Android thread V-garychencool finally rooted his phone and got ICS edition
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[QUOTE=Lomme;39083525]Well, that "placebo effect" cured my "cancer" (HTC Wildfire with CM7 nightly).
I compared it with a friend's stock Galaxy S2 with ICS and the Wildfire applications (phone, messaging, browser, mail) were opening without delays, the S2 had a black screen and then after an instant loaded the app. I was laughing like a fucking hyena while my friend asked what sort of black magic i did.[/QUOTE]
Use it more. You will notice more battery drain than usual.
[QUOTE=iCole;39082220]If rooting doesn't void warranty in EU (this is awesome news to me), what about flashing ROMs?[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't count on it, but I really don't know. I guess it should, but you're far more likely to at least at first get denied warranty.
[QUOTE=garychencool;39083529]Use it more. You will notice more battery drain than usual.[/QUOTE]
An half decent potato is better than an entire potato that tastes like shit and potato blight.
[QUOTE=Aznsniper911;39082959]And take underwater video while you're at it[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyPBT-hBTM[/media]
:v:
[QUOTE=paul simon;39083677][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyPBT-hBTM[/media]
:v:[/QUOTE]
Now get a helmet, mount your phone on it, and go for a dive, GoPro style.
[editline]3rd January 2013[/editline]
Like swim with it if you can, or so something cool with it.
[QUOTE=garychencool;39083712]Now get a helmet, mount your phone on it, and go for a dive, GoPro style.
[editline]3rd January 2013[/editline]
Like swim with it if you can, or so something cool with it.[/QUOTE]
I'd have to go to an in-door swimming pool, because I kind of live in Northern Norway and it's kind of winter right now if you get what I mean :v:
[QUOTE=paul simon;39083743]I'd have to go to an in-door swimming pool, because I kind of live in Northern Norway and it's kind of winter right now if you get what I mean :v:[/QUOTE]
Canadian here.
Anyway's mount it onto a pole and go to a lake or something, record with the light on. You'll get some interesting footage.
Can I just make this prediction real quick:
In ~3 years, Motorola devices will all operate as nexus and Android will only be on certain phones from OEMs that want to use it. Proprietary OSs will take over again (Samsungs recent actions are the first step) and some oddballs like Linux will be developed but not integrated from the factory. Linux mobile ROMs (Ubuntu, recently) will be run like Cyanogenmod.
/predictions for androids future.
[QUOTE=Lomme;39083636]An half decent potato is better than an entire potato that tastes like shit and potato blight.[/QUOTE]
My potato is still not half decent. Not even a quarter decent. Stuff loads faster but it's still shit.
What makes me day that about Motorola are the recent Motorola /Google "x phone" rumors
How do I connect a local HDD connected to my router to a Galaxy Tab 2 for easy file/movie access?
[QUOTE=Killuah;39084006]How do I connect a local HDD connected to my router to a Galaxy Tab 2 for easy file/movie access?[/QUOTE]
Depending on how the local HDD is connected to your router, you can connect to it using a file browser like ES File or Solid Explorer. Assuming the HDD is on FTP mode, you can connect to it as if it was an FTP server.
It's currently in both but I thought there would be something as easy as the Windows Net HDD mounting thingie(local network device)
[QUOTE=garychencool;39083885]My potato is still not half decent. Not even a quarter decent. Stuff loads faster but it's still shit.[/QUOTE]
At least you don't have a fucking QVGA screen and no graphics chipset. Hell, even Angry Birds doesn't work with this turd.
This might have been talked about in this thread before, but what do you guys think about [URL="http://www.republicwireless.com/"]republic wireless[/URL]?
$19 a month for unlimited talk, text, and 3g data on Sprint. The only catch is you have to use a Motorola DEFY XT and you're limited to 3g for all services.
[QUOTE=sdwise;39083865]Can I just make this prediction real quick:
In ~3 years, Motorola devices will all operate as nexus and Android will only be on certain phones from OEMs that want to use it. Proprietary OSs will take over again (Samsungs recent actions are the first step) and some oddballs like Linux will be developed but not integrated from the factory. Linux mobile ROMs (Ubuntu, recently) will be run like Cyanogenmod.
/predictions for androids future.[/QUOTE]
My predictions: Google gets more closed, merging Moto and Nexus.
Proprietary operating systems don't have much of a chance - you need an ecosystem. Unless Google closes off Android (they won't do it, they like the ad money), it's not going to happen.
Google begins to tighten their control over Android, with less and less freedom for OEMs.
Microsoft either succeeds, or loses the mobile market for the final time.
Apple makes some changes to the OS, starting to feel the pressure from Google and maybe MS.
Everybody else loses.
[QUOTE=iCole;39079492][APK] Seeder entropy generator to provide [B]significant lag reduction[/B]
[url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032[/url]
I uh.. I have no fucking idea what this did, but before I installed this, my YouTube app took like two seconds to load. Now it pops up [I]almost[/I] instantly. And Google Now seems faster too.[/QUOTE]
oh god the speed
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FfI7u.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=garychencool;39060877]Use the phone more. it will show up later.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;39060828][url]http://imgur.com/BgHIO.png[/url] oh god android os is gone what did I do all I did was factory reset
Android is hard to use compsred to my iphone[/QUOTE]
It only appears after I restart my phone after fulling charging it. How do I fix this?
[editline]3rd January 2013[/editline]
that means everytime I fully charge I have to restart my phone wtf and nothing else appears in battery, not even internet or chrome.
[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;39085121]It only appears after I restart my phone after fulling charging it. How do I fix this?
[editline]3rd January 2013[/editline]
that means everytime I fully charge I have to restart my phone wtf and nothing else appears in battery, not even internet or chrome.[/QUOTE]
it's really not that big a deal
unless for some reason those services and things aren't actually running (and believe me, you'll know if they aren't running)
[QUOTE=Ezhik;39084847]My predictions: Google gets more closed, merging Moto and Nexus.
Proprietary operating systems don't have much of a chance - you need an ecosystem. Unless Google closes off Android (they won't do it, they like the ad money), it's not going to happen.
Google begins to tighten their control over Android, with less and less freedom for OEMs.
Microsoft either succeeds, or loses the mobile market for the final time.
Apple makes some changes to the OS, starting to feel the pressure from Google and maybe MS.
Everybody else loses.[/QUOTE]
I disagree on only a couple of points. I think OEMs may respond to Googles tightening grip on android by leaving the ecosystem. Not completely, but making both proprietary and Android phones.
And I think once RIM goes out of business, Microsofts place in the mobile space will be secured.
The market will support 3 OSs, but not 4.
I feel like the next gen Nexus should definitely be something like the rumored M7. SoLux really sounds like some sort of transflective-esque tech to me, which would be nice considering that going from 720p to 1080p meant a drop in peak brightness from 600 nits to about 370 nits...
[url]http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-pushing-update-fix-exynos-security-exploit?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter[/url]
Samsung doing something about the exynos exploit
[editline]4th January 2013[/editline]
Of course I'm running a "modified phone" so I can't install it :suicide:
[editline]4th January 2013[/editline]
S3 Camera is niiiicccceee
[T]http://i.imgur.com/Qmn6j.jpg[/T]
thumbed because it ripped FP a new asshole dimensions wise
you are browsing the lmao pics thread in the background
That image noise is low as fuck. Used friends Note 2 and took photo of my phone, you could see the fucking pixels on the screen.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;39085947]you are browsing the lmao pics thread in the background[/QUOTE]
I see that you saw that somebody else reads Daijitsu's Tumblr
[editline]4th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=garychencool;39086143]That image noise is low as fuck. Used friends Note 2 and took photo of my phone, you could see the fucking pixels on the screen.[/QUOTE]
the camera is beautiful, and my room is dark as anything, it's illuminated by christmas lights on one side and a dim lamp on the other, yet the S3 still did a pretty good job capturing the iPod touch even with the monitor in the background
[editline]4th January 2013[/editline]
I also took this on a moving bus using the pretty fun color isolation mode in the stock camera
[T]http://i.minus.com/jbcj01eH1Rwvnr.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE=sdwise;39085349]I disagree on only a couple of points. I think OEMs may respond to Googles tightening grip on android by leaving the ecosystem. Not completely, but making both proprietary and Android phones. [/QUOTE]
I wonder if this is why Samsung is going to make their next flagship phone under their own OS Tizen? (according to the rumors)
they wouldn't dare
[QUOTE=lavacano;39084925]oh god the speed
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FfI7u.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT WORKS BETTER THAN I THOUGHT.
Even the Safeway app, which usually takes like five minutes to load my coupons and things normally, took pretty much instantly this time.
it's as if it was made by Hermes himself.
I've read about the "lag-reducing" app.
Basically, it's a massive security risk. Anything that actually needs /dev/random to be truly random will be using non-random data, which means that it's possible to break many types of cryptography, usually with stuff like SSL and such that are used for banking and secure logins.
It speeds things up by like 10-30 percent, and I have nothing that's important anyways. It still uses up more battery than usual though.
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