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[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndlessDissent:
In no particular order:

Massive security flaws in nearly all their software - and you can't tell me that the only reason so many Windows virii, worms, etc. exist is because it's popular

And the biggest culprit of the security vulnerabilities is Internet Explorer, which is (was? I haven't used Windows since XP) locked into the operating system

Windows ME

They force vendors who want to sell Windows-based computers to pay a license penalty for every computer sold without Windows, which is one of the biggest reasons Linux-based computers are so rare and usually sold by unknown manufacturers

They are collecting license fees for many Android phones based on bogus patents

Windows ME

Really, I don't even care to think about more reasons. All I can think of is the computer my parents bought with Windows ME. *shudders*
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
For all it matters looks like Asus is coming out with dual boot Android & windows tablet ...so I fore see that eventually developers will port them onto the transformers ..just wait and be part of the fun that unfolds....similar to my HTC hd2 phone
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jotokun:
Windows 8 tablets probably arent going to take off because they're just as locked down as Apple's stuff. That is, locked bootloaders are a requirement for all Win8 ARM devices and metro apps and other app stores cant be sideloaded. Microsoft is trying to pull an Apple without having the fanbase that would ensure product adoption regardless of their anti-consumer policies.

Even if they do, Android will stay around as a pretty dominant player by default since there's always going to be a group that wants freedom to use their devices as they wish.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndlessDissent:
I don't know about that. Some Android manufacturers are locking things down pretty hardcore *cough*motorola*cough, which makes them not so different from Apple.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentStormer:
I'm definately interested in these windows 8 tabs and I think that they could make a splash in the quite "linear" market of today.

However I do also agree with some earlier posts in that while the Windows tablet market will surely benefit (how could it NOT its nonexistent right now) I don't think their smartphone situation will get any better and I doubt that the desktop market will benefit from a huge overhaul of the classic layouts. I mean lets face it, so many people use windows just because its windows. Not actually because they want to and if windows changes then I think a lot of people will leave regardless of the 'desktop mode' built into metro.

Just my 2¢

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jotokun:
Sure, but there's also precedent in that HTC stopped locking their bootloaders after public outcry from power users. Even if Win8 takes off, some company will still sell open hardware. So long as there's a market, someone will cater to it.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentStormer:
Even if they try to lock down their devices in many cases the dev communities will find a way to unlock them. And I doubt that's going to change any time soon.

I also think there will always be good companies that will release bootloader unlocks *cough* Asus and HTC *cough* and I think with Google's recent acquiring of Motorola I don't think they'll be as locked down as before

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edgemaster191:
The issue with Windows 8 isn't the hardware manufacturer, it's Microsoft. If you want to sell a device with Windows 8 the bootloader HAS to be locked.

here's the article here on XDA http://goo.gl/rq4yw

I suppose bootlaoders COULD be unlocked, but UEFI might make things interesting.

And as for porting Windows 8 to other devices, that's fine if there is a walk through on how to do it, but dev's cant' just hand out pre-built roms with Windows 8 without violating copyright laws as you have to have a license to legally run Windows.

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haha won't let it go huh?

Seriously though, i don't blame you, with ME and ME 2.0 (vista) it just proves that they can't all be winners.

Personally i have no issues with Windows 7 and use it as my daily OS both at work and at home.

Windows 8 is going to cause issues when it's released, especially in the desktop market, people are going to freak out when they see Metro on their shiny new computer. I think Microsoft needs to build in some sort of auto detection for touch panels, if there isn't one, default to the classic desktop / start menu.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jarm3r:
I love Win7, use it both at work and at home, and it's just a really good, solid, stable OS.

That said, I don't regret buying my Transformer with Android at all, for all the reasons stated above.

1) read the articles on that new hybrid tablet, it's riddled with air vents. It runs hot like a volcano and chews up batteries worse than the gameboy from my childhood. (oh you poor, poor aa batteries, you never stood a chance.)

2) it's locked down just as bad as apple. Sad to see them go this route. It's strange that in one product (the kinect) they leave it wide open and encourage hacking and user development, but then in other products (win8 on tablets, what are they calling it, some retarded name like RT or some ****?) they completely lock it down.

3) no dev support, and I don't see much coming in the near future.

4) It's a first gen product, almost all first gen products suck. at least for the tech world.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] David Dee:
Interesting discussion here. Google is obviously well aware of the potential threat from Windows 8 and it looks like they have begun their countering strategy:

Announced at noon today - Google Acquires Mobile Productivity Company Quickoffice - http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/google-acquires-mobile-productivity-company-quickoffice/

It will be interesting how Google will utilize this capability. Free native integration? Could be costly as they still have to pay licensing obligations to Microsoft around this software. Whatever it is, I have complete faith Google will provide a very attractive alternative to Windows 8. When it comes to innovation, I have no doubt in my mind which of the two companies comes out miles ahead.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jotokun:
That is true, that was my point in the first post I made in this thread. I was more pointing out that Android and flexible hardware to run it aren't going anywhere so long as its unchallenged in being a more free (as in speech) alternative.

That is interesting. Quickoffice has easily the best office suite for Android, if Google were to polish it up (and not gut its non-cloud capabilities) it could easily become a much more serious competitor to MS Office and, in turn make Android a better alternative to Win8 for productivity.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jarm3r:
I think another thing to consider is the enterprise world. In giant corporations all over the world, employees are begging for tablets. IT departments are hesitant to give them Android or ipads. If a Windows 8 tablet does a lot to satisfy the IT departments of companies all over the world, I could see a lot of adoption coming from there.

RIM is pretty much dead nowadays, but that's how they made their (now gone) zillions.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahu89:
I love win 7, I have not gotten a virus on it yet and I have a ridiculous amount of products installed. It is called getting good sets of specific anti-virus software.

I am definitely interested in win 8 but probably not the tablet. If they can allow the tablets on to corporate wans and internal vpn then this is going to sell. The most complaints I have heard is about not allow to access corporate servers through tablets. RIM should have been all over this but they just blew up.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooktablet:
i'm using windows 7 on my pc and i think windows is the best OS for computers.

but the "Windows 8 Metro appstore" has only a few apps, and i think we'll need to wait a long time (like years) before the appstore grows up like ios or android

i like android and don't care about windows 8 on mobile devices, but i do care and will definitely get windows 8 for my laptop.

about blackberry i think it's dead.

but i don't know why asus makes a lot of windows 8 devices, while the idea is basically "transform from a tablet to a notebook",
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NYFan:
WTF i literally just got my 300T took it out of the box to root it. Came here to see that there will be newer ones? Should I return it before I even use the damn thing?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooktablet:
all the new ones from asus running windows 8, not android like tf300t

and they're not gonna release soon don't worry
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reilly1812:
+1. True MS Office on a tab? Corporate world will eat it up.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooktablet:
rumors say that MS is gonna release MS Office for android and ios in november
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10010110:
Really wish we could get an 11.6" android OS 2GB Ram tablet from Asus, with a keyboard dock obv.

That said, the two Win8 tabs they announced look great, just really wonder about price and dev/app support out of the box.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Griffin1006:
I recon the tablet will run it perfectly, perhaps they can boost the Ghz up to 1.5. The 2GB of RAM will be plenty toghether with intel atom.

Still I don't know how big the market will be as people not often going to use the tablet as a desktop replacer. And the apps for android are more based on touchscreens then normal software which you will install on the Windows 8 Tablet
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
All about the apps...

That said, browsing seems better on windows tablets.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndlessDissent:
How can you tell if they haven't been released yet? Did you use one somehow?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
It will be smoother just like windows phone 7... Iam using it on my HTC HD2 with only 512mb ram, 1Ghz
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Griffin1006:
Comparison will be difficult because you don't have the same hardware running native (as in from the box from Asus) Windows 8 and Android ICS.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
That is why it will be better..because the specs would definitely be better than my 2 yr old hd2
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
Saw a video
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EndlessDissent:
I'd bet you could find a lot of videos of smooth browsing on Android, too. Just because it works well in a demo doesn't mean it will in real use. A lot of times when a company demos a product, they determine an exact sequence of button presses or a specific combination of apps they know work well, and they use that to make the product look flawless. You don't know what it will really be like until you use it.

And really, does it matter how smooth browsing is in IE? I don't think using smooth browsing is a good trade-off for a lack of security. "Dude, check out my new tablet! Browsing the Web is soooo smooth! Oh, wait. It's getting kind of laggy with all the script kiddies running exploits on IE. I guess I'll show you when they're done using my tablet in their botnet."
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
You are correct in what you are saying but similaar experiences happen with android where the browser would slow down or you just get sluggish performance which is what bugs me. Personally, i think a device that cost £400 should fly and be somewhat close to desktop performance. Furthermore, the video i saw of the browsing was in a review but your point still stands
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
You are correct in what you are saying but similaar experiences happen with android where the browser would slow down or you just get sluggish performance which is what bugs me. Personally, i think a device that cost £400 should fly and be somewhat close to desktop performance. Furthermore, the video i saw of the browsing was in a review but your point still stands

EDIT: However, when visiting the same site i saw in that review on the Transformer 300, the pictures changed slower and were a bit laggy and had a slight delay in moving whereas on the windows tablet, it was smooth, more akin to a desktop.

I like some of the features of windows 8 tablets (the scrolling through apps and having 2 apps open at the same time etc.) but i think it just now boils down to app support. I'll probably keep my transformer 300 for now and see how windows develops before buying a windows tablet

(i aimed to edit but instead quoted, hence the double post)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10010110:
MS event to be held on the 18th, hopefully we will see some more info about these, and hope to see an Asus 11.6" tab there too.

I've also read elsewhere that MS is planning on charging manufacturers ~$100 for a license fee to use Win8 on their devices, even Win8 RT. Which should raise the price of the tab or w/e it on by more than $100 as the maker will want to at least be able to pay the over-head for the tab. :(

http://www.technobuffalo.com/compan...-on-june-20-reportedly-about-windows-tablets/
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
rumours of an xbox tablet... May swing my direction.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10010110:
Win8 Surface looks really good.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UndisputedGuy:
Not much it can do though that the prime or 300 can't from what we've seen. Can you freely resize windows on either surface tablet?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 10010110:
IDK about the WindowsRT one, but the Win8 pro model is running full Win8 with a desktop and metro UI, so I'd assume yes on that one...
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentStormer:
As for the surface tablet; I think that it will truly set forth a new inspiration for tablet PC's. What I think will happen is we will see a split in tablet productions, one being for average consumers who will also have a PC or laptop, and one for people who are looking for both experiences in one device. We see Microsoft realizing this with their 2 different tablet models.

Up until now tablets (for the most part) haven't been able to even come close to approaching the desktop PC in terms of productivity and power, with new devices like the Surface that will run Windows 8 Pro we will probably see a whole bunch of people buying them that were debating buying a tablet but couldn't justify it due to the lack of productivity and power-user options.

Do I think think that this new type of "Productivity-Tablet" will become a "one size fits all" solution where the laptops and desktops of years past fade away? By all means no, not in the foreseeable future. There have been tasks that require one type of device or the other for years and years on end. I don't see the desktop going away any time soon, especially with systems such as businesses, schools and stores being so strongly grounded in older technologies.

We are witnessing an interesting part of computer-technology history, where different form factors and types of computers are battling it out for market share and consumer appeal, It will surely be interesting to see what will happen here, and I feel fortunate to be alive to see it.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turdbogls:
everyone knows that tablet (and smartphones) revolve around applications. without some serious support from Devs there is no way this is going to take off like people think it will.

i believe MS is still charging devs to put apps into the marketplace, and then taking a percentage of their sales on top of that. correct me if i am wrong on that, been a while since i have looked at their policies.

look at WP7....is is a super slick OS, very pretty and probablly more useful than iOS is...but with about 1/1000 of the apps. hence why it doesn't sell that well. same thing with WebOS. people Praised it, but it never took off because it literally had like 200 apps.

i could see some professionals ditching their ipads for this so they could type on the GO....but i guarantee the people that need to type on the go, already have a keyboard case or something for their iPads.

it will sell, but not nearly as well as it should. MS is always making great products that come out too late (see Zune and Windows Phone)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spark1223:
It would be nice to see a dualboot tool for transformer for windows being released, but I just don't see that happening. As has been stated, with being so locked down, I don't think it will get the support that it needs to be that popular. The x86 tablets have potential but they are just to expensive to be that popular.

Its COULD end up being slightly more popular than Win 7 mobile. But idk.
[HTC Rezound] croonux:
alright guys so my only rooting/rom changing/whatever experience comes from the Droid 1, which was an extreme breeze to install and get root access easily, well overall super easy to install all you needed well now I'm having trouble with the rezound as it's a little more complicated (for me) anyways here's what I need help with

I unlocked my bootloader following the super noob guide, In the super noob guide the directions say to install the ICS leak 3.11 and then install the All in one HTC rezound tool thing I did all of that and Managed to unlock my bootloader and I am not 100% sure if I instaled the custom recovery but It seems like I did, If AmonRa is the ICSandwichy looking bootloader with the blue letters, IF it is then I did install it then here comes what I need help with, I cant seem to get anything out of clicking the perm root on the extras I am running the program on administrator and also tried it without running in administrator, I tried and tried but I can't seem to get root (checked with app root access and odesn't give me it) I even tried installing it through the options of the clockworkmod thing/Adamnro by clicking on the install su & superuser? option it says it installs it but once I'm checking it doesn't work

I have however not installed any kernels nor roms im still running on the ICS leak from when I unlocked the bootloader, Help me great XDA community

any help will be appreciated

EDIT: I forgot I also run it in debug mode and when I try to get perm root I do it when the phone is on
[HTC Rezound] JT75:
The easiest way to install super user is through amon ra recovery,I believe it's under advanced or devoloper options.or just flash a rooted custom rom I suggest picking one that includes the boot image that gets flashed in bootloader. The newer roms are mostly set up for s-off only and don't include an easily flashable boot image.
[HTC Rezound] eman3316@optonline.net:
I had to flash these 2 files in recovery to get root working. You might need to install busy box once booted up but not 100% sure if that was needed.

I could not get root working by using the option in Amon or the tool. Flashing these 2 files was the only way I was able to get root. I was on 3.14 leak though but should be the same for 3.11
[HTC Rezound] fenguepay:
If you are still having trouble and you have a windows based system, t wouldn't hurt to give my toolkit a try. It doesnt have the super fancy GUI but it is very functionable. I designed it to help myself when i was a super noob. It goes through the whole process step by step and explains in the simplest terms possible how you should do it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1571746

just a tip, make sure you have all of the htc drivers when you are doing this and then once you have finished the step telling you to install the recovery, go back into the bootloader by either doing it manually or using my program once your phone is on. (util, then roboot into bootloader) Once you are in the bootloader, see if you can get into the recovery section. If you got in successfully then you should be in a differnet menu, from there go to the development section of amon ra and then select root. Hopwfully you get success but if you did not do the following.

Go to the mounts section of amon ra and then mount the phones usb storage. It should still be plugged in so the device should show up on your computer. Go and download the latest superuser from here:

http://androidsu.com/superuser/

place it in the root of the device storage thats on your computer (the root is the main directory or folder)

then unmount the storage from your phone and go to the flashing section on Amon Ra. From there select the superuser zip folder from the sd card. Flash it and if it still gives you an error i would check your steps or request more help because i cant help you beyond this point.

I hope this walkthrough has helped and good luck on obtaining root. With root you arent limited to anything. If you are feeling good after you get root i would suggest trying to get s-off. To get s-off you have to do hardware tricks not just software tricks, but s-off is much harder and more dangerous. Have fun with your new and hopefully rooted device!

wow after having this post up for a matter of seconds i have a thanks, glad i helped!
[HTC Rezound] croonux:
thank you very much this worked magically
[HTC Rezound] croonux:
thank you for your great reply but I tried the above method and it worked beautifully I still checked out and downloaded your tool it is very nice good job on it dude and I got S -off already as well wire trick was tricky as I was trying to use a copper wire and it was workin then I got my old ipod charger cable and cuted it then got mad because I thought it wasn't going to work because they were like tiny wires tied toguether but who knew first try and it worked perfectly...
[Thunderbolt General] zandander:
Hey guys. I was wondering if there is a 5 signal bar mod for liquid 3.2? That's one of the things that I really liked about bamf forevet, I know it's kind of weird to pick out something that small.. But, if anyone knows of a mod like that, please post the link or how to find it!

Sent from the hand of Zeus!
[Thunderbolt General] RBarnett09:
Icons

You can always download ROM toolbox pro from the android market. They have different icons that are different colors to pick from out of 1x, 3g, 4g, adb, battery, download, gps, signal, usb, vibrate, voicemail, and wifi.

It is, however, a $5 app.

Depends on how bad exactly it is that you want it.

Hopefully you can find a good battery mod for it.

Hope this helped.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] theroom3600:
Hi guys.

i have xperia mini build 62.

for rooting my device i downgrade to build 42 then root my device and when i used update center to update my device to build 62(with 50KB P/S wifi speed) downloading finished in 3 min.

but i heared from others they downloaded 160MB of data for updating.

now i whant to know is my device updated correctly or no?

after update my build number returned to 62

thanks alot
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] koziar:
Yes, your device is updated properly, the OTA updates are small.