HTC Hero :: New Sim Card Appears To Improving Reception

Aug 28, 2009

Im on my 3rd Hero due to poor reception issues, after I recieved my 3rd handset and that too had poor reception (stuck in gprs too often, also complete signal loss sometimes) I complained again to Orange. when I said I either speak directly to Tech Support immediately (no phone back) or I cancel the contract (not fit for purpose).They connected me to Tech Support level 2, guy there said he was going to send a new SIM card out as the one in my phone is either moving (long shot) or is faulty, he also said with the high number of people complaining, it could be a bad batch of SIMs is out there.He asked that while i was awaiting delivery of the SIM to select 2G only in the phone settings to see if the phone stabilised, 2G only test failed, still saw complete signal loss on the odd occassion.I recieved my new SIM this morning and as soon it became active I seen signal strength I had not seen before on the Hero in the exact same locations where I had problems.Im seeing stable HSDPA with 3 bars where before in this exact location I had GPRSA/Signal Loss.

HTC Hero :: New Sim Card Appears to Improving Reception


General :: SD Card Suddenly Appears As A File

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I just plugged my phone into the computer, pushed a file to the sdcard and then unplugged it. When I opened Root Explorer, it didn't default to my sdcard as usual so I opened the built in file manager and it found the card just fine. I checked the /mnt folder and sure enough the sdcard appears in there. /sdcard has always shown in my root directory and has done so up until now. Now, instead of a /sdcard folder, I see a file in the root directory named sdcard. I fear the location change could cause issues (the least of which is tweaking out my OCD).

I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. USB Debugging is enabled, I left the phone in charge only mode, I ran the command "adb push C:directoryfile /sdcard" and it appeared to be successful, I unplugged it without using the "eject" function on the computer. I've done this many many times before and this has never happened to me. I have a Droid X and am running Wizard0f0's MIUI build. Again, none of my steps vary from what I've done before. The computer is the same, the drivers are the same, the location of adb is the same, etc.

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I discussed this with my phone operator and they are suggesting that a new replacement SIM card may resolve the problem and are sending me a new one. When I bought my HTC Desire a few months ago I just reused the SIM from my old phone and it is a few years old.

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Jul 24, 2010

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Jun 12, 2010

I was setting up some photos for the Photo Caller ID function for incoming calls and was rather disappointed at the quality of the image that comes up. I either add an image to the contact in the People app or I go to the gallery and chose to "Set as" a contact icon. The picture pops up and you are given a little square crop/zoom tool to chose the portion of the picture that you want as you icon/photo caller ID. When I stretch the square OUT as big as possible to crop and then set the image with the contact, the caller ID image that comes up is good. However, any cropping/zooming is significantly Degrades/Pixelates the image that is chosen.

I'm not using the FULL 8MB resolution (set to 5MP) for the camera and I know if you crop and zoom any image, the more you zoom the worse the quality of the picture, But the 5MP shots I have should be MORE THAN sufficient to produce a little square of a photo caller ID. I had photo caller ID that popped up on my Palm Centro with photos was cropped to 320 x 320 and saved with LOW resolution and those photos were very clear. Even with the crop and zoom that is required to produce the contact/photo caller ID image, the 5MP photos I am using should be more than sufficient to produce a clear image. Is there a fix/trick for the quality to improve? Here we have this big beautiful screen and you crop a nice-sized 5MP picture for a tiny square caller ID photo and the quality is horrible.

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Jul 3, 2010

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1. I am targeting Android 1.6+ and therefore do not have access to the setOnLoadCompleteListener function. What is my best way to wait until all sound effects are loaded? I am thinking my best bet is to load all my sounds, then load a dummy (short, silent) sound, and then sit in a loop attempting to play that sound (and then sleeping for 1ms) until the play returns non zero. Does this sound reasonable? Would it be crazy to do this process for every sound effect I load, as the calling code expects the load function to stall as long as it takes for the load to complete - I am not interested in the sound pool trying to do any async stuff for me, all of my background loading is done in a separate thread, and this thread can stall as long as it likes, as long as it actually loads what I am asking it to.

2. Is there anyway I can find out when a sound effect has finished playing? The games I am porting might have code along the lines of 'play sound effect, wait for it to complete, then fade the screen out and load next context' which on other platforms is easy enough to implement. In OpenAL for example, at the end of each frame I check if the OpenAL state for a given SFX is now stopped, in which case I update the game side sound handle to let it know it's now in the stopped state. But I just can't seem to find a way to achieve the same thing on Android. I am beginning to think my only option would be to (somehow) work out the length of the sample, and then when play is called, set a timer to trigger 100ms after the sample time (100ms to account for any delay in the sound starting), and in the timer function set the game side sfx state to be stopped. Does this sound reasonable? Are there any better ways of handling this?

3. Will a sound pool run out of ids? It seems it have been designed so you have one sound pool per 'level' and after each level you release the pool. This doesn't really fit too well with all my code so I am trying to avoid it. But I notice the documentation states a lot of functions will work even after a sound id is no longer valid (it has stopped for example), the functions won't do anything, but they want break anything. This to me says that id's are never recycled. So are there limits? If so what are the limits?

4. Finally, are there any plans for improving the sound pool system? Ideally I'd like to see it work in a similar way to the other main sound APIs. The reason being I target multiple platforms on the engine side, and have 100% generic game code, so I need to establish a base level interface to the API which will work across the board. This is made very difficult by the SoundPool API being set up to work in a specific way, as opposed to just having reasonable low level functions, and allowing the end user to wrap this up how they see fit. I like the fact there are high level classes around to handle this work of work, and I agree these should remain, but I'd like to see something perhaps lower level exposed, which the SoundPool could wrap around perhaps.

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Sep 10, 2010

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