that I just feel when you post instructions like this you should be highlighting the fact that such a reset can have devastating consequences, please don't just start calling people an idiot just because they might not be as "savvy" as someone like yourself! ;)
 
incsmiro said:
my point is that I just feel when you post instructions like this you should be highlighting the fact that such a reset can have devastating consequences,
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help me a little here. which instructions are you referring to?

i can only find the one below and there is no mention of clearing data or resetting:

Eris Ed said:
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All.

Press Menu again after the list has fully loaded and select "Sort by size". The Contacts Storage should be near the top of the list, or you can find it alphabetically.
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My reply was to a question asking where contact storage was, but to clarify:

Deleting the Contacts Storage data will wipe your contacts from your phone. That includes Google contacts, imported contacts, Facebook contacts, Exchange contacts, everyone. It will also sign you out of any online directories you have signed in to, such as Facebook.

I have actually said this a number of times in the past on different threads: that deleting the data is the best solution for people who have signed in to the Facebook online directory and now have the problem of 50mb+ of contact data clogging up phone storage space.

This is why, in my opinion, that all personal phone contacts should be added as Google contacts and synced with a Google account. That way, you always have a back up of all your important contacts, and the phone with drag them back off the Google website after any problem that requires clearing contact data or a factory reset.
 
Eris Ed said:
My reply was to a question asking where contact storage was, but to clarify:

Deleting the Contacts Storage data will wipe your contacts from your phone. That includes Google contacts, imported contacts, Facebook contacts, Exchange contacts, everyone. It will also sign you out of any online directories you have signed in to, such as Facebook.

I have actually said this a number of times in the past on different threads: that deleting the data is the best solution for people who have signed in to the Facebook online directory and now have the problem of 50mb+ of contact data clogging up phone storage space.

This is why, in my opinion, that all personal phone contacts should be added as Google contacts and synced with a Google account. That way, you always have a back up of all your important contacts, and the phone with drag them back off the Google website after any problem that requires clearing contact data or a factory reset.
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Thanks for the far more constructive reply! I think I will look at making mine into google contacts, when I get a spare few hours! As it happens, mine didn't show that amount of storage space used but I thought it may just clear some of the duplicate suggestions that message app sometimes gives. All's well that ends well.
 
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