MIUI issues - Droid X General

So, I'd previously heard lots of great things about the MIUI rom. Unfortunately, I wasn't impressed. Setting up apps to specific windows was a lot more cumbersome than with other roms. I like having an icon that leads me to a menu with ALL of my apps. It's a lot easier to set them to certain pages after that. Also, unlocking my phone is slower bc I have to press down and hold the lock for a sec before I slide it. Honestly I like just swiping it. Now, these previous two issues I could live with if it weren't for this final problem, video playback. About 95% of my videos on my SD card wouldn't play. All I could think of was "ugh, this is Cyanogenmod all over again". Do you guys know of any fixes to these three problems (mainly the third one). I liked the rest of this rom quite a bit, but I refuse to run it if I can't play all of the silly videos I've taken in the past.

You can use a different launch. Adw, lpp, go launcher all use an app menu.
You can change the locksxreen style. There are really endless options there if you search.
Are your videos recorded in 720p from a blue rom? This is supposed to be addressed in this week's update. Meanwhile, you can use a different video player. I use rockplayer, other i've seen have recommended mxplayer.
Hope this helps
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I'm running CM7 on my dx and I can play my 720p videos with the vlc player alpha.. might work just as good on miui... just throwing that out there
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I looked for vlc player alpha on the market and couldn't find it. Where is it?
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http://phandroid.com/2011/09/23/vlc-open-source-media-player-for-android-download/
Follow all directions they give you to determine if you have a neon or non-neon processor... my dx and Sgt are both neon, but maybe yours isn't so check to be sure...
Sometimes if i try to open my videos from gallery they wont open, but if you open them from any file explorer they should open fine
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Yeah your best bet is to get a new launcher. I would say I like using adw myself with miui, then editing the themes on miui.

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Skyfire Android beta now in marketplace

Works pretty good on Desire
and somehow they decided to only make it available to the country with access to paid apps. long live market enabled
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Got it... will use it as my default for a while, see how it works out.
Does it do multitouch??
anyone care to post the apk? can't get it from the market....unfortunately i stay in australia where i have no chance to get alot of good apps...
Took it straight off, poor design and looks cheap...
lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.
it's clunky but...
villiankknd said:
lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.
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...video playback is great. UI's a bit iffy, and the zoom (it does support multitouch) is in steps, but the killer feature is the video playback. Just tried some online content and it looked excellent - worth keeping just for that I think as an alternate browser.
yup, thats my point actually lol, just for the sake of the video playback...
someone please get me the apk =D
it's on the market now
ya i know its on the market if you read my previous post....
anyways i found where to download it =)
http://get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
and if anyone wants a link to a great site with alot of movies and tv series then pm me =)
i just watched grey's anatomy on it, and tried to watch alien, =D works wonders all on my amazing HTC Desire wooohoo
I couldn't get nothing to play lol
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skyfire 2 is brilliants. It is still beta so no true serverside flash rendering yet, but it works just like the default browser with multitouch and with compression tehnology. Loving it.
I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)
purely a personal feeling, but I think the stock browser is way better, for what matters miles ahead of every other phone I've tried.
still, a lot of options is always an excellent thing...
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yes the stock is way better, just that it cant play flash video like skyfire period..
i tested megavideo, it works 1 out of 10times.....dont know why.......
there are other websites that are working and i watch a full movie of alien on it streaming on a website...=)
I might have been lucky, flash worked 9 out of ten times on stock browser for me. good to know I can rely on skyfire when problems happen however.
my 'mistrust' for skyfire comes from trying to use the last version on WinMo and finding it really slow compared to old versions. sort of different on modern devices...
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pd555 said:
I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)
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Me too even the BBC site loads the video but you cannot click on the play button it just sits there at the first screen or am I doing something wrong
Flash didn't work at all for me on Skyfire. Pinch to zoom was terrible aswell, it has this weird "acceleration" which means it zooms for half a second after you stop moving your fingers which I hated. I uninstalled it for now as the stock browser seems far better.
i am playing flash videos that i can't play on the stock browser....skyfire works great for me...
maybe all the years of helping old ppl crossing the road finally pays off, i am getting a good return...

Flash? Why isn't anyone complaining.

I just got froyo and a special flash apk that fixes the hulu.com mess. I can't deal with the choppiness that the new android flash has. Does anyone else have this problem? Its not even worth watching videos if the flash player constantly stops to buffer. I tried finding fixes for this but I don't see anyone trying to figure this out. Is this adobe's problem?
I used it to watch adult swim and it didnt stop once and was very crisp. This was over 3g also.
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I hardly use hulu, but tried it just to see how the flash works. I'm an avid Twilight Zone fan, and searched and watched some episodes. Running off of wifi (since I have horrid service at my house), the video was highly watchable, when fast action was on the screen it stuttered a little bit, but never stop / froze / became unwatchable. Love it. ♥
Isn't the flash plugin still in beta right now?
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Oddity said:
Isn't the flash plugin still in beta right now?
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I'm using sky raider 1.9, nothing about beta, and I didn't have to download flash from the marketplace like some people had to with the Cyanogen mod.
Was going to say it might just be the built-in flash plugin for sense, but I checked the market place and didn't see it there, but saw "Adobe Flash Player 10.1" in my applications under "All". No beta tag there ;D
NickkxNekro said:
I'm using sky raider 1.9, nothing about beta, and I didn't have to download flash from the marketplace like some people had to with the Cyanogen mod.
Was going to say it might just be the built-in flash plugin for sense, but I checked the market place and didn't see it there, but saw "Adobe Flash Player 10.1" in my applications under "All". No beta tag there ;D
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I have the same build.
Flash is in beta right now. Beta 4, if memory serves.
When I am watching hulu.com it says a warning at the top before it plays " This video is not optimized for mobile viewing" I have 4 bars of service and it still struggles with a small 2 min video.
EDIT*I did download a week ago an apk that tweaked the flash player so that it would work with hulu.com
Kinda hard to complain running an unsanctioned version of the OS and a beta Flash player.
Give it 6 months, and then you'll have ample opportunity to complain.
In order to watch flash videos at hulu.com do you have to update the flash.apk with the tweaked version?
Where can i get the yweaked ver
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=688054
I am not sure if it is flash we are having problems with. Maybe its the cache? It seems that the like 20 secs into a flash video it starts to get choppy. Maybe its the cache getting full. I have noticed when I run a different browser the flash player plays differently. I think the skyfire browser was the best so far at playing flash.

ICS Miui Rom for Galaxy SII

Check out this link
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-ga...-a-2x-performance-boost-thanks-to-a-miui-rom/
OR
http://phandroid.com/2011/11/08/sam...ives-android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-miui-rom/
An external site linking back to a thread here, brilliant!
Why not keep it there? {Rom} {GalnetMIUI 1.11.7} {ICS 4.0.1} {11-7-11}
Yes, just saw it.
This line will keep me away from it,
The bad news is that the MIUI ROM comes with heavy UI customization and it won’t let you enjoy the ICS UI novelties, but that’s not necessarily a bad news.
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Well, MIUI is good, using ICS as base in MIUI is great but proper ICS on Galaxy S2 will be a whole new experience. Waiting for someone to port it to SGS2.
well myscore in quadrant is 3500 so this is bul****
You are not your quadrant score.
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Isn't this available for the ATT SGS2 only? I have not seen a i9100 version. If I'm wrong, please point me in the right direction.
Link for international i9100-version!
http://galnetmiui.co.uk/landing/download/ics-builds/
I just flashed this rom and I'm loving it. I've been using it for 2 hours and I love the MIUI features. It's like Cyanogenmod, but less nerdy and seems to offer better/more functionality.
What I love most is that the Flashlight will start from simply holding the 'Home' button at your lock screen.
Makes it super smooth to enable/disable flashlight, as it disables when you let go the home button.
If you don't like the MIUI launcher, use Go Launcher or some other instead.
I couldnt get used to the MIUI because it places all your apps on your homescreens. I'm sure you could get used to this, but I don't feel like it.
DEFINATELY TRY IT THOUGH! It's butter-smooth.
Just remember to make a Back-up of your current ROM using CWM
Usual stuff that have bugs/dont work:
1080p recording
Video playback (avi, mpg, mkv, etc)
This rom with ics theme and ics launcher will be sweet
downloading now =)
i am kinda addicted to cyanogen cause of the settings menu, but i think ill survive
Sadly i cannot change my Beautiful widgets skin
oh well
dyallo said:
Usual stuff that have bugs/dont work:
1080p recording
Video playback (avi, mpg, mkv, etc)
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What about 720p recording?
dyallo said:
http://galnetmiui.co.uk/landing/download/ics-builds/
I just flashed this rom and I'm loving it. I've been using it for 2 hours and I love the MIUI features. It's like Cyanogenmod, but less nerdy and seems to offer better/more functionality.
What I love most is that the Flashlight will start from simply holding the 'Home' button at your lock screen.
Makes it super smooth to enable/disable flashlight, as it disables when you let go the home button.
If you don't like the MIUI launcher, use Go Launcher or some other instead.
I couldnt get used to the MIUI because it places all your apps on your homescreens. I'm sure you could get used to this, but I don't feel like it.
DEFINATELY TRY IT THOUGH! It's butter-smooth.
Just remember to make a Back-up of your current ROM using CWM
Usual stuff that have bugs/dont work:
1080p recording
Video playback (avi, mpg, mkv, etc)
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New to MIUI? Plus 1080p works! and video playback also work!
katkoriaarpan said:
New to MIUI? Plus 1080p works! and video playback also work!
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Yea I'm new to MIUI.
I tried to record 1080.
I hit the record button, it was recording - then when I stopped recording - the camera application Force Closed.
And nah, I can't play my *.mpg file
EDIT: Playing mpg and avi worked if using the native Video Player coming with Galnet Miui (Galnet Video PLayer)
dyallo said:
Yea I'm new to MIUI.
I tried to record 1080.
I hit the record button, it was recording - then when I stopped recording - the camera application Force Closed.
And nah, I can't play my *.mpg file
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Well, for camera, use a 3rd party camera app
And for video, i use mobo player!
katkoriaarpan said:
Well, for camera, use a 3rd party camera app
And for video, i use mobo player!
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Correct me if I'm wrong.
But MIUI is based on Cyanogenmod correct?
If so, some files don't work. From my testing, x264 encoded files don't work, as do some files downloaded from Youtube.
For those that have installed, can you try using Tubemate to download the 1080p version of the Battlefield 3 launch trailer and see if it works? Thanks.
Giving it a go myself tomorrow morning. Gonna sleep now.
Preformance test gave me score of 2900, and this should be with 2 duel core? Loled they just make this up to attract people's attention. Its sure not ICS based rom.
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So can someone pleas clarify to points I'm still in doubt after search:
1) Does this ROM works on our "non-AT&T" GS2?? Can I flash it normally like any other ROM here?
2) Does FM Radio works?
FabricioGS said:
So can someone pleas clarify to points I'm still in doubt after search:
1) Does this ROM works on our "non-AT&T" GS2?? Can I flash it normally like any other ROM here?
2) Does FM Radio works?
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I flashed it on my non-AT&T by a mistake, it did work, however the device became really hot after 5 mins of UI browsing, so I wouldn't recommend it.
what the f*ck is this ICS build? -_-; No source code out yet... wtf?
FabricioGS said:
So can someone pleas clarify to points I'm still in doubt after search:
1) Does this ROM works on our "non-AT&T" GS2?? Can I flash it normally like any other ROM here?
2) Does FM Radio works?
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im using it and it doesnt get hot

[Q] Does ICS perform pretty well?

Hey guys. I am no dev and waiting as patiently as possible for "beta" ICS build. I would just love to know from you pro tinkerers how is the overall system performance? Are the home screen scrolling and animations smooth? Is it impressive because ICS is better optimized or is the hardware showing its age?
I stay with CM7 for now until 4 or 5 releases of CM9.
I've been very impressed with the sneakpeaks and in fact have been using them as a daily. I recommend doing your own builds though just to make sure everything is current (only reason I haven't is due to VM issues).
I mainly use mine for browsing, email, and PDF reading so I haven't had any issues with it.
If anything you can give it a shot and try it yourself (emmc or SD) then go back if needed.
Sound still not working, right?
Sound works fine for me in sneakpeak2, but the boost in dal's tweaks isn't working. Headphones are OK. Was watching Ghostbusters earlier.
I just loaded samian303's nightly build from 1/11 and so far so good listened to Pandora radio earlier and been able to do everything I could do on CM7.1. Though I have not tried video yet..
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Sound works fine for me in sneakpeak2, but the boost in dal's tweaks isn't working. Headphones are OK. Was watching Ghostbusters earlier.
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Oh, it's great to hear.
I haven't caught up with ICS lately.
I've been pretty happy with it. The only problem I had was that it did not see any of the media on my SD card. On that note...any ideas?
I just installed the most recent build and I am amazed how functional it is. The only trouble I have noted (with very limited tinkering) is flash player and the ics movie studio app.
All my media is there on emmc and sdcard, and movies play fine.
I hadn't realized how close they had gotten. There may be more serious problems that I haven uncovered, but I am considering making this an every day ROM. Everything else is minor minor stuff.
I have tried samian303's nightly build from an SD card and really like the progress from my first build of it. It's getting close to a beta or RC I would think.
ICS works very well the only thing it is missing that CM7 has is video playback. Other than that most everything works fine.
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I am running the latest nightly and am over clocked to 1325. Runs very smooth for such an early build!
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works okay
Ive been using it for a day or so and it seems to work fine to me. Just a lot of little odds and ends to adjust/clear up. A lot of apps are not showing up in market yet I can install them from my titanium backup.
Not bad at all
I've been using it since sneakpeek2 and have had a totally fun time with it. Took a few tweaks to get Calendar sync going, to get the launcher I wanted (I use Zeam) and to get everything looking the way I want it to but it's reliable enough for me to use daily.
The one annoying issue (besides video stuff which is just icing on the cake for me) is that the ICS Gmail app doesn't fit the screen, it cuts off at the edges, but this might have been resolved in a nightly or there might be a tweak that I haven't found yet, still searching. If anyone sees one, let me know.
For video I'm just using moboplayer and set default for software decoding. Works well enough for me so far, but I haven't thrown anything heavy at it.
ICS is a little buggy but for the most part its on point!!!
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For video I'm just using moboplayer and set default for software decoding. Works well enough for me so far, but I haven't thrown anything heavy at it.
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This is what I do as well. Seems to play everything I've thrown at it just fine, now if only streaming stuff/youtube/netflix worked then I'd be golden.
MTeson said:
This is what I do as well. Seems to play everything I've thrown at it just fine, now if only streaming stuff/youtube/netflix worked then I'd be golden.
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Youtube videos have played fine for me as long as you click on hd to turn it off in the lower left hand corner.
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I don't own a cell phone so I am not up on all of the latest and greatest operating systems, so my question is what are the advantages of ICS over CM7? Is it analogous to upgrading from win98 to xp?
Imbroglio said:
I don't own a cell phone so I am not up on all of the latest and greatest operating systems, so my question is what are the advantages of ICS over CM7? Is it analogous to upgrading from win98 to xp?
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Not really. I would say its more like upgrading from windows XP to windows 7. everything feels more redefined . You should really give it a go. Try dual nothing a nightly. I'be been using it for 2 days now and its superb

No Flash from now on. Anyone else finding it an inconvenience on their 7?

Let's face it, no matter how much business you can make with your Nexus 7, a tablet is designed mainly for entertainment. A bigger screen usually means that we get to enjoy certain medias on a bigger screen, aka videos. However not every streaming website can afford or even cares enough to have fancy apps like Youtube and if you stream live channels online for emergency sports on your work computer you would know that flash still plays a part in our daily life.
As Adobe quits on Flash on our future Androids to get everyone into the HTML5 stage, PC users will still have a fairly high amount of data for grabs through Flash but our tablets will be losing that whole side of information while the transition goes through. Although I don't, but I could imagine my girlfriend playing an online Flash game on my 7 but it won't happen anymore.
and... we lose one thing to show-off to the iOS users...
How is everyone else coping with the fading of Flash on our mobile devices?
you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well
hunter3160 said:
you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well
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+100 to that
+1 using aosp browser and the latest adobe flash. Stole it from my mobile.
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pretty easy to get flash..
First install the AOSP browser:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746
After that, I still had some newer flash content saying it needed the latest flash player, so installed the two flash players from this thread:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...189897-no-flash-got-you-down-try-fix.html#anb
Works perfectly now!
Yeah I was bummed out when I first read that on Adobes web site. Yeah eventually most sites will hopefully change or add support for our tablets and phones to compensate foir Adobe doing that however being that we have the lovely OS that we do there are very easy workarounds! I installed the AOSP browser @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746 and flash @ https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgsd3gyy7v6c90j/com.adobe.flashplayer-1.apk This is great too because I prefer the AOSP browser (I love the full screen mode with quick controls). The bookmarks don't sync though.. So I just kept the Chrome Bookmarks widget on my homescreen and set the default browser as Browser. Works like a charm!
I despise flash so I don't miss it on my device, at least not for anything important. Bring on HTML5!
yea everyone despises flash. high CPU usage low performance. but it has been playing such a big part in the past 10 years or so that it might just be TOO sudden a change when not everyone has gone to HTML5 and officially taken out flash as a whole. This might hurt Android as it is a crucial time Post-Jobs for android to have a major counter attack on iOS and an obvious visible advantage has been taken out.
I sideloaded flash & firefox for iplayer but other than that I haven't missed, the sooner flash dies the better.
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I have had absolutely no problem with not having Flash.
When you referred to other streaming sites, are you talking about porn sites? lol
I sideloaded flash and the AOSP browser so I could use iPlayer, but that's pretty much it. Also added the iPlayer app once I found the APK.
woshiweili said:
I have had absolutely no problem with not having Flash.
When you referred to other streaming sites, are you talking about porn sites? lol
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Hahaha maybe but no actually I care more about streaming sports haha
hunter3160 said:
you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well
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It works for now but as time goes on and android has more updates how long will it continue to work? At some point it may break completely.
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I sideloaded flash and the AOSP browser so I could use iPlayer, but that's pretty much it. Also added the iPlayer app once I found the APK.
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The bbc have already said they are testing a version for 4.1 https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCiPlayer/status/218712600161157120
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16gb N7 UK ordered 3rd July.
No.
jmrog said:
pretty easy to get flash..
First install the AOSP browser:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746
After that, I still had some newer flash content saying it needed the latest flash player, so installed the two flash players from this thread:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...189897-no-flash-got-you-down-try-fix.html#anb
Works perfectly now!
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Was about to link this. Just install the apk and flash content will play on the stock aosp browser .
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