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[Eee Pad Transformer General] noswald:
I use Exchange and the stock client on the TF is limited to 30 days, but it is not a setting on the server as far as I know since I am able to pull all email regardless of date on my iOS device. I'm curious if there is a way to change this with the stock client since it seems to work well for what I need it to.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seedofchaos:
I just got one of these badboys a hour ago and i realize that i have a dead pixel. Question is is there any Way to get it working or do I need to exchange it
[Eee Pad Transformer General] turbulent28:
Theres a few apps in the market that attempt to fix the pixel if its simply stuck..or you could try youtube.

Look for dead pixel fixvideos.play them in full screen.

If it doesnt work, just return it. Same reason i retuned it to walmart and bought it at microcenter
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Gabes Dad:
I've been doing lots of research lately to find a tablet for my wife - primarily for work, but also for play. She currently has an old Dell laptop and iPhone 4 for reference. She would be using this new machine to input information as she travels from patient to patient (whether in the car or the office), so portability, battery life, and quick input (aka touch input) are key features.

I've narrowed it down to 3 machines:

HP 2740p (12.1" capacitive screen, windows 7, convertible tablet)

Lenovo X201t (12.1" capacitive screen, windows 7, convertible tablet)

Asus eee pad Transformer 32GB + laptop dock

I know these are quite different machines, basically either a small, but powerful and much more expensive, Windows 7 laptop or a smaller, efficient, relatively powerful (for Android) tablet. I have no problem maintaining / tweaking / hacking both android tablets and Windows 7 tablets and getting them into a more user friendly state for my wife to use, so that's not really an issue.

My question is does anyone have side by side experience with the TF and either the HP or Lenovo? The screens on the windows tablets are matte and do ok outdoors, but how would the TF with a matte screen protector perform outdoors? Is the TF 10.1" screen too small for work? My wife primarily uses the laptop for low complexity word processing and spreadsheets (so a keyboard is crucial), email communications, and internet research, but I am sure how she uses it will change as we explore touch input - so is Android Honeycomb (currently) too limiting? I know my program possibilties are much more capable with a windows machine, but do we really need those. I've read that many have basically replaced their netbook / laptop with the TF, but I think this is based on how one needs to use the machine.

We will also be using this for some personal use (i.e., playing netflix, entertaining the kids, ebook reading, etc.) so that plays into some.

Thanks for any insight one can offer. I'm trying to keep costs out of the decision and get what she needs, but for what it's worth I can get the TF 32GB + keyboard dock for $650 shipped vs a refurbished HP 2740p with an i5 560M for $1,050 + extended slim battery (~10 hrs) for $100 + 1.8" 60GB SSD for $140 = total just under $1,300 and just over 4.5 pounds for somewhat similar battery life and bootup / resume speed as the TF.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] PhoenixFx:
YES, Honeycomb is too limiting; the office suits available for it are only good for viewing and small quick edits. Despite having a touch screen, even the smallest word processing task takes too much time. Therefore I wouldn't recommend an Android Tablet for office related tasks.

EDIT : If cost is a factor, then get a 10" netbook, that would be far more efficient than a Transformer with a keyboard.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
It should do fine with normal word processing (nothing fancy like graph inserts, etc). I think Quickoffice HD's spreadsheet supports equations and such, haven't tried anything on Excel yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Gabes Dad:
Phoenix and frosty, thanks for your input.

Since none of the machines are available locally, I might have her look at the Acer Iconic tab A500, which is in stock locally at Best Big to at least get a feel for Android Honeycomb and the screen size / resolution.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jerrykur:
If I needed it for work I would want to make sure that I was using the same apps that my colleagues used. For me that would be MS Office with full macro and add-in support so would restrict me to a Windows device. Your wife may have similar requirements.
[XPERIA X10 General] apr1000:
Hey guys, so my xperia x10 keeps restarting for some reason and i dont know why.

There doesn't seem to be any heat or anything and it doesn't get hot and yet keeps restarting.

I dont know whats wrong, I reflashed the firmware and it didn't help it keeps restarting for some weird reason.

Anyone else had this problem before? It goes to the start screen works for maybe a few seconds and freezes and the screen suddenly turns off.

Will warranty cover this or not? Please help I don't know what to do

By the way my phone is singapore branded but i live in the USA, will that be an issue?

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 General] tushit:
bro i am having same prob....anyone help:mad:
[XPERIA X10 General] stan.s:
How much free space is in the phone?
[XPERIA X10 General] exsulis:
anything loose from the sim/battery?
[XPERIA X10 General] amtzone:
send to shop to check...hope not the board....
[Xperia Play General] icebear8:
so i never really noticed this but i allways have 1bar for 3G and it ALLWAYS droping to 1X and when it drops to 1X its still at one bar

i tested my speed thru speedtest and im only getting 200kbps download speeds =/ does anyone else have this problem or is it just a verizon problem? im in Des moines ia and i dont see why we wouldent have full bars as this is the main place to be in iowa lol
[Xperia Play General] fenix4o9:
Got same problem here in Cleveland ohio, just thought i was not close enough to a tower
[Xperia Play General] icebear8:
does anyone go past 2 bars on verizon at all? i thought verizon was better then AT&t and i had full bars with them on my Captivate and motorola backflip
[Xperia Play General] Red_Kop:
I get this problem all the time in the UK on Vodafone.

Even missed calls because I didn't have any bars despite being out and about.

It's the phone, it has problems.
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
im on t-mobile and get 3 bars HSDPA no matter where i go in manchester :)
[Xperia Play General] dsswoosh:
Mine drops signal at when im at work in a steel warehouse. I had no problems on orange with my old phone.

Im also on Vodafone.

I have a friend at work with the Desire HD. He is on Vodafone and we always get the same poor signal in the same spots.

I thought it was the phone at first, but it is Vodafone. They just have a weaker signal it seems.

T-Mobile/Orange will have the strongest signals because they use each other for boosts.

I do notice though, that when the phone displays 2 bars and i turn data on, the signal sometimes cuts off completely. (at work only, i have full signal outside wherever i go).

It does make me believe that some sneaky designer has programmed the software to make the signal look stronger than it actually is. Turning 3g on forces the phone to display its true signal is my guess.

I also noticed if you slide the pad out and hold the phone as you would normally hold the pad, that you get a stronger data signal. It gets even stronger if you slide the pad out and then place it on a table without holding it.
[Xperia Play General] kupo5131:
I'm on Three UK and besides in my house I normally get between 3 - 5 bars HSDPA anywhere in Manchester. My house has bad signal on any phone / network combo for some reason... Thank god for Wi-Fi!
[Xperia Play General] ryocoon:
I get a full 5 bars at work (up on 7th floor in an old building in Iowa). However I get 0-2 bars when at home.

I notice that this device consistently has lower bar counts than my other devices, even when sporting similar -Db levels for signal strength. I think it is a combination of poor antenna engineering and slight shifts in what the bars mean for strengths.
[Xperia Play General] d2theaher69:
same here :(
[Desire HD General] xplained:
Hey guys just wanna check out how many people are using task killers. For those who don't i'm curious what happens when your phone start lagging. For example, when you're running a HD game, syncing your accounts, playing music, downloading an app, etc etc and your phone starts lagging. What next?
[Desire HD General] cdong:
i only install an app named "system panel", but i never use it's "kill all" function
[Desire HD General] Xenova:
I'm using System Panel too. It provide detailed info about the phone other than being a task manager. i use it to kill apps before screen off my DHD to maintain the RAM at 400-425.

But i read somewhere stated that the RAM consumption doesn't significantly affect battery usage, but is the CPU usage. and the Android OS itself is designed to smart enuff to automatically close unused apps. So app killer is no need for Android.
[Desire HD General] thenocturnalnurse:
As for me, I use it to kill rogue apps that consumes battery like hell (e.g Facebook app, Google Maps etc.) I did a lot of hard resets because maps was acting strange but my phone wasn't remedied maps is still there eating my battery so the only solution was to auto kill it when my phone goes to sleep.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
I buy a new phone, seriously your phone is lagging because you have a task killer installed which is forcing your phone to respawn processes that the task killer has needlessly killed thus more processor activity and a slow down.

REALLY, DITCH THE TASKKILLERS THEY ARE EVIL
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
If system panel closes processes that the os considers necessary they will be respawned by the system so increasing cpu cycles and decreasing battery life.
[Desire HD General] aliveanddead86:
+1, Google OS closes the processes which are not required, all task killers do is close them early, or close ones still required, which are then forced to re-open.
[Desire HD General] cementboy:
Using task killers?! Bless them Father, for they have sinned!

For it was Jesus who said: "Task killers are entirely unnecessary and often actually make things worse, my son." [Book of Android, Ch. 6 v.2]

He commands thee to do the following:

1. Uninstall all task killers

2. Seek atonement

3. Root your phone

3. Download Autokiller

This app doesn't actually kill tasks but instead set parameters as to how much memory to keep free, leaving the android system to act normally within those parameters. It's an award-winning app that should come pre-installed on every geek's phone.

4. Download Autostarts

Your apps are pre-programmed to open automatically on certain actions, eg. Market and Maps will automatically open whenever GPS is turned on. However, most of the time it is entirely unnecessary (why the hell should Maps load every time I turn off bluetooth?). This program allows you to control which apps automatically start up on certain actions - you never need worry about killing unnecessary tasks since they won't start up in the first place, see?

5. Upon realising how swift your phone runs after steps 1 - 4, proceed to sacrifice your first-born son on a stone altar at the top of a mountain.

Brethren, can I get an 'amen'?!
[Desire HD General] :
Best post in my entire period here on XDA :D
[Desire HD General] Wekko306:
I use a task killer. Only to kill certain apps though. Runfootball for instance keeps consuming CPU even when the app is closed properly. Therefore I use Task Manager to kill this app automatically when I turn my screen off. XDA app actually keeps consuming CPU for a long time too sometimes.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
If the app doesn't work properly uninstall it or talk to the devs
[Desire HD General] aliveanddead86:
Amen!

10 char
[Desire HD General] a user:
my phone does not start lagging. taskkiller are totally useless garbage!

p.s. i am using leedroid 3.2.1
[Desire HD General] sbdags:
Never use them either, and never had any lags. ;) Entirely useless imo.
[Desire HD General] tkolev:
Task killers won't help you in speeding up your phone. But I won't call them useless - actually they help in developing an application. There is a wird bug with the adb server under Windows, so if you want to run the application you are developing you have to kill everything and run it before the OS respawns more than 64 processes. Other than that I have found no reason to use them.
[Desire HD General] Pard0ned:
Best post I've ever read on these forums!!! :D:D:D:D
[Desire HD General] Kyutu:
As soon as I read that Android handles closing tasks automatically I have since made the decision to not go anywhere near Task Killers. On the odd occasion that a rogue process becomes a nuisance, I kill it manually (maybe uninstall), or alter the apps options.
[Desire HD General] MACkjam:
Post of the decade!!!

AMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNN!!!!!

I did my homework before switching to Android Heaven........NO TASK KILLERS!!!

I am the task killer. I periodically check processes and kill the odd one or two that I don't want to run.

My phone has never lagged.

I wll try AutoKiller.

Best post I have read btw!!!
[Desire HD General] krzych:
Hello ppl. I'm really concerned about your hate for task killers, so I say mine opinion ;-)

First of all, as any tool, task killer CAN be used in a bad way. You can use scissors to cut your friends finger, but you can also use it wisely.

Secondly, killing a task which you KNOW you won't be using soon IS good. Why? Because Android is not a prophet and WON'T know that it can reuse some memory used for example by google maps for caching input/output from other application saving energy not doing SD reads/writes. Thats simplest example and I will stop at it, because this is really big topic.

Thirdly, if you have to use task killer because you really know what you are doing and know better than probability, use a task killer integrated into ANY OTHER software that stays resident to save CPU cycles switching between tasks.

And last but not least, consider VERY HARDLY before using autokilling feature. This should be used only for ABUSING processes that should never run if there is no other method to achieve this (for example, you cannot uninstall something because it's a part of software required by your needs).

Simple stories about "taskkillers are baaaaaaaad!!! uninstall them right now!!!" are so smart as saying that all people are dumb.
[Desire HD General] dhruv.arora25:
Hate them...
[Desire HD General] Rafaeolo:
Only use them as Taskmanager to see wich tasks are open. But killing them seems pretty pointless cause they will open up, so if don´´t want to start a war do not kill them.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Sorry late replying , but only just re-read this thread... Your point here is flawed, Android considers itself a prophet If it rates a task important i.e google maps it will respawn it wether you have closed it down or not, so will actually increase SD read/writes and actually use more juice not less. Yes if you know that the OS will not respawn a process by all means kill it but do it manually there is no real benefit to using a task killer for the job.

Also bear in mind we are dealing with an *nix OS here not windows, which does not benefit from having memory free that it's not using if it needs extra memory it will free it up for you killing the less essential services first.
[Desire HD General] krzych:
No, it is not flawed. I still do not _how_ respawn works in Android, but I've seen killers which can prevent respawn (and kernel does NOT respawn user processes, so there IS a method to kill respawning). So basically, as I said before - killing IS good, but only when it is permanent (no respawn, no reusage of app soon).

And you are missing a point stating that unix-like systems will not benefit from free memory. Yes, you have right that "free memory" is a different thing in (lets say strictly) LINUX systems, but only with that the free memory is immediately used by DISK CACHES, almost all of free memorey. So it is not free, but immediately freable. That is the difference between windows and linux, or maybe better - between KERNEL and windows kernel, whole systems are not important here.

And as we know already (I hope all know this) disk caches can DRAMATICALLY improve performance.

So again - task killers are good. Effective task killers. if you still do not believe - run "millions" of apps. Close them "naturally" by back button and then test performance with app using sdcard much. Next, reboot phone, wait few minutes to stabilise system and the run the same test. Results will be essential as best taskkiller is reboot in android (a pity - we are going backwards - reboots are windows's "feature").

And by the way, I hate prophets, they lies ALWAYS. :D

PS. Ghost - there is a difference between performance and saving the juice. I was talking about taskkillers having a reason, not taskkillers saving juice... keep this in mind.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
I can accept that, but what has me confused is I use my DHD a fair bit and tend only to reboot if i flash a new ROM so my up time varies from 7 - 10 days why If android isn't shutting apps down completely do I not notice it slowing to a crawl?
[Desire HD General] mbeats:
Task Killer and Android isn´t work like in windows.

More apps in ram more speed for apps.

and if full ram is used Android "kill" tasks by itself.
[Desire HD General] michael_duvalle:
AMEN!
[Desire HD General] krzych:
Yup, I can imagine your point of view, I will probably behave the same way, but only after i will finally decide which apps are for me, which are not and are bloating my phone, and the same about rom. Problems with "apps hanging in background" usually takes place when you test new things, especially few of same kind. And by the way, even if I stabilise my choice of apps/rom, there is always a time for "refresh" opinions, check whats new and so on, then the task killers are needed again.

Above (my post) instructions seems to be quite ok, but still not perfect. Anyways, I bought linux based system to have control over my phone. Android seems to quietly ban me from it ;) (and I can tell that will not last long :D)
[Desire HD General] paulmccallion:
I never use them, they seem to cause lags....
[Desire HD General] barthoz:
This is the way !
[Desire HD General] miHah:
Task Killers are actually bad for android phones. They force close the apps that are intended to run and system detects that and force start app again resulting in battery drain when u start the task killer and kill app that is not supposed to end and afterwards, when the app is force started again. it can also occur that app does not end properly and run in the background, although task killer does not detect it as running. and there are other reasons too

imagine, if task killer would be a good thing, google would intergrate it into a system. but android has its own RAM(Memory) managment capabilities that can be pointless and not usable when using Task Killer nevertheless it does much better job! Android is different as Windows and other computer OS. Android uses RAM for apps, and automaticly gives free RAM(Memory) to an app which is in need of it and frees RAM from app that does not need it anymore. The more RAM that is used, more performance you get from the phone.

It is the CPU(Processor) that is actualy a reason for phone to drain battery and determine a speed of the phone. So, when apps use all Androids RAM, they can be launched much faster and CPU starts to work faster and drain more power, when an app is in the background on pause, it has no effect on the processor since the RAM feeds an app, and when it is neccesary System can also completely stop that app.

With android, you can’t run out of System Memory (RAM). Imagine Androids RAM as a cycle/circle or something .. you have 500mbRAM of 500mbavailable used, and you want to launch another app. So when you launch an app, system automaticly completely stops an app, that you dont use anymore or haven’t used for a very long time (longest of all other apps) and gives free RAM to the app that is just launching up.

It’s your choise, but read some articles below!

Have a nice day!

Some Links that can be usefull:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html

http://goo.gl/4rkC

http://androidspin.com/2010/05/25/why-you-dont-need-a-task-killer-app-with-android/

[Copied from MyHTCBiz.com - and i completely agree with all that!]

I hope you'll understand that guy, he is actualy right but his english is kinda bad :D
[Desire HD General] unspokenzero:
I am with you 100% if you are concerned about your phone lagging, you need to just reboot. That is what has solved all problems for me.
[HTC EVO 3D] Gibsonusa:
Came from a tmobile vibrant, and really miss flashing atm. Anyone else feeling the same void?
[HTC EVO 3D] hockeyfamily737:
I don't miss the flashing so much, because I still have 3 other rooted phones and 2 rooted Nook colors in my house......but I do miss my CM7, Theme Chooser Themes, custom boot animations, and obviously all of my apps requiring root access.
[Streak 5 General] frigid:
Let's get some developers in here!!

So far we have!

$60 from me

$30 from chrisrotolo

$60 from jitin02

$20 from zinqzinq

Maybe $60 from Revin lol
[Streak 5 General] jitin02:
+1...........................................................m with u
[Streak 5 General] Revin:
If it will be usable (so I guess we will have to wait for HC 3.2 anyway) then 60 USD will still be much cheaper than buying new device (not to mention that there is no other 5 inch screen smartphone and no, I am not buying anything with smaller screen :) ).

So, count me in ;)
[Streak 5 General] chrisrotolo:
Put me down for $30, maybe more for full RC, no bugs.
[Streak 5 General] jitin02:
count me too

My 60us$
[Streak 5 General] zinqzinq:
and mine 20 cos im student ;)
[Streak 5 General] frigid:
Updated :)
[Streak 5 General] jitin02:
+10... As it makes total of 7(6+0+1+0) and lol its my lucky number
[Streak 5 General] jitin02:
For me even if its lil buggy ...:) will donate more for improvements

And GUYZ I THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS FOR CYANOGEN TOO .. WHOZ WITH ME.........
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
Plus 20

Sent from Dell Streak
[Streak 5 General] megapimp:
Ill post up 100.00 if they can fix the volume for bluetooth and aux jack. of all the phones ive tested the bluetooth volume and syc suck along with aux volume output.

id like ice cream or the latest stable build
[Streak 5 General] live_blues:
30USD OR 2 Bitcoin (that should make 200USD now in total :P paypal alright?) for any honeyc build that has

a) usable, everyday speed

b) Bluetooth phone communication is working

(yes I am happy to wait for whatever 3.x version is workable or available)

question / suspicion tho: in the streak 7 forums I read the insane increase in DPI needed, to make the high res apps usable... the streak 5 might not be able to supply the minimum res....

and AMEN to "I wont buy a smaller screened phone"
[Streak 5 General] Revin:
DJ_Steve wrote on twitter that he had to set DPI to 80 on Dell Streak 5 to make google apps work in Honeycomb. Streak has default 160, so you can imagine how small everything was :)

However, I heard that Honeycomb 3.2 should support smaller tablets, so I guess we just have to wait for HC 3.2

And another thing - does somebody now if HC is supporting phone functions at all (call, messages etc.)? I hope that I will be able to make calls with my HoneyStreak :)
[Streak 5 General] Shvetaketu:
Count me in. 30$, more if it is working well!