Hey all,
So far, this place has been a fountain of knowledge, which I'm truly grateful for, which makes learning my Herme's fun and easy going.
Since joining here, I've managed to switch my Keyboard from German to English, with thanks for the Advanced Config Tool, get Xvid's working under TCMP something or other, get Pocket MSN running, and a few other things...
But here are a few things which have been grinding my gears (sorry, just watched Family Guy);
A.) How do I change the message received tone and the alarm tones?
B.) How can I switch off the auto suggestions for text messages etc, even though it seems to be off in tools
C.) Is Linux on the Hermes any good / Is it still being developed and supported / would it be worth it me switching to Linux?
D.) Where do you all get your spares from? Preferably excluding Ebay.
E.) If theres anyway to have WMP / the HTC Music player continue playback from last play / track / session? (I.e. If i get off a bus, and have to turn off a track, instead of having to reselect the album i was listening to, for it just to auto-recognise the track being "paused".)
The reasoning behind D, is because although my Hermes is secondhand, not to mention purchased from Ebay, the seller kindly sold me a headphone adaptor, the screen slightly marked, and the camera cover is scratched to hell, not to mention the keyboard seems to be slightly raised in the middle, meaning a segment of keys have been worn down, along with a scuff above the keyboard.
So since I want to try and get it looking fairly decent, I'd like to know where you get your stuff from, and if anyone can recommend me a decent adaptor for headphones when listening to music.
I'm sure I'll have more questions, but for now these will do.
Thanks in advance guys, and keep up the good work!
Regarding question D - here are a few suggestions:
http://www.mikechannon.net/page4.html
Mike
Thanks Mike!
Just a shame about my other questions. lol
Hopefully someone will suggest some stuff.
Greeee said:
Thanks Mike!
Just a shame about my other questions. lol
Hopefully someone will suggest some stuff.
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Regarding A,B and C, I'm pretty sure there are existing threads on these. Don't worry overly if the threads are not Hermes specific. As for E I'm not sure that it's possible, but I could well be wrong, especially if you are using a proprietry player.
Mike
PS. Generally rolling up several questions in one post ends up not being very successful (even if at first it seems efficient and space saving. You may need to separate them out.)
Cheers
lol, thanks for the help there Mike.
To be completely honest, i had been searching before doing this post. Most of my little queries had been resolved that way.
Ah well, i'm just going to continue looking.
Thanks once again Mike!
Two more things...
How would I be able to re-install MS Office onto my hermes, since its not currently installed?
Also, are there any games available for it?
Another one...
Hopefully for any music buffs, this will be easy enough.
I currently have a large amount of music in various bitrates, however my main collections are in 320kbps.
Obviously, transfering this data from PC to phone is ok, but takes up loads of unneccessary space.
Does anyone use anything to convert their tunes to a lower bitrate (128kbps approx) while keeping the music in MP3 format so it can be used with Audio Manager, keeping all the original mp3 info (Artist, Track Title, Album etc), or should I cut my losses and move back to crappy itunes using m4a within WMP?
Do a search for the ms office cab file. Just click on it and it will install or look for the single cabs for each thing, depending if you need all the components.
I use SUPER (freeware) to change my bitrate on my MP3's, I don't know if it will take away any of the info but its worth a try as the install file is about 32 Kbs. If it doesn't work then you've lost 10 mins.
Cheers...
I use dBpoweramp music converter, it's also free and easy to use.
Cool, thanks for the advice guys! Just had loads of music as m4a, but then WMP doesn't recognise the names, and you have to constantly open the albums you want, rather than simply selecting the artist within album manager.
Will try those out tonight!
Cool, thanks for the advice guys! Just had loads of music as m4a, but then WMP doesn't recognise the names, and you have to constantly open the albums you want, rather than simply selecting the artist within album manager.
Will try those out tonight!
Hey there,
i was just wondering if anyone knows of an album art downloader/updater as a seperate program. ive seen it built into the new manilla bulids but i dont want to use them anymore(for a little while) .. tooo buggy i have googled with different word combinations and no results for this kind of app
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Hey there,
i was just wondering if anyone knows of an album art downloader/updater as a seperate program. ive seen it built into the new manilla bulids but i dont want to use them anymore(for a little while) .. tooo buggy i have googled with different word combinations and no results for this kind of app
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Windows Media Player on your desktop/laptop will do it, but you have to sync using WMP as well for them to transfer across properly as far as I remember. Haven't bothered with album art for a while myself.
Just update the WMP library, select the files you want album art for and right click. Then select to update the track info (or words to that effect). It will go online and update your track tags so they display properly as well, but they have to be reasonably well named in the first place for the best accuracy. The best format is "{Track Number} - {Artist} - {Title}".
Eg. "01 - Eminem - Dr.West"
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Windows Media Player on your desktop/laptop will do it, but you have to sync using WMP as well for them to transfer across properly as far as I remember. Haven't bothered with album art for a while myself.
Just update the WMP library, select the files you want album art for and right click. Then select to update the track info (or words to that effect). It will go online and update your track tags so they display properly as well, but they have to be reasonably well named in the first place for the best accuracy. The best format is "{Track Number} - {Artist} - {Title}".
Eg. "01 - Eminem - Dr.West"
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Best way I've found so far!
New Manila Sense from Leo has this option in music tab.
see thats exactly what im looking for but as a standalone app. b/c i had the newer build 2.5 installed but the messaging was soo slow it was unusable and there were a couple other bugs that i couldnt deal with on a day to day basis.. running around soft resetting here and there, its just not productive.. ill wait for the "sense ui" to be officially released for wm. however until then ide love to have this kind of app but in manilla 2.1 . on the other hand im having issues with my computer with all my music on it .. there is music on my microsd that is not on he computer and the computer is having issues .. afriad if i send the phones music to the computer it might get stuck as with my external hdd and corrupt both ..
Hi All, I was wondering whether it is possible to make alphabets visible on right side near the scroll bar in the music library when accessing songs Album wise, which would give easy access to the albums starting with a particular letter. I am really missing this feature as I have to scroll down the entire list of albums in case my album starts with letter 'Z'. (
Is there anybody out there who has got solution for this? may be a reg tweak or something similar. I would be really grateful to them.
This has been brought up before and I think its a must really if you have lots of music.
Unfortunatly it seems to be one of those request that seems to get ignored by developers & HTC alike, I don't know why but its does. I really hope we have better luck with this thread.
there is an additional player for winmo with this funktion. but i would also prefer to have this function in the build in player. that this feature is missing just making me angry while using the player. also a build in search couldnt be that hard. htc devs are more or less brain afk while coding.
Hi Folks,
I hope I am not being lazy here, but I have looked around for a few days through many of the related forums to the HTC HD2 and Windows Mobile forums.
What I am interested in would be adding functions to the music player on the HD2.
I listen to a lot of audio books and have tried some of the (rather useless) audio book add-ons or stand alone apps for the phone. One or two of them just showed a list of books that would not or could not open; others just would not open at all or could not load on the phone.
Thinking laterally, as I do, the issue is I don't want a new app or an add-on to the tabs already available, just a change / addition to what is there already.
The Music Tab, great place to start. Why can't we have a little button the rewinds the book, or any other audio file, back 30 seconds every time you tap it. And why does the player not hold on to “where you stopped listening" and start from that point when you start play again later. A media book mark if you like.
So here is my request;
1. Can these be added to the music player? I do not have the skills to even work out if it is possible.
2. Could one of the many well accomplished coders who frequent the site manage to take this one. would it be a allot of work? Can it be added as a cab install?
I wish I knew the answers to at least one of these questions. You guys seem to be able to tweak and mod everything else on the phone. Or do I just need to learn coding, hacking or making .aa files from mp3s.
Hope someone can answer this, I for one think it would be a great addition to an already great phone.
Thanks guys (non-gender salutation)
Billy
I know this is more a developer forum, so can someone please direct me to the right place to post the following (and then lock this thread - or PM me & delete the thread):
As I get more comphy with Android, I'm looking for specific Android apps to match my most common ones I use daily on WinMo. I'm working on searches, but trying to avoid downloading many of the same types of programs to find the best fit.
With that said, I'm looking for apps on Android that match the following WinMo programs:
- Conduits Pocket Player (specifically being able to load a folder of podcasts directly w/o a library, and auto keep bookmarks where I left off. Pocket Player also has a ton of options - basically looking for a loaded Droid player. Oh, also select my location for music library & don't look in any other folder)
- Resco Photo Viewer (ditto on specifying what folder to look into, and the smoothness of having thumbnails of pix)
- Phatnotes for Outlook (haven't yet found out how to synch Notes off Outlook server)
- Yomomedia (currently using as my rss/web updated, but I don't believe that they support Android. I have no problems switching to another service that works for WinMo & Android)
- Phoneweaver (auto audio profile switching - saw a couple freebies on Droid, but have not tested. preferably one that shows current state (day/night/vibrate) on the bar at the top.
- Pocketshield (more powerful lock screen replacement where I can control what is showing and different ways to unlock)
- TCPMP (play divx movies, flash movies from youtube, etc)
Once again, apologies since I believe this to br the wrong place to post - just not sure where to post this. BTW, also in the wrong place since I have seen another thread locked for it - but would be interested in discussing *why* so many people think Droid is better then WinMo. I'm experimenting now, but more along the lines 'cause it's fun to play with something different!
Hi mate,
It might be worthwhile sticking a post in one of the Popular Android phones forums (Desire maybe?) - i'm sure the people there would be more familiar with whats available on the marketplace and better be able to help you with your needs.
Cheers
Paul