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[APP][WWE][Updated: Aug 26 2008] POCKET VIDEO POKER - Public Beta v0.4

I wanted to give back to the community, so...
Proudly announcing Pocket Video Poker for the Diamond! With styling inspired by TF3D, and revamped from the original one I wrote for my Tytn, Pocket Video Poker gives you all the thrill of the casino, without the agony of losing your cash! So charge up that 900 mAh battery, grab your favorite beverage, kick back in your comfy chair, and have fun!
I offer my apologies in advance for the game that will soon consume what little bit of free time you have left. I am not responsible for loss of work, loss of appetite, loss of marriage, etc.
Updated to 0.4 Aug 26, 2008 -- See the next post for instructions and version history.
If you enjoy the game, please DONATE to support continued development! Thank you!
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Installation
(Requires .Net CF 3.5)
Install the attached CAB file on your Jewel.
Instructions
If you have played video poker in a casino, this should be very familiar to you. This game is based on the "Jacks or Better" variety of video poker. I have no plans to add other varieties at the moment, so please don't ask.
Tap a column in the Payouts Chart to change your bet. The payout for Jacks Or Better is equal to the bet (you break even), so the 1st column bets 1 credit, the 5th column bets 5 credits, etc. For obvious reasons, you cannot change your bet in the middle of a hand.
Tap Deal, tap the cards you want to hold (tap again to toggle), then tap Draw to replace the remaining cards.
If you end up with a winning hand, you can try to double-up your win by tapping Double. Five new cards will be dealt. The first card is the dealer's card, and is face-up. Tap one of the face-down cards to try to beat the dealer's card. If you win, you can try to double-up again. If you lose, you get nothing.
Tap Exit to, ummm, exit.
Tap Options to access player management and game options. In the Players tab you can select the current player, view hand statistics, add more credits, rename players, and delete (reset) players. Adding credits will bring a player back up to 100 credits, and can only be done when a player drops below 100 credits.
Planned Future Features
Clean up sounds to remove hiss
Automatically hold cards that make a hand on the initial deal
Tap the Win amount to skip count-up of credits (this would be useful if you ever hit a 4000 credit win)
Make it more clear whether you are starting a new hand or drawing on a hand. You can tell because the button toggles between Deal/Draw, but I still want to make it more obvious.
Test on other devices, resolutions, WinMo versions, etc. It is currently only known to work on the Diamond with WM 6.1
Reduce memory footprint
Known Issues
One person has reported an occasional crash, but I have not seen this nor been able to reproduce it. Please let me know if you can provide any additional information.
Revision History
0.4 [2008-08-26]
Toggle "Hold" as soon as you touch a card (instead of when you let go) to make it more responsive
Your chosen card during double up is now displayed prior to the other cards (improved experience)
Implemented player rename and reset
Reorganized stats display, and added double up stats
Option: Enable/disable sounds
Option: Skip count up of credits won
Option: Move the Deal button to the left side
Option: Set the Deal speed:
[*]"Normal" is how it has been in prior versions, and gives the impression of the cards being dealt
[*]"Slow" is for those of you that really LOVE the anticipation!
[*]"Fast" is for people that just want to get it over with and lose your credits as fast as possible​
0.3 [2008-08-17] (621 downloads)
Made the cards cleaner and nicer
Enabled Options button
Added ability to select players, add more credits, and view hand statistics
0.2 [2008-08-14] (141 downloads)
Created installer for your pleasure
Disabled Deal button for insufficient credits instead of showing message
Options screen still not enabled
0.1 [2008-08-13] (94 downloads)
Initial public beta
Options screen (with player management) not yet enabled
Please let me know how much you enjoy the game by buying me a beer! Thank you!
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Oh HELL YEAH!

darthbane2k said:
Oh HELL YEAH!
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You like?

GeckoDev said:
You like?
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he sounded more american than you did

liamhere said:
he sounded more american than you did
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LOL.
I must admit, Video Poker is a particular vice of mine on my many frequent trips to Las Vegas.

Reallys a great, addciting game
Thanks for that, but i found one big bug
I cant open the options menu, i can tap as long as i wanton this butten but nothing opens, evere button else works fine

Hot Damn, that's poker right there!
More credits please, more credits....

liamhere said:
he sounded more american than you did
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Yeah, you have to read it with a "French Maid" accent ... that's how I hear it in my head.
Tilgi said:
I cant open the options menu
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Please refer to the first post ... the Options are not yet enabled Coming soon, though...
fortigeek said:
More credits please, more credits...
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Did you use them up ALREADY??? Be frugal with your credits people, the ability to add more won't be around for several more days!

if you loose all your money,... exit the game, and, in the same folder is an PVP.dat, delete it and restart the game... you will have 100 again,... and dont play at 5 until you have get some money,... i'm in 1600
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

niiiiice!!!
love this game but options never work and sometimes Im not able to hold cards...

carlosmc said:
if you loose all your money,... exit the game, and, in the same folder is an PVP.dat, delete it and restart the game... you will have 100 again
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Yes, but you lose all the stats that will later be displayed in the options, so the rest of us poor people here will never get to see how you made 1600.

kultus said:
niiiiice!!!
love this game but options never work and sometimes Im not able to hold cards...
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See first post about the options.
Can you give more detail about not being able to hold cards? Seriously, I've been playing this game for weeks and have never seen an issue with that. Are you sure the hand wasn't already over?

sry after SR works fine dont know why but im lucky

OK, I took some time during lunch to package it up in a CAB, so it'll be even easier to install now. Apologies to the 90+ people that did it the hard way.
I'll have some time this weekend to tie up some of the loose ends (*cough* OPTIONS *cough*) ... so I'd really like to hear what other suggestions you guys have!
Thanks for playing, and don't let your boss see.

Hmmmm... no ideas??? Guess that means you're all subject to my whims.

Hi everyone! A new version is now in the first post. Here are the changes:
0.3 [2008-08-17]
Made the cards cleaner and nicer
Enabled Options button
Added ability to select players, add more credits, and view hand statistics
It looks like there are about 150 of you playing with it, so I'm curious what you all think. Please let me know!

GeckoDev said:
It looks like there are about 150 of you playing with it, so I'm curious what you all think. Please let me know!
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Hi, so I will let you know what I think. First of all, I love this game!!!
It runs great on my D, had only one crash till now.
But I wonder if I'm the only one who wants the order of the four mainbuttons (Exit, Opt., Double and Deal in reverse Order) ???
I mean, I'm right-hander, like, I think, the most of us and it would be much more comfortable for my thumb to have the deal- and doublebutton on the left side.
Just try it! (but maybe I'm really the only one with that desire...)
Another thing is that I miss only the one option to mute the gamesound...
Anyway, many many thanks for that game and I hope you will maybe change the buttonorder someday.
ps: my broken english could be better, but I think everyone knows what I meant.

SmoothO said:
But I wonder if I'm the only one who wants the order of the four mainbuttons (Exit, Opt., Double and Deal in reverse Order) ???
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That's a good idea! I'll add it to the planned features list. The placement of the Deal/Double buttons comes from where they are on the real casino game, but you make a good point that on a device, they might not be in the most comfortable place.
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It runs great on my D, had only one crash till now.
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Can you tell me more about the crash? What were you doing when it happened?

This game work fine on my Artemis!!Brillant idea!!
God job for new updates!

s2p with opengl!

The mighty A_C comes out with another corker, he's incorporated opengl support into his music player..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417511
Album scrolling really flies on the X1
If anyone is looking for a great freeware finger friendly music player then this should be it!

excellent. this does exactly what i want from a music player and it's free. yay !

fards said:
Album scrolling really flies on the X1
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hmmm, like a pig on my x1. glitchy and incredibly sluggish. did a soft reset and have been playing with it for about half an hour now to let it catch up with my album covers loading etc. havent yet managed to smooth scroll from one side of the album collection to the other, it just glitches out then 5 secs later it updates. Cant say this is an enjoyable experience

doesnt work for me, can start the programm one time after each softreset. otherwise it starts an closes immediatle after i select a track...

SamAsQ said:
hmmm, like a pig on my x1. glitchy and incredibly sluggish. did a soft reset and have been playing with it for about half an hour now to let it catch up with my album covers loading etc. havent yet managed to smooth scroll from one side of the album collection to the other, it just glitches out then 5 secs later it updates. Cant say this is an enjoyable experience
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in that case you probably havent tweaked your x1
i can flick through my entire collection very quickly

I have the same experience as SamAsQ, and I HAVE tweaked my X1.
Also, the phone completely freezes if you touch the panel button when S2P is running. Taking out the battery is the only solution.
Actually, previous versions like 0.55 ran a lot better on my X1, as in fewer bugs. Album flow is smoother now though.

+1 for huge issues. even landscape seems to be broken, scroll is sloooow

v0.58s
Since this thread belongs to Xperia, I think it's more appropriate to post a new beta build here... it's trying to fix:
1. screen displacement when S2P is started in Landscape mode;
2. system hang when Panel button is pressed.
Please try & post your result.
P.S. the zip file contains the S2P.EXE only.

A_C said:
Please try & post your result.
P.S. the zip file contains the S2P.EXE only.
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Just a quick try on my side:
Scrolling is alot better, with the previous version i had major vsync issues. Going into landscape to s2p simply switches it to portrait, and sliding out the keyboard breaks the graphics.
Hower 1 thing confuses me, when you take the edge of the album art and twist it, it WILL go to landscape mode, without glitches.
Anyway, i love the software already, and fixing landscape mode by slider/button activation would make this great software even more perfect.
(btw, performance is very good, but that figures since i only have 2 albums atm. (i have a 256mb sd-card at the moment )

Scroll list of folders isn't working, white on white on this version, so can't select which folder to open, however the list of songs is.
EDIT close s2p and restart it and folders list work fine.
Coverflo is working very quickly, took just over 2 seconds to load all the album artwork, thats 60 albums!
Reflection in default potrait screen isn't quite right but I can live with that (if I can get mymobiler working in wine again I'll do a screen grab).
S2P hangs temporarily when you press the optical joystick on coverflo screen, I think it's trying to change artists, just takes a while.
Just noticed coverflo works in portrait, wowsers that's fast! Still not certain how I got there but I like it!

SomeoneSimple said:
Just a quick try on my side:
Scrolling is alot better, with the previous version i had major vsync issues. Going into landscape to s2p simply switches it to portrait, and sliding out the keyboard breaks the graphics.
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It'll be fixed in the next release.
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Reflection in default potrait screen isn't quite right but I can live with that (if I can get mymobiler working in wine again I'll do a screen grab).
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Set AlbumLayout to 2.
Just noticed coverflo works in portrait, wowsers that's fast! Still not certain how I got there but I like it!
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Double tap around the Album title.

A_C: Great to see your working on the issues!
I tried the latest exe from this thread and it did however not fix system hang when panel button is pressed. Same exact error as before.

A_C said:
Set AlbumLayout to 2.
Double tap around the Album title.
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Superb that works a treat!

I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.

msetten said:
I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.
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It's the same for me. But I noticed that the cover scrolling in portrait was much smoother (until it crashed).
Keep up the good work and I hope you solve the +8GB crashing soon.
This is the best pocket player. I use it everyday at work, but when I'm in my car it's back to media panel because my x1 is in landscape mode in the carholder.

msetten said:
I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.
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Have you tried changing any of the settings to see if they help?
I'm on 67 albums, 35 artists at the mo.

better, but still no ok. Sometimes the right portion in landscape mode doesn't work
anyway, performance are now awesome loaded 311 songs with at least 300x300 pixel albumart for each... No slow down
thanks for your efforts!

Coverflow sometimes hangs here. When it's running, it's running smooth and nice, but after a few covers the system hangs for a few seconds then everything is fine again. Even when I tip a cover to see the songlisting, it takes a few seconds to get the action done.
I don't have much music on my storage card, but could it be that it is too slow because it's just a 8GB Type 2?

hmmm, just tried the non-opengl version out of curiosity (am using the opengl one atm) and I can say that the OPENGL version is noticeably faster and smoother, particularly when flicking b/w albums. can't wait for u to release the next version! I'll be sure to donate some more after that

A_C posted a s2p.exe that replaces the original .exe in another threat. With this, the coverflow runs smooth without hangs.
The file is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3043275&postcount=8
But I still have the problem that when I change back from coverflow to music player, the wrong cd-cover is animated. For example, I hear "As I lay dying" but when I flip the cover (to see the song listing) the cover of "Heaven shall burn" is flipping. Maybe that's an issue because I only have embedded covers but it's strange and not good when I show someone the "cool music player"

Android Default Music App - Anyone Else See These Annoyances?

Now I am easy to please in terms of something "just working" enough to do what its intent is. But 2 things I've noticed about the default music app that I want to see if anyone else has noticed.
1) Whenever you are playing a song and have the window up, if you hit back to go to the playlist again, it will do the "window wipe transition" as if it is going back, but it stays on the same screen. It takes a second tap to actually go back. and
2) When you go to scroll through a playlist, if you don't move your finger instantly, I mean stall for even a second, you will have chosen a song, and are moving the order of that song in the playlist.
Has anyone else encountered this and/or know of a way of fixing it?

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Now I am easy to please in terms of something "just working" enough to do what its intent is. But 2 things I've noticed about the default music app that I want to see if anyone else has noticed.
1) Whenever you are playing a song and have the window up, if you hit back to go to the playlist again, it will do the "window wipe transition" as if it is going back, but it stays on the same screen. It takes a second tap to actually go back. and
2) When you go to scroll through a playlist, if you don't move your finger instantly, I mean stall for even a second, you will have chosen a song, and are moving the order of that song in the playlist.
Has anyone else encountered this and/or know of a way of fixing it?
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I don't think I've noticed these, but I'm pretty damn sure that google is conjuring up some kind of a new, reworked music app. They have been ignoring it in the past, and collecting user's feedback.
If I were to guesstimate, we'll have a new music app in 3.0 or so.

DarkDvr said:
I don't think I've noticed these, but I'm pretty damn sure that google is conjuring up some kind of a new, reworked music app. They have been ignoring it in the past, and collecting user's feedback.
If I were to guesstimate, we'll have a new music app in 3.0 or so.
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Man, I sure hope so. The N1 is definitely awesome, but all the other Androids get things written specific to them whereas we are "generic." Don't get me wrong, I love everything about this phone, I just hope having the Google Experience phone lives up to that, as it should be super awesome to begin with, not just barebones. Fingers crossed for 2.2.

Not many people really like (or use) the default music app, therefore hackers or app editors (and bug fixers, lol) have barely touched it. I rarely even hear it referred to theses days, and honestly I suggest downloading an alternative. I love music, and could not go on without it.. I had to download a better replacement quickly. Though, the Sense music app is still good, the app I use is still what I favor more. I've never even heard anyone make notice of any bugs it had.. (the default app)

Eclair~ said:
Not many people really like (or use) the default music app, therefore hackers or app editors (and bug fixers, lol) have barely touched it. I rarely even hear it referred to theses days, and honestly I suggest downloading an alternative. I love music, and could not go on without it.. I had to download a better replacement quickly. Though, the Sense music app is still good, the app I use is still what I favor more. I've never even heard anyone make notice of any bugs it had.. (the default app)
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What music app do you use? I tried TuneWiki at one point, but I had trouble with my BT headset, and found that to be the problem so I uninstalled it.

mrmartin86 said:
What music app do you use? I tried TuneWiki at one point, but I had trouble with my BT headset, and found that to be the problem so I uninstalled it.
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I hear btunes is really nice (just stating a random alternative) very iPhone like, but I use RockOn (called 3 in the market, but you have to search RockOn) its very simple and barely has many options.. I just like it for some reason. People seem to love it also.

I'd personally recommend museek - topographical album mapping by genre, gestures, smart shuffle mode that adjusts what songs get played based on what you skip and what you listen to, and resumes music playback when you plug your headphones back in
Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

You can try MortPlayer music too

+! to OP about pressing back goes to the same screen twice sometimes... The thing that really annoys me is that there is no easy way to play music you want by folder, which is what I do on desktop computer.. E.g. I have a Kpop, rnb, rock, ost, electronic, folder

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Now I am easy to please in terms of something "just working" enough to do what its intent is. But 2 things I've noticed about the default music app that I want to see if anyone else has noticed.
1) Whenever you are playing a song and have the window up, if you hit back to go to the playlist again, it will do the "window wipe transition" as if it is going back, but it stays on the same screen. It takes a second tap to actually go back. and
2) When you go to scroll through a playlist, if you don't move your finger instantly, I mean stall for even a second, you will have chosen a song, and are moving the order of that song in the playlist.
Has anyone else encountered this and/or know of a way of fixing it?
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the first problem isnt a problem it will wipe bac to the same screen as many times as you pulled down the window and touched the song now playing panel...everythime u pull the window over is like layering the same screen...and the second one is only if you touch the "lines" at the left of the songs its givin u an option to reorganize your playlist...[as far as i know]

Search for 3 music player.

Hey, thanks guys for the helpful thoughts! I got btunes and I gotta say, its pretty nice. The one thing I actually "like" about Apple being the music management (I'll overlook how bloated iTunes has become). The mimicry of the player is nice and easy to use. Worth $1.50.

Rockbox for Android

Hey everyone!
I couldn't help but notice on the Rockbo homepage (rockbox.org), under unusable ports it has listed Google Android and in this thread: forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14177.30 the last post says that someone had actually gotten sound to work through Rockbox on a HTC Legend phone:
Hello guys,
I'm right now listening music with my newest music app on my phone:
Rockbox plays music on my HTC legend \o/
The first song was Edward Maya vs Alicia - Stereo Love.
I'm overly happy that I've gotten that far now. I'm looking forward to
finally bring gapless playback, dynamic playlists and an extensive
equalizer (and more) to Android! Although there's a lot of work still to do.
Best regards.
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This is rather exciting! I've used Rockbox before on an old iAudio X5 and it was a powerful alternate firmware. Anyways I just wanted to post this here just incase anyone else would be interested.

I found some more information digging around the interwebs. I found a blog from a Rockbox developer who talks about Rockbox as an application and he mentions this achievement and includes a link to the users git repositories for Rockbox on Android. You can read about it here: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/07/30/the-rockbox-app-part-ii/
Here's a quote from the blog:
While I’m told the current state is rough and there’s no installer or anything yet, I’m sure I share the view of lots of others that this is a great moment in the Rockbox history. A milestone. Thanks Thomas, I hope your work continues equally good and that we get an app to try out at the end of the summer or so.
Thomas’ git repo is here: h ttp://repo.or.cz/w/kugel-rb.git
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Also Rockbox as an application was accepted into Google's Summer of Code program (info here: rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2010#Rockbox_as_an_Application )

Yeah!!!!!!!! I d like to see rockbox on android, I used it on an ipod mini, and it was really great with a great sound quality

There are no prebuilt apk's yet but you can download the source code and build Rockbox for android.
It works rather well, I'm using it in favor of the stock built in media player on my Legend.

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It works rather well, I'm using it in favor of the stock built in media player on my Legend.
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Could you share the apk?

There's a link on the wiki page I created today:
xttp://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort (remember to change the xttp to http).

Just out of curiosity, could someone post a screenshot ?

Pre-Compiled Links
Prebuilt 240x320: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox-240x320.apk
Prebuilt 320x480: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox.apk
Prebuilt 480x800: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox-480x800.apk

Looks pretty promising and I know its not in any stage to be shown off but I couldn't even effectively navigate around. Hope they keep working on this.
Sent from my ADR6300

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Looks pretty promising and I know its not in any stage to be shown off but I couldn't even effectively navigate around. Hope they keep working on this.
Sent from my ADR6300
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That's probably because the default touchscreen mode is the so called grid mode. In this you navigate with d-pad like controls (the screen is divided into 9 rectangles, top middle is up, down middle is down, center middle is select, etc). You can change it to the absolute point mode in the settings.

This is the best thing to happen to my phone since I bought it!
The only problem is that's it's a bit jumpy from time-to-time, especially if 'multi-tasking.
But generally I'm impressed already. True gapless playback at last! A volume control that doesn't move in HUGE increments (I.E. I can make it really really quite if I'm falling asleep listening to music)
Great stuff!

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The only problem is that's it's a bit jumpy from time-to-time, especially if 'multi-tasking.
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I assume you have an HTC phone running the official 2.1 ROM?
Those have a bug which causes music to drop out sometimes if the app is in the background/minimized.

Not working for me on Motorola Milestone. This is how it looks like:

Define "Not working". The screen shot looks ok, except the font is too small (the default font should be bigger indeed).
Try loading the cabbiev2 or selecting a bigger font. And also remember what I said about the grid mode on the previous page.

The pre-built APKs are not working for me either. I'm trying this on a Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) running stock rom. All it shows is the rockbox splash screen and doesn't go from there.

Hi there!!
Neither works on milestone (Personal Argentina's 2.1u1 official rom).
It loads, I can navigate (and configurate the screen) but it won't actually play any file...
BTW, the screen font size and graphics from the original skin has been an issue since I firts got it for my old (from a couple of weeks now) rokr e2...

Impressive!
Installed the 480x800 build on my Milestone (Canada Telus SHOLS_U2_03.11.0) and started experimenting.
Have a few questions:
1. Noted after editing config.cfg (in order to add a WPS file) that my paths were changed from /sdcard/rockbox/ to /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/.
Is it implicit that /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/ is the way to point to sdcard?
2. My WPS contains %pc (Current time in track) and %pt (Total track time); the latter is right but the former is always 0 (%px shows 0 too).
3. Maybe silly: I'm able to use the grid to navigate but did not figure out how to exit Rockbox. How to exit?

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Impressive!
Installed the 480x800 build on my Milestone (Canada Telus SHOLS_U2_03.11.0) and started experimenting.
Have a few questions:
1. Noted after editing config.cfg (in order to add a WPS file) that my paths were changed from /sdcard/rockbox/ to /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/.
Is it implicit that /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/ is the way to point to sdcard?
2. My WPS contains %pc (Current time in track) and %pt (Total track time); the latter is right but the former is always 0 (%px shows 0 too).
3. Maybe silly: I'm able to use the grid to navigate but did not figure out how to exit Rockbox. How to exit?
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1) Yes. Rockbox removes the path and looks on the sdcard first so don't worry. In fact, any path will work. In order to remember it over restarts the files the setting point to need to be in /sdcard/rockbox though.
2) Don't know what's wrong there. I can't imagine it's an Android specific issue though.
3) There's also the absolute point mode, you just need to enable it (we didn't get around making it default yet). You don't *exit* Rockbox, you just stop/pause music (stopping will be slightly better for battery life) and leave the app (as with any other app like the built-in media player).

I have installed Rockbox on a HTC Tattoo. Not the most powerful phone out there, I know.
I am also very impressed. I had given up using my phone as a music player. I don't think that any of the apps on the Market are very good. None support gapless or EQ etc., and the format support is also very limited. But now there is hope.
I had to figure out how to use it first, and I found out how in the Rockbox forums. It seems like the UI is working very fine. The only thing is that they don't support the hardware buttons yet.
The music also plays back. But there is one (serious) problem: the playback stutters once in a while. It may be the same problem as reported above with HTC phones. So it is not quite usable yet. But they are definately on the way. These are early days, and the app isn't even downloadable from their web-pages yet, so I didn't excpect this much.

Update.
Fussing around with settings, noted (just once) that %pc (Current rack time) was working as it should; however, it subsequently displayed as 0 (as before) even though I modified nothing.
Another point: it seems that settings from tagnavi_custom.config aren't working.
On some occasions music did not play at all; display sometimes reverted to the very tiny initial default and it was not possible to select a font from the menu, among other menu navigation problems.
Despite those gripes, I noted no jumps while playing; in this respect, it's better than either andLess and AMPlayer, which I've been trying to play FLAC files.
Will stay attuned; am very glad that Rockbox as an app is being ported to Android and is already useable.

Switched from iPhone to SG3 - questions to more experienced android users.

Hi, I got Galaxy S3 after four years of using iOS. I really like the phone, SD card slot, and fantastic screen but I'm missing few features. I am sure that with open'ness of Android, someone has already made these things.
1. Music Player - when I scroll the album list, album covers seem to load on scroll, instead of being cached somewhere and appearing immediately - can it be fixed? Or maybe there is a different music player that is better?
2. I have used Easy Phone Sync to sync S3 with iTunes, but some albums got split into several albums - is there any way to edit tags of songs that are on S3 using Kies?
3. When I double click home button on a locked iphone, an iPod menu comes up, allowing me quick switching of songs - anything similar on android?
4. When syncing with iPhone backup, I copied over all of the photos, in the gallery they got split into two folders, 100APPLE and 101APPLE, is it possible to somhow combine them? I can't see folders with photos when I access the phone through My Computer
5. Any other good tips for a newcomer?

moa.1991 said:
Hi, I got Galaxy S3 after four years of using iOS. I really like the phone, SD card slot, and fantastic screen but I'm missing few features. I am sure that with open'ness of Android, someone has already made these things.
1. Music Player - when I scroll the album list, album covers seem to load on scroll, instead of being cached somewhere and appearing immediately - can it be fixed? Or maybe there is a different music player that is better?
2. I have used Easy Phone Sync to sync S3 with iTunes, but some albums got split into several albums - is there any way to edit tags of songs that are on S3 using Kies?
3. When I double click home button on a locked iphone, an iPod menu comes up, allowing me quick switching of songs - anything similar on android?
4. When syncing with iPhone backup, I copied over all of the photos, in the gallery they got split into two folders, 100APPLE and 101APPLE, is it possible to somhow combine them? I can't see folders with photos when I access the phone through My Computer
5. Any other good tips for a newcomer?
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Which music app are you using?
For the quick control there is none unless you exit out the app, drag notification down and you will see some quick controls depending on app
I would not be able to tell you much about the albums, hasn't happen with me before
Download es explorer and move the pictures on your phone (kind of like you would on your pc/mac)
Have some patient you were open enough to buy a new device so make sure you try as much as you can before those 14 days, read a lot in the forums you will learn a lot
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Hi, thanks for the reply! I'm using the stock application, you recommend a different one? While we are at it, can you recommend some other good applications to replace stock ones? Downloading es explorer

jgalan14 said:
Which music app are you using?
For the quick control there is none unless you exit out the app, drag notification down and you will see some quick controls depending on app
I would not be able to tell you much about the albums, hasn't happen with me before
Download es explorer and move the pictures on your phone (kind of like you would on your pc/mac)
Have some patient you were open enough to buy a new device so make sure you try as much as you can before those 14 days, read a lot in the forums you will learn a lot
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I read the OP and I was hesitant to reply - the questions were kind of naive and seemed almost troll like -
Album covers load on scroll - maybe standard android apps can't even do it. The loading of covers is fast enough not to bother me, but that's just me, being used to android lagginess on a flagship phone.
Itunes... Well, welcome here in the slavery free zone. If you can burn Itunes, please do so. Otherwise, please use some playstore app to do it for you.
There are a number of apps and utils that modify default android behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if you could set it up to call your mother in law every time the power button was pressed.
You can copy/paste/delete and do any file operations with android files - you have a full featured file system, just install an app like ES File Explorer.

poweramp is good for music. As for the merging of folders, do it manually by connecting a usb to your phone and manage it on your computer.
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Poweramp +1
Kies has an option to import itunes music from one of the title bar menus...

moa.1991 said:
Hi, thanks for the reply! I'm using the stock application, you recommend a different one? While we are at it, can you recommend some other good applications to replace stock ones? Downloading es explorer
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There is a lot music apps out there I use play music from Google to have cloud music, and usually power amp is my favorite one, the one thing coming from iOS to android is the yes android you can modify more but you need more time, watch videos on YouTube, learn about what limitations it could have, I think is funny I switch back to android back in May and I haven't used an iphone for 2 months yesterday my wife told me to text something while #he was driving and I felt the screen so small, it was hard to type at first lol
Stock keyboard sucks try ics keyboard is free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vllwp.inputmethod.latin
And if you really feel like typing is worth $2-3 you can buy Swiftkey 3 best keyboard so far IMO
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jgalan14 said:
There is a lot music apps out there I use play music from Google to have cloud music, and usually power amp is my favorite one, the one thing coming from iOS to android is the yes android you can modify more but you need more time, watch videos on YouTube, learn about what limitations it could have, I think is funny I switch back to android back in May and I haven't used an iphone for 2 months yesterday my wife told me to text something while #he was driving and I felt the screen so small, it was hard to type at first lol
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Haha I have the same feeling when I pick up my iPhone and it has been only 2 days! Thanks guys for all the answers, I realise I will have to learn, just like I did when I was jailbreaking my iphone and looking for interesting apps on Cydia. I'll try out this Poweramp app

Enjoy and welcome to the Android community
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aye I too was a 4 year iOS user, but with this s3 i felt like I literally jumped 4 years into the future with ICS. The widget thing and why Apple has not put them on iOS is BEYOND me, and it goes without saying DAT screen size!

Definitely try swiftkey 3, or Swype beta
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Definitely try swiftkey 3
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Most definitely try SwiftKey out... A few tips if you do.... go into settings and put when double tap space just insert space. And I also lower the time to longpress (access the secondary buttons like numbers and symbols) to like 200 - 250 milliseconds makes things much faster.
Moa said:
2. I have used Easy Phone Sync to sync S3 with iTunes, but some albums got split into several albums - is there any way to edit tags of songs that are on S3 using Kies?
3. When I double click home button on a locked iphone, an iPod menu comes up, allowing me quick switching of songs - anything similar on android?
4. I can't see folders with photos when I access the phone through My Computer
5. Any other good tips for a newcomer?
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2. For editing MP3 tags try out droID3tagger it can automatically do it or you can manually change them https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.booleancorp
3. When on the lock screen you can swipe down the top notification bar and there will be prev. play/pause. next controls
4. You should be able to see your photo folders on your PC... Probably looking in the wrong place
5. There is a tips thread check it out
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Welcome to the family! I to came to android from ios... about a year and a half ago though. Android can seem a bit foreign at first but research and ask questions and before you know it, you will wonder why it took you so long to switch. This much I will say, apple is set up as they want it to be and is usually better out of the box... however, with a little fine tuning your android will run circles around any iPhone. These can do so much more than what you can imagine, keep up with it and you will not be disappointed.
Power amp is a sweet music player btw.
I prefer Skype to swift key but I think that's a matter of taste.
Es explorer is great... also check out root explorer if you ever get root.
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Ok this was a productive day ^^ I have installed:
QuickPic: instead of the stock Gallery app. Drawback is that it does not show picasa web albums, but there are advantages: smoother operation, can switch files via swiping while zoomed in, and can sort files by filename.
Poweramp: I like it a lot more than the stock music app, looks much better, and songs are put together into albums, wheras the stock app had problems with albums consisting of songs by different artists.
ES File Explorer: Something like iFile on the jailbroken iPhone, useful
I also found the pictures folder, it's fine now
Also: ordering installs of apps to my phone via internet browser: awesome
I have still one problem: in the Messagess app, after importing messages from the iPhone backup, every message is repeated twice, and they are put in the opposite sides - i.e. messages I have received appear as sent by me. Anyone knows how to remove messages only and then sync messages only?
I can see you guys talking about keyboard apps - I thought something like swype is already installed?

Number 1 download poweramp so worth $5
Number 2 im not quite sure about any backup apps i use dropbox
Number 3 poweramp has a player in the drop down bar so unlock phone slide it down oh and poweramp also has a lockscreen player as well

moa.1991 said:
Ok this was a productive day ^^ I have installed:
QuickPic: instead of the stock Gallery app. Drawback is that it does not show picasa web albums, but there are advantages: smoother operation, can switch files via swiping while zoomed in, and can sort files by filename.
Poweramp: I like it a lot more than the stock music app, looks much better, and songs are put together into albums, wheras the stock app had problems with albums consisting of songs by different artists.
ES File Explorer: Something like iFile on the jailbroken iPhone, useful
I also found the pictures folder, it's fine now
Also: ordering installs of apps to my phone via internet browser: awesome
I have still one problem: in the Messagess app, after importing messages from the iPhone backup, every message is repeated twice, and they are put in the opposite sides - i.e. messages I have received appear as sent by me. Anyone knows how to remove messages only and then sync messages only?
I can see you guys talking about keyboard apps - I thought something like swype is already installed?
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I really like SwiftKey 3. Used it for a long time now. It actually learns what you type and customizes the predictions. For example, if you type everyday "Whats for dinner tonight?" after a while as soon as you type W the word Whats is going to come up. After the it's automatically going to suggest the next word is "for" without typing anything.
Look into lock screen music controls and which apps offer it. On AOKP ROM there are controls built in. While listening to music with the screen off you can long press the volume buttons to go to the previous or next track. Short presses on the volume raises and lowers the volume. Long pressing the power button SHOULD also pause the track. Long pressing it again should resume the track.
The biggest thing on Android to remember is that everything can be customized. Don't like the stock text message app? Install a different one. Different icons? Get new ones.
Luckily you came from a jailbroken iPhone which I can imagine helps a lot.
Oh...and you can also uninstall programs from the online Play Store now. Makes it awesome after you install a new ROM which is something else you will eventually get into.
Oh and don't forget you can upload up to 20000 to Google Music that you can access anywhere from any browser. You can also stream straight to your phone and any other Android device. I think I have almost all of my music uploaded and I don't think I'm even halfway to 20,000 songs.
And the free 5GB of storage space that Google offers with Google Drive.
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master acehole said:
Number 1 download poweramp so worth $5
Number 2 im not quite sure about any backup apps i use dropbox
Number 3 poweramp has a player in the drop down bar so unlock phone slide it down oh and poweramp also has a lockscreen player as well
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You actually don't even need to unlock the phone. You can access the notification bar straight from the lockscreen.

you can also try doubletwist player which gives you a more ipod/iPhone experience and can also sync with itunes and use air sync
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