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Hi.. just to announce, that I'm making serious efforts to make the iPhone-like musicplaying capability on a Windows Mobile device, I show you now what I have been cooking for a while now..
This is only a proof of concept thing. It won't play any music now. It just shows the possibilities.
I was quite busy in the summer-time, so I had no or little time to develop, but it's going to change.
Anyway, a few things you should know:
- only 240*320 portrait mode (for now)
- .Net Compact Framework is required.
- it's filled with some random data.
- there is a syncing software on the desktop-side, which transfers a playlist from iTunes (not included in this release)
- without cleartype enabled, it's ugly.
- again, it won't play music now!
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU SOFTRESET YOUR DEVICE AFTER INSTALLING.
FAQ
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Q: Will it have a coverflow-ish cool feature?
A: Yes, there will be.
Q: Will it support landscape mode only screens?
A: Well, landscape mode will be used for the coverflow-ish view. I'm still considerind this.
Q: Will it support smartphones?
A: I hope so.
Q: Will it sync automatically with my computer?
A: Of course it will!
Q: Yeah, but how?
A: You have to select an iTunes playlist then decide whether use the activeSync connection (more convienient but slower) or select a drive, and let the Bridge program on your computer do the rest (less convienient, faster)
Q: Wait, you have to have iTunes to use with this thing?
A: Currently, yes. iTunes offers a great API to work with, so it's very efficient to use. Also, in iTunes, most people has georgeous album art in tracks, and in Lumen, album artwork uses a lot of screen real estate, making it look insanely great. In the future, I'll consider fetching MP3 ID3 data, and so.
To keep yourself up-to-date:
www.petervajda.com/Lumen
Download it from here:
www.petervajda.com/Lumen/Lumen-current.php
is there a video / other for preview?
Without seeing something I don´t want to install.
Same here
Please post some screenshots, either here or on your site (http://www.petervajda.com/Lumen/index.html)
Thanks
I'm quite busy now, but soon, I'll post some screenshots.
I have installed it, wow!!! its awesome looking Its going to replace my
other players when you got it Finished. keep it up
yeah, it sounds great, I like it, pls keep it moving
snotboy32 said:
I have installed it, wow!!! its awesome looking Its going to replace my
other players when you got it Finished. keep it up
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Things I'd like to see with this application (in comparsion with Audio Manager):
1. Integrate with HTC Home music tab - so that it can be controlled via that tab.
2. Possible to turn-off phone/screen while the music keeps on playing (to conserve battery)
3. Lists/plays tracks according to track numbers, not alphabetically (Audio Manager has this problem)
4. Library option - by albums, artisits, genre , etc.
5. .ogg support.
Possible?
EazyVG said:
Things I'd like to see with this application (in comparsion with Audio Manager):
1. Integrate with HTC Home music tab - so that it can be controlled via that tab.
2. Possible to turn-off phone/screen while the music keeps on playing (to conserve battery)
3. Lists/plays tracks according to track numbers, not alphabetically (Audio Manager has this problem)
4. Library option - by albums, artisits, genre , etc.
5. .ogg support.
Possible?
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1. I don't know "HTC Home music tab" and I don't know how to communicate with it, but I'll take a look.
2. It's already implemented in a previous unpublished version.
3. If you go to an artist, and select an album, it'll show it by track numbers if it's given. Any "view" that contains songs from a single album uses this mode.
4. I think it's already in.
5. Well.. i'm using Windows Media Player component, so it plays it if your device already supports it. (I'm looking for a better audio playing solution) So in theory, it can work.
stephano nice works...!
Hope nice programs in the future from u..!
Just tried it out. Nice and cool.
Looking forward to your release. Good job bro!
wow
the second iPhone Media player in two days? I'm really impressed.
Will test soon
EDIT: Great concept, but try to speed it up. Oh, and mine does not play any music. Please fix it
mindless ramblings aside, this looks neat. You made it on to my 'watch-for-further-developments' list.
What to say.... WOW!
Scrolling smoothness is really impressive I must say. Some other developers playing around with iPhone like applications should implement your scrolling routine as it is almost perfect.
I had many problems with selections at beginning, until I realized that, differently from other apps, I had to double-tap , so ppl please DOUBLE TAP'em :-D
You could join efforts with the other guy messing with an iPhone like mediaplayer (His already playing trough WMP features), but I think those 2 are developed in different ways.
Hope anyway to hear news from you soon
I'd love to see what this app looks like, but I Can't since I don't have a WM5 or 6 device. My player and this, are coded in two very different ways, so it would be hard to sort of combine the two, or use his scrolling routine, although from the sounds of it...I'd LOVE TO! I'll be keeping my eyes here though...
In truth I would like to see other developers using YOUR scrolling routine. I truly love it!
Have a nice evening.
spicchio72 said:
In truth I would like to see other developers using YOUR scrolling routine. I truly love it!
Have a nice evening.
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WOW! Thanks!! Really!
Anyway, you don't have to double-tap.. It goes into things with one tap, but I'm working on to make the app realize it much faster. Since it has to mess with databases, then draw the list, it isn't as easy, as you may think.
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Oh, and mine does not play any music. Please fix it
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Would you mind reading the first post? Pretty please
Hey great app, this is the kinda thing i've been looking for, anyways once you get everything working properly, i have a suggestion for a cool feature, maybe once ur in the player u could have a coverflow type thing where u can flick thru album covers to select songs, srry if i'm asking for too much too soon but i can't contain myself when something this cool comes up.
ksjulsen said:
Hey great app, this is the kinda thing i've been looking for, anyways once you get everything working properly, i have a suggestion for a cool feature, maybe once ur in the player u could have a coverflow type thing where u can flick thru album covers to select songs, srry if i'm asking for too much too soon but i can't contain myself when something this cool comes up.
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Cool down buddy Your wish will come true. I have a proof-of-concept app built, and it performs quite well. Keep watching this space.
ksjulsen said:
Hey great app, this is the kinda thing i've been looking for, anyways once you get everything working properly, i have a suggestion for a cool feature, maybe once ur in the player u could have a coverflow type thing where u can flick thru album covers to select songs, srry if i'm asking for too much too soon but i can't contain myself when something this cool comes up.
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You mean like what I've implemented so far?
Hi,
Had my HD for just under a week now and I must admit I wasn't overly impressed with it at first. Quite slow in general and video playback wasn't great...decided to hard reset it and start from scratch...before I did anything I followed the performance increase tutorial on here and now I'm happy as larry with the HD - it's exactly what I hoped it would be even the keyboard is good on the screen in landscape mode.
However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Thanks,
Dan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463296
You might wanna track this thread and see what goes on here. Unfortunately no solid resolution as of now.
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However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Dan
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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve
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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve
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The most likely cause still remains an unsupported file. Wonder why though
Hey thanks for the replies!
Well I bit the bullet yesterday....got myself a few bottles of beer lined up and went through all the music I had one the HD. I firstly set my PC to show protected operating system files and begun checking everything. On my HD I am using the folder structure Storage Card --> My Documents --> My Music --> Album Name.
In all of the album folders I left only the mp3's and the album art image which i renamed to folder.jpg. I went back to the Music tab and the same crash occurred. So I turned off touch flow...deleted AudioManager_eng.vol then fired up touch flo again...this recreates the AudioManager_eng.vol but the crash still occurred.
I then removed all music and started to copy the albums on one by one...started with Foo Fighters and happy days it worked! So I continued on with the others until I got to Nirvana - Nevermind....anyway the tags on the mp3 for track number were 1 - 2 - 3 - 4/13 - 5/13 - 6/13...etc. Set all the tags to just the single track number and hey presto everything works fine...I can just dump music into the storage card following the same structure, hit the music tab and there it is ready to play!! I now officially love this device! lol Sorry for the long winded explanation! Thanks again for your replies!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
mrmartin86 said:
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.
Greetings.
I just bought me a new HTC touch HD and although overall seem a decent phone,it has some "features" ( or lack of it thereof) that I find awfully annoying to say the list.
Condisering that I am a noob regarding smart phones ( this is my first) I would REALLY appreciate if any guru's here will take the time to answer to my questions,as idiot proof as humanly possible ( I'm a retard... :/)
So here it goes:
1. I syncronized my e-mail account ( hotmail,windows live ) with my PC and that brought in all my e-mail contacts. In addition to that,I also have the phone contacts from my previous phone.
My problem is that now I have TON of contacts of all kind ( whenever I tap the "contacts" key) and I find it VERY annoying that it wont let me decide which contacts I'd like.
I mean,I will only like to see the contacts from my previous phone not ALL 160 e-mail contacts. Further more,I would like to have those contacts in my new HD but if I copy them from the sim card,then I will have ALL the contacts in double.
HD just wont let me "hide" either of them. Solutions if any please?
2. There is a ton of problems with syncing music files via WMP. They keep dissapearing ( shown with a ! in the library) and re-appearing but they wouldnt play etc. This isnt really a problem but I'm sure there are some geniuses out there that fixed that.
3. I would like to determine my own ( at least given the freedom to choose among a list) how my HD should sound like when I get an SMS. Ofcourse,there is ( as far as I can tell) no way in hell I can get anywhere NEAR such settings. Maybe someone could help out ?
4. The enormous clock display.I already read something about installing a 3rd party software but due to several reviews,it's a gamble. Since in some cases it didnt work,other got really slow and others down right screwed their HD's. So I wonder: is there any tweak ( some file that can be modified/erased) to fix this without having to install any additional soft/app?
5.Sometimes when I take my cell off the table ( after being "inactive" for several hours) the clock wont display the correct time ( I have to tap it for it to update to current time) and sometimes the upper half of the display looks as if the graphic card was damaged/smoked. Though as soon as I tap home ( or whatever it turns back to normal. Any ideas? P.S. I have gyrator2 and fingerkeyboard 2 installed)
5. I apologize for the wall of text and my poor english.
I would also like to thank to ALL members here for their absolute amaizing ability to help the community as well as the dev's for their amazing tweaks and app's for our smartphones.
This forum/site is the ABSOLUTE best I have ever seen in terms of help,support,development etc.
You guys are awsome. A big/giant/enormous/gianormous THANK YOU from me and my friends here in Norway. Your site is bookmarked and subscribed to since the first 3 min we found it.
Thank you!
Hi
I can help you out with a few points..
1. I had the same problem not only once...there is a little utility called DupeDeDupe which removes duplicate contact in your phone and is free (as far as I remember)...
There is also another app, which is much much much better - it lets you customize cleaning of your outlook, therefore the name OutlookCleaner...this one is not free though as far as I remember, but there are ways how to obtain software....just google...
use google for everything you need....anywas, I recommend using OutlookCleaner as the results were far more satisfying in my case..
2. I advice never to sync your music...I also do not like listening to music via phone - choice is yours though...I recommend Nitrogen Player instead of WMP...it is very simple yet much quicker, customizable and what not....just google the app, it is definitely here on xda somwhere...dont remember if its free...I never had problems with nitrogen player.. (of course we are talking about audio, not video, right?)
3. Go to settings -> sounds and notifications -> notifications tab -> for event choose Messaging: New text message -> below you have different options to choose from....
4. I dont know what clock you are talking about
5. this might be the manila flip or whatever it is called issue...it is built in in the system so whenever you go home, or wake up your phone, system flips the clock so you can see the epic animation google manila clock flip fix or something like that...you shoud defeintely find the fix here on xda..
Hope I helped you...google if you need anything else
Well,first of all,thank you.
You fixed at least half of my problems
Second,I dont have outlook on my HD. I got hotmail/windows live and that's it.
So...maybe you have alternative solutions.
The SMS alarm tone: fix'd. Thank you! Much to learn I have obviously.
The WMP thingy: downloaded and installed Nitro. Havent tested yet but I'm sure is better than anything else Bill Gates came up with. Again,thank you. How do I unninstall WMP btw?
The clock I'm talking about is the enormous one that covers hald the display. The one with animation you know? I want that GONE if at all possible.
Manila is an app that allows you to tweak your HD. I dont have it installed because there was a sufficient number of forum members that had bad experiences with it,everything from ruining other gadgets on the HD to completely rendering useless.
The vast majority was satisfied but however,the ones that werent were enough to matter. At least to me
So yeah,all in all you helped me a great deal and for that I thank you yet again.
You're a good man
as for the big clock at 'home'..you can flip upwards for the clock to disappear(like how you do scrolling)..hopefully it helps..if that's what you wanted...
amigo81 said:
as for the big clock at 'home'..you can flip upwards for the clock to disappear(like how you do scrolling)..hopefully it helps..if that's what you wanted...
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THAT easy ha? lol,I'm an idiot.
Thank you buddy
So anyone with some help for the rest of my problems?
Btw,Klaxon doesnt work as it should.
I tested it but it didnt ring at all.
Sir_Hannibal said:
So anyone with some help for the rest of my problems?
Btw,Klaxon doesnt work as it should.
I tested it but it didnt ring at all.
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If you are looking for alarm clock, I use G-alarm. Google it
For music. Try cut and paste or drug and drop from your PC to your Phone
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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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
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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
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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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...
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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
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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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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.
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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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