Android thread V-garychencool finally rooted his phone and got ICS edition - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Kaabii;38451491]I seem to remember some emulators getting pulled from Google Play in the distant(or not so distant?) past. Maybe Nintendo or some other company yelled at Google.[/QUOTE] Sony ones will get instantly pulled. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] So I checked out this Xperia Go. Apparently it beats the One V in benchmarks (lol). But it's 320x480, 3.5 inches. And it's still worse than an SGS2. The only vaguely redeeming feature is that it has IP67 protection (you can dunk it in a bathtub). [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] Fuck yes, Jet Set Radio for Android--November 29th

[quote]We at CM are very trusting of our members, showed by both respect and permissions granted to those people we consider part of the team. Last month, this trust was violated in a substantial way. In the spirit of openness, here is what happened. CM’s history is well established, with Cyanogen releasing his original ROM for the G1 on XDA forums. Back then, there was no “CyanogenMod” in terms of the organization and structure that we have today. The builds were hosted on Steve’s personal machine, the original server was a donation of spare kit from Phaseburn. And due to the small size (and lack of funds), the CyanogenMod.com domain was bought by a third-party back in 2009 and donated to CM, when CM was a much smaller project and had no online presence besides XDA. Fast-forward 3 years, we have 3 extremely powerful build boxes donated by the community and an army of developers, contributors, and supported devices. But, a little over a week ago, things took a bad turn. The person owning the CyanogenMod.com domain was caught impersonating Steve to make referral deals with community sites. When confronted and asked to hand over control of the domain amicably, he decided he wanted 10K USD for it, which we won't (and can't) pay. We contacted those he had established deals with, only to discover that the person tasked with maintaining our web presence was setting up deals under the CM name, and impersonating Cyanogen himself. Plenty of satisfying evidence was provided by those sites / entities to make us certain that this wasn't a misunderstanding or one-time thing. This leaves us at a critical impasse. Being trusted with CM’s web presence means this member had control over the CM social network accounts (Twitter/FB) as well as domains (cyanogenmod.com). We have changed ownership of the social media accounts. When asked again to make the transition nicely, he responded with the following “Hi, so you think by removing all my access across the infrastructure was going to be a great idea? We had a chat yesterday, you've decided to end this bitter. How about I just change the DNS entries right now. CM will practically go down.” Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too. We have begun the dispute process with ICANN to reclaim our domain. In the meantime, please utilize CyanogenMod.org and all applicable subdomains. As mentioned, this member also managed our Google Apps for Business account, and therefore our @cyanogenmod.com email addresses. These addresses should be considered discontinued until further notice. We will be contacting the Google team to reclaim rights to the apps account. In the meantime, please contact [email]cmcyanogenmod@gmail.com[/email] for any devrel questions or other issues. A mailserver is being established to transition devrel and other support email addresses. We will provide those when they are finalized, and they will utilize the .org domain. We don’t like how this played out, and we are deeply hurt. Likewise, we are deeply saddened at the confusion this may have caused the community. We will continue to be open about the what, when, how, but unfortunately, we may never know the ‘why’ - though greed comes to mind. The team itself has not made a profit off of CM and that is not our goal. But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension. We will update you all as things progress. Know that we are pursuing every available legal means to regain control over our domain. Please note, all donations that were given directly to Cyanogen (aka [email]Shade@chemlab.org[/email]) did indeed reach their destination and are not affected. If you are a company out there that believes they have also entered into agreements with “CM” by this person impersonating Steve, please contact [email]Shade@chemlab.org[/email]. We’d like to get a handle on how widespread this was before we file charges. -The CyanogenMod Team[/quote] Sorry for the huge text, but this was posted on CM's Facebook page around 45 minutes ago and I just wanted to share it here.

[QUOTE=Cree8ive;38451880]Sorry for the huge text, but this was posted on CM's Facebook page around 45 minutes ago and I just wanted to share it here.[/QUOTE] Seems like the hunger for power & greed got too much for someone. He's gonna get flamed to hell and beyond now. Think the whole BroHoster thing, except bigger.

[QUOTE=Van-man;38452034]Seems like the hunger for power & greed got too much for someone. He's gonna get flamed to hell and beyond now. Think the whole BroHoster thing, except bigger.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but unlike the BroHoster case we won't be getting constant updates on the situation from an insider. This will most likely stay off public until the case has been resolved and God knows how long that'll take. I just hope justice will be tough and served swiftly in this conflict.

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38451461]So Fido just got a new smartphone. Guess what it is. The S3? Nope. The One X? Nope! The fucking "Sony Xperia Go". What the hell is that?[/QUOTE] Mother of god.

i think im gonna get a note II, its got 4g (sorry garry but ill just call it that) and its got a big screen which is nice and i was very happy with my s2 so i guess a note II would be even better

[QUOTE=TippZ;38452538]i think im gonna get a note II, its got 4g (sorry garry but ill just call it that) and its got a big screen which is nice and i was very happy with my s2 so i guess a note II would be even better[/QUOTE] The Note II is pretty sweet if you like the size. The screen is full stripe, not Pentile, and the specs are basically at the top of most benchmarks.

[QUOTE=Kaabii;38451465]Your iPod is significantly smaller and has a more square like aspect ratio. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] Taking a wild guess and saying it's bad.[/QUOTE] You mean it has the same size screen as every iPhone bar the latest one, which is really damn expensive and most people still get the 4s

[QUOTE=FlashFireSix;38453142]You mean it has the same size screen as every iPhone bar the latest one, which is really damn expensive and [b]most people still get the 4s[/b][/QUOTE] Could you show me the sales figures that back this up? Apple actually had a "disappointing" quarter because everyone DIDN'T buy the 4S because they were waiting for the five.

Okay at least the Xperia Go as an A9 Dual Core @ 1GHz... and 512MB of RAM... ew

[QUOTE=Kaabii;38453195]Could you show me the sales figures that back this up? Apple actually had a "disappointing" quarter because everyone DIDN'T buy the 4S because they were waiting for the five.[/QUOTE] All I'm seeing on my facebook and twitter is "Just got the 4S" and I know 3 people at least who are getting a 4s for Christmas, I've yet to see an iPhone 5 in person, to be honest most of the sales are in America so that's probably why [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] It's just because it's cheaper

Oh key, The Sony Xperia T is now available at Bell and Rogers! [URL]http://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Products/Sony-Xperia-T[/URL] And you (Kaabii) said Bell doesn't like Sony :v:

[QUOTE=garychencool;38453573]Oh key, The Sony Xperia T is now available at Bell and Rogers! [URL]http://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Products/Sony-Xperia-T[/URL] And you (Kaabii) said Bell doesn't like Sony :v:[/QUOTE] Didn't I mention this like two weeks ago? Yah the only reason Bell got it is because we have exclusivity for calling it the James Bond phone.

That james bond stunt was really cool

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I just updated my Xoom to Jelly Bean It's so niceeeeeee

[QUOTE=Kaabii;38451491]I seem to remember some emulators getting pulled from Google Play in the distant(or not so distant?) past. Maybe Nintendo or some other company yelled at Google.[/QUOTE] It was pulled for GPL violations, the developer used a GPL project but refused to release source code. This is for the X-oid emulators. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38451493]Sony ones will get instantly pulled.[/QUOTE] FPSe emulator is on the market and is the most popular PSX emulator I know of. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;38449240][img]http://i.imgur.com/x9s4x.png[/img] I've re-rooted using the .zip way instead. All other things that require root works except this. Why?[/QUOTE] I have a feeling you don't have busybox working. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=riki2cool;38448772]Does the S3 have the most powerful processor on the market yet? I'm looking for a phone to play games on.[/QUOTE] The S3 doesn't, the APQ8064 devices and any Exynos 5250 devices would take the crown for Android. Apple still leads far and away with the iPad 4 and iPhone 5. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] In other news, I hope so hard that HTC starts to make major changes for next year. They've been seeding Droid DNA devices and the people who got them are saying that the device is S-OFF, battery life is better than the GS3 on Verizon, GPS is damn near instant, radio reception is incredible, etc. HTC also apparently is releasing "generic development builds" on HTCDev, and if it's actually AOSP as implied, this will be fucking huge. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Kaabii;38451321]People were perfectly content with 4-4.3" screens back in 2010. Only reason they got so much bigger was to fit larger batteries and in the case of AMOLED displays, to accommodate higher resolutions. I've gamed on an iPhone 5 and yes you do get some extra screen area with something like an S3, it's not as good for gaming outside emulators. So really the deciding factor would be what he'll be playing. If he wants to emulate stuff don't bother buying an iPhone because the App Store doesn't have any.[/QUOTE] They got bigger to fit bigger batteries yeah, but newer packaging designs like the HTC 8X should make it possible to make reasonably sized devices again. [editline]14th November 2012[/editline] Oh you gotta be shitting me, I'm on the bottom of the page again :saddowns:

[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;38455864] Oh you gotta be shitting me, I'm on the bottom of the page again :saddowns:[/QUOTE] Dunno how that keeps happening. At least your posts are good and informative.

[QUOTE=FlashFireSix;38453632]That james bond stunt was really cool[/QUOTE] James Bond anything is cool.

[IMG]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/title.png[/IMG] So I'm making this super unoriginal and boring ball rolling/platforming game for android as a kind of test with unity and get to grips with content creation and the engine itself. It only has 8 teeny tiny levels right now but I was wondering if some of you could test it out on your devices and tell me how it runs, if its smooth etc as well as general improvements. If I ever finish it it'll be free. Works 60fps for me on the Nexus 7 Only 10mb and you'd be doing me a big favour. If needed I can turn on the FPS counter so you can actually tell me how smooth its running but I figured I'd leave it off for now. [URL]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/srl_a_1.apk[/URL] Cheers Oh and controls at the moment are only accelerometer, where you hold the device parallel to the floor.

Is it sad that my sister's coworkers (Bejing) want me to buy electronics here in the US since they are cheaper than over there? They want me to buy the Nexus 8 or a Surface - They would be using it like a mini laptop

[QUOTE=icemaz;38456576][IMG]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/title.png[/IMG] So I'm making this super unoriginal and boring ball rolling/platforming game for android as a kind of test with unity and get to grips with content creation and the engine itself. It only has 8 teeny tiny levels right now but I was wondering if some of you could test it out on your devices and tell me how it runs, if its smooth etc as well as general improvements. If I ever finish it it'll be free. Works 60fps for me on the Nexus 7 Only 10mb and you'd be doing me a big favour. If needed I can turn on the FPS counter so you can actually tell me how smooth its running but I figured I'd leave it off for now. [URL]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/srl_a_1.apk[/URL] Cheers Oh and controls at the moment are only accelerometer, where you hold the device parallel to the floor.[/QUOTE] I'm testing it out. The first thing I noticed was that the screen orientation is stuck at the other end instead of based on system screen orientation. I don't like the way I'm playing it right now.

[QUOTE=garychencool;38456647]I'm testing it out. The first thing I noticed was that the screen orientation is stuck at the other end instead of based on system screen orientation. I don't like the way I'm playing it right now.[/QUOTE] Yeah it's like that cause of the current method of control, would keep flipping over (thought 30 degrees in any direction is the fastest you can go). Will add a thing in the settings to change orientation.

I'll upload a game play video with a fps counter. In general I get Round 40fps on average. My screens 480x360 and runs the Adreno 205 GPU.

Cool they added more features to the clock app in 4.2, a timer and a stopwatch

[QUOTE=icemaz;38456576][IMG]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/title.png[/IMG] So I'm making this super unoriginal and boring ball rolling/platforming game for android as a kind of test with unity and get to grips with content creation and the engine itself. It only has 8 teeny tiny levels right now but I was wondering if some of you could test it out on your devices and tell me how it runs, if its smooth etc as well as general improvements. If I ever finish it it'll be free. Works 60fps for me on the Nexus 7 Only 10mb and you'd be doing me a big favour. If needed I can turn on the FPS counter so you can actually tell me how smooth its running but I figured I'd leave it off for now. [URL]http://gamefridge.co.uk/games/super_roller_land/android/srl_a_1.apk[/URL] Cheers Oh and controls at the moment are only accelerometer, where you hold the device parallel to the floor.[/QUOTE] No obvious bugs. Runs smoothly. You might want to have a "next level" button when you complete one.

Does anybody notice better colors on their Nexus 7s with 4.2? It looks like Google finally did something about the colors.

[QUOTE=DaNoob;38457059]Does anybody notice better colors on their Nexus 7s with 4.2? It looks like Google finally did something about the colors.[/QUOTE] I noticed this with the 4.1.2 update, actually. I don't get the "after video" washout anymore, after that.

CM10 now has massive issues with my WiFi antenna. ParanoidAndroid keeps crashing apps. MIUI is a pile of shit because lol no 3g. AOKP has no 3G. God damnit, is there ANY good Jelly Bean ROMs left?

[QUOTE=Vault;38458184]CM10 now has massive issues with my WiFi antenna. ParanoidAndroid keeps crashing apps. MIUI is a pile of shit because lol no 3g. AOKP has no 3G. God damnit, is there ANY good Jelly Bean ROMs left?[/QUOTE] What are you using?