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Hi,

I just purchased the program after trying the demo on my old cell phone which was an xv6800.  I then upgraded my phone to a xv6850 Touch Pro and the program appears not to run.  It only shows the startup screen as 1/4 of the device display.  I believe this may be related to a change in resolution on the Touch Pro to 640 x 480.  Is there any fix known for this?

Thanks,

Allen

Maybe a little progress. I reinstalled the application and got it to install.  It now seems stretched to take up the entire screen, but the bird names are non-legible and the navigation buttons are extremely small.  The sound works if you click ona  bird and you can see the pictures, but the text for similar sounds or similar birds is scrunched and non-readable.  It appears it may just be a display issue.  I will keep investigating and any advice is welcome.

Winged Explorer will not work on any screen except 240 x 320.

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Mitch Waite

Well, I finally got to a solution.  It involves changing the resolution of the display so that the text is no longer garbled.  I haven't figured out how to move back to a qvga resolution, but can increase the resolution from 192dpi to 96dpi and the display looks fine (the pictures are a little small but the zoom function solves that when looking at a species).  The only minor inconvenience is that the device has to restart to accept the resolution change, but other than that it works just fine.

 

That is a clever solution. Is the xv6850 Touch Pro the HTC Diamond we have been hearing about? How do you like it? Can you send us a screen shot, I am curious if the interface is good enough to recommend to others.

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iBird Explorer: Finally a field guide as light as a feather. See it at http://www.ibird.com

I have run across the same problem with my Dell Axim x50v but have no idea how to change DPI seeting to effect text. Any suggestions?

Geez, I wish I had read this thread before installing the demo on my Touch Pro.  It looks terrible with all the text squished together.  Glad I only installed the demo, I won't be buying it unless its fixed to work on my hi-res screen.

 Thanks, but no thanks.

Just wanted to post an update.  Initially I found the workaround for the squashed text and figured I would go with that.  Over time I got tired of restarting my touch pro to get the resolution to look better and just used it "squashed."  I can still read the bird names and all of the features work fine.  I find this an absolutely essential element to my birding adventures and couldn't imagine birding without the program.  For instance, I was on vacation in California and heard what I thought was a Wrentit (a lifebird) but couldn't locate it after about 15 minutes of looking in the brush.  I pulled out the phone typed in wrentit hit the species name and played the song.  Instantly the bird hopped up and actually sang back to me from about 5 feet before going back into the bush.  Truely worth every penny (and I paid the initial full cost of near 100 dollars) even if the text is slightly squashed.