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lately my cd-rw/dvd rom (combo- matshita ujda770) has been giving me some problems.
it reads CDs and DVDs perfectly but it has stopped burning discs.
it makes ticking noises when i try to write a disc. it has stopped recognising blank rewritable discs although it recognises blank CDs.
i have tried reducing burn speeds till 4x but still had no luck.
is there any software which can tell me where the problem lies.
nero gives a "track following error"
NTI gives "hardware error"
can any softeare tell me if the lens is ok (i've tried cleaning that too)
please help me! (or just tell me how much does a new dvd-writer costs for a laptop acer aspire 5500z)
thanks a lot!
Delete Upper and Lower Filters
Step 1: Start Registry Editor
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Registry Editor starts.
Step 2: Delete the UpperFilters registry entry
1. In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5. In the right pane (topic area), click UpperFilters.
Note An UpperFilters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete the UpperFilters registry entry, you must click UpperFilters and not UpperFilters.bak.
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7. When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm the deletion of the UpperFilters registry entry:
Are you sure you want to delete this value?
The UpperFilters registry entry is removed from the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} registry subkey.
Note Do not exit Registry Editor. You must have this program for the next step.
Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry
1. In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5. In the right pane (topic area), click LowerFilters.
Note An LowerFilters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete the LowerFilters registry entry, you must click LowerFilters and not LowerFilters.bak.
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7. When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm the deletion of the LowerFilters registry entry:
Are you sure you want to delete this value?
The LowerFilters registry entry is removed from the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} registry subkey.
8. Exit Registry Editor.
Step 4: Restart the computer
If problem persists, remove and re-install your CD Writing software(Nero), if issue is still not resolved, then there can be an issue with the optical drive itself. How old is the drive ?
sorry friend,i did all what u said but still i have the same problem.
my drive is 1 and a half year old.
but i still have doubts because it can read perfectly
btw thanks for ur help.
dumped that cd drive and got a new sony g520a dvd-writer for my laptop today for us$75.
All right mate, even i wuz about to advise you to get the lens changed
even thou laptop optical drives are more expesive then desktop ones
i doubt putting too much efford into fixing one would pay off
there are two lenses on a cd/dvd writer one for reading and one for writing. Just a fact i wanted to share
i think i must have screwed up the "writing" part of the writer!
by the way thanks rohit, rudegar and scousemartin for helping me.
one more thing.
now when i burn dvds using my new writer (using nero)
the buffer level (not on dvd drive but on hard disk) is always less than half utilised whereas the buffer on dvd drive is at 100%
this burner should write a dvd at max 8x but i get a max of about 6x.
is it any problem?
my luck is so screwed up.
today the new sony g520a dvd writer stopped recognizing dvds and is not burning dvds too. although cd read/write is fine.
its been just 3 months and this happened again.
i always write on sony media.
Damn, you have no luck
Reminds me of the days when i decided to stop burning discs altogether, buy 4 Seagate 500Gb hard drives and get them in a raid5 array... I had the same kind of issues you have : readers breaking too often, beloved discs unreadable, important data lost...
Hard drives are way safer (get a raid NAS), and cheaper per Go, and faster... i will never burn discs again i swear.
RAID can b a good option, but it's not always feasible to buy 4 500 GBs of HDDs , that too for a laptop. It's not that its gotta b your hardware (DVD writer) on fault. Can b operating system issue as well.
Uninstall and reinstall your burner application(Sonic, Nero), if you are usin' one. Try system restore, if this thing started lately.
Trust me, small simple things work wonders sometimes. Moreover it's NOT RECOGNIZING issue, check and reinstall the drivers, as well.
Good luck, mate.
My Diamond don't add a space after entering a word (Using the T9)
On Settings > Input > Word Completion I have ticked "add a space after word" without any result
Any idea ???
Try in another application like word or something. Check on another keyboard if possible.
not works in any application and any keyboards.
May be an obvious one but use the space key at the end of a word rather than return.
yes, but if I choose one of the words proposed by t9, the word was inserted without any space after.
My HTC Cruise put the space. My diamond no.
mine too 1.93 rom
i know we have a few applications that allow us to use our phone's screen and keyboard to control our computer, and while it is cool, it's just not something that i have a use for currently. i was wondering if there were any apps that you know of that allow me to have a window on my comp that is my home screen on my phone and control things on the phone from the comp. i hate when i am working on my themes and i get 100 texts and i have to go from using the comp it using the phone and back and forth. WM had several apps like that and i loved them when i was running windows but now i run linux(ubuntu 8.10) and i would love to be able to type texts and run apps on my phone while using the computer keyboard.
i have looked through the market and can't seem to find anything on there and i was hoping someone could point me to one elsewhere or if i missed one on the market. thanks in advance
That would be cool. A VNC Server has already been ported to iPhone, so it's probably not too difficult for someone who knows what they're doing (i.e, not me =P)
It would definitely be great to be able to type text messages and whatnot using the computer's keyboard and screen instead of that tiny little G1 keyboard.
or if there are some commands i can run from adb shell that would work too, all i have been able to figure out how to do is play an mp3 on the phone by typing the command. cool but not what i would like.
alright, for those that care i have figured out how to start an app on the phone by using the adb shell commands, and i can even start to compose a text if i do it correctly
to start the messaging app you need to type in the adb shell(or android terminal but the point is to be able to do it from the comp
adb shell
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.mms/com.android.mms.ui.ConversationList
the above line brings up the conversation list to allow you to choose a list, but i have yet to figure out how to atually pick a convo from that page
to bring up the compose message to start a new text type in the following
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.mms/com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity
from there i can input the number to send the message to but not what i want the text to say,
input text <string> #that inputs a single word and no more after the word text
so if i were to type
'input text hello android' my phone would act as if i had just typed hello, this also works on the home screen to search your contacts. i am working on in[utting more than one word and also choosing your conversation from the comp
Cool! nice progress. Maybe other Android intents can be used...
progress
i know i can start any app by knowing the commands for it now and typing it in. but for right now my main concern is getting a multi word string to appear in the text box. if i can get that then i just need to figure out how to attach "input keyevent 66" to it as well so it runs cleanly. key 66 is the enter key and i figured out several others along the way but i will list them later. i pulled the input file from the /system/bin directory and maybe someone else should have a look at it and figure out how to acheive multi word texts without placing "_" between all the words, cause right now that's where i'm at. i'm attaching the file for the guru's to take a look at. obviously it isn't saved as a .txt file on the phone but that's how i uploaded it to here.
CALLING THE ANDROID GURU'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
Cool. Once you figure out a bunch of commands, I could try making a user interface for it as a project...
just wanna drop this lines here, there is an app from motorola MPT Motorola Phone tools, and it does all that you want and more, the phone can be connected to the pc via USB or Bluetooth... you can send receive msg, phone calls, see and edit contacts, drop images, ringtones browse the files etc
juangil said:
just wanna drop this lines here, there is an app from motorola MPT Motorola Phone tools, and it does all that you want and more, the phone can be connected to the pc via USB or Bluetooth... you can send receive msg, phone calls, see and edit contacts, drop images, ringtones browse the files etc
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Im not sure if you know that your posting in a forum dedicated to the G1/android but MPT supports, as the name would suggest, motorola phones only.
juangil said:
just wanna drop this lines here, there is an app from motorola MPT Motorola Phone tools, and it does all that you want and more, the phone can be connected to the pc via USB or Bluetooth... you can send receive msg, phone calls, see and edit contacts, drop images, ringtones browse the files etc
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does said program work with the G1? i can't imagine moto being nice and making a program that works for everyone else's phone
kp126 said:
Im not sure if you know that your posting in a forum dedicated to the G1/android but MPT supports, as the name would suggest, motorola phones only.
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yeah I know, my bad.. just wanted to put an example of an app (that of course is only for motorola) for any1 wanting to do something like it
i know there's several out there for different phones, but nothing for android. hell i'd be satisfied if i could just have the emulator read from my phone and let me control it that way. right now i don't like what i have to do to send a text
input text hello
input keyevent 62
input text android
input keyevent 66
that is a whole lot of typing for a simple text that says "hello android" and then sends it
would it be possible to write a program that takes what you type and breaks it into one word or one letter segments and runs the proper keyevent for each charecter there?
from what i remember of my programming in java and visual basic from years ago is that it would basically be set to read an input and use a case method to say if $input=="hello" then adb shell input text hello. it would be easier i would assume to just break it down into words and place "adb keyevent 62" between each word to input the spaces, and at the end of the line of input you would have to have the code "input keyevent 66"
i have the keyevent mapped out for each button and such on the phone if anyone is interested. i will see what i can come up with on my own though for now
Hope!
I would <3 who ever release's this in some form or another =)
I could really use an application that lets me use my phone from my computer. Preferably it'd show the desktop of the phone, and allow remote access to all the features.
I don't know if it's possible, but it sounds like some of you are progressing, so I hope for the best.
that is the goal, but right now i think i want to just get a java script written by the end of the week next week that reads the key i press on the computer and inputs it into the phone. so i have a lot of relearning to do since i haven't written javascript in 4 years and even then it was just simple stuff to be run in a console. if someone wants to take whatever i get done and run with it to make a FREE APP then by all means. if i find my work in a paid app then you better hope the US gov't can't find you cause i'll be at your door ready to kick your ass.
i'm not sure how one would go about coding the computer to display the phone desktop, but however it gets done i would prefer it to be written in java so all users of linux, mac, and windows can use it.
alright i have found a program that allows me to display the phone screen on the computer using java *hooray* but it does not switch to landscape when the phone does, and i can't control the phone from the app. it was written so that people could do presentations with the phone instead of using the emulator. the gist of it is described here
http://groups.google.com/group/cw-android/browse_thread/thread/d2dbcabee6bcba1a
i have already emailed the developer asking politely to see the code and for permission to try and run with it to make the ideal app. at this point the only thing i could come up with would be to make a javascript that had a case for each key on the keyboard and when a key is pressed it sends the corresponding command(adb shell input keyevent ##) to the phone. this would work fine to use the arrow keys to control the phone, and i am not sure how to code the mouse into it yet. i will be waiting for a response from the dev hopefully he will give his permission and blessing for us to use the app.
Tubaking182,
Perhaps I could offer some help. Brad Fitz has written a program that injects keys into the Linux input layer. Perhaps the source code to his project can help you. It appears to contain a key code map. Here is the link to his code:
http://github.com/bradfitz/android-misc/blob/master/type.pl
Also, here is a link to his live journal entry regarding his program.
http://brad.livejournal.com/2400054.html
All of this would be wonderful to have with my G1. I wish all involved the best of luck!
the developer of the program i posted gives his blessing but he claims what we are trying to do is impossible without certain firmware. he claims that android does not support remote control. i have already proven it can be done though but you have to use keyvalues instead of the mouse. i don't know much java, but i know i need a case switch that executes adb shell input keyevent when i press a key on the computer. if someone wants to tell me the proper syntax and java command to run a run a command then awesome i can write this up *hopfully* and start testing it.
would it work if i typed it as
int key = evt.getKeyCode();
switch (key){
case 65: run.exec(adb shell input keyevent 29);
break;
what would be the proper way to execute the adb command
tubaking182 said:
the developer of the program i posted gives his blessing but he claims what we are trying to do is impossible without certain firmware. he claims that android does not support remote control. i have already proven it can be done though but you have to use keyvalues instead of the mouse. i don't know much java, but i know i need a case switch that executes adb shell input keyevent when i press a key on the computer. if someone wants to tell me the proper syntax and java command to run a run a command then awesome i can write this up *hopfully* and start testing it.
would it work if i typed it as
int key = evt.getKeyCode();
switch (key){
case 65: run.exec(adb shell input keyevent 29);
break;
what would be the proper way to execute the adb command
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I've been doing Java for about 4 or 5 years now, nothing to fancy, but anyway,
Code:
int key = evt.getKeyCode();
switch (key)
{
case 65:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("adb shell input keyevent 29"); // I dont know if this is what you "run" variable is referring to. and you would need quotes around your command as it takes a String parameter.
break;
For two weeks now, I've been using my tab 8.9 at work for note taking. I've tried a bunch of apps and stylus and wanted to start a thread where we can share experiences.
I'm a lawyer and need to take a fair amount of notes and sometimes mark up documents. So far my favorite is Supernote 1.4 (the Asus app which I found online) for note taking. I generally like the app, but wish it could export notebooks in .doc format or rtf and wish it some greater formatting options. For now, I don't export notes very much and when I do, I combine notes into a single pdf using ConverttoPdF by tabletsoft (paid version). I really liked Evernote too because it has good formatting tools, but I don't want my notes automatically uploaded to the cloud. If Evernote added a feature to turn off automatic uploading, I would definitely try it again.
For writing, I use a Pogo sketch plus and the swype keyboard app. With a little practice, the keyboard is more pretty accurate and typed words are definitely easier to read than my handwriting. The pogo stylus is a little small, but the foam tip moves the smoother than the rubber tipped stylus I've tried. I only hand write when drawing a diagram or sometimes when providing comments to a pdf.
For pdfs, I use EZ pdf reader (from the market) and insert notes usually using a text box. Text box show up easily when I look through thumbnails of the document.
What apps/stylus have other people tried and liked?
I use Handrite free for writing notes unless I can find something better.
Its pretty decent at what it does though. You write however you like and it will shrink it down to a decent size, I do need to get a decent sketch app though.
Do you not find the tab 8.9 screen impossibly unresponsive? I've dabbled in using mine for notes but never got anything like an acceptable result - including that Asus app you mention.
The screen is unresponsive and I usually don't hand write or draw.
I find the screen plenty responsive to use the Swype keyboard. When hand writing or drawing I intentionally move slower than normal and use larger letters.
Jeremy
I can write text all day long about .5 to .75 inches high, printed, with no issues. I use the pogo sketch stylus and have used another cheap rubber tipped on with similar results. SuperNote makes it really easy to capture notes and I've found another called Quill that works pretty nice as well. Landscape gives you more room obviously. The 8.9 touch screen is just as responsive as the iPads (I've tested both) and so you get the same experience (with the same limitations eg. no palm rejection and you need to write kinda larger than you normally would on paper).
Hello and good day, dear XDA Developers forum members!
I have been struggling with this problem for some time and have tried to resolve it myself, but have failed miserably. Anyway, I have installed Linux Deploy from Play Store, an excellent application which automates installation of many Linux distributions on your phone made by a guy called meefik. Everything worked fine. Of course, Linux image file size was automatically calculated by the application so it took quite a lot of free space on my internal SD card. It later proved to be actually reasonable as the desktop environment and everything I installed quite filled those two gigs Linux Deploy allocated. Not quite important for this issue, but... whatever. The real problem I have encountered is the problem of digitizer input. Controlling my phone using x2x through SSH is good enough to eventually resolve some smaller problems or play Dink Smallwood (or freedink, to be exact) just for fun, but it's not quite doable and useful outdoors with no desktop or laptop nearby, so I would like to make Debian somehow recognize digitizer input. Framebuffer output without Android (it is killed by ctl.stop, I guess) and VNC assistance works pretty fine (no HW acceleration, of course, but good enough), just if there is a way to make Debian capture digitizer input, at least in a touchpad-esque way, as I still haven't bought any Bluetooth gear. I tried setting evdev as the driver to recognize digitizer input and /dev/input/event0 as the input device's path in xorg.conf, but no luck. Chroot has access to main Android file system. When cat'ing /dev/input/event0 in terminal it gives output when I tap or swipe on the digitizer, so the actual problem lies in the fact that Linux actually doesn't know to interpret informations that digitizer is sending.
Any ideas? Suggestions? If anything else, do not hesitate to let me know if I made a mistake of some kind (grammar or terminology for example) in my post.
Hooray! Digitizer input finally recognized in Debian! After chatting with pabs* on irc.debian.org I found out that evdev requires ABS_X and ABS_Y coordinates in order to move the cursor successfully around the screen, but as i9000 has a multi-touch digitizer, it sends only ABS_MT_POSITION_X and ABS_MT_POSITION_Y positions** for each finger (as well as an ID for each of them and some other relevant details). Means that evdev isn't quite useful for this purpose. We have a multi-touch digitizer and thus we need a multi-touch driver that will properly interpret our digitizer's input. After browsing through packages in synaptic, I found two seemingly appropriate multi-touch drivers, mtrack and multitouch. As mtrack is a fork of multitouch that (supposedly) brings some improvements when compared to the forkee*** I've chosen to install and set it as the input driver in xorg.conf instead of multitouch. I didn't regret, everything works perfectly! Of course, it still isn't as finger-friendly as Maemo or Android are because it works in touchpad mode, but it's quite a good beginning!
Here's the xorg.conf file (XDA didn't allow me to upload a .conf file as it's an, erm, invalid file) if anyone wants to try this on his i9000!
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "touchscreen" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touchscreen"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
Driver "mtrack"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "fbdev"
Option "fbdev" "/dev/graphics/fb0"
#Option "Rotate" "CW"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
* Who is also the author of this post, quite useful (post, not poster :laugh.
** In order to be properly recognized as a multi-touch input device by Android. ABS_X and ABS_Y are provided only if a single-touch digitizer is installed, see here
*** The one being forked, in this case multitouch. According to Google, it's a valid word, well, kind of.
P.S. I've attached a screenshot of current setup if anyone's wondering how it looks.
P.P.S. Cursor moves awkwardly when Xorg is in landscape mode (as if X and Y axes were swapped) so I commented out the Option "Rotate" "CW" line.
Progress: one step forward, two steps back
Help needed! As I might have mentioned in previous posts, cursor moves weirdly (moving finger to the left moves cursor up, moving to the right moves down, etc.) in landscape mode (i.e. with Option "Rotate" "CW" line under "Device" section uncommented), so I would like to know if there is there any way to swap X and Y axes? There have been some efforts to make X and Y finger coordinates swapped in this thread, but, unfortunately, with no actual result, because mtrack ignores the Rotate and SwapAxes options as if they were not valid for mtrack or just not implemented yet. Of course, I would prefer to have the option of absolute mouse movement (in the manner of what tslib provides) instead of having digitizer input recognized in a touchpad way, but it seems that there is something that should be modified in tslib's source code in order to make it work.
Also, I've tried to install Hildon by wget'ing Squeeze armel .deb packages and installing them through dpkg until all the dependencies were satisfied, but it still seems like there is some more missing packages that ought to be installed... so if you guys have tried installing Hildon on your Android device (not necessarily i9000) please reply here. All suggestions are welcome.
P.S. Feel free to let me know if this thread might be more appropriate in some other (sub)forum.
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P.S. Feel free to let me know if this thread might be more appropriate in some other (sub)forum.
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yup, it would get better attention here and here
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Yeah, it could, but over here (at least I believe) I'm dealing with issues that occur only on i9000 and similar boards. After all, Android Software and Hacking General forum seems like it's more appropriate for finalized works done by people who absolutely (or at least mostly) know what they're doing, not that thingy I'm messing with, and on the other hand, Android General is flooded by various posts mostly related to flashing problems and doubts, interesting offers and similar stuff, so my thread doesn't actually fit in neither of these forums. That thing I'm messing with is an odd duck. I'm trying to address issues that are tightly related with i9000 as well as problems more related to Android-Debian communication through chroot (it's not my primary problem at the moment, but I should look into it someday too), and reincarnating Maemo through chrooted Debian through Hildon Desktop too, but I don't consider myself experienced enough to post in any of the above mentioned categories.
So, to summarize, I don't know. Feel free to convince me if you think I'm wrong.
P.S. It's my 60th post, hooray!