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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] UweRoss:
Then the Note is your only real choice.

After having had a Streak myself, and then using an Infuse for the last 6 months, I'm pretty confident you'd find the Nexus to be OK, but you'd LOVE the Note.

Size does matter, and the form factor of the Note is "Just Right".

-Uwe-

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Are you people serious?

-Uwe-

"Stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -- Heinlein.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mike2518:
Its true, i also had the note,and it was hard using it while driving. That's why i ordered the Nexus.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mike2518:
Are you serious? Every person and review says that the Nexus is blazingly fast and smooth. No way can ice cream sandwich be slower than gingerbread. I had the note for 2 Weeks and i saw some lag here and there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Daruka:
People who need to use the phone one handed while driving have a big problem and a dangerous one.

I guess they also don't know all the functions of their phone.

I have a swivelable mount in my car and put SGS there.

Here in Europe we have things called Bluetooth kits. No need for hands.

Even the new cars come with everything built in.. Just put SIM card in dash slot.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AndyCr15:
I would agree the Nexus seemed smoother of the two to me. The Note was very slick mind you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kanej2006:
You actually used the Note while driving? That's a good way to get stopped by the cops, or shall I say a good way to attract attention...

I would not dare use my Note while driving simply due it's size. It's so big a cop would see it from a mile away... :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] stjs:
The Nexus is fast but it does have some lag if you use live wallpaper. Where as the Note dies not. I use the Xmas HD on both and it runs much better on the Note. Also the Note will get ICS and it will out perform the Nexus. I am very happy with the Nexus but as far as hardware goes it is not as cutting edge as the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Braxos:
Mobile phones are not allowed when you drive not tablets say to the cops it is a tablet
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] galaa:
Should do a comparison when Note gets ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AndyCr15:
If I can, I will. Chances are I wont have a Note around at that time :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazy talk:
you can't be serious....

'hey police officier its not my phone, its a phonablet. leave me alone so i can use it while driving and put lives at risk'
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SonicTab:
As another mentioned, the Note due to it's size is unique.

The majority of people would find it too big.

If that does not bother you it's great.

The Nexus while a hot phone today

I think could quickly be overshadowed by a Galaxy S III with ICS.

It seems as if Samsung purposely held back

on hardware to give it self some room for a s III to top it.

I'd bet some will get the Note and just find it too large

whereas those getting the Nexus will be content with its size.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] calin75:
I got the Nexus but i'm keeping my Note. It felt as a downgrade more than an upgrade. I'm only speaking for myself, but after having my Note for a month and then switching to a Galaxy Nexus it just didn't feel right. Even though the Nexus is supposed to have a 4.65" screen, it just doesn't feel bigger than a SGSII. The limitation to only 16GB was another downer. I had to cut my music library in half and I also tried to use the cloud, but the quality is not the same and that's not even taking into consideration the extra amount of wireless data(at&t) that I was gonna have to consume, and last month I used about 10GB without using a cloud service. The 5MP camera felt short compared to the 8MP from my note. But the one #1 reason that seal the Nexus' fate was that when I connected it to my car's bluetooth stereo, it did not show the song's name on my stereo's screen. That's something that I have enjoyed since my early day's of my SGSII. I tried different music players but it seems to be a hardware feature rather than a software. I don't get it cause Samsung makes both, the Nexus and the Note. I would not be surprise if Samsung intentionally lowered the Nexus hardware standards, so they can make a killer SGSIII or Note 2.

I'm sure that Ice Cream Sandwich is superior than Gingerbread, but it didn't justify a downgrade in hardware and features. That's just me guys. I'm just saying.:(:(:(:mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] foxmeister:
FYI, for Nexus devices, Google specifies the hardware.

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] saumil@xda:
especially once Note get ICS upgrade there will be little to cheer about software superiority in Nexus.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] GNmagic:
I still prefer the note over Nexus. All i have to do now is to wait for ICS to roll out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] straycat:
NOTE has usb-host. NEXUS does not. Period.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Anshul89:
This ! Now I don't need to carry dirty stuff on my phone with me everywhere. It's all on a secret thumb drive :D

And the s-pen is incredible too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bamboo12:
well samsung makes the galaxy-s, the nexus-s, wouldn't it make more sense to call it the pen-s... oh wait
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] suomaf:
hahaha this thread needed this
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Phylar:
I went into Costco today to look at the Nexus today and compared it to my Streak. It just felt so tiny... The big thing I realized then is that the 4.65" screen really isn't that large with the soft buttons taking up a big chunk of that - it's more like a 4.5" or less screen.

Going on to handtek.co.uk to order my Note now and ensquared insure it. woo hoo :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] O_G:
Added First post to note review sticky. No need to keep this thread open now.

Thread Closed​
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gurdevb:
I took the plunge and decided to updgrade my HD2 to Android from Windows 6.5.

I did the following:

Radio to 2.**.51.**

Loaded HSPL 2.80

Flashed MAGLDR successfully.

I now turn on my phone hoping to see the MAGLDR menu through a 'long hold' on the on/off key but I get a white screen with htc in green and nothing else. The phone doesn't progress any further.

I've taken the battery out and tried again but same thing.

If I go into the bootloader menu, I get the coloured bars and at the top its got:

PB81100 HX-BC

SPL-2.08.HSPL 8G XE

0x05

CotullaHSPL 0x30

Have I screwed it?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
Got the radio wrong,, its 2.xx.50 you need not 51
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
Radio should be. 50 not. 51. Reflash radio from bootloader.

Sent from my Cyanogen HD2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gurdevb:
Thanks guys. Flashed the correct Radio and now takes me into the MAGLDR menu.

However, another prob. I've been following instructions I got from a friend of a friend :-) which states:

1. At Magldr menu, selct USB Flasher and run DAF.exe <done this successfully>

2. Once done, load clockwork mod <done this successfully>

3. Install the ROM from a zip file after copying this to the SD root. The zip file in my case is 'MCCM HD V5.1 CWR,NAND' and contains a Boot, Meta-inf and system folder.

When I try and run this through the Clockwork Mod i.e. 'Install zip from sd card' it runs but then aborts installation saying 'E:Can't open /sdcard/ROM/MCCM HD V5.1 CWR.NAND.zip (bad)'

Any ideas whats happening ?

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
you arent unzipping the file are you? you don't need to open that zip to see what it contains. just put the whole zip on the sd card and choose it from cwm.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Curiousn00b:
Try redownloading the file. On my Optimus, it only says that upon bad download, or corrupted file. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
The folder is zipped when you put it on the SD card right? If not, then copy the original downloaded folder (zipped) to the SD card and try again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gurdevb:
Hi yes, I have left the file zipped.

Is there a link that anyone can post for this zip file please and I'll try it again.

Also once I've done this successfully, there is an Update.zip file that I think I have to run. Can anyone confirm this is the case?

Lastley, once I've done the above I'm guessing that I have the device in a state to now flash an Android type i.e. Gingerbread, Froyo, etc.

Is this true and what do you guys recommend - any links would be helpful.

I can almost taste the sweet succes of having Android on my HD2 !!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
Then why bother flashing another ROM? Just skip the flashing MCCM's ROM and go straight to a ROM of your choice. As for which ROM, there are too many but I would recommend Typhoon CM7. The only way to know for sure is to try them out.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stelioskal:
the CM rom is a very good choice
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
that was the rom being flashed. If you didn't want that rom, you should put a different rom.zip on your sd card, and possibly flash a different cwm partition layout in the previous steps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Koopaversal1:
I want to flash back to stock from my current ROM so I can flash one of the recent GB ROMs. The problem is, in most of the installation instructions the first step is "Flash JF6", but, I have a 1101 build device that can't do One-Click. Do I have to go JF6, or can it be one of the other 2.1 stock ROMs?

Sent from my $500 paperweight.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
You don't need to flash to stock at all, flash the gingerbread bootloaders, then flash the room in recovery over your current rom

UNLESS you are on cm7/miui then you must go to a stock ROM. any will do if not a 1 click you need the .pit and reoartition checked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TRusselo:
to flash the room, you'll need a high powered 1500Watt strobe light. theres some on ebay.

sorry had to joke.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Pit and repartition are not necessary. I use the 3file version of kf1 in my sig all the time to flash back from MIUI and it does not have a pit file in it.

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Search for the KB2 Heimdall one click by Adam Outler. Same idea as the old JF6, but compatible with all phone build numbers.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Koopaversal1:
Does it matter that I'm on an ancient 2.2.1 I9000 ROM?

Sent from my $500 paperweight.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Correct, you should note

There is an epilepsy warning with this method...if you're prone to seizures proceed with extreme caution! :P

Nope.
[Kindle Fire Accessories] a1exus:
any ideas on good case?

i want it to be slim, yet provide maximum protection (i carry my kindle in my backpack, so it's not safe :))

i want to have stand functionality, so i can convert case into a stand, say i'm on lunch and i want to watch hulu or i'm on airplane and dont want to hold it for 9h

preferably all that but not for $99, cases that sold for that much is just ridiculous... i dont really like spending $40-$50 either...
[Kindle Fire Accessories] yall2:
Roo Case

I like this one, had another by same manufaturer for the Color Nook. Good quaiity.

Search for this on Amazon, I wasn't allowed to post a link. It is $25.

rooCASE Dual-View Multi Angle (Red) Leather Folio Case Cover for Amazon Kindle Fire 7-Inch Android Tablet
[Kindle Fire Accessories] babbabooey97:
Cool! Thanks, I'm going to check this one out
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] sohail77:
Can someone port ics lockscreen for our sg3. I know its available with an app called widget locker but the app uses 35 to 40 mb of free ram and the phone gets a bit laggy so if someone could plzzzzzzz port it ,it would be really nice
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] AndroKite:
Install kyrillos Rom,it has a look screen who looks similar to ics lockscreen.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] ak700:
Well even i use widget locker with ics lockscreen . For me it does not lag. I use g3mod oc with kyrillos' v9. It's flawless for me.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] sohail77:
can u see in samsung job manager[task manager].apk and tell me how much ram does it uses
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] ak700:
Well, kyrillos from doesn't have the job manager app. So i don't how much ram it uses. But it doesn't use alot of ram.

If u the problem that when u start lock screen (pressing the power button) and it takes time to start then u need to use g3mod. That would do every thing.
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] sohail77:
If u are talking about g3mod kernel, i use g3mod V2.1 oc
[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] szewc1:
Try GoLocker https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock with ICS theme https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.icecream. Works almost flawlessly for me. WidgetLocker is slow and lags like hell on each and every rom I've tried.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sewa2k:
First of all, thanks for your tut, it's very helpfull for those who have linux

I have a question

The u8800.img contains all partition data?

Thanks in advance, regards
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bonowax:
Yes. You can mount the image through /dev/loop and run fdisk on it to see the partition table.

There are windows tools to accomplish the same tasks of byte-copying to a file and vice-versa, but I haven't used them, since it was straight-forward with Linux.

Cheers
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sport_billy:
Thank you very much for this tutorial.

But what about us who have not made this backup when we had the original froyo and flashed the original 2.3.5?

I have several CWM backups but none of them works(it keeps booting in recovery mode or not booting at all),unless i restore to factory data which is useless.

Can you or someone else please upload a clean froyo backup so we can flash it and go back to our 2.2 backups via CWM?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sewa2k:
Thanks m8, i'll do it tonight, so i can start to porting roms to U8800-51
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Wow nice. I was waiting for something like this. I ran "sudo -i" before the process and it's copying right now. This is good for recovering the phone in case of soft brick.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] m!xal!s:
That was a great tutorial! Thank you!

I did it on an Atom netbook last night, booting Linux from a USB thumb drive.

I saved the image on an external USB ntfs HDD, that it had to first be mounted, of course. I had to to this because the internal disk is an 8GB SSD with no room for a 4GB image file.

The imaging process took about 25 minutes on this machine, with all 3 USB 2.0 ports occupied (Boot USB drive, u8800, external USB drive). Transfer speed was about 2.7 MB/s.

Right now I'm trying to compress it with 7zip (maximum) and at 65% progress it has a 45% compression ratio (output/total). (The phone has many apps installed (1GB) and also I have the ndrive folder on the internal memory as a backup in case there is a problem with the ext SD.)

So I suggest you, to do the backup on an empty phone if possible, if you want the smallest size for your image.

Regards.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bonowax:
It should be possible to dump and restore only the first two partitions, in which case it would make a much smaller up/download. This would restore the previous bootloader and allow CWM to operate normally ( or at least I hope so ).

I'll look into it.

EDIT: I dumped primary partitions 1, 2 and 3 to a image file which is around 140 MB after ziped. This could be enough to restore the old bootloader. "Could" is the keyword here, as it assumes the partition scheme is the same in every U8800.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sport_billy:
bonowax can you please upload it so we can give it a try?

I am having bootloops even with the new beta v2 they released today.

So your solution is the only way to revert back to 2.2 .
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skifyr123:
you could just install stock 2.2 firmware normal way ... easy as that
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sport_billy:
Yes but if i restore my CWM backup after flashing via the classic method it keeps rebooting in recovery mode.

So it is useless and it also means that it is not completely the same as before.

Some people mentioned having issues after flashing 2.2 with the classic method .

I want to try the method mentioned here.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bonowax:
Unfortunately there is the IMEI issue. I don't know where it is stored, and dumping from phone to phone might not be a good idea, unless we're talking about two devices you can actually get a hold of AND you do a full backup of both devices prior to any experiments...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sensimilla:
Many, many thanks for posting this tutorial.

I ended up with a unformatted 4GB drive after trying to revert genokolar's custom partition script due to boot loops with the 2.3 beta. Luckily I had done a backup via this method so I was able to restore it successfully.

Be warned that it takes a long time to restore the full 4GB, well over an hour on my phone. I had almost given by the time it had finished.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to try any custom roms or messing around with scripts. I just wish I'd done it when my phone was completely stock.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ksatta:
Excellent!

I actually did a dd backup before 2.3.5 upgrade, but I didn't dare to restore it. Now I know it worked for you :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
I started the phone in bootloader mode and WOW, my Ubuntu crashes. It gives some kernel message and the display is completely messed up. It worked before, but it made my computer not shut down properly. Any help is appreciated.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Commsman:
I was not able to use Ubuntu 11 - it auto mounted all the partitions and like you crashed when trying to dismount them.

I have tried every way to stop this auto mount behaviour - looking in all the forums I could find, but nothing worked, so yesterday I grabbed LinuxLive USB creator, http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ and used it to create a live Puppy Linux on my usb stick, it runs sweetly on my laptop (booting from the USB drive not running it using the vbox option inside Windows).

It immediately recognises all the U8800 partitions but does not automount them.

I ran the dd command after navigating in terminal to a spare folder on my laptop hard drive (after mounting the laptop hard drive with Puppy's useful mounter app), and now I have a u8800.img on my laptop hard drive! Perfect!

Oh - and of course once again - EVERY time I have used pink screen mode on my U8800 with the latest Stock Beta 2 Gingerbread, it re-boots ok but the SD card is gone. Booting into recovery mode and wiping the Dalvik cache is the way to solve this - it is now completely predictable and after doing this I am back to a really great phone - faster, cooler, great camera and video, BBC iPlayer etc.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] matteof93:
will this method work also on u8800pro?

Isn't it the same of going to the pink screen, open the image directory and do a backup of all files in it?

BTW, the problem is that we need to go to the pink screen to restore the phone, right?

Inviato dal mio u8800pro usando Tapatalk
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Simply copying the image is not enough, full copy (dd) backups system, cache, even IMEI, if I am not mistaken.

Easiest way is of course copying when in pink screen, but with some hacking it should be possible in Android aswell.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] matteof93:
but we already have a way to downgrade from 2.3.5 to 2.2.2 on u8800pro using update.app and update_g.app ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ksatta:
Well if for example for reason x the partition table gets messed up or anything else, you can restore everything back with dd. If you can get into the pink screen.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] matteof93:
has someone tested this backup procedure on u8800pro?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] mesnati:
I can go back to pink screen but when connect to USB there is nothing recognized (sdb or sdc) :( Any suggestions :((
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
I believe you have the B522 rom? It has USB disabled :(.

Sent from my U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] mesnati:
So does it mean that those who installed official B522 GB cannot "dd" it?

Is there a way to enable it?

Thanks!

M.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] astewart:
Hi Guys

I also have this situation and cannot access any partitions from the pink screen. And yes I have the 522 official.

Can we get around it at all?

By the way how would we get back to restore the 2.2 partitions if we can't see anything after upgrade to 2.3 (522)?

Is this possible only for the beta versions?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] julle131:
I'm in beta1, and pinkscreen has usb working. I would be better if you downgrade to beta 1, so you can use it too.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] astewart:
Thanks for confirming that. I think that confirms my fears in that Huawei has messed it up big time for us to have the official version:(
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] mjapalma:
U8800 back too live

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[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] tskjoe:
thanks for tut
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Anyone done something like this with a Windows host?

I'm thinking Ghost should do it, with the "forensic copy" option enabled.

Thoughts?

Edit: Ghost32 seemed to work no problems for the backup, with the "Image Disk" (-id) option, not game to try a restore just yet ;)

29/02/2012 11:01 p.m. 3,961,596,338 u8800-id.GHO

coz the byte count is different from the OP:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bonowax:
Theres always DD for windows...

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

@Sherriff: I believe that figure would be the number of bytes dumped + filesystem overhead... Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Soooo.... this didn't work. I now need to restore (as part of reverting to a froyo official rom) and... "error the destination drive is smaller than the source" :( Oh well, live and learn... *brick*
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] tomeczekf:
Thanks for your tutorial, it's very helpfull. I was looking for this ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fatsodonkey:
Is this same kind of backup like going in to pink screen and copying the files to backup?

Does pink screen backup restore my imei?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Yes, it backups the whole phone. That includes the modem partitions, where IMEI should be located.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fatsodonkey:
Just to be totally sure. if i just go to pink screen and copy everything in image folder in windows i can just restore my imei simply by copying the folders back to pink screen?

Also one more question.

Can i backup my official 2.2 rom with your recovery 5.5.0.4?

I just replaced my moherboard so i dont want to lose imei again. ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
The image partition aka cust is only a small part, you should follow the tutorial to back up. But to do it you need Linux. I'd recommend a live USB stick, which works without installing.

CWM backups only make backup of the operating system (Android) so it doesn't backup modem partitions.

If you cannot do it on Ubuntu for some reason, it's possible inside Android too. Commands differ a bit but you need to have SD card with atleast 4gb free.

Sent from my U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fatsodonkey:
Oh ****! i just got tired of waiting and flashed 2.3. i backed up with toolbox5irom but is that a proper backup?! I still have the imei. should i revert to 2.2?!

does anyone have a working 2.2 files to revert?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
No, if you have IMEI, you shouldn't worry. 5irom backups the modem partitions, but I am not sure it works across 2.2 and 2.3. You should make another backup with 2.3, just to be sure.

I have flashed multiple ROMs and kernels, nothing has made IMEI dissapear.

Sent from my U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
Can I use the backup of someone else?