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Anyone who has installed the froyo beta, could you give us details of what's included

For example, what music player is included? Vanilla or touch wiz? What are the 5 radio buttons they used in the notification pull down? Can you still adjust the brightness by sliding your fiber across the notification bar at the top, do we have a video player app, etc.
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Eazail70x7 said:
For example, what music player is included? Vanilla or touch wiz? What are the 5 radio buttons they used in the notification pull down? Can you still adjust the brightness by sliding your fiber across the notification bar at the top, do we have a video player app, etc.
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wifi, bluetooth,gps, silent, 4g
as long as automatic brightness is off then yes
The video player app is there
as for music app i have no clue..i didnt use it much before..
on top it has
All, Playlists, Albums, Artists

If you don't mind, start a track playing in the music player and then back out to the homescreen. Then pull down the notification bar. Are their music controls in there? Lock the screen. Unlock it and check up top, is there a half a disc up top that you can pull down to reveal music controls?

Yes. Its there, just like EE rom. This is TW 3.0.
Sent from my SPH-D700

it looks like both music players are there...samsung and stock...when I opened an ogg from myfiles it opened stock but I see a different one with 5.1ch there as an option..gimme a sec to figure it out

Ok here is how it is..
Sound Player: Default one..wont do anything special
Music Player: This one goes into the notifications like you want...I see no music options on lock screen..also this player doesnt seem to like OGG files :/
Sound Player playes oggs though

lil more information...it comes with
video player app
Fascinate music player
Fascinate phone apk
Fascinate message apk
Flash player
voice recorder
Youtube apk (if u install the new one no more fc wen sign in your account)
Apps to SD
little changes to the camera apk
New Gmail apk
Gallery apk loads faster
all i got to so far

better battery
bubbles text messages
new way of selected text (photo included)
new way of scrolling through text without tapping 100 times to get the cursor to where you want
flash player
touchwiz music player (very nice) with controls on notification bar
silent/vibrate widget added to notification bar
Built in voice recorder
Colored icons in settings
Very snappy with opening apps
and thats all i can think of now

I didn't even know I could slide noti bar to adjust brightness, wow how did I miss that. Good thread I wanted to know the details also
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Does it has Kies support?

Geekybiker said:
Does it has Kies support?
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Nope..couldn't find the option to go into Kies Mode :/

So far this is sounding really awesome! I only could wish for the fascinate lock screen. Other thanthat, looks like we get all the goods.
Do we have that new beach live wallpaper?

What about wireless tethering? Is the Froyo version there and does it work if it is? Or did Sprint take it out?

Craw, let's be a little realistic here. Why would Sprint include the FREE tethering when they have a product they're selling for $30/month?
NO US Carrier, and I can't think of ANY carrier at all, will include the tethering for free. I'm pretty sure Google just added it as a feature so it was easier for the carriers to implement their own (paid) solution.

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Craw, let's be a little realistic here. Why would Sprint include the FREE tethering when they have a product they're selling for $30/month?
NO US Carrier, and I can't think of ANY carrier at all, will include the tethering for free. I'm pretty sure Google just added it as a feature so it was easier for the carriers to implement their own (paid) solution.
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Yeah I realize that I was just curious. Doesn't matter to me either way
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I ask again, is the beach live walppaper included in epuc froyo?

Eazail70x7 said:
I ask again, is the beach live walppaper included in epuc froyo?
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Yes it is
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That's what I'm talking about

Eazail70x7 said:
I ask again, is the beach live walppaper included in epuc froyo?
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Beach one is there..but some of the other ones that were on the phone aren't there anymore
As for tethering, no Froyo one..Sprint Hotspot is there...(doesn't work with 4g though..fail)
There is a USB Tether option..but I have not tested it.

Which live wallpapers are missing? Most likely I can replace them if I back up what I have now in my epic?
Also, can you edit the tw3.0 home screen like on the fascinate? Can you edit the dock?

Tip: genre tab in HTC music player

Most of you will probably know this already, but if you tap and hold on the horizontal tab sliders in all the HTC apps, you can change their order and even remove or add tabs. Do this in the music library and you get three new tabs to pick from: composers, purchased music and genre. Especially that last one made me happy as I really missed it, coming from a Windows Mobile HD2.

i didn't know about it, thanks

I still don't get it.could you explain more?

Thank you too... I just learned it today.
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@Hakimy:
Go to the HTC music player's library screen. At the bottom, you've got the slider to switch between the "artists", "albums" and other tabs. Hold your finger on the slider without moving it for about 5 seconds, and it will go into edit mode.
The new tabs are at the top of the screen: if you want to use them, just drag them down onto the slider bar.

Thanks, didn't know about this feature.

This also works in your contacts page.
Awesome find!!!!
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Yep found this when I got the phone as I wanted to sort music by albums. This is common on Sense enabled phones, to have tabs like that.

You are the man! This is what I have been missing for long! Thanks!

Thank you sir! I was oblivious to this, and i was displeased that the Music app didn't have Genres anymore. You have brightened my day

Thanks, Great !!

Yeay, looks like I really did discover something! Weird that they would hide a feature like that though, the lack of a genre tab was one of my biggest complaints after I switched from a WinMo phone to my Desire HD.

wow didnt know this thanks very much!

honeycomb live wallpaper

hi i had searched the forums and youtube and i have not found any video of the xoom original livewallpaper, can someone take a video of the live wallpaper in action? the one that come preinstalled in the xoom?

it only comes with four installed. Maps, which lets you set up a map as your background (you can imagine that) holo spiral, equalizer simple, and spectrum..... none of these are new so I'm sure you can find them in some corner of the web.
They're the same as any other android device.. accept bigger. I'd video for you, but don't have the tools.
I'm currently using star field, and it it working awesome with no lag and no battery hit.

RadDudeTommy said:
it only comes with four installed. Maps, which lets you set up a map as your background (you can imagine that) holo spiral, equalizer simple, and spectrum..... none of these are new so I'm sure you can find them in some corner of the web.
They're the same as any other android device.. accept bigger. I'd video for you, but don't have the tools.
I'm currently using star field, and it it working awesome with no lag and no battery hit.
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oh ok, i tought it came with new live wallpapers, thanks anyway!

hernan078 said:
hi i had searched the forums and youtube and i have not found any video of the xoom original livewallpaper, can someone take a video of the live wallpaper in action? the one that come preinstalled in the xoom?
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Here you go buddy...http://gizmee.com/honeycomb-live-wallpaper-for-all-android-devices

What would your dream ROM have in it?

What I'd like to see a dev do is take the android source and one of the kernels (ScaryKernel stable preferably) and develop a ROM from the ground up.
Call waiting does not work properly in CM7 or another AOSP based ROM I tried.
GPS has problems fixing in that ROM as well. I believe Sense based ROM users don't have this problem.
What would be really cool is having a nice 2.3.5 ROM with ScaryStable kernel, Android 2.3.5, some, not all of the tweaks from CM7, apps included that are actually useful such as antutu benchmark, kernel manager, rom manager, super user, terminal emulator, speedtest.net, wifi analyzer, gps status, fasterfix stuff like that, HTC GPS drivers, and being able to update profile, and prl and being able to get to the ##code# menus from the dialer (basically need the HTC dialer for this I'm guessing which would also fix call waiting). That would be like the ultimate ROM in my opinion.
Thoughts? And yes, I'm actually thinking about taking this on as my own project if I have to even though I can't program to save my life.

What's a matter with call waiting on ASOP? I've never noticed anything messed up or anything different.....I have predominatly have had cm7 but also ran shiftdeck for awhile and call waiting has worked fine I believe....
I have read others having problems getting gps to get a fix but have never experienced the problem myself.....I know the solution has been to flash sense get a lock n then flash asop and from what I read gps is fixed after that....

minlo said:
What's a matter with call waiting on ASOP? I've never noticed anything messed up or anything different.....I have predominatly have had cm7 but also ran shiftdeck for awhile and call waiting has worked fine I believe....
I have read others having problems getting gps to get a fix but have never experienced the problem myself.....I know the solution has been to flash sense get a lock n then flash asop and from what I read gps is fixed after that....
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Tap manage calls in CM7, tell me what happens.
As for GPS, I found a combination of resetting the GPS and downloading GPS assistance data with GPS status, and using faster fix and setting the proper ntp server while having wireless assistance on helps for a while. I'm still investigating exactly what needs to be done for GPS to to work properly.

I can honestly say I have never had a single problem with GPS on any cyanogen build but i never shut my GPS off I don't even know why It's on maybe for the weather so maybe that info could help someone maybe get a lock right before flashing and leaving GPS on might work but AOSP is fast has no bloat and is very customizable but I am a Sense guy so:
I think a Rom I would be 100% happy with as an all time Rom for right now it would have to be a Sense 3.0 Rom because I absolutely love it, with the HDR and panorama effects added to the camera, overclocked to 1.2 Ghz with a very light theme maybe like Rosie, status bar with no clock and notification area to be semi-trans black with white font a themed HTC_IME and dialer and a custom Glock LockRing that's all
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strapped365 said:
I can honestly say I have never had a single problem with GPS on any cyanogen build but i never shut my GPS off I don't even know why It's on maybe for the weather so maybe that info could help someone maybe get a lock right before flashing and leaving GPS on might work but AOSP is fast has no bloat and is very customizable but I am a Sense guy so:
I think a Rom I would be 100% happy with as an all time Rom for right now it would have to be a Sense 3.0 Rom because I absolutely love it, with the HDR and panorama effects added to the camera, overclocked to 1.2 Ghz with a very light theme maybe like Rosie, status bar with no clock and notification area to be semi-trans black with white font a themed HTC_IME and dialer and a custom Glock LockRing that's all
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The real question is how does your GPS work with wireless assistance turned off?
And Sense 3.0 is beautiful (mainly talking about the weather themed lock screen with the shortcuts) but I hate the way Sense 2 and 3 manage contacts and it's way too facebook integrated in general which is annoying.

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The real question is how does your GPS work with wireless assistance turned off
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I wouldn't know I don't use my GPS often and I leave it on the default settings and never have a problem even if I'm not on WiFi every time I have needed it, It's been solid and it don't kill my battery at all I get great battery life
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VICODAN said:
The real question is how does your GPS work with wireless assistance turned off?
And Sense 3.0 is beautiful (mainly talking about the weather themed lock screen with the shortcuts) but I hate the way Sense 2 and 3 manage contacts and it's way too facebook integrated in general which is annoying.
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I have to disagree. I love sense bc it has Facebook integration. I like how I set my contacts to their respective profile on my touch pro 2 with wm 6.5 synced with Google and never had to worry about it again. It puts a pic to your contacts and gives u a bday entry which is nice imo.
Now my gps sucks, I have to wait 5-10 mins to get a lock outside or in the car. And sense 2.3 doesn't have kernel source so its limited to the stock kernel.
My dream Rom is MikG, with x99 kernel. I used to love that kernel on 2.2
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My dream Rom would be MikG With x99 or V8 kernel, AND Firerats due to that sucker helps save a lot of space.

My "dream" ROM on the Shift would have to be full blown Sense 3.0 with it running perfectly smooth WITHOUT overclocking. I would want the kernel for sbc and UV. And I would want google + integration added along with FB and twitter.
(Guess thats why its called a dream ROM )
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My "dream" ROM on the Shift would have to be full blown Sense 3.0 with it running perfectly smooth WITHOUT overclocking. I would want the kernel for sbc and UV. And I would want google + integration added along with FB and twitter.
(Guess thats why its called a dream ROM )
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Yeah full Sense 3 with no oc running that great is prolly extremely hard to do, I'm on a constant uphill battle with what I got going you know
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To start out, it would look a LOT like CM7. Same launcher, same extras. NO Sense UI.
(for the record, I know that most of this is available, it just means installing a number of extra packages)
Add in all the google
T9 predictive input for the dialer
A nicer looking messaging app that doesn't fail every time you try to send a text longer than 1 message.
A few of the nice sound options from Sense UI, including having the ringer volume automatically reduce when the phone is picked up, automatically switching to speakerphone when you set the phone face-down during a call, and double-tapping the home key to see all your launcher pages at once.

VeeDubb65 said:
Add in all the google
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A lot of the google apps are bloatware, please be more specific.
VeeDubb65 said:
A nicer looking messaging app that doesn't fail every time you try to send a text longer than 1 message.
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I never have this problem. Do you have the messaging app locked in memory?
VeeDubb65 said:
A few of the nice sound options from Sense UI, including having the ringer volume automatically reduce when the phone is picked up, automatically switching to speakerphone when you set the phone face-down during a call, and double-tapping the home key to see all your launcher pages at once.
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You know those features kill your battery right?

VICODAN said:
A lot of the google apps are bloatware, please be more specific.
I never have this problem. Do you have the messaging app locked in memory?
You know those features kill your battery right?
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1. Gmail, Voice, Talk, Maps, Latitude (yes, I know it's bad for battery AND privacy, but it's fun and I don't plan on committing crimes, cheating on my wife, lieing to my boss or ever being worth enough money to kidnap; so I don't care if people know where I am.), Navigation, and of course, Market.
2. I haven't made any changes to the built in messaging app of any kind, but I'm also running the latest nightly. Doesn't matter too much, since I've installed GoSMSpro.
3. Yes, I'm well aware that many of those features kill the battery. That's why I like CM7, and only want a small handful of the highly useful features from Sense.

well no matter which rom i try, i always end up installing launcher 7, so to have that already integrated would be nice for the drawer, and a rom that lets you use the volume bottoms to skip tracks in your music player ,

kendotelie said:
well no matter which rom i try, i always end up installing launcher 7, so to have that already integrated would be nice for the drawer, and a rom that lets you use the volume bottoms to skip tracks in your music player ,
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I know with both cm7 and cyclonic you can skip tracks with the volume rocker. Also with the mod you can on MIUI.
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crump84 said:
I know with both cm7 and cyclonic you can skip tracks with the volume rocker. Also with the mod you can on MIUI.
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i tried MIUI and liked it but theres no 4g support, so i jumped ship..
i'll try cyanogen again

I want a thermal camera and nightvision on my dream rom lol

my dream rom would be CM7 with Sense Lock Screen 3.0. I know there's agile lockscreen, and to be honest it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also rather fond of the calender widget on sense as well. but i can live with out. just the calender widget on CM7 sucks. just shows upcoming events i wanna see the whole calender.

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my dream rom would be CM7 with Sense Lock Screen 3.0. I know there's agile lockscreen, and to be honest it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also rather fond of the calender widget on sense as well. but i can live with out. just the calender widget on CM7 sucks. just shows upcoming events i wanna see the whole calender.
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Try Android Pro Widgets on the market
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i want CM7 to have the face tracker option for the camera

My First impressions with KP8

First of all this is for the noobs, like me, Devs or smart users stay outta this
Below are/were my impressions after playing with KP8 for 45+ minutes,
• Hell of a lot better than previous build, KP1. Yes, I will call it a Beta, finally
• Phone calls were good, in ear volume was good and loud enough for me.
• Vibration intensity is FINALLY back to normal, unlike KP1 where it was so faint that you could barely feel it.
• Ringtone volume is normal.
• Incoming call UI is same as before and the Reject and Answer button doesn't animate while sliding. (Beta)
• Phone signal is rock solid and stable.
• 3G does work, Wi-Fi too.
• Noise Cancellation feature is FINALLY here, you can turn it off/on manually. It was presented in the previous build too.
• Stock broswer is brilliant, smooth as hell, no lag of whatsoever while Auto fit enabled. Lot of customisation options are there too, like font size, invert colors, Desktop view, Bandwith management, Offline reading etc... Flash plugins worked well too, make sure you download the latest Flash Player.
Sad part keeps remaining, no EXIT option
• Contacts have more options to display, attached screenshot.
• Stock GMail app is upgraded, same like KP1, no multi touch/pinch to zoom.
• Stock Email app is kinda weird, all black background, maybe there is a way to change it, didn't have time.
• Clock, Calender, Gallery, Maps, Calculator, Task, Memo (new icon), Mini diary, Voice Recorder, FM Radio, My Files, Voice recorder everything are same as in GB, so no, Sammy won't update those thing in TW for ICS, maybe.
• ICS Lockscreen is weird, doesn't work well.
• Camera works completely well, every settings work, same goes for 1080P Video recording.
• Task Manager is ICS style, slide left to close an app, cool.
• LWP does work, however there are some lags.
• 480X800 Wallpapers DOESN'T fit in desktop! Same like KP1. Should and will be fixed.
• Market works perfectly fine, downloading app works good too.
• No Swype, not that I expected.
• All the network based options were there, including APN's.
• GPS is fine, got lock in indoors!
• YouTube app works perfectly fine, some new options were added.
• Stock video player somehow played 1080P file, it was not watchable for me. Audio was intact on the other hand.
• Music player is SAME.
• Had 3 FC's so far, once system also froze.
• The smoothness allover UI is pretty fine, HW acceleration is definitely there, I like the elastic type scrolling, however it need more polishing, undoubtedly.
• Overscroll glow is reduced somewhat, with ICS color instead of blue. I still hate it anyway.
• Stock fonts worked. Not in Browser and other places though.
• Connection with PC worked.
• Unread SMS icon changed in LS, (I don't like it) and there is NO missed call notification icon in LS!
••• What am I doing? Of course I am going back to my Nandroid backup , no way this was a daily ROM for me.
If I remember anymore I'll update, feeling sleepy.
Attaching some screenshots.
Regards.

Nice list. I think that we've reached the point where we should stop talking about what works, but rather about what does not yet.
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external SD (micro)
TheSniperFan said:
Nice list. I think that we've reached the point where we should stop talking about what works, but rather about what does not yet.
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I would ask if you are able to manage the microSD memory and if USB connection to PC (direct access to the two memory section from PC ) is working or not
thanks in advance !!!

@ ithehappy
you beat me to the list!! didnt see your thread, would have slept earlier

tower5 said:
I would ask if you are able to manage the microSD memory and if USB connection to PC (direct access to the two memory section from PC ) is working or not
thanks in advance !!!
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It's not on my phone right now, so I cannot tell you.
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I actually get fc in
Browser settings
Google + when clicking the notifications
Must say its way better but probably going back to kl1 which is the best so far.
Btw I use the kp8 with magic locker android 4 theme and nova launcher.

How are the sensors working? Proximity/auto brightness/accelerometer and so on.
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petsasj said:
How are the sensors working? Proximity/auto brightness/accelerometer and so on.
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Seem to work fine for me. Made a few calls. Screen went off. Not bad. Accelerometer works when flipping phone. =)

Is there a new modem in this relese? Please post a tar or a cvm file for test.
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Seem to work fine for me. Made a few calls. Screen went off. Not bad. Accelerometer works when flipping phone. =)
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How responsive is the accelerometer? When you flip the phone, doors it take long until the content flips?
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Really great thread, thank you. I'll stay with my current setup until there are better custom roms based on this or later updates from Samsung.
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How responsive is the accelerometer? When you flip the phone, doors it take long until the content flips?
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I would say half a second delay. But I dont have any equipment to make an accurate judgement. =p

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I would say half a second delay. But I dont have any equipment to make an accurate judgement. =p
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That's okay. The latest CyanogenMod build I tried had a delay of like 5 seconds. :-\
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So it noise reduction only available in a call or also in a section under settings too!? I get echos in my case!
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great summary. what's lwp?

I think this rom is still half cooked i terns of ui. We.might see little change. I am surprised that sammy is sill using old voice app.
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planetf1 said:
great summary. what's lwp?
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Live Wallpaper

I found the whole thing to be somewhat unresponsive and the lack of proper SD card support was killer for me.
- Then there was Samsung's firmware update notification that failed when I tried to accept the terms and would not go away.
- Certain apps like gmail would crash and the hole phone would become unstable.
- Overheating problems
- Lockscreen is buggy

Needed a small help. In case, any one of you is going to revert to a more stable ROM, can someone check whether this mod for skipping music when screen off works before doing so?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1269606
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Does this camera have ZERO shutter lag ?