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I got beef the youtube app, and I'm sure they wont listen to little ol me

Does anyone else have a problem with the youtube app, being that it doesn't choose to watch videos in HQ by default. For each video I find my self racing in the menu to choose watch in high quality before the video starts. If I don't do it quick enough, the play time toggle pops up and I end up fast forwarding to the end, and then having to go to the menu again.. Why can't youtube just play HQ by default on my beautiful screen?? Anyone else feel my pain?
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Yeah I know what you mean. Lol
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I feel ya! Also sometimes it doesnt respond to searches just does nothing, pretty irritating.
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Use the mobile website. It's better.

Hmmm my Vibrant seems to default to HQ. Wonder why? I did just get it yesterday.

If your on wifi it defaults to hq if your on data it uses lq.

It happens to me too. I just use www.m.youtube.com
Much better and you can see new videos from your subscriptions.
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Judgement5 said:
If your on wifi it defaults to hq if your on data it uses lq.
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lol that makes sense

there was a thread in the apps section for this. there is a youtube.apk that has hq set to default
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738394

I hear that in 2.2 samsung will add a HQ button so you dont have to rush to the menu.

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there was a thread in the apps section for this. there is a youtube.apk that has hq set to default
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738394
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This is just what I was looking for. Awesome! Upgraded. The mobile site is just as bad guys, you have to go through hoops to get hq.
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There's new version of youtube I can watch in HQ by default
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Sorry for the double post
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Does downloading the new vesion from market update the one already in the phone or do I need to remove the old one from phone. I cant think of how to remove the old one (without root ofcourse)

It will update it, no need to remove
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K_esco said:
there was a thread in the apps section for this. there is a youtube.apk that has hq set to default
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738394
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Thats beautiful, thanks!
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hahaha sorry but the thread title made me think of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iK_bu_z6Bk&sns=em
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I thought I would never ask this, but I am unable to find official youtube app in the market...how to dig it out of the gazillion "tube" apps?

you don't have the youtube app on your phone?
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I forgot how I updated it, I think I used atrackdog ***aptoide***
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Android Facebook Sucks

Anyone have a better option for Facebook then the Android Market place app? It keeps having an error when i try to do mobile uploads and in general is not very good. Thanks in advance

Uploads of pictures? it gives me trouble from time to time. Just wish it didn't direct to the mobile site other than that it is as good as iphone version
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I use the actual web page.....well I try to until it changes back to the facebook touch...grrrrr
It makes sense as the screen is so big
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Yes Facebook is not the best. I have no problems uploading images, but the no landscape mode for the home screen, as well as not being able to click youtube links really annoys me.

I think facebook just needs to buckledown on this. With android being the most sold phone os in the past 6 months... yeah facebook lets update that app, becasuse right now it sucks.
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Hi
Try the app 'bff photo' for uploading pictures & video works very well. Videos cant be uploaded from the web page using phone. But as fazzibear said the web site is best as screen is big enough.
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I agree! Facebook app is not very good.
Android and Facebook is huge... no excuse for the sucky app.
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Camera and gallery

Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
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redesignni said:
Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
Cheers
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Not for me. But noticed once that an photo I took took like a minute to show in gallery.

redesignni said:
Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
Cheers
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Nope. Works fine without a glitch.

I don't have any problems simmilar to yours even if sometimes it takes some seconds before its refreshing the new pics in gallery

Hmmm, I did a factory reset so hopefully that will help. Ill post back with the results
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Is any1 using SD card increase makes your card read and write faster I think u should take a look at the app I have it on and no problems with mine it's on the market if needed
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sdincrease.it
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Yeah I face it all the time, I tried factory reset but didn't help.
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Mesho have u tried this SD thing I said
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festa20 said:
Is any1 using SD card increase makes your card read and write faster I think u should take a look at the app I have it on and no problems with mine it's on the market if needed
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sdincrease.it
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I have tried this one. Not that helpful for Arc (maybe we need more options in the slide bar?)
IIRC, the write/read speed was 5/15 MB/s before I use SD speed increase. And after trying 1k,2k,3k, and 4k buffer, the read speed is about the same (4.8~5.7) and probably have a slight boost at the first second of writing. The read speed increased a bit to 17~20 MB/s.

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Mesho have u tried this SD thing I said
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sorry I din't see it, It requires a root, my phone is not.

Mesho Arc said:
sorry I din't see it, It requires a root, my phone is not.
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All u need is gingerbreak to root its simple and doesn't do anything bad to ya phone really and then u could use it I think the app is really good my speeds are loads better
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redesignni said:
Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
Cheers
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For me sometimes after putting new photos or videos on my arc, it doesnt refresh gallery and all pictures are empty. I need to hit taskkiller and reopen gallery to fix that one, maybe we've got same prob.

Maybe the gallery thumbnails are bugged, causing a strange behaviour(albums appearing and dissapearing). You can erase them this way:
Go to SD(with Astro or similar) - Android - Data - com.sonyericsson.gallery - delete "cache" folder.
Then restart the gallery and let it load everything.
I hope it helps.

The stock android gallery is pretty slow and dreadful, it used to cause my htc hero to grind to a halt, and it's still not exactly snappy on the arc.
If you want a fast gallery app, try quickpic from the market.

Still got the problem... cant take screenshots on phone either so cant show how it looks. Ive put a 32gb card into the phone would that make a difference?? just took about 10 pics tonite and cant view any of them.... broken image thumbnail pic.

finally i found my solution!
my scans found no media, nothing in the gallery, nothing in the music player and i was going crazy, but then i found this:
If there is a (possibly empty) file named ".nomedia" (without quotations, and make sure you put the dot as the first character) in a folder of your card, then this folder WILL NOT BE SCANNED (if there is a .nomedia in the root of the SD card, then the SD card will NOT be scanned).
So make sure you delete any unwanted of those and then try
"Rescan Media" by Aditya Talpade (android market)

Disable Facebook inside Xperia, if you dont want to suffer from gallery load times, the gallery tries to sync a new folder called "new from friends" each time.

I didn't have a problem with the gallery till I got the 2.3.4 update. Like most, I have the same problem, it takes time to open a snap. Sometimes it's displayed as a broken image.
What would be the best alternative to the stock gallery app?
I've got one other problem. I had formatted my phone a month back. Before that, I backed up my photos. When I transferred them back, the order got messed up in the gallery and so are the dates. Anyway to rectify that?

Badass App

https://market.android.com/details?id=visidon.AppLock
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It sounds like a good idea but I wonder how well it works in a real life setting.
Will try and report back.

Been using it all night works perfectly
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DirtyShroomz said:
Been using it all night works perfectly
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Under a low light setting it obviously doesn't work.
Maybe it should set the screen as white to try to act as a light?
Also, no feature to use it in replacement for a lock screen

Hope u live in a place that has daylight 99% of the time or you're sol when it's dark
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{ParanoiA} said:
Hope u live in a place that has daylight 99% of the time or you're sol when it's dark
Sent From My Pocket
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It allows for a password bypass.
At least try it before you knock it.

DirtyShroomz said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=visidon.AppLock
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Pretty cool app, thanks for sharing!
Pocket posted....

Another problem with the app.
If I cant get into someones app (whatever it may be) all I have to do is uninstall this app.
lol

mattykinsx said:
Another problem with the app.
If I cant get into someones app (whatever it may be) all I have to do is uninstall this app.
lol
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Protect all apps that have access to this like the market but under low light settings use the bypass
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i tried this last weekend when i saw a similar post. it seemed to take 2-3 seconds, no matter how good the pic. but with a pattern/lock, i could have the app/device unlocked in >1sec. so it has a HUGE cool factor, but it takes more time than its worth IMHO

I played with this app, I found it works well, however, the implementation could use another option.
Right now you basically choose any apps you want to lock, and if you launch any of those apps you have to wait a few seconds for the face to get recognized and the program let you in, which is a pain in the ass, forcing you to wait a few seconds to open a program.
There is not option to unlock on phone wake, which is what the main feature of the program should be, IMHO, so that you can just unlock on waking the phone and be done, otherwise it's a bit of a headache waiting to be unlocked on per-app basis.
Mind you, once you unlock on any app you can be unlocked to use the other apps that use the face recognition to lock. Still being forced to wait on app launch, I do not like.

mattykinsx said:
Another problem with the app.
If I cant get into someones app (whatever it may be) all I have to do is uninstall this app.
lol
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ya but if you uninstall the app and re-install you'll need their email and password to set the app back up if its google voice or a gmail account or something like that. Google voice would be the app i would want locked so nobody can see the messages i have... so if they uninstall and re-install they wont get my messages still without my info.. Good application

Slow motion to normal??

Has anyone here been able to record or figured out a way to create a slow motion vid with normal speed sections? Maybe with a normal speed ending or beginning? I have seen this feature on the new iphones and I hear its on the HTC one, so im thinking there is no way our Notes cant do this.
Im still doing some research but I know there has to be some vid editing app that will allow us to do this.
Here is my example for those who don't know what im talking about. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=313757172096065&set=vb.198201020359277&type=2&theater

taygutta said:
Has anyone here been able to record or figured out a way to create a slow motion vid with normal speed sections? Maybe with a normal speed ending or beginning? I have seen this feature on the new iphones and I hear its on the HTC one, so im thinking there is no way our Notes cant do this.
Im still doing some research but I know there has to be some vid editing app that will allow us to do this.
Here is my example for those who don't know what im talking about. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=313757172096065&set=vb.198201020359277&type=2&theater
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I had the HTC one and it did have that feature when using Zoe. I wish we could do something like that on here as well.
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Check out AndroVid Video Trimmer
Or
Video Editor: All in One

bskarpa said:
I had the HTC one and it did have that feature when using Zoe. I wish we could do something like that on here as well.
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airmaxx23 said:
Check out AndroVid Video Trimmer
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Video Editor: All in One
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I will still try androidvideo trimmer
Hey guys I found one that did exactly what I needed. Here it is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaushal.androidstudio
and here is the video http://instagram.com/p/gUAbgAN_Cf/