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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rajuki:
You must understand that its not just Samsung that controls the roll out of the updates, they have to coordinate with operators around the world to roll out any updates because of so much operator specific **** that comes along with the phones.

Yes, Samsung can do better but name one OEM who has done better? HTC? Sony (Ericsson)? Motorola? Its all the same in Android club, sir. Only if you have a Google AOSP phone, you can rely on fast updates.

Begs a question- All competing platforms are calculated and reserved with updates- Why does Google has to release one major

OS release every 6 months? Why can't they have consolidated single annual update cycles?

Anyway, you are at XDA- the motherlode! Why do you wait for official updates when there are several talented devs bringing you top notch releases before OEMs do. Just root it and forget it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Those are all beta, so not perfect :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thering1975:
Ics makes a few tweaks thats all not end of the world so what we have to wait im sorry but the phones is excellent regardless its not like ics will make this phone earth shattingly better it will make stuff all difference in the long run.

I cant wait until they release ics. Because i promise you this we will see this type of thread disappear to be replaced with. "why did samsung release this when it has bugs" or "when do we expect jelly bean" or " "Now we have ics do you think samsung will abandon the note with jellybean"

Im sorry to be negative but the note forum has jsut turned into a whinging forum.

Maybe mods could set up a vent your rant thread as not to over inflate this forum any more than it is
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p51d007:
What does ICS really bring to the table that most note users will really need?

The majority of users are not the ones that frequent XDA. The majority of users

just use the phone as a phone, email & internet device.

The "1%ers" try to squeeze every little bit out of it.

I use around 2400 minutes a month on the phone, 2-300 text messages & around 100-200 emails. No games, no huge amount of data. Maybe 1-2 gig per month.

Personally, I'm holding off on ICS until it's been "official" for a few weeks.

GB is tweaked to the point, at least on my device, that it is fast & stable.

You know ICS will need a few revisions before it is really as stable as GB.

If it wasn't for the "1%ers", I doubt these devices would be as good as they are, but, for the majority of users, I just don't see ICS being that big of a deal.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Qvp:
Hey friedje you're so smart... luck must have sent me here to be enlightened by your ingenious comments.

Let's just review your comments the same way you reviewed mine ok?

1.Never buy something for what it might become-wow! I am really thrilled and honored to see such an amazing sentence, too bad its meaningless. Never buy something for what it might become? *cough* BULL****. An update was supposed to be released by now, an update which is considered to be a cornerstone of android's development, or briefly speaking -a major change to the device.

2.95% of androids run gingerbread, perhaps you're right.. can't tell by the way you pull wisdom out your sleeves but.... galaxy note isn't just a normal android device. If I'm not wrong its Samsung's flagship phone, its pricey.. and promising.

3.That scratch doesn't really bother me... I'm honest. I just wanted to comment on the durability of the gorilla glass, or in fact about the allegedly scratch resistant screen that galaxy note has.

But other than that, nice to see that you blindly stick to your galaxy note, and how certain you are that it is flawless. If I had a company or a business I'd be looking for a worker\customer like you to blindly follow me too.

edit:

sorry I forgot to thank you for pointing out that "Samsung doesn't give credit". Did someone say smart-ass? ;)

peace
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JuliancitoD:
OMG not again... just install a custom rom and enjoy ICS. There are a few that are quite stable with S Memo working....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] yiannisthegreek:
More *****ing and pissing and moaning I see hey? There are LOTS of these threads already so please stop flooding the board with this OVER AND OVER again!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Akiainavas:
Yet another "fkn samsung where's my update" thread... can't you people just wait a month more ? It's just a software update, it's not like your phone is useless without ICS...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mystic38:
Samsung said you will get ICS and you will, Gorilla said the glass is scratch resistant and it is.

So...You are waiting for ICS and you have discovered scratch resistant is not the same as scratch proof.

You seriously need to lighten up.. its a phone dude, not life and death
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Maybe not flawless, but at least i'm happy with what i bought in december .

So maybe ICS will make it better or maybe not. Maybe tomorrow or

maybe June 30, no need to whine over a top class phone :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anonymous572:
Support for Android 3.x and 4.x apps. DriveMount really cool thing. ;) With DosBox Turbo you can play DOS games with USB or Bluetooth mouse at ICS. And many more 3.x and 4.x great apps...

New many awesome settings, like "Hovering pen icon". It's amazingly cool helping feature, I really like it! :) Of cause other functions like "Force GPU rendering" and other from Android 4 also very helpful. Windows and transition animation scale settings will make a pleasant view for menus and other animations...

Also ICS is

incredibly

smooth! :)

I hope someone will fix Tablet mode for samsung stock ICS roms. AOSP good, but it kills many Note features, like stock camera, hovering pen icon, s planner, s memo and other samsung good things...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Qvp:
you know what? I take it back. both the hostile replies against friedje and the whining about not having ICS.

I was just in a mood to express my opinion after logging in every few weeks to check for an update.

all the best everyone!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] badmonopoly:
Yes, what a bunch of cry babies. Nothing except google branded phones get updates for crap. This should be common knowledge for anyone on XDA.

OTOH, CM9 is running FLAWLESSLY for me. I don't care about FM radio and w/e the other missing things is, whoopdeedoo.

And screen protectors must cost as much as a phone the way people don't wish to protect a 600 dollar device. Where is the sanity? Not in this solar system.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mystic38:
hey, chill...

dont you see the OP man'd up and apologised?.. he deserves props for that, not an ongoing diatribe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JulyDerek:
Does the wakeup lag get fixed with ICS, that's all I'm bothered to know.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] knightnz:
It's still there, but it's nowhere near as bad.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] duowing:
I feel like the biggest reason we haven't seen the update is simply incorporating the driver's for the S-Pen and it's related things. Also the Galaxy Note runs at a unique resolution compared to everything else so that will cause some differences. If you've used any of the leaks they're pretty close, but they're still far from what I would consider something that should be released for everyone. I went back to CheckRom for my Note and for GB it runs really good. I was using CM9 which ran great, but I missed having the SPen and related apps as that was part of the reason I got the note. I would love ICS to be released right now, but even with GB the Note is still by far the best phone I've used. I love using my Note with Gingebread and Touchwiz more than using my Galaxy Nexus with 4.0.4
[HTC One S] hasoon2000:
I need the stock kernel to add in my toolkit. If you have it, please upload it and tell me the base number for the kernel. Thanks!
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] rev0l:
Hey everybody,

i know there alot of nook users that use Read it Later (Now called "Pocket").

Since they changed to the new name it cant be installed on your nook from the android market.

i think they discontinued the android 2.1 support.

I have opened a ticket at their support system to get it back on the nook ;)

If you want this too or just want to help me to get it back,

please leave a reply on the ticket

http://support.readitlaterlist.com/...android-21-for-older-devices-or-ebook-readers

Thank You!
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Efemmeral:
Could you pull the necessary files from a Nook that has ReadItLater currently installed?

Failing that, I would email 'Pocket' support and ask for the application. You might get it. It was available publically only hours ago, how strict could they be?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] rev0l:
i have thought about that too (add the files here) but i only have the pro version.

I dont think its allowed to publish the apk from a paid app ?! but i dont know, if iam wrong correct me ;)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] rhhd:
Yes it now requires 2.2.

Although it never worked properly on my nook anyway. Had some serious scrolling problems. When scrolling down by swiping the screen it would often move in the wrong direction. I had the same problem with the IHT app by the way.

Have a look at the Readability thread in this forum. Maybe that is for you. Its what I am doint at the moment.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] bonacieux:
Grr. Old app no longer syncs

Wasn't going to complain too much not to get the "pocket" rebrand since readitlater was still working fine... but now it isn't. Can't download any of my articles (though it can see they are there). They must have changed the system to no longer be compatible with the old version.

New ticket here (url broken to see if I'm allowed to post it, I'm a bit noob round here)

support.readitlaterlist.com/discussions/problems/

3895-readitlater-on-android-21-no-longer-syncs

But I'm not hopeful anything will be done.

*sigh*

Okay, this "readability" thing then....
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] asolodoff:
You can use Instapaper with Instafetch app. It has eink friendly UI and made especially for nook :-)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] apap:
Readitlater is working fine for me.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] dfherg3:
Free registration at instapaper.com, free app. from google market "Read later for Instapaper" (author Capone) plus official bookmarklet from instapaper.com for browser which adds current page to the reading list. I almost happy with this solution.

Cons: no images, font is horrible and i see no way to change it, you need to refresh the list manually to download new articles, don't use full screen mode because it will hide options button at the top of your nook. Cheers
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] cowbutt:
Capone's "Read Later for Instapaper" has been removed from the Google Play store. Presumably because it no longer syncs (the spinner spins, but makes no progress) and if you clear data and try to set it up again, the (correct) username and password aren't accepted. Presumably Instapaper have blocked it from logging into an account that doesn't have a $1/month subscription attached (the API is only open to third-party apps if the account does so). The official paid Instapaper app doesn't require the subscription, but requires Android 2.3.3.

Has anyone got a copy of an older version of the official Instapaper app that still runs on Android 2.1?

EDIT: I've found Laters which works on Android 2.1 on the Nook, so I think I'll switch back to Pocket.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] Harlley Sathler:
I read today that Pocket is now available for the Kobo reader. May be is it possible to use the kobo version on our NST?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ang3l:
ReadItLater 1.0.1 apk

Hi all!

I found the .apk file for ReadItLater 1.0.1, and it works like a charm :)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] andromenda:
It works but I can't find option to zoom in, any ideas?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] richardcoop:
There is an option to increase or decrease the text size in the menu when reading Push Text Style on the menu. You can also choose Article view or full web page view in th options.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] teknode:
Readitlater seems to be the best option right now. It is possible to scroll with the nook buttons by enabling "Volume rocker scrolling" in the Readitlater settings. You have to go into Nook Touch Mod Manager and set your hardware buttons to Volume up and Volume down, but fortunately the keys still work fine in reader apps when set like this.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] geopapa:
Newer version

This is the 1.3 version. I 've tested it, it works pretty good and has the "volume rocker" option too. Only minus is that if you map hardware keys to volume up and down, while they work well with read it later they don't work with stock reader :(

Also sometimes you swipe to scroll down but it scrolls up (weird bug..:confused:)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ang3l:
This version fails to install on my nook...
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] geopapa:
Strange.. maybe you must wipe remains of any previous versions from the root filesystem. What is the exact error?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] ang3l:
true.. I had to uninstall the previous version before installing this one. nice and smooth now with the hard buttons :)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] geopapa:
I can't login anymore.. Does it happen to you also or is it just me?

Probably they ve locked access from older versions :banghead:
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] skyli91:
I can log in(version 1.3) with my email address, but the scroll is strange. It scrolls just half the page.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] geopapa:
Problem is fixed for me too. I can login now. It scrolls half the page with the buttons too. The good thing with the buttons is that it scrolls right (while without buttons it may scroll in the opposite direction)
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] skyli91:
Yes, but i think this app is pretty usable :) I wonder if 1.2.1 or other versions would be better for us? http://www.papktop.com/download/?id=2792 (this is 1.2.1)

The volume rocker scroll is nice, also Cool Reader is able to use the volume rockers to scroll ^^ (my reader app).
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] geopapa:
The link provided gives me error 404 :confused: Could you please re-upload it somewhere?
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] skyli91:
Sorry: http://android.ppcsoft.net/plus/download.php?open=2&id=232&uhash=0d637cbba96c4060c7ede9c2
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] chocolateben:
THANK YOU!!

I've been waiting for a working readitlater / pocket style app on the nook for a long time... I use pocket on my phone all the time, so it's going to be amazing being able to read the longer articles on the nook's e-ink screen.
[Nook Touch Themes and Apps] whatagonad:
has anyone got the pocket/read it later app working full ok?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
I'm on T-Mobile USA. Pretty soon I want to get a new phone. Currently, I have the MyTouch4G which will go to either my mother or my girlfriend.

Now, I know of the One S coming, but in all honesty, I'm let down by it - no expandable memory, battery, and no NFC chip. I can live with the battery, but the memory and the chip break the deal. Now, I know you guys will argue the memory. Fact is, 16GB is not enough for me. I know about drop box, too. That's fine when I'm in the US and have unlimited data. It's not fine, however, when I travel to say... Nigeria and only 1GB of data costs $17. DropBox and Google Music isn't so appealing when you consider that. So, memory argument shut down.

So, that leaves me to believe that currently with T-Mobile, the total package phone is the Amaze. I root my phones, ICS and Sense 4.0 will be there either way. I have the two now on the MyTouch4G.

Now, since the One S isn't a flagship phone, do we have any speculation on what's coming after the One S? Please tell me we do...

Can the international One X work on T-Mobile USA's 4G network? I can live with the One X, but from what I understand, AT&T's One X won't work on T-Mo's 4G.

So, hit me with advice!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobp:
People don't seem to like the Amaze for whatever reason. I would wait for the samsung sg3, unless, as you seem to imply, you're htc only.

an unlocked gsm one x should work on t-mobile; double check the frequencies just to be sure.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] singh_dd93:
I have the wotan server files which it used for flashing. Is there any method to make ftf file to use it with flashtool.

There is no .62 ftf file available for mini
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Someguyfromhell:
.ftf file can be made via Sony Update Service files.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] singh_dd93:
Can you explain the process to make ftf from Sony update Service files.

My friend has same phone, I will use his phone to get files.

I think i can't use mine due to unlocked bootloader
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] seljachina:
look at this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24898809#post24898809
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
For some reason, out of nowhere, my computer or phone are deciding not to connect to each other, which it was working fine last night and hundreds of times before that on the same laptop, suddenly when i plug my phone in now it says drives failed to install, and so i downloaded that latest LG Android Device Drivers, and still wont work. Any thoughts on how to fix this ?
[LG Revolution] brad6360:
Do you get the USB connection icon on your phone? If so, this shouldn't be that hard to fix. It's probably just a driver issue. I would uninstall the LG and Android drivers and start over. Now, if you don't get the USB icon on your phone at all, then you either have a bad USB cable or SD card. I had this problem for months before I figured out it was my USB cable that was the problem.
[LG Revolution] drt054:
If driver issue with Windows, uninstall drivers, reboot, install drivers, reboot, after Windows loads then plug in the phone, then try everything starting with Charge Only, then Mass Storage, then Internet Connection Mode, and all the drivers should install fine

If this fails you can try ADB over Wifi in the Play Store. It bypasses a lot of issues if you are just trying to use adb on your phone. If you need files off your phone try Wifi File Transfer. No wires or cables needed. Both just need an existing Wifi network to transfer/push/pull files.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bix2010:
i am not the developer i am just posting this for when the developer needs Q&A session will already be available

just as well if jokersax11 is reading this please contact me as i would like to be a test dummy for this new project i have a line up of 9 photons 10 atrix and 5 electrify i have been following your work with every build i have been able to make a few mods of my own plus i have a TWEAK in the range of WIMAXXX variety
[Motorola Photon 4G] magui43212:
You clearly don't have enough phones.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheChronicDroid:
wait whats goin on with this wiimax tweak? i want i waannnt
[Motorola Photon 4G] bix2010:
inbox me and i will send zip if you look at a Q&A post i put about 4g humor me its about that mod i made it and it has worked on the electrify the atrix and the photon i have a friggin atrix running on sprint with full sig wimax
[Acer Iconia A500] .Ahau:
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a little help in booting a custom linux kernel on the Acer Iconia a500 with an initrd (not an initramfs, and the distinction is important). I'm working on building an ARM version of the Porteus Linux OS, which is a slackware-based linux-live distribution.

I have compiled a custom kernel based on sp3_dev's 2.6.38 kernel sources, added a patch for aufs, compiled in support for XZ compression, squashfs and a few other things, and I can get this system to boot into a functional GUI using an initramfs that I've embedded into the kernel (it looks like this is how other folks are using a ramdisk). However, Porteus typically uses an initrd to set up the live filesystem, and moving to an initramfs will require rewriting a number of scripts and maintaining them separately from the x86 tree. I have tried booting with an initrd in a number of ways, and have failed each time and google/xda searches have not yielded a solution. I've packaged my zImage and initrd.xz with mkbootimg and flashed it to mmcblk0p1 to dual boot linux with android, and tried hard-coding a number of calls for initrd in the kernel cmdline, such as, "initrd=/dev/mmcblk0p1/intird.xz", "initrd=/initrd.xz", "initrd=0x11000000,16M" all to no avail.

So, my question is this: is there any way to get the kernel to load an initrd (which is not embedded in the kernel itself) without replacing the stock bootloader? I'd prefer to keep the installation easy and low-risk for other users.

Thanks for your time, and many thanks to the devs who have been contributing to getting native Linux on the Iconia! Your threads have been an invaluable resource.

-Ahau
[Acer Iconia A500] Tautvaldas:
And I am trying making something similar,but I'm want make initrd who boots from internal storage like tf101 kernel, and I can't make kernel working with initrd , I'm using netham's initrd source and guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1158260&page=24 , when I compiled the kernel and make boot.img then it says - kernel panic, can't find initrd... . My question is - what format initrd should be .cpio, .img, .gz... if it doesn't matter, then what kernel command should be in boot options to kernel .config. sorry for bad English.
[Acer Iconia A500] .Ahau:
Thanks, Tautvaldas. If you are following netham's instructions, you are using an initramfs that is built into the kernel. You can either specify a cpio/gzipped archive in the kernel config (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE) or point it to a directory containing the files and subdirectories you want inside your initramfs and the compiler will cpio and compress it at build time. I use the second approach as it saves the steps involved in creating the cpio image and gzipping it. Once you've done this, I don't believe you need to specify an initrd in CONFIG_CMDLINE. The initramfs is then contained inside zImage, so when you generate the new "recovery.img" with mkbootimg, you still point -initrd to /dev/zero.

To clarify, an initramfs (probably named something like initrd.gz) is both a cpio archive and gzip compressed. Google 'initrd cpio' for more on how to extract and compress them.

HTH
[Acer Iconia A500] .Ahau:
worked-around

Well, I didn't sort out how to load an initrd directly, but a friend did find a script for me that can be used in an initramfs and make it look (and work) like an initrd. In case anyone else runs into this issue, here's the relevant portions of the script:

# Build a ramdisk and copy ourselves over, so we look like an initrd

mke2fs -m 0 /dev/ram0 >/dev/null 2>&1

mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /mnt

for item in /*; do [ "$item" != "/mnt" ] && cp -a $item /mnt; done

mkdir /mnt/mnt

# Transfer control to linuxrc as an initrd would

exec switch_root -c /dev/console /mnt /linuxrc $*
[Windows Phone 7 General] gbal4:
Hello I am a new Windows 7 user comming from a i phone for 4 years. Is there any apps in the market for animated wallpaper like on ther android phones ??
[Windows Phone 7 General] lamborg:
No, there isn't.
[Windows Phone 7 General] gbal4:
Ok found something called Aqua clock HD has a animated screen for your clock wish is could be a live animted wallpaper like on an Android ohh well not happy with phone got to sell it ........Thanks folks for the help:(
[Windows Phone 7 General] lamborg:
although there are apps to have a moving image on your screen, GIF, but not exactly a wallpaper.
[Windows Phone 7 General] gbal4:
Yes thanks this is my first Windows phone however I will stick with Android or Iphone it has been fun with the phone thanks for the help :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TheArchetect:
The navigation voice is in music which is a real pain. Is this where it should be?