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[Eee Pad Transformer General] oldcpu:
iPads are purchased by a lot of die hard Apple fans

I think there is a lot of truth to that.

I know a fair amount of people with iPads, and they are all nominal apple fans with Apple PCs at home (or at work). The people I know with Android based PCs tend to be MS-Windows users.

Me ? I'm neither. I'm a long-in-the-tooth GNU/Linux user

I use my Transformer at the office extensively. I have had a couple people come to me and ask me about what they thought was my iPad. I explained to them it was not an Apple iPad but it was an Android machine (loosely based on GNU/Linux) and I obtained a blank stare in return, followed by some curiousity.

I was invariably asked why I did not purchase an iPad instead, and I noted:

the Android based Asus Transformer was a gift, so that was the main reason, and

knowing what I know today (of Android vs iPad) for using a Tablet at work I would NOT waste a cent on an iPad. Its inability to load GBytes of data from the office, without dragging GBytes through the Internet and drop box is an absolute show stopper for me. By far at the office, I prefer an Android PC, and the Transformer with ICS works nicely for me (and yes I say that despite the random ~once-or-twice reboots/day that I get).

If I am in a meeting, and someone has a file to give me, and they copy it on a USB stick and hand me the USB stick and ask me to load it to my Asus Android Tablet, I can do that. Ask an iPad user to do that, and you will get a lecture on how USB sticks are obsolete.

Now if I wanted a tablet just to play at home, and use for multimedia at home, I think I would be tempted by an iPad. But my Android Transformer can do both and hence from now on for anyone at the office who wants the flexibility to QUICKLY load large files to their Tablet, I will advise against an iPad and recommend an Android based Tablet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jerrykur:
Very interesting post. I just ordered the new ipad. I am an app developer and will be interested to see how the new processor effect throughput.

The unit I tried was very fast with almost no lag. Also, launching app after app with no noticeable slowdown
[Eee Pad Transformer General] anarox:
Remember to not buy the 16 gb version! The apps made for ipad 3 is three times the size. Why they still sell the 16gb version is to force people to buy the next ipad. Gotta love apple
[Eee Pad Transformer General] asdfuogh:
I think it's incredible how Apple has built such a strong customer base, so strong that it never questions its products at all. Not even being sarcastic, I'm just wondering what exactly the variables were that led to this super conviction in these people? I'm assuming it's similar to religion.. but, still! Incredible, I must learn it!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tyfighter:
I read about a study once a few years back that showed that the same parts of the brain light up under MRI when religious people see religious imagery and mac people see mac stuff.

EDIT: with regards to the topic at hand. As a self professed nerd, I prefer my devices to be more like desktop computers. Android provides that in spades. What with the visible file system, custom roms, KEYBOARDS, the various launchers provide a decent emulation of a desktop. I think back to the hoops that I had to jump through to do customization and whatnot on my iPhone (back when he only android options here in canada were the HTC hero and magic), with the SSH and renaming files and everything. And all of that is more or less effortless on Android. I remember doing hacks and workarounds to get a less good version of the HTC Sense clock on my iphone desktop. Yep. One whole widget.

Also the whole converting video files thing. Way easier just to plug my extHD into my TF and slide on a couple avis, let them transfer while I'm shaving and then I've got entertainment for my commute. With regards to the whole iPad has better apps thing, for the most part - take Facebook for example - I just have a bookmark shortcut in place o the app on my homescreen. I believe it was the BB Plabook's onetime slogan; You don't NEED an app for that.

What I've been coming to terms with over the past little while though, is that while while android fulfills all of my wildest tiny computer fantasies, its not for everyone. To quote Wayne's World, "Led Zepplin didn't write tunes everyone liked, they left that to the BeeGees." So I guess more and more, I can see the appeal of iOS, but for me personally, its going to take a LOT more than a nice screen to change my mind. Especially because I've been staring at CRTs and LCDs since I was a toddler and "eye strain" has never been in my vocabulary.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] miketoasty:
So I should compare my Galaxy Nexus to the Motorola Droid Pro? They were both released within a year of each other so lets look at the specs...

Single Core 1.0 GHz vs Dual Core 1.2 GHz

LTE vs 3G

512 MB of RAM vs 1 GB

I could go on but hopefully you get the point.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] funnycreature:
kudos to the OP

I have to thank the OP for this very unbiased comparison. I was also playing with the new iPad at work just because our IT guy had bought it ("on impulse" as he said). I have to agree with a lot of the posts here:

The iPad display/resolution is phenomenal. Lately I have been reading a lot of PDFs on the TF101 and I truly wish for a crisper display with a higher resolution. However, at some point the computing power for all these pixels get ridiculous without the gain.

Web browsing was incredible, both in terms of speed and rendering. I hate how many websites get messed up or take forever to load on my TF101.

Battery life: Something is draining the TF101 battery constantly even without LWP, WiFi off, etc. The iPad runs for days without recharging. The TF101 charger also doesn't always work so sometimes after plugging it in before going to bed the next morning it's out of juice because it didn't charge. And get over the silly heat issue. My TF101 can get pretty warm too.

Functionality: With the keyboard dock, USB ports and microSD/SD expansion the TF101 is the winner, no question.

While these features can be measured and given a number, the old, old question about OS preference is, well, a preference. I asked myself one question over and over again: Do I want more functionality in the OS itself and sacrifice quality and quantity of apps or do I want an OS that is basically just an application launcher but have a full variety of (admittedly mostly useless of for me uninteresting) apps?

My currents answer is that I LOVE turning on the TF101 and have all the most important info at a flick of the screen: Weather, emails, twitter, calendar, google+, even work commute traffic without ever having to start an app. This experience is definitely one-sided because I haven't had the opportunity to test-drive all the fancy iPad apps out there (since there's no 15-minute return window in iTunes). Maybe in the future this will change as for example I find that I can get apps that I need/want only on the iPad...

Bottom line for ME (personally, not in any kind representative of iOS or Android fanboyism, and at this point in time) is that I will stick with the TF101 but I am waiting for better hardware (battery, screen, maybe even built quality) and software (apps and OS improvements tailored to hardware specs).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] C.Flat:
Transformer is exactly 1 year old
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Ghisy:
What an interesting thread! Thanks to the OP.

I actually tried the new iPad in stores a couple of days ago. First, let me state that I absolutely hate Apple products with a passion (mostly because of iTunes, their pricing, the inability to "mess" with it and the whole "religious" thing attached to their stuff) but decided I should give it a try to see what the fuss was all about.

I can say the screen is nice and sharp. I wouldn't say it's spectacular but it's definitely an improvement over past tablets. It does get hot pretty fast though and the extra weight is noticeable.

I'm still bothered the most by iOs though. You can't do anything with this OS. For me, it's just a glorified, very limited app launcher. I can't see myself spending $500 for this. But I have to admit the iOs iPad apps are more polished than HC/ICS.

Google just needs to step up and have companies release tablet-optimised apps that can rival with iOs. It's easy, major developers should just do it NOW!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] oldcpu:
in defence of the iPad

In fairness to the iPad, I had pointed out to me on another thread that one can purchase a rather expensive custom flash storage product for the iPad, called the iFlashDrive, that has a USB connection on one side and a proprietary Apple Connection on the other side. One can then copy files from a PC to that storage device using the USB connection, and then copy the files to the Apple iPad using the proprietary Apple connection.

That addresses my annoyance with the Drop Box approach that most my colleagues with iPads were using (limiting the size of what they can copy). One does need to pay about 10x (?) the price thou for the iFlashDrive compared to what one pays for a comparable USB stick. (ie $99 for an 8GB storage device, or $199 for a 32-GByte storage device).

I pointed this iFlashDrive device out to my iPad colleagues. They all were very annoyed at the exorbitant price, ... but it does appear some of them may purchase the iFlashDrive device, because they have no other choice.

It still means thou, in a meeting, when one is handed a USB stick and told the file you want is on directory 'such and such' , an Apple user needs to hand back the USB stick and say, 'sorry, my Tablet won't use that! Here, use instead my slick expensive Apple iFlashDrive which my Tablet will use'. Needless to say, I prefer the less expensive/more capable approach that one has with the Asus Transformer with its USB adapter.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mrcleanjr88:
Sorry just creeping outside of my forum lol. I've owned both android and iOS products. For easy usability your average Joe will go with iOS. I never once and I'll repeat once had an issue with any iOS product I've ever owned. Never a random reboot or freezing or crazy weird problems where I had to search the internet for a fix. The only issue I had with apple is i had to piece together a computer out of parts i had laying around with windows to store my stuff on. I run Linux on my computer I use everyday so no iTunes for me. Now about android...I've had more problems than I can shake a stick at, even with brand new phones. I can see how your average person can get frustrated and switch to iOS. Thanks for your time lol back to the photon forum.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] anarox:
Until you jailbreak. Android is pretty stable when you dont mess around. Well atleast honeycomb was

Edit: My 3gs went into an unbootable state, because I used a theme app from cydia to change the apperence. This was not fixable, forcing me to ios update and modem firmwire update, which made me loose unlock and no simcard would work on it... yah very stable
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tonyz3:
I agree the price is a bit high but it is an option and as more options come out the price will be driven down. 2 additional options are the seagate satellite which will work on android also it creates its own wifi hotspot to connect to-500 gb $175 and there is kingston at $99 for 64gb.

Both options let you stream up to 3 movies at the same time to 3 diff devices as well as any other media or docs etc.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1lk1:
Very good unbiased review. A year ago I would have preached you never give an Android device to someone that is not tech savvy, but since Honeycomb I have changed that opinion. I just got my wife an Archos 80 9 250GB version as she loves playing with her digital picture collection and it is the ONLY device with built in storage for such stuff.

I do love my transformer. With the dock it is perfect for my every need and is arguably the best equipped tablet made to date. iPads are great machines too and serve their purpose, but they are not for me.

As for Android being better than iOS, I can't debate that as I have no iOS experience. I will add that people seem to forgive the fact that Google the most invasive company in the tech world when it comes to grabbing your personal information any chance they get and storing it on their service. They keep this data stored for years and have no problems passing it around to their partners. Their newest scheme to sell our privacy seems unacknowledged by the Android community other than the few that think they can block Google's attempt to collect every personal detail they can find.

Anyhow, this was definitely an amazingly unbiased review from an Android user. Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dgcruzing:
Yes..agree.. great review of both..

I spent a day on the new iPad setting it up for one of our sales staff as a presentation tool..

It was jail broken thank goodness..but believe me it is not something you can duplicate on scale in a a quick way..

I am in the process of pushing them out to some 300 sales staff..and dreading the thought of it.

As an idea..its 20 sub directories of video,photo,pdfs,excel docs..there is hours of work doing this to one iPad

Where on a android device..one setup off a a few zipped files allows it to be dropped into their pads in 1/2 hour.

With that in mind..i did find lag on the redraws of flicking thru pictures.

But video was flawless

And pdf files with high res graphics do look gorgeous.

That screen is magic..

So as i am tranny i will wait and see how the new android specs look and with a bit of luck..

With in a few months there will be some better Droid screens to chose from.

Also the lack of hdmi output is a shocker..

I just love giving presentations out to the big screen walking around the stage with the tranny in hand..

Just wish it was able to do it wirelessly..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] anarox:
What if they used ifile from cydia (jailbreak required), ifile lets you browse the filesystem, but its a longshot and jailbreaking is not suitible to use with itunes
[Eee Pad Transformer General] anarox:
Edit: removed,
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Hi there. D:

I opened a thread here some minutes ago (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23800125#post23800125), where I ask for help for changing my notifications bar.

After opening the thread I discovered the web "UOT Kitchen", so there I just configured my order to just change the notifications bar as I want, uploaded my systemUI.apk and the framework-res one there and later I downloaded the file of my order.

On that file there was (inside of their folders) a new systemUI.apk and a new framework-res file. There was a META-INF folder and another one on the zip, but because I just uploaded the systemUI.apk and the framework-res file, I only copied these two on my SD Card. Then I opened Root Explorer and with it I overwrote the two files inside my Xplay.

After doing this, my Xplay shut down and now it is rebooting forever (it only appears the Sony-Ericsson logo, then the mobile shuts down and then reboots again).

I know what are you going to tell me, "don't touch something if you don't know well what are you doing". I agree with you, but please, tell me that this is easy to solve. PLEASE. :(

Thanks... T___T
[Xperia Play General] IE-coRe:
Locked or unlocked bootloader?
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Stock ROM (latest update), root, locked bootloader. R800i (Spain).
[Xperia Play General] IE-coRe:
restore nadroid if you dont have one conect to pc companion and repair the Software..
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
It's a bootloop. Nothing that Flashtool can't cure :-)

Download Flashtool and the latest firmware (.62) and follow the tutorial on the Q&A thread with all the resources. You won't even lose your data if you untick the relevant option on Flashtool :-)

The issue could have happened because you maybe forgot to give those two files the appropriate file permissions. Since those files are loaded at boot, if they don't have the permissions they aren't loaded, and so the system tries and tries to load then without success, giving you a bootloop.

UOT Kitchen themes are update.zip files. As all update.zip files, they load stuff (in this case the SystemUI.apk and the framework-res) and give those files the permissions they need. If you look inside the META-INF folder you'll find a file called "updater-script". That file contains the permissions that those files are given. If you can replicate those permissions with the Root Explorer GUI, they will load properly on boot and you won't have a bootloop. However, that's difficult to do because you're actually using the SystemUI.apk and the framework-res at the same time that you modify them.

Flashtool basically nukes the system partition (where those two files are located) and flashes the stock one, so you will go back to the stock look. If you don't tick Wipe data, your data will be kept. It shouldn't be a problem, since the thing which caused the issue (faulty SystemUI and framework) is in the system partition.
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Logseman, this totorial? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1384535

And where can I find the latest firmware?

Thanks for your quick answers, guys.

PD: I didn't say it but, I saved my original systemUI and framework-res files before overwritting them. Is there any way to use them? I say it because I had a little mod on the notifications bar with switches...
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Still looking for a download link for the 4.0.2.A.0.62 update, I don't find it...
[Xperia Play General] Nabeel_Nabs:
There isn't one , just download the .42 one and update after. IF this doesn't work use SEUS - it can take up to 20 retries for it to work but it will work eventually (I've reflashed using it more than a couple of times where this was needed =|)
[Xperia Play General] IE-coRe:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409355
[Xperia Play General] murat17:
Just download SEUS Sony ericsson update service and update your xperia play with it and it will all be so good as new
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
If you have cwm installed, you can fix everything in recovery via adb shell without wiping data...

(When its booting open up command prompt, type in adb wait-for-device then when you get the next command prompt, type in adb reboot recovery)
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Ok, I flashed 0.42 with flashtool, updated to 0.62 with PC Companion and my Xplay is back to life xD

Now some questions...

1- I was rooted, have I lost root?

2- I lost the switches on the notifications bar. I have the systemUI and the framework-res files I had before all this mess. Is there any way to reinstall them to have again the switches?

3- Once everything is solved... How do I change the colour of the notifications then? xD
[Xperia Play General] IE-coRe:
Onlock bootloader... Makes everthing way easyer and we can help you better becouse most of us have unlocked bootloader. ;-)
[Xperia Play General] Miles Wolf:
Hum, yes, i'm interested in unlocking my bootloader, but first there's the first question of my last post wich I think is very important, because when I got root I unisntalled some games like Fifa or the Sims and now they're back.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
You have lost root indeed.
[Xperia Play General] mehdi.moha:
just connect you phone to Sonyericsson Update service ,

flash that :)
[Xperia Play General] ff7fan4eva:
Just re-root with this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1312859

You don't need the VERY latest firmware just .42, stop messing with your phone or if you do unlock the bootloader and make regular nandroid backups and before you want to mess around with system files
[Xperia Play General] julianpaul:
For god's sake it's about time someone stickied these two things, especially for noobs:

1. DON'T uninstall system apps. Freeze them and when you're sure everything's fine, say after a day or two, delete them. You can freeze with the pro version of titanium backup or with systemcleanup free. sure there are other apps too.

2. When replacing system files, copy the new files to /SYSTEM first. Change permissions there (if you don't know what permissions are or what permissions to set, STOP NOW and read up), and THEN move the files to the appropriate locations.

Too many problems because these simple steps were missed.
[Xperia Play General] ff7fan4eva:
Exactly we need a moderator. Where do ya sign up :-)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
Hi,

I am currently using a VPN to get into my network & Then accessing my data that way. However to get to it in Gingerbread, I have to hit menu, then settings, then wireless, then scroll down to VPN, then click on my VPN, then put my password in & hit connect.

It would help a lot to be able to just click on my VPN link on the 'home' screen. I cant figure out how to get the shortcut there.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rich
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigazzjeep:
I just tried and you add a shortcut to your home screen, just as you add a widget.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
I dont see anything related to a VPN within the shortcut menu or widgets. Any ideas on how to do a shortcut for the VPN?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] azyouthinkeyeiz:
Tried anycut from the market?

Sent from an Epic in the sky.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
Thanks, Anycut might do the trick, of course there is no VPN listed. Is there a way to determine what processes are running in Android? If i could find the VPN process, I could probably get it going.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dbldown768:
I believe you can achieve this with Tasker. I know its a paid app but its an option.

As a side note, how did you manage to get tour vpn to work? Are you using ddwrt by chance? Since getting this phone I could no longer vpn over sprints network due to firewall issues. From what I found online if you ask sprint for a static IP it fixes the problem but they charge you a monthly fee. It used to work fine on my old HTC hero.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dalmus:
We use L2TP/IPSEC PSK at work though Sonicwall, and it works great.

I don't have a static IP on my account. Works fine from 3g or my home WiFi.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RichTJ99:
I am using a Zyxel firewall & L2TP also. It works fine but... sprints lousy service seems to stall out, requiring me to re login to the VPN. Yesterday with 1 bar, I was logged into the VPN but there was not enough 3g to actually use any data, but enough to stay logged in for 2 hours & not get any emails.

It works fine & I suspect if i had better 3g (or verizon) it would work OK.

I was using DDWRT & OpenVPN with CM7 on my Evo 4g & it worked but I switched to a new router.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dalmus:
Yeah, missing emails is never good.

We don't have an Exchange server at work (not cost effective enough to make it work properly across 10 locations), so I'm able to access my email with K9 via IMAP or POP3.

It's strange that it worked with one Sprint phone, but not reliably with another. Has data service had a general decline in your area?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cater923:
You should try vpn show. You can find it in google play.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] avolcoff:
Check the "Launch VPN" app on Google Play
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Neelesh35:
Sorry to revive an old thread. I was looking for this as well and found a way. Just adding if anyone searches for this sort of thing.

Add a shortcut to home screen, select settings, then look for VPN.

This works in my HTC ONE on 4.2.2