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UPDATED!!! iPhone-like Music Player: Lumen. [alpha]

PLEASE READ THIS!!
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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Post screenshots pls.

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.

Merlin_reloaded said:
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?

Plethora of HD2 Music player woes

Hi guys...
Regretfully I am close to giving up with the HD2 music player. Beaten! Long delays, failure to find any of my mp3s even after retagging... the list of bugs and annoyances is nearly endless, such promise in a phone, such incompetence in the software testing. My last effort was a rushed and irritated email to HTC. Pointless I know but its all I've got, I am now forced to use.... WMP
HD2 Music Player Issues.
I am sure you are sick of these but you are gonna have to read another, please route these to some dev or something, I have already wasted too many hours with this dreadfully realised piece of music software.
I am baffled by HTC. The music player on the HD2 is simply not tested sufficiently. I work in testing so perhaps I am slightly more critical but the list of issues is staggering.
HTC are seriously shooting themselves in the foot, and when I am (frequently) am asked whether I recommend the phone I have to say no, because of the MUSIC PLAYER.
1. Firstly I reported the most incredible 'Genre & brackets bug' on the HTC forums last year and received NO response from HTC. A quick recap, if an mp3 ID3 tag has a ( or a ) in the genre field the music updater stalls FOREVER, yes regardless of tag format etc, its just coded badly. plain and simple, it has 'coded in china and tested in india' written all over it! The updating icon continues forever using up your battery and not updating the rest of the disk. My question to the technical team here is, well why not just skip the file you cant read after some specific timeout, that is 2 extra lines of code and an hugely (but not satisfactory) better user experience.
2. If you have a largish (more than 20) items in a playlist there is a considerable and extremely irritating delay EVERYTIME you go to the now playing screen. Why. Why. Why, who tested this app, who signed it off, how in the hell is it acceptable to have to wait 30seconds to open the music app if you have 400 songs in a playlist, answer dont use large playlists, ok but that leads onto the NEXT huge flaw..
3. When you return to a list (any list), you are always back at the start.. so you just clicked on ZZ Top and you then think oh actually I want to listen to Willie nelson, you are right back at A in the artist list, and it then takes 15 seconds of scrolling to get back to W, why is there no ABCDEG.. index like EVERY OTHER MP3 player.
If it were not for the other dreadful bugs one would have to conclude HTC intentionally crippled this device, what other explanation could there be? Were HTC paid off by Apple?
4. Here is a new one for me, just today I added 500 new Mp3s, to my 16gb memory card, now totaling 1300. Opening the music player sent the CPU to 95% (all manilla) for the best part of 15mins during which time nothing really could be used on the device. When it finally dropped a bit I went in to music player, there are ZERO artists, ZERO albums, ZERO genres but almost all the tracks listed in 'All Songs'. I then allowed the animation to continue for 30 more mins with no change, nothing added. By the way I have rewritten all the id3 tags to various different formats with no affect. I have a feeling that it is stalling on the 1st mp3, what is it stalling on I do not know, is there a log file with errors in it? Can't find one. Again terrible coding, using too much processor, not handling errors, falling over if the format is not exactly as expected. Bad all round.
This is completely unacceptable for a $500 phone.
Just spend a day with and IPod/IPhone and a HD2, that's all your technical team need to do to see what sort of job they have done.
There are loads more but I cannot be bothered now.
It seems HTC have responded to one bug that luckily did not affect me (the stuttering), please can you forward this to the most senior person you know, it really is a joke and whoever does your software testing needs a long vacation and you need to stop outsourcing.
Disgruntled user.
Tom Deloford
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Camera Not Working

Ok so we know, at least most of us know, that there are way too many bugs with this phone.
Here is an other one to add to the list:
The camera simply does not work when I need it to.
I press the physical "take photo" button on the side of the camera and then I see the image of the camera come up and it hangs there for about 45 seconds to 1 minute, sometimes longer, then it goes back to the default screen, not the camera menu.
I click on the camera icon on the touch screen and it shows the image of the camera then goes back to default screen, not the camera menu.
I go to windows, scroll down to camera click it it shows the camera image then back to default screen, not the camera menu.
Basically I must reboot once maybe two times in order to actually use the camera, again waiting the 2-3 minutes each time I re-boot until the phone fully starts up.
Any suggestions?
x

same with me but with little luck, mine have pop up windows said 'there's an application runing, close before use camera'. ususally I close beejiveIM if I use it(still not close opera and resco explorer runing background) and the camera works.
my conclusion Beejive is crash with camera. so I use palringo, the camera doesnt show error message like that when I use palringo. but lately the camera shows error again with palringo, opera and resco explorer!
what an annoying and selfish camera!
any sugestion or cab-fix or some reg edit clue?

Its Media Player. exe not closing!
I was wondering when the first people come up with this problem! I found that this is (at least in my case!) the mediaPlayer.exe that is EATING UP all available (little that is!!!) RAM.
When I have a song play, perhaps a few minutes, nothing bad happens, after closing media player for good, still 80MB RAM left.
But, when I listen for a while to music (using media player NOT slide view!) then after half an hour or 1 hour, I have only 3-5MB left. Yes, 3 to 5 MB!!! In this case, even after closing for good media player, NO RAM is returned! I have only 3-5MB available RAM. And of course that is not enough to run the Camera!
Unless we find a program that can kill the mediaplayer.exe for good and that will indeed return that memory, we have no other option but a restart!

Camera Video Choppy too!
And now since I made a first video... or better tried to make it with this crappy phone/camera, I found that the recorded video is choppy, it seems to hang when the camera is moved or objects move.
Really bad. Anybody found a reg tweak to perhaps fix this or make it at least better? This is NO WAY 30fps, not even 20!

Memory manager
michaelthemage said:
Unless we find a program that can kill the mediaplayer.exe for good and that will indeed return that memory, we have no other option but a restart!
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Have you tried e.g. MemMaid from DinarSoft?
I have had trial version installed once, looked fine. But there seems to be u lot of similar tools. I just never needed any as badly as you do.

Well, actuall I think this is caused by Slide|View. Because I was fed up with this crap, I did a hard reset and stoped the custom install. I installed all I wanted/needed Manually!
And of course I did NOT install TileWave, SlideView and any other crap panel, exept the Growing Panel (just to brag a little ;-)
Now, media player does not take even 10MB and all is well. While playing music I can make pictues even.
So far all is well. The only thing bothering me now is, every other day a message pops up either wanting to send a SMS to register my phone, or a customer survey from microsucks.
If anybody knows HOW to stop it without actually doing it, please let us know.

michaelthemage said:
Well, actuall I think this is caused by Slide|View. Because I was fed up with this crap, I did a hard reset and stoped the custom install. I installed all I wanted/needed Manually!
And of course I did NOT install TileWave, SlideView and any other crap panel, exept the Growing Panel (just to brag a little ;-)
Now, media player does not take even 10MB and all is well. While playing music I can make pictues even.
So far all is well. The only thing bothering me now is, every other day a message pops up either wanting to send a SMS to register my phone, or a customer survey from microsucks.
If anybody knows HOW to stop it without actually doing it, please let us know.
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That's strange because I think it's actually Media Player itself.
Since latest FW I use TileWave and Slide View, uninstalled the rest of the flashy panels (City, Growing, SPB) and never had any problem with running camera.
I listen to alot of music but always from SlideView, no RAM problems here....
BTW if you want to kill any process, SKTools does it.

michaelthemage said:
Well, actuall I think this is caused by Slide|View. Because I was fed up with this crap, I did a hard reset and stoped the custom install. I installed all I wanted/needed Manually!
And of course I did NOT install TileWave, SlideView and any other crap panel, exept the Growing Panel (just to brag a little ;-)
Now, media player does not take even 10MB and all is well. While playing music I can make pictues even.
So far all is well. The only thing bothering me now is, every other day a message pops up either wanting to send a SMS to register my phone, or a customer survey from microsucks.
If anybody knows HOW to stop it without actually doing it, please let us know.
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Just wanted to share my experience on this: I remember choosing cancel and it would stop. Did you press any hardware buttons instead or the X button on the window?

Camera did not start.... again!
Well, I found the registry setting for these crappy sms sending msgs. Now its gone!
BUT, today I still had 110MB left and the camera did the 'cannot start' crap. Just did not start, whatever I did.
Had to restart the entire phone in order to get it startup again. So I guess it is not the memory shrotage that seemed to have caused it before.

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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Bowsa2511 said:
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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Sound Quality and new "Walkman"

Hey.
I was wondering what do you think about sound quality after latest LP update? And most important, what do you think about latest amazing retarded idea of dumping Walkman brand and making one of worst music app Sony created for past... well, they never had bad music player until now!
But before I write what I think about sound quality, I really, really need to say something about this "Music" Player.
>>Skip it if you dont care about walkman app<<
I always loved W series from Sony Ericsson, I had, and still have most of my older phones from this series. And because Im really fussy about sound quality and music player design I was a bit shocked after I saw Sony idea to remove Walkman name, and going to most lame excuse I ever read to rename app to.... Music...
I didnt install this app update when I had KitKat(dont mess with something that actually work) So after Installing LP I had time to see what they did to my most beloved app on my phone. And Im shocked how someone could destroy something with only really small changes.
At first nothing is changed, but what is most important are details.
After you open app everything is normal.
I never liked main page, its chaotic and beside good look its not usefull, but I never used it so I didnt care about it, I spend there only 1sec after opening app... untill this update...
Now everytime when Im listening something and Im clicking widget or icon, instead of going to current music player its moving me straight to main page... and to do something in actual player, I need to click lower bar to open it... annoying as hell.
Now lets look at most important part of player:
looks simple and good right? its change color depend on cover, and it have big buttons. But beside that they ripped fewparts that was good about walkman player. First of all they removed Favorite icon(star) that I, and lost of people I know liked, because it was quick way to select your favorite track. Now this option is in lame, small duplicated menu as a text.
About that menu. Why they putt menu dots in lower right corner if you can access menu just by clicking album art? I have no idea...
But thats not everything!
How about SECOND menu in top right corner!
You thought that all? HELL NO! we have THIRD setting menu!
Because Sony love Mario, and they though that it would be funny to say to users: "Sorry, but setting that you look for is in another Menu!"
So now not only they make chaos in settings, remove one of simplest fav option, but they forgot about.... simple and quick option to see current playlist. You can only click artist name to go to page of his album, or you need to swype left to select current playlist menu, that sometimes doesnt count what you selected, and sometimes add track to end of the list and sometimes to next track on the list... no one know how this "magic" work...
Now how about burying one of best option that compared to other similar options, actually work good: Sense Me playlist...
Instead of putting this option as a one of main feature, they buried it in playlist menu...
Seriously, most of similar apps that sets music by mood work weird or need weird scan everytime to play something.
Of course its not perfect but still better than others, and I never had weird track placement when I used it.
Now most important: Sound quality options.
As most of you know, they removed few important options that bump volume in our XZ, but they also messed up rest of settings.
As I mentioned they moved sound settings to weird place.
Its look simple but still its a bit pain to use it, especially Headphones option:
From this list, I have MH-EX300AP and STH30, and with or without ClearAudio+ options, settings for those specific headphones work like cra#p.
EX300 options make sound more centered and with huge boost of middle parts, and STH30 option make sound more muffed with too much bass.
Rest of options except bumping middle parts and squeezing scene to middle doesnt do anything.
<<< - End of the less important Rant about Walkman Player... sorry, "Music" Player - >>>
Now lets talk about actual quality of the sound on Xperia Z with LP.
For most of the day I use my good old JVC HA-S600 that have best quality-price-mobility ratio I ever had, but also I use mentioned before MH-EX300AP for outdoor and in home a bit used Beyerdynamic DT 770s(look like **** but sound is still amazing)
And no matter what I have on my hears, sound compared to what I got in KK is just a bit worst in LP. Its still have nice amount of details for most of time, and at least its dont sound like old radio.
But overall quality is weird, especially wide scene. I tried messing with EQ, ClearAudio+ still sound much flatter, and middle parts behave weird, when there is much going on, on the scene its lost all details and its just plain hum that sometimes move to high levels.
I have my two favorite test tracks (Aphex Twin "Vordhosbn" and Bruno Coulais "La marche" Himalaya OST ) and I know those tracks like my own hand, so after I played them on LP it was obvious for me that something is not right. Those tracks are really heavy for every headphones and player, they have all necessary parts to hear whats going on: One is loud with good amount of bass, and other is really soft and have really wide scene with different vocals. And especially in La marche you hear that now xperia is WAY flatter than before.
And as I said Im using Walkman almost my whole "life with phone", And I never encounter such problem with it.
Now I really dont know if its because of new player or because of this update.
Its not big deal, probably 90% of you dont hear any difference except loudness, but just like with camera those small changes make people crazy if they use this all the time and they know what it should look/sound.
Sooner or later Im gonna back to 4.3 but now I was wondering if its my specific xperia z got that (even if I installed LP two times for test purposes)

from my opinion.. i think my phone sounds better in LP than KK or JB.. the sound is more clearer.
BUT
At the bad side, the soubd is toooooooooo low and i hate the interface of new music player where i need to take more step than before to go to sound enhancenent.. And there is no PlayList like before.. I need to go to Music Main Menu to access all my song list... Damn Sony... Damn! return my walkman where i can choose my song to play without skipping one by one or go to main menu just to select what song do i want to hear... :banghead:
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sound volume was really low on kk xp. z but on lollipop it's even worse. and yes, i miss the walkman, too.

There is a mod for sound here in the themes frame that makes the sound louder again

Well... All of you should know by now that with every update we lost some functionality from before. I noticed this on all Android phones I have had till now... ?
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