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[Android General] Ratix0:
As an avid android phone user, as well as a android tablet user, after comparing it with an iPad, my only gripe with my android tablet is the lack of productivity applications.

I can't seem to find one that fits my needs well enough. Most productivity apps (e.g. note taking, office applications) seems to be subpar and not a worthy laptop replacement. I haven't found a worthy office application on the iPad either. However, for note taking with a capacitive pen, iPad do have applications that performs pretty well, and those are mighty useful from the feel of it. This is my biggest gripe about the android tablet. This is coming from a university student, and of course it is probably less related to business based in terms of note taking.

Productivity aside, I love using my android tablet to watch shows, moboplayer is simply one good media player that is really convenient, unlike the iOS. As for games, there are hardly any games worth playing on the mobile platform. If I wanted proper games, I'd pick up my DS or PSP along the way rather than playing some half assed game on iOS or Android. This is my personal opinion of mobile platform gaming, most of the games are largely boring, that being said, there are some A grade games being ported off PC indie games that are worth playing on the mobile platform. Other than that, the general population of games arn't exactly worth playing.
[Android General] Guru Zeb:
THIS !!!!!!!!!!

IMHO the entire success of the tablet form factor is nothing more than a prime example of hip generational marketing, and magpie shiny object acquisitiveness. On the part of a section of the population, who are all too ready to distinguish themselves via products rather than expression.

Very few human beings actually need the dubious functions of a tablet, after all they are just big, dumb, touch smartphones, without the phone functionality, but at the price point of a much higher specced notebook or laptop ...... pphhafff
[Android General] mcord11758:
I purchased a tablet because I have an iPhone and could not constitute an additional phone, and do not like iOS in any way. Past that I agree with the last comments.
[Android General] alex2792:
They're also much better for content consumption, have WAY better battery life and are much easier to travel with due to light weight and portability. Web surfing,games and YouTube are simply much better on the iPad compared to a laptop, which is why it sells in huge quantities.
[Android General] spunker88:
The biggest use for my tablet is the fact that its much easier to read books off a 10" screen then a 4" screen. Also the fact that my tablet is an HP Touchpad that I got for pretty cheap, I probably wouldn't pay full price for a tablet when you can get a laptop for nearly the same price.
[Android General] kingsway8605:
Nothing beats watching movies and consuming media on a tablet either, when the experience is smooth and not buggy that is
[Android General] I Am Marino:
I gotta say, I have a Touchpad and only got it because of the firesale, otherwise, I could not and would not buy a tablet for $400-$500 when I can get a good laptop for that price, hell, if I found a good sale, I could get a decent mid range laptop or netbook for $350 and still have money left over
[Android General] kingsway8605:
You have to try an iPad. It is the apps.
[Android General] barisahmet:
Apps and device variations. ALMOST, there isn't a single app that works perfect on all devices. Even google's own apps are crashing sometimes. I am developing android apps myself, and it is almost impossible to keep it up with all configurations (or my bad?). I have a SGS2, Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Samsung Ace. You fix one bug on SGS2, there comes another one on tablet. It's just impossible. I think being simple (apple) is more clever than what google did. -I still hate apple though-.-
[Android General] fabiovolta:
I find Samsung android tablets just as valid as the iPad, in fact bought a 7.7 for the same price of a high end iPad 2.

A few reasons the tab is better than the iPad, for me:

Smaller and lighter. I find 7.7 and 8.9 are better compromises between screen size and portability.

Better keyboards.

It's more responsive when editing large text files. I used Notebooks on a 1st gen iPad because it has built in dropbox integration, but it becomes laggy with files above 100 KB.

Accessible file system, better tools for 2-way sync with a variety of remote servers.

OLED screen. Makes a nice black background for reading and writing, gorgeous for movies too.

Better (but still imperfect) tools to sync bookmarks with my main PC.

To each his own. Apple makes fine devices too, better in some aspects but not absolutely superior.

I also don't want to support a closed system. Both iOS and Android and the hardware they run on will improve over time until technical specs won't be much of a limit anymore to what we can do. I wouldn't say the same of Apple's policies of control, one-size-fits-all devices and prices, especially if they are allowed to operate without serious competition.
[Android General] I Am Marino:
I've used an iPad a little, I'm not thrilled with it, yea if someone gave me one I'd use it, otherwise, I'd never buy one.

Just about any app I want I can get on both markets anyway in some fashion.
[Android General] jliedeka:
rohanguns made a good point about Android supporting lots of hardware while Apple controls their hardware platform.

You could make this same argument about Mac vs Windows, Mac vs Linux, etc. Most operating systems like Windows, Linux, and BSD consciously choose to support most available hardware. That's always going to lead to some issues. The best way to mitigate that is to force hardware drivers to conform to some set of specifications and to force the hardware itself to behave.

Some of the flakiness that is seen in Android devices may be growing pains for both Google and the manufacturers. It looks like things are converging toward a standard. The more recent versions of Android have more refined UIs. Android tablets have the potential to be better than the iPad.

Jim
[Android General] blackchides:
I agree with most of the posts made here. I'm using a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the lag is still very obvious. While it's not a deal breaker for me, the lack of polish is what sets the iPad apart from it.

Having said that, the Android OS is more advanced than iOS functionality wise and what is lacking is just the quality of apps; something which iOS excels in. In other words, the platform just needs time.
[Android General] kingsway8605:
I want google to succeed in the tablet space, I hate Apple's lawsuits (especially since Apple regularly "borrows" features like Android's notification pull down), abuse of the market share (the iBooks/kindle fiasco for example), etc. But the Transformer Prime doesn't even compete in terms of usability with the iPad from a year ago (I have owned both). I don't know what Apple is doing, but the iPad runs as smooth as butter despite the inferior specs. And don't even get me started with the apps, especially when it comes to media consumption (music/video).
[Android General] xringo:
I somewhat agree , i don;t own a tablet, but i own a phone and my friend owns the iphone4 and comparing my vibrant os to his ios , there is a big difference , the ios is a lot smooth , apps open faster , and the apps run better in ios than they do in android. Im not sure wether its the app developersfault or androids fault, but then again their more things to do in android than an ios
[Android General] Lesicnik1:
Or maybe it's the fact that iOS is developed specifically for that device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
i have been trying to figure what could possibly be eating my data each few minutes...

so far the only ideas i had was

1) facebook notifications - turned them off today.

2) i am using go weather widget it had autoupdating i turned it off like 3 days

ago.

my billing cycle is since the "Feb 5 " and i am at 400 MB

i did few speedtests and tested out hotspot but those 0.01 so many times? no idea!

Texts (MMS) are not suppose to count as internet data are they? atleast not on att
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bowsersoulstar:
Hard to tell but seems like most of it is trying every 30 minutes or so. You got anything synced in that interval?

I'd remove some widgets that have the slightest potential and start uninstalling apps you don't need.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mwalt2:
What do usage stats on your phone look like in settings-data usage?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
Off topic, but I shudder at the sight of 2gb of metered data...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
take a look at the attachment i included

i dont really use that much that would use my background data...

im attaching another one showing my internet apps (other apps are like sirius xm or pandora but that i know when i use it)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jumaaneface:
The .01 is from using 40mb on speedtest -___-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
looks kind of weaird if you ask me lol

it would be much easier to show 40 mb not 0.01 321321312 times :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KWKSLVR:
Me too. After the first billing cycle where I kissed my 4GB limit, I just went ahead and added on the 10GB plan instead. Screw it, not worth the hassle of worrying about it...and I'm a rouge tetherer. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jmurph3:
Explain why you think that. That's a huge time frame for speed test to use 40mb. It would poll it at once. Checking my usage details on Verizon, I don't seem to have the same usage pattern as he does and I used speedtest yesterday morning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WillEat4F00d:
I know this is completely off topic, but op, switch to the 4gb plan now since the double data promotion is back!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
wait no way? my friend got the 4gb data pack i dont see it on verizons website :/

link me please :)

EDIT: upgraded thank you!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] roymontante77:
This phone comes with data tracking in the settings will tell you which apps use how much foreground and background data..yo should be able to not allow background data or set it to only allow on wifi
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jmurph3:
I was told that was for new activations.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Fasty12:
swiping between homescreens with a decent amount of widget and you wil notice a bit of lag, also using the tab in portrait mode is also laggy(sad to see it still havent been fix). The ics roms are still in alpha i believe? Do you guys think it will be smoother when everything is final?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] .torrented:
i hate to say it but its most likely a hardware issue... the Tegra-II (2) is a very crappy processor (depending on who you talk to i guess) they [samsung/nvidia] didnt really think this through when they created this tablet... MHO...

Edit* "Hardware Limitations"
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] etbob623:
I don't use many widgets but I have absolutely no lag. So try reflashing. but even still once its finished it will be even faster.

and I think its technically in beta now.

the portrait mode in CM9 is still not there yet though. but I never use portrait mode so it doesn't bother me.

are you overclocking at all?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] slack04:
TBH I'm not sure why you felt that complaining deserved creating a new thread.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] ShannonPricePhoto:
Mine is butter smooth in portrait or landscape... using ICS.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] tallgrasshawk:
I don't know, you can use adw and there's one lag whatsoever.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] moiztk:
maybe try closing any background apps that are running. They could take up RAM and slow down the tab
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Jess813:
I have ICS with NO widgets and flashed 3x and still have some lag, not a lot but no butter smoothness as some of you claim.

And I refuse to use ADW because it makes it feel like an oversized phone, and this is a real Tablet:cool:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] sleeplessnights:
It's pretty smooth for me, even with a couple of widgets on the main screen.

You don't need to be worried about it, if anything look for the Xoom ICS videos. That is a finished update for a very similar hardware tablet. It's a lot better than the current incarnation of ICS to the Galaxy Tab.

Not to mention that ICS is still pretty alpha, if not just experimental.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] animatechnica:
Hmm likely a reflash is needed. i have ADW using 3 screens with 9 widgets and 32 apps and no lag
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Jay Rock:
Never had lag on my tablet with any kang rom in either portrait or landscape.It's the smoothest I've ever seen.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] akachay:
TBH this is as smooth as ics gets. android as a whole is not known for butterly dripping smooth, android is a full blown os for mobile phone / tablet with unspeakable power. the power to one day rival laptops not to rival butter for smoothness! if all you want is butter smooth transition moving from screen to screen, wait for a windows phone os tablet or get an ipad.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] theROMinator:
Tegra2 libs/drivers are outdated. Once source is released then I believe there will be a significant improvement. Head over to the cyanogen webpage, where cyanogen basically says what I stated above.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] umd:
Disable wallpaper scrolling. It definitely solves the lag problem on homescreen. Use trebuchet, apex etc. But only on landscape mod not on portrait. It's a Tegra 2 issue. Every device that comes with Tegra 2 have it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] danielsf:
But, even the galaxy tab 7.7 with it's 1.4ghz exynos cpu was very laggy on honeycomb when watching it on you tube, the smoothness difference between that and the galaxy tab 10.1 was very little. So it's more of a android tablet ui problem rather than a tegra problem, I believe. The tegra 2 isn't that bad; when overclocked to 1.2-1.4ghz to keep it up to date with other tabs.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] raqball:
I have never experienced much lag at all on my Tab.. Have tried both ICS versions and they both flat out fly! Task's ROM 14 Slim which is TW 3.2 based is screaming fast as well...

I think some people may have a poorly written app(s) running in the background that's zapping memory..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] :
portrait lag is never going to be fixed unless a dev here fixes it for them.

the xoom has official ics and its still laggy in portrait and in other places....so counting on the devs here for something
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] umd:
The UI problem I'm talking about occurs only on portrait mode. It's buttery smooth on landscape but lags on portrait doesn't matter whatever you do. That's the Tegra 2 problem.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] fransarj:
Some have pretty low standards for defining lag. Lag for me is anything below 30 frames per second. 60 is optimal, 30 is minimum.

With that said, my gtab gets really laggy when LWP is activated (which isn't the case for the SGS2) despite running on task rom + pershoot kernel@ 1.4ghz.

..and yes I'm running ADW launcher.

I hope that ICS will fix this but im not expecting too much given that Tegra 2 is a POS processor that could hardly run anything properly.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] lorawithano:
I just picked up my vivid on tuesday. I have been having issues ever since I got it with being able to successfully send texts. They just hang forever in the thread with a "pending" status.

Originally, i was worried this was a rom issue. I've tried every ROM.... Same issue with every single one. I relocked bootloader and went back to stock, and had some luck, but only about 18 hours before I started experiencing issues again.

Has anyone else experienced this with their vivid? Rooted, or otherwise. I'm about to take this thing back and go back to my Inspire. This is getting real old, real quick.

Any replies would be greatly appreciated.

SwiftKeyed from my HTC Vivid using XDA Premium
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CasualStarlord:
I have not experienced it, it sounds like it may be an APN issue though, did you experience the same issue with your stock rom?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
Yes I see this every time I flash a new Rom , just when I restore the apn setting it starts to work again.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] lorawithano:
yep. i've tried every possible apn setting. even older ones that are only for hspda+. nothing works. i can't say i was on the stock rom long enough to text, but i did relock the bootloader, and reapply the ship rom for att, and experienced the same issue.

i'm going today to get a replacement device. hopefully it's just a shoddy one.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] lorawithano:
goodbye vivid.

well, after less than a week, and two vivids....i'm done with this device. both of them refuse to send texts after approximately 10-12 hours. as much as i hate to leave the htc brand [and despise the blue tone of samsung devices], i have to go to the skyrocket due to it's comparable hardware.

i'm pissed....i was super excited about the vivid, but it has been a severely disappointing, aggravating experience overall.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jpitch2415:
I had an issue twice before, one was a problem with the sim and the other was the mistake of putting my sim in an iPhone where it would only send as an imessage
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ceasee:
Ive been having the same issue since I got the phone in November.

The only way I can get messages to send (sometimes) is to restart the phone, then they send in bulk.

I have done the following:

-factory reset

-tried stock/custom rom (HoliRaider, RumRaider)

-had the phone replaced (2x because Rogers is rather stupid)

-tried the SIM in another phone (X10) and it works 100%

-tried SIM in a 'floor model' Raider at the Rogers store, worked (only had the SIM in for 10 mins)

-factory reset (again)

-tried on all the variants of network (Auto, WCDMA, GSM) no change

I have asked a few times if trying a new SIM would be worth it, tech keeps saying no...

Needless to say I have my Raider on Kijiji trying to sell/trade for a SGSII.

Love HTC but i need to be able to send SMS.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jpitch2415:
So it sounds like the sim is the issue if you used a floor model sim and it was fine , so demand a new one?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Dxtra:
Guys by any chance you have phonelocator pro install on your phone? If so that's the problem there. As soon as send a text to locate the phone my wife's messages stops sending until you restart the phone I contacted the dev with no help from him.

Edit - BTW The problem could be cause by any apps that intercept sms like any Messaging replacement app ect but I'm not %100 sure is anyone of those apps but Phonelocator pro from the market.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jebise101:
this started happeningto me because i had WMD (whers my droid) on my phone, as soon i removed it and delete the pending texts and rebooted, text started to work again.

I tested it again a few days after by re-installing WMD and same results.

So if you happen to have any text based GPS locators it might be the issue.

A different sim worked for me too because the number changed and the text failed to send. it was WMD and i asked the dev and he was no help and said uninstall my program i can't do anything for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Malarie:
I was with Bell yesterday, and switched to Rogers today. (the Gnex is mine i bought it)

I've been with Bell for the past 6 years.. How is Rogers network compared to Bell in Montreal?

It seems to me that Bell is faster. I've tested with Speedtest.nets app and had better results with Bell..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] opensourcefan:
Minus the last 2 years I have always been with Rogers. Albeit I'm on the west coast but I have found that Rogers network is much more robust than Bell or Telus. With Rogers you have the fall back of 2g if your 3g signal fades out. 2g has always been better at penetrating concrete and parking garages etc. About a year ago I checked cell tower placement and Rogers had a good 30-40% more towers. I didn't get reception with Bell at my home and Bell corporate stated that I was on the edge of a towers range and no other towers were planned in the near future. I live in town BTW, not boony land. I think Bell may have been faster in some cases but I spent a lot of time with a weak or no signal in the concrete jungle that I work in. Speed means nothing when you don't have the signal. Back with Rogers now and all is well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
What does the Nexus have over the Skyrocket in terms of hardware? Anything?

Sent with billowing waves of obnoxious gas.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wasabiman123:
Besides dual channel ram (I think) and a much better screen(720p vs not 720p lol) , nothing, maybe the design IMHO, but yeah.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
NFC is a great feature of the Nexus.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wasabiman123:
Pretty sure skyrockets have NFC...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ojx:
I'm pretty sure he meant NFC that it can use. Sure our phones have NFC but it doesn't have the secure elements that the Nexus has.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] polish_pat:
NFC that you can used is strictly dictated by ATT, as the Rogerrs version has a fully functional NFC. The only thing the nexus has better than could influence a decision is the HD screen + ICS (for now). NOTHING else is a + for the nexus as the simple fact it doesnt have an SD slot is a MAJOR turnoff. Besides, the HD skyrocket is coming, if youre patient, you can have the best android phone on market. I had a nexus for 2 days, exchanged my skyrocket for a nexus and the nexus is laggier (maybe because of the 1.2ghz cpu), the the camera difference is considerable, the boot time is longer, no SD, it does have a better battery life but that can be solved with a 2250mah andida battery, and other than ICS improvements, it has nothing more.

Get skyrocket HD, no other phone on the market will be better (for now)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
The OMAP4460 is actually a pretty good SoC, but Google paired a 3 year old GPU with that kind of screen res, it KILLS the GPU.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] GeezyF.Ladies:
In hardware id say just the screen . I think the look is the only thing going for the nexus. Man I love the look of the nexus!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aimfire72:
I also have a Nexus and would say that the screen on the Skyrocket looks better overall. The Nexus screen is not as bright and kind of washed out looking. Battery life sucks on the Nexus as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sarius24:
I was going to get galaxy nexus but it's not really worth it over skyrocket. (Essential stuff is dumbed down IMO)

They told me at the Rogers store last night it that the nexus is really not all that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bender B. Rodgriguez:
About those "secure elements"

http://packetstormsecurity.org/news/view/20573/Google-Wallet-PIN-Security-Cracked-In-Seconds.html

Lol@4 digit pins as security tokens

Sent via smoke signal
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
That's only if you're phone is rooted. You essentially give up security on your device when you root your device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jdsemler:
The Nexus screen is really great for reading small fonts without having to zoom. I actually avoid picking up my skyrocket due only to the screen.

The power and volume buttons on the Nexus are actually poorly placed IMHO. They sit fairly proud and are right where I grip the phone. This forces me to have a lighter grip than I would like when talking. A case might fix this, but I am only borrowing it, so I won't be trying one.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dunca123:
Any suggestions on how to install the mtp driver? It was installed before, but I updated kies and it uninstalled my drivers. All but that one were installed properly. Now I can't use kies. Any response is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.