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First impressions of my Evo 4G

I found a killer deal on a evo 4g from google I\O. I paid $300 and they where sealing from $600 to $800 in my area. I have a nexus one and I have to say i am loving the evo 4g. Everything is better. I am sold that is is diffidently a class above any other smartphone I have used. I thought I might like the bigger screen and better touch sensor over the nexus one but the rest would be the same. Its not at all. The quality and design is awesome. I feel in love instantly with this phone. Service is great no 3g dropping issue like my N1. No problem with screen or buttons. I would diffidently recommend this phone! Here is some pics.

Good for you!!
I like the side by side compare with the Nexus. Thx.
I can't wait to get mine on June 4th!

brightness looks great but there is a color difference in the photos.

Aridon said:
brightness looks great but there is a color difference in the photos.
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Yes the whites are better on the evo but the color is crisper on the N1. Just by a little bit but the colors look different because i think the n1 colors are off a little. Look how the white looks pinkish gray. Many people have reported pinkish hue on the n1. The nexus's amoled screen also has reports of burn ins and dead pixels.

can u input 720p movies or video to the supersonic SD card and what format does it use to play movies or video?

GHOST99K said:
can u input 720p movies or video to the supersonic SD card and what format does it use to play movies or video?
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I have transformer 2 in blue ray that I have converted to 720p and 800 x 480 in both mp4 and avi. They are ready for testing but it will take some time to put them on sd card. I will copy them over tonight and test out Friday.

thanx let us know on the quality please

shep211 said:
I have transformer 2 in blue ray that I have converted to 720p and 800 x 480 in both mp4 and avi. They are ready for testing but it will take some time to put them on sd card. I will copy them over tonight and test out Friday.
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What bitrate or quality setting did you use.

P_Dub_S said:
What bitrate or quality setting did you use.
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Handbrake
800x480 = 800 auto aspect = max resolution for are phone
720p = 1280 auto aspect (For testing 720p through hdmi cable. Dont have cable yet)
1500 bitrate
double take
65%

Sweet I already started encoding some of my Blu-rays as well in anticipation for when I get mine.
I just hit the Iphone preset then changed the width to 800 and checked the keep aspect ratio. Avatar was still 3.2GB

P_Dub_S said:
Sweet I already started encoding some of my Blu-rays as well in anticipation for when I get mine.
I just hit the Iphone preset then changed the width to 800 and checked the keep aspect ratio. Avatar was still 3.2GB
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Lol mine was 1.7 gb and I think I messed up on it. My zune hd is 320x240 and is 2.4 gb. I will redo it tonight.

Lucky you! I paid $550. It gets here today. Excited.

I tested video playback and it works great. I will test out 720p streaming to 42 inch 1080p tv tonight. It will take all day to get the 8gb 720p video on my evo.

Compared to the Nexus...
- How much better is sunlight readability?
- Do you find yourself needing to use two hands much more often due to the size?
- Is the external speaker louder or softer?
Thanks

ohhh man never mind on inputing 720p videos cuz its gonna take out whole lotta space from the SD card.

ministersin said:
Lucky you! I paid $550. It gets here today. Excited.
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Congrats! Hey I'm in Austin too and would love to hear your thoughts on Sprint 3G/4G with the EVO. Please report back.

I've been able to play high bitrate videos (720p) on my Evo just fine. The only problem I've seen is that when the fps is at 30... it doesn't play. 24 and 25 fps works fine. Can anyone else verify or deny?

karnovaran said:
Compared to the Nexus...
- How much better is sunlight readability?
- Do you find yourself needing to use two hands much more often due to the size?
- Is the external speaker louder or softer?
Thanks
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1 The evo is 30 to 40% better in sunlight.
2 When I pick it up yes (due to fear of dropping it) but feels great in one hand. I hold it the same way I do my n1.
3 I think the sound is way better then my n1.
4 The veiwing angle is better on the n1 but not a real issue.

how is the overall snappiness as compared to the n1? I know they have the same snapdragon, but does the evo seem any faster?
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i see u have froyo on your n1.... does that make it blow the current evo with 2.1 out of the water? noob here... thanks for the insight!

cmart4 said:
how is the overall snappiness as compared to the n1? I know they have the same snapdragon, but does the evo seem any faster?
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i see u have froyo on your n1.... does that make it blow the current evo with 2.1 out of the water? noob here... thanks for the insight!
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With 2.1 vs 2.2 there is not a big difference in daily use. In linpack (benchmarking) yes 2.2 wins. If I open browser the evo come up first by .5 seconds. Not a big difference but it does feel faster overall.

iPhone 4 720p HD Recording > Evo 4G 720p HD Recording

Evo 4G
iPhone 4
Any developers out there can figure out what the hell is going on? Lol. I know the iPhone is capable, but what's holding the Evo 4G back? Hardware? I mean I hope it's not for such a technical beast. Software? Lens? Ugh.

Considering the gs out performs the evo this isn't a big surprise.
It's probably a few reasons, first being the device relies on a slow sd card (out of the box) vs fast internal memory. Meaning they had to be careful with file size and how much data got pushed from the camera to the card. better sensor, better lens, less compression etc.. The Evo also records in a ****ty codec

Raadius said:
Evo 4G
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Any developers out there can figure out what the hell is going on? Lol. I know the iPhone is capable, but what's holding the Evo 4G back? Hardware? I mean I hope it's not for such a technical beast. Software? Lens? Ugh.
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Software. Also note that the iPhone does technically record 20+ fps video, it is doubling frames, so a lot of the time its only actually capturing 15-20fps and then doubling some of the frames. Once we get full kernel source, we can overclock the camera chip the same way we kinda did for the Nexus and improve the bitrate, audio quality, and video fps. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698287

I read somewhere that HTC was doing a huge amount of compressing of the video that is recorded. It has to be something like that in my opinion.

The iphone 4 has a back-lit camera sensor. That is likely helping a lot for this indoor video. I have also read that the evo4g compresses video a lot.

Dam, makes the Evo look like sh1t lol.

k2snowboards88 said:
The iphone 4 has a back-lit camera sensor. That is likely helping a lot for this indoor video. I have also read that the evo4g compresses video a lot.
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The Evo also has a backlit sensor. Look up the Omnivision OV8810 if you wan't more info on it, its the same sensor used in the Incredible. The only difference is since the iPhone is only a 5mp sensor, the pixels are ever so slightly larger, which will help with low light performance a little, but not drastically on these sensors. Its mostly software, since both of these sensors are so similar being backlit and whatnot

Vandam500 said:
I read somewhere that HTC was doing a huge amount of compressing of the video that is recorded. It has to be something like that in my opinion.
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Look at the codecs... iPhone4 is h264 (10) (what we think of as mp4 on desktop) and EVO is H264 (2) which is horribly low bitrate, thus the blockyness.
Hopefully Geniusdog254 is right and we can pull a bit better fps out of it, but I don't think we're going to be able to do much about the low light abilities, the iphone4 has a better sensor and optics.

I didn't realize htc had a backlit sensor. Good. Hopefully they can get their software to be worthy of it.

NM, said above.

Not to change the subject, but how are these YouTube videos playing inside the evo browser? Usually clicking on them opens HTC flash player.

Easy - bitrate..
we need to figure out how to increase the video recording bitrate.. They've done this on the nexus one - so perhaps the same trick would work here?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/nexus-one-video-recording-pushing-the-limits-even-further/
-mark

Geniusdog254 said:
Software. Also note that the iPhone does technically record 20+ fps video, it is doubling frames, so a lot of the time its only actually capturing 15-20fps and then doubling some of the frames. Once we get full kernel source, we can overclock the camera chip the same way we kinda did for the Nexus and improve the bitrate, audio quality, and video fps. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698287
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Wow, did not know that.

Does the iPhone 4 have continuous focus?
That's one thing that sourly lacking in the HTC recording app.

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HTC's response:
Thank you for your reply. I researched into this further. The Auto-Focus option is only for the initial focus of the image on the screen. There is not a setting on the device for continuous focus.
In regards to the quality of the video, there are many factors that come into play when creating a video. Movement, lighting, and focus are all a part of the quality. Since the device does not have a form of continuous focus, then your queslity is not going to be as good as a device with this focus feature.
The devices also uses 2MB/s transfer rate to the SD card. This is not dependant on what type of SD card you have in the phone. Higher class cards indicate the Minimum data transfer rates to and from the card itself. Unfortuantely, this cannot be adjusted using native settings on the device. I do apologize for any inconvenience that you may have experienced.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number xxxxxxxxx.
Sincerely,
Jeffery
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So, is he saying that no matter what SD card speed we have, HTC caps the data transfer to 2mb/s?
I think this is how we can uncap that limit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10866582

Neo3D said:
HTC's response:
So, is he saying that no matter what SD card speed we have, HTC caps the data transfer to 2mb/s?
I think this is how we can uncap that limit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10866582
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I wouldn't trust someone who cannot even spell or construct sentences.

Geniusdog254 said:
Software. Also note that the iPhone does technically record 20+ fps video, it is doubling frames, so a lot of the time its only actually capturing 15-20fps and then doubling some of the frames. Once we get full kernel source, we can overclock the camera chip the same way we kinda did for the Nexus and improve the bitrate, audio quality, and video fps. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698287
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do u think it'd also be possible to enable continuous autofocus?

OTA Froyo Recording Quality.

Can somebody record some shots using the updated camcorder app in the ota? It would be really interesting to see the "improvements" made by htc.

am uploading something right now... ill post when done its just a test ...am using the 2.2 that just came out

yes plz audio on camcorder is the most fail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M829mZlnnic
i just did it random i dint even check the audio thing haha
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i dotn know if i did something wrng but its not showing the 720 p on the youtube.. maybe it takes a while to processs :l

magicalan said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M829mZlnnic
i just did it random i dint even check the audio thing haha
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i dotn know if i did something wrng but its not showing the 720 p on the youtube.. maybe it takes a while to processs :l
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Check the codec you recorded with; if it was h.264 you can only capture @480p

Not looking to good....maybe check the code try again.... oh well maybe the devs will make better.

Yeah check your settings. If that was 720p I don't see much different. Hopefully your settings weren't right.
Sent from the dark side of the moon.

there it is go to 720p....it was processing

edtate said:
Check the codec you recorded with; if it was h.264 you can only capture @480p
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Evo video FPS is killing me. Subpar

edtate said:
Check the codec you recorded with; if it was h.264 you can only capture @480p
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Got this from another forum,
aznmode said:
When i select h264 as the compression I can only go up to 800 x 400 resolution. I have to select mpeg4 decoding to be able to record at 720p. Anyone else notice?
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The audio is ALOT better on the vid.

All I can say is, 24fps my ASS! *sigh*

Is there a way to just disable the video camera completely, because with that type of quality, if I ever did record something by accident, I'd have to kill myself.

On a "meh" note, the h.264 800x480 recording is very smooth and looks pretty good.
Not 720p, which still is pretty much what it was before, but at least it's something.

Really guys? I think it looks pretty decent. It's still no iPhone 4, but when he gets outside it definitely looks a bit smoother than it did before, and detail is a bit better as well. I remember before it would look like the camera had trouble even recording in 720 and would hiccup every few seconds. It may only be 24fps, but at least it's a CONSISTENT 24fps. don't forget every movie you've ever seen was filmed at 24fps... And yea, the indoor portion kinda sucked but that's due to the crap sensor they put in the evo.

while not recording the actual image on the screen looks a little smoother,but to my eyes it seems when you record its actually worst then before

audio is sooooooooooooooooooooo much better

AMDman18 said:
Really guys? I think it looks pretty decent. It's still no iPhone 4, but when he gets outside it definitely looks a bit smoother than it did before, and detail is a bit better as well. I remember before it would look like the camera had trouble even recording in 720 and would hiccup every few seconds. It may only be 24fps, but at least it's a CONSISTENT 24fps. don't forget every movie you've ever seen was filmed at 24fps... And yea, the indoor portion kinda sucked but that's due to the crap sensor they put in the evo.
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What are you talking about? It's using an 8 megapixel version of the EXACT same sensor they used in the iPhone 4 by the SAME manufacturer, and unlike most camera sensors in smartphones today, it's actually backlit. Please stop blaming the hardware before recognizing the real root of the problem.

AMDman18 said:
Really guys? I think it looks pretty decent. It's still no iPhone 4, but when he gets outside it definitely looks a bit smoother than it did before, and detail is a bit better as well. I remember before it would look like the camera had trouble even recording in 720 and would hiccup every few seconds. It may only be 24fps, but at least it's a CONSISTENT 24fps. don't forget every movie you've ever seen was filmed at 24fps... And yea, the indoor portion kinda sucked but that's due to the crap sensor they put in the evo.
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Ya, but pro cameras don't drop frame rates in low light.
I've seen my EVO drop to 8-12 FPS while recording in low light. Almost impossible to watch.

**** man i've given up on evo as a recording device.. what a waste of space..

Unrooted DHD Camcorder (only 21fps)

Hi XDA,
I've received my DHD yesterday and not impressed at all by now.
The camcorder records @ only 21 frames per second on 720p.
Is that quite the common for the DHD? I thought 30fps were usual!?!
Is there any fix for that low FPS? AND also some regular camera improvements?
fat32 and 32kb formated! both sd class2 and class6.
Best Regards
Wowa Trader

In the settings, try to set the Brightness to -2 to get few more fps

Although there is probably something wrong in your case,cause every video I've seen from the DHD is very fluid,you could try to set ISO to the maximum value(I think 800) when in photo mode(option does not appear in video mode).Else,you could lower the resolution(800x480 is juuuuust fine,believe me).
Bear in mind that there could be something wrong with your phone.I certainly hope that's not the case though!
With kind regards
Apostolis

hi
I just was testing desire the hd camcorder. I recorded a video for approx 3 mins.
Whilst playing the video, it has lags and stutters which i know is not normal. Previous hd2 ran smoothly and it never had this problem. HD2 was 5MP and desire HD has 8MP, but I dont think the camera quality is as good as the hd2.
Is there a way to fix this frame skipping/lagging issue?
Has anyone else had this problem, can any1 shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.

Fame123 said:
hi
I just was testing desire the hd camcorder. I recorded a video for approx 3 mins.
Whilst playing the video, it has lags and stutters which i know is not normal. Previous hd2 ran smoothly and it never had this problem. HD2 was 5MP and desire HD has 8MP, but I dont think the camera quality is as good as the hd2.
Is there a way to fix this frame skipping/lagging issue?
Has anyone else had this problem, can any1 shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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The HD2 records video at 800x480,while the Desire HD at 1280x720.If you do the math it's 384000 vs 921600 pixels,which is 2.4 times as many pixels.Try recording at 800x480.Its quality is as good on the phone's screen.

tolis626 said:
The HD2 records video at 800x480,while the Desire HD at 1280x720.If you do the math it's 384000 vs 921600 pixels,which is 2.4 times as many pixels.Try recording at 800x480.Its quality is as good on the phone's screen.
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Hi tolis626
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did the maths, hence was concerned about the rec quality. Now I will try 800x480 and see how the quality is now.
What about the video stuttering/lagging when played?
Many Thank again

Fame123 said:
Hi tolis626
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did the maths, hence was concerned about the rec quality. Now I will try 800x480 and see how the quality is now.
What about the video stuttering/lagging when played?
Many Thank again
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You're welcome.And btw sorry,but I didn't try to make myself look smarter!I just noticed that it just looks that way,like sarcasm or something!Again I'm sorry!
Anyway,I don't have my DHD yet(damn...),but I stumbled across these things with my Desire.Stuttering\lag has to do with the SD card you use.The provided class 2 card will most probably have trouble recording video at these bitrates.That's what happened with the Desire;Once I bought a Kingston 16Gb class 10 card(kinda expensive though...) all the stuttering was gone(or up to a large degree).Try that along with the maximum ISO(although if possible don't use the latter as it produces much noise) and I think that video is gonna be butter smooth!

How often do you experience that lagging? My did plays its recorded 720p videos quite well. Yes there is some shuttering occasionally, but its not that bad.
Why don't you try formating your sd card with 32kb clusters?
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I just did a small test.
When you film something that is dark, and requires the phone to change the ISO, the FPS will drop dramatically. Only in bright light it films @ 30 FPS.
I guess it could be bad coding, so I really hope they can fix it through an update.

YumYumHD said:
I just did a small test.
When you film something that is dark, and requires the phone to change the ISO, the FPS will drop dramatically. Only in bright light it films @ 30 FPS.
I guess it could be bad coding, so I really hope they can fix it through an update.
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i think it's normal that when you film something darker, the FPS drops, all things being equal..the phone does need to slow down the FPS to gather more light to the sensor. I think the phone will also up the ISO but there is a limit to how much the ISO can increase without the video looking too grainy.
The sensor that HTC used for the camera could be a lower end type so that's why it has to compensate by dropping frames. If they used a better sensor with higher ISO capability, it could up the ISO a lot more and yet maintain the brightness of the video and also the FPS.

I have switched my SGS for DHD , such a bad move! On sgs video recording at 720p is 20X better than 480p on DHD in terms of fps, ghosting, colors, image stabilization and fluidity... Just one of my many bad choices lately...

XmUrF said:
How often do you experience that lagging? My did plays its recorded 720p videos quite well. Yes there is some shuttering occasionally, but its not that bad.
Why don't you try formating your sd card with 32kb clusters?
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Hi XmUrF
Thanks for reply. That lagging happens approx after 30 secs when playing. 1. Does the class of the microsd matter? 2. Also does the space left on the microsd matter? 3. Can you tweak camera settings to make better?
On the htc hd2 the was no occassional stuttering. that was fluent, even tweaked it to be 8mp and pics were perfect no probz.
4. What does 32kb clusters formatting method mean and do?

Wow 20fps????!
So far i've never got more than 12fps, mostly less.
I also get the stutter approx every 2 mins.
Lastly has anyone made a 720p recording longer than 15 minutes? If i do, when i stop the recording the screen goes grey and the cam wont work until i restart the phone. Any recording saved will then not play. Sigh.
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it records 29fps in daylight drops down with indoor lowlight and down to 10fps in darkness, stutter issue is random sometimes it happens sometimes it never happens most likely related to multitasking or auto white balance
most of my outdoor recored vids are 29fps even at sunset it managed 29fps
as always if u want beautiful quality for both videos and shots, drop sharpness to -2 to kill the digital treatment

Poor Youtube Quality

Hi all!
I apologise if already discussed, but can't find anything after searching within xda-app and google.
I am very happy with my SGS2 in general and consider it to be the best phone so far on the market (maybe apart from sgs2 hd), and therefore expect it's performance to be superior to most phones/pda's. I was watching a youtube clip on iPod Touch 4 the other day which I normally do on my Galaxy, and was so impressed with the sharpness and vividity that I decided to compare thse two side by side. And what a disappointment! Although the Galaxy offers more saturated colours and higher contrast due to OLED's blacks, the sharpness was nowhere near iPods Retina. And personally for me it completely ruins the whole visual experience.
Don't get me wrong, I was aware of the lower resolution (not helped by bigger screen size) before even purchasing SGS2. But I guess this poor youtube experience further highlighted it. I do realize it's probably due to some limitations within the YT app not allowing high enough resolution, and the might be a solution to overcome it that I'm not aware of. By the way I used the stock YT app asa well as the one called RollTube that allows you to download videos. Connection is WiFi 12mbps and videos whatched are HD quality.
Am I the only one bothered by the slightly lower resolution of the SGS2's display? I don't know whether it's over 300ppi but I can clearly tell the difference in sharpness in side by side comparison to Retina looking at the same image. Please let me know what you think folks, and if you know how to fix the YouTube problem that'd be fantastic!
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i thought the same as you...i thought my retina display was ten times better than the Galaxy s2 one...but after spending a few months with the the phone i would not change it for the world....i was playing the other day with my friends iphone 4 and il be honest my one is better....youtube videos mine are pretty clear but probably due to the high resolution on the iphone it will loook sharper...but everyone to their own tastes i say

Iphone has higher ppi than in sgs2 which i think is the cause..
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Yea, i got this same problem, and posted in many forums about it, but obviously no one care about YT?!... The problem is not related to higher resolution on ipod/iphone retina. The same video, downloaded to the phone from Tubemate with highest res is amazing. And on HTC Sensation the things looks awesome too! So my gues is that the youtube app(SGS2), does not play videos in HQ with the highest posible resolution. And for me, for some reason, the playback itself is sometimes choppy, like not enough buffering or something?!!...This choppiness is common for me on every rom i've tried after 2.3.3, no matter custom or stock! The question is why nobody talk about that roblem? I got answers that there is no problem with playback from any forum i search. Are all those people blind, or they don't watch hq videos?

The choppines might be due to the network speed. The playback for me is very smooth.
I am pretty sure the low res is the YT app limitation. A full HD video file when downloaded to pc is around 50-100MB, whereas downloaded to the handset the same video is only 10-15MB. Obviously it is a compressed file with lower resolution. Same applies for viewing.
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ephraim033 said:
Iphone has higher ppi than in sgs2 which i think is the cause..
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Obviously it is. But noone seem to be bothered, perhaps because not much can be done other than changing handset.
But the Youtube problem is software related and can be overcome.
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User X said:
The choppines might be due to the network speed. The playback for me is very smooth.
I am pretty sure the low res is the YT app limitation. A full HD video file when downloaded to pc is around 50-100MB, whereas downloaded to the handset the same video is only 10-15MB. Obviously it is a compressed file with lower resolution. Same applies for viewing.
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No man, my files are just about 50-150MB when downloaded on the phone, and they are with stunning quality!And i use same WiFi network as on my PC, so there is no way that be the problem.Besides choppiness is present only in 2.3.4 or higher, not 2.3.3? Obviously this is some kind of limitation in the app, but why just on sgs2, not others? As i said, on Sensation, the problem doesn't exists? On IOS too? Did Google knows that this device is capable of more that they think? This problem drives me crazy since day 1, and shouldn't be ignored! 600$ on the phone and no quality Youtubes? WTF!?!

Actually, you know what? I've just managed to download a proper HD file using the app you mentioned (Tubemate) and despite the bigger screen size it wasn't easy yo spot the difference in the resolution of SGS2 vs Retina. Samsung have done a good job by adding some subpicsels to make up for low ppi. It's the icons where you still can spot the difference relatively easily.
If our app developers could make one that would allow an HD YouTube playback AND the download option in the same app I'm sure people would be willing to pay for it!
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User X said:
Hi all!
I apologise if already discussed, but can't find anything after searching within xda-app and google.
I am very happy with my SGS2 in general and consider it to be the best phone so far on the market (maybe apart from sgs2 hd), and therefore expect it's performance to be superior to most phones/pda's. I was watching a youtube clip on iPod Touch 4 the other day which I normally do on my Galaxy, and was so impressed with the sharpness and vividity that I decided to compare thse two side by side. And what a disappointment! Although the Galaxy offers more saturated colours and higher contrast due to OLED's blacks, the sharpness was nowhere near iPods Retina. And personally for me it completely ruins the whole visual experience.
Don't get me wrong, I was aware of the lower resolution (not helped by bigger screen size) before even purchasing SGS2. But I guess this poor youtube experience further highlighted it. I do realize it's probably due to some limitations within the YT app not allowing high enough resolution, and the might be a solution to overcome it that I'm not aware of. By the way I used the stock YT app asa well as the one called RollTube that allows you to download videos. Connection is WiFi 12mbps and videos whatched are HD quality.
Am I the only one bothered by the slightly lower resolution of the SGS2's display? I don't know whether it's over 300ppi but I can clearly tell the difference in sharpness in side by side comparison to Retina looking at the same image. Please let me know what you think folks, and if you know how to fix the YouTube problem that'd be fantastic!
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Hi, where can i get this rolltube app from? I googled it and nothing comes up its also not in the market, id love to record videos for my daughter, thanks.
Sent from my Galaxy S II

But you cant watch YouTube videos on iPhone

It's spelled Rolle Tube and I think I gound it on the XDA forum.
Try Tubemate it's on the market and allows you to choose different resolutions invluding HD to download.
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jonny68 said:
But you cant watch YouTube videos on iPhone
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Jonny, I'm pretty sure you can
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Does the ipod app let you view youtube videos on hd?

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Jonny, I'm pretty sure you can
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my mate has an iPhone4 and he cant watch YouTube videos.

I wish they wouldnt allow apple to use youtube - its a google service!
Want youtube, get android...
Puzzles me why google wouldnt play this card, apple would if switched around.
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iphone has youtube app build in out of the box, and it plays perfect.

ayamary said:
Does the ipod app let you view youtube videos on hd?
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Yes, the quality is very high.
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I've finaly found what causing the choppiness. I flashed Siyah kernel, and used smartassv2 governor. What a surprise for me was to find out that playback was fine. The problem obviously was in the default cpu ondemand governor. In other words, the cpu scalling was somehow wrong?!... Unfortunately, the smartass governor, was no good to me for games, very poor frame rates.