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[Android General] PlanetJumble:
Confessions

I thought long and hard, and ordered a Galaxy S3. The long delays (and seeying my wife's Galaxy Nexus) made me hate my slow old (yes, despite AOKP) Galaxy S more and more. And since I have gotten so used to mod everything I like, it seems the Padfone's unique concept hinders that somewhat. I couldn't use the Launcher I want, at least for now, I couldn't use the keyboard I want, at least for now, and absoluteley zero dev support despite the device being available in small numbers for months now.

The GS3 got all sorts of dev attention even before the device was out, and right now it is flourishing. I really want to run Paranoid Android hybrid mode, but the hopes of getting that for the Padfone in phone mode seem pretty slim in the near to middle future. The GS3 has it all, and is just about guaranteed to receive massive support from the community for years to come. And at a price point of 490 Euro, I just couldn't hold myself back anymore. I won't have a tablet (mode) but I will have a bigger mobile screen to compensate a tiny bit for that, among other features.

That all is probably pretty boring to you all, I know, but rooting for and being at least verbally a supporter of the Padfone concept for so long, I felt like I had to write something like this. Hopefully, the Padfone idea is being implemented by other manufacturers or at least continued by Asus, as I still think it is great. Good luck to all (future) owners that all issues get sorted out and dev support eventually picks up. So long... :o
[Android General] ando roido:
So who else will join in to buy PadFone for Cyanogenmod team?
[Android General] oroo708:
true, even if Cell standby is a miscalculation how about the temperature and the mA?its 1.7'C , and 0mA.

or maybe its kernel error or battery problem??

For those who are having keyboard keep changing to chinese keyboard, here's a tip for you guy, get rooted and put your daily keyboard .apk into the system/app/

but here's one problem, some 3rd party app does not fully compatible with the dynamic changing display, as you know with the keyboard layout.

want to, but got no money :(
[Android General] danilos2k:
Me

+1

Inviato dal mio PadFone con Tapatalk 2
[Android General] Someone09:
Been having a weird problem since yesterday:

Every time I dock or undock the Phone to/from the Station the car mode switches on. Anyone know how I can deactivate this?
[Android General] Olkflx:
I used this on my Transformer Prime https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLkZSRUUuYW5kcm9pZC5sdmgiXQ.. .
[Android General] Someone09:
Yeah, used that one, too, for a while back on my Desire. But back then, it only worked with a Custom ROM.

Did you use it on stock ROM on the transformer?
[Android General] zechrisd:
The car mode switched on only once or twice since one week but not each time I dock padfone
[Android General] Olkflx:
Yes, it worked in stock rom.
[Android General] Someone09:
So, you don´t know how to disable this, either?

Thanks. Will try it lateron.
[Android General] exitido:
Yes, I've tried several times.

Today will call the courier to send my padfone and i will wait to buy another padfone in my country (spain)
[Android General] Olkflx:
If you find the padfone in a physical store, could you post the store name or send it in a PM to me? I'm from Spain too and I've been looking for the padfone last week, but the big stores did not know about the existence of this product, so I'm going to buy it in a Spanish online store (It should arrive at the store warehouse tomorrow).

I'm curious about where this thing can be found.
[Android General] Justin^Tan:
Finally I'm A Padfonian :D

although I got it used, and got dent on both upper right and left side, prolly from some beating of his children #sigh

But I got it pretty cheap, 32gb taiwanese version for the phone+pad+stylus for $550

now the thing is, i need a leather case to cover that dent :D

any suggestion?

I like the official case but from what I see, it doesn't cover the bezel, which happened to be the place that dent reside

so, any other case you might suggest?
[Android General] feeta:
64GB MicroSD Cards

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone has a 64gb MicroSD card working in their padfone and if so, what make/model? I can't seem to find details in this very long topic.

More specifically, I was looking at getting a "supaSD" 64gb MicroSD Card.

Many thanks in advance for your help.
[Android General] HelsinkiSisu:
I use SwiftKey and ran into problems initially. The main problem being that SwiftKey don't have a combined phone and tab app. Even though I owed the phone version, the keyboard was too small in tab mode. So I bought the Tab version too. The table version won't run in phone model and I had to manually change keyboard; a right PITA. The table app would keep crashing too. My end solution was to use Titanium to, first, uninstall the Chinese keyboards and then change SwiftKey tab into a system app. Finally I disabled the Asus and Android keyboards. Now SwiftKey tab is the 'default' keyboard and will automatically run in tab mode. Because it cannot run in phone mode, the keyboard automatically swaps to the other alternative: SwiftKey phone. :D You can only achieve this if your phone is rooted.

The only problem now is that sometimes the symbols vanish into a special top part of the keys that doesn't exist, leaving just the very bottom tip of the symbols visible! However, this is only a minor irritation.

As with many problems, the main issue is with an app that doesn't/can't adapt.
[Android General] phoxy84:
Where did you buy yours?
[Android General] Justin^Tan:
Like I said, it's used, not new

someone from my town bought it in taiwan, and then after some time he sold it, and i bought it
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
I get a similar issue with Swype. It works fine in phone mode, then I switch to tablet, and it's also fine, but once it's been in tablet mode, if I go back to the phone, it just won't pop-up the keyboard. I have to manually change to the ASUS one. Going back to tablet mode gets it working again.

I've made it a system app (it was even stranger before that) and removed the Chinese keyboards with Titanium.

Is this something that ASUS or Swype would need to fix?

Also, on an unrelated note, I'm sure it's in this monster thread somewhere, but does the phone take Micro SDXC? I believe the keyboard dock takes full size SDXC, but what about the phone?

Thanks :)
[Android General] starrwulfe:
I'm now coming to you from a brand new Padfone!!

This thing is smooth as ice for me in my first few hours of testing... but one major question... can I root *after* I update the firmware?
[Android General] Someone09:
Yes, you can. Just use the automated tool.
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Or root now, install OTA Rootkeeper, back up your root, install the OTA, restore your root.

I've never tried it, so it'll be nice to to know it works. If it doesn't, you can always root using this

EDIT: The SuperUser app itself claims to be able to protect root sometimes. I've never tried this either.
[Android General] lord_neno:
New delay of PadFone in Spain... you can not trust pccomponentes :(
[Android General] cty.stuart:
of course u can :)
[Android General] jokerigno:
Still cannot believe that my padfone doesn't work. Anyone knows where i can download the latest ww firmware??:banghead:
[Android General] exitido:
I have been scammed!!?? ( i think...)

Ok, we will wait to the next thusday to see what happens.

Labscom

labscom

i buyed a padfone broken to labscom

labscom say me that i must send the padfone first and later he send me the money

now i send the phone to italy and labscom reject to refund the money to paypal, he say that he colleague have buyed a padfone and the padfone work correctly and ask me if i contact with asus! (when before he say me that i must return the padfone to him)

He say me first that i must send the phone.

Now i dont have phone and dont have money!
[Android General] SparkyRih:
They say that their suplier is the problem: http://www.padfoneclub.com/news.php?item.13.1

So as I understand correctly:

You did send the Padfone, so it is back with labscom, but labscom doesn't send the money?

Do you still have the serial numbers?
[Android General] exitido:
the padfone is on the way, i send the tracking number to labscom.

When labscom have the tracking number, i receive a paypal message saying that labscom have rejected to refund the money.

Yes, i have the serial number of the padfone, what can i do?
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Did you send the whole package or just the phone?
[Android General] exitido:
Yes, i send all, the phone and the tablet
[Android General] SparkyRih:
PayPal has some kind of buyers protection somewhere, I guess you can call PayPal about this, see what they can do for you... Let me know how everything turns out, and if PayPal can help you...

And I've added a warning about Labscom on Padfone Club...
[Android General] exitido:
thanks, i will post all news here.

first i say to labscom that my padfone dont work correctly and i want a refund, later i receive that:

"Dear Customer,

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to receive the goods must be resalable.

Once we receive the product it will be checked.

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The product must be in good condition. Must not have scratches or blows.

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I confirm that the product will be checked thoroughly by our technical department.

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I confirm that when we send back the goods will have to use a courier like DHL or UPS.

The shipment must be insured.

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If the shipment is not insured and unfortunately there may be problems, and what the responsibility of the person who did not secure the shipment.

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I'm sorry for all these recommendations, but are necessary in these cases.

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I ask the courtesy to write this statement on the package:

"RETURN PRODUCT CODE: (deleted)"

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Certainly his understanding Best regards.

"

Now, the padfone is on the way to italy, so i send a email to labscom with the tracking number.

Hours later i receive from paypal a message that say that labscom reject to give me a refund, and this message from labscom:

PAYPAL MESSAGE:

"Labscom di ******* ****** ha rechazado la solicitud de exitido de un reembolso a €699,00 EUR."

(labscom di **** have rejected the refund of 699euros)

Labscom message from paypal:

"When a product like this doesn't work, it is preferable call Asus and make a Warranty. My colleague has purchased the same product, and his product works correctly.

Do you have called Asus?

"

WTF? why now you reject the refund??

I receive the message from labscom saying that reject the refund at 18:39

at 18:40 i ask to labscom:

"PLEASE ANSWER

you say that i must return the padfone, why now you reject to refund the money?

"

now its 20:12 and i dont have response
[Android General] SparkyRih:
You don't need to contact asus, in fact you can't (I tried: http://www.padfoneclub.com/news.php?extend.9), Asus will tell you that your seller (labscom) has to contact asus and he has to send it to the RMA...

Stay calm and wait for his response...
[Android General] exitido:
Yes, before contact with labscom, i contact with asus, and asus says exactly the same.

asus says:

"Estimado cliente,

En este caso, por favor, contacte con su punto de venta / distribuidor para gestionar la garantía del equipo.

Lamentamos las moléstias causadas"

(Dear Customer,

In this case, please contact your dealer / distributor to manage the equipment warranty.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused)

Later i send this to labscom:

"Hi, i want to return the padfone to you and give a refund.

The padfone dont work properly.

-the phone inside the tablet overheats and turn off the padfone station

-With the ac plugged directly to the phone, the phone drains battery, only can charge the phone if the screen is off and stand-by, impossible charge and play.

-With the tablet station at 100% of battery, if i put the phone inside the tablet station, the phone drains battery and turn off the padfone station, even when the tablet station is still a lot of battery (80-90%...)

I contact with asus and asus says that i must contact with my provider

.Please give me instructions to send you the padfone and the tablet station thanks."
[Android General] theligu:
I've got Tasker to recognize if the phone is docked into the station.

I started with this because with Nova launcher we cant have one set of homescreens on the phone and one indocked mode.

Its a dirty hack with root, busybox, shell script and tasker but it works ;)

So now l have nova with two sets of home screens and bluetooth activated when docked so headset is connected.

Just got it working so havn't tried anything else but with tasker we can have one keyboard in phone and one in dock, different ringtones, wallpapers and anything that tasker can do.

If there is intrest l could write something down on how to do this.
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Here it is already :P

http://www.padfoneclub.com/pl/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?206
[Android General] Alle090:
I got Advance Launcher and the fun thing is that if in tablet mode the whole desktop is displayed, but in phone mode its only the top left area. With all the important things in top left and the rest scattered around I only get what I need in the phone.
[Android General] oroo708:
Could you explain a bit more detail about nova launcher??

what actually did you manage to do??
[Android General] commensal:
They certainly wait to see how is your padfone before accept the refund!!
[Android General] exitido:
but, why they dont wait to my padfone is there and later reject the refund if its not ok?

And dont know why they ask me if i contact with asus when in my first mail i say that i contacted with asus and asus say me that i must contact with my seller.

Now its on hands of paypal.

Ok, we will wait more, but is very strange that reject the refund just when i send the tracking number and not before.
[Android General] commensal:
Please delete this. We'd better wait. It's normal that Labscom want to check the package before. I Had a real good deal with this seller...
[Android General] theligu:
Quite simple hack of mount with bind, two diferent folders of nova application data that you alternate via tasker.

Wen docked you unmount the app data folder mounted in /data/data/com.teslacoil....., mount the one with your settings in tablet mode and finally restart nova. You will have to store two folders with app data on internal sd or card.
[Android General] Raolin72:
Massive Problem with Padfone Station

Hi!

I got mine from Estonia, great service, nice device. But after playing aroud a couple of minutes, updating, installing etc. the station startet flickering pixels and wrong colors:

These are not defective pixels, if i open a picture with blurry and flickering edges and zoom in, i also zoom the flickering...

Please see attachments.

After this i reinstalled the original Firmware, but its not better.

The phone itself is behaving fine.

Any help would be great!

Best regards

Raolin72
[Android General] oroo708:
don't just rush things out so quickly, we don't even know the conclusion yet...just wait and be patient.

anyhow, I'm a more fan with apex launcher, so how does apex launcher really work??

another question or a poll for all padfonians here,

which do you guys prefer?? a launcher with:-

a- different screen layout for phone and tablet mode, (ie the stock launcher).

b- a same home screen projection for the phone and tablet with some tweak for more efficiency usage. but need some ideas on how to work it out.

c- other statement??

---------- Post added at 03:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:40 AM ----------

seems like you manage on dividing the launcher data for phone and tablet mode, am I correct??

NWY would you mind explaining more detail on how did you do it?? or perhaps you would want PM me??
[Android General] exitido:
I hope to be owned, but when i saw that he rejected the refund without waiting to arrive the padfone i was afraid

If i have new notices about that i will post here, my courier says that the padfone must reach napoles the next thursday, but it possible to reach destiny 1 day before.
[Android General] oroo708:
they can't give any refund yet if the device is not even in their hands. they might even have to check the device first,then they will consider about refund, have lil faith in yourselve.

:fingers-crossed:
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Yeah I did that already, I was to quick, I see that there probably is a little misunderstanding between the two... Everything will turn out fine in time...
[Android General] theligu:
In Tasker:

Task 1: (Name: SetNovaTablet)

This to be done when tasker finds out that the phone is docked.

1. Run Shell: busybox umount -l /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher (Root)

- To clean up mount to phone data

2. Create Directory: /mnt/sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/tablet

- the base dir is where nova stores backups of userdata, so I think it makes sense to use that. The final folder"tablet" is where nova will store the data from docked mode. If this dir exists tasker will pop up a nasty message but these messages can be disabled in settings.

3. Run Shell: rm -r /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/* (Root)

- Cleanup, if nova wrote some data in original dir.

4. Run Shell: mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/tablet /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher (Root)

- All access to /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher (standard nova settings dir) is now forwarded to /mnt/sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/tablet where the tablet data is.

5. Kill App: Nova Launcher (Root)

6. Go Home

- Restart Nova so the "new" app data can be read.

Task 2: (Name: SetNovaPhone)

This to be done when tasker finds out that the phone is undocked.

1. Run Shell: busybox umount -l /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher (Root)

2. Create Directory: /mnt/sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/phone

- now the phone data dir is created

3. Run Shell: rm -r /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/* (Root)

4. Run Shell: mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/phone /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher (Root)

5. Kill App: Nova Launcher (Root)

6. Go Home

Maybe this works with Apex also, they are quite like....

One setting for tablet and one for phone, is really like stock but l like the extra features of nova (icon themes, hide apps in drawer, no of homescreens, grid size).
[Android General] exitido:
Yes, i want to say that he might wait padfone came to him and refuse to refund then and not reject it now. He could wait until the Thursday to take the decission.

And when i asked why he rejected my refund proposition (one minute later from the last message) i dont get answer :(

Now must be paypal who decides.
[Android General] theligu:
Yes so I see, but as l understand it the keyboard popup will popup when you charge your phone aswell (not in tablet)??
[Android General] oroo708:
Never thought tasker would be handy in this situation, but have you ever explore the stock launcher and what makes it do its job like this without tasker?

have been searching for couple days now, but my hands are prety tight with other works.
[Android General] theligu:
No I havn't.... But it must be hard coded more or less like this. Don't you think?

Two profiles it changes between.

Looked in to tasker and changing default home apps but tasker laks support. Would be cool to run new touchwiz on phone and go launcher hd in tab mode.......

Maybe we can get that and more if we start porting cm.
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Not bad... is there any way to get Tasker to actually change the keyboard for you, rather than just prompt?

Well yeah, but that's not a huge problem. I've pretty much given up on charging my phone separately now. I stick it in the station overnight and charge them both together, and it doesn't need any more than that. And it won't prompt if you plug it into a PC.
[Android General] theligu:
Change the keyboard is probably a no go havn't looked into it yet, security issue i think.....

My setup detects the station so just charging the phone don't alter anything, but as you say charging tablet and phone together is my choice aswell.
[Android General] SparkyRih:
"Another limitation is that Android does not allow changes to the input method without user interaction, so the best we can do is display the input method chooser after docking or undocking"

I'm not the one who wrote that topic, and I didn't try it myself (yet), so you should ask the poster... But it may be possible with a rooted phone I guess?
[Android General] oroo708:
Yeah, and I'm no devs, really pissing me of just searching for it :eek:

but will search for it..

Who says there is limitation in android?? You could do anything as long as you have the brain and the source code to make apps work like that...
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Now that you say that, I seem to recall something similar with the TF101 when it used to prompt for the ASUS keyboard when you docked the tablet into the keyboard.

Darn. I just want ASUS or Swype to fix whatever needs fixing so it works when switching between tab and phone :(
[Android General] SparkyRih:
I guess you missed the part where I wrote that it should be possible wit ha rooted phone?
[Android General] TNTPOP:
Hi,

Has anyone had battery issues due to roaming?

In France my operator uses a third party network and therefor the phone is often roaming. Looking at the battery usage, I have mainly "GSM Standby" with 95% for 7h33min and 36% remaining battery.
[Android General] zechrisd:
I don't know if it's an issue but I'm also free and I have to plug battery each day with a normal use.

With my previous phone (Samsung nexus S) I had to charge the battery twice a day. Since I have the padfone I gave my nexus S for my wife and she can use her phone all day long without charging.
[Android General] TNTPOP:
So it's more of an network problem rather than a phone problem.

I would have hated to have the same issue as my 2y old HTC desire ;)
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Padfone gets update to Android 4.0.4
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Downloading now.

Here's hoping that OTA Rootkeeper or SuperUser will do what they're supposed to...
[Android General] SparkyRih:
It introduces a new android verison, and the kernel seems to be slightly updated... let me know...
[Android General] HelsinkiSisu:
My update aborted. Think it didn't like the missing system apps... :p
[Android General] Someone09:
Well, you just gotta love Asus for their update policy.

Still, I´ll be waiting for some feedback before updating. ;)
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Damn, same here...

Anyone able to provide a list of what apps it's looking for? I thought I had backups for all of them, but apparently not :/
[Android General] danilos2k:
No update for european version :mad:

Inviato dal mio PadFone con Tapatalk 2
[Android General] HelsinkiSisu:
Although, interestingly, it now tells me there is no update available...
[Android General] SparkyRih:
European version will probably be available in a couple of days...
[Android General] phoxy84:
When I go to firmware update I cannot check for new versions (no button) and I get a message to wait of close....
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Mmm, now it's failed it's also deleted the OTA. Whoops.

Oh well, I'm sure someone will helpfully copy it out of the /cache file before running it and post it up here.

Right guys? :)
[Android General] phoxy84:
Where does the phone store the downloaded ota (temporary) ?

Ok, cleared data for dmclient and asusfirmware and downloading again
[Android General] acky85:
Let me know how and I'll try when the update comes across.

Just spotted this on Engadget too. Where is our update Asus

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/20/...ean-update-transformer-prime-transformer-pad/
[Android General] SparkyRih:
My cache is empty... If I knew this I would've saved it first...
[Android General] phoxy84:
Stuck at 99%
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
It's in /cache - I use Root Explorer which can see all system files and folders.

I'm sure they're working on it, as proved by the fact they've just dropped 4.0.4 on us.

I forgot :(
[Android General] Peter_Nik:
Got OTA, successfully updated (TW firmware).
[Android General] phoxy84:
Lol, me to. Turns out, battery was not full enough