[Android General] nemuro:
Day two with my Yinlips YDPG-18:

0.5. Important! It says on the box to charge 10 hours before use. I'd do that if I were you. I get rather decent battery life after I did that.

*1. Updated to the second of december 2011 firmware update. The touchscreen works better. http://caanoo.forumactif.org/t2362-g18-mise-a-jour-02-01-2012

2. Went on a killing spree after my root, to delete all useless apps. (contacts, calendar, preinstalled bloatware, angry birds, and so on) - I wouldn't advise you this because contacts and calendar are tightly connected to the android os and will cause some issues. I get fc on google services framework every boot, for example.

3. Shadowgun works with chainfire, played it myself. Tutorial here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Nm5vig8GM

4. GTA III works good. Will film my Yinlips and post it for you to see

5. The sdcard of the yinlips contains warez by default (roms, apks). Which in my oppinion is bad as they applied for a patent at google http://www.yinlips.com/en/news/detail.aspx?v=557

6. In System I found a userstats file that seems to log whatever you do. Is that normal?

7. When I placed power control, the gps was ticked on. lol. It has no gps :)

8. the start button acts as a press, use the dpad to navigate. Nice way to use android.

9. Is there a way I can emulate the accelerometer with the dpad? Some games allow you only to use accelerometer to turn left or right.

10. root, install the market to allow you to use nolock (to disable lockscreen), spare parts to make the animations faster, battery calibrate to calibrate the battery as the battery values tend to oscillate, brightness control widget to quickly switch brightness modes (allows 0% brightness as well, auto is not supported because no sensor), apps2sd by sam and move2sd enabler to move anything to sd.

11. everything works so far. Touchscreen, cameras, wifi, accelerometer, all buttons. The one thing I didn't try is the hdmi output. Will come back with oppinions on that.

12. it takes a while to adjust yourself to the resistive screen. I use a stylus that my tytn2 has. Just press a bit harder and with something that isn't pointy or that could scratch the surface. I have no idea about mine, but I believe I have no protective film on my screen, so far.

13. unfortunately, a lot of the cool games rely heavily on touch or multitouch. Multitouch isn't supported so far and to use an virtual stick on resistive screen you have to be quite firm on doing so. It's quite uncomfortable.

*1. To update, extract the archive and copy update.zip along with those other files to the root of your sdcard. power off. now hold home, down dpad and while holding those two, hold power again until it shows "upgrading, please wait". Do a factory reset in the recovery, and reboot.

On my device, reboot doesn't work that well. Most of the time it only turns off instead of rebooting. so if it does nothing, just hold the power button a bit.

If you hold it for too little time and you are charging, it will go to off charging mode without booting. If that happens, you just hold the power button for more time until you see the android logo.

bad news: the 3e recovery doesn't allow any update.zip aside from the manufacturer signed ones. I found out this only after I made a custom rom. Bad news for me as I invested some time in it. Does anyone know how can I get it to be signed as manufacturer update ?

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