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Google Music

I'm impressed. I've been waiting for two alvulms to show up on Zune and one isn't even on iTunes but they have it. I'm sold.
When will the updated Android Market get pushed out.
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Any one know when theyll make Google music for outside of US, i really like the concept but cant use it since im outside of US

mrvtec69 said:
Any one know when theyll make Google music for outside of US, i really like the concept but cant use it since im outside of US
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Make an account using a proxy, after that you can just use google music freely. Anyone can share the new google music apk? I heard it's already available on the market but since we are from Europe it doesn't show up for us.

probably in about 2 years

Not sure on that one. I'm really liking where Google is going with their ecosystem. I didn't expect their store to have this many albums I needed (still looking and buying ) since I don't have mainstream musical tastes. I guess I'm gonna be upgrading to another android phone soon.
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DeuXGod said:
Make an account using a proxy, after that you can just use google music freely. Anyone can share the new google music apk? I heard it's already available on the market but since we are from Europe it doesn't show up for us.
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There is no update for the app here. I'm in the US.
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N8ter said:
There is no update for the app here. I'm in the US.
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Weird, just read on Engadget that it was already out. Oh well, let's just wait
Ty for checking tho

N8ter said:
There is no update for the app here. I'm in the US.
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someone on the freenode #android IRC channel uploaded the latest version, which is 4.0.9
it is on the market.

One shows the update now. Wired I had installed it from the market an hour ago and got the old version...
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oscillik said:
someone on the freenode #android IRC channel uploaded the latest version, which is 4.0.9
it is on the market.
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And here it is the apk
http://www.multiupload.com/TD5XL210Y1

Do you still have to upload ur music via music manager? Or does the music manager simply compare your songs to those in its server and comprise your Google music collection based on the songs that match its database? Waiting days to upload thousands of songs just doesn't cut it.
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Anyone else unable to access Google music from browser on phone, I live in New York but site tells me can only access if in US.
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916x10 said:
Do you still have to upload ur music via music manager? Or does the music manager simply compare your songs to those in its server and comprise your Google music collection based on the songs that match its database? Waiting days to upload thousands of songs just doesn't cut it.
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Looks like you still have to upload every song. Fail on Google's part.

bleach168 said:
Looks like you still have to upload every song. Fail on Google's part.
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How else are you gonna get your content to the cloud? Google's smart, but not ESP smart... Lol
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How else are you gonna get your content to the cloud? Google's smart, but not ESP smart... Lol
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Google would have been much better served to come out with something more along the lines of iTunes, a program you install on your computer and tell it what folder to watch for your music and a few minutes later, there is your 10k song library! Not to mention the stupid music manager issues. The very first time I installed Google Music to my computer I got some stupid "can only use 3 accounts on this machine" error and I couldn't upload my music until I found a workaround.....change the Mac address of my ethernet card. That's pretty weak. I think Google missed the boat with this one.

how fast does the streaming work on verizon's 3g? any hiccups in loading?

Overall, it's a great service. But Google made some mistakes,
1) No matching service.
2) Should have gone at least 25k songs to match iTunes match.
3) Not available outside the U.S.
4) Can't buy songs from your phone... yet.
The sharing and independent artists features are impressive though. And best feature of all.. IT'S FREE.

So now that this is released does anybody know if they will ever have an easy sync like iPhone and iTunes for our Android phones?

Songs you purchase from google don't count towards the 20k song limit. So, that really isn't much of an issue, IMO.
I love how they do carrier billing for tmobile, too. Guess it will come to other carriers soon.
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bleach168 said:
Overall, it's a great service. But Google made some mistakes,
1) No matching service.
2) Should have gone at least 25k songs to match iTunes match.
3) Not available outside the U.S.
4) Can't buy songs from your phone... yet.
The sharing and independent artists features are impressive though. And best feature of all.. IT'S FREE.
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1) a one-time issue when first uploading and only IF you own a lot of music. Just leave PC on overnight once and you're good.
2) iTunes cloud isn't free and then it still eats up all your local storage.
3) Will be soon. Plus you can use a proxy to get around it.
4) New market is being delivered as we speak. Not an issue, just takes a few days to push the app out to 100million+ users with varying phones and networks.
The sharing, artists, g+, is all awesome.
My only issue is that android app is still a little cumbersome and has an occasional issue with shuffle feature and replaying of same song. lol.

How/why do iPods sync so much faster than Android?

Hi, I've owned a few different iPods, still using the latest Classic and have owned a few Androids, using a Sony Xperia. One huge issue (out of a few) regarding music synching for me is that iPods have always synched very quickly to me. I have tried most media players you can think of, a few different Android phones, using many tests and they sync very slowly. I'm talking about 32GB or so of music. If I ask my iPod to do that, it does it in about one third of the time, no joke. How? Is it the cable? Do Apple cables have facilitate higher transfer speeds than others? Is it the software on the iPod and in iTunes?
Even if I just get my phone and iPod to copy the most recent 30 songs I added to my collection, all of my Androids would take a few mins to do that and my iPod would have that done in about 40 seconds. I want to know how!

If your Android phone has an sd card the songs can only transfer as fast as it's class permits. So if you have a class 2 don't expect much.

Ah ha - yes, I forgot about that - SD Class. Do you know of the top of your head what kind of class I may have to get to compare favourably to an iPod?
Not comparing to iPods or anything else, I read lots of the discussions on here and lots of people said go with San Disk class 4, that it beats many higher classes at the 32GB level. Whatever the case, I'd be happy to to experiment. I'm currently using the San Disk 32GB class 4 and it is terrible compared to my iPod Classic.
Also, would fragmentation on a phone SD card likely be a significant problem? Maybe that's another area the iPods win - ROMs aren't switched like a light switch.
I'm looking at audio quality also but transfer speed is the big problem I want fixed on my next purchase. I found this on GSM Arena:
Phone Voice, dB Pink noise/ Music, dB
Sony Xperia Sola 60.9 59.0
HTC One V 66.9 65.3
Apple iPhone 4S 65.8 64.5

Most newer iPods have flash memory which will write much faster than most SD cards ( I don't have numbers off the top of my head but definitely faster than a class 4 sd card).

Delete iTunes. Delete it now. That junk is bloated and disgusting. Jailbreak and copy your files manually.
I got b& at /a/ for sh!tposting ;_;

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Ah ha - yes, I forgot about that - SD Class. Do you know of the top of your head what kind of class I may have to get to compare favourably to an iPod?
Not comparing to iPods or anything else, I read lots of the discussions on here and lots of people said go with San Disk class 4, that it beats many higher classes at the 32GB level. Whatever the case, I'd be happy to to experiment. I'm currently using the San Disk 32GB class 4 and it is terrible compared to my iPod Classic.
Also, would fragmentation on a phone SD card likely be a significant problem? Maybe that's another area the iPods win - ROMs aren't switched like a light switch.
I'm looking at audio quality also but transfer speed is the big problem I want fixed on my next purchase. I found this on GSM Arena:
Phone Voice, dB Pink noise/ Music, dB
Sony Xperia Sola 60.9 59.0
HTC One V 66.9 65.3
Apple iPhone 4S 65.8 64.5
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Class 10 SDHC cards should give you much faster speeds.
I like Transcend cards.

jdeoxys said:
Delete iTunes. Delete it now. That junk is bloated and disgusting. Jailbreak and copy your files manually.
I got b& at /a/ for sh!tposting ;_;
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Why should he do that if he has an iPod/iPhone? Why should he jailbreak and copy/paste music if he has an application that does it for him? Logic? Where? I agree that iTunes is a piece of highly polished crap, but it does the job.

LordManhattan said:
Why should he do that if he has an iPod/iPhone? Why should he jailbreak and copy/paste music if he has an application that does it for him? Logic? Where? I agree that iTunes is a piece of highly polished crap, but it does the job.
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There are other programs for that.
I got b& at /a/ for sh!tposting ;_;

I know, but if he's happy with iTunes, he should be able to use it without getting bashed. I don't like iTunes, but it's his computer and his iThing. We can't force him to use something else.
And that's it for today's episode of "Let's cut this s*** out and concentrate on posting ponies"
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Isnt that because it syncs to one single server owned by apple? Whereas android can sync to any server. Ex: yahoo. Gmail. Ect.
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Delete iTunes. Delete it now. That junk is bloated and disgusting. Jailbreak and copy your files manually.
I got b& at /a/ for sh!tposting ;_;
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I pretty sure he/she didn't ask because he/she wanted to hear you blather about how iTunes is crap. If you aren't going to help then please don't post.

I use devices from all manufacturers, so I promise I'm not a fan boy, but I like how iPods and iTunes work. iTunes transfers at least one song or podcast to my iPod every second, while my Android takes 4-5 seconds for each song. I have 32GB of music and at that stage, it gets tedious! I have staring at how long it takes.
I've been looking around and did find some SD cards at class 10 that transfer up to 30mbps, and on eBay that aren't expensive. That looks like the main issue (I think), with Android the bottleneck is SD class i.e. performance. :good:
Well, I just contacted my phone manufacturer and they said their phones have been tested on class 2 and class 4 SD cards. She advised me 'not to purchase a class 10 as it will likely not work with any of their phones'. There must be someone around who has tested this.

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I use devices from all manufacturers, so I promise I'm not a fan boy, but I like how iPods and iTunes work. iTunes transfers at least one song or podcast to my iPod every second, while my Android takes 4-5 seconds for each song. I have 32GB of music and at that stage, it gets tedious! I have staring at how long it takes.
I've been looking around and did find some SD cards at class 10 that transfer up to 30mbps, and on eBay that aren't expensive. That looks like the main issue (I think), with Android the bottleneck is SD class i.e. performance. :good:
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That's probably (at least partly) all the GED since the Nexus S have had nand memory instead of SD.

veeman said:
I pretty sure he/she didn't ask because he/she wanted to hear you blather about how iTunes is crap. If you aren't going to help then please don't post.
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I pretty sure he/she didn't ask because he/she wanted to hear you blather about how someone's post is crap. If you aren't going to help then please don't post.
Also, that is helping.

My only issue would be a syncing program that wipes all your playlists created on the device, or did they finally fix that foolishness?

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My only issue would be a syncing program that wipes all your playlists created on the device, or did they finally fix that foolishness?
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Hmm I've been testing Sony's version of iTunes called Media Go for over a year now. It doesn't wipe playlists, instead, it doesn't update my favourite music playlists, even if I delete and resync etc.

To me seems about the same speed, but transferring videos or movies, iPods syncs are much slower and iTunes seems to almost crash at first :/
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I just wanted to post an update on my experience of this. I have been focussing on the cable and SD class too. I just got my new phone today and it transfers a LOT faster than my previous one. I wonder is this related to the chipset or CPU? My previous phone had 1Ghz single core Scorpion, my new one has dual core 1Ghz Cortex A5. I'm looking at all the pieces and the biggest difference is the phone CPU so perhaps that allows a performance boost with transfer? I didn't expect a boost in transfer speed, but it's unmistakable! :fingers-crossed:

m1l4droid said:
Hey I guess we could help better if we knew the phone model as well.
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Previous phone: Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini (1Ghz Snapdragon, 512 RAM)
New phone: Sony Xperia Sola (1Ghz dual core A5 Cortex, 512 RAM)
Huge transfer boost on the Sola. :laugh:

SharpnShiny said:
Hi, I've owned a few different iPods, still using the latest Classic and have owned a few Androids, using a Sony Xperia. One huge issue (out of a few) regarding music synching for me is that iPods have always synched very quickly to me. I have tried most media players you can think of, a few different Android phones, using many tests and they sync very slowly. I'm talking about 32GB or so of music. If I ask my iPod to do that, it does it in about one third of the time, no joke. How? Is it the cable? Do Apple cables have facilitate higher transfer speeds than others? Is it the software on the iPod and in iTunes?
Even if I just get my phone and iPod to copy the most recent 30 songs I added to my collection, all of my Androids would take a few mins to do that and my iPod would have that done in about 40 seconds. I want to know how!
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They sync fast coz they have nothing to sync
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I turned a hobby into a pretty decent job

I've been involved in cell phones since 1999 when I was selling them. This was back when there were bag phones you had to put together and you could really tinker with stuff. Then came digital and cell phones got much more boring. I still loved them and sold them until 2008.
I got into Android and really liked how much stuff I could mess with even though I had no idea what I was doing. I tried writing apps but I suck at code. I'm also color blind, so theming wasn't my thing. Then I got my Samsung Vibrant. The phone was both my best friend and worst enemy. The charging port went bad and since I was rooted, I didn't dare warranty it. So I took it apart to see what I could see. I ended up fixing it pretty easily. Then someone came up with a mod where you could install a front facing camera. I again took my phone apart and the install went great.
I finally found something I could do. Hardware.
I love tinkering and I also really like money, so I started doing screen replacements for friends. Now its kind of boomed and I'm doing 2-10 jobs while still working at my real job full time. Its a stress reliever for me to come home after a long boring day and get to tear something apart, fix it, then make it shiny and new again.
So that's my new hobby that just happens to pay pretty well. It also makes for some pretty cool pics
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The interesting part is iPhones and iPods give me the most work. However I have never owned an iDevice and probably never will. They are also much cheaper to work on than Android phones.

If you don't mind me asking, how much do you charge for replacing digi/LCD on the iPhone 4/4S not counting parts?
And this reminds me, I need to start advertising again.

jaszek said:
If you don't mind me asking, how much do you charge for replacing digi/LCD on the iPhone 4/4S not counting parts?
And this reminds me, I need to start advertising again.
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I just changed my pricing around. For iPhones I charge $30 for labor. iPods, $40 and iPads $50.
It beats the competition and works out to roughly $50/hour on average.

rudeguy said:
I just changed my pricing around. For iPhones I charge $30 for labor. iPods, $40 and iPads $50.
It beats the competition and works out to roughly $50/hour on average.
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Yea, that's pretty much what I charge. But I mostly deal with computers, so windows reinstall is $70, LCD replacement $40, and everything else I just come up with prices on the fly. My competition is the store I work at

jaszek said:
...windows reinstall is $70...
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Holy mother of mark-ups Batman!

063_XOBX said:
Holy mother of mark-ups Batman!
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The store I work at, we charge $85. I hear stories of people charging $100+

jaszek said:
The store I work at, we charge $85. I hear stories of people charging $100+
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Wow. That's a lot!
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jaszek said:
The store I work at, we charge $85. I hear stories of people charging $100+
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To put in a Live CD and let Windows installer do everything?I gotta get into that racket.

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Wow. That's a lot!
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People pay it, so I don't care. I think it's time to raise my prices by $5 for the new year. Sent out an ad today, so should start getting phone calls soon.

jaszek said:
People pay it, so I don't care. I think it's time to raise my prices by $5 for the new year. Sent out an ad today, so should start getting phone calls soon.
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Hey, if people are willing to pay it, do it!
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jaszek said:
People pay it, so I don't care. I think it's time to raise my prices by $5 for the new year. Sent out an ad today, so should start getting phone calls soon.
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Mind letting me see how you advertise your services? I'm way over in Fl so I'm obviously no competition, just curious to see what gets the phone ringing.

063_XOBX said:
Mind letting me see how you advertise your services? I'm way over in Fl so I'm obviously no competition, just curious to see what gets the phone ringing.
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It's a Polish classifieds website. I use a google voice number, so my boss doesn't ***** at me again for stealing customers.
THis is my ad:
Naprawa komputerow i telefonow komorkowych. Przeistalowanie windowsa, spolszczanie systemow, uaktualnienia, wymiana czesci, naprawa zbitych ekranow. Android i iPhone. Tanio, szybko i solidnie. Mozliwosc zaplaty karta kredytowa lub gotowka.
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Which translates to:
Computer and phone repair. Windows reinstallations, language changes (Polish), updating, parts replacement, broken screen repairs. Android and iPhone. Cheap, fast, and solid. Payment accepted with credit cards or cash.
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jaszek said:
It's a Polish classifieds website. I use a google voice number, so my boss doesn't ***** at me again for stealing customers.
THis is my ad:
Which translates to:
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I'm assuming you use a Square card reader for CC's?

jaszek said:
Yea, that's pretty much what I charge. But I mostly deal with computers, so windows reinstall is $70, LCD replacement $40, and everything else I just come up with prices on the fly. My competition is the store I work at
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Ftw 70 $ for 15-20 mins windows install :shocked: that's too much
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I'm assuming you use a Square card reader for CC's?
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Ftw 70 $ for 15-20 mins windows install :shocked: that's too much
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Ummmm no. Most of these computers are not super fast, so 40 minutes to install the OS, then find and install all of the drivers since XP and VISTA don't have a lot of them in Windows Update, then install all the software like antiVir, etc. Then when the client has photos he wants to save, and sometimes I've had to copy 100gb of files to my drive, then copy that back. THat's about 3-4 hours of work non-stop. And I need breaks to eat. Remember, most of these clients don't have top of the line computers like you do. They are in the dark when it comes to tech, and they would never know how to do the stuff themselves. But if you think that's too much, do it yourself, just don't ask any IT guy why your 'X'* isn't working after you reinstalled windows. I've had people think they can do it themselves, and that means more work for me then it would be in the first place since they ALWAYS mess something up. I charge them more then.
* X = whatever it is that's not working.

Whoa!! You just gave me a great idea. I should start a business of installing custom ROMs and themes for people and charge them some great cash. It's unethical but who cares. BTW it's great that you are doing something you like.
If i may ask, is this a part time job?
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ak700 said:
Whoa!! You just gave me a great idea. I should start a business of installing custom ROMs and themes for people and charge them some great cash. It's unethical but who cares. BTW it's great that you are doing something you like.
If i may ask, is this a part time job?
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If you're asking me, I just do it from time to time for some extra cash.
And for ROMS/Rooting, they charge $25 around here.
But you have to remember, if you do that, you are their tech support, and whatever doesnt work good on the rom, it'll be your fault and you have to fix it, and they dont care the developer didn't get it to work yet.

ak700 said:
Whoa!! You just gave me a great idea. I should start a business of installing custom ROMs and themes for people and charge them some great cash. It's unethical but who cares. BTW it's great that you are doing something you like.
If i may ask, is this a part time job?
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I won't root/jail break/install software. Too many variables and too many follow up calls. I like one and done.
I have a full time job as well. I work in a call center for a large cable company taking disconnects.
The funny part is I applied at Apple to do over the phone tech support on iPhones but apparently I'm not qualified. However my friend who didn't even know how to reboot her iPhone did get that job. These companies crack me up.
I really wish there was a bigger market for color conversion. That's something I really want to do but no one wants to pay for it.

jaszek said:
Yep
Ummmm no. Most of these computers are not super fast, so 40 minutes to install the OS, then find and install all of the drivers since XP and VISTA don't have a lot of them in Windows Update, then install all the software like antiVir, etc. Then when the client has photos he wants to save, and sometimes I've had to copy 100gb of files to my drive, then copy that back. THat's about 3-4 hours of work non-stop. And I need breaks to eat. Remember, most of these clients don't have top of the line computers like you do. They are in the dark when it comes to tech, and they would never know how to do the stuff themselves. But if you think that's too much, do it yourself, just don't ask any IT guy why your 'X'* isn't working after you reinstalled windows. I've had people think they can do it themselves, and that means more work for me then it would be in the first place since they ALWAYS mess something up. I charge them more then.
* X = whatever it is that's not working.
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No buddy I also have a bad PC specs are
3 GHz core i3 overclocked by multiplier trick to 3.5 GHz
4 Gb ddr3 ram
And 512 Mb pre installed graphics card
Now that's pretty bad only good part is fast hardisk I get 70 MB/s normally while cut/copy/paste
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063_XOBX said:
To put in a Live CD and let Windows installer do everything?I gotta get into that racket.
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and how much do you pay for a doctor's visit for a cough & cold?
that is the real racket.
This is peanuts.

Apple itunes

Im writing this post because I think im being drawn to apple. I love all the features of android and rooting and all that good nerdy stuff, but music for me is huge. I think whether a lot of us want to agree on this or not, but itunes is beating google play. Googles music is not very user friendly when buying music and downloading it. You are only given 3 times to download a song from the web, and for unlimited downloading of the song you nust download your entire library with it. As for google match, it only STREAMS 320 kbs. You can't download a higher bit rate song that's been matched. Which is a big downside I don't hear anyone talking about. For itunes, you pay 25 dollars I think but at least you can download the higher bit rate. Plus, they're program for mac and windows is super easy. I think a lot of people who have android still use itunes because of this.
When I went to an apple store (against my will) I just glanced at their iphone 5 to mock it as many of us would've. When I was going through the music, I noticed it sounded and looked much better on it. Now, granted they were probably a higher bit rate, it still irritated me. I think google should get a program that can edit music and match with DOWNLOADS, because if not im afraid im going to have to go to apple. The simplicity of the music outweighs my love for android. As soon as you connect your iphone to the computer, it automatically syncs your library with itunes. No duplicates or any of that, no installing isync and spending so many unnecessary hours...ugh. Just thought I'd say what was on a lot of minds and get some outside opinion.
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There's already a thread discussing this very topic. Continue the conversation there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154053

IR Blaster uses

So while I was sitting at school eating lunch with my friends, an idea popped into my head. We just got a brand new high school and they where installing Samsung flatscreen tvs. They plugged one in and I figured I would try to turn it on using the IR Blaster. Turns out the first code worked using the HTC stock remote app.
My friends and I died laughing, so I set it to French and changed a few other settings.
Some of you may say that this is childish but it's hilarious.
With this app: *Link Removed* You can control projectors and freeze frame them so the teacher gets extremely frustrated.
For more practical uses, I would recommend the stock HTC app as it works great for sound systems and TVs.
I would like to dedicate this thread so people can share their uses of the IR Blaster (comical or practical)

You guys...have....Samsung...tv's?!?!?
All we have are promethean boards which are basically just fancy chalkboards
My sister uses her One to change the channel on the t.v. whenever we go out to a restaurant.

CNexus said:
You guys...have....Samsung...tv's?!?!?
All we have are promethean boards which are basically just fancy chalkboards
My sister uses her One to change the channel on the t.v. whenever we go out to a restaurant.
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^^^ Good use
Yeah we have like 20 Samsung flatscreens, every classroom has a projector for various uses, and with the projectors there are special pens that you can control the computer from the projected screen, 2 Mac computer labs, and 4 regular computer labs. And there's 2 exactly the same new highschools one north and one south of town
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Lol it was the same at my middle school and highschool. My elementary school now has iPads in ever classroom. I'm like wtf. But I LOVE using the it blaster to mess with people! It also comes in handy if I'm at a party and want to turn up or down the volume
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Pff, we had the big box tvs with a ****ty vcr wheeled in when we needed video, and overhead projectors if the teacher hated chalkboards. Couldn't control them with our beepers either.
Old school, *****es!

rank78 said:
Pff, we had the big box tvs with a ****ty vcr wheeled in when we needed video, and overhead projectors if the teacher hated chalkboards. Couldn't control them with our beepers either.
Old school, *****es!
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Lol those were my days 2.

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Boom. Right here. And in my high school, if you had a beeper, the teachers all thought you were dealing drugs. Mine looked like this:
But I digress from the OP. I use my ir blaster when my children lose the remotes (which it seems they do daily... i don't get it)

Lmao! These were my days too. It sucked when another class beat us to the TV, and we'd miss out on movie day.
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Lol

My teacher was making us take notes from a PowerPoint but every time they turned on the projector, I turned it off.
Long story short they ended up calling tech support (the library staff). All tech support did was walk in to the classroom and turn on the projector. Poof it magically worked because I didn't turn it off.
Too funny

If I was your teacher and you were dicking around on your phone during a lecture I would throw it at the wall and tell you to put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.

I love going to bars and restaurants and changing the DirecTV boxes to like Spongbob when a game is on. People get so pissed.
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Seems like it was removed from the play store
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msimindlessmsi2 said:
Seems like it was removed from the play store
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It was removed from the playstore. You have to just download the .Apk
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When it was in the Play Store, was it a paid app? I don't wanna steal anything..
Also, any idea why it got removed? Weird. I've been searching for a decent remote app for as long as I've had my One. The stock one is good, but it doesn't work with all of my devices (eg, my bluray player and dvr)
I could be doing something wrong though.

nate234 said:
When it was in the Play Store, was it a paid app? I don't wanna steal anything..
Also, any idea why it got removed? Weird. I've been searching for a decent remote app for as long as I've had my One. The stock one is good, but it doesn't work with all of my devices (eg, my bluray player and dvr)
I could be doing something wrong though.
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So I probably should have done some more research on that app. Looks like it was $10 on the Google play. I have removed the link to it
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kiewee3 said:
So I probably should have done some more research on that app. Looks like it was $10 on the Google play. I have removed the link to it
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I'm not a real legalistic guy, and I'm sorry for raining on the parade here but I don't like discrediting a hard working developer.
Also, we have TVs at my school too.... But mine's a smaller school so I'd probably get caught more easily.

nate234 said:
I'm not a real legalistic guy, and I'm sorry for raining on the parade here but I don't like discrediting a hard working developer.
Also, we have TVs at my school too.... But mine's a smaller school so I'd probably get caught more easily.
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That's alright I like to support the developers too (and comply with XDA rules). I would still recommend the app if someone knows where to get it
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kiewee3 said:
So while I was sitting at school eating lunch with my friends, an idea popped into my head. We just got a brand new high school and they where installing Samsung flatscreen tvs. They plugged one in and I figured I would try to turn it on using the IR Blaster. Turns out the first code worked using the HTC stock remote app.
My friends and I died laughing, so I set it to French and changed a few other settings.
Some of you may say that this is childish but it's hilarious.
With this app: *Link Removed* You can control projectors and freeze frame them so the teacher gets extremely frustrated.
For more practical uses, I would recommend the stock HTC app as it works great for sound systems and TVs.
I would like to dedicate this thread so people can share their uses of the IR Blaster (comical or practical)
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Might I ask what the app name is to control the projector? In case it ever comes back on the play store or anything, I could definitely get use from it.

Dslrocks10 said:
Might I ask what the app name is to control the projector? In case it ever comes back on the play store or anything, I could definitely get use from it.
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It's called smart IR remote for HTC One. It's specific to the One
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