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[General Questions and Answers] Tijmen:
You forgot about Moore's Law.

Which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. (Thank you wikipedia :) )

This basically means that storage capacity doubles without becoming more expensive or bigger. Considering the fact that my Galaxy S II has 16 gb ( and 32 gb is possible ) of internal storage and another 32 gb of sd storage. Storage capacity will be 256 gb in 4 years. Of which 128 gb is really fast, for OS, and 128 gb is considerably fast, file storage.

When looking at the bigger picture other problems will be solved too. Because most of the specs will quadruple you are able to use photoshop and such.

And thereby the cloud computing will have evolved tremendously too in four years, rendering all the storage capacity useless.

So by the time we'll see docks as a standard, other problems will be solved too. Unless software requirements are raised too, but that seems unlikely, since my old 1.5 ghz 1 gb ddr 2 RAM laptop runs windows 7 fluidly. ( except for aero, damn you intel! )

Back on topic, I still haven't found a real good all in one VPN app, which also mounts my NAS as an SD card, or any external medium.
[General Questions and Answers] Mizulunaris:
I know my next science project, a wireless keyboard made specifically for droid

:D

As for output it would need to record its own screen (which I have no idea how to do) and output it to a wireless device such as a laptop or maybe a google tv with android......

does it sound within the depths of realism?
[General Questions and Answers] theo80:
32GB is nothing much compared to TB harddisks available on the computer. Cloud storage is good, but if you want real performance the file being edited should still be in your local drive.
[General Questions and Answers] mazta132:
Great idea. Later on Mobile phone is just like small computer but just need external device e.g monitor,keyboard,mouse etc.

Seems cpu,ram,storage technology is growing fast.

See macbook air is very thin.may be in the future we just carry thin tablet and can be integrated with our phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Tijmen:
An even broader perspective, just for you.

In four years entire Europe will have an LTE network, so cloud storage up and down speeds shouldn't be too much of a problem. And besides, 32 gb is enough for caching all the stuff you're working on.
[General Questions and Answers] Dragon_son:
when i move, i use smartphone, when i'm home, i use computer
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
Most computers can run multiple operating systems. Most phones cannot.

And then there's the issue of battery life, where innovation crawls at the speed of a snail on tranquilizers.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
There is no inherent design characteristic preventing that, it's all about hardware drivers. If the hardware makers release documentation, then drivers can be written. But the problem is, especially in the embedded world, closed hardware is the norm.

On the other hand, Nvidia has released Meego compatible tegra2 drivers that, while closed, allow installing Meego on tegra2-based Android tablets, for example.
[General Questions and Answers] dardragon:
You can build your own computer. You cant build your own phone but I wish one day we can do this

Also games but that's due to power of the device and accessibility and screen size all of which were mentioned
[General Questions and Answers] Mizulunaris:
Any one else notice this?

Battery-life as stayed the same for years.....Just enough for people to be satisfied......but maybe that is just me since i have only use the one provided by the Cellphone provider.....

maybe there are high capacity batteries that aren't being incorporated here?

:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
For the end user (that means almost everybody) it doesn't make any difference whether the limitation is due to hardware or software.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
True, but we're talking here about differences between PCs and phones. The ability to run multiple OSes isn't one. Because when you have the drivers, phones can run multiple OSes. People porting Android to Windows Mobile 6 phones, as an example.
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
The result of porting a mobile OS is nowhere near the result of porting a desktop OS.

If you install Linux on a PC designed for Windows it will usually work without any trouble. If you port a mobile OS you downgrade your smartphone to a toy.

Availability of drivers required for porting is a major difference between phones and computers. That's why ported mobile OSs rarely work as they should. There are always missing features, reduced performance, and broken functions.

That's not a hardware limitation, but that doesn't matter. What matters is the result. As long as ported mobile OSs are not suitable for real life use phones are not able to do everything that computers can do.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
Only the extent, maybe. But there's several PC hardware that doesn't have documentation and/or drivers for certain OSes. As such you can't with full functionality run, say, Haiku on your PC. And sometimes you can't even fully run Linux. Optimus laptops would be a big example.

So really, there's no phone vs. PC difference in this regard.
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
Lack of drivers for PC hardware is the exception, not the rule. For phones it's the other way 'round.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
Only if you're running Windows. And even then, random pieces not in active sale anymore may not work in Windows 7, only in XP.
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
If you run Linux your chances of finding compatible drivers are way better than if you try any mobile OS on different hardware than it was designed for. Driver porting on mobile phones is really nowhere near driver compatibility on computers.

Here's another limitation that bites most phones: their USB ports only work as slaves. The phones with USB ports that can act as hosts are few and far between. Most phones won't read the data on your USB memory sticks, won't talk to your scanner, won't host your game controller, won't print to a wired printer, won't display their contents on an external screen, ...

This will change in the (near?) future, but it is a limitation for the vast majority of current smartphones.

Ethernet on a computer works straight out of the box. Hooking your phone to an ethernet outlet... even if it might work in theory it doesn't work in real life.

There are still plenty of things which computers can do but phones cannot. Whether that's because of hardware or software limits doesn't make a difference to the end user.
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
My computer can connect to the file server at my university department. My phone can't, because sys admins tend to be really paranoid about wireless connections. In corporations it's even worse.

To get to the secure part of our file server or use the network printers I have to hook up my laptop to the ethernet outlet in the wall. My phone won't talk on ethernet.
[General Questions and Answers] molchmolch:
Hardware Keyboard Form long text

Is quite nice
[General Questions and Answers] mziol:
As far as making a wireless keyboard, why don't you check out bluetooth keyboards that already exist :D

Building your own phones would be awesome if there was an easy way to swap out hardware in a phone... Having worked in the connector industry I don't remember seeing many connectors that were small enough/cheap enough to allow swapping of components in the same size factor we're talking about (all software aside).
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
Computers can do everything better and faster but are not as mobile.

*looks at his 25kg case*

*case doesn't move an inch*

Nope, not mobile at all.
[General Questions and Answers] NickDunn:
sth like flash games.... seems still not works..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
As mentioned in the title. The contact specific ringtone used to work with 2.2. Then I got the OTA to 2.3.4, rooted my Atrix 4g. Now no matter what ringtone I assign to the contact, it always plays the default ringtone. Anyone can help me with this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killerb7854:
Didn't notice it until I read this post. My custom ringtones that I set in 2.2 still work but I cannot seem to change them. Where is the setting in 2.3? I've been looking in edit, contact but don't see it. Is this feature even in 2.3?

Edit: Nevermind found the setting under menu, options when viewing the contact. They seem to be working fine.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnahc79:
it's been moved in 2.3.x , took me a while to search on how to do this.

Go to contacts, select a contact, hit the menu button and select options, there will be a ringtone section there.

edit: nm you found it :).

OP, where are the assigned ringtones stored? internal/external memory or in /system/media/audio/ringtones?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
Thanks for the reply.

My ringtones are stored on the external SD card. I can assign the ringtones, but it doesn't work, really frustrating ...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnahc79:
You could try moving the files (not copy) to the internal sd memory. However, its a known general Android issue (at least with 2.2.2) where assigned ringtones switch to the default ring or a random ringtone whenever the external/internal memory is unmounted (power off your phone, plug into your computer) and then mounted again. Very frustrating. The only surefire fix that I know of is to root and move the ringtones into /system/media/audio/ringtones . I did this soon after I got my Atrix. No more lost ringtone assignments.

Before moving my ringtones to /system, I think once my phone ringtone switched to a google voicemail wav file...that was interesting :).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
Much appreciate, I will try it out :-)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
Grrrrrr..... copied to /system/media/audio/ringtones, still doesn't work... help ... :'(

:confused: :eek:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnahc79:
That's strange, do the sound files play properly? You mentioned you had them before the update so I would think the files themselves would be ok.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
Yes, they play properly. Another thing I found out is that when I choose sound for the alarm clock, I can no longer choose "Music". When I click on "Music", the pop up dialog only shows OK and Cancel buttons. It used to display all the music files I have available on both internal and external SD cards.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnahc79:
Ok I'm stumped :). If all else fails...factory reset? Not fun, I know.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbhbs:
Aww... maybe I just have to do that. Thanks for your help :-)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brekyl:
hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx

---------- Post added at 10:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 PM ----------

hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatinatorX:
Earlier today I updated my Rogers Focus to Mango Beta 7712 through Zune 4.8. Now I am noticing the Music + Video hub is pulling and displaying artist pictures while I am viewing an album list. It doesn't seem to be pulling pictures for any other views or for the lockscreen option, and only about half the artists seem to have images. Also, there are no bio's or anything else, but artist pictures are definitely being pulled over WiFi.

Neither 7004, 7008, Nodo or Mango B2 did this, and as far as I know the only way to get these images before was to have an American Windows Live ID and phone region set to United aStates have a Canadian Windows Live ID and my device region is set to Canada. Is anyone else experiencing this? Could this be evidence progress is being made towards music for the Canadian amarietplace?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatinatorX:
Oops, can't edit on Wp7 xda app. Hit the button too fast.

...*United States. I have a Canadian Windows Live ID...

*Canadian marketplace?

Or maybe this has been around for a while and I just didn't notice?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N0MN0M:
I'm using a carrier unlocked HD7 on Mobilicity in Toronto. Never had any problems whatsoever. Even pre-NoDo. Only issue that still exist is that the GPS is always off a couple blocks.

Even have the region set to Canada, and it's all good.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatinatorX:
Thanks for the reply. I wonder what's changed for me?

Since its a false alarm, any mods who happen to read this, please delete the thread.
[Acer Iconia A500] Ragnorok64:
So I got an Iconia today and I;m trying to put it through its paces. SNES emulation works fine but I'm having a war of a time getting PS1 emulation to work. I've got both PSX4Droid and FPse on this thing. I've got the playstaion bios and a .bin image of Tekken 3 that I ripped.

psx4droid won't run the game at all. The controls show up but then it immediately shows "unexpected error..." message.

FPse will actually run the game but the onscreen controlls wont respond. If I "Eject" the game it'll go to the Title screen and I can control up and down but nothing else.

I've seen posts stating that people have gotten PSX emulation to work on this, but none that detail just how. Any help in this recard would be greatly appreciated as I've only got 2 weeks to decide if I'm keeping this thing.

Edit(I have FPse working somewhat?: Ok I did some more poking around and I think I have something here. Looks like it was a matter of the start button not showing up on screen. Turning it to portrait got all the controls on screen and it actually was responding to the button presses. In order to get it to run smoothly I had to crank up frame skip but it'd showing 60fps. Does that even make sense?
[Acer Iconia A500] harlaquin:
I had all these same problems so i fell back on my old computer repair days experience. Some times newer is not always better ... I couldnt get any of the newer versions of psx4droid to run or even load games right. so afetr some digging i found the maker of psx4droid for a short while made one he called psx4droidv2 but for what ever reason he does not have it on his site. so I just googled it what your looking for is psx4droidv2 1.1.2 you just instal it like normal and put the bios files and game files all in same folder and I am up and running like a champ on my iconia everything loads and works. it even lets me do away with on screen controls and use my ps3 controller to play the games, you just have to map the buttons but is easy.

Hope this helps if so give me thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] wolvie77:
Hi! i can't find the link for the version u mentioned. can u provide a link to download?
[Acer Iconia A500] harlaquin:
just google "psx4droidv2 1.1.2" I cant put a link here because most of the files are hosted on fileshare websites that require that captia verification stuff and I dont want to get accussed of linking spam some of the sites require log ins and some require nothing some say file not found i had to go through a few of them before i found one that had the file. google is your friend.

good luck
[Acer Iconia A500] Ragnorok64:
Well it runs with is more than I can say for the first version of psx4droid that I'd downloaded. Unfortunately It doesn't seem to run at a solid frame rate. Also the screen scales too skinny.

That kind of settings do you have yours set to?

On another note, I've gotten FPse running at a consistent frame rate but there seems to be some games that simply won't play with it (Megaman Legends 2).
[HTC EVO 3D] zen kun:
hi i dont know if this is normal, but i have for example one Bday today ,one tomorror and one after tomorrow. in my home screen i got the htc widget of calendar (tiny one) but always show me after tomorrow Bday,i mean its not showing today appointments :S so im not sure if this is normal or what happen.

i will apreciate any reply

Thanks a lot
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexx210:
Would it be possible for a Bell Atrix user to upload the apk files for Email 2.2.2, News 2.2.2 and Weather 2.2.2? I uninstalled them without knowing I couldn't restore them and without them I can't update to Gingerbread when it comes out. Please help!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD76:
I calibrate with the calibration every ROM but no matter which rom I use - if my batter is at lets say 45% and I reboot, it automatically then shows 5%... But the phone will keep working on %5 for a while so the stats are wrong.. is there any way to fix this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deziguy420:
r u calibrating from CWM or using an app?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex530:
Dude my phones been acting up too. Its weird. Ill be on the charger over night and it'll tell me its on 100 percent so I unplug it and it goes down to like 88% wtf? Oh, and to fix your problem give it a bit, let the 5% drain tto like 3% then pull the battery and plug it back in. I think you should Odin to stock. Might have some rom ghosts.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
if your on GB thats a 2.3.4 issue/feature so batteries dont overheat and die, once it get s to 100 it'll start going down, even if its still on charge

to to settings > apps > development and tick stay awake, that stops it going down

apart from that the only way to stop it is to unplug at 100
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JD76:
Im calibrating with a calibration app that asks to calibrate once the battery hits 100%. then I let it die down to 0 and recharge to 100%...
[Android Software Development] mustafa.aziz:
Hi Devs

I need some help to set my own auto brightness values. Attached is the framework can someone please help me find the code for auto brightness.

The frame work I am using can be found at the below link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17206474/framework-res.apk

Regards,
[Android Software Development] mustafa.aziz:
lol so many views and no reply :p

no one know what should I do??? :s
[Android Software Development] starbright_:
I am also interested in this field.

I would start with a simple cronjob that reads brightness.

Do you know, where to read it?

background:

For the Motorola's there is some magic setting, boosting the backlight.

Would like to set it, if brightness is over a certain threshold and set back if it is below another level. Sounds easy ...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxigenboy:
For instance, when you are in a call, the sensor detects your head and the screen goes off... which is normal, and when you move your head away, the screen comes back on.

with CM7 on the Thunderbolt though, the screen doesn't come on right away... it gradually fades back on.

is there a way to fix it so it comes on instantly?

Don't say that's just how CM7 is because I had CM7 on my Incredible 2 and it didn't do this

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
That's really odd. Perhaps try reflashing the ROM. No need to wipe data and cache, just reflash and see if that helps any.

Which version of CM7 are you running?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxigenboy:
i had installed it on various occasions and each time it did the same thing.

i try out different roms regularly and always make sure to wipe/format everything each time.
[XPERIA X2 General] jithusree90:
i can't set any ringtones !!!!

im getting error 'file in invalid format'

\Windows\Rings\Ring01-WindowsPhone.wma File in invalid format. Continue editing settings?'

usually when i select and hold on the mp3 file, there will be an option set as ringtones.

but now that is also missing

i did a hard reset..this problem has gone but soon after few days this bloody error came back

please help me with a solution suh as registry tweaks other thn hrd reset :(
[XPERIA X2 General] Hakim Rahman:
use Audio Manager! with it you can set any ringtones on the device
[Atrix 4G General] BravoMotorola:
I think it would be a great idea for developers developing roms to post a simple cwm zip of the things they have added/fixed from there next release rom instead of just posting a whole new rom. Posting the whole new rom with the fixes and newer modifications would be good to for people that are just downloading it, but I think it would be a great addition to just add a cwm zip with the newer modifications and fixes in it as well.

Does anyone else think that this is a good idea? I can see this helping both sides.
[Atrix 4G General] polaris441:
The best optiin is aleays to have both, incremental and full updates
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
I believe Nav and KP are using both methods as well. I see KP has downloads for "full wipe" and "incremental" and Nav has mentioned he will also upload incremental updates for his Cherry "pi"
[Atrix 4G General] xfinrodx:
Given the option to do a patch or a full flash... I will do the full flash. Every time. I understand that the patch is useful to many, but I am so used to reinstalling and setting stuff up... I had an HD2 back when they were just starting to figure out Android. It was common to flash twice a day! I can handle the "snail pace" we have here on the Atrix easily.

...But, I'm the guy who reformats his computers quarterly... Phones are just little computers to me now. :-)
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
This is exactly how I am. People ask me why my PC is always running smooth because I format regularly. Its the only tway.
[Networking] Sirfearoth:
http://fightthemerger.com/

lets show att that we as consumers are the ones with the power, we do not need another corporate conglomerate to suffocate the wireless market
[Networking] TheMan42:
No thanks, no need for external advertising here - after working for T-Mobile for years and being let go recently due to the acquisition preparations, as well as many other employees - T-Mobile needs to go away and be absorbed - the financial hole they've dug for themselves is the reason this is happening.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrManiacNF:
Just wondering if anyone can help me out. A few days ago I installed the new market apk that was floating around. It installs fine, and once it loads the main title screen it FC's.

I've tried all install methods, uninstalling the old, overwriting the the vending.apk.. as well as combinations of wipe cache/data for market, and market updater. I've also tried wiping cache/dav cache as well.

Now tonight I just tried the updated gapps package.. flashed from CWM, and same problem.

I'm telus fascinate, cm7 galaxysmtd70, glitch v11.

Any help?

Thanks.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunm3tal:
FYI, I have CM7 Build 3 from nightlies thread.

I installed the new market ('vending.apk'), it is not fc'ing for me. But it does seem to take longer to load than the old version of the Android Market. My LauncherPro, however, does force close from time to time.

Try running 'permission fix' from ROM manager that came with CM7.

I ran this fix and the first time my phone booted, it was on 'safe mode.' Pulled battery and everything was fine. I have yet to find any fc'ing issues after doing so.

Try your luck!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adr0it:
Go into settings then force stop and delete data for Market. Reboot, then try opening the Market.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrManiacNF:
Thanks for the suggestions, but neither worked. I got to figure this out. If I do, I will keep this post updated.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrManiacNF:
I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I've tried everything. Including full wipe and reinstall. Still getting the FC's.