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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireRaider:
I am always careful to shut down my phone before swapping batteries, I have several since i run CM7. :)

But is it bad to just yank the battery out and swap it with a fresh one if I am in a hurry?

I kind of think of it as a mini computer that is writing files and such to the memory and if the battery is suddenly pulled out it would leave file fragments and such cluttering up the memory. A regular computer has defrag and files cleanup programs. I havent noticed such a program for Android. Maybe it doesnt need it and I am being paranoid? is this a crazy thought?

I know the older flip phones seemed to benefit from such a move, but my captivate never seemed to like it.

Anyway, I have wondered about this for a while.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Not properly shutting down can and has been known to corrupt files. I would always shut down the proper way when you can. Not much you can do if it dies in your pocket though lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
everyone shake your photon and let me know if u hear any internal rattles. im hearin on in mine, and i thought maybe it was the tab for the SIM but i pulled the cover off and held it and its not that.

anyone know where its coming from if yall have the same noise? its gonna drive me insane!
[Motorola Photon 4G] laraiza:
I think it has to do with the camera lens. The lens makes a noise too when you open the camera app.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
ahh... i think you are onto something. when i open the camera app up, the noise gets less, it must be something with the zoom and such. guess ill be able to sleep. for a while there i thought the dang thing was falling apart in my hands
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheShackSpecialist:
Mines the same also....clicky camera
[Motorola Photon 4G] wynand32:
That's the only thing I don't like about the Photon, and mainly because it inflames my OCD. :-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
there has been threads on this before lol. its the lense cover inside the camera, its loose when its closed. soon as you turn the camera on it you hear the click when it opens and it gets locked snugly in place.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bigjim1488:
This! They all do it, nothing to be worried about really.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tonyio:
it's volume buttons or camera lenses.
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
Upon reading this, i gave my phone a thourough shake and found that i was hearing something rattle around in there. I switched on my camera - shook - and the rattle was still there. Listening closely, i heard it coming from the bottom of my phone, any ideas on what this is? Its not a big deal because i hardly shake my phone. i just want to make sure that it isn't going to be a problem in the long run.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
i searched "noise in phone" and such, but now i see i needed to search "rattle"

question answered anyways, thats what the forums are for. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] bigbassbrent:
My camera button is loose and rattles. It does not bother me enough to take the phone back but I do wish it was in there solid like my friends photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
I hear the rattle...not from the buttons thou..sounds like the camera lense
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
I believe that rattle is from the shaky micro sd card if you have one. For some reason it doesn't make the noise when the battery is off. Or maybe it is the camera...but i highly doubt its the camera.
[Motorola Photon 4G] roseng:
It is most likely the position sensor that lets the phone know it's orientation.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wynand32:
Folks, this has been covered. The camera lens cover hangs loose and when the camera starts it's pulled aside and fixed into place. Can be verified easily by starting the camera application or a flashlight application and noting that the rattle stops.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Yes, many posts here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] flawlessbmxr:
just took it apart and on my mopho, its the vibrator piece. makes sense i guess. maybe it's different on each phone haha
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I feel the same way, it drives me absolutely insane.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sapperpipo:
After I shook my phone I was gonna guess at the vibrator, lol I said vibrator
[Folio 100 General] frankadimcosta:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100
[Folio 100 General] semonma:
"Adobe Flash

Dropping this library into ~/.mozilla/plugins allows flash playback. It warns though that it is out of date. http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so"

Sounds great! =)
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
I did put this new Ubuntu Image on my AC100, however some things don't work:

* ppa ac100 produces error 404, package ac100-settings isn't found

* high background load, virtually unusable

* no shortcuts (old Imgae did support)

* no suspend (crashes), no sound yet

* did not get flash to work with above plugin

Anyone ha dmore success?
[Folio 100 General] semonma:
The flash plugin (even only playback) of this Ubuntu doesn't work for my Linux
[Folio 100 General] gipposat:
Ubuntu 11.10 x Folio100?

Hi,

On http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ there is a "Preinstalled desktop filesystem archive" for Toshiba AC100. Is it possible to use drivers used in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=907960 to prepare a version for Folio 100?

Thanks.
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
I found a solution, now I have flash in Chromium. Doesn't work in Firefox (probably because I am running Version 7).

Instructions:

put the libflashplayer.so in the Chromium plugin directory (/usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins), easiest way is by wget command:

sudo wget -O /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so

install nvidea-tegra package

as it is not in the Oneiric repository yet I pulled this .deb and installed it via gdebi:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/ac100/ppa/...dia-tegra_12-0ubuntu1~alpha1monson6_armel.deb

I have no idea whether this is correct or latest, but it works to some extend.

Run chromium with

chromium-browser --allow-outdated-plugins

otherwise you get warning

360p Youtube runs smooth but when fullscreen has some slight lags, above resolutions do stutter.

Edit:

Here are some .deb packages of the main developer that seem to be newer. Did not test that. See the Readme: http://people.debian.org/~jak/ac100/README

Edit2:

With Beta 2 image and newest kernel (2.6.38-1000-ac100) the AC100 got quite usable now, sound via headphone works and performance bugs are largely reduced. Still some deadlocks by mmcd. Switching from ext4 to nilfs2 might yield some performance gain? And Debian hf, utilizing the Tegra FPU, also sounds promising.
[Folio 100 General] semonma:
Thank's a lot pibach, I'll try it this night =)
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Brief update:

I added the developer ppa in sources list:

deb http://people.debian.org/~jak/ac100/ unreleased main non-free

and installed the package: xserver-xorg-video-tegra

it pulls in the package tegra-libraries

However I don't see any difference in video performace

nvidia-tegra package is not in there, package is stil unchanged

sudo apt-show-versions nvidia-tegra

nvidia-tegra 12-0ubuntu1~alpha1monson6 installed: No available version in archive

It is from this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ac100/+archive/ppa

Seemingly this is for natty, does not seamlessly work with oneiric (Error 404 when added to sources.list as ):

"Changelog

nvidia-graphics-drivers-tegra (12-0ubuntu1~alpha1monson6) natty; urgency=low

* sigh, and build for the right release, oneiric doesnt work yet ...

-- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:55:42 +0200"

However, it does work. Strange.

When I remove that nvidia-tegra package, I get some screen artefacts. Video then plays but very slow

Moreover, I can't find any xorg.conf file to set bit depth to 16 as mentioned in the Unbuntu Wiki.

So any chance to get better video (>360p) and maybe some HTML rendering boost?

Another hint: I got problems with Unity, Dash, Software Center bugging the CPU into performance problems, seems to be some memory lock with mmcd. Chromium 13 is also a lot faster, especially scrolling speed, than firefox 7 (both on smooth scrolling). But also runs into memory / CPU overload. Switching to lubuntu made all much snappier. It requires just 1 command:

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

and reboot into that one.

Maximus serves to undecorate the maximized windows -> more screen space
[Folio 100 General] shidima_101:
Thats probably because linux uses udev and dbus these days to detect your hardware on the fly when you start x.
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Yes, you're right. But that how it is described in the official ubuntu Wikipage. Strange. I have no glue how to do that nvidia tegra configuration.

When I launch Chromium-browser from terminal I get a lot of these errors:

ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(121)] glxQueryVersion failed

ERROR:gl_surface_linux.cc(73)] GLSurfaceGLX::InitializeOneOff failed.

So seemingly GLX Tegra hardware acceleration is not right.

BTW, the people at Arch Linux have more recent kernel and are on the status that suspend is working fine. Plus zram support there to come. See this thread. Don't know to what extend this will make the device snappier. Mine runs already quite snappy under LXDE.

I think with Linux on it the AC100 it is currently one of the best devices around. And you can get it quite cheap.

Edit:

On boot I usually get the error: unity support test closed unexpectedly

Probably something with GLX

Tegra shouldn't have any problems running Unity or Compiz.

Anybody got this to work propperly?

Edit2:

Launching Chromium in terminal:

chromium-browser --allow-outdated-plugins --use-gl=egl --ignore-gpu-blacklist

I get:

libEGL warning: GLX/DRI2 is not supported
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
To give you a brief status update:

I got suspend/resume to work

Flash works now in Firefox 7.0.1 (was already working in Chrome)

There seem to be a lot of work put into Ubuntu Oneiric and it's ARM version currently and it seems to be quite stable now.
[Folio 100 General] gipposat:
On Folio100?

Is it usable on Folio 100?

The difference is only thouchscreen and Linux was already working (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=907960).

Thanks.
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
but also Sound, Keyboard, NvEc, USB all might be slightly different. Isn't it?
[Folio 100 General] gipposat:
No, I think everything is the same.

Bye
[Folio 100 General] quadrispro:
So, has anyone already tried it on Folio?
[Folio 100 General] quadrispro:
OK, I've given it a try and the boot image doesn't work, it definitely needs some porting.
[Folio 100 General] Oinquer:
hello pibach, thank you for your time testing stuff so we can make it work at the first time.

i installed drivers to make it work with flash, and its nice but sometimes i get a bug (probably due to graphic drivers making the screen get alot of artifacts, and only solution is a reboot, still a proble,m, probably due to alpha stage driver (nvidia could put something out that works decently....)

also, you say this version uses ext4? that should get it a lower performance comparing to nilfs (which i was using with phh's version) maybe disabling the journal? dont really know, will look into it.

how about changing the governor to performance instead of demand?

also...what about an SD card install? with a class 10 card should be fast? any info? worth buying a card to do it?
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
@Oinquer:

a) I got artifacts too, but only on Unity. I am on LXDE now and that works fine. Don't know why though.

b) I think you can choose ext4 or nilfs2 as you like. Can you point me to some links regarding performance comparisons and some more background info? I would give it a try then.

c) governor can be changed, sure.

d) the android bootloader cannot load from SD. But there might be some solution to do so, don't know. Meanwhile it should be no problem to have dual boot from internal MMC, for example Linux from partition 6 and android from partition 5 (SOS).
[Folio 100 General] Oinquer:
hello,

back to you, im using lxde now and installing the driver, hope artifacts go away.

EXT4 as far as i know has some benefits and some disavantages over ext3 and some other filesystems (checked yesterday after post), so performance might not change enough to notice.

governor , did it yesterday to performance, have to check flash playback now, but im not seeing big change except in boot time, that seems a few seconds less.

SD card, last version from phh's could be installed in SD card...and ubuntu wiki from AC100 says that if theres a blank SD card in slot at installation it will ask if you want to install there...im pretty sure its possible, but my sd card is in the trash bin, and cant buy one now...

here im hoping for the FPU stuff for the ac100...its getting there!!! quite usable, theres also a fix to have sound from internal speakers in ac100DOTgrandouDOTnet

will try it after i got everything sorted.

thank you for taking your time.
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Sound is working in Ubuntu Oneiric Kernel that is in the proposed repository, works for me, but sound does not wake up after suspend yet.

SD card/USB boot does not work with Androib bootloader that is also used for Ubuntu Oneiric standard install. So you need to find one that can support that. Ccurrently there isn't any solution for that around, AFAIK. But you can put Linux on partition 6 and Android on Partition 5 and uses Android 2.1 bootloader.
[Folio 100 General] Oinquer:
just tried the deb file in repository, and got two issues....chrome crashes and smartbook crashes at shutdown, joined yesterday the group at launchpad and will keep updated that way..
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Might be some memory problem. Configure zram, then no crashes.
[Folio 100 General] Oinquer:
Its prolly somthing with playing too much with the system, will install again and check.

By the way...i still have a couple partitions from android in there...do you know which ones can be safely deleted?
[Folio 100 General] shidima_101:
So, can one of you give me a hint about how to get started. Im trying to follow the guide, but when i run nvflash it says "Unknown device found"

Do i put my tablet in fastboot or in recovery?
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Boot the AC100 with Ctrl-Esc pressed, that is called recovery, i.e., you can flash via USB and nvflash.

I have compiled a tutorial Wiki here (in German), might help.
[Folio 100 General] brunte:
I have sort of a noob question, but here goes: If anyone manages to make ubuntu or any other good desktop Linux run good on the folio, could that then be made into a firmware that we can flash through recovery?
[Folio 100 General] Zandrokan:
hi i've try all but i'm a little noob

and i didn't manage to make flash works

in chromium and also in firefox, i'm running lxde, i

don't know but also sounds doesn't works.... also by headset....

can anyone help me? thx...
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
AC100?

Install tegra drivers.

Put flashplayer plugin in chromium plugin folder.

Then it works. But slow and not stable.

Sound works from headphone jack out if box, on Oneiric Proposed kernel from speakers, enable in alsamixer.
[Folio 100 General] Zandrokan:
oky

:confused: i didn't said but it would be nice to

have a noob description for all this step, an user guide,

not the all that i found in the web, i need example,

if you have time i will be really pleasure,

however yes is AC100...
[Folio 100 General] Netraiser:
any luck so far ?
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
I did a full blown guide here. It is in German. But everything is explained in detail: http://wiki.informatik.hu-berlin.de/nomads/index.php/Erfahrungsbericht_Toshiba_AC100
[Folio 100 General] Zandrokan:
headset

well, sound works from internal speakers,

but from headset, not at all, any suggestion?

thx guys
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
might require re-login in you case?

check the discussion among developers here: https://lists.launchpad.net/ac100/msg00377.html
[Folio 100 General] jal_frezie:
Problems with dependencies

Thanks for this excellent guide Pibach. I just got my AC100 and got the basic Ubuntu 11.10 installation working nicely in the internal memory. But I cannot get the video acceleration sorted -- trying to install Jak's xserver-xorg-video-tegra I get broken dependencies:

xorg-video-abi-11 (cannot find this anywhere)

xserver-xorg-core (needs >= 2:1.10.99.901 but have only 2:1.10.4-4ubuntu1.2)

Is it safe to just tell it to ignore these?

Actually the main reason for doing this is to get the flash browser plugin working. I have loaded this but it is not recognized (does not appear in about:plugins) presumably due to missing video acceleration, although I mainly want it for audio!
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
I have no idea, actually. I did not get those errors.

But maybeyou try without the JAK repository? Probably the standard repositories meanwhile inlcude tegra?

There might be some hints on the other resources I have linked, official Ubuntu Wiki or the grandou Wiki, for example.

Please report back if you figure out the problem, then I can update my tutorial page.
[Folio 100 General] jal_frezie:
Nothing in the standard repositories yet, but I loaded nvidia-tegra-12-0ubuntu1~alpha1monson6 as described above and now it works OK. When I use the flash plugin in Chromium I get some corruption of the fonts and mouse pointer bitmaps, but no crashes yet. Videos are jittery at first but settle down to play smoothly, even at 480p.
[Folio 100 General] jal_frezie:
No they are not in the official repositories yet.

I installed nvidia-tegra-12-0ubuntu1~alpha1monson6 as described earlier in the thread and it works OK.

I get some font and mouse pointer bitmap corruption when using the flash plugin in Chromium, but no crashes yet. Video performance is jerky but usable up to 480p
[Folio 100 General] pibach:
Oh, I just niticed from this post that you have used some newer driver (beta). That one seemingly is not working yet and you should not update or revert back, as you have done.

Some artefacts after installing tegra are probably due to Unity, I do not get those under LXDE.
[Folio 100 General] lpachuong:
Hi guys, does anyone manage to get HW Acceleration working?
[Folio 100 General] maureenc:
Vielen, vielen Dank, Herr Pibach

Hi.... I am a newbie to this forum but have spent months trawling through the Internet for info about Linux/Ubuntu on the AC100.... Thank you so much for that amazing "How To" guide Pibach.... I have it printed out and am hoping to install Oneiric within the next few days.

May I just ask a couple of questions first please?

You say: "unter anderem zu dem "Preinstalled desktop filesystem archive" für das AC100. Es kommt zusammen mit einem Bootimg-File, dass diese Archiv beim Bootprozess auf die interne eMMC entpackt und vereinfacht so den Installationsvorgang (ein Image auf SD-Karte ist somit allerdings nicht mehr möglich)."

But in the official Ubuntu Arm/Tegra install instructions it still talks about:

"To do an install to external media the installer also supports installing from USB key to SD card (not the other way around !). To do such an install put the tarball on the USB key and make sure an empty SD card is in the slot before starting the installation, the installer will offer you to install to a partition on mmcblk1 (SD card) instead of mmcblk0 (internal eMMC drive)"

I was hoping to install to SD first just to see how Ubuntu will run (I have 10.4 on my Desktop..... Has anyone tried this.... And is it even worth trying? Would it simply be too slow?

Also.... I have seen mentioned elsewhere that an Ubuntu installation won't work with Android 2.2.5 but with no explanation as to why..... I note that you mention a difference in the 2.1 Bootloader and that of the 2.2 version but that both will function...

Is it worth trying to downgrade to 2.1 if there is some future use for that Bootloader from the point of possible Dual Boot?

I would quite like to try one of the Linux Puppies (I currently have Wary 5.2.2 on an ancient laptop and Browserlinux on an even older one).... Is there a technical reason why development for the AC100 is going down the full Ubuntu route?

I know that Puppies are being used on many Netbooks and Notebooks but nothing on AC100.... I don't have sufficient technical knowledge to figure out why.... If anyone can point me in the right direction I am willing to invest time and effort in doing so.

Sorry for the long post!

Cheers.... Alles Gute.
[Folio 100 General] veve3:
After several weeks my ubuntu system on AC100 becomes intolerably slow and practicaly unworkable. Has anyone the same? Thank you,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dawgplg:
Ive been searching around for an answer to this, but have yet to find anything. Here is the scenario:

I recently got a Galaxy S 2 and wanted to use my Galaxy S as a Wifi Only Media Device. Something to leave in my car for Navigation, Music, etc. I recently installed the Galnet Chameleon ROM (but get similar results from other ROMs). The ROM works perfect the device works perfect, my issue is more of an annoyance than anything else.

I do not have a SIM Card in the device and therefore get hit up with a bunch of Notifications (ie No Sim Card Icon, (No Service) across the banner, etc). I figured out that if I put it into Airplane mode some go away but the (No Service) remains, aside from the fact that I now have an airplane Icon... haha.

Anyone know if there is an app, or method to remove these notifications (I dont need to be reminded that there is (No Service), or no SIM Card). Im pretty sure I can figure out how to remove the notification bar entirely, but would prefer to keep it.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dallas6672:
I was wondering the exact same thing. Only I'm using MIUI 1.9.30.

Will this work? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1218876

Or does that only work for Carrier name?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dallas6672:
using Extended Settings removed it for me. They just release them for 1.9.30.

http://www.magicmonkeystudios.com/android/andythomson/1.10.8/Extended_Settings/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jobbie007:
i have a really strange problem that has caused my handset to be back to the UK repair centre for HTC 4 times.

When i have a SIM inserted (and I have tried it with several!) the phone boots to the point where you get the "limited reception" display then it just switches itself off.

If however the SIM is removed then it boots fine.

I have tried added pressure to the SIM area to ensure a good contact aas well as adding a "spacer" in the battery area to ensure a good contact there.

HTC have replaced the mainboard and a variety of other items, the latest is the following; Sub Assy to 82H Lamination, Touch Window, HTC, TPK TW Bezel Pre-Assy, A case, Gen Receiver, AAC ELECTRONICS, SDRP061

What else can it be? Should I try a new battery? The battery is indicating that it is chareged fully.

Anyone with any suggestions?

:o
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dsmero:
Anyone know if cases from these two manufacturers are on the way? Would love a nice high quality case from either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] h20wakebum:
Otterbox has no comment on what it's plans are...

All we can do is email them/call and ask for the case to be made...

Keep contacting them!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reedsammy7:
I am a Sprint Rep and I emailed my Otterbox rep that has sent me several cases for friends and family for free and below is his response when I asked him when the case would be available for the Epic 4G Touch.

The current case for the Galaxy II S is the international version and does not fit the Sprint version. I do not believe we have plans to make a case for the Epic Touch 4G. I took out his name and personal info. just for his sake....LOL!!

Thank you for the support!

Account Development Executive- Midwest

OtterBox

209 S. Meldrum

Fort Collins, CO 80521

www.OtterBox.com
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Staxeon:
I see seidio has a section up for the E4GT but its only cables and cradles at this point, no batteries or cases yet. I'm keeping an close eye out though cuz I loved my last Innocase.