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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Hi to all.

Has anyone tried it or is aware of any review on Easypix Easypad EP970? I am thinking on buying one, since specs look very good without me being an expert on CPU performance data (9.7 capacitive, Rockchip R2918 1.2Ghz, 1Gb, 8Gb, 8000mAh, Gingerbread) and price is rather low for these specs.

Also, does anyone know of any custom ROM for it? The source code is readiy available from their site so I guess someone with knowledge can do it easily.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
unfortunately this tablet is not focused from many people - the price and specs are fine - i would say the closest competitor is the Archos Arnova 9 G2

better specs vs better screen for 240€ - i would like to see a video about the quality of the easypad 970 screen

Android 4.0 for Rockchip 2918: Link
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Thanks. So, am I right to assume that any Rockchip 2918 9.7" based ICS or Honeycomb ROM would do for the Easypad as well?

Talking about the Arnova 9 G2, it looks interesting indeed. Slightly slower CPU, one camera less, slightly thicker, but 50 Euro less!!

On the Arnova's downside, no mention on the battery capacity though (will be hard to beat Easypad's 8000mAh), and worse of all not avaiable for sale as yet.

I guess Prestigio will be coming soon with a similar model as well.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
There would be still a ROM portation nessecary to adjust certain aspects and implement certain driver. But at least it should be simple for experienced Modder.

Yeah at beginning next year there will be some very similar and interesting devices in the low budget area.

Archos Arnova 9 G2; 10 G2

Easypad 970,

Prestigio

and also Coby Link

For now the Archos has the biggest community, i think root is already possible for Arnova 9 G2, because of the similarity to the Arnova 10 G2. Maybe next year other devices will be community or company supportet as well - unfortunately no one can really say.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Interestingtimes ahead then.

I think it is wiser not to rush now and wait for next year. Let's see.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
the easypad970 seems to be a good purchase now

Link

its identical to cube U9GT2

therefore easy to root and Android 4.0 final release is coming soon
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Happy new year.

I got the 970 a couple of days before the new year. I couldn't resist the temptation when I had it in front of me. I also bought one for my bro as well.

Already I rooted it with Gingerbreak (minor snag after that, during shutdown, but workaround by another app), loaded with apps, and tested on dlna multimedia servers, etc etc.

Generally happy with it. Now is about time to experiment with ICS. Just to confirm that I can use a U9GT2 ROM without a problem, even though this one has 8Gb NAND instead of 16Gb of U9GT2?

Sorry for the noob question :)

BTW thanks for the links. Great help!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
grz - i got one too ;) its cheap, good performance, good quality, and has a excellent display

i would recommend to change the Launcher and the Keyboard, to e.g.:

Go Launcher Ex and Hacker´s Keyboard

for Gaming install Chainfire3DPro and within Chainfire install OpenGL Driver

for Gameloft Games, like Order & Chaos you need to change the build.prop (\System): Link (Thread #8)

HardKeyboard + Mouse + USBStick work also fine

and yes - you can use the Cube u9gt2 ROMs - the USB Driver doesnt work as fine as the

970 but it works - with a installed cube ROM u need to use a RKManager to switch off the Tablet,

then press Volume (-) + Power keep pressing and put the USB cable in the computer, then

the Device will be recognized from the RKManager und you can take away the Fingers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Thanks for the good info. Congrats on your new gadget!

Will try games etc, but at the moment I am trying to find the best calendar and contacts apps in order to sync with Outlook and keep the categories, and some networking functions.

There is something in the German forum that you kindly provided the link, that I need to clear up: "richtet 1GB anstatt 500MB für Apps ein". Google translation implies not clearly that if I use the Cube ROM, it gives me 1Gb for installing apps instead of 500Mb as in Easypad. Is that correct?

If so, out of curiosity then, any ideas why Easypix gave us only 500Mb (which have almost run out on mine and I am also using Apps2SD)? And where does Cube take that extra space from? Is it from the NAND Flash memory which it has double than ours? If so, then we Easypad owners wouldn't have any problem with half the NAND and even then reduced by another 500Mb? Or is it just too trivial and I shouldn't bother about it? Because I need that 1Gb badly :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hop3l3ss1990:
Hey,

I'm one of those germans with an Easypad 970 :D

Well I upgraded my stroage for Apps from 500mb to 1gb without any problems. I think the Cube U9GT2 Rom upgrade changed the partition sizes too. So we will lose 500mb from the normal NAND flash an can use it for apps.

greetings :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
yes its a decision for the ROM maker between more storage for the system or for the user - i really prefer 1GB for Apps

I would recommend the new Cube Firmware 1.05 = Android 4.0.3 (Source), i tried this one out the whole day and im very pleased. It runs very stable, has 1GB for Apps, flash works and some Apps look really good with ICS.

for Calendar - i use "Jorte" and youtube is here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christis:
Good.

I am also thinking of installing this specific firmware (or any update) by next week and hope by that time someone will fix the adb issue.

Did you notice any improvement on battery life?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tekkaro:
no unfortunately i didnt notice any improvement in battery life, and in the next days we will see probably some more ROMs so there is no need to hurry
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thanis:
Hi, I also have the Easypad 970 and very pleased with the quality of the screen and overall speed of the tablet. Unfortunately, it seems there are some devices (like mine) with faulty/bad WiFi chips and this is a real problem. Currently, trying to get it fixed with easypix support and respons is OK so far. Tomorrow I will try to get an RMA for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] app_addict:
Guys, can you please tell me what are those compatible and interesting games for my device? Also, what are the top 10 best apps. Thank you so much!

Godspeed!

-- sent from my Samsung Galaxy Fit GT-S5670
[Atrix 4G General] Kleine89:
Just wondering, as l haven't seen any postings about this. Can AT&T lapdocks work with Bell? And vice versa? I was looking on ebay & amazon, but rather not waste my effort into it if it won't.
[Atrix 4G General] Vazay:
Why not ? Lapdock is only HDMI screen and keyboard.
[Atrix 4G General] LifelessRaptor:
The lapdock is sold by Motorola with no carrier attachments. It should work with no problems.
[Atrix 4G General] Random Canadian:
The box for my lapdock says ATT on it actually. But it works fine with my bell atrix.
[Atrix 4G General] exwannabe:
It dose not work with the similar phone from Verizon though. For some reason Moto did this intentionally by flipping the position of the two connectors.
[Atrix 4G General] akyboy:
whats the best deal for dock in canada?

any $50 deals here? :)
[Atrix 4G General] Kleine89:
Thanks. Was wondering this, and as a Canadian, we both know how Bell is. No more words needed. But thank you for your answer xP
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lazy361:
I came from a g2, & there

is an amazing group of guys on there that made the MexdroidMod ROM. Many people have ported it over to other devices because the themeing alone sets it apart. With new animations, helpful tweaks, speed, and new innovations its a wonder why nobody has made it for sgs2.

Can somebody, any body... Please please please for the love of

humanity and our phones try and port this over?

I'll post a link to the thread for the g2 MexdroidMod when I her on a computer.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeb85:
+1 mexdroid was amazing in the g2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lettcco:
I am in disbelief that this super google phone can't play half the stuff my galaxy tab can play :eek:...

-.mp3 yes

-.wma no

-.rmvb no

-.mkv no

-.avi (xvid) yes but choppy

-.avi (mp4) yes ok

I wish people reviewing the phone would have mentions this. Anyway, Feel free to add to the list like ogg, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nafem:
Its only software

I don't think it is worth mentioning it is only software. Maybe try using Rock Player or Doubletwist to play your files.

And anyway, who would want to use WMA anyway? Use Handbrake to convert to a mobile friendly format (h264) which takes less space and has higher quality.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxprodigyxx11:
Have u tried media players from the market? Heard those work great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lettcco:
I tried MX video player for the video, and it could play all videos--though xvid on HW is jerky (~20fps) and I had to switch it to SW mode. And it still choke at 1080p mkv (~10fps).

I tried winamp for audio but neither seems to want to play wma...I could convert them but that's an extra step...

Besides, I know the galaxy series could play them fine, that's why I feel this is a step backward.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flakz0r:
I can watch 1080p mkv's super smooth with Dice Player, and it has played everything i threw at it without any problemas whatsoever. Overreact much? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] clefster:
Diceplayer fixed choppy avi playback in the latest update, unfortunately you can't buy the full version at the moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rashad1:
V player works fine, I covert videos to mp4. They play great natively
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] seven2099:
MKV is just a container so you're wrong, it does play MKV, you just need to make sure its encoded properly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
You obviously don't understand what a "Nexus" phone is. Plenty of choice out there that support these kind of files OOTB. Otherwise as others have stated go grab some goodies from the Market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] noobdeagle:
MFW people cant read :\

http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
dude, there are lots of 3rd party apps to cover the missing formats

MoboPlayer is free in Android Market, one of the best open source players for every format

many of which there's build in hardware support
[HTC Rezound] jonathan413:
hi I've heard plenty of times that you should charge your phone once you get it or charge overnight..is this true in anyway? I always go straight to playing with my new phone and then charge once battery dies..any thoughts on this myth?
[HTC Rezound] dangerousjenny:
Hi. I have heard a few different things about this. I think there is a thread on here I read about it as well.

First is that it won't matter because batteries no longer need to have that memory thing.

Then there was one that said let it deplete, charge it and then when the light goes green unplug it and replug it in. The light will go red for a few more minutes and then green. That will set the battery.

Then I also read that you shouldn't charge it completely or let it completely deplete because that will lessen the charge over time

The last I heard is that (and this was under the discussion about extended batteries if I remember correctly) the batteries are made so that the battery meter tells us it is dead even though there is still a little bit of a charge on the battery that way it doesn't do anything bad to it.

So I really think it depends on who you listen to. I did the let it deplete and charge it thing once so far. I get decent battery life. I tested it and got 10 hours out of it with medium usage and I usually get more when I toggle off the 4g when not using it but haven't timed how long for that yet.

Hope that helps until someone who knows more specifics posts something.
[HTC Rezound] punman:
I don't think it matters any more. I plugged mine in after I did initial setup and let it charge to green light, didn't do any special bump charging or charging while off. The battery is designed to be used as is, without any tricks. Always overcharging to 100% or completely draining to 0% is probably worse than just using it normally and plugging it in when you notice it's relatively low.

There's a battery log that Android keeps regarding voltage and reported capacity that it uses to adjust the percentage display that you see on your phone. This changes over time as it gets a better idea of how the battery discharges, so built into your phone is a mechanism to make sure the reported capacity is accurate. If it gets "off" a bit, like if you see a huge spike up or down in battery capacity after a reboot, it's just adjusting itself.

But, as you know, Android users love to control everything by themselves, and not leave anything to some process behind the scenes. Hence the clamor for root so we can install whatever we want. So some people like to trick this adjustment mechanism by force charging the phone to full when it's off, which gives the battery capacity adjustment mechanism a "true" full charge to base its reporting on. Also, I don't believe the kernels in stock ROMs will charge to what it believes a full 100% charge is, to protect the battery life. Bump charging kind of gets around that, if I understand the process correctly.

Also, I don't charge overnight (lack of outlets in bedroom) so I make sure it's topped off before I go to bed. Even if it's not, it can make it through the night just fine, since it's not being used. So that's not that much of an issue anyway.

TL; DR: Just use it, plug it in when you need to.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
Hi All,

Yesterday my SGS2 stared doing some strange things. Self restarting, connecting to charger without any cable in it! Switch on from a sleep, then self restart... :(

I did hard reset tonight, and today about few hours its the same....

Of course that I have installed many of applications as before this problem. But I dont know if it is a problem of some application.... :(

Any idea how to fix it?

Many thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
Can it be caused by battery?? I have this phone almost 6 months...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cangir:
Are you on 2.3.6?

If not, flash 2.3.6 or another rom just try it

i think your battery is not the problem
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
no, I have stock rom KI4 2.3.5 ... till now was everything OK
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
I found now an app (need for speed hot pursuit) which was moved on sd card (I don't know why, I didn't move any apps on sd card), just its deleted... we'll see
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
second factory reset, without any new applications installed = the same.... spontaneous restarting.....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sendhiloo7:
I am not sure .. I think Power key will be the problem

Do diagnose pls do below steps

1, Just power off the phone & remove the battery for 2 mins

2, then plug the battery & don't power on

3, Wait for 5 mins, if it automatically powered on then power key problem.

If not then something problem in only ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PetoG:
formated SD Card, I saw that there was also some files created by Android system... Now it seems, that 1,5 hour is everything OK :) But never say never :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoveDev:
I Know this is a month old but was wondering if everything is still ok with the random restarting?

The reason I am asking is that it has been happening to my SGS2 though I believe it may be slight, v.slight water damage; as I was walking in a rain shower at the start of the week and realised my phone USB port was partially exposed to the elements, and after a few days it started to exhibit the same symptoms.

Currently the phone is sitting in a bag of rice in the hot-press to try and extract as much moisture from it.

If anyone else has any experience of similar problems, your help is appreciated.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beeboss:
Same **** happened to me when I dropped my s2 in snow. The problem is in USB controller. There are two ways. first is to change USB controller in service centre. The second is to try to clean it yourself with isopropanol and brush
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoveDev:
Took the phone out of the Hot-Press and bag of rice earlier to day and it has know been successfully fully charged (not charging was another problem); will continue to monitor the situation (not difficult since half of my life is on the phone...).

@beeboss: Thanks for reply, was wondering what kind of brush, Toothbrush? soft/hard? I expect that cleaning it yourself is a v.delicate job, it wouldn't put me of doing it, it's just better to have the correct equipment as I've came across corrosion of circuits on a bigger scale and I cant see scraping it with a v.fine scalpel to be a good thing in the case of the phone; Though I did not have isopropanol at the time of the big circuit corrosion...

Thanks for the help
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Hi, I would like to know how i can make a Odin one package.. I already tried one of the tutorials which says:

dd if=/dev/block/stl9 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/stl11 of=/sdcard/cache.rfs bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/zImage bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml12 of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096

when i try entering one of those i get:

No such file or directory...

So my question is, what is a WORKING method to save the data / make an odin rom?

Is it also possible to convert a backup to an odin one package or so? Please help me out, I want to make a uber clean / fast rom

Thanks in advance..
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] mbba67:
From where you got that script code?
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11479721&postcount=2
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] karo_96:
Let me ask here in order not to create a new topic. From where I can download XXKPS files (extracted android files)
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Its on the main page lol..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347789

but pls stay on topic XD

Edit: just found this interesting command: "cat /proc/mounts"

This fixes everything :)

rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /system ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 /data ext4 rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 /cache ext4 rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=0,data=writeback 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:28 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0

Now only have to find out what the zImage and Modem block are :)

I9001 Partition Table

Partition	Name	Filesystem Type
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8	boot
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12	persist
/dev/block/mmcblk0p13	recovery
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15	/system	ext4
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16	/cache	ext4
/dev/block/mmcblk0p17	/data	ext4
/dev/block/mmcblk0p18	/preload	ext4
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27	/efs	ext4
/dev/block/mmcblk0p28	/sdcard	vfat
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
To dump all:

adb shell
su
mount -o remount rw /system
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/boot bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 of=/sdcard/persist bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/recovery bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/system bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 of=/sdcard/cache bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/sdcard/data bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/preload bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 of=/sdcard/efs bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 of=/sdcard/sdcard bs=4096
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] mbba67:
Did this work? ithink mybe it will work.
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
It did :), i made a small typo in the mount line tho...

It exports all partitions correctly, tried to make a MD5 One Package but no success so far xD

I use

md5sum –t sdcard/output.tar >> sdcard/output.tar
mv sdcard/output.tar sdcard/output.tar.md5

should do the trick, according to the tutorials I've read...
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] mbba67:
Keep trying i think your getting to something good. i will also. this can make custom rom flash through odin:)
[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Yes idd.. I would love that. Nothing to configure, just install > enjoy CFW :)

Edit: Just made another odin flashable. hope this one works, will be testing it when im at home

I made the tar (tar.gz actually but renamed it) with root explorer this time; much better compression now lets see if the MD5 is also correct according to Odin

Edit2: I tried to do the whole process in root now instead of /sdcard (which seemed to be the problem) and it seems to work!

(The one package loaded contains everything except /system and /data, this is because my phone "crashes" when i move 500mb from sdcard to root, swapping to small? anyone know how to fix?)

Ofcourse i can use linux shell to XD

And the result so far

(The one package loaded contains everything except /data)

Before i flash it to my phone i want to make sure it doesn't put my telephone in BSOD (Also happens when Kies updater fails)

And the big question: Will Cranium RC5 one package work? If it will, its nice :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DMax99:
Seriously...I just can't believe my luck.....been using the replacement Note since Friday after receiving it on Thursday from handtec....

GUESS WHAT???....I have found another TWO black DEAD PIXELS!!!!

I found it when I was browsing through XDA....although they are not very visible....but I can still see them when I look closer to the screen, and they really BUG me....!!

Man...it's either that handtec sells inferior quality Notes or Samsung has done a really bad job with screen quality control...At the end of the day...I am really sick and tired of receiving, returning and receiving and now have to returning it again!!!!

Anyone got any advice what I should do now??? Should I return it again or just bear with it or just give up the Note totally?? I mean, it's quite expensive to send it back again and will probably take another 2 weeks for me to get the replacement.

Take a look at the photos..

cheers!