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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidsteele1975:
I like the Galaxy Nexus too. it is big to look at, but feels a little smaller in the hand, probably because it's thin. In the pocket, yeah; it's big but not so big. I used and enjoyed my Dell Streak 5 for a good while.

There's an uneasy compromise between screen size and everything else. I'm using a 'phone less for forum and browsing so a smaller screen isn't so bad, when I first started using my iPhone 4 I found the small screen a bit of a compromise, but you get used to it. I missed my Arc's 4.2" screen :) and the Nexus S sits between these two.

If the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus were the same price, I'd probably have gone for the Galaxy Nexus, but I don't feel particularily hard done by with the Nexus S...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkilla:
the phone is nice but my nexus s is too I just feel like there is

Nothing too different on the gs specially with I.c.s

Running flawless on my NS but I'm still very tempted

To Getting this gadget just for that 720p display
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyrus_e:
Performance wise it is a great phone!

But I find the size is way too big.

The largest I could go would be something like the Galaxy S2. But the Galaxy Nexus is simply huge.
[Acer Iconia A500] almoore16:
Hi All,

I've done some searching on this and other forums but have yet to find a satisfactory and up to date answer.

As per the title....is there a UK OTA update?

My tablet is version 3.0.1

Build 1.016.05_com_gen1

Thanks in advance for any info :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] shadowfax49:
Hi Al'

I'm in no way an expert and I think the Acer method of naming files causes some confusion however, FWIW.......

I'm in the UK, my A500 had 3.01 when supplied and I received notification of update to 3.1 which I did. I'm currently on 4.01.41-com_gen1.

I'm now rooted and believe I can't rely on OTA updates but there IS a System update notification (7.006.01) which I believe is 3.2 but as this won't permit rooting, I haven't bothered with it.

Have you tried checking manually (I've got Automatic update checking disabled, perhaps you have too?).
[Acer Iconia A500] almoore16:
Hiya mate,thanks for your reply:D

Yes auto update is enabled and have manually checked too,a bit frustrated,don't really want to go down the rooting route if I can help it but might have to.

Cheers
[Acer Iconia A500] almoore16:
Quick update for anyone that's interested ;)

Contacted Acer support who told me how to manually check for update....thanks,worked that one out already,duh!

Next they've said to factory reset then the update will become available.....er no its not happening!

They now say they'll book it in for a look......we'll see,hmmm
[Acer Iconia A500] joe9002:
No updates here I use the xda updates now.
[Acer Iconia A500] zardoz99:
My A501 came with 3.01 in November and I was offerered the 3.2 OTA update almost as soon as I powered it up and connected to the net for the first time. It has now OTA updated to 3.2 in the UK quite happliy.
[Acer Iconia A500] almoore16:
Still no update for me :mad:

So I've rooted and flashed Thors(can I say his name?)latest rom,it's awesome :D

Just like to say a general thanks to everyone who's contributed on XDA for the rooting/flashing info,hats off to you.

Cheers

Al
[Acer Iconia A500] nasimdejai:
Received both updates on Thursday 5th November and they both installed without a hitch. By the way,I'm on stock honeycomb.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ares93:
So I've been swappin' sims for a few months now. Pretty annoying if you ask me. I've had me Gio less than a week and the battery cover is all buggered.

Has anyone tried these on our beloved mobile? They can be found on ebay. I hear 3G doesn't always work. Oh, and it needs to be compatible with Tele2 SE, T-Mobile UK and T-Mobile HU. Although I rarely use the last sim. Few times a year, tops.

Experiences?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] liamhammond:
I got a dual sim adapter for my sg2 which is brilliant and works with 3G too from www.magic-sim.com might be worth checking compatibility for the Gio there?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] GreenChris:
Sounds interesting, but I don't need it.

:-D

Written with Swype Beta on Cyanogenmod 7.2(GT-S5660)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] marcin1147:
That adapter should work great.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Blubberfisch28:
I would wait for someone who actually tried an adapter for the gio. I remember a post in another forum where someone told that this adapters are naturally a little bit thicker than normal simcards. in the gio its a problem because the slot is really small. someone had problems to take the adapter out...
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ares93:
Out wont be a problem, its the putting it in that might prove to be difficult. Once its there, I honestly don't care. I wont be pulling the cards out anyway.

I think I'll wait until i get a definite confirmation. I've done a lot of "it should work", and more often than not, I didn't exactly pan out the way I planned. I need to use me t-mobile card for a while now anyway, since most people i talk to nowadays only know me british number.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] czkwg8:
It sounds so nice
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zariftech:
Hi,

When do you think we can get ICS 4.0 for Nexus one or there is not chance ever? Thanks in Advance.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theshawty:
We already have two ICS ROMs.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestX0019:
look in the dev section
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassmadrigal:
We will never see an official ICS ROM from Google, but devs have been hard at work, and as both above me said, we have two ICS-based ROMs in the development section of the forum.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GldRush98:
This. Google has labeled the Nexus One dead less than two years after release. Pretty neat, huh? Glad you forked over all of that money for a Google supported Nexus device now?

Not that I'm bitter...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theshawty:
I kinda am. I mean, not even two years has passed since the release of it and they're already officially claiming it dead?

Bull, wait for it, ****.

By th way, GldRush98, what is stock 2.3.6 like on the Nexus? I cannot be arsed to try it out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
On ROM space alone it was already assumed the device would be unsupported. But hey, it lasted twice as long as my G1...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indiangeek:
I'm already using ICS rom as daily driver on my N1 (no regrets but for camera). Ref: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1366897
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassmadrigal:
With the how fast paced the phones are changing, it really doesn't surprise me that it had a less than 2 year supported life. Look at when the G1 first came out in October of 2008. It had a 528MHz processor with 192MB of RAM and 256MB for the ROM. Then, in just over 14 months, we had the Nexus One which pretty much doubled all the specs there. 1GHz process, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, double the screen resolution... Dual cores showed up 1 year later with even larger screen resolutions. And quad cores in phones are just around the corner. The software needs to be rewritten to utilize the extra speed and/or features the new hardware provides, otherwise you are paying for all these extra cores or memory that you will never use.

How long did it take for these jumps in the PC world? 500MHz processor? 1998. 1GHZ? 2000. Dual Core? 2005. Quad? 2007. Phone technology is moving much faster than desktop computers ever did. Plenty of people were pissed when they found out their hardware that was good with Windows 98 didn't work with Windows XP. Same thing happened when Windows Vista and 7 were introduced, and I am sure the same thing will happen when Windows 8 is released. In the equivalent of the PC world, we are trying to take hardware that was released when Windows XP came out and trying to get Windows 7 or 8 to work on it. That is not the easiest thing to do, and even if you pull it off, is it going to have all the same functionality that would be available on a modern machine?

And since it seems that this will mostly come down to space requirements, could you imagine if your Windows 7 install was the same size as Windows XP? When XP was released, 20GB drives were still the norm. Now you install Windows 7 and a modern game, and nearly 20GBs is used. As you upgrade software, you eventually need to upgrade hardware. There is no way around this.

The point is... We had a good run with our devices and they got numerous official upgrades including and spanned across 3 major software versions. I applaud Google for actually supporting their devices much better than any other manufacturer out there.

And now that the official Google updates have sailed away, it is time to turn our phones completely to the dev community. TexasIce and samuaz have done an awesome job trying to get ICS working on our beloved N1. There are only a few things missing for it to be considered a fully working ROM.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anubhav77:
Technology always change, but we all loved linux in all this era, for it could still support old/lower end machines without problems.

Since, Android is built on top of linux , in my opinion it is fair to expect a "better" deal.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassmadrigal:
But hardware can be just as incapable as running the "latest and greatest" in the Linux world. My laptop was only 2 years old when compiz came out and I was never able to run it. Nor any of the advanced graphic features KDE 4 offers. But, you take that now almost 8 year old notebook, and it can still run the latest Linux version out there (I use Slackware and am running 13.37), but I am not able to use all the eye-candy that is available to it.

In fact, I don't really use it for much any more. It struggles playing youtube at resolutions above 360p (and can't do it full screen). And with all the AJAX heavy websites out there, it takes a toll on the system when you have a few tabs open. Essentially, I have turned it into a dev notebook. It is where I do all my web development.

The reality is that Linux will work on most systems, but it may be an extremely stripped and limited version of Linux. Google didn't want to put out a crap version that have people complaining that it can't do something that was advertised with ICS. Also, putting ICS on our phones requires repartitioning the internal memory. I doubt that is something that Google can do with an OTA update. Plus, we have yet to see if they can pull off full hardware acceleration (it has been done with hacks so far, but from my understanding, leads to a larger battery drain). And we have yet to make the camera work.

It would've been nice had Google pulled out their magic fortune-telling ball and given us extra internal memory or a better graphics card. But reading the future is not an easy thing to do. Just like you buying the phone. You bought the phone with the hardware that was in it. It was awesome at the time and seemed to have adequate space, but then google upped the limit of apks to 49MB and apps kept getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly, you were pretty much required to use app2sdext to be able to use all the apps you wanted.

There was no guarantee on how long our phones would get updates, but they have covered three major versions of Android and a ton of minor versions. As far as support goes (especially when you look at the other manufacturers out there), I feel we have nothing to complain about.

Now we leave it in hands like texasice and samuaz so use true geeks can figure out how far we can push this hardware until it becomes so slow and incapable to do standard things... just as my laptop. And that is how you know you have truly used the product to the extent of its useful life :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] phon00b:
Howdy y'all. This isn't really a device-specific question, but I have it on the Nook Tablet, so hopefully that's good enough to keep it here.

I've got FPSE running Final Fantasy VII on my NT, and I had a question of anyone who's played this game on this emulator before, even if on another device: How do I "switch discs" when it comes time to do so?

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Retpallylol:
There is no built in switch disk option with that emulator? Does it let you save right when you need to change a disk? If it does, you might be able to just load the save file and start on the second disk and continue from there.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] hsanafad:
I'm certain when you reach the end of a disc it automatically takes you to the save screen, then you load the save with the next disc. Just curious, how does the music for FF7 sound on your nook, mine sounds choppy.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] phon00b:
Sadly the sound is pretty lousy. Damn shame as the soundtrack was so epic.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] hsanafad:
I found this on another post here. Try installing psx4droid v2 1.1.2

I couldn't get psx4droid to work until I tried that version. The FF7 soundtrack sounds how it should but at the moment that game is slightly sluggish so I'm trying to find the right settings.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Texx-it:
do you have a link for psx4droid apk?

thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] hsanafad:
I can't post links yet but if you google psx4droid v2 1.1.2 mediafire should be the top page and that's where I got it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shishant:
Hello,

I searched a lot but couldnt find a option or app that can allow me to delete multiple SMS not whole threads, can anybody please please please help me with this?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkp1977:
There is no option like this.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinister1:
That is lame that you can't. I've said it before and I'll say it again "I miss Windows Mobile". Sure it froze here and there and it wasn't as pretty as WP but if you needed it to do something, it did it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pal_Hwang:
no this option now, and microsoft did not provide the access to MMS yet..so no app for this either :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ROCOAFZ:
I can use mms if i run htc connection setup and chose att.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prjkthack:
There is no option to erase multiple SMS messages at once, but you can delete a single SMS at a time by simply tapping and holding on the specific SMS to bring up a menu of options (which includes Delete).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shishant:
Thanks for your reply I am aware of deleting single sms, but I want a option of deleting multiple sms at once in a thread like in iphone. Deleting one by one is way too annoying :(
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ethanova:
super sms quick delete seems to work really well

would link it but too new to post links. just search market.android.com
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gprash:
You seem to be lost. This is a WP7 forum.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otherworld:
Fingers crossed they implement something the same as with the emails (where you can just tap to the side and all the checkboxes appear). I love how quick that is to delete email messages.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the public Mango APIs to allow developers to write something that would help. Microsoft only seem to let developers compose and send messages in their apps, not list or delete existing sms's.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Hey everyone,

i have recently found out about the Aviary Photo Editing SDK for Android.

Check it out at http://developers.aviary.com/.

I have quickly put together a nice little app which makes use of this SDK.

The Aviary SDK supports things like adding stickers, text, various photo effects, cropping, rotating, drawing, etc...

You can select your local photos or choose to browse your Facebook photos and those of your Facebook friends.

It also easily integrates with all your existing photo apps: simply use the share/send function of those apps and choose Easy Photo Editor to handle it :)

Check it out at https://market.android.com/details?id=de.goddchen.android.easyphotoeditor or use the qr code :)

Looking forward to your feedback! Feature requests, bugs, etc... :)

Goddchen
[Android Apps and Games] bshatilin:
Great editor!
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
just published a minor update:
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Since the last update, the scroll speed of the gridview has highly increased :) I'm now using the android-generated thumbnails directly, that gave it quite a boost :)

Still happy about any kind of feedback! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Update 0.3 now has the updated Aviary SDK (2.0.3) which features HIRES output! :D Save your edited photos in their original resolution :D
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Published 0.3.2:

Fixes properly saving hires output when sending a photo from Gallery (or similar apps) to Easy Photo Editor via share function.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
New update 0.3.4:

* Preserves original Exif infos

* Edited photos now visible in other gallery apps
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
Thanx for removing the .nomedia file!

It still removes the exif data. Maybe you can have another look at the piece of code that's suposed to save it?
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Hey,

thanks for the feedback. Could you please give a little more detail (what kind of photo did you choose: camera photo, downloaded photo from the internet, facebook photo, ...? Was hires output successful?) and maybe a logcat? I tried with various files and preserving exif information works fine for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Thanks rogier666,

the logcat pointed me to a bug in the Android implementation. I have implemented a fix and it is being published right now :) Please try the new update (0.3.6).
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
Thanx for the update. It saves some exif data now, but not all of it. The most important tag is still lost.

Camera Model is changed (you're appending "edited with Easy Photo Editor" to the camera model).

The exif tags "creation software," "color representation," lens aperture," and "ISO speed" are lost.

And the horizontal and vertical resolution tags are changed from the original value to 96.

But what really matters is that the "date picture taken" tag is lost, and that messes up the display order in all gallery apps. And of course you can't check back when you shot the pic if you only have the Easy Photo Editor-enhanced copy left.

Changing the original file name into some random number is not such a good idea either. Image file names often hold useful info (like date and time), and file managers tend to sort pictures by file name.

What about keeping the original file name and simply append "hires" to it? If this causes conflicts when you edit the same picture twice, just do something like:

> if filename doesn't contain "hires_*" then append "hires_1"

> if filename contains "hires_*" then increase last digit by one

I tried lots of Android image editors and they all break the exif data.

If your app can preserve all exif tags (especially the "date picture taken" tag) you'll be the first in the android market that gets it right.

If you can preserve the original file name (with a suffix to indicate it's edited) that would be even better.

And if your app can keep all exif data, preserve the file name, and gives us the choice to save edited pics to the same folder as the originals that would be absolutely great.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Hey,

thanks for the detailed feedback!

I'm actually a bit confused about the results.

I am using Android's native ExifInterface:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/ExifInterface.html

So i am only able to make use of the TAG_* constants that are defined there. Actually i thought TAG_DATETIME is what you are referencing to. But obviously it is not.

To test the exif information in input and output image i was using the app "Jpeg Exif Viewer"

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ohakado.exifviewx

Could you please see what your results are in this app?

For the file naming convention: good idea, i will give it some thoughts and integrate it soon - won't get to do much on the app until end of the week :(

Goddchen

Goddchen
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
Found the problem.

Your app saves all the "android os exif interface" tags, but it only saves some of the standard exif info. It saves the date/time tag, but it loses the data/time digitized and date/time original tags.

My gallery apps (stock and QuickPic) sort images by "date modified." QuickPic and other apps have an option to replace "date modified" with the info from the date/time original tag, but of course this can only work if Easy Photo Editor keeps the date/time original tag.

altered:

file name (date -> random number)

lost (exif):

aperture value

color space

components configuration

compression

date/time digitized !!!

date/time original !!!

exif image height

exif image width

exif version

flashpix version

iso speed ratings

resolution unit

scene capture type

software

thumbnail data

thumbnail length

thumbnail offset

user comment

x resolution

y resolution

ycbcr positioning

added (exif):

f number

light source

metering mode

white balance

Jpeg Exif Viewer doesn't have an "export to text" option, so I've attached screenshots of the output. I also added the original and edited image. I had to zip the pics up 'cos they're too big for the forums jpg file size limit.

Hope this helps in making your app preserve the date/time original and date/time digitized tags. Maybe you can also add an option to replace "date modified" by "date/time original?"

Kodak Perfect Touch and the stock image editor in my Motorola Defy preserve all the exif tags, so it can be done.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
wow thanks so much for your effort!

as already mentioned, i will have time to work on it at the end of this week.

Currently i'm checking out Apache Commons Sanselan for EXIF processing. Looks promissing so far:

http://commons.apache.org/sanselan/

Goddchen
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
@rogier666

could you try out the attached version? It now uses Apache Sanselan to preserve EXIF info. I will integrate it in the next update if you approve that it's working properly... :)
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
I'm on my way to work so I only had time for a quick glance. So far it looks good: all the exif tags survived.

A few suggestions that could make the user interface a little more intuitive:

1) Instead of an "apply" button, what about auto-applying and replacing the "apply" button with an "undo" button? This way moving to the other editing options won't erase your previous edit.

2) What about renaming the "done" button to "save" (that's the obvious thing to look for when you want to save your edits)?

3) And maybe move the undo/save button to the bottom of the screen? That way it sits close to the back button so people will not so easily forget to save their edits before they try to move back to thumbnail grid.

Anyway, it looks like your app is the first (free) photo editor that doesn't kill the exif tags. Congrats!
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
@rogier666

thanks for the additions feedback. I will consider it.

But for now the exif feature has priority.

I made a slight change:

I do now set the "Exif Modify Date" to the current date. I think that's more appropriate since the image really was edited. What do you think?

Could please check out the new APK?
[Android Apps and Games] rogier666:
I didn't see any "modify date" tag in ExifViewer, so the change does no harm :)

I'd say the latest version is ready to hit the Android Market, err I mean Google play.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Publish 0.3.7 on the Play Store.

It basically includes the new EXIF implementation and a settings screen.

Now i can give some attention to the other feedback that came up :)

Goddchen
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Done :) Will be included in the next update! :)