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[Q] Is our display only Dual-Touch?

I have dowloaded several apps claiming to be multi-touch and have only managed to use 2 fingers at once. So i thought i would download a test app designed to recognise more than 2 fingers. In the market it shows it recognising 5. so is the HD2 not cabable of recognising more than 2 fingers or is it a software limitation?
I have made a video of my HD2 (EU AUO Panel).
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correct it isnt capable of using more than 2 finger points

Why would you need more then two fingers?
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thenotoriouspie said:
Why would you need more then two fingers?
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For the piano :O. Plus i just don't like having limits especially when the limit is 2 :/.

2 point multi-touch aka dual touch

Official Netflix App... no Atrix

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient
So it finally came out but only supports a limited number of handsets. On the official blog they say there is no consistent video playback mechanism on Android so they have to test with each phone. Seems dumb that they wouldn't test on a Tegra 2 phone right out of the gate, since that would essentially mean compatibility with ANY Tegra 2 device...

APK
Anyone have the apk? Would like to test on my atrix.

i bet you it has far less to do with playback on each device, and more to do with locking down the video feed for each device.

I think most if not all the supported handsets right now have qaulcomm chipsets.
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this page has a link to the apk
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/05/12/download-netflix-for-the-droidx/

Qaulcomm was supose to have hardware level drm first in future chipsets
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Meh, don't care about netflix anyway.

Working great on my buddys Evo 4g. Still a little choppy compared to the iphone but its a start. Hopefully with my faster data and dual core the atrix will handle it.

They got it to work on nook color by just editing the build.prop
ro.product.model=HTC Vision
ro.product.manufacturer=HTC
And then rebooting.
Has anyone else tried this?

Ya didn't work for me
neone else?

There is another thread about this. I played with the build.prop on atrix, comparing it to my evo with cyanogen7. I copied all relavant info I could think of, but it didn't work, and it broke swype. There are a lot more fields in the atrix than the evo.
With no edits I can load the app and manage my queue, but I get an error when I try to play. After I edit, the app never even loads.
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Works just fine for me

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Works just fine for me
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Care to elaborate? You don't mean that you can stream Netflix on an Atrix, do you (and if by some chance yes, how?)?

On my atrix it says your "device is not supported "
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13773300&postcount=174
This is a modified netflix apk streams but the quality sucks and has a huge green line at the bottom seems no to be able to handle qHD display
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yokozuna82 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13773300&postcount=174
This is a modified netflix apk streams but the quality sucks and has a huge green line at the bottom seems no to be able to handle qHD display
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I am using that also and have the same problem. It's better than nothing though.

This modified APK works great for me. I just watched something over 3G, we only have 1-2 mbits here in DC and it looked GREAT, no pixelation or artifacts.
The picture is using the full display but there is a quarter inch green bar at the bottom. However, the bar is just overlaying the picture like a filter. It might be where the CC would be. You can still see the picture underneath.
So great quality for me even over 3G, full screen with a green bar at the bottom. Once that bar is gone, thats it I would say.
Update: ok, sometimes, objects or parts of the picture have a green or pinkish shadow. But it is definitely still watchable.

Yeah I tried the modified app as well. Green bar on bottom. Lots of pink and green in the picture.
Glad at least we have SOMETHING..hopefully someone will fix the issues soon.
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That modified APK works for me but that green bar at the bottom is pretty annoying. Still better than nothing!

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Works just fine for me
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Can you please be more vague?

Sky tv on desire HD

Is it possible to watch like sky tv on my phone?
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Don't think so at present; Sky have said there'll be an Android version of the Sky Go app available "in the coming months", so I guess we're stuck waiting to catch up with the iPhone crowd again.
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Do they not relies how much potential an android app would give them.
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kpf16 said:
Do they not relies how much potential an android app would give them.
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I know, especially given how many people are asking them for it everywhere. I read rumours on a forum somewhere that the delay was because they weren't happy with the security of streaming video on Android. Not sure if there's any truth to that, especially as Netflix et al seem to be managing it.
They've said it would be this year sometime, so hopefully we get it sooner rather than later. Then we can all move on to complaining about how ridiculous the 2-device limitation is.

I wouldn't hold my breath. I've just received an email promoting Sky Go and it stated that selected Android phone support would be available in the Winter!
I'm so, so disappointed.
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Sky said that the reason they released it for iPhone & iPad and not for Android, is because they find it a lot more difficult to develop an app for Android.
Sky Go on mobile is only available with Sky Sports channels, I wouldn't be surprises if the Android app wasn't released until after this football season
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The reason for the SKy Go app taking so long on android, is the amount of different platforms this will be running on. Remember Android covers all devices not just HTC plus quite a few new tablets. Im sure it will come to us quick enough

Like I said.
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I have a slingbox solo, and use it with Virgin TV.
It's brilliant, mostly I use the Slingplayer android app with it - its constantly optimizing quality for your current bandwidth, and with even quite a poor 3g signal I can watch it.
I'm 99% sure you could use this with Sky/Sky+ etc

Get a Slingbox. Had one for years on Winmo and Android and its my #1 app. In fact I have 2 and 2 sky hd boxes so there are no arguments over the remote in my house
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The sky go app is now available in the market....However it will only work with certain devices. See the market page for details.

Another possibility would be a receiver like a Dreambox for streaming.

xpuser said:
The sky go app is now available in the market....However it will only work with certain devices. See the market page for details.
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Yeah, DHD is one of the supported devices but it doesn't run on ICS (I can confirm that) and apparently won't work if your device is rooted. I'll try some GB ROMs today to see what happens but I'm not too hopeful. As if Sky hadn't pissed people off enough by taking this long to release it.
Update after a few attempts:
ICS (Ascension) - app won't even open, force closes immediately.
GB cm7 (Absolution 3.7) - app loads, when trying to watch any channel displays a message "your device is not currently supported".
GB sense (ARHD 6.3.2) - app loads, only Sky News channel will stream, all other channels show loading bar staying at 0%.
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Are you running a custom kernel? it looks like the SGII guys are having success with custom ROMs when they have a stock kernel.
I've been looking but I can't find a download link to a stock kernel.

hopscotchjunkie said:
Yeah, DHD is one of the supported devices but it doesn't run on ICS (I can confirm that) and apparently won't work if your device is rooted. I'll try some GB ROMs today to see what happens but I'm not too hopeful. As if Sky hadn't pissed people off enough by taking this long to release it.
Update after a few attempts:
ICS (Ascension) - app won't even open, force closes immediately.
GB cm7 (Absolution 3.7) - app loads, when trying to watch any channel displays a message "your device is not currently supported".
GB sense (ARHD 6.3.2) - app loads, only Sky News channel will stream, all other channels show loading bar staying at 0%.
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I'm on RCMix3D Runny V4.0 and ALL channels show loading bar staying at 0%
Not working on Runny V4.0 either

Big thread on android games and apps forum about this and leedroid is going to have a look at it also
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combat goofwing said:
Big thread on android games and apps forum about this and leedroid is going to have a look at it also
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Just about to try Runnydroid v5.0 and I'll have a look in the other forum too

For none Sky subscribers I have a EchoStar HDS-600RS Freesat recorder. It supports android and has a built in slingbox. So you can watch live or recorded TV on your phone tablet or laptop.

Its here and looks like they've got a DHD in the article below (I can't see the video at work)
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...le-phones/sky-go-for-android-launched-1064677

TwistedSanity666 said:
Its here and looks like they've got a DHD in the article below (I can't see the video at work)
Sadly, it seems anyone with a rooted phone can't use it at the moment
but the good news is RunnyDroid V5.0 is out there
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[Q] Chrome Desktop Sites

Hi,
I'm about to pre-order this tablet but before I do, can someone tell me whether or not Chrome loads desktop sites or does it load mobile sites like on other Android tablets?
Does Chrome load Desktop websites by default?

Hey,
By default it loads tablet optimised webpages (if the website supports it). If it doesnt its just loads just a standard desktop website. But for the tablet sites there is an option in the chrome menu to view this site as desktop.
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lhayati said:
Hey,
By default it loads tablet optimised webpages (if the website supports it). If it doesnt its just loads just a standard desktop website. But for the tablet sites there is an option in the chrome menu to view this site as desktop.
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Awesome! That was just the answer I was hoping for. I'd be a little annoyed if I bought it to have mobile versions load up. If you have a Nexus 7, could you take some screen shots for me of a few websites?

Xbmc Android

Been mucking about with Xbmc for android on the s3 and although it's still a little buggy I reckon it has great potential.
One thing that's annoying me though is that I can get any scrapers to work. It searches for stuff i don't have and it's not the way folders are set up because they work fine on the pc. But I won't go into that just now.
Been using the wii remote to control it and it works pretty good but there's no keyboard.
Then I did a wee test with my dad's tablet, using that as the remote and it worked perfect. Bit draft me going out buying another android phone just to use as a remote though.
Just wondering what everyone else is using or if anyone has any ideas?
Cheers
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Can someone please move this to the .QA section. Just realised where I've put it
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I've got XBMC. Works quite well. I have the same aeon Skin as my desktop, something my Raspberry Pi couldn't handle. The only issue is in that skin, you need to press cursors to access certain menus and that is not working very well as I dont have cursors in the app. Other than that its fine though. All my movie and TV info is there.
I recently got the XBMC remote app. Thats great. Can scroll stuff without changing the display. Queue things up. Its actually much better than the hardware keyboard/remote I have, which awesomely since I have an S3, also works with XBMC for android
All in all, it needs some thought around control functions but other than that pretty neat. One thing I would like with the skin is 2x movies secti
ons via the skin rather than via the list. One for on VPN externally and one whilst local. That way I wouldnt have 2 of everything like I do now in the same folder

rootSU said:
I've got XBMC. Works quite well. I have the same aeon Skin as my desktop, something my Raspberry Pi couldn't handle. The only issue is in that skin, you need to press cursors to access certain menus and that is not working very well as I dont have cursors in the app. Other than that its fine though. All my movie and TV info is there.
I recently got the XBMC remote app. Thats great. Can scroll stuff without changing the display. Queue things up. Its actually much better than the hardware keyboard/remote I have, which awesomely since I have an S3, also works with XBMC for android
All in all, it needs some thought around control functions but other than that pretty neat. One thing I would like with the skin is 2x movies secti
ons via the skin rather than via the list. One for on VPN externally and one whilst local. That way I wouldnt have 2 of everything like I do now in the same folder
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Nice.... I got a raspberry pi also , don't forget the s3 is much.... much better hardware than the pi.... but the pi has very good hw decoding
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I'm running aeon nox on my s3 it's pretty sweet like.
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italia0101 said:
Nice.... I got a raspberry pi also , don't forget the s3 is much.... much better hardware than the pi.... but the pi has very good hw decoding
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With xbmc I struggled to get h.264 decoded with any consistency. Sometimes had to reboot a few times. Just got it sorted after 2 weeks without an amp (which is why I used pi anyway) then replacement amp came
But back on topic, xbmc have some work to do but it'll be great on the s3
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Last i played with xbmc on the S3 it doesnt hv gpu decoding. Is it still the case?
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