Temple Tips: Is Your Droid No Longer Playing Music?

Is your Droid suddenly no longer playing your music, mp3s, songs, or ringtones?  If you're trying to play one of the aforementioned items and you've suddenly started receiving the error that says "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file," then this is the fix for you.

To correct this problem turn off your phone, pull out the battery and turn your phone back on.

Everything should now be a-okay!

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The Originial Droid Gets a Brother!

Motorola Droid and Droid 2 (DropNews)

     After releasing it's flagship device with tremendous success, Verizon Wireless is finally releasing a predecessor to the Motorola Droid on August 12th (tentatively) .  The new device will simply be called Droid 2.  The basis of the design is the same, with the biggest improvement being the improved keyboard.  The keys have more of an individual feel rather than seeming like they're all on the same pad.  For people who had never owned a quality slide out QWERTY keyboard they didn't make much fuss over it but trust me, texting on the original Droid and it was just plain awful.  It's great to see Motorola improving upon their design flaws, including making the phone a little less boxy to give it more of a gentle aesthetic look and removing the directional pad.   

 (via MobileCrunch)

(via Pocketnow)

     As specified by Best Buy, The Droid 2 will run you $199.99 on contract and $599.99 if you'd like to buy the phone outright.  I imagine that there will be some sort of mail-in-rebate associated with the $199.99 price tag on Verizon's end, so if you don't receive any corporate discount from your employer and you're jumping into a new contract I highly suggest purchasing the phone from Best Buy.  They won't belittle you with mail in rebates and will offer you the $199.99 price tag right then and there.  So how about it readers, will you acquire the new Droid 2?  Or will you wait to see if Verizon drops another Android phone in the coming months?    

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Evo & Original Droid Get Froyo

Sprint has released the update from Android 2.1 to Android 2.2., Froyo (some people say it “fro-yo,” but I think that “froy-o” sounds way better) for the HTC Evo.  The update for Verizon’s Grandfather android device, the Motorola Droid, has also been floating around.  Due to the fact that I have a Hero and HTC has already explained that no 2.2 update will be released for it, I am sort of jealous.  I’ve only had the phone for 3 months!  That’s okay though, I love my Hero .  Speaking for the Evo, it’s an OTA (over the air) update, so you won’t have to hook your Evo up to the computer.  Thank goodness for technology right!?  Some of the following features that the update to Android 2.2 are:

1. Overall speed increase on your device
2. Add more apps such as one to share different apps with other people (which you can already do with Bump) and a flashlight, via the led camera lights
3. Can finally save apps to your SD card (Woo hoo! No more warning prompts from Android about there not being enough space left on your device)
4. Multiple G-mail accounts
5. Adobe Flash 10.1 so that you can play flash games in the browser and view other flash content that was previously unavailable
6. More widgets

In depth look at the 2.2 update for the EVO from Android Central

It’s good to see that Google is pushing for all possible Android devices to have 2.2 and above.  The latest numbers, before the updates for the Evo and Hero, are as follows:

Sources: Google, Android Central

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New Look. Same Great Blog.

As you have probably already noticed, I switched up the design of my blog a little. Okay, more like a lot! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new look. I feel that it's more elegant, friendlier and overall more professional looking. I'm still working on a sections though so please bear with me. As always, feel free to leave me comments about what you'd like me to add, change or talk about.

And for those of you who just got a new cell phone and aren't quite sure how it works, I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to visit ThisStupidPhone. Even if you don't want to admit it, there's been a point when your cell phone did something unexpected or you just didn't know how to do something on it and all you could say to yourself was "this stupid phone!" ThisStupidPhone is all about covering smartphone basics: what's SMS, how do I do ____ on this phone, why do I keep getting these alerts?

If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, hit up ThisStupidPhone now!

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HTC Hero (Sprint) Error: Sync is Currently Experiencing Problems

The Problem:
Over the past two or three weeks, my Hero had constantly been syncing my contacts. This hadn't always been the case but the sync icon showed up continuously every few minutes, despite the fact that I had not added any recent contacts. The issue caused significant draining of my battery, which you can imagine was very frustrating. I manually stopped the sync, but when I would enable it again I would get an error message that said "sync is currently experiencing problems," along with a red exclamation point. I messed around a little and finally found a solution to my troublesome Hero that had been acting more like a Villain as of late.

The Solution:
On your Hero, press the menu button and use the following route:

1. settings > applications > manage applications > contacts storage.
2. select "clear data"
3. settings > accounts & sync >
   
4. select "Google"
5. sync your contacts

Since I've done this I haven't had the error message that said "sync is currently experiencing problems." However, before doing this, I strongly recommend going to your Gmail contacts on your computer and manually backing them up just in case. This is just good practice in general. After all, what would you do if all of your contacts suddenly just disappeared?

The only issue that clearing my contacts storage caused was my contacts no longer had their associated Facebook pictures next them. I have done some research but no one really has an answer. I'll do some experimenting on my Hero and will let you know if I encounter a fix of my own.

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How Do I Move My Old Files & Settings to My New Computer with Windows 7?

I’ve always wondered how this worked, but never actually had to worry about it until I procured my new Dell Studio Laptop, as mentioned in my previous post.  On my old laptop I had always kept a running backup of everything so that I could transfer it over to a new system whenever I got one—boy was I wrong!  Microsoft has made it incredibly easy with their built in tool called “Windows Easy Transfer.” I followed these simple steps:

On Your Old Computer

1. Go the start menu and type “windows easy transfer”
2. Chose transfer cable, external hard drive/removable media or network as your transfer method
3. Select your files and pick a save location
4. Wait until the transfer is complete and you’re done!

*only works for Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7

On Your New Computer

1. Double-click the transfer file located in the place you specified
2. Chose what to transfer
3. Wait and you’re done!

*click here for an example video

This process was a lot simpler than I thought it’d be.  It doesn’t erase anything from your old computer and the process is fairly fast.  I used an external hard drive to do my transfer and it took about an hour to transfer 30GB over USB (my old and new laptop both have Windows 7 on them).  All of your settings from your previous computer are saved, including the location of your documents and anything else you have saved on your user account.  The only thing it doesn’t do is transfer your programs over.  However, a windows transfer report is generated, showing you what programs are already on the new computer and what programs still need to be installed. 

 

I hope your transfer goes as smoothly as mine did.  Leave me a comment and let me know how yours went!

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My New Dell Studio Laptop!

I didn’t necessarily need a new laptop because the one I have is just fine, but like all tech heads when you see a good deal…well you can’t pass it up right?  A co-worker of mine is hoping aboard the black and white ship known as Apple and therefore decided to sell his Dell Studio Laptop 1537.  I’ve only been on it for two days but I can already tell you that this thing is a CHAMP!  The screen is almost twice as bright as my last laptop.  In fact, it’s so bright that I only have the brightness turned up halfway.  Otherwise it looks like I’m constantly stepping into the light!  Oh and speaking of light, the keyboard on this bad boy lights up.  Yeah that’s right, it lights up!  How often do you see that on a laptop ‘ey? 

Big ups to CLive for providing me with this laptop.  He’s quite the artist too!  I’d put a link but he moved his Blogspot without telling people…smh…

 

Technorati Tags: dell studio 1537,laptop,technology

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Gmail FINALLY Has Drag & Drop Attachments

Technorati Tags: Technology,e-mail,gmail,Google,Xbox 360,Xbox 360 Avatar

I’ve been waiting for this feature from Google for a long time.  Yeah, the other lab features such the forgotten attachment detector are fine, but this newly rolled out feature should have been implemented years ago.   I guess it’s better late than never though.  All you need to do is drag and drop your prospective files from one window to the e-mail and you’re good to go! 

Unfortunately it only works with Firefox and Google Chrome.  Find more info about it at Google’s Blog.  

And I KNOW ya’ll like signature I have ;-)  It's courtesy of WiseStamp, a Firefox Add on. It adds HTML signatures to e-mail services such as Gmail, Thunderbird and Hotmail/Windows Live. My less formal signature features my Xbox 360 Avatar.

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An Improved Firefox Browser?

Technorati Tags: Technology,Browser,Firefox,Flash,Pale Moon Project

It looks like Firefox, uses parts of Firefox, uses all of your add-ons that you already have installed on Firefox…but it’s not Firefox.  It’s called The Pale Moon Project.  Pale Moon is “custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems (pale moon project homepage).”  The site also claims that the browser is 25% faster than Firefox.  Now I LOVE my Firefox and didn’t want to get rid of it, which is why I haven’t switched to Google Chrome.  After installing Pale Moon I did experience a noticeable speed increase in the loading of web pages.  The browser looks exactly like my Firefox browser, including all 40+ add-ons I had installed in it.  However, my favorite improvement that I have found revolves around playing videos (especially Flash videos).  I’m not the only Firefox user who has experienced Flash videos stuttering every 3 seconds or so.  It even happens to those with an absurd amount memory.  When playing Flash videos on Pale Moon I experience little to skipping in Flash videos and they also load faster.  For those of you who don’t want to part with Firefox, I highly recommend that you give Pale Moon a try.  After installing it yesterday, I don’t even open Firefox anymore.

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Welcome to The Tech Temple!

Welcome to The Tech Temple! I'm Jared, a technology enthusiast as well as a consumer like the rest of us. I read all of these technology websites and felt that having my own blog would be the best way to get my thoughts out about current trends in technology as well as products that are up and coming. It'd also be nice to get opinions of other people and get some good discussion going on, so let's hope all goes well!

If it weren't for the fact that it's 2:24 in the morning I'd write about something other than this intro, but moving into a new place has sapped all of my energy. So for now, all I have to say is hold up on purchasing that iPad! At the very least least, check out HP's Slate that is coming out soon. Peep the video below. Simply put, it shows all of the things the Slate does that the iPad can't. I am not an Apple hater! :-) Apple has wonderful innovation and has revolutionized the technological world in many ways. I'll I'm sayin' is, don't be mad at me when you pay $600 for something that doesn't allow you to browse the web and listen to your vast music collection.

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