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opera 10 and camera usage

am i the only one getting mad problems trying to use both together? i ll have opera 10 open and minimized and ill try to run the camera and it will fail to initialize alot, sometimes just fail to initialize, sometimes it says not enough memory, but opera 10 will be the only other app running...
anyone else have this happening to them

I have this problem too. I think this is a known issue and there are no fixes as far as I can tell. you just have to kill opera 10 before starting camera or just use opera 9.7.

I used to have this problem
I used to have this problem but I removed most of the startup programs along with the \program files\selfservice (just renamed to stop.selfservice) programs and I can run everything at the same time. I even removed the bluet hoot service app in the startup but you can opened via shortcut.

how did u remove startup apps?

makkunbakkun said:
how did u remove startup apps?
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connect to your PC with activesync, then use your PC to navigate to my device\windows\startup on the phone.

you know I just tried opening opera and camera and it's fine. perhaps it's working with the leo cpu patch now.

Just to follow up
My phone has been on 3 days without rebooting and I haven't close at all Opera 10. I have 26 processes running including 10 apps running. I think I solved the problem on my phone, not a single mem error.
So the problem was either in the startup apps or the selfservice apps.
By the way I don't use sense, i use SPB MS and s2u2, the phone feels fast very fast even with all that load?(only 179mb RAM free).

sirphunkee said:
connect to your PC with activesync, then use your PC to navigate to my device\windows\startup on the phone.
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So, I have connected my phone using activesync, and every time i open the files on my phone, the windows directory is no where to be found. Why is this? I can find the windows directory just fine when using file explorer on my phone. But not via my computer.

adamhlj said:
So, I have connected my phone using activesync, and every time i open the files on my phone, the windows directory is no where to be found. Why is this? I can find the windows directory just fine when using file explorer on my phone. But not via my computer.
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Did you try to unhide the folders on Windows explorer>tools>folder options> check "Show hidden files and folders" remember not to delete the files in the startup folder just move them, maybe you'll need them if something doesnt work well specially BThoot.

Do you open it and choose to connect as active sync on the phone or disk drive? I think when I choose to connect as disk drive, then only the storage card shows up and not the on device storage.

Paten said:
Do you open it and choose to connect as active sync on the phone or disk drive? I think when I choose to connect as disk drive, then only the storage card shows up and not the on device storage.
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As active sync, and yes that's correct you can't see the phone storage when accessing it in disk drive mode.
The items in the startup folder are mostly just .lnk files, which are links to the executables in the \windows folder...so as long as you can find those again if ever needed, then it's safe to just delete anything in there with a .lnk extension.

sirphunkee said:
connect to your PC with activesync, then use your PC to navigate to my device\windows\startup on the phone.
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what should i delete? what did you delete?
to the guy with his phone on for 3 days without reboot, what did you delete or mod to gain that kind of stability. I have the tmous update, but there is a cpu update too???

Here is my setup.
makkunbakkun said:
what should i delete? what did you delete?
to the guy with his phone on for 3 days without reboot, what did you delete or mod to gain that kind of stability. I have the tmous update, but there is a cpu update too???
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My set up>
T mobile HD2 latest ROM(how ever I was ok using old ROM).
SPB mobile shell 3.5.5 (Sense theme)
S2U2
Arkswitch
In My startup programs(windows/startup)>
arkswitch
ilock2
lumosstarter
spbmobileshell
everything else I moved to
windows/startup2 (or anywhere)
there is an app called BTtrayCE, this enables the bluethoot, so if i want to enable bluethoot i press a shortcut that i made to that app, then i turn bluethoot, probably is ok to leave bttrayCE but anyway i dont use it.
then i renamed the folder
program files/Selfservice to program files/stopselfservice
in this folder there is a lot of trash from t mobile that starts when you turn on the phone.
I think one of my main advantages is SPB ms, really, it disables all that sense stuff that crashes the phone (in my opinion), you can get better performance by using titanium but, it is not too productive.
I'm attaching some pictures of my phone. it is running since morning (it died because of battery) the last screen shot i posted before
Again no problems with the performance at all battery last for 1.5 days but i dont have data plan, just wifi 21 hrs a day.
Hope it helpsss
-Roberto

Awesome Roberto, thank you! I haven't gone in to clean out my startup group yet, but according to what you're showing even the few things that are in there now can go...although I might just put bttray back in there since I use BT all the time.
Also, oddly enough, I don't have the program files/selfservice folder you mention...maybe it's new in the 2.13 ROM...?

They came on 2.13
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Awesome Roberto, thank you! I haven't gone in to clean out my startup group yet, but according to what you're showing even the few things that are in there now can go...although I might just put bttray back in there since I use BT all the time.
Also, oddly enough, I don't have the program files/selfservice folder you mention...maybe it's new in the 2.13 ROM...?
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Actually yes I think they came with the new 2.13 ROM. For some reason with those files running I wasn't able to open more than 5 apps at the same time - they were autoclosing-, i think that's t mo's solution for stability in the HD2.

alright so i deleted some things, and i thinkk i may have messed something up.
when i hold the end key down to get to the menu where you can vibrate or turn off data it lags rediculously.....
could someone send me their startup folder shortcuts so i can compare what you have in there?
like an idiot....i didnt backup before i started deleting

makkunbakkun said:
alright so i deleted some things, and i thinkk i may have messed something up.
when i hold the end key down to get to the menu where you can vibrate or turn off data it lags rediculously.....
could someone send me their startup folder shortcuts so i can compare what you have in there?
like an idiot....i didnt backup before i started deleting
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Here you go man, I haven't cleaned mine out yet so everything that came stock is in there with the exception of BTTray.lnk. That and any of the .lnk files you see below should be available for you in the \windows root.

sirphunkee said:
Here you go man, I haven't cleaned mine out yet so everything that came stock is in there with the exception of BTTray.lnk. That and any of the .lnk files you see below should be available for you in the \windows root.
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maybe i mistyped, maybe you misunderstood, could you send me your whole startup folder please? not just what files there are in there

Here they are
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maybe i mistyped, maybe you misunderstood, could you send me your whole startup folder please? not just what files there are in there
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I think these are the original ones.

makkunbakkun said:
maybe i mistyped, maybe you misunderstood, could you send me your whole startup folder please? not just what files there are in there
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Yes I guess I misunderstood, I thought you just needed to know which ones you needed to copy the links for out of your windows folder again.

What Android 3.1 DIDN'T Fix!

Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.

scotty1024 said:
Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.
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The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.

what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?

vBulletin typing (like XDA) still sucks.

timrock said:
what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?
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It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?

jdclucidly said:
It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?
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why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.

timrock said:
why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.
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USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?

jdclucidly said:
USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?
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really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Hmmm, from Android Honeycomb 3.1 Details ...
...Android 3.1 still isn’t intended, at the operating system level, for managing external storage devices. This detail, which came out in conversations I had with Google engineers today, explains why the Android file system organization is, well, a mess...
“We don’t want to expose the user to file locations,” explained Hiroshi Lockheimer, director of engineering at Google. “How do you manage that as a user? The not-good answer is with the file browser.” Lockheimer says that many of the experiences I’ve seen so far are what individual hardware manufacturers have enabled, as opposed to what Google has provided natively. The good thing is that Lockheimer says Google is looking at ways to do this; but the problem hasn’t been solved yet...
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I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)

timrock said:
really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.
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He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.

Just-in-time said:
He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.
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Thank you. And i meant answer without the snide remark. Thanks again for explaining.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

i know just what you mean, however i quite enjoy having the (X)s to click to get rid of them. I would like to see a slide to delete in the notifications aswell

Dubar said:
I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)
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totally agree. there are lots of things i understand why they're waiting, but this? come on. i could clear all on my phone.

I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can mount my Xoom in linux using libmtp and mtpfs, however, it's slow, kludgy, and generally feels like it will flake out at any moment. Additionally, even when it's mounted, I can't seem to copy music across properly; it doesn't keep the folder structure. In fact, the directories are created and any non audio files are copied across fine, but every mp3/audio file is flatly dropped into the Music directory.
I tried to copy some music onto it from my fiancee's windows xp laptop and it worked ok (though the album art didn't appear).
The move away from mass storage to MTP is a massive disappointment for me. Mass storage has always been a big selling point for me when purchasing a device and for Google to switch to using a Windows specific protocol and consider it cross platform is a big letdown. MTP on mac requires a special app and on linux, support is dire, certainly for anything more complex than simply pulling images from a camera.
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I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.

New update for drag racing is really choppy, lile playing angry birds on a g1.... but samauri II and the other thd games run smooth...dont kmow if its 3.1 kernel cuz it plays fine on my mytouch4g
XOOM

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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If that is a motorola problem and xoom is a barebone system. Who's gonna fix it, how?

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.
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Change all the extension names in the song file name to .mp and it will allow the transfer
Then use something of your liking, I use astro file manager, and just add the 3 on the a tail end of the extension.
Its a b, but you can at least get a couple good songs on there.

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
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You're right, it's a cross-platform solution for transferring MEDIA, being the Media Transfer Protocol.
It's smart enough to detect the media files that it supports and put them in the right place. I prefer it over the old way, I hated having to unmount the sdcard every single time.
A poorly made Linux MTP library doesn't make it not cross-platform. It's an open standard for transferring media to USB devices.
It's not perfect, but it's great for a device like the Xoom where unmounting the internal memory is not desirable.
Honestly users get really confused by all of the extra directories when mounting an android sd-card anyways.

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The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Actually, it has been a big debate on rather it is Google's or Moto's issue, but I am sure that we all can agree that it needs to be fixed no mater whos issue it is.

Probably a stupid question, but is there a file manager?

Just decided and bought a 32G A500 but..
I can't seem to find a file manager on it.
How do you navigate to the mSD card to install more app apk's?

I installed a file browser from Market, Ghost Commander. Actually I'm not sure you can install apks from there. But there are other file browsers out there.
The external microSD card is found at /mnt/external_SD wheras the internal memory is mounted at /mnt/sdcard, which is sort of confusing.
Good luck!
^^
Bjorn

So, it DOESN'T come with one?
Did no one at Acer think that might be a glaring oversight?
I have a couple of bought ones backed up on mSD - I'd like to use them, but first I have to install a free one, then install the bought ones, then remove the free one? WOW..
(They were bought under a different account to by A500 account)
Ok, I can live with that, a little backwards though!

There might have been one installed from the box, but I never looked for it.
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Bjorn

SlayerBear said:
There might have been one installed from the box, but I never looked for it.
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Bjorn
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How do you install apps from mSD card then?

Fluffbutt said:
Just decided and bought a 32G A500 but..
I can't seem to find a file manager on it.
How do you navigate to the mSD card to install more app apk's?
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Tried a lot of file managers, my absolute fav is 'File Manager HD' free designed for honeycomb!
You can book mark folders for easy nav and ip access to your PC hard drive also bookmarkable, although you might want to set a static IP on your PC as it does change it automatically every now and then if not static...
Network access to PC is in settings top right corner of ap.
Hope this helps.

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... my absolute fav is 'File Manager HD' free designed for honeycomb!
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I actually couldn't find my external sd-card using File Browser HD, do you know how/if it's possible?
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SlayerBear said:
I actually couldn't find my external sd-card using File Browser HD, do you know how/if it's possible?
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Hi Bjorn,
yes it is possible:
Left hand side click System icon,
Top right corner click the UP arrow,
Click mnt folder,
Click external_sd
OR before going into external_sd folder, long press it and you have your shortcut/bookmark made.
Hope this helps...
MJ-12

SlayerBear said:
I actually couldn't find my external sd-card using File Browser HD, do you know how/if it's possible?
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Bjorn
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If you install filemanager hd and tap 'storage' on the left hand side and keep going 'up' on the green arrow along the top menu, you will eventually get to a directory which includes usb_storage (usb stick), external_sd (your inserted sd card) and sdcard (the Iconia internal memory).
Hope this helps, btw, filemanager hd is very similar to Astro, but looks waaaay better.

markteacher said:
If you install filemanager hd and tap 'storage' on the left hand side and keep going 'up' on the green arrow along the top menu, you will eventually get to a directory which includes usb_storage (usb stick), external_sd (your inserted sd card) and sdcard (the Iconia internal memory).
Hope this helps, btw, filemanager hd is very similar to Astro, but looks waaaay better.
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'mnt' folder must be accessed
And yes I agree with you it does look really good and easy to navigate as you get used to what it can do on setting it up right. Although I always have to keep trusty Root Explorer handy for Root control, but I am sure it's just a matter of time that HD can do this too.

It seems silly but also pretty much traditional that Android devices don't come with a file manager preinstalled. No idea why the Android team @ Google doesn't go ahead and put together a barebones version to be included on all devices, not like people aren't still going to install Astro or ES or File Manager HD if they want it.
Or, I dunno, device makers could come up with one instead of a gazillion different apps and widgets to give you your Facebook feed ...

MJ-12 said:
Hi Bjorn,
yes it is possible:
Left hand side click System icon,
Top right corner click the UP arrow,
Click mnt folder,
Click external_sd
OR before going into external_sd folder, long press it and you have your shortcut/bookmark made.
Hope this helps...
MJ-12
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Thanks! I missed the up-button... Doh!
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Bjorn
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk

Vereynn said:
It seems silly but also pretty much traditional that Android devices don't come with a file manager preinstalled. No idea why the Android team @ Google doesn't go ahead and put together a barebones version to be included on all devices, not like people aren't still going to install Astro or ES or File Manager HD if they want it.
Or, I dunno, device makers could come up with one instead of a gazillion different apps and widgets to give you your Facebook feed ...
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YES to that last comment.
My Archos 101 has abasic file manager and a basic browser, from new.
My A500 has basic broswer, no file manager, and (OK, exaggerated) 1000 facebook/twitter apps. (And they all want to run from start-up!!)
Yeah, I know, there's not 1000, it just feels like it.

OMG thank you for this one! Cannot believe there wasn't a stock one...but I'm totally loving this one!
Mk

File transfer issue

I downloaded a 1.2GB file to my nexus 4. upon connecting it to windows to transfer it over I don't see the file.
I see the other files in the folder but its like the larger file is hidden. Is there some file size cap that prevents it from showing in windows?
Edit: turning on and off usb debugging has no effect, still only see various files except for larger files

anyone?

that happens alot, no file cap, i fix it by rebooting 2 or 3 times to get it shown, must be a issue with nexus media storage manager or some lousy process, i dont know why google wants to make it harder for us.

In Windows try to search a dot (.) in the folder. If you couldn't see it then the file is likely encrypted.

republicano said:
that happens alot, no file cap, i fix it by rebooting 2 or 3 times to get it shown, must be a issue with nexus media storage manager or some lousy process, i dont know why google wants to make it harder for us.
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Cool a restart did the trick. Weird that files don't show up at first, guess it needs a fresh media scan to work.

Manage photos, music and other files in Nexus 6P?

After connection thiis phone with the usb cable it came with, looks like there is nothing I can do in the Nexus 6P folder (windows does recognize it), I can't see, create, or manage anything like I used to. Do I need to unlock or root this phone first?
Thanks.

glancer2315 said:
After connection thiis phone with the usb cable it came with, looks like there is nothing I can do in the Nexus 6P folder (windows does recognize it), I can't see, create, or manage anything like I used to. Do I need to unlock or root this phone first?
Thanks.
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If you pull down your notifications, you will see that it defaults to 'USB for Charging'. Just tap on that and change it to 'File transfers'

walrusmonarch said:
If you pull down your notifications, you will see that it defaults to 'USB for Charging'. Just tap on that and change it to 'File transfers'
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Thank you so much! I was looking for this option under Settings --> Storage & USB, where I think it used to be, but couldn't find it.
One more question, how come I don't see the photos I took with the phone in the Pictures folder?
Edited: NVM, just realized that it's another folder.
Sigh, so stupid of me.