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FREE SPB TV for WM

SPB has gone to freeware for their mobile TV software:
http://spb.com/pocketpc-software/tv/download.html?
I tested it and it works fine, but at my current location I have to use low definition.

"Hi"Def (350Kbps) is certainly an improvement over the lower (150?100? kbps), but I find that some channels skip with it. The classic (old B&W mainly) SciFi and Comedy channels (forgotten the names, sorry) for example. Other channels are OK. You often get a few seconds of audio before video appears, and then first second or two of video is jerkier than what follows. Basically don't write off a channel until you've viewed it for at least 10-15 seconds. The skipping stops on lower bandwidth version.
I'm not sure whether the video/audio skipping I mentioned will happen to all people, or whether they have a lot of packets dropping on the way to Kazakhstan. Can't be bothered find stream addresses and trace routing, but something to try another day.
Oh, using WiFi onto a 1Mbit ADSL line btw, no 3G out here, so not able to test Edge quality.

CM7 Bluetooth Dropout

I'm having an issue using bluetooth with CM7 that may be difficult for most users to duplicate or even experience. This problem has persisted from the beginning of CM7 up through N37 including using Ladios' kernel and the latest radio update.
I'm a long distance motorcycle rider and use a a2dp bluetooth equipped helmet. This enables the full use of the Aria's telephone & music functions, from streaming music via BT to the helmet, to answering phone calls.
It's taken me awhile to realize it, but running with CM7, I'm experiencing a significant number of what I call bluetooth dropouts. This is very noticeable because I always stream music to the helmet when I'm riding. The bluetooth connection doesn't disconnect, the signal just seems to drop dead (go silent) for anywhere from a couple of seconds to as long as 15+seconds. This is something I could easily attribute to BT signal interference from power lines or RF interference, etc, if it wasn't for ONE thing;
I also have a second Aria running Gene Poole's Liberated Aria 2.2.2 and the same latest radio. With this phone and OS, the BT dropouts are non-existent.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm really liking and well into being committed to CM7, but the BT dropouts are a real issue for me.
Edit: No, missing 10 or 15 seconds of music isn't a big deal, but when a phone call drops out for that long, it is.
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try compare two roms /system/etc/*.csv
attn1 updated props before: https://github.com/koush/proprietary_vendor_htc/commit/0a8b318261979b71bf6fd099788210bf74e8e21e

Thanks, I'll see what I can find.

I have what I suspect is the same issue. In my case, it's localized and predictable - if I take my usual bus to work, it doesn't happen until I get off the bus downtown. If I take a different bus, it happens at certain intersections. It also happens when I walk the dog in my neighborhood. Obviously, there is some sort of interference occurring at these locations, but I can't figure out what.

Did they ever fix the issue with everybody running cm7 having the same bt address?maybe you folks are running across other root users running cm7 and a Bluetooth device.try loading cm7 on your wife's phone see if it creates the same dropout.
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No its not from being around rooted phones mine does it in towns, city's, and out in the country, around people and no people, there is something causing interuption within the phone or program itself.

[Q] Sports tracker problem

Hi everyone, I just want to check to se eif its just me or if this is a generic WP7 or HD2 problem and for the record I am using B.T.T.F 8107
During my lunch break I regularly walk to the local shop and back which is just over a mile or so and to vary things I will take different routes so my walk will be between 20-30mins.
Being on the large side I decided to walk briskly and use sports tracking software and Zune playing FM radio. This was a while ago and I started with Endomondo, this worked fine up until around the 7440 update and for some reason I could no longer use the FM radio and Endomondo so I switched to listening to my radio station over the Internet and this was also fine.
Then I upgraded to the 8107 and Endomondo now 'pauses' when the screen locks, I have set the option to run under the lock screen and I have turned off the auto pause but no good.
Thinking this was a problem with Endomondo I uninstalled this and tried Marathon and this was the same so I ditched this and now have RunSat and this also does the same.
Too much for coincidence so out of curiosity does anyone else use sports tracking software on the HD2 and do they have similar problems?
Many thanks

OK just tried today without Zune running and its still the same.
RunStat showed 22mins but a distance of only 0.3 miles, does anyone have any ideas please?

I know you've already found this, so I'm just posting as a reference for others with the same problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21103854#post21103854
Update
Here's a solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22276726&postcount=4933

Linking 5 cars via tether for streaming

Wud up doh ladies.
Heres my predicament, my buds and i are driving up to daytona for SBN (spring break nationals, a bass competition) and were basically driving in a caravan.
Each car has at least 5000 rms and up to 15000 rms. (watts)
What we thought would be epic was for me to be djing off of a laptop on the way there, connected via ustream and all 5 cars tuning in to my stream allowing us to play the exact same songs at the exact same time from the 5 vehicles making you be able to hear us from a mile or so away
Predicament. To my knowledge, we have an ipad with ability to tether and nothing else as or right now considering i havent really looked too far into it.
However, We do have a power converter in one of the vehicles allowing us to use a wall outlet essentially.
I was entertaining the idea to have a router connected and to be streaming via a shoutcast server over LAN but im unaware of any app that allows you to tune into shoutcast radios being broadcast over a lan on itouch or ipad or iphone or android for that matter. I am aware that winamp allows you to plug in your listening IP but i have never tested it to work over lan nor on an android and i dont believe its on iphone etc.
So my alternative was to leech internet off the ipad, but if the caravan is 5 cars long, will all cars be able to reach the signal from the ONE ipad, and will that ipad have enough bandwidth to have me dj (upstream, upload) and 5 devices stream (downstream, download). Audio will be streamed at 48kbps if i remember correctly so the bandwidth required ISNT massive however over 5 devices i believe it might be an issue.
if the bandwidth is sufficent i was entertaining the ability to attempt to use the ipad as a WAP (Wireless access point) connected via the router then have an antenna from the router on the roof of the car to boost distance you can pick up the signal from.
WTB ANSWERS, i have 3 weeks to get this to happen

I doubt very seriously the wifi antenna in the iPad is capable of handling this sort of abuse.
You might be able to do it with a laptop and a wireless AP in infrastructure mode and have multiple clients connect to that system.

Regizzle said:
Wud up doh ladies.
Heres my predicament, my buds and i are driving up to daytona for SBN (spring break nationals, a bass competition) and were basically driving in a caravan.
Each car has at least 5000 rms and up to 15000 rms. (watts)
What we thought would be epic was for me to be djing off of a laptop on the way there, connected via ustream and all 5 cars tuning in to my stream allowing us to play the exact same songs at the exact same time from the 5 vehicles making you be able to hear us from a mile or so away
Predicament. To my knowledge, we have an ipad with ability to tether and nothing else as or right now considering i havent really looked too far into it.
However, We do have a power converter in one of the vehicles allowing us to use a wall outlet essentially.
I was entertaining the idea to have a router connected and to be streaming via a shoutcast server over LAN but im unaware of any app that allows you to tune into shoutcast radios being broadcast over a lan on itouch or ipad or iphone or android for that matter. I am aware that winamp allows you to plug in your listening IP but i have never tested it to work over lan nor on an android and i dont believe its on iphone etc.
So my alternative was to leech internet off the ipad, but if the caravan is 5 cars long, will all cars be able to reach the signal from the ONE ipad, and will that ipad have enough bandwidth to have me dj (upstream, upload) and 5 devices stream (downstream, download). Audio will be streamed at 48kbps if i remember correctly so the bandwidth required ISNT massive however over 5 devices i believe it might be an issue.
if the bandwidth is sufficent i was entertaining the ability to attempt to use the ipad as a WAP (Wireless access point) connected via the router then have an antenna from the router on the roof of the car to boost distance you can pick up the signal from.
WTB ANSWERS, i have 3 weeks to get this to happen
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Sounds like a pretty sweet idea dude! If I were in your shoes, I would create a powerful, rolling, WiFi LAN. Here's how I would do it:
Here's what you would need:
VLC (it's free)
A really powerful wireless router with external antenna's
Make sure the laptop you're going to be performing the broadcast from has its own wired network adapter
What you would do:
Connect your laptop up to the WAN port of the wireless router (the same port that you would normally connect your Cable Modem/DSL/FiOS). This is because you want your laptop to be set up as the default gateway for that LAN.
I would perform the broadcast from the middle car in the caravan for the best signal to the rest of the vehicles, possibly even use external antenna's (like, external to the car itself, not just the router) for the best possible signal quality.
Set up a local VLC streaming server on the laptop. This way you can make the stream much higher bandwidth and higher quality. Everyone can tune into with their own VLC client's, whether on other laptops, or iOS/Android devices with VLC.
Done correctly, this setup won't even require an internet connection, as everything will be done via the local network. That said, if the broadcasting laptop has a mobile connection tethered up to it, then everyone can benefit from that if they wanted to.
Overall, the mobile WLAN idea, in conjunction with a local VLC broadcast, will afford you the best audio quality along with the highest degree of reliability, as you won't need to worry about dead spots in the mobile coverage. Also, this method will yield the lowest latency (because they'd all be on the same local network), so for everyone in the caravan, their stereo's will more likely be playing the same thing at the same time as opposed to everyone playing the same thing, but all at different parts depending on their cellular network conditions.
What do you think?

Will the router do it? Unless it's a real piece of junk, yes. (And by junk I don't mean something selling new for $19.99, I mean something real cheap. Even a $20 router should handle 5 audio streams without waking up.)
Will the idea work? Not the way you want. There will be a delay of up to a few seconds between the streams to each car. All the cars can hear the same song at (within a couple of seconds at most) the same time. But close enough that there's no echo? No.
Connect a computer's web browser to a web audio source (police scanner, or anything else where the source doesn't start by your connecting to it, like a podcast will). Connect your phone to the same source (using its browser). Notice that there's a delay between them.
Nothing you can do about it - that's just how streaming works these days. Maybe for SBN 2025.

With encoding and decoding of digital audio streams, signal quality, et cetera.. you'll find it hard to achieve a truly synchronized stream. With new ATSC broadcast standards, even television sets in my household are off-sync; there is an echo.
Here's where analog synchronization comes in. It might seem very old-fashioned, but you could use an FM transmitter for this. I don't know much about them, but be aware of FCC regulations here in the states. You'll need a fairly high-power one and an omnidirectional antenna. Plan on a nice big investment, too!
Some cons to an FM transmitter:
1. Reliability: it's RARE that you'll find a vacant station in a metro area. Broadcasting over live stations is illegal, and requires a LOT more power than you can get in a portable FM transmitter.
2. Security: the music stream is unprotected. Just about anyone nearby could pick up your station and use YOUR tunes.
3. Vulnerability: it's possible that someone else could bring a more powerful FM transmitter, and broadcast Justin Bieber to your five vehicles (yikes!)

It'd probably be easier to store local copies of the music in each vehicle and use a network connection to handle synchronizing hitting the "Play" buttons.
But you'd probably have to write a whole new application.

dfc849 said:
With encoding and decoding of digital audio streams, signal quality, et cetera.. you'll find it hard to achieve a truly synchronized stream. With new ATSC broadcast standards, even television sets in my household are off-sync; there is an echo.
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Ya, anything that encodes and decodes is very likely to do it at a slightly different rate, so synchronization would be very difficult. Even if you could get them started at the same time, they will probably slip out of sync after some time, too. This goes for the idea of just pushing "play" at the same time. Music playing at slightly different rates may sound the same to us, but will shortly fall out of sync.
dfc849 said:
Some cons to an FM transmitter:
1. Reliability: it's RARE that you'll find a vacant station in a metro area. Broadcasting over live stations is illegal, and requires a LOT more power than you can get in a portable FM transmitter.
2. Security: the music stream is unprotected. Just about anyone nearby could pick up your station and use YOUR tunes.
3. Vulnerability: it's possible that someone else could bring a more powerful FM transmitter, and broadcast Justin Bieber to your five vehicles (yikes!)
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On the other hand, to broadcast only a few hundred feet you could probably get something at a computer store that would handle it. I know I picked up a $10 FM transmitter meant for iPods and CD players to connect them to a car stereo. It transmits from my computer to my stereo about 50ft away with no problem, though I haven't tested the limits. It would be easy enough to just plug it into your DJ machine and set all the cars to the same radio station. You could try sticking it to the top of the car and see how far away the other cars still get a clear signal. If it's not enough, you could probably pop it open and extend the antenna a little and get better range.

Where are you driving UP from? Cuba? All of that for a 4 hour trip if you are as far South as Miami?

xpather that
Cool idea

i'd go with analog, i.e. FM transmitter

You ought to have good line of sight on the other members of your caravan.. While I'd recommend keeping the DJ in the center of the pack, even if all five cars were strung along you ought to get good signal from front to back. Just don't get too separated (finding ways to manage that is half the fun of caravaning).
I'll echo what was said above and recommend you preload your songs on all the devices. Streaming synchronized audio is simply impractical. *Playing* all the songs at the same times might be more doable. Maybe. Your mileage may vary, etc etc.

Bluetooth problem

Hello to everyone.
From when i bought it the op8pro has some problem with the bluetooth. Is like if the device can connect to one device only. I have a fossil 5 gen, one fiesta mk8 with android auto and the bluetooth headset but is like if the bluetooth has some problem to connect to two or one devices. For example every time my car doesnt connect to the phone automatically and today when i was to the gym my headset doesnt connect automatically too. My previous note 10 pro was able to connect without any problem... Someone has some problem with the bluetooth? Thanks
I have another problem. Every time that i enter in my car the device is connect to android auto but if i want to play an audio from whatsapp i have to tap a lot of time on the play botton.!!!???why

I see this same issue, I'd say 80-90% of the time (the other 10-20%, it "just works", which is truly odd, given the protocol).
For example, I use some bone-conducting open-air headphones, while cycling (long time road cyclist), and sometimes I want to connect my Garmin Edge 1030, to download a route, when I'm out.
Good luck, even upon returning, I'm often sitting in the garage, trying 20+ times (after shutting my headphones off, even), to try and download my ride-data, for the day. Sometimes it requires rebooting both devices, flushing the Bluetooth app-cache, and the Garmin app-cache, and then it'll work, that's perhaps 40% of the time.
For another 40%, it will NOT connect, what-so-ever, across multiple reboots and app-cache flushes, period (I tend to give up at around the 20+ attempt mark, depending).
The last 20%, it works, perfectly, as you'd expect, and as my OP7 Pro did, I can't recall a single BT connectivity issue, with it, either solo (Garmin) or with headphones concurrently.
I've filed bugs with OP (along with NUMEROUS other radio bugs, like the fact you can't connect to a 5G-mobile signal, if you're connected to a WiFi signal, on the INO2025 model, bug filed, trace-logs submitted, including pointing out log-lines where the radio(s) fail).
Unfortunately, with the Bluetooth issues, it will not repro, if I use the OP debug-mode, which is how they want to receive logs (and how I've submitted many bugs, previously), so I'm at a loss, short of finding a hardware Bluetooth debug module (I used to work on h/w and s/w boundary driver stuff, so I've used a h/w BT debugger before, but not for some years, and have no access to one, currently).
OP seems to just ignore the bugs, at that point, when I can't provide the logs, they pretty much abandon the bug-thread, so I'm not sure how they're going to get some of these resolved (I've noted that the debug-mode seems to introduce some latency, or similar, that prevents repro, no response to that, what-so-ever).
I have reset the radio-stack, a couple of times, and did one full factory-reset (shortly after getting the phone, about 1 month back now), with no real change in results, for reference.
I feel like I'm back in the late-90's, when Bluetooth was super-flaky. on most devices, in the 1.x and 2.x days.
Not exactly a "flagship phone experience", or even a decent budget phone Bluetooth experience, for this day and age...
I'm open to ideas on how to debug further, I'm really more of a storage and display guy, and memory-management, in terms of the bulk of my dev/debug skills, communication protocols were something I did on the fringe, of sorts, when they overlapped, or similar.