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[Atrix 4G Accessories] stewbuntu:
Atrix 4g with Gingerbread 2.3.4 from AT&T update, lapdock, and car dock.

Hey noob here. Maybe this should be under it's own thread of "common issues with the lapdock and how to fix them by rooting", but here goes. I just didn't want to start another thread and have people get pissed.

I have become proficient with Iphone and found it sucks compared to my Atrix. I use ubuntu on my media pc at home. and have all other PCs dual booted with windows encase of viruses or just to have a better system for videos, programs, and such; so I have beomce familiar with terminal and linux a bit. Now that I have had the Atrix for a couple months and especially with the lapdock I just received, I'd like to figure out somethings. Maybe I could get some advice. I looked through the forums and hopefully someone can point me in the right directions since I am overwhelmed at this point.

Lapdock root using debian crack - with Iphone you could just restore it. I have read to relabel files .old and or move to the SD card. What is the best way to have a restore ready for future reasons such as selling the phone or insurance return? Install an old file from AT&T that someone posted somewhere? Copy paste all old files back to the phone after reinstalling some AT&T firmware?

Is the debian hack still the best out these days, in regards to using my lapdock and RAM/CPU usage. Will it handle the dual core processing?

I'm interest for for a couple reasons.

1.) In order to type a paper I have to go to full screen on my phone and type in the Quickoffice app. or use web apps which won't work on a plane, and I'm still grandfathered into the unlimted data plan without tethering thus waiting to crack that as well.

2.) When at full screen the phone's home/ side screens are pixelated, bulky and slow without a touch screen. So I'd like to be able to zoom out/ set the phone's screen size larger, Or just integrate the lapdock better by rooting it.

3.) Do you guys find that even after killing tasks that the webtop and or lapdock apps are using up too much RAM/CPU? I'd like to have a widget to kill all lapdock stuff when I disconnect the phone. Maybe rooting to have no bloatware will solve that problem or use the setting profiles app.

4.) Sick of Ram staying around 200-300 probably from bloatware

5.) I'm also confused on what to use as a lapdock connector program once I get a new operating system on the Atrix. Does it load the lapdock as just a screen and keyboard? Where do I start to learn about all of this. Any how-to, videos, etc, out there?

6.) What should I never do? I came across a guy who tried to go back to 2.2 after updating to 2.3.4 and he said he bricked his phone due to new firmware being added during the update which 2.2. cannot run on. Seemed a bit wrong to me, but a warning to take my time with this stuff none the less.

I can make a how-to afterwards for noobs if there is not one for the atrix/lapdock/webtop.

Thanks guys.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] barry99705:
I've yet to find a micro-hdmi female port anywhere. USB is easy, it's that damn hdmi port that is causing all the problems...:mad:
[Atrix 4G Accessories] delboydell:
Just a simple question with regards to the lapdock use, how do you stop it using the mobile site for facebook? every other web page I visit is the full web page but facebook just defaults to the mobile page??????
[Atrix 4G Accessories] sxg75:
Simply install an addon that allows changing the "user agent", from addons.Mozilla.org

Then use that to change to "desktop".
[Atrix 4G Accessories] troycarpenter:
These are all good questions and as a total Atrix noob, I have wondered about some of these things as well. What I haven't found yet is a good "Now you have an Atrix, here's all the fancy things you can do with it" thread that covers docking modes, webtop, etc. Also things you will find annoying which will make you want to explore that custom ROMs, and which ROMs will maintain as much of the stock features (not necessarily the stock look). Also what MOD and fixes are best to do (like the Debian one for webtop, enable tether/hotspot, HDMI fixes/changes).

Finally, best battery life practices, from which kernel, to which apps and the settings (for OC and UV).

And yes, I think a new thread should be opened instead of hijacking this one.
[Atrix 4G Accessories] katlimaal:
Naplesbill,

I'm trying to install same, but after I install WebTopMOD and reboot, in the lapdock I don't see the Penguin icon.

On my Atrix I'm using the iBlur Rom.

Could you please help.
[Xoom Accessories] leyvatron:
I have an iPad and a nexus s... The stylus works with both and wanted to share with you guys. I do recommend this stylus for drawing and note taking. I'm sure this will work with honeycomb tablets. Once I get my Android tablet, I'm trashing this ipad. :D

This stylus is called the E. Stylo stylus for capacitive screens.

e.stylo features:

- lightweight

- both tips work at different angles

- no extra pressure is needed for it to work

- works with gloves on

- smoothly glides over the screen

The final price of e.stylo will be $15.95 plus $4.99 US shipping and $7.99 for international shipping.

Purchased from http://www.Plai.tv/ if any artist/note takers are interested check out their site for more videos and pictures.

I also made a video of it....(videos in my signature) Check it out if u want to see how it responds on the nexus and iPad.

You can scroll the pictures to the right... sorry about the huge pics.

http://db.tt/rZRW9y4

http://db.tt/R4A4msE
[Xoom Accessories] cwizardtx:
Send me your ipad kthx
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel-t:
Now the Mango Windows Phone Dev Tools beta is out, can we get an unlocked emulator image soon...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriAxisFL:
I've been playing around with the Mango Beta and stopped by XDA to see if an unlocked version is out as well.

I tried out the Bing Audio (Shazam type thingy) and it worked in the Emulator and picked up the song that was playing.

Bing Vision opened but was blank obviously. Not much more to see until we get an unlocked image.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havox22:
Does IE9 display the web pages in the emulator?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmurdo:
IE9 in Emulator

Yes the emulator displays webpages in the Mango emulator.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaxbot:
Hey. To answer your question, I've tried to get it unlocked, but Microsoft has added some sort of weird security mechanism to the device-any recompiled image causes it to lock us out of the homescreen. Not sure what to think of it, but I'm sure we'll figure it out sooner or later.

(For reference, I was the one who unlocked the NoDo emulator: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=942656)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metaxlog:
Thanks for your efforts Jaxbot, I can't wait for an unlocked emulator to see what else Mango may bring to the table!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] day2die:
From the previous leaks, we already know that there are a lot more features hiding in Mango that Microsoft has yet to announce. It comes to no suprise that Microsoft has implanted additional security to keep those features under wrap.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reformedctrlz:
Hope we can get this unlocked soon. Would love to be able to check this emulator out in full :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mautz001:
yeaah unlocked version would be really great =) But Version for HTC 7 Trophy would be much greater :D:D:D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hades32:
I really don't get why they restrict it so much. It makes it impossible to test all those integration features etc... :(

But what sucks the most IMO is that you can't switch on "airplane mode". That way I always have to test this on the device, without the debugger :(
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelou:
The emulator itself has a security mechanism, or are there internal integrity checks baked inside the ROM?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaxbot:
I really don't know... but from what I can tell, the emulator loads the ROM just fine, but the Compositor screen doesn't want to load.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelou:
What tools did you use in the NoDo ROM to unlock it? I suppose these tools are from WinMo 6.5?

It'll be interesting seeing Mango as is develops; like Windows 8.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hades32:
Any Progress?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolftail:
Partial Unlock... sort of

I managed to get access to a small set of features of the emulator with no hacking whatsoever.

I visited youtube.com from IE and tried to watch a video. It redirected me to the Youtube app in the marketplace. Naturally, I couldn't install it but I clicked on the Share button (I found later that you can also do this by sharing a page in IE9). The only option available was Messaging and so I enterd the Messaging App[/U]. I clicked the attach button and I entered Camera Roll, from which I could enter the Camera (and I saw that button that is supposedly used to choose the front/rear facing camera :D). From the message app I pressed the + to add recipients and I got a list of the people in the phone's memory. I added the first person and pressed it in the recipients list and I chose open. I clicked on his address and entered the full Bing app and Local Scout. I called the person and chose to add another call and managed to acces the People Hub. In the people hub I was asked if I wanted to import contacts and was able to sign in with my email account and got access to the Email Hub. (Oddly Yahoo! appears only if added from the email hub and not from people hub). You can also access various settings for the apps.

I believe that by cleverly tapping on the UI it may be possible to enter other apps/hubs too.

WARNING: I got some weird behavior in Internet Explorer (see screenshot). It appears that after all these steps the opened and saved tab in IE gets bugged (happened 2 times). After exiting the emulator, I could't open it anymore using Tom's XAP installer :(, see attached error screenshot. I guess that somehow by entering the email accout, the emulator altered the save state (which could be quite interesting). I opened the emulator from Visual Studio and it got back to normal.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhoff80:
Any updates on whether an unlock is possible now that the SDK is final?

I'm actually trying to figure out if WP is the right upgrade after using webOS for years, so being able to use a Mango emulator fully for a few days would be pretty helpful...
[Nook Color General] japzone:
The big B&N Announced their new Nook today, and no it's not Color. It's what I had suspected, a New eInk Reader to compete directly with the Kindle.

Here are the Specs:

- 6 inch Touchscreen(Infared based)

- eInk Pearl Display

- 8 ounces

- 2gb Internal Memory - MicroSD Expandable

(NOTE: B&N says 1gb free space with possibly 750mb of that reserved for B&N content)

- 2 Month Battery Life with WiFi off, 3 weeks with WiFi on

- Fast Page Turning (Screen Refresh)

- Library eBook Support

- WiFi b/g/n

- Free WiFi access from B&N and AT&T

- Support ePub PDF JPG PNG GIF BMP

- Android 2.1 OS (Completely Modified UI)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp?PID=35699

Comparison of Nook 2 and Amazon Kindle 3

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/index.asp?PID=38254

Videos

B&N Nook 2 Demo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw7ixu2sZmQ

B&N Nook 2 360°:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3E29S10_w

Quick Spec Overview:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofcFZecOag

Cnet First Look:http://cnettv.cnet.com/new-nook-e-reader/9742-1_53-50105359.html?tag=api&partTag=cbsmobile

Engadget Hands-On:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtXRHn-Mh34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbEqqIOUkE

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[Nook Color General] japzone:
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[Nook Color General] donballz:
How long till someone gets CM7 working on this?

:cool:
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Doubt it since there's no LCD display and it probably doesn't run Android, or at least a heavily modded version of Android.

I won't give up on it being Rooted eventually, but we'll have to see when it comes out.

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[Nook Color General] Bytion:
So it's like ppl guessed, an e-link pad.

I think I am good with my sony ereader, and 6 inch is a bit too small for me, in their website there isn't anything about hardware spec.

I was hoping for a new nook color, but I guess they need wait for the whole ipad2 things gone.
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
It's Android 2.1, as indicated during the post-announcement Q&A session. TI OMAP@800 MHz. 2GB onboard with uSD slot.

Rodney
[Nook Color General] dsf3g:
I read somewhere it's running 2.1. Not sure why you'd want to put CM7... or anything else on there, though... other than the "because it can be done" factor... like running MAME on your digital camera's LCD.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Yep it runs Android after I read the fine print so there's a good chance it'll be Rooted but I won't bet on it.

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[Nook Color General] japzone:
Remember only 2gb of Internal Mem. It also says that there'll be about 1gb free with possibly 750mb of that reserved for B&N content.

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[Nook Color General] japzone:
Sucks thetere won't be a Web Browser. Atleast, not at launch.

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[Nook Color General] I Am Marino:
Don't see the point of rooting this, with an e ink display.

Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
There's plenty of reasons, just think of what you could do on the Nook Original. With a Full eInk touchscreen you could be pretty creative.

Also this solves the Autograph problem. With a Touchscreen your favorite Author could literally sign your eBook. Hope B&N enable/allow this.

On a side note, I wonder what they're using for the touchscreen. Is it Infared like the new Kobo eReader?

EDIT: It does use Infared

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[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Do you mean "infrared," as in the wavelengths of red light beyond the visible spectrum?

Anyway, it looks better than a Kindle (fast page turns are huge), but I prefer having a single all-media device with LCD (like...Nook Color!).
[Nook Color General] technicalsquash:
I guess I'm not seeing the big problem with the e-ink display. Sure it isn't color, but I can think of a lot of uses for a smaller device with a much improved battery life.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
No one's objecting to the e-ink display, just saying it would be pointless to root it. I can see the appeal of e-ink, but for me there's more appeal in having fewer devices, and while e-ink is very good at what it does--displaying readable text without a backlight and without drawing power--it's not good for much of anything else.
[Nook Color General] B3RL1N:
There's your point for rooting it.

My reason for rooting would be to install an Android build with Market Support and Google Apps such as a browser or Google Reader, seeing as I'm an RSS junky this would be perfect for me. Either installing a clean slate build or modifying the default Nook rom to allow these features would make my life complete.

All I'd have to do is tether my EVO to my Nook E-reader and I'd be getting the best of both worlds. My EVO would be saving battery life versus normal operating condition because the screen would be off and my Nook would be almost as versatile for reading text as my EVO, but with much better battery life.

This is ALL about battery life, not overclocking, watching flash or playing Angry Birds. Rooting Android on an e-reader display is a whole new realm for XDA'ers to tinker with. What about optimizing Android Applications for E-ink displays? Imagine creating a Google Reader App specifically for E-ink that saves battery life and improves the reading experience?

I'm so excited by the prospect of an E-ink Android device. Used a few experimental handhelds at CES this year, but they were all in Chinese and frozen, so for B&N to release a name brand device that achieves this technology makes me all giddy.
[Nook Color General] pokey9000:
The "800MHz OMAP3" spec is almost certainly the same OMAP3621 we've been enjoying for the last 6 months. I'm interested to see if they made the microsd come before emmc in the boot order, and if the e-ink is just another framebuffer as on the original.
[Nook Color General] NewZJ:
2 month battery life /drooooooolllllllllll
[Nook Color General] frozenokie:
It really does look quite nice.

I can definitely see the advantages that could come from rooting it- though it would be nice if those just came standard. The opposition to a browser eating up the 3G data beyond its intended purpose isn't a factor when it's a 3G only device.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
I agree. Just because it can't show Animations/Video doesn't mean it's not worth it to Root. When I think about how much I use ReadItLater/Instapaper, Engadget, Cnet, Opera Mini, ect... Having an Android 2.1 eInk device with a Battery that lasts 1-2 months(WiFi On/Off) makes me drool.

Sucks that I probably won't be getting it because off my lack of disposable income. The only reason I have a Nook Color is because it was a gift(I don't even have a smartphone). But whenever I see gadgets like this compete, driving features up and prices down, I can't help but dream.

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[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
If I were in the market for an e-ink device, this one would be the obvious winner. B&N really seems like the only company entering either the e-book or tablet game with the mindset of giving the people what we want rather than telling us what we can have.
[Nook Color General] xmas_spirit:
no chess?

I mean, ok no browser... but simple app like chess I would welcome.

So I need to wait, until its rooted and I will definitely buy one. I love reading and I love chess :D
[Nook Color General] Gin1212:
Wow 2 month battery life... I would love to buy one of these o.o...
[Nook Color General] candre23:
Off the top of my head, to install a CBR/CBZ reader for manga (which is B&W) and a web browser (can't imagine why it doesn't come with one).

There are plenty of apps on the market - the real market, not the limited B&N version - that would still be quite usable and useful on an e-ink display. Rooting is the only way to get the market on this device, therefore rooting has a point.

Personally, I do very little reading on my NC, so this reader does not hold much interest for me. But for somebody who does want an e-reader for reading, this would be a big contender. More so with the enhanced functionality that comes with root access.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
I agree. Although I use Perfect Viewer for my Manga/Comic needs because of its many features.

I see a huge draw for the Read-Alot crowd(Any Print format counts). Combining the Nook 2 with ReadItLater(Offline Articles), Perfect Viewer(Manga Viewer), and Aldiko(For Library eBooks without Sideloading); with B&N Books, Magazines, and NewsPapers on an eInk screen would be a Reader's dream.

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[Nook Color General] greenmky:
I was actually thinking how cool a touch e-ink device would be as a car mp3 device. Nice great high contrast so you could pick songs and stuff.

Dunno if they could figure out how to do it, though. E-ink only refreshes when you do a page turn. Seems like it would be tricky to figure out.
[Nook Color General] moesasin:
That would be nice....but i don't think it has a headphone jack. Can anyone confirm?
[Nook Color General] B3RL1N:
Exactly, I read so much on the Google Reader webapp on my EVO that it's retarded. The only problem is that for every one or two minutes of viewing time with 3G enabled on my EVO I drop about 1% battery life. (It's that bad) This is a problem when you use the device to text, talk, send and receive e-mails, schedule dates and everything everything else that someone infatuated with technology may do with such an important device. My biggest peeve overall is battery life, the EVO's 4.3" screen being my anti-christ. (It's okay though, I love my phone and its screen)

An Android tablet with E-Ink has been my dream for past 6 months. I can't wait! The only thing between me and a pre-order right now is that I'm at least sane enough to wait for the thing to be released before I buy it, and the Kindle 3 and it's prospects. If Amazon does an Android e-ink device with a Cortex A9 (Versus the 8) the battery life maybe better if they scale down the transistor size, such as in the Tegra 2. (I'm not implying a Tegra 2 in an E-ink device, just a device with similar transistor size, because that would equate to the possibility of 60% battery life.)

Now on your Nook Color, that's actually a pretty nice device for someone who doesn't own an Android smartphone, seeing as there aren't any mainstream Non-Smartphone like devices running Android like the iPod Touch is to the iPhone. (Weren't they making a Galaxy S mp3 player?) Sure, it's no Xoom, but that thing is really expensive. Least you're booting CM7 off it. Things practically a smartphone without 3G and a bigger screen.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
I added some more video to the OP.

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[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
I Concur with you guys I primarily use my nook color for reading related tasks and if this new device can be sideloaded i will most definitely buy it.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/samsung-galaxy-player-4-and-5-hit-the-us-this-spring/
[Nook Color General] akaCat:
I could seriously see getting one of these for my parents and rooting it, so that dad doesn't have to haul the netbook out to the living room just to check the TV listings. And maybe mom will read her email more than once every two days.

I wonder what sort of battery life it would manage while running wifi? A couple of days, maybe?
[Nook Color General] NewZJ:
Reading the OP, it states 3 weeks with WiFi
[Nook Color General] Philomorph:
If it has infrared touch that would explain the low price point they were able to hit. But this likely isn't going to provide very high resolution touch, so you aren't going to have authors signing it with a stylus, or being able to drag objects around on the screen.

This is the same tech they used to have on CRT touchable kiosks, where it's mainly limited to pressing large buttons with a slow response time.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Even the Nook Color can't do much with a stylus.
[Nook Color General] basotl:
I would like to see how well the touch interface works. My wife loves her Nook so this might be a good present for her as an upgrade.
[Nook Color General] phenol312:
Was seriously considering the kindle for a gift until i heard about this...interestinggggg.

I wonder when B&N plans to use the Nook name to build a more robust nook color to compete with all the tegra2 and oak trail tablets set to come out or if they even have plans of entering that market at all.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
B&N have no intention of entering the Tablet market because they are focusing on the Reading crowd and the Nook Color is sort of a Niche product catering to the crowd who like to Read not Only Books but other content and maybe would like some brief entertainment.

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