now that you all have shown how to significantly extend the functuonality of Snapvue, I can once again consider the Shift. My usage model would be surfing the web using Opera Mini or streaming video via Slingplayer for 2 hours during my daily commute. Is this feasible given the limited battery life?
maybe i can do some battery tests while browsing. if someone wants to give me a slingplayer to connect to i could dl the winmo version and see how long it can run
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Greetz.
I did a search to see if anyone was out there using Slingbox along with their Wizard (or any other mobile device), but didn't turn up many results related.
Anyone out there using it?
Curious as to the perfomance?
Able to stream without wifi?
Quality of the feed?
http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php
have a colleague who uses it and it's excellent. Mind you, I use Orb (www.orb.com) and it seems to give the same performance and general functionality and costs nothing.
i have slingbox installed on my 8125 and like it.
with wifi it runs smoothly. using cingular's data network, its usually fairly choppy. My other gripe is when switching to full screen mode it really lags and sometimes freezes the device, so i usually don't do full screen. I don't overclock my 8125, so i don't know if that would help or not. also to note, the slingbox itself is on a dsl line with 384Kb max upload.
that being said, i like that you can set channel shortcuts so i only have to press a button not type in a number. I have it hooked up to directv and trying to pull up a 3 digit channel can be a pain without the shortcuts.
If you have the desktop version insatalled, it syncs your slingbox settings to the phone so you don't need to type in the finder id again which is helpful as well.
I almost like watching sports better on the wizard with wifi than on my laptop sling client. the smaller screen keeps up with fast motion better.
run your secong life on athena....how is it posible??
only with remote desktop i supose. not with logmein and the others direct on your network with wifi or 3G and 32bits client software..
any other ideas????
To be honest, I think you can forget about that, right now.
Hi,
I use WMWifiRouter to share the 3G internet on my Hermes on my laptop. The problem I'm facing is, even with the battery fully charged and having the mobile on AC power - the battery runs out by 3 hours at max.
Is this normal behavior? Is the power consumption really that high when using internet (GPRS/HSDPA) and Wifi at the same time?
(my apologies in advance if this has already been answered - i tried the search )
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Hi,
I use WMWifiRouter to share the 3G internet on my Hermes on my laptop. The problem I'm facing is, even with the battery fully charged and having the mobile on AC power - the battery runs out by 3 hours at max.
Is this normal behavior? Is the power consumption really that high when using internet (GPRS/HSDPA) and Wifi at the same time?
(my apologies in advance if this has already been answered - i tried the search )
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I don't know exact figures, but usually running 3g/HSPDA will drain the battery pretty fast, using WiFi will do the same, both together and I think it could be reasonable to see the phone die after a few hours of constant usage. But, if its plugged into AC power, I don't see why it would drain at all, or at least that fast...I am sure someone with more knowledge than me will chime in as well...
i used to be regular wmwifirouter user with my hermes and i can confirm that battery will jux drain regardless u put it in charge with usb or ac.
if i recall correctly, i think i see it somehere tat hermes has known issue that the charging will stop if it's get overheat and YES when using WIFI & 3G it can fried egg.
anyway, i hv quit wmwifirouter and stick to internet sharing with bt / usb
thanks for your responses... i guess than this is not unexpected.
and yes, it does heat up like anything. Also, sometimes it would stop charging as soon as i launch WMWifiRouter (infact i've noticed this behavior without WMWifi Router too :S) but usually quitting and restarting WMWifirouter or restarting the device fixes it.
The reason I can't use it with BT is that the signals in my room are really low, so i usually leave it in one end of the room where the signals are relatively strong and connect via Wifi
tried an HSDPA router I got from work, that fixes my issues, but I am still evaluating whether its worth it to purchase a router of my own
I have had two different HTC Fuze devices now and have noticed that the WiFi performance seems to be rather slow. I have a 54mbps wireless network setup I believe (I use wired Gigabit ethernet for my PCs, WHS & Media Streamer), yet the only difference in speeds I notice between my WiFi network and AT&T's 3G seem to be better latency on WiFi. I have tried all 3 different WiFi settings in Windows Mobile, Performance/Balanced/BatterySave, and they don't seem to make much difference.
Now, as far as Opera Mobile goes, the poor speed can probably be attributed to the browser's rendering engine and the device's hardware, but my real complaint here is with the RSS reader I use, Spb Insight. I have 58 feeds set up, and it took it about 30-35 minutes to download 42.7~ MB of data over my WiFi network. I realize this isn't too bad, all things considered, but my Comcast cable connection is 20 mbps downlink, and if I were to download 42 megs of data on my desktop PC, we'd be looking at around 21 seconds (max transfer of ~2.11 MB/sec, tested on GigaNews USENET servers).
So my question is, assuming the bottleneck isn't the Spb Insight RSS Reader software, which I don't think it is, are there any registry changes/hacks or software I can use to get a bit better speed out of the Fuze's WiFi radio? I am running the stock AT&T ROM with the workaround that bypasses the AT&T BloatWare Install and my radio is stock also. I did a few forum searches and didn't come up with much of anything, and nothing Fuze related.
Is anyone else noticing slower-than-expected/desired WiFi speeds on their Fuze?
-- As an aside, I noted earlier I have a Media Streamer box - basically a dedicated small Shuttle brand PC box that I stuck a dual-core Celeron into that's only function is to transcode & stream videos via the Orb Software. I used a Seinfeld episode xvid @ 576x432 resolution that plays near-perfect, a frame-skip here and there (and looks gorgeous, I might add) on the Fuze using CorePlayer v1.2.5, but when I stream those same videos off my streamer box (transcoded into WMV) using Orb over WiFi, they're nearly unwatchable from all the hiccups and audio sync issues. I haven't even bothered trying it using 3G, since it can't even manage it over wireless. These videos streamed without any issue to my Archos 5 60GB Internet Media Tablet and Nokia N810 IT, both devices I've since sold, as the HTC Fuze replaces both without much issue, although the 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 + Graphics Chip in the Archos was a monster, eating webpages for breakfast & outputting 720p video to HDTV with nary a frameskip to be seen. They need to get those Cortex procs into mobile phones ASAP.
In any case, it seems like the WiFi is hindering me in this regard as well and I'd very much like to get this all ironed out so I can rest easy knowing my Fuze does everything I want it to. Sorry for the long-winded post, and a big thank you to all the contributors here for the amazing wealth of knowledge on these forums.
Try to change your radio stack, check for WLAN setup utilities to lock your transfer speed at 54 and try to make a WiFi connection with your PC to make sure it is not your router who makes lags
I noticed that the range of the Fuze's wi-fi is very limited. Anyone else notice this??
Having only used the Sprint TP, I didn't notice any specific issues with WiFi. Have you verified that all of the connection settings are properly configured? (wifi connects to internet instead of work network and your applications are set to use 'the internet' instead of 'MEdia Net') Then again, the stock Fuze ROM could very well just suck as most ATT HTC ROMs usually do
Hi guys,
do you know wich from bluetooth and WiFi drains less battery on Wildfire?
I'm looking to a way in order to transfer my files from pc to the SD of my Wildfire and vice versa using no cable and keeping the connection always on when I'm in office or at home...
But the other part of the equation is.... Which one is faster ?
Fast at a higher battery drain could use less than slower with lower
Lol
As both methods consume a lot of battery I would go for the one that's the fastest, but whilst you say that you don't want to use 'any' cables, can you not plug your phone into the charger.
If you can put your phone on charge then it wont matter which method you use.
Use dropbox, can transfer stuff from pc to phone without using the usb cable. Uses wifi or mobile data, you can put something on your phone and access it when you get home on your pc.
dropboc can be used with bluetooth too?
I just realiza that in office I have to use bluetooth instead of WiFi for some reasons...
Markino said:
dropboc can be used with bluetooth too?
I just realiza that in office I have to use bluetooth instead of WiFi for some reasons...
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I dont think it uses bluetooth, i use it over wifi or mobile net, its not too bad and is a very useful app. You get 2gb of storage online for free.
My girls Wildfire (unrooted): wifi + bluetooth + 3g + 90% standby = 3-4 days
My wildfire (rooted): wifi + bluetooth + 3g + internet + about 25% standby = 1-2 days
This is much better as my g1 by same use = 6-10 hours (with a new original battery running cm6)
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