Compressing for the Palm Pre

I was wondering if anyone knew what was the optimum codec to use for the Palm Pre. Is it basically an iPhone?

It uses H.264 so the iPhone presets should work on it.
More info here:
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/183615-video-file-formats.html

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Flash for the Palm Pre

Now that flash is on general release where do I go to download the Palm Pre version?

It seems any post or forum that Adobe doesn't like gets "frozen" out when discussing Flash for the Palm Pre. The missing Palm Pre Flash and the "shift of blame" by Adobe to Palm has been a common theme (see http://forums.adobe.com/message/2748422#2748422 as an example) is becoming tiresome.
Yet if you ask Palm they tell you its nothing to do with them, why would it be? That is such a silly dead-end statement that I suspect Adobe are far to embarrassed by what's actually happened. If they want to prove me wrong then how about they release the flash to me rather than Palm? LOL now, there's a novel idea!
I suspect this has something to do the popular rise of Android, an operating system for mobiles that was still in design when webOS for Palm Pre was already established. It appears, and no one denies, that the demo on the Palm Pre, you know the one, the one that made us all go out and get the Palm instead of the iPhone, was an iphoney.
We have been duped.
While much of the web relies on Adobe technology at the moment the end of their business cycle is in site, not just HTML 5, but sentiment in general. The lack of respect, clarity, accountability and honesty in the main to blame.

The wall adapter for the palm pre charger

can the wall adapter for charging the palm pre also be used with an ipod touch charge cord? both are usb ends that can plug into the wall adapter

Standard warning label caveat: You CAN use these chargers interchangeably as long as both devices use micro USB technology, and not mini USB. (Basically don't force the charger in the charging port.) However, it is recommended that you only use chargers and equipment designed for and that came with your device.

Can you set a ringtone for the palm pre text messages...Please help!!!!

I use to have a centro and you were able to set a special tone for you to identify if that was a text msg or a call coming through. Can you do this with the Palm Pre because I can;t find it?
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)
Message Edited by palmbirduser on 06-07-2009 12:14 PM

Where do I need to make noise to? I have had nothing but problems with this thing. From waiting on activation over a 2 day period, to having to manually cut and copy my phone numbers from a csv file, that best buy told me would work without a glitch, into my google account. Now after 4 days I am more comfortable with the phone but am finding out how many things are problems.
*wireless printing
*sync way too many contacts from unneeded accounts
*lack of accessories and applications
*poor battery- even sitting overnight lost 1/2 its battery
*message tone - singular, unloud, not even audible while in a car
*I cant find any way to select text while typing, have to tap, delete, retype. but cant cut, copy and paste. No way to select stuff.
I know its a whole new OS, a brand new phone. But come on palm. Do more quality control and TESTING. Not just with geeks, give more to a bigger diversity of customers. Why sprint didnt pre release to exsisting customers to try out in comparison to their currently useless handsets, is unknown. But someone needed to chime in about TINY little things, like changing the message tone! That eventually will bring the rating and functionality of the handset and get a big thumbs down from users.
Message Edited by tlbeveridge on 06-09-2009 12:14 PM

A Stylus Maybe for the Palm Pre...?

I don't suffer from fat fingers, but maybe and accessory stylus could be fashioned. Maybe a new back plate with integrated stylus could be sold for current Pres or included in future ones. A nice weighty, metal stylus; no light weight plastic stylus please.
I wouldn't mind the extra bump for a stylus if I find my self doing a lot of web surfing or document editing in a pinch.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

mhemmes wrote:
It's the screen technology itself. It's capacitive which means when your finger touches the screen your finger holds a charge given out by the screen, then the screen processor / CPU calculates exactly where your finger is touching. This technology allows for the multiple simultaneous touches that we see today on the iPhone and Pre, like the pinch and zoom gesture.
The screens that we're used to are actually LCD's (or similar technology) with an array of wires layed out horizontally and vertically over the LCD making a grid. When any object comes and presses on the grid, it makes contact with one or more wires on each of the vertical and horizontal layout, causing electrical resistance that the CPU can then calculate to get your tap location. Because the grid is making up the screen circuit it can't determine multiple screen locations at the same time (like when you press one location on your laptops touchpad, then another at the same time, your mouse moves as if you slid your finger across the pad).
So for a stylus, it will need to be able to hold a charge like your finger, as opposed to the plastic tip found on most styli (not sure right now how to pluralize stylus LoL).
Well, that clears up my vague understanding of these screens, thanks. Now, another person who knows more than me can make a stylus that holds a charge; after all, I can get a baloon to hold a charge and bend a stream of water (I refuse to rub a stylus on my head every time I want to tap the screen). Where's Tesla when I need him?

How Do I save a ringtone I got in a text message? (for the palm pre plus)

title says it all.
Thank you.

I'd like to know this too. As it is, I don't see a way to get ringtones at all. I had to upload entire songs to get and save them in my ringtones in order to set a ringtone to certain contacts and even then it plays the entire song.

Updates for the palm

Does anyone know when the next update for the palm pre will be out and if so will it be fully functioning with exchange?
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

jados1ms wrote:
Why is palm so slow in getting everything configured correctly so the pre works with exchange?
So slow? Sorry you feel this way. Most folks feel 3 updates in month's time is pretty good for a brand-new device with a brand-new OS...
I'm guessing the issue is a bit more complicated than just changing a few bytes of code... Update 1.1 is on it's way, and is rumored to have EAS fixes in it.
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SSL Cert Setup on the Palm Pre

I am having issues setting up my companies email on the Palm Pre. We use an SSL cert and for some reason I get Certificate Error. Is the time and date wrong. I looked at many blogs with other people having this issue and they say a root cert needs to be put on the phone. The only way it says to do this is to install the Microsoft Certificate Authority and then generate the cert that way.
Well, the issues that I am having is I have been generating my cert using the new-exchangecertificate -domainnames mydomain.domain.com, and I do multiples dns names. This cert works fine on all my computers and all other cell phones. When I put it on the pre I get the error above. I read that this is an IIS root cert and the palm does not allow this. I then installed the Certificate Authority and generated a cert and the pre worked fine, the only issue is the cert broke the rest of my external users connections. I need the cert to have dns resolution addresses in it. I found out how to get the Certificate Authority to have san:dns= domain.domain.com names. But when I generate this cert and put it as my primary cert it then brakes the palm and my other systems.
How can I get the Certificate Authority to give me a cert with all the DNS names I need and work on the palm and all my other systems.
Any help is great and thanks in advance.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

We keep any type of updates very close to us. So close in fact that I do not know and only the developers know about this. But if you feel that this should be included there is a feedback link at the bottom of my post click on that and leave the feedback

Can the Palm pre...

Is there an app where I can record my voice and then set it to my ringtone? My friends phone does it and I think that would be fun to do. I doubt the palm pre can do it because it cant do all the simple things.
Is there a way to SAVE sound txt messages? my friend sent me a voice message but I could only play it I couldnt save it.
Can we set txt tones yet? In the past I read that the palm pre couldnt...
My friend tried to send me the message over blutooth.. he found my device. entered code 0000 for both phones but it said it failed... but yet thats how he got all of his songs on his phone from a different person.
his phone is just a cheapy prepared to the PRE so I better be able to do these simple things!!
thanks.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Text alerts can now with 1.3.1 os have assigned tones. From the messaging app, click the drop down menu at top left and choose preferences. They can be assigned there under ringtone. This does not change your call ringtone, just for text alerts.

Does the Palm PRE support Subscription MP3 files such as Napster to Go or Rhapsody to Go?

Does the Palm PRE support Subscription MP3 files such as Napster to Go or Rhapsody to Go?
I know the Palm Centro (my current phone) does, however I just wonder that with the Amazon MP3 store so integrated with the PRE that Palm/Sprint might not allow subscription MP3 because it may take away from Amazon MP3 sales. PLEASEEEEEEEEE does anyone have a solid confirmation that the PRE will support Napster to go??
Post relates to: Centro (Sprint)
Post relates to: Centro (Sprint)

We don't know yet. The device has not been released.
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HD video compressed for the web

I was doing some testing trying to figure out the best way to compress the HD video I get from the Sony XDCAM HD for the web (streaming). I shoot in HD (1080/30P) because it's needed for our videos. The web streaming is secondary.
I would prefer to make the web videos .flv because it works best and most easily cross-platform. In the real world, the majority of users have Windows PCs, which made me hesitant to use h.264 (.m4v) because it probably would require the average user to download things they may not wan to. Nonetheless, it has to be viewable on all computers in all browers.
So, I took three 10 second clips of steady camera video with audio from the camera that I used in all tests. I will refer to them by clip number...
Clip 1: 30P 16:9 High quality, 10sec=45mb
Clip 2: 30P 16:9 Low Quality, 10sec=24mb
Clip 3: 60i 16:9 High Quality, 10sec=45mb
First I tested making FLV is Adobe CS3 Encoder using the High Quality (700) setting.
Test 1 used size 848x480 (16:9)
Clip 1: 1.3mb
Clip 2: 1.1mb
Clip 3: 1.2mb
Comments: Looked very crisp, audio was clean, slightly darker image than original on default settings
Test 2 used size 480x270 (16:9)
Clip 1: 1.2mb
Clip 2: 1.1mb
Clip 3: 1.1mb
Comments: Looked very crisp, audio was clean, slightly darker image than original on default settings
Next, I tested making .m4v using the h.264 iPod settings in Compressor.
Test 1 used size 640x370.
Clip 1: 240kb
Clip 2: 1440kb
Clip 3: 204kb
Comments: Image wasn't quite as clean as the Flash files, but still good. Much lighter/brighter than the Flash files also. Low Quality HD video had high file size... why? I don't know, but I don't shoot on LQ for things anyway.
Test 2 used size 320x180.
Clip 1: 160kb
Clip 2: 865kb
Clip 3: 865kb
Comments: Image wasn't quite as clean as the Flash files, but still good. Much lighter/brighter than the Flash files also. Low Quality HD video had high file size... also the 60i file...why? I don't know.
In conclusion, I'm lucky that I shoot 30P since it worked well in all areas. The h264 codec provides a much smaller file size than Flash, with a good image. Amazing considering we started with a 45MB clip. What are the standards for aspect ratios for putting 16:9 video on the web? I haven't heard much set in stone like you have for 4:3 video. Nonetheless, the 640x360 or 480x270 seem to be a nice size for most uses.
I have heard that in Flash 9 you can chance the m4v extension to flv and it will work. IF that is true, that would be great because now my concern is that a base Windows PC cannot play these .m4v images without plugins/codecs. I suppose right now its a tradeoff between smaller file size/less compatibility with h264 or larger file size, great compatibility with Flash.
Any comments or suggestions to help out would be great. I typed this fast so forgive me if I left out any important info.

Hi APPLE27:
One comment from your post that immediately caught my attention was this, "Nonetheless, it has to be viewable on all computers in all browsers."
Unfortunately, it is unrealistic to expect one digital video file to be viewable on "all computers in all browsers" as there are simply too may variations in both hardware and software.
A common approach when offering digital video is to provide two formats to choose from and then within each of those two formats a few versions of the video for different bandwidths.
For example, a web site might offer Video for Windows and QuickTime. For each of these, there would be a low bandwidth Video for Windows file and QuickTime file and a high bandwidth Video for Windows file and QuickTime file (four files total). Of course, there's also Flash Video, Real Video, MPEG1, and so on.
For better or worse, YouTube.com has allowed video content creators the realistic expectation of creating a digital video file that is viewable on "most computers". But, the video is unavoidably tied to that web site.
When it comes to online distribution of video, it's still very open ended.
Also, computers are not all that's out there. Mobile devices are a huge market and you'd be hard pressed to create a single digital video file that will play on all mobile devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Treo, Sony PSP, etc.) either from local storage or from a mobile browser.
QuickTime offers a solution for creating a referencing movie - one file that links to other digital video files, but it too is imperfect at best when it comes to reaching the broadest audience possible.
With my few comments here, I'm just scratching the surface. But, it all starts where you are right now: caring about the image quality when exporting from your edited master.
-Warren

1.4 slow down the palm pre?

I have seen a lot of slow down with my palm pre after the 1.4 update. The phone feels heavy, feels like its run slower, not as responsive as before, battery life is not logger it is sorter also all loading that the apps do now. Has this happen to you have you seen/feel like its slower?
I also have tried to reset it but it still feel the same. Palm may have made some errors with this update.

My battery life really stabilized and increased enough to get me through a work day after the last update. All my apps were running great and I was happy. I really, really wish I could undo 1.4!
Everything is slower to open, slow to respond to touch/swipes. Mine locked up while opening an app and rebooted itself last night. Later last night, I check my alarm settings for the morning (4 in total) before going to bed. They disappeared during the middle of the night! Luckily, I woke myself up in time for work.
I'd love it if they'd push some patches through soon, or allow you to roll back. I'd love to have the video and flash, but not at the cost of all these other glitches.

The Capabilities of the Palm Pre Camera...photos inside

All I can say is WOW. Palm nailed it with this camera. I can't get over its amazing all around performance. If somebody showed me these pics and told me they took them with a phone (smartphone or not), I would have a hard time believing it. Personally, I this is the best phone camera I have seen. Besides the 3megapixels, I'm not sure of the rest of the specs, but quite frankly I don't care as long as its taking these types of pictures. See for yourself.....
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Very nice photos mannetti21!! It's nice to hear some praise for the device.
Thanks for the contribution. Wow, I haven't seen a Horseshoe Crab since I was a lad in NJ...
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Re: Bluetooth Related Issues with Car kits regarding the Palm Pre Post 1.2.1

Make/Model: Nissan Maxima
Year: 2007
Carkit Model info (Manufacturer, firmware version, etc): OEM with Nav
Details of problem: (e.g. pairing drops, static on the line, buttons mapped incorrectly, etc)
Since updating to webOS 1.3.5, the connect and disconnect problems have mostly gone away! Thank you Palm!
One minor complaint still with Bluetooth (if you are listening Palm): The Nissan OEM kit supports up to 4 phones. I paired my wife and kid's phones to the car, including my Pre. When any other family member is in the car with me with their phone (non-Pre), my Pre will not connect to the car. Their phones connect just fine even though my phone has been paired to the car to be the "primary" phone. Only when I am by myself in the car will the Pre Bluetooth connect/disconnect work flawlessly. Thanks again for getting us this far!
webOS version: 1.3.5

We are trying to collect data for all customers that are having issues related to pairing their Palm Pre to car kits, however this data is spread among tons of threads and many different boards. To resolve this we would like to consolidate this list down to one board and tell you up front what information we need.
If you are having issues around using Bluetooth with your Car Kit please post the information in this thread.
Please also use this template so it is easiest for us to extract this data
Make/Model:
Year:
Carkit Model info (Manufacturer, firmware version, etc):
Details of problem: (e.g. pairing drops, static on the line, buttons mapped incorrectly, etc)
webOS version:
Included in compatibility list:
To find out if your carkit is listed on Palm's compatibility chart see here
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/50373_en.html
Further information:
Please remove all previous pairing from both devices and carkits before deeming it an "issue." We attempt to diagnose and identify all issues, however some issues are simply resolved by removing pairing from both the device and the carkit and then resetting the connection back up.
It may be important to check back regularly. If it becomes an issue that we would like to diagnose further we may ask for help from the community by contributing log files from the device.
You may receive a PM from me or another Palm employee asking for this information (we can be identified by orange logo's next to the name).
Message Edited by HardBeatZ on 01-19-2010 02:36 PM

New Palm Profile for Used Palm Pre

Hi,
I bought a second-hand Palm Pre (Movistar, ES) and now want to establish a new Palm Profile so I can use the phone in Australia (Optus, AU).
How do I set up a new Palm Profile on this phone ?
It is currently running WebOS 1.4
Thanks,
Nick
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Hi,
I wiped the device and started from scratch and couldn't get past the Insert SIM etc screen.
When I restarted the device, it then locked in Seting Language.
I have now gone back to WebOS 1.3.5.2 using a Meta-Doctor hack, and can run the device, use phone etc.
When I ran the First Use App, it asked for my language then did a reboot, and still not Palm Profile.
Is there a Palm website where I can set up a profile, and the use my ESN to get Palm to send the info to my phone ?
I also tried using root-based program to force a profile creation:
luna-send -n 1 palm://com.palm.accountservices/createNovaAccount {\"password\":\"YOURPASSWORD\",\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"firstName\":\"YOURFIRSTNAME\",\"lastName\":\"YOURLASTNAME\",\"language\":\"en\",\"country\":\"gb\",\"questionId\":\"2\",\"response\":\"FIRSTCAR\"}
This came back with ACCOUNT_CREATION_ERROR "Could not get account server url"
Any help appreciated, as I want to download proper Palm Apps, as well as the Homebrew Apps.
Thanks,
Nick

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