Motorola Droid X :: Match Up To Archos 5 Tablet With Android
Jun 29, 2010
How does the Moto Droid X match up to the Archos 5 running Android? I've got the Droid and the Archos 5. But bought the Archos mainly as a mp3 player and book reader. My Droid is a great mp3 player but every time it is in my pocket the slider moves and I have to get it out slide the lock and hit play again. Very annoying. Also you get all the notices, such as emails, texts, calendar reminders, etc making thier alarms through the songs. This is why I searched out Archos as a media player. But it really isn't pocketable.
You can but it is large. The Droid X is larger then Droid (4.3 vs 3.7) but still a little smaller than Archos 5". I've done so much research for the last 2 weeks, I'm going silly trying to remember everything and what's what. So has anyone checked both these out and think they are pretty much the same thing only a little smaller screen? Just curious as I'm leaning towards returning Archos and going with Droid X. Hopefully at some time they will make an app that will shut off everything but phone calls while music player is playing.
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Jan 6, 2010
Has anyone been able to do this? USB or Bluetooth DUN? I installed PDAnet on the phone but the Archos won't pair with the Droid. They're both running Android so I thought it might work. The archos has WiFi and bluetooth. I've tried WiFi-net sharing on my Touch Pro 2 but it won't recognize the network?
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Nov 14, 2009
I have an app which has a download size of about 7MB and an installed/ configured size of about 25MB. So far, I've been handling this by using the SD card for the baulk of the data. This works fine although the installation process is a little cumbersome. I notice the smallest of the Archos 5 tablets is 8GB.
Can someone confirm whether this is all part of the internal memory? In other words, can /data/data/com.mypackage fill this memory (potentially). If so, does this mean there is a good chance that getExternalStorageDirectory() will quite often return null? Because people will have less need to use an external SD card.
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Nov 22, 2009
Somebody once asked on this list what the ARCHOS 5 Android tablet returns for Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(). The good news: it's not null. The interesting news: it's /storage. The second round of good news: this points to the bulk of the storage space -- on my 32GB flash, /storage is where 30GB of the space resides. The third round of good news: the value remains /storage even after you pop a micro SD card in. I was briefly worried that it might switch to /sdcard or something.
Really curious news: while Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() returns /storage, /sdcard does exist, and it does *not* point to the SD card. Rather, it and /storage seem to point to the same spot, perhaps via a symlink or hardlink. Upshot: while you should use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), apps that hardwire "/sdcard" won't break when there's no SD card installed.
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Nov 19, 2009
I bought the droid, love it (using it as a wifi enabled media player with tons of apps), and can still return it penalty free, but am not impressed with the call quality. I am thinking about either getting the ipod touch, dropping the verizon service and using the droid, or getting the archos 5. I dont need GPS, phone, or the camera. I have a few questions.
1 Is this a stupid idea? I can get a 64gb ipod touch for $399. The 16gb droid will be $375 after early termination penalty.
2 How will it function without verizon? I will only be using data downloads where WIFI is enabled, everywhere else it will just be a stand alone media player.
3 I would like to use skype over WIFI. The skype lite app for droid does not allow that. Does the ipod touch require you to use an accessory with a microphone?
4 Battery power. I read on these forums that turning off the droid does not stop the battery from draining. If i turn the droid off and dont use it for a week, will it be dead?
5 How about Archos?
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May 13, 2010
I am new to the Root scene, and am having a good time so far. I recently switched to the DROID from my Eris, and thought it a good opportunity to learn about rooting and ADB, using my Eris an experiment. Successful on that front I'm working on rooting my 2.1 DROID tonight.I checked around and couldn't find much/anyone on this but it may be because I don't know how to ask the right question.Can I ADB pull HTC apps off my Eris and Push them to my DROID? For example, I enjoy the functionality of the HTC People app over the stock contacts on the DROID. Can I mix and match?
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Dec 8, 2009
I've never been interested in verizon in the past, but I must have a droid now.I noticed that the droid is $119.99 on TigerDirect.com (w/ 2 yr contract) and the activation fee is waved, and I'm wondering if Verizon stores will match the price? Verizon is currently charging $199.99 and a $35 activation fee.I will be going in to the Verizon store after work to try to get them to match the price and looking for some advice in the meantime. Has anyone had any luck getting them to match the price? Or, should I just order from tiger direct?
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Nov 6, 2009
I saw on the front page that Phandroid negotiated a price of 149.99 for the phone. I went to the link and sure enough, it's 149.99, instant rebate. Is there any way I can get either the Verizon Wireless Store or Best Buy to match that price? I have it pre-ordered at Best Buy but I can cancel it if need be.I'd really like to have the phone tomorrow on launch day, but paying 199.99 instead of 149.99 is pretty silly.
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Dec 24, 2009
I was wondering if I can download apps from my computer and place them on my Archos 5 Internet Tablet since Archos made their own stupid market place with less apps.
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Feb 20, 2010
Just bought an Archos 5. Is there an ssh client for it?
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Apr 27, 2010
Does anyone know the filepath for an Archos? I'm trying to get some media/audio to play, and it just won't find it...
public void onClick(View v1) {
final MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
try {
mp.setDataSource("ARCHOS5:/Music/manowar.mp3");
mp.start();
Toast.makeText(Textbox.this, "Working", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
mp.setLooping(true);
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();............................
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Nov 13, 2009
I'm trying to make a screenshot of an Archos 5 IT using DDMS (SDK 1.5 and 2.0) without success. The screenshot is awful with a lot of yellow. Do you have the same issue ? I would like to know if possible if this issue is due ti an SDK problem or an Archos problem.
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Nov 15, 2010
I would like to start doing some Android development, and would like a cheap device to deploy apps to, just for testing and demo purposes. Is it possible to deploy apps to, for instance, an Archos 28? I don't know much about Android development yet, and haven't found a good answer to this question elsewhere.
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Oct 16, 2009
my app is working perfectly and playing its music in the 1.5 and 1.6 emulators, my ADP1, and for everyone in the Android Market (at least there were no complaints). The problem is that when the app is run on the ARCHOS 5 tabled, the MediaPlayer.create(Context context, int resid) method returns null. I guess there might be a problem with the ARCHOS' Android implementation, but did anyone experience the same problem? What might be a possible reason for the create method to return false? The docs don't say anything. I'm also using SoundPool in parallel with MediaPlayer if that's relevant.
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Dec 23, 2009
I have an app that instructed me to copy some data from my computer to the SDCard. So I plugged the Droid into the computer, mounted my Droid SDCard, looked at the directory, and copied the file. There are a bunch of files and folders listed (e.g. backups for apps, album artwork, etc.) as being on the SDCard. But when I go into Astro on the Droid and select "SDCARD" it shows "directory is empty." I don't get it. Why can't I see the folders and files on the SDCard that I can see on the computer screen?
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Mar 9, 2014
When I first got my tablet it synced all my apps that I have on my phone onto my tablet. All me emails sync up but how do I get it to sync all the new apps again? It's annoying to have to put calendar appointments in both my phone and tablet. Same as every app I download on my phone. I seem to be doing double duty constantly. It did it once but never again.
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Oct 17, 2009
Somebody on this list asked a bit ago about whether the Archos 5 Android Internet Table supports the ANDROID_ID secure setting. The answer is yes but it's not a hex value, which is what the docs say is required. So, as long as you just care about it being a relatively short string (and not-null), you should be OK.
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Jan 27, 2010
When typing on the keyboard, Android suggests words that match what's typed so far. Usually that's useful. But if I get to the end of the word and none of the suggestions match, it's quite annoying. Android has one matching word listed in red, and when I hit the space bar it auto-matches to the red word. If I'm typing a name or an abbreviation, I have to backspace to undo the match.Is there a better way to make Android not take the match?
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Aug 18, 2010
I'm using the Android SAX parser to search for entries in a rather large (6MB) XML file. I'm basically using a derivative of the code shown in listing 8 here. The question I have is how do I stop parsing once my match has been found? The code shown continues parsing through the end of the file but I want to stop before then. Is this possible or do I need to use something other than SAX
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Apr 17, 2010
I have a few separate applications which are all launched purely through a main application.I am wondering if I'd be able to use intents to retrieve a list of all the sub-applications which match some discovery intent. The main application currently needs to know what Intents to use to START these sub-applications, but is there a way to use intents to see if other Activities on the device match a set of intent-filters?
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Oct 6, 2010
This is my code:
CODE:...........
The items in the ListView comes from an AsyncTask. When the AsyncTask is running I want it to stop adding non-matching items. For now, if it had loaded 5 items and I search with a specified String, then when the AsyncTask continues loading items it adds automatically Orders to the ListView, even if there isn't a match.
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Sep 5, 2010
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Sep 3, 2010
Is there any place where I can get AVD files to match various models of phone?
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Sep 13, 2010
I have a Motorola Droid running Android version 2.2. Every so often I will receive email on my Droid from a POP3 account where the subject line does not match the body of the e-mail. For example I will receive on my Droid an e-mail from Amazon confirming order shipment but the body of the e-mail will be an advertisement from Hertz, HP, etc. The Amazon e-mail body is not shown. If I look in Gmail online it is fine so this so this is only on the Droid.
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Dec 11, 2009
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Mar 10, 2010
I am testing my multiplayer game by running several instances of the emulator (which is, sadly, extremely slow and dis-satisfying). I depend on a little trick using currentTimeMillis() to keep a synchronized clock between the players (but NOT the absolute value of currentTimeMillis() since no two phones are probably set exactly the same)Anyway, I *do* naively assume that two emulators, running on the same PC would return near identical values for calls to currentTimeMillis(), and what I find is that they start off the same, but pull rapidly apart.Which makes me think the underlying implementation of currentTimeMillis() in the emulator is not at all based on the host PC's calendar, and rquires the emulator to get enough Windows compute cycles to be anything close to accurate. (and one emulator is always running at a lower priority to the other, depending on which one is on top)
If this is just an artifact of the emulator, then I can deal with it, but if it implies I have a fundamental misunderstanding of currentTimeMillis(), then that would be something i need to deal with. Part two of the question is: any way I can speed up the emulator? When I run two, are they sharing one of my cores? Can I split them onto separate cores?
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Jul 6, 2010
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Basically the question is how to do something that normally would be done in switch statement with Strings.
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Nov 28, 2010
I have the following issue. I am starting a recognizer intent activity in order to detect speech using the "startActivityForResult" method. I have also an "onActivityResult" method listening for results from the recognizer activity. It works and it detects my speech. The problem is that it is only called when everything is ok or when i cancel the operation, but it is not called if it doesn't find a matching text "RecognizerIntent.RESULT_NO_MATCH" or in the rest of wrong cases "RecognizerIntent.RESULT_........" What is happening? Application is Android 2.1 and I have tested on a Android 2.2 device.
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May 16, 2010
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