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[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] RipplingHurst:
One thing I hate about both I pads and android devices is the memory management. I mean when you are doing something "big" say posting a document with one 1080p short video plus three pictures, you open 2-4 apps to share them with the family and they force close and you lose it all. It happenend to me once in 3 devices, same files on my dropbox: I pad, galaxy, tab 8.9 and TPrime...they can't really handle large files, even few files. I was lol, but this is sad.

I'm hoping windows 8 will change all that.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] sbeddoesdesign:
I've read that ICS will come to this thing etc. but yeah, if you want your device to keep up to date for a long time without using custom roms Android isn't the way to go... Manufacturers don't make any extra money by updating their older devices...
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
if they charged 5$ and released ICS earlier, I would easily pay.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] BlackFire_PR:
And if the rumors turn out to be true, it seems like there will be a great integration between PCs/laptops/Tablets and smartphones with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Can't wait to play with an ARM based Windows 8 tablet.

I have also had some experience with the Galaxy 10.1 / Asus Transformer / iPad 2 / Asus Transformer Prime / and now I decided to go back to the Samsung Galaxy Tab family. I also see the iPad for non-technical people who just want the device to work out of the box. Nothing wrong with that IMHO, but for us who like to tweak, play, test, and also use those beloved apps the devs put out there for us, the iPad can't live to our expectations.

The Asus is an amazing device, and its IPS+ screen is the best I've ever seen on a tablet, but it has some issues I did not really could deal with, which everyone here already know about. For example, the Wi-Fi signal degradation supposedly because of the aluminum backplate, it is not a major problem for most, but for me it was bad. I live an a condo with lots of Wi-Fi routers fighting for the 2.4 GHz band, and my TP had a lot of issues keeping up with that, so I returned it and since the experience with the SGT 10.1 was so good for me, but wanted a smaller/lighter device, I bought this little 8.9 Tab. I love that it is lighter, so long reading sessoins are more pleasant than with the TP, plus no more long buffer times or stuttering HD video streams since my 8.9 connects to my 5GHz WiFi network perfectly.

As I was telling one of my co-workers: My geeky side is with the Transformer Prime, but the Tab 8.9 is really everything that I need. =)

So I will just keep my 8.9 while patiently waiting for Microsoft to release their Windows 8 and it gets some love from tablet manufacturers.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] drk5ide:
agreed

I concur completely with you.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] SGSChris:
well, samsung has officially admitted defeat for its tablet strategy in barcelona this week.

for me this means they will cut development (and legal) losses and focus on new tablet strategy going forward. this tanslates to minimal support for our tab 8.9...

next week the new ipad is released and will be miles ahead of our tab while we do not even have a proper tablet OS yet!

I am really sad that the potential of tab 8.9 will not be realized..
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] pseudoheld:
how did they admit defeat? they introduced two new tabs....

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/samsung-galaxy-tab-2-10-1-hands-on-video/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/samsung-galaxy-tab-2-7-0-hands-on-video/

??
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] Magnesus:
The new ones will be supported, but the old ones are "defeat" by their own words.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] max2ict:
I brought the GT 8.9 because I wanted a product that was easy to use and would allow me to install third party software and store all my books, documents, music, video's, games and much more in one place. The GT 8.9 gives me this option, I am an IT trainer and the size of the 8.9 makes it easy to use when travelling around London.

I also own the Galaxy note which is too small to view lesson plans but is a fantastic phone and note taking device, Samsung has produced some fantastic product; I have used Apples IPhone, and IPad and both are excellent products too. In my opinion the difference between Samsung and Apple are one makes hardware and the other software.

To compete with Apple’s apps store, Android need developers, the Android market place has grown thanks to the army of developers and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them. I agree that we are entitled to our own opinion, however I don’t think its game over for the GT 8.9 it is just the beginning.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
Doesn't mean they won't be supported. Get your facts straight.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] SGSChris:
Their execs said so, it was all over the news. For example see here:

http://news.efytimes.com/e1/79731/Why-Samsung-Failed-In-The-Tablet-Market

they said that the best strategy to compete going forward is to "kill" your own product. need I say more?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] dmunjal:
I don't blame Samsung, I blame Google for taking so long to get a decent tablet OS. Honeycomb was a piece of crap.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] sbeddoesdesign:
looking at the new tabs... lol, this industry...

But looking at them the new tabs aren't actually much more powerful than the current ones, the resolution is the same, appears to still be TEGRA 2, obviously they're aiming to get the price down instead of the power up. Seem to have given up on the 'thinner and lighter than iPad' thing too (again, probably to get the price down). They seem to be pretty much the same devices, just redesigned to be cheaper to build. No 8.9 replacement yet either (IMO the perfect size). If you ask me we got the better version.

ICS is coming to our tab and it's going to remain the thinnest and lightest so I can't see why we'd need to worry. It's like the iPad - they replace them frequently but the old ones continue to be cool devices.

I gotta say the new tabs are kinda ugly too...

RE the "Why Samsung Failed In The Tablet Market?" article - Are any Android tablets actually doing well? Seems to all be bad news outside of the iPad and Kindle Fire. Vicious cycle - nobody builds Honeycomb/ICS optimised apps because the tablets aren't selling like the phones do, and Android tabs don't do well because the app store is lacking.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] Magnesus:
I was just explaining how it might be and what probably "game over" in the tile meant for the OP. There are no facts yet.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] qhinton:
I think its game over for all Android tabs. There is just too many. I would like to see	an entry and high end tablet for each company per year with updates for at least 2 years. I'm tired of Android it just moves too fast and great devices get left behind
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] sbeddoesdesign:
Yeah, that's the big problem, and the one frustration I have moving to Honeycomb from iOS, the support just isn't there, and you know that once these quad-core ones come out, our devices will be left behind, the manufacturers won't spare a thought for us. I love the Galaxy 8.9 for the size and form factor but I don't know how long before it'll be replaced by (or at least accompanied with) an iPad 3 for the sake of apps and support. At least I know with iOS that when there's an update to I'll get it without having to upgrade my device every year.

I gotta say though, ICS barely even seems like an update... It's got a few kinda fun features for a phone but I can't see anywhere where it's worth upgrading to a better tablet for, if it wasn't for the mobile phone support it'd just be Android 3.3.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] dmunjal:
Just bought the iPad 3. My 8.9 will sit on my desk until ICS comes out. If it is a major improvement, i'll switch back.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] SGSChris:
same here got the 32 gb version. my first adventure into Apple turf...feels strange.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] sbeddoesdesign:
iPad is great, I had one for a while, I just don't like the OS for tablets... Feels too much like an enlarged phone interface.

The iPad App Store, on the other hand, is a goldmine of so much awesome stuff, there's so much to do on an iPad which my Galaxy Tab could only dream of matching. If either Android Tablets caught up with apps, or iPad caught up with the OS functionality, we'd have one amazing device.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] qhinton:
After 3 years I'm jumping the android ship entirely. I'm fatigued with updates. You think that if you buy high end **** you would get timely updates and hardware that flawlessly works. This is not the case and android is great but consumers have been paying the price way too long as we are stuck with devices that are out dated or things like GPS don't work as it should. So I'm selling this sexy device for around 250-275. And getting an ipad 2. Android or Google needs to get control of this the customers are losing... Oh and the apps suck for tablets. Oh all new ipads will be sold with LTE for 500 thats fantastic and this is without contract. So basically you can go to any carrier or retail store drop 500 and use LTE with pay as you go.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] choccy31:
I've just brought an 8.9 wanted one for ages, an I'm sure that despite the negative comments on here, I will enjoy it a lot. Also you should look at the developers who can now make apps full sized for tablets but are dragging their heels in doing so.

ICS will come out in a few months officially for the tab and i'm sure come summer more apps will show up at a more rapid rate.

The whole world can't have an ipad3 no matter what Apple would make you believe!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
half the fun i have with android is tinkering with the devices. my wife has an iphone which i play with from time to time and it just gets boring after a while.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] sbeddoesdesign:
Most Android fans seem to like the ability to tinker/customise/mod... What frustrates me is the people who say "you can't do anything with iPhone/iPad, it's a TOY compared to Android" because I have an Android device and a lot of the time they're nowhere near as useful as my iPhone or my old iPad because the apps which give them practical functionality just aren't available. I don't really see the practical use of being able to change the way the home screen behaves.

I love my 8.9. It's getting updates very soon, not sure what people expect hardware developers to do about the speed of updates since they don't gain anything from putting them out. Don't let people's frustrations with Android put you off the device. Sure it doesn't have the iPad's amazing software lineup, or the instant updates, but the form factor, size and weight of the device is perfect, and iOS just can't match Honeycomb's usability on a tablet. For every iPad app you might miss out on, there's a great built in Honeycomb or TouchWiz feature to discover. If I switch to the new iPad later on I'm going to miss the taskbar and all the realtime multitasking. I hate the idea of having to go back to the home screen, into the settings app etc. just to change the brightness.

I hope you're right about tablet apps though. I had an Android tablet called an ADVENT VEGA a while back, I got so frustrated at every app being a stretched-out mobile phone app, I switched to iPad, then instead of upgrading to iPad 2 I got the Galaxy Tab 8.9 but I was just baffled that Facebook and Twitter and the like were STILL just mobile apps which get poorly stretched-out on the tablets.

Thanks to the Kindle Fire, I think the big devs will start taking Android tabs seriously soon though.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] shaxs:
While Honeycomb is not awesome, the hardware decoding issue really is the fault of the Tegra 2 chipset. I have now had 2 Tegra 2 devices (OG Transformer and LG G-Slate) and they were crap in decoding my 720p MKV. I bought the ATT version of the 8.9 specifically because it did not come with a Tegra 2 piece of crap SoC.

Guess what? My mkv files play just fine on a stock rom- not even rooted. So I am now very very happy! I found a tab that is small enough to read on and big enough to be a useful tab AND it plays my mkv files without any issues.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] choccy31:
Anyone had any issue with the bottom right corner of the tab?

Mine suddenly tonight seems lose and you can press it in a little and :confused:it makes a sound like your pushing it in.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] varsas:
Mine does that a bit and has done for a few months; it hasn't got any worse and there haven't been any issues with the tab so I don't pay attention anymore.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] choccy31:
The company said for me to send back and they would replace, but not sure I can be bothered as if I hold it differently or in a case, I don't notice it.

:confused:
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] varsas:
I normally do not notice it and it's far too much hassle for me to take it back to Hong Kong to replace so I'm just living with it. In your case, if it's not inconvenient and won't cost you then why not?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] choccy31:
Well I'll see how I feel tomorrow.

I saw elsewhere someone else mention similar issue.

I probably will send back and have replaced, just a hassle as I've put loads of stuff on mine now.

Ta
[Defy General] devilthehellraiser:
I have installed Mokee os! Rom v0.3 and camera is not working ... when I press camera it just show unable to connect ... plz reply quickily!!!
[Defy General] devilthehellraiser:
Never mind I downloaded the zip for defy +
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
Okay a little backstory:

I was on an early version of CM9 but as i am selling the phone i decided to put a more stable version of it on there and downloaded CM7 -stable.

I flashed this in CWM and it worked fine.

I gave it a quick test and noticed all the google apps were missing, most importantly the market. So i booted into recovery and realised i had forgotten to put the zip on the SD card.

I then went into mounts and mounted USB, nothing happened...

From that point onwards the phone would not talk to the PC. even if i booted up into the phone, it would just show it as charging. I could not find any options in the menus for USB options.

After some extensive reading, i tried a few things, none of them had worked. I found a post mentioning some kernels have issues with USB, so i downloaded the recommended one and flashed it in CWM.

After rebooting, CWM was now orange and not blue and the option to flash from external card has gone.

I have also done some digging and there is a good posibility that the kernal that i flashed was for the GT I9000 (which is the american one, right?)

So as it is at the moment:-

I can get into CWM.

I can get into download mode through the 3 button combo.

I can get into download mode using home made jig.

I can boot the phone, but it boot loops.

I can not get the phone to be detected on the pc.

Things i have checked:

Cable will connect other phones.

Tried different cable to be sure.

Phone used to be detected, but downloaded drivers through kies again to be sure.

Closed Kies using task manager.

Nothing is coming up in network connections in device manager when phone is connected.

I'm out of ideas now, so £10 PayPal donation for anyone that comes up with the solution to fix it :)

If i can get it detected, i can use Odin to flash what i want.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beardedwonder:
Sounds like a drivers problem. You may need the 'Google driver' developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

When I had bootloops when I first installed CM9 I used heimdall to flash a the stock CM9 kernel. This gave me back CWM.

heimdall flash --kernel 'kernel.zip'

In the commandline.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
Thanks for that,

I already had the Google USB drivers from when i installed the SDK to make some apps.

So i then gave Heimdall a try (Graphical Version), it seemed to suffer the same problem.

Reporting "Failed to detect compatible download-mode device."
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beardedwonder:
I seem to remember the GUI saying I didn't have the correct drivers and it downloaded them for me.

The other thing worth a try is changing the USB port and reinstalling the correct drivers on that port.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
I've not seen anything like that, it has not asked me for any drivers.

It's like the phone is not connected at all. nothing will detect it, i have even tried it on another PC.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by installing on a port.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beardedwonder:
Well sometimes changing USB port will allow you to install new drivers. Although if you've tried it in another computer and it doesn't work then changing port may not help.

Does the phone appear in device manager when it's connected and in download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
Nope. Not coming up at all in the device manager. It didn't when it was booting fine. And it still doesn't in download mode. :-( I'm thinking the usb connector on the phone might be faulty.

But it was working up until trying to mount the USB in CWM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divereigh:
I don't suppose you have access to a Linux PC do you? Windows USB drivers are notoriously sucky. If you could plug it into a Linux PC and type 'lsusb' at a command line, that would at least show you that the device is really there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
I think I have a spare pc kicking around that I could use. I'll give it a go when I get home tonight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hassaan123:
Remove all the drivers completely from device manager for Samsung, then install fresh drivers and connect the cable when in download mode, hopefully it will recognize it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amroth84:
Are you sure the connector is clean? e.g. maybe there's dust in it.

I had that problem once, the connector was full of fabric fibers from some coat's pocket I had the phone in.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
Suggestion 1 (Linux): I installed ubuntu, did not detected anything to even install any drivers. Detected my new phone fine.

Suggestion 2 (Uninstall drivers from device manager): I could not find any drivers named with the name Samsung in there.

Suggestion 3 (Clean port): I have some compressed air that i sprayed inside, it does look pretty clean and will continue to charge but still not connection on the pc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beardedwonder:
To install the drivers for heimdall you have to run zdiag from inside the driver folder. Had to do this earlier on, the phone the other appeared as something other than Samsung composite usb or whatever it normally says
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
I tried this, and it displayed 9 devices after selecting show all. I seemed to recognise all of the items in the menu.

To be sure, I then disconnected the phone and re ran it to see if one of the items were missing, but it was the same number.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RA017:
I too had problem with the usb connection on my i9000, and I was pretty sure my usb connector on the phone is somewhat damaged since it sometimes can only go to charging mode without being detected by my pc as a usb device. CWM instal is fine but ODIN can only detect the phone without able to flash the rom to the phone. The flashing will always stuck at the message "Setting Up Connection", I waited for 15 minutes and the flashing will eventually died. I retry the odin flash for 40 to 50 times and eventually the flashing will go through one time. Tried heidmall command line and the result is the same.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fallen04:
I have problem with Odin in the past. I bought a new laptop, running Win7 64 bit. Installed Samsung Kies to install the correct USB drivers for the phone. Then made sure that Kies wasn't running in the background. So tried using Odin. Odin was detecting the phone, but it was hanging at initialising connection. Odin was working fine on my old laptop running Win7 32bit. Long story short, I was having a few issues with my new laptop, reinstalled Win7 64bit, now Odin is working fine, have flashed the phone a few times using the new computer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovedonator:
After flashing which kernel you started facing this problem?

Wipe ur phone,re-flash CM7(flash the nightly 181,it's completely stable),uninstall KIES,uninstall old usb drivers,install these usb drivers http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=961956 ,check that USB storage mode is set as Mass Storage and then connect your phone. Also try enabling/disabling USB debugging
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
The point at which i could no longer mount the USB was when i selected "mount usb" from CWM. I later installed a new kernal which downgraded my CWM, removing the install from external SD option.

So I cant flash a re-flash a rom unless i can it onto the phone which without the USB working is near impossible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovedonator:
You can directly download the ROM on your internal sd using dolphin browser or opera mobile
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
I can't do that either as the phone is currently boot looping.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xyis:
ahh well, seems it's knackered then. off to envirofone it goes I think!

Thanks all for the help non the less.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TIGER 123:
you should try mobile odin

---------- Post added at 02:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:59 AM ----------

if its bootlooping pull the battery wait 5 or 10 mins replace battery try for download again if that doesnt work get a jig checkout adam ????? cant remember his second name hes developed an unbrickable mod see if he can help it shows you on youtube how to make a jig
[Android Themes] iDroidNoob:
Hello, I'm new to creating themes and wondering if there was a reference that showed which XML changes what? If not could someone tell me which XML file contains the predictive text color?

Thank you for your time
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
I hope the next update to be ICS 4.0.3 ...:D
[Gen9, Gen10 General] Harfainx:
Hopefully we'll see an ICS release by next Friday.
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Sure ? ...and in two weeks it would be well ...;)
[Gen9, Gen10 General] WebPleb:
Sorry for the stupid question, but am I right in assuming that all installed programs will be lost (need re-installing), when upgrading the firmware?
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Yes ! you are right ....my proposal is to install on clean , my Custom Rom because is stable , up to date and root version. I do not think will see a better and more complete version 3.2.79 until ICS update ....Good luck!
[Gen9, Gen10 General] WebPleb:
thank you sir ... your help is very much appreciated :)
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Ok ! Thanks, lol...;)
[Gen9, Gen10 General] cajl:
One months perhaps ?
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Is good in a month....I do not think is related to the word in the first week of February( to release ICS) !!! :rolleyes:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Archos ICS and Rooted Archos ICS version release ! :D
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Custom Rom - ICS@BLUE - Release !

Hi !

Appeared first ...Custom Rom on Archos ICS 4.0.5 (4.0.3) => ICS@BLUE_V01 (Beta) ....Good luck all !!!
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
HI !

NEW !!!

Archos ICS Firmware 4.0.5 OC Edition => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1592535

Good luck and enjoy of more power ....!
[Gen9, Gen10 General] bufflehead:
Can you please confirm that this is really true?

I have downgraded from 4.0.4 to 3.2.80 by formatting the device before reinstalling the earlier version. I thought that this was generally true for the stock releases?

More importantly, if I root my device then will I be able to upgrade/downgrade to a stock rom by the same process: format first and then reinstall?

Thx.

Don.