Playing mp3 on a cell phone

hello everybody
i am tempted to develop an mp3 application for my cell phone. i've worked with JMF(Java Media Framework) before. can use that api to develop midp apps?
Please tell me where to start....
Thanks.

use the MMAPI which is available with WTK

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mickyja wrote:
I don't own an Apple device, but I have purchased an audio album from the iTunes store. How can I play this on my android phone, as I am unable to burn the album to mp3 format? Can I obtain a refund if this is not possible? Thanks
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[–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 3 points 1 year ago*
All I can think is your phone may have background downloaded an OTA update, and you'd then be prompted with something like, "As update to your Android system has been downloaded, would you like to install it now?"
I do find it very odd that the update would be 2.6GB. As a rough base, the CyanogenMod 10.1 firmware for your device is well under 200MB, so unless Verizon has a ****-ton of bloatware in the update, or it had to attempt to download multiple times for some reason, it may be a stretch.
But doing a little homework, it looks like the Verizon Razr Maxx was updated to 4.1 in late March. Maybe they're still rolling it out in waves? Have you gotten the update yet?
Edit: Aaaand I just noticed you appear to be running an AOSP-based ROM, which totally rules out a carrier update being sent out.
Edit2: If you want to live dangerously, you could try running:
#kill -9 12289
That 12289 is the PID listed in your screenshot. But don't run that without fulling understanding the kill command.
The ps command could also be of use, but probably not.
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[–]lechnito[S] 2 points 1 year ago
I can confirm that the phone is currently at 4.1.2 and that I wasn't prompted for an OTA update.The fact that both the Android OS and Reddit News processes were simultaneously using an extremely large amount of data is unlikely to be a coincidence...
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[–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 3 points 1 year ago
That is very curious that the spikes happened at the same time.I'm curious. It may have put at least some of that 2.6GB somewhere. You could use a data visualizer tool to see if you can find it, which may lead to more clues.
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[–]lechnito[S] 2 points 1 year ago
The largest directories are:
DCIM: Normal looking photos (90,825 KB)
Android: Primarily map cache data (64,846 KB)
If it was downloading content then it did not significantly save content to storage. It's not like I have anything particularly sensitive on the phone, but the idea that it was uploading a snapshot of my data definitely makes me uncomfortable.
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[–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
Yup, Digital Camera IMages and videos.Somewhere in /sdcard/Android would be my guess as to where a mysterious file would be downloaded, but if it's only 64MB, and mostly map data, I'd safely rule it out.I'm sorry, but I'm stumped here.Edit: I should mention I don't think this is malware, because unless a malicious app gained superuser access, any data it used would show under it's own apk in the data usage list, not Android OS.
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[–]mistrbrownstone 0 points 1 year ago
DCIM: Normal looking photos (90,825 KB)
Was it trying to auto-upload pictures or video to G+?I ******* hate that.
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[–]lechnito[S] 1 point 1 year ago
Although I'm not really up to speed with the Android platform, I come from a UNIX background so I feel comfortable running commands. How do I pull up a bash terminal? Do I need to root the phone first?
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[–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
There's a number of terminal emulators in the Play Store that work well. You don't need a rooted phone to get to the shell as your user, but any privileged command won't execute unless you can grant it permission from the Superuser app that is installed when you root the device. So you could probably do a ps -e, but not a kill -9.
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[–]lechnito[S] 1 point 1 year ago
Got it. I downloaded a terminal emulator but unfortunately those processes no longer exist.Does Android keep a generic log of system level events like /var/log/syslog?
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[–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
I don't think so, and I know you'd need superuser permission to read most of the files in /var/log anyway. I'm not super familiar with how Android does its logging, but I do know that the two files of interest are the logcat and dmesg.
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[–]sh0nuff 1 point 1 year ago
Want to mention here that using your settings to set your data cap (set it on your billing day), then you won't go over again.Those text messages are really unhelpful, as they send out well after the data has been used. Chances are good you hit close to the 2GB mark before you received the bulk of the messages.
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[–]kindofabuzz -4 points 1 year ago
Quit installing pirated apps.
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[–]lechnito[S] 1 point 1 year ago
That's definitely not the case here; both my PC and and Android phone are free from pirated apps.

You used the data. Verizon can not see what it was sued for. However your phone can see whats apps used the data. go to settings-data usage- there will be a place that says data usage cycle. line the dates up with your cycle. then there will be a bar graph below that extend bother white bars one all the way to the left and one all the way to the right. after those are extended below that will be a list of apps, there should be one that used over 2 gb and that will show you what app used that data in her purse

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Charles Williams8 wrote:
I use a microSD to play mp3s on my LG chocolate (I know... i'll get an iPhone one day!).
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Anyone?

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Always interesting isn't it :)
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/2x/user_mac_cmbe/guide/6xcucmbemac040.html#wp1132107
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fits in my purse and pocket
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stereo microphones
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durability..... seen too many cracked Apple screens. Takes a lot of punishment without needing a THICK "bumper"
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We have found tremendous adoption success with using the "Subscribe Others" feature in collab. Naturally this concept rubs many folks the wrong way because often the end users don't know why they are getting these emails or what they are expected to do with them.
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There is still one issue that I am trying to resolve: Within the HTML template, is it possible to identify HTML enabled email readers?
For example, I use a Blackberry 7250 which displays email in plaintext - when I get Collab emails they are LOADED with links to images and to the collab projects, and its frustrating to have to scroll through everything to find the meaningful stuff.
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Any suggestions?
Also, if anyone is curious about how to adjust these templates feel free to ask here or email me at [email protected] and I can forward my basic manipulations.

It turns out that there is a content type called "multipart/alternative" which can be used in cases like this.
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In looking at the notification templates, there are 2 for each "event". One for HTML and the other for plain text but I assume this is dependent upon the user Account Setting HTML/Plain Text and not fed into a higher level template which is set for multipart/alternative, although I have a help desk ticket setup for clarification on this issue.
I played around with these content types and each time I crashed my notification service with a java.lang.NullPointerException.
I'm closer to giving up on this after reading the following paragraph:
"If email programs can recognize multipart/alternative content, they can probably also recognize HTML content.
If they can't read HTML, they probably can't read multipart content either, which means you're going to run into the same problems with sending HTML to folks with email programs who can't understand it.
For recipients who can read the HTML, you're sending along an extra large message with the text included for no reason." http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/html-email-multi.htm
Joel Collins wrote:
1) you know users can select html or plain text notifications right? Its under my account.Right, but we want the email to determine it dynamically since our company uses Outlook we'd want them to get HTML when they are a desk, and plain text when they are on their cell phones.
Joel Collins wrote:
2) Would an easy solution be to just put the content of the email at the top and the links at the bottom?Definitely! I've already removed all of the images and some of the redundant links, and am trying to design a layout to add the remaining links either in a column right aligned or at the bottom.
Joel Collins wrote:
3) I think that detecting html or plain text reader may be hard / impossible.Yar, I think I'm 9/10 of the way to giving up on this:)

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