I'm trying to build a simple video recorder for an Android device and I've had limited success and mixed results. It worked once, but now, without changing anything, I'm getting a "Camera is not available" error followed by "prepare failed -2147483648" error.
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I am trying to capture the camera button press event and get the image in my app. I have a broadcast receiver in my manifest with intent filter having action but when the camera button is pressed in emulator, the CameraClickBroadcastReceiver.onReceiver() method is not invoked. In this method i am starting an activity which is the home activity of my app.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI take the grandkids to the Cleveland Zoo today. I'm taking photos with my $500 Canon G10 digital camera and all of a sudden... It's taking horrible white washed out images, then purple images. Finally, the images are all black. My processor, or CCD died in the camera...Bust out my Incredible and keep on keepin on...
Here's a few from the inc. I've resived them to 25% and saved them at 80%. I can't complain at all! Because my Incredible SAVED MY DAY!
When I start the camera or camcorder app, they fail every time with this error message.The application Camera (process.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." and a Force Close button. I know they transferred everything from my Motorola phone.. could there be an incompatibility problem with data transferred from my Motorola or is the camera hardware just faulty? Are there any steps I can take to troubleshoot?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to initialize OpenFeint in my game like this:
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Result: 1. OpenFeint initialization sometimes take so song(network actions?). It blocks the main thread. 2. My application remains in onCreate() for too long. 3. My Dev Phone One display ANR(application not responding) dialog prompting me to choose between 'Force Close' and 'Wait' 4. Soon after that, OpenFeint has done its things and my game shows up behind the dialog. 5. Now pressing 'Wait' will dismiss the ANR dialog and I can continue my game properly.
But obviously we don't want ANR dialog. So now I put it in a Thread like this:
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Result: Problem solved. Everything seems to run fine now.
I put Looper.prepare() there because my game will crash if I don't. The log message told me to put it there. I put Looper.loop(); there because OpenFeint will not initialize at all if I don't. I've read the doc about Looper but honestly I don't understand what the doc says.
Question 1. The doc also tell me this: ------------------------------------------------- public static final void loop ()
Since: API Level 1 Run the message queue in this thread. Be sure to call quit() to end the loop. -------------------------------------------------- Can anyone explain when & where should I call quit()?
Question 2 What will happen if I don't call Looper.quit()?
Question 3 Let me ask this straight. Am I taking the correct approach? Is there some kind of loop running alongside my game all the time if I do this?
Playing around with the UI and SQLLite for a while and it looks pretty good to me . We have a requirement that for the App that all the questions would be coming from the server through REST / Web service which would be displayed on the App..
say for e.g if there are 4 questions
1) Enter your Name -- Text Box
2) Did you sleep well last night -- YES / NO
3) How many hours did you sleep - Text Box
4) How did you hear about us -- Drop down
So the requirement is that the Questions would be displayed on the App after doing a SYNC with the server during the SYNC with the server the Questions would be downloaded from the SERVER through REST / Web service..if the phone is not connected then pull the questions from the Database...
These questions are simple questions and they change quite often and we have a similar app which is there for iphone which does this ....
I am trying to develop an application with Android 1.5(cupcake_r1) for a week but always get an error reported in prepare of MediaRecorder. Can anybody help me to figure out the problem I got in the code below:
PS. In order to figure out the problem, I suppressed the audio recording, and the SDcard is installed in the phone.code...
I am preparing a contacts application and would like to support the VCard export. Can anyone tell me if there is any API I can use to create a VCard.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn the API Demo, there is example on using Simple Cursor Adapter. However, it is using the MediaS tore cursor. Is there any method so that I can use other external cursor prepare by SQL database. I don't know what should I input to the from String.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a situation where my MediaRecorder instance causes a segfault. I'm working with a HTC Hero, Android 1.5+APIs. In the log i see (after the segfault announcement) a register dump and then a numbered list #00 libmedia_jni.so to #18 linker, then a stack trace. My Eclipse won't let me copy the log buffer, but I've done three screen captures that sum it up. If you have time to examine, send me a direct e-mail.<pre><code> if (mRecorder == null) mRecorder = new MediaRecorder(); mRecorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC); mRecorder.setVideoSource(MediaRecorder.VideoSource.CAMERA); mRecorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.MPEG_4); mRecorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB); mRecorder.setVideoEncoder(MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder.MPEG_4_SP);// mRecorder.setVideoSize(640, 480); // mRecorder.setVideoFrameRate(20); mRecorder.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder.getSurface()); mRecorder.prepare();mRecorder.start(); </code></pre> I've tried other variants, including H263 and 3gp. What else can I do to debug this? Everythin g seems fine up to prepare(). I tried adding the onErrorListener, but it seems to interfere with the MediaPlayer's onErrorListener. I'm using a 4-second beep-count to prepare for auto triggering of the camera, and when I enable the error handler for the MR everything in my handler state machines goes awry.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSince no one knows when the update is going to come to the Droid. Could be tomorrow or in three months. Its all up in the air. It could happen anytime. Anyways, What do you need to do?
Have a battery near full all the time?
Backup your Aps?
Backup contacts?
Since I am assuming you can get the update without warning, I just wanted to know what steps to take, so I can have no problems with an OTA update.
I am trying to test my application with location information.
You know the Emulator Control has an ability to load from KML file. (Eclipse -> DDMS -> Emulator Control -> Location Controls -> KML -> Load KML...)
I've prepared KML file using Google earth application with its "Add path". Then saved it by .kml extension and load it on the Eclipse. Eclipse didn't load this KML file.
How to prepare KML file for Android Emulator Control?
What is the preferred way of reusing a MediaPlayer when using resources? My try looks a bit ... too complicated... so maybe I should be happy to see that it didn't work. (I run the Android 1.5 SDK and emulator.)
According to this thread my problem may be a permission problem. http://groups.google.se/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread...
I get the same error. But in my case it only occurs when I use FileDescriptor!?! The use case differs however, because I use a resource stored in the bundle. I have s0.mp3 safely stored in the project /res/raw and it successfully plays when I use SoundPool or MediaPlayer.create. And the log print tells me I referenced the correct file and stay safely in my package.
I'm sure my way of getting the fd out from a package resource is the problem, I didn't find any other way... But why didn't setDataSource throw the exception instead of a printout? And why on earth is the same resource happily played one way but not the other? Seems like a design flaw rather than a security raise. Should I look in the MediaPlayer.create code to see how they get around the problem or can you help me understand how it works?
This is a test code snippet: (from onCreate of a simple Activity)
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And the error:
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I am trying to write a sample program to record the video (say camcorder application). When i run my program using the emulator (I have android-sdk- windows-1.5_r3) I see java.io.IOException: prepare failed. error in logcat output.
Further I can see that I have came across this error when i call MediaRecorder.prepare() from CamcorderActivity.surfaceCreated() But I am surprised to see that activity got launched and I am seeing the camera preview! Again the preview is seen only in half of the screen! Its weird!!!
Further when i do recorder.start() to record the video I get java.lang.IllegalStateException. Yes this is obvious since the prepare () has failed. But the question is why prepare() has failed ?
Here is my code ... package com.example;
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What does the following exception mean? And how can I fix it?
This is the code:Toast toast = Toast.makeText(mContext, 'Somthing', Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
This is the exception:
D/VVM ( 684): java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
D/VVM ( 684): at android.os.Handler.(Handler.java:121)
D/VVM ( 684): at android.widget.Toast.(Toast.java:68)
D/VVM ( 684): at android.widget.Toast.makeText(Toast.java:231)
Looker, lookie, new Aria ROM to allow OTA firmware updates, plus two other bug fixes. I think they are gearing up for Android 2.2, HTC Mobile Phone Support - HTC Aria? (AT&T) - Downloads
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They are going to be sending a replacement phone, so I would like some help on how I can get my current phone ready to be sent back to them.
Currently it is rooted stock 2.1 and has ryanza lag fix applied.
Most of my files are on the SD.
I know I need to unroot, how would I proceed to do that and would unrooting get rid of the lag fix?
I am getting reports of 'Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()' once I added ScoreNinja to my Android app, and released it to the market. It seems that it isn't happening all the time as the ScoreNinja highscore has lots of entries from users. I have looked on the web for help but there are no clear directions on what to do. I have used the ScoreNinja code exactly as shown on the scoreninja website. BTW If anyone is having problems with ScoreNinja only displaying one score, check to see if the launchmode is not set to 'singleinstance' in your manifest. This fixed it for me!
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy camera stopped working. When I click my camera application I get the message "The application camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again". It's just a blank screen?
View 3 Replies View RelatedAttempted to update to 2.1 , everything appeared to go ok , but after restarting i saw that firmware was still in 1.6 .
The only effect was that my intended apps etc. were gone.
According to SE PC Companion the phone is up to date.
According to the phone's software update a new version of Android is available ..
Using the SE PC Companion to repair ( ca'nt install since aIready have the latest sw according to SE-PCC )
results in installation error when reaching close to the end of the prepare phase.
I'm considering the possibility of selling my Behold 2 phone and getting something a little better supported (anything HTC, for example). I know how to flash the ROM back to the Stock, but, how do I re-format/prepare my MicroSD card in the phone back to it's factory settings?
And is there anything else that anyone thinks I will need to do in preparation for selling it?
I have upgraded my phone's images to Android 1.5 images (from http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html) Now when I try commands like adb remount, chmod, adb push etc I get "Operation not permitted" and "Permission denied" errors
I was able to give this command when I had 1.0 images flashed on my phone.
Has something related to permissions changed with Android 1.5?
I'm trying to do is open a very simple application that is supposed to do nothing but display an imageView above a textView. The application worked fine until I added the imageView so I'm assuming my problem has something to do with that.
Here is the code:
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Here is my layout -> main.xml
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When I try and run the app in Eclipse through the Emulator the emulator gives me the following error:
The application Application Name (process.com.isi.sa) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
The Console log in Eclipse shows the following messages:
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When I try to install the android SDK it fails to install.
My OS is Windows XP. I just downloaded and installed Java JDK 1.6 Java -version from the command line returns: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask java version "1.6.0_17" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.3-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
My environment vars have: JAVA_HOME=c:progra~1javajdk1.6.0_11. I downloaded android-sdk-r04-windows.zip. I unziped it in V:AndroidInstall
When I go to the V:androindinstallandroid-sdk-windows> and type "SDK Install.exe" nothing happens...If I go this from graph
When I do this from a graphical file viewer I get a quick flash that looks like a command line window and nothing....
When I try to run android list targets from the tool directory I get:
Error: Error parsing the sdk.
Error: V:androindinstallandroid-sdk-windowsplatforms is missing.
Error: Unable to parse SDK content.
So the basic install setup is not happening.
Additional clues:
I have a G1 and Android 1.0 was running on this machine. (Almost a year ago) I've updated my G1 to 1.6 so I thought I'd update my SDK before starting new development.
When I tried to upgrade it tried and then died as the "directory was in use"
So I cleaned out all the android directories, rebooted and redownloaded everythign from scratch.
Now it won't run at all.
I've clearly got something in an unhappy state, but I've cleaned up all the directories and no remanants seem to be running I've rebooted....
I'm using the SAX parser to read some RSS feeds and have found a problem. Some feeds, for example CNN Money Top Stories, have embedded some characters in their content, i.e. the copyright symbol. Well, that's not valid XML and the SAX Parser fails with an exception "invalid token". The only help I have seen given is to fix the XML at the source and that's not an option obviously. So, I can think of 2 options and they both stink:
(a) read the content first, scrub it, and then pass it to the parser.
(b) Use DOM instead of SAX.
What I *want* to do is make the parser a little more forgiving and just accept or discard/ignore the bad text. I'm not have any luck with setErrorHandler. My error handler does not get called.
I recently upgraded my SDK from 7 to 8. One of my applications uses Google GeoCoding, specifically the Geocoder object. After the upgrade, when I call the getFromLocation method, it doesn't return any addresses and I see a message in the logcat to the effect that GLS failed with status 20. My Google Maps API key is working fine because I'm seeing the map tiles, but GeoCoding is broken. It works fine if I run a previous (SDK 7) build of my app.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedThe following code works when I either have no min sdk version specified in the app manifest or if it's 5 or greater. But if I set the min sdk level to 4 (Android 1.6) , it fails to create a subdirectory in the sdcard.
There is no error. mkdir() or mkdirs() just returns false.
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Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this a bug? I'd prefer not to set the target to 2.1 and min version to 1.6. But right now, I have to set it to 2.0 for it to work.
I use the following code to create a folder "mymir" and a file ".nomedia" (in the mymir-folder) on the sdcard of an android unit. However, somehow it fails with the exception that the folder the ".nomedia"-file is to be placed in dosn't exist.
Here's the code:
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