Guys.. My youtube does not work normally. I can't play videos.. (it takes 2 minutes and ends up not even playing the video) it just won't. I've downloaded a cab someoneposted that would supposedly change my 3G speed to max and It still does not work. What should be done? should i re-install a rom? thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=135184&d=1228539093 (Download Link) It's a .cab
All Thanks to IRUS. Thank you very much
I read somewhere that if you open an internet connection, PIE, and minimize it and try to use youtube, it will eventually run. Try that. It was somewhere here on this forum. Next time, use search function.
nyckid211 said:
I read somewhere that if you open an internet connection, PIE, and minimize it and try to use youtube, it will eventually run. Try that. It was somewhere here on this forum. Next time, use search function.
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thanks alot, but i've tried that before and it doesn't work.. it just goes "connecting" for a long period of time and my problem seems to be completely different from everyone elses in the previous youtube threads. i mean what is there left to do?
have you tried isolating the problem? Is it your connection, or youtube itself? Can you connect through wifi?
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have you tried isolating the problem? Is it your connection, or youtube itself? Can you connect through wifi?
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yep i've done it and thats why it kinda worries me. youtube doesn't even work through wifi.. it's obviously a connection problem
and through my normal 3G connection.. videos pop up quick when i search for them, it's the playing them part.. it seems like it idles for 3 minutes and ends up not playing it
well if they are showing up, but just not playing, more then likely its a issue with a registry setting. If it were the connection, you wouldnt be able to search and see the videos to choose. Do you have a reg edit prog?
EDIT: it may be specific to a youtube regedit, or it maybe be a more broader reg entry, does every other aspect of your prog/connections function as expected?
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well if they are showing up, but just not playing, more then likely its a issue with a registry setting. If it were the connection, you wouldnt be able to search and see the videos to choose. Do you have a reg edit prog?
EDIT: it may be specific to a youtube regedit, or it maybe be a more broader reg entry, does every other aspect of your prog/connections function as expected?
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every thing on the application works as expected except for the youtube videos themselves (they wont play.. all i get is connecting.. and then an error at the end). i can edit the registry.. but what needs to be editted?
Here are a few I jotted down from my registry. These probably arent set for optimal performance, but they work for me. Make sure to backup your registry or make a note before you change any settings, in case you need to change them back. All of these values are DWORD vals, so if anything is missing create accordingly. This is one of the folders with youtube values that I found, there were a few more, but this was what i could copy down quickest on notepad. Keep in mind, not all of these settings have a relation to the connection. I just included them so you could check for congruence with yours. By the same token, the FilePath and Proxy Name were left out, because Filepath contained unreadable characters, and Proxyname was empty.
HKLM\\Software\HTC\YouTube\
Bandwith=0
CreatConnectBySD=1
DefaultBufferTime=15
DeviceSetting=196624
DisplayBuffer=1
DisplayThroughput=0
DumpKernelMsg=0
DumpMsg=0
EnableAudioHW=1
EnableMDP=1
GuaranteedBandwith=0
HTTPTimeOut=90000
IgnoreProxy=0
InitMinStorage=8
MaxBandWidth=0
MaxBufferSize=10240
MaxHistory=50
MaxTransferDelay=0
MemoryRequired=8
PacketLength=32
PDPWarnning=0 I don't know why, but it is indeed spelled Warnning.
PlaybackLog=0
PlaybackQuality=3
PlayBufferTime=90
ProgramGuideStyle=0
PurgeMinStorage=5120
RemoveFeedFiles=1
SDKLogFlag=0
TempFileLocation=1
ThroughputThreshold=40
Hope something in here is indeed different, and helps.
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Here are a few I jotted down from my registry. These probably arent set for optimal performance, but they work for me. Make sure to backup your registry or make a note before you change any settings, in case you need to change them back. All of these values are DWORD vals, so if anything is missing create accordingly. This is one of the folders with youtube values that I found, there were a few more, but this was what i could copy down quickest on notepad. Keep in mind, not all of these settings have a relation to the connection. I just included them so you could check for congruence with yours. By the same token, the FilePath and Proxy Name were left out, because Filepath contained unreadable characters, and Proxyname was empty.
HKLM\\Software\HTC\YouTube\
Bandwith=0
CreatConnectBySD=1
DefaultBufferTime=15
DeviceSetting=196624
DisplayBuffer=1
DisplayThroughput=0
DumpKernelMsg=0
DumpMsg=0
EnableAudioHW=1
EnableMDP=1
GuaranteedBandwith=0
HTTPTimeOut=90000
IgnoreProxy=0
InitMinStorage=8
MaxBandWidth=0
MaxBufferSize=10240
MaxHistory=50
MaxTransferDelay=0
MemoryRequired=8
PacketLength=32
PDPWarnning=0 I don't know why, but it is indeed spelled Warnning.
PlaybackLog=0
PlaybackQuality=3
PlayBufferTime=90
ProgramGuideStyle=0
PurgeMinStorage=5120
RemoveFeedFiles=1
SDKLogFlag=0
TempFileLocation=1
ThroughputThreshold=40
Hope something in here is indeed different, and helps.
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thanks alot NYC kid, you dont know how much i appreciate you taking the time to post all this information. let me donate you a cup of coffee
for the most part, the only difference i see is our DeviceSetting
mine is set at 65552
yours is set to 196624. ill change mine and see what happens. once again thanks
No Luck. Seems It's still the same -.-
anyone have any other ideas? should i change my rom?
Hey I actually have the same issue. I'm currently using ROMeOS² v1.40.1 19974.1.2.8|STABLE.
What I get is, searching for Youtube videos comes up quick. But when I hit to play one it just says "Connecting" for a long while. Then eventually says "Error Connection failed." With an ok button to press.
I also noticed that this happens to videos that usually exceed more than 2 minutes in length. For shorter videos the play time is ok. I just assumed this was normal for everyone and how the technology worked lol.
Coola said:
Hey I actually have the same issue. I'm currently using ROMeOS² v1.40.1 19974.1.2.8|STABLE.
What I get is, searching for Youtube videos comes up quick. But when I hit to play one it just says "Connecting" for a long while. Then eventually says "Error Connection failed." With an ok button to press.
I also noticed that this happens to videos that usually exceed more than 2 minutes in length. For shorter videos the play time is ok. I just assumed this was normal for everyone and how the technology worked lol.
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ah the only videos i've been able to play is in the seconds -.-. anything over a minute wont play. im sure its just some setting issue.. like a number needs to be changed somewhere
I am having the same problem, im wondering if it has something todo with buffering a certein % of the video before playing. Also i tried under wifi and it nothing would work including searching for videos but under everything works just not playing the video. I will look into this and report back
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the FilePath and Proxy Name were left out, because Filepath contained unreadable characters, and Proxyname was empty.
HKLM\\Software\HTC\YouTube\
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ok so i messed around with the defaultbuffertime and the other buffer and no luck but what i did notice is that for the proxyname that you said was empty is not empty for the fuze or at least not on my fuze. The filepath is "wireless.cingular.com:80" and when i deleted it and launched youtube then closed it and rechecked it came back so my guess is that it is hardcoded into the app which means we need a different version of the youtube app. this is just a guess
ok sooooo hear is the answer, i lowered the buffer and it made no difference until i replaced the youtube.exe and the vofltpd.dll and vomp4fr.dll not sure if the dll files really need to be repalced as i think its the youtube.exe that is the problem but once i replaced those files and open it i launched a 7min clip and it started playing in under 10sec but since the buffer was set at 1 which i think is 1sec i had to pause and wait for it to buffer but it came up right away. so i will make a cab and test to make sure and i will not change the buffer settings to see if it works give me about 10 mins then i will post cab. i just want to make sure it will overwrite
work like a charm i clicked on a 7:33 sec video and i started playing in less than 15 sec please report back to let me know if this is working for everyone else. this fix should only be for fuze owners or who are having the same problem
@ACMilan07 please attached this in first post and change title to fixed once others and yourself have confirmed that it is fixed
irus said:
work like a charm i clicked on a 7:33 sec video and i started playing in less than 15 sec please report back to let me know if this is working for everyone else. this fix should only be for fuze owners or who are having the same problem
@ACMilan07 please attached this in first post and change title to fixed once others and yourself have confirmed that it is fixed
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Hey irus, thanks for looking into the issue. I downloaded your .cab file but when I went to install it gives me the following error message:
"Installation was unsuccessful. The program or setting cannot be installed because it does not have sufficient system permissions."
Is there something I did wrong? Thanks again!
Coola said:
Hey irus, thanks for looking into the issue. I downloaded your .cab file but when I went to install it gives me the following error message:
"Installation was unsuccessful. The program or setting cannot be installed because it does not have sufficient system permissions."
Is there something I did wrong? Thanks again!
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Thanks ALOT Irus, works perfectly. I was getting hopeless and was about to go back to the stupid AT&T rom i'd love you buy a cup of coffee
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Hello ! I've bought my Polaris one week ago. I was very pleased with it, until today, i took some photos last night, and when i tried to view them from my pc, they were all corrupted, i haven't succeeded to open the pictures with anything. I searched the forums, and some posts (on other sites) came out. Somehow, after rebooting the device and taking more pictures with the camera, i managed to obtain pictures that were readable on the PC.
Can anyone help me figure this out ?
Another question..i've bought this phone from Vodafone Romania , i understand that if i upgrade the phone's ROM or Radio Rom, my warranty will be lost. Is there a way to back-up the phone's Rom so i can benefit of the warranty in case of malfunction?
I would gladly want to upgrade to a newer ROM and Radio Rom.
I have present now the following versions :
R = 1.58.21.23
G = 25.65.30.04 h
D = 1.25.00.00
Thanks in advance.
Learn to use search funciotn maaan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377678&highlight=dump
Ok man, thanks for the reply, the post where you redirected me talks about dumping the rom.
I've mentioned about some corrupted photos...can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance
Well, I've got the exact same photo problem during the first 2 weeks of my time with my TC.
I had to reset the device before I could take proper pics.
I was monitoring this problem, trying to find out what was causing the problem. Before I knew it, the problem disappeared. Having the device for abt 4 months now..
I know I aint helping much, but just letting U that youre not alone.
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Well, I've got the exact same photo problem during the first 2 weeks of my time with my TC.
I had to reset the device before I could take proper pics.
I was monitoring this problem, trying to find out what was causing the problem. Before I knew it, the problem disappeared. Having the device for abt 4 months now..
I know I aint helping much, but just letting U that youre not alone.
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Thanks a lot man, i will search and i hope to reproduce the exact steps.
Thanks xda-developers forum for letting me post here.
Keep up the good work.
swatguard said:
Thanks a lot man, i will search and i hope to reproduce the exact steps.
Thanks xda-developers forum for letting me post here.
Keep up the good work.
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Same issue here. Thought it was due to all the additional software & tweakage i have loaded. I had to hard reset to get the camera pics to work. Did this to me 3 times when I had Ultimate Launcher loaded & few "enhancement"tweaks. Very strange. Back up your phone OFTEN.
Are u using Tweaks2k2?
I got the same problem when I enabled "Increase SD/MMC Transfer Speed".
If disabled, everything is OK.
Wish u good luck~~
king_lijin said:
Are u using Tweaks2k2?
I got the same problem when I enabled "Increase SD/MMC Transfer Speed".
If disabled, everything is OK.
Wish u good luck~~
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Actually yes, and yes. How you figure the connection with Tweaks2k2 and the SD speed? good job!
kipmast said:
Actually yes, and yes. How you figure the connection with Tweaks2k2 and the SD speed? good job!
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Ha-ha, really happy that it works on your Polaris.
Actually, some photos took on my wedding party were corrupted. It is really depressing.
So I just tried all the possible settings on Polaris.
Luckily, I found it…
same problem here. Lost some value photos on the TC.
If you can't view them on th device (blank screen) they are corrupted.
Looks as a temp problem for the device, as when you approve the photo just taken (ie, by selecting the magnifying glass icon), it's there for good, if not - it shows as if the picture is there (thumbs) but not really.
Sounds (to me) like the device is not handling the temporary picture taken right, and instead of burning it in (=approved), it is left in a temp location (to be erased by following pics).
As I had the problem with email (messaging disappeared), where I discovered in this forum it had to do with inbox/attachments folder path failure in the SD card, I may suspect the photo problem is the same, as most of us use the SD for such storage.
On nearly every ROM i have used so far the typing for messaging, be it an email or a text, just crawls along. It is so painful. I have to sit there and wait and wait for the words to catch up. I'm sure you all know what i'm referring to. I did a search and didn't find a thread about it, although i am sure a solution is out there. Much thanks i you can point me in the right direction.
EDIT: P.S. Please pardon my faux pas....i just now realized, i did not mean to post this to this forum. Mods if you would like to move to the main Raph forum please do so. Cheers!
Mod Edit: Added the cab from the Kaiser forum to speed up keyboard as it works on the Touch Pro as well.
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On nearly every ROM i have used so far the typing for messaging, be it an email or a text, just crawls along. It is so painful. I have to sit there and wait and wait for the words to catch up. I'm sure you all know what i'm referring to. I did a search and didn't find a thread about it, although i am sure a solution is out there. Much thanks i you can point me in the right direction.
EDIT: P.S. Please pardon my faux pas....i just now realized, i did not mean to post this to this forum. Mods if you would like to move to the main Raph forum please do so. Cheers!
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try disabling xt9 and see what happens.
I've noticed the same issue here! Still haven't found a fix tho ;-\
Kewlj1313
not sure where "x"t9 is, but i am pretty sure i have any t9/word complete options turned off and it still crawls. I pretty much want to get rid of that black box that appears around my words above the input area...i think that's the culprit
Did you really disable word completion under settings / input ??
Not sure why this is such a stupid question, as i would be keen to know the answer myself. You can wait ages for the input to catch up, once you have finished typing. So if anyone can help on this, i too would be grateful.
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Did you really disable word completion under settings / input ??
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I checked again and there was one more word complete in there somewhere that was not turned off....did a soft reset and it seems to be working normally Thanks for telling me to check again!
I have the same thing, too. When I slide open the phone and start typeing away, i have to let the letters catch up so I can see what I'm typing.
Kinda annoying...
Dillsnik said:
I checked again and there was one more word complete in there somewhere that was not turned off....did a soft reset and it seems to be working normally Thanks for telling me to check again!
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Hello,
Could you please tell me where the other text completion format is?
I went to settings and messaging and turned that off as well as in the advanced config.
Thanks
Nevermind, it is still delayed for me
The settings are where karloe says earlier. Just check all the options and such everywhere in input settings, but i'm still getting delayed typing. It sucks
magic!
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=fuze+keyboard+speed+up
Fn + Space then choose ABC.
I know this is pretty obvious but I didn't know it, I found the solution here in the forum. Hope it helps you as it helped me.
Smaniac said:
Fn + Space then choose ABC.
I know this is pretty obvious but I didn't know it, I found the solution here in the forum. Hope it helps you as it helped me.
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where do u do that? because when i am typing all that does for me is pull up the symbals
that is because you have a fuze
look to the right arrow hit fn then that
Went in there, ABC is selected already.....STILL a PAIN ITA
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magic!
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=fuze+keyboard+speed+up
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I did that and the link took me back here!!
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I've tried every tweak, etc. out there....i am guessing that not everyone is having this problem then?
Another thing i notice that is annoying is that when i create a word it tends to save that word in the "word memory" just above the typing box, and if i jump to another part of the message and it still has saved that last word i typed, it will insert that word if i put a space or type a letter. Also very annoying. I have no word complete's or anything are turned on.
Mine works just fine...
But typing was very slow on my old Mogul.
Dillsnik said:
I've tried every tweak, etc. out there....i am guessing that not everyone is having this problem then?
Another thing i notice that is annoying is that when i create a word it tends to save that word in the "word memory" just above the typing box, and if i jump to another part of the message and it still has saved that last word i typed, it will insert that word if i put a space or type a letter. Also very annoying. I have no word complete's or anything are turned on.
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Try the following .CAB which was just released by NATF for his v4.2 Fuze ROM...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3241772&postcount=1668
Hope that this helps.
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I did that and the link took me back here!!
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the first link that comes up is a link to fuzemobility wich shows an old trick from the tilt thats a regedit that helps alot
hello,
i've probably spent more than an hour now searching for the answer to my question:
is it possible to directly send a photo via email with my i780? if i press the send button in the camera app it automatically creates an mms, which is not what i want.
if this is not possible with the builtin app, is there any other way?
i'm really disappointed, even my 2+ year old nokia phone could do this out of the box...
thank you!
silly question i know... but you have setup an email account on your phone yes?
yes i did
i'm pretty sure it's the samsung camera app which is causing this. i spent my morning reading the msdn library and have since put together a quick and dirty solution... although i still can't believe that this can't be done with the standard application.
create new email, add your photo as an attachment. (or you can just send the "mms" to the email address)
sending mms to e-mail addresses is 30cents each here, so this is not an option
and of course i can just add my picture as an attachment after: closing the camera, going through the start menu to open messaging, create a new e-mail, select the right picture after selecting the right folder, add text. but this will take a(t least a) minute and is not what i wanted
directly mailing pics should be a standard feature on every phone with a camera...
anyway, if anyone is interested in what i wrote, i'd be glad to give out the source code (there's much room for improvement) on request.
Hi bocki! Can you please tell me how to do your quick and dirty solution. I have the same problem and I want to send a photo taken staright from the camera application. Thanks for letting me know how this works! Can you maybe even post it here? Thank you very much!!!
hey,
i attached the binary i'm currently using to this post. it needs the .net compact framework 3.5 (because i suck at everything else than c# and has currently no error handling at all, so if your device is not supported (which unfortunately i can't try out, it worked on my i780 and on the device emulator, so i guess that's a good sign!) you might even have to softreset...(but probably the app will just crash and nothing else will happen)
on first use, you will have to select the right e-mail account - it gets saved when you close the app and will be chosen automatically on subsequent starts.
if you have any problems, please let me know (it's best if you drop me a pm), i might be able to help!
[edit]new version on the next page, you'll probably want to get the newer one.[/edit]
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful!!!!
Any way I can change the size of the picture I am sending? I believe I can only choose 640. I would love to send a different size, too.
Also: The pictures gets saved into "Eigene Bilder". Anyway I can change the folder name in the registry?
Excellent work!!!! Thank you so much!
hey
glad my program is of use to others as well...
the "eigene bilder" destination is due to me hardcoding the german path, i will think of a better solution
the same goes for the resolution, as i said, this was quick and dirty (and by dirty i mean really really really ugly. ) - but i will fix this.
if you have any knowledge of c#, you may be able to fix this yourself, let me know if you need the sourcecode
i will address these issues as soon as possible and keep you posted!
skipping university in favour of coding was a good idea!
i implemented very basic error handling - if your camera is not supported, you will now get a very generic and vague error message
the same goes for invalid resolutions and folders, which can now be configured after the first start. (the first start will reset the path to \my documents\my pictures and the resolution to 640x480) sorry, no fancy dialogs, you'll have to enter the full path yourself (but you only have to do this once, so i hope this is okay).
any problems or other feature requests? let me know, i'm currently in the right mood
Hi Bocki! Thanks for looking at these issues. I am not too worried about the any of them, the folder is fine with me. But resolution would be very nice. Unfortunately, I cannot program it myself. :-( Thanks again for sharing!
please see the post directly above yours and try out the new version
Oops! I must have missed that, sorry! Great application, Thank you! I found out that if I put in 800*600, the camera starts with 1600 and I can choose my desired resolution. If I put in 1024*768 I don't get a choice. Would be great if one could also determine fine, normal etc...
Dont miss too much Uni, hehe.
Are you currently in Germany?
Need DroidCumulus (its not a pay app, so this is NOT warez)
If anyone has it and can post a link to the .apk, it would be greatly appreciated
its an app by leadapps...i get no response from them, and the QR in the market is broken...need this one as it is the only one that plays cumulus streams, and i need it for a station i listen to...had it and lost it when i wiped and re-flashed rom, was nowhere to be found on my sdcard backup, as it must not install to sd (weird)
package name should be com.leadapps.droidcumulus...
have searched and searched already, cannot find it anywhere, so here i am making a thread
moderator: if this is inappropriate, please let me know and delete
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same problem
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trying to recover it from a nandroid backup
Here it is
GOT IT!
went into nandroid backup files, ext2.tar, app-private, and there it was!!!
tnpapadakis - does this app play
bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live_a.asx
thanks.
p.s. i tried to PM you but you did not activate.
Gekko2 said:
tnpapadakis - does this app play
bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live_a.asx
thanks.
p.s. i tried to PM you but you did not activate.
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yeah sorry bout the pm block, only accept from contacts since balazer was flaming me with rude pms, ill add you as a contact
you can "add" your own url by entering the url in the browser, and then droid cumulus will open as the player if its a url thats going to work
if it does, save it as a favorite, and there you go
try http://www.yourmuze.fm
really good for stations you cant play in any other player
it uses the browser, (yourmuze converts the streams to 3gp on the fly, and they play using your video player, so they wont play in the background, screen stays on but its black)
and it has the station (you have an extra unneeded _a in your url)
you can even copy the url once youve clicked on it to play if you hurry and long press the address bar in your browser, copy url...then add a bookmark to your broswer of that url...go to home screen, add bookmark, then make a shortcut on your homescreen...walah! instant bloomberg on your homescreen, one click between you and your fav station
yourmuze just makes you register, but i did it months ago, and never had any spam or problems from them
its free, too, which is always best
thanks for the reply. i just had someone test bloomberg radio with droidcumulus and they said it worked - but only when the hit the bloomberg link in the browser - not in the droidcumulus app.
Thank you for the app. I have been looking for it for over a week now.
trsanning said:
Thank you for the app. I have been looking for it for over a week now.
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cool enjoy
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Is there some guy who can add this URL to Droid Cumulus: mms://live.cri.cn/pop
My coding in "cumulusradio_channels.xml" (in AOR folder ) is as like:
<station name="CRI 都市流行频道" mt="WMA" id="mms://live.cri.cn/pop" br="" genre="" ct="" lc="" state="CNRadios"></station>
However it shows "not working" in Droid Cumulus, it's appreciated some guy can help me, thanks in advance.
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Is there some guy who can add this URL to Droid Cumulus: mms://live.cri.cn/pop
My coding in "cumulusradio_channels.xml" (in AOR folder ) is as like:
<station name="CRI 都市流行频道" mt="WMA" id="mms://live.cri.cn/pop" br="" genre="" ct="" lc="" state="CNRadios"></station>
However it shows "not working" in Droid Cumulus, it's appreciated some guy can help me, thanks in advance.
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i tried the same thing, and it didnt work for me either...
i'll try and see what else we can do...i have one i want to use too
doesnt work on my phone...
i finally remembered how i added an mms link
open browser>type the mms url in the address bar>when popup happens, choose droid cumulus> when it starts playing, add as favorite
i tried your link, and even tried it some different ways, but it didnt work
after doing a url snoop, it turns out the stream is actually an rtsp, and the ip its coming from is 58.68.168.117, but i cant find which port its coming from
Thanks, I m still keep trying......
Has anyone gotten the DroidCumulus App to wok on Android 2.1? I have a Droid Incredible and installed this app, but all it does is buffer. So disappointed!
All I'm looking to do is a way to stream The Ticket sport radio station out of Dallas. Anyone know of a way to do so?
I I just recently totally reformatted my hard drive because I thought I had a virus and couldn't find it. But after reinstalling everything and making sure that I didn't have anything I discovered that when I log into XDA and I stay on for some length of time all of a sudden I start getting commercials playing. How do I stop these?
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I I just recently totally reformatted my hard drive because I thought I had a virus and couldn't find it. But after reinstalling everything and making sure that I didn't have anything I discovered that when I log into XDA and I stay on for some length of time all of a sudden I start getting commercials playing. How do I stop these?
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Huh, I dont know what you are referring to. Screen shot perhaps? I assume whatever it is, it depends on flash and the easiest way is to disable flash. The browser I use lets you disable it per site or only enable when you click. I assume other browsers have something as an extension.
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Huh, I dont know what you are referring to. Screen shot perhaps? I assume whatever it is, it depends on flash and the easiest way is to disable flash. The browser I use lets you disable it per site or only enable when you click. I assume other browsers have something as an extension.
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I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
TDubKong said:
I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
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Weird. If you get something like firebug or http headers extensions on firefox, they will let you find out what external links are loading. If you can get me some sort of dump or screen shot, I can tell you what to block in your host file. Chrome has the developers tools that show the same stuff or Opera has Dragonfly, so whichever you use.
Opera though, you can right click on the page → content tab → edit site preferences → turn off plugins. That's what I do at least or disable them on all sites and enable when I need them, just for better security.
Pretty sure the other browsers have flashblock, but last I knew and don't quote me on it, flashblock runs the just for a moment before it shuts off the flash since it's an extension. If the flash happened to be malicious, that could possibly be bad. Just semi off topic, but just something that was true and may still be.
If you don't want to deal with all that, you can use my hosts file that I use on my desktop, it's smaller version of the one I use for mobile thats posted with a script to install/update it in the developer's section of the forum.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24904191/hosts-desktop
rename it "hosts" and stick it in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows (must open notepad with admin privilages) or on linux/osx, it goes in /etc/hosts.
I wouldnt normally advocate for blocking ads on xda, but if they have anything that automatically plays audio, that draws the line for me.
TDubKong said:
I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
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Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page you're on, it's on the right side.
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It's just a blank white space for me, but if you add the following line to your host file, you wont see it anymore, since it's one of these:
0.0.0.0 rt.liftdna.com track.netshelter.net cdn.viglink.com
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264778
Will flag again to the admin.