>
New Topic
>
Reply<
Esato Forum Index
>
Sony Ericsson / Sony >
General
> Official Sony Ericsson w910 discussion
Bookmark topic
the second davinci flash on this seems to have sorted out the activity menu problem. mine would stop working if I used the media player for 20 minutes or more. Used it for more than that today, the activity menu didn't die, so maybe that was a problem with the first davinci flash and not the firmware.
So this thing may end up being as reliable as my K series handsets.
The media player is working now, it's updating fine, but it's still slow. The performance is fine, it's just slow to display thumbnails and the names in long lists of songs.
a suggestion on how to get the most out of the media player
Pictures: for quick picture viewing go into file manager.
Otherwise, if you want to have galleries of slideshows and the use of auto-rotate (which doesn't work in file manager), then the only way to do it is to tag photos. You create your own tags and assign them to pictures, then go into "favorites" to view all the files under a particular tag. So it's basically like playlists but for pictures. You need to view a picture in "Latest Photo" or "Cam Album" to add tags (you won't be able to add tags if viewing pictures through the "Pictures" menu). You can add a tag while viewing a picture by pressing down on the dpad.
Music: The media player is a bit slow if you have hundreds of songs and artists, so using playlists means you only have to scroll through a relatively small selection rather than a massive list of tracks or artists. I organise files into folders that match the way I like to listen to music. I then create playlists with the same name as the folders and add the whole folder to the playlist. I still miss the feature of early SE media players - the option to browse tracks by folder.
Video: there is no way to group large collections of videos into smaller manageable groups. So the easiest way to watch videos (if you have many of them) is to put them in folders and browse through file manager when you want to watch them. You lose auto-rotate, but it's only two key presses to manually enable landscape mode (and one press to exit landscape mode).
The main thing is to avoid as much as possible having to browse large lists of thumbnails or long lists of song names. This minimises the worst slowness of the media player.
_________________
Tricks and Tricks for K800 File System Tweaks for K750[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2008-09-12 15:42 ]
--
Posted: 2008-09-12 16:40:12
Edit :
Quote
^^
that's exactly how i manage my files. one must always remember that this is a phone and not some computer with a quad core processor and 4GB of RAM
--
Posted: 2008-09-13 04:14:36
Edit :
Quote
After read the @max_wedge’s reply, I’m agree with him, file manager is far better than the Media manager to handles various types files.
The million dollar question is: Why they invent the Media manager then? Is it only for getting headache?
--
Posted: 2008-09-13 11:31:22
Edit :
Quote
@max hey mate which FW are u currently on?
i thought my media player runs quite quick. of course this is my first walkman phone so i can hardly compare lol.
and in addition to ur tips i used mp3tag to remove all my album art makes browsing much quicker.
i hav over 500 songs e-aac format on FA035 n it runs perfect
--
Posted: 2008-09-15 14:05:07
Edit :
Quote
as I said it's only in displaying long list that it's slow. For example the picture viewer takes a good few seconds to display thumbnails. When you are trying to scroll through 800 odd images that's a problem.
Also I have 1500 odd songs, and if I go into the list of tracks, it takes a few seconds for names to start appearing instead of the track number. However if I just go into media player, into music then into playlists and open up a playlist with only 30-50 songs in it, then it's not slow at all.
It's only when displaying a big long list of stuff.
That's why I say use filemanager for pictures and videos, and playlists for music.
btw, I have the lastest firmware (r1fa035), and debranded.
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 09:44:06
Edit :
Quote
korbindallis Posts: > 500
any one posted pics of the new colours of the W910
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 09:53:40
Edit :
Quote
what are the new colours?
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 14:21:03
Edit :
Quote
@max_wedge
Lipstick Pink and Prime Silver
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 14:57:53
Edit :
Quote
Not bad.
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 16:45:29
Edit :
Quote
Could you please tell me how stable this phone is with the new firmware?
--
Posted: 2008-09-16 20:25:15
Edit :
Quote
New Topic
Reply
