Software/cell towers question

I live in Knoxville, TN and recently went to Tampa, Fl for a short trip. My fascinate worked flawlessly while I was there. So my question is, does the cell towers have anything to do with the software issues on the phone? Like many others, I have experienced poor battery life, can't send or receive text, and missed calls. But the entire time I was there I had not one issue with any of those things, even the battery lasted longer than 12 hours. I currently am still running 2.1 in fear of locking up my phone which is not covered by any warranty since I bought it used. Thanks for your input.

Hi mgayle97! Yes, cell towers can definitely have an impact on phone performance. Cell towers provide access to the network. Their placement, tasking and area topography determine your signal strength (and thus data speeds and battery life). It's possible that your signal was stronger while visiting Tampa because of more outdoor usage, which will always improve service.

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Steve... if you had truly marginal service from ATT ..and know people who had less-marginal service from Verizon, then you'd want to switch for a bird-in-the-hand - today. I would expect in three years, a whiole 'nother service may be available...
I keep a wonderfuly cheap Net10, flip phone in my truck..as a handy 'pay phone'. I have 8,500 minutes accumulated. (a new iP5 and the current iP4 is used by my wife)
... I must add, that I so much hate Verizon because of their crappy service as the former monolopy carrier to both my home and business that I cut the hardwire at both places and would refuse to enter a direct contract with them ever again.
I have Dish Network for Sat. connections for my Macs at home.. an ATT data plan for an iPad ..and Comcast phone and internet at my business. ..but, Verizon's cell tower seems a little closer (or stronger signal) to my home.
Jim
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So here I am - yet another editor disgusted by the release of Final Cut Pro X - exploring Adobe Premiere Pro.
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I know Premiere Pro to be 64 bits but when I render my cores won't go over 35% usage. How do I get it to render for the full 100%?
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I work with XDCam EX material. However, if I want my sequense to have playback over the BlackMagic devices I need to work in a BlackMagic codec sequense. I have all the latest drivers and I can work in a Pro Res or XDCam EX codec sequense in Final Cut and it will playback just fine. Now of course, you can say - well the blackmagic timeline seems to be a fine workaround - but then of course I have to render everything I put in there. Quite unnessesary. Is there anyway to set my timeline to an XDCam codec (or Pro Res if question one gets answered positifly )?
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I notice that whenever I return to Premiere Pro from another program (say via CMD + Tab) it freezes up for some time. Everytime. Frustrating. Is this a common problem? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?
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Why does Final Cut X suck so badly?
I think that's it for now .
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Question one:
Coming from Final Cut Pro I am used to the Apple Pro Res workflow and I like it - A LOT. The render quality compared to it's file sizes is amazing. Is there anyway to work with Pro Res in Premiere Pro?
You bet: import it, and edit. Check out this thread: Apple ProRes workflow in premiere pro?
Okidoki, thanks mate.
Question two:
I know Premiere Pro to be 64 bits but when I render my cores won't go over 35% usage. How do I get it to render for the full 100%?
What do you mean
by "render?" Are you referring to rendering previews? Exporting? A lot
of it can be influenced by the source footage, the destination format,
the effects you're using, etc. The bottom line is that you won't always
get full-tilt boogie rendering, regardless of the app being 64-bit. In
fact, if you're working with ProRes, you're actually limited to
32-bitness, since Premiere must use QuickTime for decoding of that
format, and QT is only 32-bit. That's more than likely the bottleneck
you're encountering.
Well I mean rendering your timeline for smooth previews. My footage is XDCam EX 35mb/s material at 1080p25 and comes of a RAID (e-sata) via a server and ethernet cables. However at the moment I am not working with Pro Res since I didn't know you could. I keep the original source footage and place it in a BlackMagic timeline because otherwise I cannot playback via my BM card.
Question three:
I work with XDCam EX material. However, if I want my sequense to have playback over the BlackMagic devices I need to work in a BlackMagic codec sequense. I have all the latest drivers and I can work in a Pro Res or XDCam EX codec sequense in Final Cut and it will playback just fine. Now of course, you can say - well the blackmagic timeline seems to be a fine workaround - but then of course I have to render everything I put in there. Quite unnessesary. Is there anyway to set my timeline to an XDCam codec (or Pro Res if question one gets answered positifly )?
Don't
worry so much about rendering in Premiere Pro; there's no need to the
vast majority of the time. Even if you're seeing a red bar, that's only
saying that you might need to render to get real-time playback.
Most of my sequences have red bars due to the footage and effects I
use, and I still get rippin' real-time playback. Naturally, on export,
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That doesn't make any sence mate - I have XDCam material right. If I put it in a native sequense, which would be ideal, it won't playback via my BlackMagic monitors. Why is that? The rendering is just another negative aspect of it, but you're right, that don't really matter.
Question four:
I notice that whenever I return to Premiere Pro from another program (say via CMD + Tab) it freezes up for some time. Everytime. Frustrating. Is this a common problem? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?
There
have been a few reports of this; I can't remember the resolution. You
didn't mention: are you using CS5 or CS5.5? If you're using CS5, make
sure that you're fully updated to version 5.0.4; go to Help > Updates
to check. If you're on CS5.5, the current version is 5.5.0, so there is
likely something else that is the cause. I'm a PC user, so I've not
followed those reports to closely. Here's one thread which says this is
fixed in CS5.5: Adobe Forums: Premiere CS5 post alt-tab freeze
Unforutatley I'm running 5.0.4.
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After I import media (thank God for XML support!) Premiere Pro starts generating Peak Files. I read somewhere that it's supposed to be a background proces so that eachtime I do something in the timeline it stops and gives full core and ram power to where I need it. However, I find that it just keeps going and makes Premiere Pro really unresponsive and slow. Anyway to fix this?
The
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griped again and again for this process to change or go away forever and
ever.
Roger that. Thanks.
Question six:
Why does Final Cut X suck so badly?
That's a tough one
I demand to know!
Questions seven: why is there no dictionary functionality in this text editor??
There is; click the little ABC-checkmark button at the top right corner of the text field.
Aight, thanks
Thanks for your help mate. I hope you can help me solve the BlackMagic problem here and give some more information about the rendering as it's far from optimal.

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