• Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40602115]Yeah my SD card magically corrupted itself the other day, it broke about 20GB worth of music, other files were still okay. Not much of a hassle since I keep an SD mirror on my computer and all I had to do was copy it back across. A bit annoying though. Is it because we are using FAT32 which is not journaled? Should we be using Ext4 or something?[/QUOTE] The problem is that microSD is a shit storage standard.
Why did phones go away from plain SDH[del]D[/del]C anyway
[QUOTE=Map in a box;40602397]Why did phones go away from plain SDH[del]D[/del]C anyway[/QUOTE] [B]IT NEEDS TO BE THINNER, MAKE EVERYTHING THINNER[/B] [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Which is why we also have micro and fucking nano sim cards now
[QUOTE=Matsilagi;40600523]Found a live wallpaper that i think its cool, name is PixelFleet.Now i just need an great launcher (Excluding GO Launcher, which is slow as fuck).[/QUOTE] Try Buzz. I'v yet to have issues with it, and it's neat so far (2 weeks or so)[empty space goes here][url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/vg357l5ixl7r4it/2013-05-11%2011.23.51.png]Main Screen[/url][empty space goes here][url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/87x8jm0kn2phs0e/2013-05-11%2011.24.21.png]All the screens[/url]Edit: Hmm, For some reason i can't space things out. Weird
[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;40602394]The problem is that microSD is a shit storage standard.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS"]lmao[/URL] also, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flash_file_systems#File_systems_optimized_for_flash_memory.2C_solid_state_media"]lol[/URL]
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40600595]It is annoying that Go Launcher has the most features but is one of the slowest launchers. Any other launchers that supports folders in app drawer, recent apps page and task manager?[/QUOTE] Apex launcher has app drawer folders, you can make your own tabs and you can set it so your most used apps appear at the top of the drawer. You don't need a task manager and even if you for some reason do android's task manager works fine.
On a device that isnt rooted is it possible for an app to access the devices filesystem (ie \ )? With read permissions, dont need to write anything.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;40603613]You don't need a task manager and even if you for some reason do android's task manager works fine.[/QUOTE] Only problem is it takes ages to open up Android's task manager for me since you have to go to Settings -> Apps -> Swipe over to Running -> Wait for that shit to load. You gotta admit, Go Launcher's task manager is pretty good. [img]http://i.imm.io/15yu1.png[/img]
I haven't bothered with a task manager for a long time, JB does a pretty good job at managing memory. Though i see you've got a 512MB phone so i understand
Yeah Android does a great job of managing memory on its own, only problem is things like rogue apps running and poorly programmed applications that eat all your CPU and need to be killed quickly
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40603929]Yeah Android does a great job of managing memory on its own, only problem is things like rogue apps running and poorly programmed applications that eat all your CPU and need to be killed quickly[/QUOTE] Simple, don't use crappy apps like that.
[quote]They're great! I love mine. You getting the dock?[/QUOTE] On ebay I put bids on both the tablet and the dock, I won the dock but no tablet, so I bought the tablet from a used good store
Okay I just tested out Apex, Nova and Action Launcher and none of them are good enough. Action Launcher is shit and broken as fuck (can't place anything) but the widget shutter feature is brilliant Nova is fast but shit usability. Good luck trying to resize widgets, they lock to grid and changing grid size resizes all icons. It is fucking retarded Apex is just shitty version of Nova
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40604723]Okay I just tested out Apex, Nova and Action Launcher and none of them are good enough. Action Launcher is shit and broken as fuck (can't place anything) but the widget shutter feature is brilliant Nova is fast but shit usability. Good luck trying to resize widgets, they lock to grid and changing grid size resizes all icons. It is fucking retarded Apex is just shitty version of Nova[/QUOTE] Um okay.
I have only one gripe with Apex and it's driving me crazy. There's no option for "reset app drawer to first page if you turn the screen off and on. Trebuchet does this and it's [B]awesome.[/B] Must e-mail the dev about this.
[QUOTE=Richy19;40603853]On a device that isnt rooted is it possible for an app to access the devices filesystem (ie \ )? With read permissions, dont need to write anything.[/QUOTE] I'm 99% sure that's not possible. Filesystem permissions are "rwxrwx--x system system" (no read or write to anyone except system), except for designated internal storage for your app. If an app could read anything without root, it could get all sorts of personal information.
Warning: rant-post One thing bothering me about almost any application in Android that reads the current memory usage, is that they all fucking read it wrong. The pie-launcher add I use always says that I have somewhere between 6-12 megabytes of memory available. No dumbfuck, that's the amount of memory that's not reserved for any use. Here's a Linux-example, which is also valid for Android, if you have Busybox installed (aka you installed it yourself or are running a custom ROM like CyanogenMod), you can probably get similar statistics with the "free" command in Terminal Emulator. [img]http://i.imgur.com/n8hOYCr.png[/img] If you look at the free-column, oh god, we have 149 megabytes free out of 4GB of memory, whaaat No, we have about 2.4GB reserved for caching, with 1.1GB of that being used for caching. This memory can be instantly reclaimed if a program needs lots of working memory. The math comes out that we're using 1,436MB worth of memory right now, on a machine that has 4GB of memory. Most Android applications, when looking at memory, will only look at memory that is not reserved for any specific reason (aka speeding up your phone), so morons download all sorts of "memory managers" and randomly kill programs. I don't know if it's a problem with Android API's, or developers being stupid. If I remember correctly, in older Linux versions there was no reporting for caches like that, so it would be reasonable that the kernel under Android got updated and then nobody at Google bothered to change it, [B]because you're not supposed to be showing something like memory usage anyways to the casual user, who will then go and kill random applications because users are stupid.[/B] /rant
Dolphin browser beta isn't bad for a tablet it seems. It's faster than firefox and doesn't have that link clicking problem. Also, I could use the gestures.
[url=http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/2013/05/3d-core-for-go-launcher-beta1/]New forked build of Go Launcher out by the way if anyone is interested[/url]. Now uses a rendering engine like Next Launcher/TSF and is extremely smooth. RAM usage for me right now is 42MB, how does that compare?
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;40605045]I'm 99% sure that's not possible. Filesystem permissions are "rwxrwx--x system system" (no read or write to anyone except system), except for designated internal storage for your app. If an app could read anything without root, it could get all sorts of personal information.[/QUOTE] I should mention that the location I want to read is \data\data\ so the location that all app data is stored in.
I just put cyanogenmod 9 on my xperia U but my home button doesn't work, apparently its because i installed the wrong gapps? (is this true?) if so I'm downloading the correct ones now, do I just install from recovery and wipe the cache?
[QUOTE=xianlee;40605510]I just put cyanogenmod 9 on my xperia U but my home button doesn't work, apparently its because i installed the wrong gapps? (is this true?) if so I'm downloading the correct ones now, do I just install from recovery and wipe the cache?[/QUOTE] Pretty much, wipe dalvik too just in case.
[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40603865]Only problem is it takes ages to open up Android's task manager for me since you have to go to Settings -> Apps -> Swipe over to Running -> Wait for that shit to load. You gotta admit, Go Launcher's task manager is[/QUOTE] the recent apps list is basically a task manager which is better made, it still speeds up your phone if you dismiss them but it's less of a shitty brute force force close method like the actual task manager [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Intel are making a new processor called silvermont for mobile devices that could be fucking awesome [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6936/intels-silvermont-architecture-revealed-getting-serious-about-mobile[/url] I think the most tantalising quote in that article is '2010 11 inch macbook air performance on a phone'
wow, even Googlers are using #HOLOYOLO now :v: [IMG]http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nexusae0_2013-05-10_14-30-211.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=iCole;40608949]wow, even Googlers are using #HOLOYOLO now :v: [IMG]http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nexusae0_2013-05-10_14-30-211.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] What have we [I]DONE??[/I]
[QUOTE=Van-man;40609569]What have we [I]DONE??[/I][/QUOTE] HOLOYOLO?
I'm going to be disappointed if they don't slip it into the I/O at some point.
get hyped google play games includes game save syncing, match making, and achievements [url]http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/11/google-play-games-leaks-out-in-all-its-glory-ahead-of-google-io-hello-cloud-game-saves-apk-teardown/[/url]
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;40610419]get hyped google play games includes game save syncing, match making, and achievements [URL]http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/11/google-play-games-leaks-out-in-all-its-glory-ahead-of-google-io-hello-cloud-game-saves-apk-teardown/[/URL][/QUOTE] pfft ripping off the iphone game center google are finished
Those are some purdy icons
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