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CrayzeeCarl said:
You can with a third party app. I use Setting Profiles (appbrain link to lite version.

edit: Holy shit, I just read about Tasker! I think I will switch to this. It looks insane. :lol
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Thanks for the attempt but does not do what I need. What I need is to be able to turn up the microphone sensitivity while still allowing for the audio to be pumped out through the headphone jack and thusly to my cars speakers. Unfortunately when you turn on the speaker phone there os no way to do this.
 
newsguy said:
That's hot.
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Anyone having trouble with the new Voice Actions interface for sending a text message to someone? Everytime I hit send from the VA text message window, I get a Force Close error.
 
Andrex said:
OMFG I just tried playing a game with my Wii Remote... the future of gaming is this right here. My ODROID-S outputting to my TV via HDMI, and playing the game with the Wii Remote... phones are practically home consoles now. :lol
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Now you know that your game HAS to support wii controls. :D
 
gcubed said:
eh, just stream it from your home computer, why upload and sync something?
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Is there a 'nice' way to do this? I've got tons of music I'd love to be able to stream to my phone, rather than syncing a small portion.
 
VanMardigan said:
Now you know that your game HAS to support wii controls. :D
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I actually don't have to go out of my way to support it, Replica Island has customizable controls and you can set them to be tailored to the Wii Remote.
 
Jobiensis said:
Is there a 'nice' way to do this? I've got tons of music I'd love to be able to stream to my phone, rather than syncing a small portion.
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Subsonic? Although it seems to download and save the music to your phone from the PC rather than stream it. I'd like a better option that doesnt do that but have not found one. It does work though. Scrobbles to LastFM too, although it scrobbles every song before you've listened to it.
You get to try it for a month before paying

Or theres homepipe but ive not used it

http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.homepipe.androidfree

http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.sourceforge.subsonic.androidapp
 
rubbishmonkey said:
Subsonic? Although it seems to download and save the music to your phone from the PC rather than stream it. I'd like a better option that doesnt do that but have not found one. It does work though. Scrobbles to LastFM too, although it scrobbles every song before you've listened to it.
You get to try it for a month before paying

Or theres homepipe but ive not used it

http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.homepipe.androidfree

http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.sourceforge.subsonic.androidapp
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Orb is ok it also does video
 
Is there an easy solution to the no album artwork problem in the stock music player? (don't want to get another player that downloads album art.

All of my songs have artwork attached in wmp, though i assume it is not attached correctly or something?
 
georgc said:
Orb is ok it also does video
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Quite a big file until I get Froyo and able to move apps to SD I'll have to wait until the Orange UK monkeys press their update button

tabsina said:
Is there an easy solution to the no album artwork problem in the stock music player? (don't want to get another player that downloads album art.

All of my songs have artwork attached in wmp, though i assume it is not attached correctly or something?
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You could try Album Art Grabber Free, personally I use MP3Tag (on my PC) I have a version that runs off USB in case im caught short :lol
 
My WordFued id is: Corran

Anyone recommend some other games? I got emulators/WordUp/WordFued/and some Homerun game.

Looking for multiplayer games/Card games/Slower paced games I guess.
 
Jobiensis said:
Is there a 'nice' way to do this? I've got tons of music I'd love to be able to stream to my phone, rather than syncing a small portion.
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Subsonic, it streams but also keeps the music on your phone after you stream it (as much or as little as you want). It does scrobble prematurely, and you have to donate to steam after a trial but the app is also free. You can also set the bandwidth you want to stream at (it will re encode). Been using the server for years and the app ever since I got my phone.

Rubbish you should actually check out subsonic, dunno where you got the idea that it downloads then plays


DrForester said:
I thought that at first, but I got .5 mile warnings a few times while I was going 70mph
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well then my reality has been shattered. There navigation can stand to add a few more features, like reroutes around traffic... i'd also love to be able to run the full navigation and have the traffic layer on... i haven't found a way to do that, once you turn on the layer it stops fully "navigating" and shows your path, you and traffic, but no turn by turn
 
tabsina said:
Have either of you tried swift keyboard? I went to that after coming from skype, haven't been able to go back to swype :P
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Just tried SwiftKey today. It's damn good. I was using the stock 2.2 keyboard but I think I'll be stickin with SwiftKey now.
 
kIdMuScLe said:
i'm about to root my CLIQ and try out the 2.1 rom in the next 30mins. Hopefully it goes as smooth as the G1 rooting process. :D
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Tell me how it goes. It's a shame how the Cliq's been ignored so much.

As an aside, can you download Replica Island and try playing it with the safe mode off after you're done? I want to see if the 2.1 ROM fixes the broken OpenGL driver.
 
Andrex said:
Tell me how it goes. It's a shame how the Cliq's been ignored so much.

As an aside, can you download Replica Island and try playing it with the safe mode off after you're done? I want to see if the 2.1 ROM fixes the broken OpenGL driver.
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will do.
 
Stat Flow said:
I can't believe I am JUST installing Swype on my Evo...it is awesome as fuck!
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widgetlocker is great. pretty much exactly what i've been looking for and can't wait to customize
 
Andrex said:
Thanks! The d-pad on the left should make it an enjoyable experience. :)
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Ok sorry it took longer than i expected. apparently there's a problem with some CLIQ phones that won't let you flash the recovery.img so it took me a while to find the solution for it. The brwnMOD ROM comes with adw launcher already loaded and my god! is this ROM fast. way faster than the stock 1.5 Motoblur. :D I tried the replica island game and boy it is freaking laggy! totally unplayable in both safe mode on and off. Now i'm off to install all the 2.1 goodies on my CLIQ! :D :D :D
 
kIdMuScLe said:
Ok sorry it took longer than i expected. apparently there's a problem with some CLIQ phones that won't let you flash the recovery.img so it took me a while to find the solution for it. The brwnMOD ROM comes with adw launcher already loaded and my god! is this ROM fast. way faster than the stock 1.5 Motoblur. :D I tried the replica island game and boy it is freaking laggy! totally unplayable in both safe mode on and off. Now i'm off to install all the 2.1 goodies on my CLIQ! :D :D :D
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Really? That really sucks then.

But there weren't any errors with RI in the 2.1 ROM? It didn't crash?
 
Andrex said:
Really? That really sucks then.

But there weren't any errors with RI in the 2.1 ROM? It didn't crash?
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The problem was after you installed vanilla 1.5 rom, the ADB command wasn't recognizing the sd card so you have uninstall and reinstall the drivers and/or SDK tools again so it could finally flash the RI. Besides that I had no problems at all during installation. Now I'm just enjoying 2.1 on my phone.
 
So I've set up the feeds for Google Listen, but I can't seem to get things to go into 'fresh items' in my queue. I've got some items in my normal queue, and I can see that the newest episode of 'This Week in Tech' is in 'My subscriptions', but when I hit refresh on 'Fresh items' it doesn't pull it into the list. Any advice?
 
jonnybryce said:
I could write a ridiculously long review for all of them but instead of rambling I'll try to keep it short and to the point.

Grooveshark just isn't in the same league as the other apps. It crashes and pauses by itself. It's UI is ugly. There's a lot lot lot of flicking involved because of all the duplicates and mess that Grooveshark hosts and since it's unofficial/user uploaded there's a lot of missing songs in albums. Your favorite track could be missing. It's cheap but not worth it - at least as of right now. $3/month

Both MOG and Rdio are good but I recommend trying them both out to see which you prefer.

MOG is gorgeous and very Android. The music plays pretty quick but it's not that user friendly. The bottom row of buttons aren't too clear to understand and when you touch one, they all change. It's easy to get lost but it has everything I looked for, it's officially licensed so the catalog is complete and neat and it performed well. Downloading songs for offline listening was super simple and quick. Trying to exit the app is a mess; I think it's taking me back to every screen I had looked at because I'd exit and see another MOG screen and have to do this 8 times but you could always pause/stop the song and not exit. The sound quality was good, it has radio Pandora-like features and it's nice. No landscape though. $10/month

Rdio is a nice app but it's very basic. It has everything I looked for as it's officially licensed like MOG. It seems to be pretty user oriented; it's very clean and minimalistic. The nice thing is if you search for an album or artist it will also show relevant "popular" results that you may be interested in. It also has Pandora-like artist radio. What sucks about Rdio is it seems to have some connection problems. Earlier it went into a Connecting message loop and wouldn't let me back in, currently I selected an album and it's loading the album forever. I'm over wifi right now so this is odd. Also, downloading songs for offline play is a bit annoying in Rdio because the button to do so is microscopic and would be annoying to hit precisely even with a stylus. $10/month

Maybe it's just me, Launcher Pro, my wifi or my Droid so Rdio is still worth checking out. None of these apps are perfect yet but MOG is the best bet in my opinion. It's gorgeous, has good sound quality, is distinctly Android in it's UI (even has a widget) and performed well. I'm sure with some time the buttons would make more sense but it doesn't seem too intuitive, Rdio is much simpler.

Start with MOG imo. I'm heavily considering subscribing. We'll see how it goes.
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i liked MOG the best, i had some connection issues with Rdio also. I just need to find a way to justify $10 a month. Its about what i spend on music a month (if not a bit more), but i get to keep that music.
 
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