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    Thread [Android 4.1+] Aerial TV - DVB-T/T2 with RTL2832

    Description Aerial TV brings DVB-T and DVB-T2 to Android using the cheap RTL2832 dongles. No root required. If you already own an RTL-SDR dongle with the RTL2832 frontend then you are ready to go. Just plug it in with USB OTG cable and follow the on-screen instructions. These dongles are easy...
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    Thread [APP][2.3+] SDR Touch - Live radio on your Android device

    _-0-HjSg_r4 Listen to live FM broadcasts on devices that don't have a built-in FM radio! Description SDR Touch turns your mobile phone or tablet into a cheap and portable software defined radio scanner. Allows you to listen to live on air FM radio stations, weather reports, police, fire...
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    Thread DVB-T dongle running on Nexus 7

    Note: The information below is quite dated. If you are interested in watching TV on Android without root with the RTL-SDR dongles check out Aerial TV on XDA. -------- CK2Qghpf7bA Ok guys, I am proud to announce that I was able to run a DVB-T tuner on my Nexus 7 :) If your kernel is...
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    Thread Kernel headers and modules

    Where can I get the stock kernel headers from so I could compile a kernel module for the Nexus 7? Thanks !
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    Thread dvb-t tuner & other usb devices

    OK, can somebody guide me where to start from to pull this off. How am I supposed to compile a kernel module for the Nexus 7? Can I use a rooted stock ROM? Cheers!
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    Thread Record system audio (undocumented API)

    After a lot of browsing through the source code of Android I was unable to find any methods that would allow recording from the system audio output. Only recording from the MIC is available. So do you have any ideas (maybe via NDK) how to make recording possible from other sources (system out...
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    Thread TimingAdvance of a GSM cell?

    I couldn't find any documentation describing how to get the TA of the current GSM cell. Do you think it is possible? Is there any way to get that value? (In case you don't know TA is the time needed for the signal to travel from the phone to the base station and it can be used to accurately...
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    Thread [Q] Streaming video player?

    Hi there :) Basically I need a streaming video player for Android that supports lots of video formats. The functionality I need is to be able to add URLs of streaming media files to the app to be played. I know video playback is a problematic topic for Android users - it was much simpler on WM...
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    Thread "mediaserver" eats up my CPU

    Hi there. I'm running the OTA FroYo, I've never rooted my phone and never probably will :) I didn't have any problems with it so far. I've made numerous 720p recordings without problems but this morning when I pressed record the app froze - all labels and icons disappeared and only the camera...
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    Thread Why would you need to root your FroYo?

    We finally got Apps2SD, we've got 720p video recording and we have wifi tethering. So just out of curiosity - why people still want to root their phones? (I think we should leave the custom ROMs case)
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    Thread Custom keyboard layout?

    Having an international keyboard layouts is great but apparently there are few languages missing :D I guess HTC also thought about that. Is there any way to make a custom keyboard layout (for a different language)? I couldn't find any specifications. I know there are lots of custom keyboards...
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    Thread Speed improvements from Eclair to Froyo

    I think it's a good idea to have a topic for various speed benchmarks for our brand new Froyo update. So how good is the new JIT? Here are some tests I've done with the stock ROMs (I've never rooted my phone and never used custom ROMs) HTC Desire running Eclair (Android 2.1) Linpack MFLOPS...
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    Thread Drawing on top of a camera view

    Hi there. I'm making an AR app and I couldn't figure out a way to draw on top of a camera view. I've created a custom SurfaceView class which uses Camera.startPreview and Camera.setPreviewDisplay to draw the real time feed from the camera upon it. Now I'm trying to render something on it. I have...
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    Thread Delayed processing - Handler and a Looper

    I'm in a strange position. Here's my Looper class class LooperThread extends Thread { private int messid = 0; private boolean notSatisfied() { //some unimportant code goes here } private String getErrMsg() { //more unimportant code...
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    Thread Loading a framework class which is not in the SDK :)

    Hi there. I need some help :) I'm trying to make a radio app for HTC Desire but as you may know, there's no official API for that. So it's time for some hacking. By decompiling the FM Radio app and the framework.odex into .smali files I was able to find the path to a class that is used to...
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    Thread Decompiling a ROM app

    Hi there. I've just migrated to Android from WinMo and have a few questions. Firstly, where can I find the ROM apks? In which folder are they stored? I'm particularly interested in the HTC Desire's FM Radio app. Is there anyway I can track what commands does it send to the FM Radio device so I...
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    Thread Cell ID

    Hi, can you confirm whether Desire supports Cell ID? The reason I'm asking is because I would like to write an app to use Cell IDs but I still don't have an Android phone. I have bitter experience with Windows Mobile which supports Cell ID only on a handful of handsets. So I have to decide which...
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    Thread Scanning unmanaged memory via C#

    I'm trying to scan the entire memory of the device for a given byte value. I use Marshall.ReadByte to read a byte at a given address and compare it with another byte variable to perform the search. The problem is that when I try scanning the app usually just crashes without even showing an error...
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    Thread RIL's DataPort?

    Can I send AT commands at the RIL's DataPort (which is defined in the registry) and will those commands reach the GSM modem of my device? And if not how can I send AT commands to the modem? (I'm trying to get the CellID as conventional methods don't work)
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    Thread LG KS20 & CellIDs

    I've been trying for quite a long time to make my LG KS20 show me the CellID of the tower it is currently connected to. There are so many applications around the net that claim to do that, but unfortunately all of them just return 0 as current CID. I tried making my own application using the...
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    Thread SOLVED: LG KS20 and Opera Mobile 9.7 issue (video included)

    Hello. I have a LG KS20 running Windows Mobile 6.1. I used Opera Mobile 9.5 for quite a long time and I didn't have any issues with it. Today I upgraded to Opera Mobile 9.7b1 and as soon as it started up, I spotted a problem. The address bar was hiding behind some kind of a rectangle with...
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    Thread [Q] Custom FM radio tuner software? Is this possible?

    Greetings. I would like to ask if it is possible to download a third party application that controls the FM tuner of a WM6 device (in my case LG KS20)? Can you tell me if such application exists? If not is there C++ code that can be used for creating one? Thanks in advance! P.S. The reason I...