Hello. Bare with me, Im just a lowly newb. Does installing wifi tethering have any effect on how the phone plays videos, say from YouTube? Is It similair to the My 3G app the iphone guys have? If it doesnt is there an app for us andriod to users that make video quality better? Thanks!!
It has no effect on how videos are played, and HQ on youtube to allow better quallity
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Could you elaborate on the "HQ"? Is that an app or option on the phone? Please pardon my lack of knowledge! Thanks!
No its on the app itself, open youtube press the menu button, check the first one(enable high quallity, something like that)
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Thanks for the info.
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone else has had issues with the forward facin camera in chat apps like fring or qik. On mine the video is rotated 90 degrees and the video is squished. When I use the built in camera app I notice the video is in landscape, but in the chat apps it is making it portrait but instead of cropping its making it look horrible. Anyone else getting this? Anyone got a fix?
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I've tried Tango app for video chat and I want to say I believe it looks fine. Try it out.
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Known issue. Don't think there is a fix.
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I also have this issue. It is super annoying, but I have found that the tango app does it right.
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It's a known issue with qik that qik support said will be fixed in future versions.
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When I record audio in WhatsApp, the sound is very compressed and noisy.
Recording using the phone's default Voice Recording app records fine and sounds great. This only happens inside WhatsApp. When my friend records something on his iphone to send over WhatsApp, it sounds great... crystal clear.
I can record using the Voice Recorder app, and then share it via WhatsApp, but the person receiving it cannot play it.
Could someone else download WhatsApp and try recording an attachment?
The compression/distortion is much more noticeable when recording something other than a voice, like a guitar.
edit: I emailed their support and they said they have no such issue
Well your still a step ahead of me, I can't get Whatsapp to record what so ever, even when I record a video with it it comes out with no audio at all. As far as I know this only happens in Whatsapp, all my other apps can use the mic.
So yes there is an issue with it.
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Are you using a custom ROM?
Maybe that affects it for some reason. Like I said their support tested it with a GS2 when I emailed them and they said it recorded and sent fine in normal quality.
I'm using Congnition 1.15
Can someone else please try?
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Mines all stock, not even rooted. So I couldn't have crippled it.
Honestly I don't have any use for it so I didn't really try and find what's wrong.
Like you I was testing Whatsapp with an iPhone and the audio I received from it was crystal clear but what ever I send comes out blank with nothing to hear. It's like it can't use the mic.
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I feel like their support might not even be able to notice the difference in compression lol.
It makes no sense that it would compress it on my phone but not on theirs
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Lol well maybe to them it sounds normal when it's compressed.
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Lol well maybe to them it sounds normal when it's compressed.
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Yeah, I even told them to record the same thing in WhatsApp and in Voice Recorder and they claimed it sounded the same
That's why I'm asking you fine gents to test for me
Well I just reinstalled whatsapp and surprisingly enough the audio works now and I can confirm that whatsapp seems to compress the file cuz the quality isn't as good as the stock voice recorder, but it's not that bad imo.
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if you're just recording your voice its not that bad. But anything else sounds awful
I tried recording my guitar and it sounded abysmal
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Yea probably. Well I guess the best thing to do is just use some other service in the mean time. Doesn't look like they'll fix it anytime soon.
Cheers bud.
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I realized that it sounds just as compressed if I use a 3rd party voice recording app
I wonder why the stock recorder app has perfect quality audio while 3rd party apps sound like crap
is it like an API/driver thing?
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Hmm it might be an Api or driver but I think they're all compressing it to decrease file size and thus traffic on their servers. Cuz for instance if you send a photo it doesn't send it with the full resolution but lowers it to maintain file size. So i'm guessing they do the same to audio files.
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Nah it happens with any App that isn't the stock Voice Recorder app
I guess it's special
I flashed MIUI and nothing records with the same quality as Samsung's app
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I was wondering if anybody would be interested in developing something like this? A simple Google search for the something like this obviously reveals a completely untapped market for this device which has amazing hardware with great audio recording and playback. In fact, I'm using something called Tazcam, which allows me to plug in my external mic and guitar directly into my Touchpad, and the quality is AWESOME.
Just a thought.
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any way to take pictures with the headphone buttons? is that any camera app that has this built in?
also, for the default camera app, is there any way to keep the flash on constantly WITHOUT having to be in record mode?
Best way without rooting would be to get a 3rd party camera app like camera360... and as for the flashlight probably need a 3rd party app for that too
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