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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Exactly, the OP should be his own judge of how it performs for his needs.

Well buddy, ill tell you this. If you looking for a tablet that won't become obsolete or overtaken in specs after a year, YOU WILL NEVER FIND IT..lol. all tablet and tech devices have a life cycle that is getting shorter and shorter in life span cycle. Even the best selling Ipad is overtaken by its newer versions in a year or less. Just find something powerful, like the prime, that has good developer support and will make it go longer than usual life span. Meaning with developer support, its specs being tweaked and overclocked will easily make it hold its own against newer devices down the line. PRIME or maybe one of the Acer or Toshiba tablets coming out is your best bet. 300 doesn't fit your bill, because it has lower specs and is already overtaken by prime and other tablets to come. So If you want the high end most powerful Android device out now, Prime is your best bet. If you can wait, see how the new tegra3 Toshiba and Acer tablets perform. Toshiba might finally get some developer support here because its 3 new tablets coming out are all tegra3 powered. Developers seem to be very impressed with how Nvidia implemented tegra3 and there's alot of gains to be made with it on the developement side.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] undercover:
OP, I say get it, but ONLY from the shops with good returns policy. After getting it, test wifi, browser lag and hot spots and dead pixels. Whatever your test results, if it's okay with you then it's no brainer. If not, just return.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BUYMECAR:
I'm glad I bought my Prime when I did. Price matching w/ Best Buy... getting free Express shipping... the savings!

My Prime's display has so little screen bleeding that I honestly feel it's nonexistent. My display is as near perfection as I imagine any Prime could be.

However... WiFi + GPS + updates that have inconsistent impacts on battery life have been drawbacks that I'm happily living with.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
Heheh sure I'll toss in my 2 bits. There are two categories of issues with the Prime: hardware and software.

HW: The major problem has been weak wireless (wifi/BT/GPS). Reportedly, the latest rev (serial starting with C3) has improved wifi. BT interoperability is still an unknown, but isn't a major use-case. Write off GPS, unless you like using a dongle. As another said, buy from a retailer with good return policy.

SW: The Prime is an enthusiast product, and this place is an enthusiast forum. Prime is currently undergoing beta-testing for ICS, although it's not said as such. Enthusiasts are fine with this; regular users, not so much. Since this is your (OP's) first post, you're likely among the latter. If so, wait until the ICS updates get more stable.

To sum: Buy Prime now if you're an enthusiast and can weather the beta-test process, else wait. The latter will also ensure you get the latest version. If/when you buy it, stress test wifi to make sure it works adequately for your setup, whether home or travel. Do it within your return period, and only deal with the retailer, never the manufacturer. If you need to send it back for RMA, then it's already a bad buy. The weeks you lose waiting for its return is lost opportunity cost, and lost money.

The Prime has its issues, but it's still the only high-end Android tablet for the foreseeable future. The risk/reward ratio is something only you can decide.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gunner1937:
The best way to deal with your concerns is to test the Prime.

For that purpose I will suggest that you take advantage of the Best Buy return policy. Be it a store purchase or an online purchase from Best Buy web site you have a month (and not 2 weeks as somebody mentioned) to decide if it is for you or not. One month to return it if you are not satisfied.

A lot of Forum members have decided that the minor issues like bleed, wifi, gps, customer service lapses or non existant in some parts of Europe are not a deterrent.

Some consider that a dongle shows how Asus is a marvellous (indeed) and caring business.

Judge by yourself not through the eyes (or lack of) or the comments you read.

I like the Prime. The GPS issue but more importantly the very poor Customer Service, in my opinion, convinced me to get my money back.

I might wait for the Infinity or go for another manufacturer product.

In any case, good luck
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jordache16:
Good catch. Apparently Best Buy recently changed their return policy. It used to be 2 weeks for most electronics (including tablets).

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/27/best-buy-to-simplify-return-policy-30-days-all-products-inclu/

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Help-To...es/pcmcat260800050014.c?id=pcmcat260800050014
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mdemons12:
Thanks for all the replies! Unfortunately I live in Australia and plan to be purchasing from a place called Officeworks where I can get a 20% discount. I will make sure that they have a decent return policy when they get them in stock. There hasn't been any stock in there for a while and I hope they get some more in. For those experiencing very minimal light bleed, if possible would you be able to get a picture up or describe what its like?

Thanks,
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gunner1937:
You are right, it is unfortunate that you live in Australia;)

The best places to live right now are Afghanistan, Iran, Irak, Pakistan, and Syria.

Unfortunately, if I may say so, the Prime is not yet available in those countries. There is a problem with the wifi: it is not islamist:p
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mdemons12:
Hahaha :D Well the most unfortunate thing living here is that our dollar is actually better than the Americans, yet to get a Prime and Dock it costs nearly $200 more than it would in the US. Annoys me ):
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mdemons12:
Just found out that Officeworks do have a pretty good return policy so it looks like its a go ahead from here! That's only if they get them in stock. I will believe from most of the talk around here that the prime won't reach EOL anytime soon and more stock should arrive.
[Sony Tablet S] sedohunta:
I have not sold my old Galaxy Tab 7 yet and I already have my shiny, new and rooted Tablet S.

I keep my movies on my networked media tank on my LAN and I stream movies to my tablets over the network within the house.

I managed to load the cifs.ko module and mount the network media player on both units. I use BS Player Lite on both units (although I have also tried mobo player and mx player on the Tablet S).

So here is my question: The Galaxy Tab is able to play even 1080p mkv's without breaking sweat, basically anything I can throw at it, whereas the Tablet S struggles with some of the 720p mkv's and cannot even start the 1080p ones without freezing. Is this normal behaviour? Is it because the screen has a greater resolution and the Tablet S has to work so much harder than the 1024x600 Galaxy Tab?
[Sony Tablet S] espentan:
The Tegra 2 CPU used in the Tablet S struggles with HD content encoded using H.264 and the High profile. It's a known limitation.

For videos you encode yourself using H.264/x264, you should use the Main profile.

For downloaded HD content that is already encoded using the high profile we're all out of luck :(

I usually use MX Player Pro on my tablet, but I've tried Dice Player and it is somewhat better at playing high profile stuff, so you may want to give that a try.
[Sony Tablet S] sedohunta:
Thank you! I did not know this. So actually the hardware in this dualcore tablet is weaker than the 2-year-old Galaxy Tab? Or is this only a driver issue?
[Sony Tablet S] espentan:
When it comes to HD video playback the Exynos 3110 CPU used in the Galaxy Tab has the upper hand, yes. I was a bit surprised to find out that the Tegra 2 wasn't better at video decoding myself. And no, AFAIK it's not just a driver issue, so it can't be fixed through software/firmware.
[Sony Tablet S] sedohunta:
Heh. Thanks again! This is a real eye-opener. To tell you the truth it never occured to me to check whether a newer chipset / tablet would actually have lower performance than the previous generation. One would think they upped the resolution of these tablets to 1280x800 to meet 720p HD requirements....
[Sony Tablet S] sebarkh:
I'm using Dice Player, it has HW acceleration.
[Sony Tablet S] agc93:
I was mildly disappointed with the Sony's high-res Video playback capabilities after I also upgraded from my venerable GT-P1000 Galaxy Tab. Now I use MX Video Player and it seems to do alright, but the Sony's hardware accelerated mode as mentioned above is very finicky about its x264 video.

Also, even if an app claims to be hardware accelerated, chances are extremely good it's probably not. Built-in Hardware Acceleration won't go live until ICS and when video players use the "Hardware Decoding" option (note that its not the same), they just use the Sony's built-in chip and all the video players will deal with it pretty much the same.
[Sony Tablet S] dtaylorr:
real

I use Real Player and Mobo Player and have rarely any problems.

A help if you are having issues is to shut down all of the unneeded apps, clear out your ram and shut off the data connection.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Well yeah as the title says I will swap a HTC sensation and the following:

Sandisk 16gb SD card £20

Sandisk 8gb SD card £5-10

Saner 1900mah extended battery £20

White housing, battery cover whatever you want to call it £40.

And I'll throw in £15 ($23.8)

Jvc in ear headphones £20

The phone is in a very good condition and unlocked. Do you guys think that this is worth a sgs2?

Overall $214.6 (£135) and a HTC sensation.

oh forgot and a £5 case

I will pay for the price of shipping that you are charged with.
[HTC Sensation] k0zmic:
You're overpaying IMO. What condition is the GS2?
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
I haven't found a seller for the sgs2 yet but I'm hoping it will be good condition and will accept one or two scratches.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Bump
[HTC Sensation] Sgt.Incontro:
Yes you are over paying. (Nobody is going to think care that the case is worth £40 either.)

Plus why would you trade a Sensation (better hardware) for a GS2?
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Its not a case its a battery cover, the actual whole back part of the phone up to the digitizer is worth £35-40. And my phone doesn't have better hardware, I have the original sensation, if it said with beats audio and XE before its because I was using arhd. The screen on the sgs2 is irresistible and I just want one :D
[HTC Sensation] Sgt.Incontro:
Well you said it was a cover in your original post.

The Sensation does have better hardware. This is a fact. Plus, there is virtually no difference between the XE or non-XE whatsoever. Are you serious?

And if you prefer an outdated resolution of 800*480, then fine, go for it, I cannot stop you.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Well sorry about the cover thing but my fault, furthermore the sgs2 is faster than the sensation and I really couldn't care about the resolution I'll get used to it, it has super amoled plus. The sensation came out aggggees after the sgs2 and it's slower and qhd? The s3 processors apparently are better than the ones the sgs2 use its just that they haven't been optimized or optimized well.

It also has 1gb ram and also the camera is noticeably better.
[HTC Sensation] Sgt.Incontro:
The camera is NOT "noticeably better.

Like I said, I cannot stop you from wasting your money. (On the other hand, a One S would be more of an upgrade, and would be a more logical choice.)
[HTC Sensation] usaff22:
Sensation: 1.2GHz

GSII: 1.2GHz

Difference? None but the chipset in the Sensation is newer and better than GSII's.

Sensation: Adreno 220 - Wins by a good margin but I wouldn't notice a difference.

GSII: Mali 400

Sensation: qHD 960x540 - SLCD

GSII: WVGA 800x400 - Super AMOLED Plus

Sensation's resolution is better but the Sammy's technology is better. But it is very oversaturated at the same time. Blacks are better, colors are more saturated on AMOLED, colors are more accurate on SLCD and whites are excellent.

I'm not sure if you were expecting 1920x1080 or something by not liking qHD.

Oh well, if you want the GSII go for it, but IMO that's overgiving for a similar spec'ed phone. After all, I cannot change your mind if it's set on it.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Did you actually say whites are excellent? They are pink! Go on your webpahe and go on Google you will see it has quite a clear pinky tinge. The andreno doesn't run faster look at ALL of the speedtests. I spend a lot of my time outside, the phone is very difficult to see in bright sunlight.

as for the camera, the sgs2 is better at up close, moving and high light conditions. In all my six months with the senny I have taken one low light photo.

+ the sgs2 has a 2mp front facing.

If you think I'm wrong, then what would you want for what I am asking because I practically know that the one series is out of reach for me.
[HTC Sensation] usaff22:
Just went on the Sensation, I don't see a pink in sight. Benchmark tests aren't the real story. The SGSII camera makes everything oversaturated. Low-light shots aren't good in either of the phones. It only looks better because HTC compresses their videos to 90% and Samsung don't. Honestly .7 MP doesn't make much of a difference, especially when the back camera is way more important. But as I said it's up to you.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
I thoughbthat the sensation had VGA?
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
I've been told by three people that I'm not paying enough.
[HTC Sensation] Sgt.Incontro:
Those three people probably just want your money. :rolleyes:
[HTC Sensation] enserio:
or they both own the SGSII. I have both and the noticeable difference is in build and size, not performance.

$$wise, put it like this: I paid $220 for a used Sensation about a month ago and sold my TMo SGSII for $370 about a week ago. This is what the market dictates.

If I were you, I wouldn't give much more than $50 with my Sensation for that SGSII.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Yes but nobody, and I mean nobody will sell me one for that, I'm having trouble with NY offer nvm such a reduced one.
[HTC Sensation] Behold_this:
My wife owns SGS2 and I hate it. It's definitely not for me, I would make her pay ME if she wanted to trade. I wouldn't even trade her straight up for it, but that's just my opinion.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
You're lucky, either nobody wants to ship it even though I have told them ill pay for shipping or they want cash, or 'its not worth it'.
[HTC Sensation] Behold_this:
Too bad you aren't in the States, the SGS2 on Sprint is $89 from letstalk.com and $49 from amazon wireless straight up without rebates (of course that is the contract price). I know because my wife bought her's a week and a half ago.

Point is the phone is old tech and being replaced shortly by rumored SGS3. The people you are talking with don't know ****. It is in the same class of devices as the sensation, not higher.
[HTC Sensation] enserio:
Take a look at this site to see what the prices are on both these phones. .

I understand you're in Bri'an, but still - it shows you are way overpaying to get this phone.

I get it, though. I've wanted to get something new so bad that I just had to have it. You wanted to know if it's a fair deal, and you got your answer.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Surely a phone that cheap would have a high $$$per month? I've seen free sgs2 in contract deals but the price is like £37 a month with the senny just a bit lower.

And yeah ik but I guess they'll never learn. The only reason I really want one is because of the super amoled and also because I don't really enjoy being 'tied down', and also I like trying new things, I guess we all do really or we wouldn't be on these forumns.
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Thanks but they're all asking for a much higher price. Btw one of them said the sgs2 was 1.5ghz, is there a 1.5ghz version and is it only for T-Mobile us?
[HTC Sensation] Akatosh:
Update just realised websites like mazuma buy any phone including broken ones, if I sold my old iPhone 3g for £50 which is pretty much $80, do you think I could get a galaxy nexus or other better phones?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] MDavisiw:
I am having a horrible time getting my AVRCP headset to work with Coreplayer. My files are in .mp4 ipod video and core is the only player so far that will play them however I can not figure out how to get my AVRCP headset to work with coreplayer. I have checked and unchecked all of the WMP UI plugins in setting and used the AVRCP agent with no luck.

What is the next best thing, if I re-encode these to .avi the files will likely double in size.

i use the phone with the TV-out function and do p90x at my gym, I want to be able to fast forward to the next exercise when I have done my max reps so I'm not standing around waiting for the video to catch up to me.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DameEdnaBrown:
Hi all. I bought a tab 7.7 GT-6810 a few weeks back, a great piece of gear. Its build number is HTJ85B P6810DTKL5 and it is rooted. I came acros a thread on this site that lists a number of stock roms. What I would like to know is, is there a later version I can flash . My build is listed as 23.12.2011 and there are a number with 2012 dates. There are many different ones. Which one should I use? Many thanks
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] priyana:
You came across the wrong forum though.

This is the original 7" forum.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surajpardeshi:
Hey,

'm curious to know, how many X10i are bricked, cause of any reason, just add your specific location, so we might help each other..

Here let's start with me:

Xperia Model:X10i

Bricked on: 5 March 2012

Location: Mumbai, India

Description: I had installed a custom rom and then I tried to install few apps, this was my 3rd custom rom and it crashed, didn't start ever after that..:(
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Use seus or pc companion to repair
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surajpardeshi:
Dear laneyofdeath,

Pls read few of my previous posts, I've tried all possible methods to put life back into that x10...............

It doesn't work..........!!!!:cool:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Did u try flashtool? I can only see one post by the way it doesn't mention seus
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mugsyfied:
I had the same problem as you recently.

Lost xrecovery, phone not booting, flashtool not seeing phone...

The only thing that fixed it was the flasher at wotanserver.com - someone mentioned it in a post here on XDA.

http://www.wotanserver.com/en/

Its free but you have to sign up...but it is well worth the 2 minutes.

Its all automatic, select your phone and thats it.

It flashes back to GB2.3.

Then you can use flashtool to go where you want from there.

Flashtool guide...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928343

Have fun :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Howard_Moon:
Thanks for the help broseph....;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
If you say youve tried all possible methods-then the phones knackered.If it was me I would have

Try a different battery

Hardwire a battery

Try using a different pc

Try every version of flashtool

Try x10 flasher

Leave battery out for a while

Then after trying several times some of the above,and still nothing,It would go for repair or on eBay
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XIAO-WEI:
Bricked on: 12/4/2012

Reason: After installed Fera v13.5 on locked bl, bricked~ seem like a known issue.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
U need to provide more info but I'd start with seus
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] javagreen:
If you're on locked BL then it's not bricked ;)

Just use SEUS or Flashtool (with a 2.3.3 FTF) to go back to stock 2.3.3.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surajpardeshi:
hi Underling,

I've tried

Try a different battery : Yes, done..same thing

Hardwire a battery: don't know how to do it (tries google, didn't get it, can you please enlighten)

Try using a different pc: Yes, done..same thing

Try every version of flashtool: Yes, done

Try x10 flasher: Trying, to work on it..............flasher, you meant to say wotonclient 3.8.0, correct me, if 'm wrong ?

Leave battery out for a while: Done
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
Hello,

I was trying to develop a full screen application on Android CM9 for a Galaxy Tab 7" P1000 with the 20120407 build and HumberOS Kernel 20120325.

It appears that only shadow mode applications can be run in full screen (without combined bar).

As I am new and cannot post on developer sections, I am posting this there.

I looked in different sections (GTab specific, Android dev specific, other devices...) but could not find an answer :

What is a shadow mode Android application?
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
Well, another day in ignorance. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
A bump for hope.
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
Well, if no answer in 10 bumps at least I will be able to post in an appropriate section.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
I believe this is related to the screen and the softbuttons and hiding them and making apps go full fullscreen (lol).

This is just an educated guess though...
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
Well, at least an answer. :)

I knew that already because it is the purpose of my question but thanks anyway. :D

As for doing it, I put >> android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" << in my Android activity definition but this is not sufficient, that is why I was asking what is a shadow mode app.

Some people on the forum stated that only those apps could hide the soft buttons if along with it the correct option was checked in the parameters (and of course I checked it).

I tried some other application styles but none of them happened to put the activity in real full screen, without soft buttons.

I am going to check again and see if someone asked it in the past days!

Will keep you informed...
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
I know MX Video player can do it, maybe you can ask the dev if he can help you out?
[General Questions and Answers] parphane:
Will check that out. Thanks.
[HTC Desire S] masterross:
Hi guys,

I'm trying to fix blurred photo on calling screen.

It's really strange that in ics the contact photo which should be 534x534px is scaled to this size even I've add in contact exact resolution via http://www.base64converter.com/

Anyway I've edit Phone.apk:

res\layout\call_card.xml

Tried several combination:

<com.android.phone.InCallContactPhoto android:gravity="top|center" android:id="@id/photo" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:scaleType="centerCrop" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:contentDescription="@string/contactPhoto" />

+

res\values\dimens.xml

<dimen name="contact_photo_inset_width">534.0dip</dimen>
<dimen name="contact_photo_inset_height">534.0dip</dimen>

and:

<com.android.phone.InCallContactPhoto android:gravity="top|center" android:id="@id/photo" android:layout_width="534px" android:layout_height="534px" android:scaleType="centerCrop" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:contentDescription="@string/contactPhoto" />

But no luck :(

The photo image is still resized.

So any clue will be great!
[HTC Desire S] masterross:
Today I've changed picture_unknown.png but it still used the old one!

Seems like the settings in Phone.apk not reflect the system.

Anyone?
[HTC Desire S] smaghe:
Had the same issue on galaxy s2.

Installed the 04.04 nightly, still got the image pb.

I then wondered wether the problem had been solved in 04.04 nightly.

So I just tried to change the image again, in order to check wether I hadn't kept a low quality image, just because it had been synchronised with my google contacts.

It worked.

Try to upgrade to the latest nightly and change the contact pictures again, it should work.

I'm lucky on that one, coz I don't have so many contacts images.

Cheers.