theneurotoxin Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 The only thing I am contesting is how dropping native support for H.264 is going to support development of other codecs. All that will result in is the few people, who used to access H.264 video natively through the HTML5 video element, to start using the Flash plugin. If Google really wanted to promote WebM, Theora etc., why not have YouTube serve video, exclusively, through those codecs? Would that not result in more innovation in the development of these open codecs? Pre-emptive action to protect oneself from a company's possible anti-competitive actions (I don't see how they can do all that you said they can with antitrust laws in place) in the future is not open innovation. I was merely commenting on the reason you claimed — this isn't a big deal for Chrome users let alone others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theneurotoxin Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) ...and still heralded as the champion of open web. Refrain from treating douchebaggery as universal opinion. @DS: Can one flash the stock ROM over a custom one? Edited April 8, 2011 by ArtVandelay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Stryke Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 ^yeah, but if you're jumping to 2.3 from 2.2, you will need to flash the stock rom using ODIN first. The PDA, Phone and CSC files are included in the stock rom package after unzipping. 2. You need to flash the Chainfire's modified Gingerbread kernel with CWM which includes root using ODIN again. 3. After that you need to flash any speedmod froyo kernel via CWM. After that, when u go to recovery, you see the green color CWM (as opposed to the red one when u flash Chainfire's GB kernel) 4. Then flash Juwe's or whoever's custom rom via that CWM. After this, flashing any future GB roms will be easy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theneurotoxin Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 unlike a certain fruit company which Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Stryke Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Hehe calling it a certain fruit company is typical shantz ...haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 quick question... i used wifi explorer pro to transfer a cbr comic from my pc to the phone. the file gets transferred (i can see the size) but it gets renamed from it's proper file name to octet-stream. obviously something is going wrong with transferring the specific file type. i can transfer an mp3 for example and that will go through with no problems. pretty easy issue to solve in windows, just not sure how to fix it with the phone. i asked snake to try out the same type of file transfer with the same app on his phone and he got the problem too. can anyone else verify this as well and how should i solve it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 quick question... i used wifi explorer pro to transfer a cbr comic from my pc to the phone. the file gets transferred (i can see the size) but it gets renamed from it's proper file name to octet-stream. obviously something is going wrong with transferring the specific file type. i can transfer an mp3 for example and that will go through with no problems. pretty easy issue to solve in windows, just not sure how to fix it with the phone. i asked snake to try out the same type of file transfer with the same app on his phone and he got the problem too. can anyone else verify this as well and how should i solve it? I've tried with cbr files a month ago on wifi file explorer. Went through just fine though. Will try again. What OS are you on? 2.2 ? 2.3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 @Spin Tried again with Wifi File Explorer. Transferred a 12mb comic (cbr) to the phone and it went through as a CBR without any renaming or extension change. Nexus S . 2.3.3 . Modaco r13. Wifi File Explorer version 1.1.13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 i'm on 2.2. somehow i doubt that would be the issue though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 im on 2.2 as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) i'm on 2.2. somehow i doubt that would be the issue though. im on 2.2 as well Well it works fine for me. Superfrag and Vbhoj could you guys give it a shot? Maybe someone on 2.2 like ArtVanDelay? Perhaps it's that I'm using an older version and those with the latest 1.1.17 have this issue?? Edited April 8, 2011 by Gaurav - Solitaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 yea i have 1.1.7. i'd appreciate it if others could try as well. contacted the dev via twitter and email, hopefully he might be able to help as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theneurotoxin Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 ^^ I use the free app — Awesome Drop. Works pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) well the dev emailed me back and gave me a new apk which will show up on the market later today. he says that might fix the problem, or if nothing else, it has a file rename option so i can try renaming the octet-stream file to the proper name to see if that works. obviously the latter would not be ideal but let's see if it actually works. Edited April 8, 2011 by spindoctor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shantz Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Hehe calling it a certain fruit company is typical shantz ...haha I love fruits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Stryke Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) I gotta thank Superfrag, Wifi Explorer is working like a charm for me. Although, I'm gonna stick to doubletwist for syncing my music and moving my photographs as its much easier that way for me to sync my itunes playlists. Wifi explorer for data and video Edited April 8, 2011 by Death Stryke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shantz Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) Ah, the android apple fights of yore Let's just face it, there will always be a section of the crowd who will not look beyond iOS. Likewise for Android. Each OS has their own glaring niggles. Live and let live folks! I'm actually more than willing to look beyond Android. I have such a long list of gripes that I have with Android that even Apple fanboys can't have. Since you, rithvik, gaurav etc get my twitter feed, you would know I do call out Android and Google for all that they do wrong. I do not feel pride in defending them or anything. The only thing I am against is FUD that people spread. I'd switch from Android in a heart beat if I had a better alternative but for now it is the only option to suit my needs out of all the mobile OSs (all of which are lacking in one way or the other). I might even switch to RIM's new platform or webOS pretty soon especially because I have a lot more important role in RIM's devices as compared to Android and it gives me more development satisfaction. The only thing I am contesting is how dropping native support for H.264 is going to support development of other codecs. All that will result in is the few people, who used to access H.264 video natively through the HTML5 video element, to start using the Flash plugin. If Google really wanted to promote WebM, Theora etc., why not have YouTube serve video, exclusively, through those codecs? Would that not result in more innovation in the development of these open codecs? People don't need to use flash. MS has already released a H.264 plugin for Chrome. They are dropping native support because they don't want to expend energy on it and want to move away from it. The mechanics of changing this for a service like youtube vary greatly so they are also going to remove it from youtube slowly as it would have a much bigger backlash. WebM support for youtube is being rolled out gradually just like they started rolling out HTML5 some time back. Once WebM gains critical mass, then it would be the time to remove H.264 from youtube. They have time till 2015 to do this. Pre-emptive action to protect oneself from a company's possible anti-competitive actions (I don't see how they can do all that you said they can with antitrust laws in place) in the future is not open innovation. I was merely commenting on the reason you claimed — this isn't a big deal for Chrome users let alone others. Anti-trust may or may not be applicable for them. MPEG-LA is a body with many patent-holders. It is not a single company. They also have the authority to charge fees differently depending on number of users, amount of video streamed, etc just like anyone else and can easily outwit Google. Besides, they wouldn't want to bank upon courts to save themselves from losing one of the biggest parts of the company which is going to be even more important in the future. Again, they are not setting a trend here but following one. As I mentioned, the biggest browser of them all "Firefox" already doesn't support it natively. Nor does Opera. And they have all given the same reason as I mentioned for this lack of support in the past as well. That is why, I don't see why it is a big deal. Edited April 8, 2011 by Shantz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfrag Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 quick question... i used wifi explorer pro to transfer a cbr comic from my pc to the phone. the file gets transferred (i can see the size) but it gets renamed from it's proper file name to octet-stream. obviously something is going wrong with transferring the specific file type. i can transfer an mp3 for example and that will go through with no problems. pretty easy issue to solve in windows, just not sure how to fix it with the phone. i asked snake to try out the same type of file transfer with the same app on his phone and he got the problem too. can anyone else verify this as well and how should i solve it? Could you upload that cbr file somewhere? I'll give it a try.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbhoj74 Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Well it works fine for me. Superfrag and Vbhoj could you guys give it a shot? Maybe someone on 2.2 like ArtVanDelay? Perhaps it's that I'm using an older version and those with the latest 1.1.17 have this issue?? I'm presently using File Expert 3.0.1, works nice. On Nexus 2.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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