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[Acer Iconia A500] metpolds:
Hope this helps somebody.

For anyone who wants to see the contents of their sd card on their PC and be able to copy/transfer files from one to the other, why not give this a try, it is very simple and works for my A500.

Before you start you need your A500 to be rooted and you need "USB Mount All version 1.3" from the Market cost $1.99

(1) Have your PC switched on, don't connect your A500 yet but switch the A500 on.

(2) Run USB Mount All and you will see your sd card as a "Device" named "ext_sdcard".

(3) Press the tab "Mount" next to your ext_sdcard. You will see two messages "Mount has been granted Superuser permission" and "Device successfully mounted".

(4) Press the "Settings" tab in the top Right hand corner of the screen, this opens a small box entitled "Settings". Press on "Settings" and you get 3 options, make certain all 3 options are ticked, ticking them if they are not. (The important thing is to have "Mount on Bootup" ticked"). Press the Back Arrow twice to get back to Home Page or where ever you started from.

(5) Re-boot the A500 and after it is back running connect it to your PC using mini usb connector.

(6) Now check your PC and open Windows Explorer, you will find under your A500 Device most of the folder/directories that are in /mnt/sdcard (which isn't all that relevent to this) BUT importantly you will find a folder/directory entitled "ext_sdcard" which for those of you who noticed is the exact name that "USB Mount All" called your sd card.

(7) Now use Windows Explorer to copy and paste whatever you want into the "ext_sdcard" folder.

(8) Please note that when you start to copy files you will get up a warning box stating "Do you want to copy XXXXX to your device?". You are given 2 choices (1) No skip this file or (2) Yes.

(9) Put a tick in the box at the bottom Left and click on "Yes".

(10) When finished safely disconnect your A500 from your PC and re-boot your A500.

Your Done. If you use any File Explorer to look at /mnt/external_sd you will see all the files residing on your sd card including those you've just copied.

So far this method has survived at least 15 reboots (as a test) on my A500 and touch wood, all files are still there and still functioning as they should do (games, movies etc).

I hope this works for other people and takes away some of the frustration.
[Acer Iconia A500] bpivk:
Nice find! I used Mount All but this is much better (and simpler).
[Acer Iconia A500] metpolds:
Thanks bpivk appreciate it. I was pleased to finally work it out after that crap I posted earlier.
[Acer Iconia A500] x86cpu:
Without tasker...

Since you have root, just make a script like this without using tasker:

# cat /etc/install-recovery.sh

#!/system/bin/sh

MOUNTS="TitaniumBackup dropbox Music"

for MOUNT in ${MOUNTS} ; do
while [ ! -d /data/Removable/MicroSD/${MOUNT} ] ; do
sleep 1
done
if [ ! -d /sdcard/${MOUNT} ] ; then
mkdir /sdcard/${MOUNT}
fi
CHECK=`/system/bin/mount | egrep -c "/mnt/sdcard/${MOUNT} vfat"`
if [ ${CHECK} -eq 0 ] ; then
mount -o bind /data/Removable/MicroSD/${MOUNT} /sdcard/${MOUNT}
fi
done

Just make sure you keep a copy of this laying around in case it disappears. It should mount what you need as defined in the MOUNTS variable to the /sdcard area.
[Acer Iconia A500] metpolds:
@x86cpu - I appreciate what you've written and I'm certain it can help some people. Unfortunately it is above my level of knowledge and understanding which is the reason I attacked the problem from a more simple, straightforward and "unscripted" angle.
[Acer Iconia A500] Penguin_be:
This thread is almost a year old, but still... ;)

I try to do something similar.

That is, I mounted some networkdrives containing my mp3's pictures and movies.

First thing I did was mounting them direcly under the music folder (/mnt/sdcard/Music/myshare)

Via Astro and console I can see the mounted share and its content, but when using a music player it's not seeing the folder.

I tried symlinking it, did'nt work. Did some google, found this, works, but same result for the build-in apps.

They refuse to read the mounted folders.

Anyone a clue?

thx

some extra info: local disk is internal sdcard = fuse, mounted shares are cifs (didn't get the nfs working :( )
[Off-topic] sohanlon07:
There are tooooooo many of you with your little black rule books and inability to help a guy out without the standard "use the search. . ." response. A more friendly, tolerant atmosphere is required. Discuss.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
If you used the search function, you would already find a thread about us assholes.
[Off-topic] BeerChameleon:
roflmfao :D:D:D:D:D:D
[Off-topic] sohanlon07:
I think the term is QED ASSHOLES
[Off-topic] JDM Civic EG8:
There has been a lot of a$5holes lately on this forum though. I understand some of the seniors get mad at noobs for not searching or what not. But what if that person you are flamming become the new top developers you know? I know its not going to be the case with every noob but you never know

Sent from My Synergy Powered EVO
[Off-topic] jaszek:
The amount of assholes increased due to the amount of noobs. For every 8 noobs there is one asshole. I remember back in '08, when this forum was still only about WinMo phones, it was much better, and many more people used the search function, and only posted when they had to.
[Off-topic] JDM Civic EG8:
Understandable :)

Sent from My Synergy Powered EVO
[Off-topic] reaper7881:
Use the search this is a double post.......... lol
[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
You are doing this wrong.

Adios,

Thread closed.
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
For those lurking in this forum that haven't quite made up their minds, this may help:

http://deals.ebay.com/5000040162_Acer_Iconia_Tab_A500_10_1in_16GB_Androi d_3_0_Tablet

$380 for 16gb A500 including free shipping. $70 off the regular retail price.
[Acer Iconia A500] Enectic:
A little late :).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122511
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Shoot! Didn't see it in a search! :mad:
[HTC Sensation] zahashingo123:
i was speed testing my sensation against my friends' iphone 4 and nexus one on the browser but lost be a few seconds. we were on the same network with flash off. tried this a few times but always lost.

even slower than the single core 1ghz xperia arc while sensation is dual core 1.2ghz

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=ikR4CBhqQck

towards the end is the browser test

anyone else have this?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matin_sb:
I am having issues connecting to my corporate network which apparently uses the 802.X EAP authenitication protocol ( Either LEAP or PEAP, most probably PEAP)

I have used all the work arounds given in various forums that is changing the wpa_supplicant.conf file and non seems to work with me. The phone tries to connect to network but after some time is just says scanning... but never connects to the network... at home i can connect to my 802.11 g network flawlessly.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sharkmob.FullWifi

It's a free app with leap, peap 3 types of eap as well as various pairing and cifers.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanchigo:
Great. Thax mate. will try 2morrow when i go to Uni:D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
Samsung has released the open-source portions of the Infuse 4G OS and made it available for download at their Open Source Release Center website. As is always the case, this isn't something that you can download and flash to your phone, it's code for developers to use to rebuild or tweak the system. Everyone else just needs to sit tight, and feel good that Samsung is doing the right thing without needing to be reminded for a few months -- or years.

If you are the developer type, you can hit the source link and search for SGH-I997 to get to the download and release notes. Then get busy!

Source: Samsung open Source Release Center

http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-releases-infuse-4g-open-source-code
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rjan22:
Thus this means Gingerbread is coming? Ooh I am so hungry. Thanks Sammy, that's how it should be.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
there has been source code for several weeks now, this may be for the new update, or more sources are open but dont think for a second it means gingerbread.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rjan22:
Oh well thought this was the kernel. Hehe
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
there has been kernel source, but it takes alot more than that to port a 2.3 kernel to the phone. someone would need a lot of knowledge and experience with android kernels and a lot of time.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.runaway:
Hi . I have a wifi only xoom . Just upgraded to hc3.1

I saw many threads in here with sd issues in hc3.1 and how to fix

but some are saying it could brick the xoom :D

so , I want to know the good way to do that .

which kernel and boot.img should I use ?

please provide me with their links ;)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burden010:
You already have 3.1 installed so follow this guide only from step 4. You don't need to do steps 1-3.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14237506&postcount=7
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rschenck:
The instructions Burden gave you above are correct, just follow each set as closely as you can and you will be fine. THe key steps are 1) Unlocking the Xoom, 2) Rooting the Xoom, 3) Installing Clockwork Mod and 4) Installing the Tiamat Boot image and Kernel.

As for bricking your Xoom due to the SD card, don't worry the Xoom is nearly unbrickable. The only way I know of to do that is by trying to Partition the SD card using Clockwork Mod, so avoid that. Word to the wise...NEVER try to partition your SD card on the Xoom, there is no need to do it.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.runaway:
I did download and installed the kernel . but still my xoom dose not see the sdcard . I created folders with sdcard2 and external but same thing nothing changed
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.runaway:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075260
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newtybar:
When watching streaming videos from websites is it pixelated on your device? I'm watching anime and dramas on sites and they are blockish looking. It did this on my pc back in the day with older divx/flash plugins as well.

(This isn't the case for sites like Youtube, etc. It is mainly on the anime sites).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibo:
It's because the resoluton of the video you are streaming is not high enough.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finalhit:
then the problem are with the videos you're watching. they must just be low-quality.

also, some sites stream lower quality videos depending on your connection speed, that can another thing to consider.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newtybar:
It's not those kind of squares that result from low quality vids.

The vids look fine on my desktop running at higher res.

These are little tiny squares.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finalhit:
try posting a screenshot.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chungylau:
The TF is terrible in playing flash videos via browsers. Check the videos on this site, for instance:

http://www.ittf.com/ittv/

I also cannot play any flash video on the espn3 site on the TF. On my other computers, all these videos play smoothly. Even on my Gingerbread Nook Color and on the 2.2 HTC Thunderbolt, they play smoothly.

Apparently the Xoom or the Galaxy Tab has no trouble playing flash. So something's wrong with the Asus implementation.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpavich:
I watched a vid on that site on my TF and my laptop..

Those videos are low quality and the TF looked better than my laptop..(it was smaller)

I've streamed videos from youtube and vimeo and they look great. it all depends on what's going in...to determine what's going out.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xufuchang:
yes I found it pixelated too. tried dolphin HD and the video quality is worst than playing it on stock browser. I downloaded the video file (using firefox plugin), the quality is much better played on stock video player. so I presume the flash player used by the browsers are set to certain quality.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogmar:
Has anyone tried Ustream? I want to use Ustream but no joy,is there a fix for this?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibo:
What's the problem with Ustream ? It's working fine here.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LZLandingZone:
I get pixelation when viewing ad videos on websites. Doesn't bother me at all.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentMobius:
The Tegra2 does seem to do less deblocking that you might get on a system with more spare CPU power. Nothing to do with "pixelation" though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] got_rice64:
I'm currently out at a client site, but it's super bad reception here in the conference room they stuck us in. First of all, no 4G in colorado springs, so i disabled LTE, and hit CDMA in the network settings.

3G is near impossible inside, so i usually get 1X, and voice connection is next to impossible also.

So i noticed that from unplugging in the morning at 7:30am. at around 2pm, my battery was already down to 10%!

And i didn't even use it.

I did see from my battery usage, that Android system was ABOVE screen in power usage.

Anyone have the same issue?
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
I've had the same problem with EVERY phone ever, even non-smartphones have this problem. The lower the signal, the more the phone will scan for a good signal. If it has no service, it scans very frequently. If you're on a smartphone, it's even worse because then when the phone does get service, all the data apps attempt to use what little bandwidth you do have all at once. If you're in an area with poor coverage, put your phone into download mode or disable the data connection. Nothing short of putting a network extender or new tower will solve this.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stranula:
Yes, but this is typical of most phones really. Searching for a signal, acquiring it, losing it, etc, uses a lot of battery. You just have to disable data. If there is wifi available, then use that, if not, just have to wait until you go outside. I have no reception in my building at work, if I leave data on, my battery is dead in a couple hours, on wifi I can go all day
[Verizon Droid Charge] Khanusma:
Yes and my phone got very hot in my pocket at the time as well.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
I have this issue at work. I get anwhere from 10-15% battery drain an hour. I have determined that it is NOT because of the data signal though becuase I can turn that off and still get about the same excessive drain. It appears to be because of the voice signal. It varies anywhere from -85dm to -115dbm and is constantly changing. When I get outside of work environment, everthing is fine again and battery usage returns to normal. My Droid X did not have this issue.:confused:
[Verizon Droid Charge] Samsuck:
-115db? How do you have signal at that rating? lol. Phone gets to about 1 bar when it reaches 101 for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Bear55:
I have the same issue in my office. I just barely get voice/text service. My solution is to turn off mobile data and plug my phone in to balance out the battery drain from the weak signal. I know it is bad to have my phone plugged in all of the time but it is better to be able to have sms and not have a dead phone when I am done at work.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
Yeah. Tell me about it. I am using Mobile Signal Widget to measure this. When It gets that bad, a little android face appears in the widget and it is crying.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Racer447:
YES! easily drains 10-15% an hour at a local pub that has 1 bar of signal.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
It makes perfect sense... Your phone is fighting hard for that signal.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Verizon Droid Charge] Joelpatrick:
I drive 50+ miles to get to work and I always notice it drains a lot during my commute even when not used. I figured it was because of all the cell site swaps and searches bc I'm sure there's some spotty areas.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Same experience. Dropped to 5% in 9 hours yesterday when I forgot to turn off data while at work. Today, I'm still at 75% after 9 hours with data off.

Juice defender solved this on my fascinate. It turned data on only once every 30 minutes. But, I can't get it to turn my data back on with this phone.

I really wish data signal aggressiveness was managed better by the operating system. It could be a real boon to the average battery life. Perhaps a smart developer could come up with some sort of "conservative" governor for 3g/4g connections. Rather than increasing power draw, it could just "sleep" until a stronger signal is detected... Imnuts? Is this even possible or just a pipedream?
[Verizon Droid Charge] tonsit:
I can't reach my dad on his cell phone while at the pentagon for obvious reasons. He has to turn his phone off during the day or it'll die in a few short hours, as a previous poster mentioned searching for a signal is a huge battery drain.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
Strange. I did not have this problem with my OG Doid or Droid X in the same environment. Maybe the Moto phones simply have a better radio than the Charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
Yeah for some reason, the samsung radio are junk. I have my Droid Charge (personal) and an Lg phone (business) and the lg blows the sammy out of the water. Now i am in 3g fringe (forget about 4g), and the sammy loses data all together while my lg still has the signal. I hate when i am trying to search for something on the charge and it says connection failed or network unavailable retry. Even when i call verizon, they all have me do a reset and stuff, and nothing works. The best answer i get is that iam in a 3g fringe area. When i tell them that my lg works and still has signal, all i get is silence or hmmmmmm. Gota love it. Yes they exchanged the phone with a new one and it still does the same thing. Forget about battery life. I actually carry 3 batteries with me and on a good day i only use 2 but usually it is 3. Before anyone says use wifi, unfortunatly we do not have free wifi where i work. anyway that should not be the answer to this problem. We are paying for a service that i can barely use.

end rant. :mad:
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
I went through the whole VZW customer service thing both on the phone and in person. They weren't much help but they gave me a brand new phone and it does the same thing. Then there were a lot of suggstions on different forums suggesting apps killers, turning data off, turing on 3g only data, rooting, trying different ROMs, battery clalibration, etc. None of this helps. The kind of drain I am seeing goes way beyond any benefits I would see out of any of these things. For example, I am at work now. When I left the house, it takes about 15 minutes for me to get to work. The rest of the time I have been inside my work building. I have been on battery for 2 hours & 24 minutes and I am at 76% already. Thats >10% drain per hour. When I am outside the building it is more like 3-5%. VZW customer service never suggested this as a problem. They DID suggest that 4g uses more battery but that is not the problem. I have proved that time and again by simply turning data off.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jpog:
Hmm..sounds like a bad phone..I am in a fringe area at work and it definitely kills by battery faster but..it's only like 8% and hour so I still get 10 hrs a day or so...in a bad area. In a good 4 G area..I will get 24 hrs or so out of the phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BeefJerky9:
Wow, that is the complete opposite of my experience. I've never had good signal with any LG phone - from flip phones to smartphones. Samsungs in my experience are middle of the road - not great, but not bad either. Motorolas usually do well, but there are certainly exceptions. HTC seems to be fairly good, but again, there are exceptions. Oh, and I did have one Audiovox phone on VZW, and it was garbage.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Haha you can whine about it in my rage thread

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlee1999:
I am looking to buy a second hand SGSII. In trying to confirm the data bands for me the box seems to only list 900/1900/2100. The model shows GT-i9100. I need 850 for ATT in he states. I could not confirm on Google if this should be quad-band. Anyone have any idea? Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3waygeek:
The I9100 (at least the versions I've seen) support the 850 MHz band -- I've using an EU version on AT&T for 3 weeks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjjensen23:
Will confirm that. Got mine on release from handtec. Works on 850mhz here in AUS on telstra
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlee1999:
Thanks guys. Not sure why the box is not clearly marked. Supposed to be from UK thecarphonewarehouse.

Sent from my Samsung 10.1
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rauelius:
So if you had to pick one which would you pick? A genuine gingerbread release, but with most of the same problems as the Froyo build that came with the phone. OR a Froyo update that fixes EVERYTHING and the phone runs smoothly, but your missing some of the niceties that GB provides. I don't think that either case is happening (personally I think that the GB update will include the fixes) but just wondering about this hypothetical situation what this board would pick?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] coocookuhchoo:
If battery life is one of the problems that would get fixed, then 2.2 fix all the way
[T-Mobile LG G2x] c19932:
of course the froyo with all fixes
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rauelius:
Same here, Froyo with all the fixes. But bear in mind, when GB is out the Community would likely issue fixes for it, like they got my G2X working with the Navi and Post-dex-opt fix.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
There's nothing mind-blowing about gingerbread, just fix the bugs.. Dont care what version it is.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] player911:
Cm7 gingerbread with all the fixes...

LG G2x CM7 2.3.4
[T-Mobile LG G2x] eagle1967:
exactly

i have been trying to figure out this gingerbread love affair. I just see nothing in gingerbread that makes makes me want to deal with any problems with it if froyo does not have the problem. i would actually perfer a froyo release with a good baseband that keeps 4g connnected all the time. if this comes with gingerbread than fine.

Just fix the baseband and the drivers for bluetooth,wifi and gps and were good.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rauelius:
I couldn't agree with you more. I have GB one my Nexus One and other than the better copy paste and the nice glowing effect I get when I scroll too far, I dont think I'm missing much, Id much prefer bug fixes. I missed getting video of a UFO today. It was really good too... I knew I should have used my trusty N1 today.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jalshah05:
I agree with you but I read somewhere that Gingerbread can make use of Dual-Core cpu in a better way than Froyo. If that is true than this blazing fast phone will be faster imo. Also, I never had any reboot or SOD issues with my phone. Everything just works perfect for me. Fingers Crossed.... :-) So I am just waiting for Gingerbread to see the real potential of this BEAST!!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] AriaNoob:
I agree...only thing that GB has to make me want it is the better copy/paste...so they should just fix the damn bugs and I'm happy.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] sancmat:
I found a real nice Messenger bag that works perfect for my TF (and my G Tab for that matter). The case can be found at Office Depot and is branded Ativa Mobil-IT. I can't find anything online for this case and I can't figure out who really makes it.

They have a 10.1" netbook messenger bag that is a perfect fit for my tablets. Plenty of storage space for other items like my headphones, spare battery for phone, chargers and usb cables. Ironically it does not fit my 10.1" netbook.

I'm going to do a video review but I am waiting for my keyboard before I do that.