Since moving to JF's RC33, I'm finding that the phone re-enables the "audible selection" tick sound at every boot. I'd seen this happen occasionally earlier, but now it happens dependably ever time the phone is restarted. For now I've renamed the .ogg file that contains the "tick" sound in the ua directory so that it can't be played, but something is apparently amiss.
Other than this, JF's work continues to be remarkable. I just wish so many Android apps didn't insist on tiny fonts that can't be enlarged at this stage (e.g. mail programs, "non-classic" browser settings, Google voice search, etc ... That's sure not JF's fault though. Hopefully this will be dealt with in Android fairly soon before too much additional eye strain consumes us.
Hey man, I happened to lie that "tick" sound. I seem to delete mine on the accident, is there anyway you could upload it or send it to me? I really miss mine
Thanks!
Its attached to my post have it...
The "tick" is a glitch somewhere in a the hacked rom.
There is a thread about this already in these forums.
Thanks
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So the keyboard lag on this device has been an issue and their has been a thread started on PPC Geeks with a Reg Edit that actually fixes it, to an extent...
With Total Commander:
-Windows
-Find "thread_sms.htm"
-File, Edit
-Then Delete the word "count" in the COMPOSESUBJECT line.
<Inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=35 spell focus count links noclearonbackpresshold limit=0 autocap inserttab dynamicresize />
This gets rid of the character count, which keeps the lag from happening. So you either keep the character count (which isn't to important to me) or you get no more keyboard lag!! For me it's no-brainer, to others it may be different.
My question to anyone that wants to try and help me figure this out is how could we keep the character count, but change this to where it will only count once typing has seized for say 2 seconds, this way it is not counting while you are typing, which will eliminate the lag, but when you stop it counts, this way you can stop, see where your count is, and continue if you want. Or even a theory to not count, but to only prompt you once you have crossed the character limit for each message?
Any takers or help on this?
Link to the thread on PPC Geeks:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=73005
Has anyone else tried this? I just did and it is still counting, and the lag is still there.
UPDATE
I took the file from PPC Geeks and just overwrited it into the windows folder and now it works. Thanks for the tip!
UPDATE 2
The counter has popped up again. It got real slow and then the counter showed up at the top left. I don't see a difference in speed though.
Luken10 said:
Has anyone else tried this? I just did and it is still counting, and the lag is still there.
UPDATE
I took the file from PPC Geeks and just overwrited it into the windows folder and now it works. Thanks for the tip!
UPDATE 2
The counter has popped up again. It got real slow and then the counter showed up at the top left. I don't see a difference in speed though.
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For some reason some phones have been working with the overwrite and some will work fine with just editing it yourself, I edited it myself and it works flawlessly, I also changed not only the "thread_sms.htm", but I also changed the same exact thing in "thread_sms.ht". I'm not sure if it made any difference but I changed it in both places, see if that helps?
I have been reading up on the 2.o set up, and I like a few of the upcoming capabilities, however, I notice they are still over looking such simple things that are huge issues in my eyes to this phone. Why in the sam hill have they not made one stride toward improving the ridiculous photo gallery? Make it simple, make a folder, move your pics around and rename them, using a file manager, as much as I love the more recent astro, all of them creat two, three, and even four copies of pictures, and add more copies everytime the phone is rebooted. This should just be an option in the gallery itself. Also, if anyone else is like me, you may have pics of your children, family, hell even a pet or two, and then in the next folder, ya might have some nudies, why can't the folders be a simple look as opposed to showing the first four pics in the folder right there for the world to see. Also, noticed no change to the music player, altho its a decent set up now, everything is advancing so much, yet the music stays in limbo. There still isn't a stop button, and you still need to kill the task to get it to actually stop. Playlist creating from the phone itself is such a pain, there should be a split screen so you can see the items you are putting in there. Texting still doesn't have a save to sd feature, and why? I actually need to go to sms backup and save em to my gmail? I guess I just don't understand why so many simplistic issues are over looked, but don't get me wrong, all the updates and changes that have come along are an amazing step everytime, guess I'm just kind of rambling, my appologies.
It occurred to me the other day that when on a windscreen mount the camera in the hd2 could be useful for in car video footage.
Seems to work fairly well but what would REALLY be great would be if you could set it to record a continuous loop so it only uses a fixed amount of card space unless you tell it save the file and start a new file.
Any idea if there are any apps that could do that?
Anyone?
Would be super useful to have. I nearly witnessed a nasty crash today and wished I had video to report the moron that nearly caused it, but can't just leave it recording at about 500-600mb per 15 minutes or so!!
+1 - Good idea, soon we're all going to have in car recording
Well I want to be able to show that if I'm ever involved in an accident exactly what happened and so on.
But kinda mainly because I just want to be able to do it to see if we can.
I suppose it needs to record to a set file size, then once that is done, to use an extra buffer amount of storage briefly while it deletes the file it just finished and begins recording again over the same space. Or something.
If you want it to keep anything you stop it and save it, then it starts from scratch.
Might be better if it actually keeps the current and previous file before deleting anything, then that way it's less likely to immediately/accidentally delete anything useful before you tell it to save. For instance you could maybe have a video screen overlay with a couple of large basic controls for save current recording and a couple of other bits.
Basically the important bit is the automated control over only using a specified file space then re-using it once it's used it up.
search forum... already discussed topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597003
Yep. Shame those options don't seem to work that well....
No other options for this then?
Hey guys, I'm a new Nexus S owner coming over from an Evo. On my Evo I rooted it and put a custom rom on it and such, so I'm not completely new or wet behind the ears when it comes to doing things with your phone.
Here's the thing: I went and put custom ringtones on my Nexus, but the one I use primarily only rings once. I look at it and see it vibrating and still receiving a call...but the ring-tone does not loop. It rings once and that's it. So far it's the only problem I'm having with my phone. Anyone having the same problem or have a fix for me that I can use?
Thanks in advance for the help!
btw: I put the custom ringtones on my phone by making a folder in the SD card titled media/audio/ringtones. I did that and the tones showed up. Is there another method that I can use that will make the ringtone repeat itself, because this whole 1 ring thing is not going to work, lol.
someone else asked me about this exact same thing right before you posted this. I tested, and ringtones on your sd dont loop :/ I made a 4 second ringtone to test and it rings for 4 seconds then stops. i know this wasnt the case on other phones and dont see why it is now. but just letting you know thats your issue.
I don't find this to be true for me. I've got the same setup and mine loop. I don't know how to help troubleshoot it for you either. I'm running stock rooted. I will test this later and let you know if I was wrong.
Yea, I'm running stock rooted as well...I don't understand why this would be an issue at all. It doesn't make any sense. I would hate to have to just make the ringtone longer by looping it manually and then replacing it on the phone, there has to be some other reason behind this.
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I don't find this to be true for me. I've got the same setup and mine loop. I don't know how to help troubleshoot it for you either. I'm running stock rooted.
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I just made a ringtone, placed it on my sd, and it only played once. I was asked via gtalk by another NS4G owner about it, so I tested. Maybe your ringtone is longer than you think?
I am having the same issue. I took the stock ringtones off the last rom I was running on my Evo and they don't loop on my nexus. I even tried placing the ringers in the actual ringtone folder (/system/media/audio/ringtones) and they still did not loop, I just gave up. Any one have any ideas?
Are you guys using google voice integration? I found that it started only playing ringtones once after integrating with google voice.
I've noticed the same thing as you guys have, can't figure it out.
I didn't integrate
snowmanwithahat said:
Are you guys using google voice integration? I found that it started only playing ringtones once after integrating with google voice.
I've noticed the same thing as you guys have, can't figure it out.
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That could be it. I remember when I first got my phone the ringtone would loop. Sometime after GV/Sprint it stopped doing it.
I did integrate after getting my phone, and it use to loop while it was integrated I think...but then I turned the integration off after a while, lately I started noticing that the ringtones weren't looping.
I use music files for my phone that last until the phone is answered I never noticed
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I've done a bit of investigating with this and have yet to find a definitive answer. The ones that will repeat are on system media ringtones. They are all ogg. I was playing with Vespa.ogg. I made an ogg file and tried to disguise it as vespa. I made sure the audio file characteristics were similar. Permissions and ownership were copied too. I even changed the tag of the file of it's name and composer was the same. I copied my file on top of the real one in system and made everything ro and rebooted. None of that made any difference, it wouldn't loop. I opened up music app and played files. The original would loop but the imposter wouldn't. The only differences I still see is my file is 3k smaller and not the same date as all the other ogg files in the system folder. Other than that, all my theories of what is causing this behavior have been wrong.
Could it be md5 signatures? Date and time (I don't know how to change that only using the phone and gui)? Other than that I have no frigging clue. Anyone else motivated enough to figure it out? I can't think of anything else and don't know cli enough to agamgm things in a terminal window or emulator.
If I copied a file from system to sdcard, it would loop out of it's native folder. I don't know if a ringtone editing and assigning app would make any difference. It's too late and I'm too tired ATM to do anymore detective work today.
Its the gv integration. Do the same tests after you disable it.
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I've done a bit of investigating with this and have yet to find a definitive answer. The ones that will repeat are on system media ringtones. They are all ogg. I was playing with Vespa.ogg. I made an ogg file and tried to disguise it as vespa. I made sure the audio file characteristics were similar. Permissions and ownership were copied too. I even changed the tag of the file of it's name and composer was the same. I copied my file on top of the real one in system and made everything ro and rebooted. None of that made any difference, it wouldn't loop. I opened up music app and played files. The original would loop but the imposter wouldn't. The only differences I still see is my file is 3k smaller and not the same date as all the other ogg files in the system folder. Other than that, all my theories of what is causing this behavior have been wrong.
Could it be md5 signatures? Date and time (I don't know how to change that only using the phone and gui)? Other than that I have no frigging clue. Anyone else motivated enough to figure it out? I can't think of anything else and don't know cli enough to agamgm things in a terminal window or emulator.
If I copied a file from system to sdcard, it would loop out of it's native folder. I don't know if a ringtone editing and assigning app would make any difference. It's too late and I'm too tired ATM to do anymore detective work today.
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Mine was never integrated to begin with
Just to let you know, mine loops just fine.. 9023 gsm version.
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herbthehammer said:
Mine was never integrated to begin with
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yea, i remembered you said that after I posted that
thiagodark said:
Just to let you know, mine loops just fine.. 9023 gsm version.
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Are you picking one of the ogg files of ringtones that came with the phone? If you play the file you chose in a music app, how many seconds long is it? I just said to hell with it and found the ringtone I like and copy paste in an audio editing program on the computer enough times to make it 30 seconds long. Problem not solved but taken care of.
nope, i'm using a file seted by 'zedge' app, it's an mp3 file! i also use another short mp3 file and it also loops.
i'm on cm7 with stock kernel!
Is it possible there is only an issue with the Sprint version of the phone?
Grasping at straws now but anything is possible. If I remember, zedge you can download and has a built in trimmer and can assign stuff too.
I will play with ringdroid and the like and see what comes of it.
Howdy,
I'm sorry to bother, but after searching with many different combinations of words on Google I did not find anything, and posting on Nexus 5 subreddit did not offer me any answer :/ That's why I try here
So basically, for no reason (no update, no restart of the device), my Nexus 5 does not show my music in Google Play Music, and my Ringtones/Alarms/Notifications that I customized do not work too (and they do no show in the list when I try to apply parameters).
No file has disappeared:
- Music is in Nexus5 > Internatl Storage > Music
- The rest of the stuff is still in Nexus 5 > Internal Storage > Ringtones, or Alarms.
Everything is here right at its place. But nothing works as before. I tried to restart the device, but no. I tried to empy cache/clear data/force stop of Google Play Music, but no. I did the same with the Media Storage app, and it did not wrok too. I got all the files out and back with other names, but no. I'm clueless.
Moreover, since I forced stop of Google Music and relaunched it, now my library is polluted my dozens of songs and albums that I suppose are automatically put here as a "try it" thing, but I don't want them appearing at all, even more in my small library (okay, right now, nothing would appear I know).
Would you be so kind to help me in this matter? I would greatly appreciate it.
Best regards,
Hmm new piece of information!
I did not realized earlier, for my custom wallpaper stayed the same, however when I tried to put a new one, if was impossible for me to wander in the different folders I once created to put pictures (using the USB cable and all). So the custom wallpaper stayed probably because it was in cache or something. But technically, it seems like in addition to the music and ringtones it's impossible to access other media folders...
I took half an hour to explore parameters and apps without finding the needle I was looking for :/