Re: CarCast, love it, but.... LG Ally

[Bob Herrmann]

Is anyone else using the LG Ally? Seems someone is reporting a problem with it.

Thanks
-bob

On 09/21/2010 12:47 PM, Howard Covitz wrote:
> LG Ally 2.1
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob Herrmann<b...@jadn.com>
> To: Howard Covitz<hco...@alumni.brown.edu>
> Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 6:20:42 PM
> Subject: Re: CarCast, love it, but....
>
> On 09/20/2010 07:15 PM, Howard Covitz wrote:
>> Since I've downloaded it, I've picked a few subscriptions, including some of
>> the
>> defaults (like Cringley). It appears to download the latest podcasts, but
> when
>> I try to listen to them, although the progress bar shows the seconds tick off,
>> there is no sound. Yes, I have the media volume turned up.
>
> That's very strange. Once in a while my old G1 does this, and I reboot it and
> everything goes back to normal.
>
> What phone and what version of android are you running?
>
>
>> Once, a few hours later, all of a sudden out of nowhere, I heard it starting
> up
>> one of the podcasts. I was excited because I had been trying to listen to
> that
>> podcast to no avail. But aside from that, I haven't been able to get any of
>> the
>> downloaded podcasts to play audibly (just the progress bar).
>
> I've seen this "random start" of carcast happen before... It's a known issue.
> Although I've found that if I switch to Car Cast, I can pause the playback.
>
> Thanks
> -bob
>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Howard Covitz
>>