Hi All
I seem to have a problem with my new HD2 and am wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same problem please?
If I use the Sense UI music player all is fine if a little slow at times. Third party players such as Nitrogen are fine. However, if I simply go to file explorer and open a file the whole phone struggles terribly for about a minute and when it does eventually start playing the file with Windows Media Player it constantly freezes and stutters. After bit of investigation I have found that the player is taking over 90% CPU when doing this. I also notice that when it happens the player tries to to buffer but never gets past 0%.
Is anyone else having this problem please? Is it a known issue please? Vodafone said it was but I can't find anything that covers this exact problem. There is one similar problem but I doubt it is the cause. The process is quite involved to resolve that problem wants me to format my SD card which is why I haven't tried it yet. I have searched high and low but have not seen this problem anywhere else. Could this be a ROM issue that will be fixed by an update or hotfix? Or have I simply got a faulty phone?
Any ideas or suggestions please?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Paul Lemonidis.
Hi Paul,
I have experienced exactly the same problem and found a way to solve it. I had over 500 MP3 songs in one folder on a microSD card. Playing them was terrible, the same problems you mention: stutter, freezing, buffering and the entire phone seemed to be unresponsive at times.
Then I played a very large MP3 file (about 1 hour in length) and I had no troubles at all. That surprised me, because I expected (because of the constant buffering) this would not play at all. What suddenly hit me was that this large file was the only MP3 file in a separate folder.
So I moved a couple songs (which stuttered very much) to another folder and they played without any problem.
The solution I used was this: I deleted the single folder with to over 500 MP3's and added the songs through the Media Player of my PC. This way, the folder structure in the music folder is: Artist/Album/Songs. So every single folder with songs contains only a few MP3 files.
After that I let the Media Player rescan the microSD card. All the songs were detected and they all play without any worry.
My question to you is: Do you also have a large amount of MP3 files in one physical folder? Then I bet you can use my solution, or at least devide the large amount of MP3 files over various physical folders.
Best regards,
Willem (Netherlands)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927258
In regards wih the same I have tried a lot more options and then tried 50 folder with 10 songs each it now works fine but the continuty in playing songs over a long time say 5-6 hours is left to opt.
hi guys, this is my first post, and i am haveing some issues with my tmobile usa htc hd2, first off, i just got the phone in the mail this morning, so all i know about it is what i have gathered from the internet (not that much)... so, i am haveing trouble putting movies on it. i have a bunch of mp4 movies that i use on my ipod, but the only way i have gotten one on my hd2 is to put it on the phone memory, which means one movie takes up almost all the space, so that just wont work, and i need to know how to put them on the memory card.
also, id like to know how to install co0kies home tab, i have downloaded everything i need for it, but i dont know how to get it on my hd2.
any help on either topic would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Pbleonidus
connect to usb, when usb to pc connection popup comes up choose active sync, then go to my computer (on pc) you will see a new device called something like 'pbleonidus's hd2', click to open that, you will see tw3o devices, one called \ and one called storage card.
Open the storage card one, and drag your files there.
Same for installing apps, drag the .cab file to the phone and then on the phone, browse to the file and click to run it.
Alternatively, when the usb to pc connection popup comes up choose disk drive, and teh storage card (and only the storage card, you cannot see teh phones internal file system unless you choose active sync as above) will show up as a removeable drive in my computer
Download ActiveSync 4.5 (xp) or Windows Mobile Device Center (vista and above) from microsoft. It's a much better way to browse your phones File directories, including the 16gig storage card, in my opinion.
This would also solve your second question regarding the CHT cab file. Drop it in whatever directory you want on your phone, (via activesync) then use the phones File Explorer to find that location, and execute.
ok, so for CHT, i just drag the cab file to the sd card file? do i put it in any folder, or just into the main sd card folder?
also, same thing with the videos, can i just put them anywhere on the the sd card or does it have to be in videos?
A handy little site for all of you...
http://www.htc.com/us/support/t-mobile-hd2/help/synchronization
Many categories on the left hand side.
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Download ActiveSync 4.5 (xp) or Windows Mobile Device Center (vista and above) from microsoft. It's a much better way to browse your phones File directories, including the 16gig storage card, in my opinion.
This would also solve your second question regarding the CHT cab file. Drop it in whatever directory you want on your phone, (via activesync) then use the phones File Explorer to find that location, and execute.
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ok, so i can just put cab files anywhere on the sd card, and browse to them, and click them from the device, and it will install things like CHT?
what if i want to go back to stock, can i just delete the file, or is there a process? and i think i got the movies to work, i just need to finish syncing a few...
By and large you can put anything anywhere you want, provided you know how to get to that location once you're browsing on the phone itself. In other words, you drop a movie in folder X, you need to know how to tell whatever player you use to open that movie from folder X.
Rule of thumb is to be clean and tidy about it, much the same way you would your pc. Personally, I drop the .cab files into My Documents, as it's easy for me to find from the File Explorer within the phone. Once you see it just tap and execute.
Once you execute a .cab file, you will be asked to install, then presented the option to install on Phone or Storage Card.
A program like CHT, or CHTEditor, or BsB Tweaks, I personally install on the phone itself. Any other Application or Game or what have you goes on the Storage Card.
If it's a program that's going to drastically change the way your phone operates (CHT), install it to the phone. Anything else on the storage card.
That's just my own conventional wisdom however. I think of it in terms of execution speed. You have to think something installed on the phone itself will run faster than something installed on the SD card.
thanks jimbonics, that helps a lot, and what if i need to go back to stock, can i just delet the cab file, or do i need to go through uninstall process (if so, how do i do that)?
also, do i need to run the programs in any secific order once they are put on the device? example: for CHT, do i need to run CHTEditor, then CHT, or doesnt it matter?
CHT first, then the editor.
For removal, simply go to Start-->Settings-->Applications-->Remove applications.
CHT is just a Sense 2.5 modification, so you aren't actually moving away from what is typically referred to as 'stock' (being a T-Mobile ROM over a cooked ROM), but I understand your meaning.
And, once you install a .cab file, you can then remove it from the phone, saving a bit of space.
You may want to archive it on your pc however, in case you ever need to do a hard reset. You'll find it'll help get your phone back to where it was much faster if you save all the cabs you install on your pc.
also, for the fixes that i downloaded, like a swype fix, opera mobile fixe, and something else, do i do the same thing as i would for the cht files, just put them on the sd card, navigate to them, and run them?
If they are .cab files, yes.
ok, i think i have everything i need, if there is anything you think i should know, im all ears. if i need anything else ill ask. and i appreciate the help so far.
pbleonidus said:
ok, i think i have everything i need, if there is anything you think i should know, im all ears. if i need anything else ill ask. and i appreciate the help so far.
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This thread will probably give you a lot of useful info as a new HD2 owner:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=688928
And then this one too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663845
i havnt tried any .cab files yet, i need to get the other issues sorted out first.
im still haaving troubles with movies, i have about 30 mp4 movies and only about 5 of them are working on my hd2? whats up with that? when i click on the other movie files, it shows a black screen with a loading symbole for like a half second, then goes back to to the movies list. on the ones that do work, it shows that screen, but for like 1-2 seconds, then starts playing the movie... i really need to get these problems fixed, because, although i love the phones big screen and awsome camera, im not to impressed with much else, i dont want to have to sell the phone, after only owning it for a day...
mp4 isnt a filetype in its own right, it is just a container filetype (same with .avi files).
Inside it is a video file and an audio file. When you open the mp4, it uses a splitter to divide it into audio and video streams, and then codecs are used to decode the two streams.
The problem is these can be encoded with one of dozens(hundreds?) of different codecs, meaning two mp4 files can have completely different format video/audio inside them.
THis may not be the problem, but i would hunt down some kind of codec info prog (i use 'gspot' for avi files, dunno if it will work for mp4s, i dont have any) which will tell you what codecs the vid and audio streams are encoded in. You can then compare that to the supported codecs on the hd2, and take it from there.
samsamuel said:
mp4 isnt a filetype in its own right, it is just a container filetype (same with .avi files).
Inside it is a video file and an audio file. When you open the mp4, it uses a splitter to divide it into audio and video streams, and then codecs are used to decode the two streams.
The problem is these can be encoded with one of dozens(hundreds?) of different codecs, meaning two mp4 files can have completely different format video/audio inside them.
THis may not be the problem, but i would hunt down some kind of codec info prog (i use 'gspot' for avi files, dunno if it will work for mp4s, i dont have any) which will tell you what codecs the vid and audio streams are encoded in. You can then compare that to the supported codecs on the hd2, and take it from there.
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i also have the files in .avi format, so what do i do with this 'gspot'?
(and last night i have been installing a bunch of .cab files, i have CHT, CHTEditor, BSB tweeks, and a bunch of other tweeks! they work flawlesly! YAY!)
also, would the fact that i dont have the factory sd card make a differance here?
when i got my phone off ebay, the guy sent me a 2GB sd card, so i had to use the 16GB card out of my old phone....
also, how do you get to the registry to make tweaks? do i need internet to do it? because i cant get any on my phone...
and also, what is the today tab, and how do you turn off htc sense on it?
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
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redmonke255 said:
Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
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No...they are all under 100 megabytes.
I should also note that I have to use MTP..because UMS isn't supported. But even if I try to sync them via windows media player it fails all the time.
Have you transferred other file types? This is most likely a stupid suggestion but maybe try renaming them first? Maybe it's something with the mkv extension or an illegal character in the file names. As I said, dumb suggestion, but once in a while those are the ones that work.
technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.
nusairh said:
technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.
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I have it hosted on my local apache web server and I just browse to the webpage and tap on it and it loads right up and plays in MX player...However no matter what I do I CANNOT transfer the files to the nexus 7...
I just tried it out, copying a 720P MKV file from Windows 7 to the Nexus 7 over MTP. Worked fine for me.
Well no matter what I did it wouldn't work...I ended up putting the files in a .tar file and copying them over and extracting the archive...it worked then but its a HUGE pain in the ass.
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[Workaround] Transfer MKV to Nexus 7
Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Found a workaround:
Change Usb settings to PTP
1. Menu>Settings>Storage>Menu>USB Computer Settings
2. Tick Camera(PTP)
3. Transfer to Pictures folder
4. Using a file explorer of your choice on the device, transfer to final destination folder
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!1!
I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.
I can't get mine to transfer. Even tried the picture folder trick. Of course I have the .wmv digital copies of movies I'd like to transfer. Going to try and convert them to mkv at least.
Aside from dropbox, would google drive work as well for streaming?
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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ExploreMN said:
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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I have both the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 and have the same problem from my Windows 7 Home machine, but at work my Windows 7 Premium machine copies MKV files without a problem - on my home machine it crashes Windows Explorer every time...
There are several ways I've found to copy the files without converting them to MP4/AVI files first:
Dropbox, Google Drive, AirDroid - all of them treat the file as a "captured video", but at least AirDroid doesn't NEED Internet access, while the other 2 do
I'm not sure if it's a driver problem within Windows, but if I find any further methods I'll post here...
Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.
Using Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a laptop, no problems copying MKV files to a rooted Nexus 7 16GB running JB via USB. Even used ES File Explorer to copy, wirelessly, an MKV video file from the laptop to the Nexus 7. The video file (created with Handbrake from a ripped DVD) was 1.05GB. Screen captures of both the copying from Windows 7 and the file shown on the Nexus 7 attached.
rlreddy said:
I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.
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I was trying to do something like this. I tested out Google Drive and Dropbox, but both seemed to have issues, one of which was the file transfer rate. TOOK FOREVER. What video player do you use to watch the mkv files?
ExploreMN said:
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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Mine has a pop up, but there's no "copy anyway" option. Just "cancel" or "ok". Hitting okay just accepts the rejection message, it doesn't keep transfer.
It is Windows Home version though, so like the other post, this may be the issue.
My tablet isn't rooted yet either.
droidnext said:
Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.
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Cool , it worked for me like a charm after uninstalling DivX plus. Thanks man )