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[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
Now, you're just being silly. This line of argument, which is a logical fallacy, takes someone else's argument to a ridiculous level. Say I make the argument that if my kid is hungry then I'll feed her. You then take that to a ridiculous level by saying "well, if you force feed her she will be obese."

Or here's another one. Say I make the argument that it is ok to drive over the speed limit (stay within 10 mph above the speed limit). You then say "but that's breaking the law, OMG you advocate people murdering each other and eating each other's brains..."

I didn't say we boycott everything that comes out of China. I said we should boycott things that were obviously stolen. I even gave an example of the so-called iped and those fake ipods that are beginning to flood our own market.

In my eyes, you buy those things then you condone a culture of stealing others' technology to make "just barely good enough" products. You're actually harming them because they will never ever improve their lives. You're supporting the status quo.

Actually, it does allow them to live comfortably where they are. As I mentioned before, where I came from the average income is $30 a month. You speak exactly like the ignorant American who sees the world according to American view. Sure, their salaries are low, but so are the prices of everything there.

Added by edit.

Last time I went back to my home country, I stayed at a hotel for a dollar a day. No, it was not a 5 star hotel, but it was good enough. Can you imagine paying a dollar a day for a hotel in America? Last I heard, the price of that place had increased to 2 dollars a day. Still reasonable me thinks.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] frosty5689:
Um... I was raised in China and still visits every few years. A pound of egg (not sure how many that is), costs around 3 USD. A pound of pork is around 2-3 USD. Rent is about 800 RMB for 1 bedroom apartment a month. The electricity rate is around 20-30 cent USD/kWH, the water is about the same per gallon. The cost of paying for kids going to school, combined with the need of feeding just not yourself, but your family included. The standard of living in China improved over the years with the increase in jobs in the last 10 years due to the economy, but the quality of living degraded due to inflation. The average person's payroll barely increased compared to 10 years ago, but the costs for housing, grocery and utilities almost doubled.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] haensgn:
Thank god for Marco Polo for steeling the noodle from those "EVIL" Chinese.

On the other thought we could just see it as a global market, cultural exchange, and convergence of logically sound ideas. Making more consumer products better through exchanging ideas is what XDA does on a daily basis. It amazes me that you people, yeah I said it "you people", can sit here and bicker over essentially a sound societal ecosystem.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] knoxploration:
Yeah, I'm going to step in here and call BS. I was born and raised in Hong Kong, still had family living there until less than two years ago, and last visited six months ago. (Seems like too long already.)

If you seriously lump Hong Kong in with being considered a rich man if you have a bike and a watch, you've clearly never been there. Hong Kong is the only place in the world I've been where you'll find even house cleaners will be investing in the stock market, and pretty much everybody is working to bring themselves up in the world.

That's not to say it's perfect, but it's not even slightly like your post suggests.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] lude219:
LOL you guys are funny. I made one innocent statement about how reliable their laptops are and you guys turn it into an international flame war. they're continuing the thinkpad line which they bought from IBM and the quality hasn't drop since, and now extending the brand into the niche ultrabook/tablet market. that's the big picture here. when you're talking about a Chinese company that excels in reliability and quality, it speaks volume to the kinds of product that they're putting out.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] starplaya93:
"Those damn Americans... always talking out their ass's." < How many people are going to take that offensive?

If you feel a certain away about a group of people, keep it to yourself. You don't single out entire races with blatant ignorant statements like "as Chinese as they are".

Whether you meant for it to be derogatory or not we don't personally know you so we can only take your statements for what they are.

Also, I am an American and I can honestly say America is no better than any other developed/developing country. We don't innovate, we have selfish motives, we outsource everything, we import everything and out port nothing. We owe the world trillions of dollars. we have an ok standard of living, that's about all.

Don't get me wrong, I like living in America and there are very few places i'd rather live however we can't talk about china and other countries like our **** doesn't stink.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] knoxploration:
Oh please, do enlighten us, font of knowledge.

Or are you just here to make baseless attacks?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] cheve:
sorry, i have to disagree with the 'house cleaners investing in the stock market' part. these people are NOT investing, most of them are gambling hoping to make it big by picking a winner. these 'cleaners' have been doing such 'investing' since the 1970s.

imho, regardless of the country/place, there are always the rich, the middle class and the poor. for the poor, having extra piece of bread/rice/pita as meal may considered as 'rich' and the well-to-do may consider a 4 stars hotel as a dump.

cheers
[Eee Pad Transformer General] GwynBleidd:
I probably shouldn't have put Hong Kong in one line with Cambodia and Lao (or continental China for that matter), probably was my mistake - things are different there.

Still, I've been there for 2 weeks in 2007 and if you step aside from shiny glass and metal skyscrapers somewhere in Kowloon (clearly I don't mean places like Central or Wan Chai), you'll see that simple people struggle to live normally, eat normally, dress their kids, etc and not think about investing anything anywhere.

It's funny that I'm telling this to a person who was raised in HK, but well, I've seen it with my own eyes.

Don't get me wrong, I liked HK very much and I plan on going there next year again, but there's poorness and suffering behind all the shine.

Although, this can probably be said about just any other country...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] AstroTrain:
You posts as if stupidity was a virtue. Being Chinese I have lived in China and been to most East Asian countries, mainland China, HK, S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and no where I found on the average a watch and a bike as considered being a rich man. It is you who is clearly have never been there or have seen what you want to see.

Regarding the PRC if being a “Rich MAN” entails having a watch and a bicycle, I can’t understand how it explains:

1) china being the largest auto market in the world, why Execs at Ford, Chrysler, GM, Volvo, BMW etc are late at night trying to develop strategies for greater market share, and penetration, why GM almost sold more cars in China alone than their home market in the US for the past 3 years, it sure isn’t dump countries in E. Europe that these Execs are pouring midnight coffee over,

2) why China has the largest HSR - High Speed Rail network in the world, what the equivalents in E Europe??

3) why china has the largest mobile phone market in the world, some 700 mill, the largest internet market and PC, the largest global consumer of energy in the world, one of the largest outbound tourist market in the world etc, etc, etc

All this on $10 bucks a month and being “Rich” meaning a bike and watch. Laughable. There are a lot of problems and inequalities in China, any Chinese that denies that is lying through their teeth but talk about a “pot calling the kettle black” the last people in the world that can make generalize derogatory statements about countries such as China or in East Asia are E Europeans. There are probably more commie blocks in all of E Europe than China and Russia combined. When we look at the near bankruptcy levels in Western Europe such as Greece, Spain and Portugal which are all OCED countries what does that say about the pathetic dimunitive states in E Europe. If E Europe vanished over night, nobody would shed a tear, if China likewise, the world would be in depression, there won’t be the $3 trillion in reserves to keep American interests rates low nor the $6 trill market and manufacturing for export and production.

It is you that is insignificant friend, I advise you to sell the TF as it was made by Chinese in Taiwan and buy an E European equivalent, . . . . oh wait, there is none, go buy an Ipad, . . . , no that is being manufactured in China too. Now STFU.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] GwynBleidd:
First off, I'm no friend to you.

Second, being completely blind, ignorant and arrogant is a virtue too I guess.

Yea China is huge, its growth rate in almost all areas is something noone can argue with, yeah economics and bla bla bla. Go tell about those $3 trillion in reserves to people somewhere in Ningxia living in a cave house ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7241684.stm ).

Being proud of your country is good, but you're pathetic being on that power trip about how everyone else is a piece of ****.

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P.S. http://www.capitalvue.com/home/CE-news/inset/@10063/post/2476464

Those values translate into roughly $46 monthly income in rural areas, and roughly $150 monthly income in urban areas. Living in Eastern Europe, I make the latter in a day. Keep it up with those mighty figures though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1ackplague:
This thread needs to be closed.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] knoxploration:
Realistically, the stock market *is* gambling, just in an acceptable manner that's somewhat predictable. If you take a look through Hong Kong's self-made millionaires, many of them started off from rock bottom, though. Perhaps not the best example in the world, as he's just gotten nabbed for money laundering, but since he's in the news at the moment it's possible you'll have heard of Carson Yeung. Various sources site his wealth at anywhere from US$250 million into the billions. 15-20 years ago, he was a hairdresser in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Hong Kong is a place where people do try and improve their status, and where it is possible to do so. Admittedly only the particularly clever, ruthless, and lucky will do so to this degree, but what's important is that it is possible to improve one's lot if you're willing to work hard enough.

Yep, that's true absolutely everywhere. There's plenty of people that are barely educated and well below the poverty line where I am now, in Tennessee, too.

You're not "telling this" to me. I'm well aware of it, thanks very much. Has to be said though, it's greatly improved since I last lived there myself. Didn't see a single street sleeper or beggar last time I was there, for example. Couple of buskers, but even they were few and far between. And I stray far off the tourist track, and know where to look -- under flyovers used to be a particularly common place where they'd gather to sleep.

There is still a minority living in cage dwellings etc., but it's simply not true to say that "simple people struggle to live normally" etc. -- the average person on the street in Hong Kong is able to get by just fine.

For example, even despite the extremely high cost of property in Hong Kong, the homeownership rate is still 52%. The Commission on Poverty in HK found that of 7,026,400 residents in 2009, there were 838,000 considered to be in poverty, or around 12%. By contrast, in the United States the poverty rate was 14.3% in 2009, according to the US Census Bureau.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Badwolve1:
Look guys, this is going way off topic.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s3icc0:
Hi i got a problem I use accounts for twitter and facebook in myphone but nothing was added into contacts .... so I try facebook and twitter apps and they added ok ... so I tryied skype and nothing was added ... yes I have synchronization allowed and I'm on wifi ....

Please advise

edit: the activities menu is working for facebook. ...where the hell is the error?

edit2: skype app contacts are ok .... so just facebook and twitter profile in the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s3icc0:
SOLVED

I reflashed the ROM and made all the wipes, but it doesnt help so I deleted the accounts from telephone and add them again .... no response

but

when I reflashed the rom with accounts deleted and then add them again . ..everything works :-)
[Galaxy S II General] Warrimonk:
Hey everyone, so I was at my local mall today and decided to interrogate the major cell retailers for information on the SGS2.

Quick and dirty info: Bell and Virgin will launch this phone on the 14th of July. Virgin is launching it for 79.99 on a 3 year contract and Bell is expected to price the same. Bell/Virgin exclusive phone.

There is also a promotional plan which costs $55 and has 200 min, evenings, weekends, unlim messaging, 1gb of data.

Hit up Fido, Virgin, Rogers, Telus, Bell, and Tbooth at the mall today. I was extremely surprised at how little the carriers knew about this phone. Telus, Rogers and Fido employees literally acted like they did not know the phone was in existence.

Virgin and Bell were both very tight lipped. Luckily when I got into Tbooth the employee there was very open and gave me a lot of great info. According to him the phone is GOING TO BE A BELL EXCLUSIVE , and the other carrier's lack of information seemed to confirm it.

Bell employees are going to a launch party before the phone comes out. Pricing on Bell is expected to be 79.99 on a 3 year plan. I also happened to get the guy to reserve a phone for me :D

Sorry to all you people hoping for a Rogers/Telus version, looks like it isn't going to happen any time soon :(. Bye bye Telus.
[Galaxy S II General] horusray:
I guess some people just don't search thread titles before posting a new thread. There are already 2 similar threads existing in this forum. Thread close?
[Galaxy S II General] Warrimonk:
I did search, show me a link of a thread confirming 79.99 on virgin AND bell AND confirming its a bell exclusive phone. You don't need to be an ass about it. I'm just giving people an update about what I found out today.
[Galaxy S II General] TheSobadef:
As a Best Buy employee, I can confirm to you that it is a Bell/Virgin exclusive, at least according to our Samsung and Bell reps. Another thing to note is that the phone will likely be priced somewhere around $169.99, though nothing is confirmed yet.

Finally, my Bell rep just sent me an e-mail concerning the expected launch date, which happens to be July 21st in fact, rather than the rumored 14th or 15th, which is quite a bummer considering I sold my Nexus S to pay off my Telus cancellation fees and get this phone, so I'm phone-less until then...

On another note, the phone is expected to launch with the latest firmware revision. Whether this means the phone will ship with 2.3.4 or not is beyond me, but I guess it's something to hope for.

EDIT:

Here's a link to mobile syrup confirming my information

http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/07/12/bell-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-4g-officially-launching-july-21st/
[Galaxy S II General] horusray:
IF you have searched, then why didn't you just reply to those threads with your info. You don't need to be a bragging smartass about it. You're just occupying the front page of the forum and making it hard to find certain threads for the users.
[Networking] bkoerbel:
Hi All! I just got a new Nexus S 4G from Sprint and I love it. The main reason I got this phone is for the unadulterated android, but I am new to Sprint and not entirely sure about all the CDMA stuff. I was getting very slow 3G speeds and was getting suspicious that it might be set up for a sprint proxy. I don't want my phone to route HTTP data through Sprint's proxies at all. I couldn't find very detailed information on this so I figured I would post to see if anyone could explain it better. I have managed to retrieve my MSL code and get into data programming, but I dont really understand what the Browser menu is for. What is this setting do? And why does it not change if I specify values myself.

Data programming > View > Others > Browser Menu :

Gateway IP: 068.028.031.001

Port: 80

Secure Port: 80

Thanks for your help guys!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] syanz87:
Can anybody tell me IN DETAIL how to use voltage control app????
[Captivate Themes and Apps] 13_:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036020 < mini OC guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=829731 < VC thread
[Captivate Themes and Apps] syanz87:
Thanx......
[HTC Sensation] rust1n:
As a lawyer, I need to be able to sync my phone to and fro with confidentiality for my clients. I was able to do this before with my palm treo(legacy device), but now that I have made the leap into the new smartphone age I realized that androids sync with google on pretty much everything so I was wondering if anyone has any idea how to sync all of the stuff on my sensation without sending any information to google.

Also what is this tmobile theme engine they are talking about in this post:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/bring-elegance-to-your-sense-3-0-device-with-slate3duniversal/
[HTC Sensation] omar302:
When setting up your phone & using a gmail account, go to Accounts & Sync & uncheck syncing of contacts.

Then you can setup your e-mail accounts & contacts through HTC's exchange setup. This will not go throught google but will sync your phone to the exchange account directly.
[HTC Sensation] gcarloss:
Contact Sync

You could try using Microsoft Exchange as your email client. I use Exhange along with with my google email.
[HTC Sensation] rust1n:
omar when i go into accounts and sync there is no feature to stop the syncing of contacts and also what is this htc exchange setup. Also i checked my gmail account and the contacts that are synced on it are only from the ones i input into google voice not my phone, but some contacts that are favorited on my phone show up on my gmail contacts as starred on android. So here is what im wondering: Does the phone only sync the contacts on my google account not all the contacts on my phone that i transfered for example from another phone
[HTC Sensation] omar302:
Your phone should sync each type of contacts seperatelty.

As for accounts and sync, tap on your google account and it'll open an another screen were you can choose (check) what you want to sync.

htc exchange, by going to accounts & sync > Add Account > Exchange ActiveSync.

This is only in case you have an Exchange Server to sync with.
[HTC Sensation] MarkAtHome:
I exchange email via Gmail only from my PC. I also have that same account setup on my phone (it is not used there), since Android requires it.

Since I do not want my Contacts/clients residing on Google's servers, I have Gmail sync turned off.

With Gmail sync turned off, can I now configure another non-Gmail email account, have it sync with my PC (direct via USB, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth), without these Contacts ending up on Google servers?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Waza_Be:
I just got a great news today, my own application will be included on all the phone of the brand "X" in my little country (Belgium)

I got so excited when I am looking at the phones in the shops and I can see my application by default.

Unfortunately, the brand "X" is noobie and seem unable to link my app to the Market, so the users cannot be aware that there is an upgrade in the Android Market.

they just ask me by email

I know that I don't work for this company and they will get benefit with this information, but have you got an Idea on how to achieve this?

Thank a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alejobenitez:
Hi everyone

I have a galaxy s i9000t with gingerbread 2.3.3 downloaded via Kies but i wanna to do something to improve the speed so I flash it first with speedmod-kernel-k15h-t23-300hz.tar Kernel and everything was smooth and perfect until I check the camera and it was black, like it has a black sticker con the lenss ( but of course it doesn't). even if i wanna a record a video the camera is black. The front facing camera works normal. Then i recover de original kernel and the rear camera is back so a tried a different kernel... Dark_Core_2.6.tar and again everything smooth and perfect but the only thing doesn't work is the rear camera.

What can I do to fix it (besides going back to the original kernel). I just want to install some lagfix (convert to ext4)?.

sorry for my english...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amilsil:
This cannot happen. Not possible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the-weatherman:
The stock camera firmware is what you're looking for, it has to be flashed via odin or CWM.

I have only one for JVH but you can probably find it here on the forum for JVP (you're on JVP, right?)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _bottle_:
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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesmith:
hi,

i have a problem i installed cool sensation with stock of alpharev.

but then it will not boot (stays at why so serieus picture).

i've got QtADB so i have a logfile for you guys.(look at attatchments)

Logcat= whole start up in QtABD.

logcat2= the part that comes over and over again.

BTW: yes, i already tried the boot_fix.zip

need more info?

tell me what please.

thanks in advance,
[HTC Sensation] castrobarco:
I have a HTC senstion Rom 1.28.707.2 CL693972.6.35.10-ga76ba0d

Radio 10.43.9007.00U_10.11.9007.19_M

I bought it in England but it is an Asian version.

I have problems is with video playback: a few seconds to start playing a video, the sound is canceled, if I advance a point ahead of the file, the sound resumes but lost again in a few seconds, this happens to me using various players: Real Player, Player and Mobo MVIDEO Player.

Any suggestion?
[HTC Sensation] Firefall!:
Check your MicroSD card. Try formatting it and put the video on it again. Check if the problem persists. If yes, check your video: What's the bitrate? What's the resolution? If either is too high, you will get into trouble. Try converting it at various bitrates and resolution. Personally, I use mp4 videos in qHD resolution (960 x 540) which is the native resolution of the Sensation, and bitrates around 2000.
[HTC Sensation] MerLinh:
Update to 1.35 OTA if you can
[HTC Sensation] philip.eber:
Hi,

I had the same problem,

use VPlayer .

Its OK with this player and even after 7 days trial I can still use it for free.

And it seems that after OTA update today the problem is solved even in HTC player.

Offtopic:But I still have a bit silent sound in earphones while playing videos...
[HTC Sensation] ancola66:
You do not say your video format (3gp, mp4, mkv....)? With the many *.mkv video does not run but with *.mp4 it runs smoothly (including full HD).
[Android Apps and Games] tommo123:
robot view - appbrain link. seems abandoned.

making a 360 image would be sooo much easier with the sony apps sweep panorama mode. i have 0 skill so am hoping someone can possibly do this? :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carngeX:
Tried searching, but couldn't really find much info on this problem. NOt sure if many other people have it or not.

But it seems like any ROM I try (can't remember if it does it on stock or not, TBH), whenever one of my friends sends me a video message, it gets split into a single QCP audio file, and a still jpg image.

It does this with Handcent and GoSMS Pro; not sure about stock (can investigate more later when I'm off work).

Anybody else have/had this issue?

Thanks, appreciate it.