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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayman1986:
Download your country firmware and flash with flashtool, then reconnect to update service. It will work then.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arpith.fbi:
Dude tat means ur bootloader is unlocked. Did u lock it?

Sent from SE Xperia arc s using tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FlorinXstyle:
Yes is unlocked.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtacy!:
Then you can't update using SEUS or PC Companion.

Download the firmware you want from one of the threads and flash it using Flashtool.

Or go the adb route.

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arpith.fbi:
U should know tat u actually cannot update via Sony Update if the bootloader is unlocked.. Relock it to update via Sony Update or just flash the firmware using flashtool as xtacy said..

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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FlorinXstyle:
Ok. I got it. Thanks guys.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] SamAce43:
Hi guys

my 2nd bootanimation for our galaxy ace. Hope you like it.:fingers-crossed:

The bootanimation.zip is attached. download n Enjoy !!!:victory:

How to Install :

1. Download the Attachment.

2. Use Root Explorer or any other Root File Explorer to replace it

3. Replace it on your current Boot Animation in "data/local or system/media".

4. Set permission rw-r--r--

5. Reboot device n enjoy new bootanimation

IF YOU LIKE MY WORK PRESS THANKS BUTTON
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] PulseDroid:
Cool, with what did you make it ?

Screenshot: (Thanks to Relmz)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ondense:
if you don't post any screenshoot about how is the bootanimation we don't know if we like it or not...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] PulseDroid:
I wanted to make but it's alot of images very fast can't make out wat it is with just a few and I can't make a gif as it has more that 200 png's
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Relmz:
I'm unable to post an image or a proper link, but I've created a preview of this bootanimation and uploaded it to the link below.

imgur.com/z2qWf
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] PulseDroid:
you can I did thanks
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
[/sarcasm]

Google, seriously? Why would you put phone UI on a 7" tablet? That's a little too big for a phone! :mad: I'm not gonna buy it now!
[Nexus 7 General] gh123man:
I too am questioning this, I gues its to take advantage of the new notification bar features, does anyone know how this will be handled in the tablet interface.?
[Nexus 7 General] dcheng11:
I really hope it's possible to load the Tablet UI on this. One of my biggest gripes with the iPad is the UI, and I feel like the tablet UI present in Honeycomb and ICS was more landscape-oriented, and felt more like a laptop screen than a phone, which I feel makes the best use of the screen size.

On the note of screen size, I'm really not feeling the huge bezels. Makes me sort of wish Asus threw in a 8.9" of something in place of all that black space, but that's probably just me being too greedy.
[Nexus 7 General] gh123man:
its super simple to enable once the source roles out, and even with the stock firmware its just a matter of unpacking frameworks-base and modifying the config.

so, provided google didnt do anything funky to the tablet ui, it shouldn't be hard.
[Nexus 7 General] ben83s:
I'll second that, its wasteful and ugly. One day I want a real edge to edge screen!
[Nexus 7 General] Censura_Umbra:
They are combining phone and tablet more. But I'm sure landscape mode will look like a tablet.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah what is the deal with this? I've been searching for hours with no answers. of all things this is my biggest disappointment. IMO the ipad is a gigantic phone essentially and since the introduction of honeycomb I thought android had the edge here with a layout that gives more resemblance to your desktop not your phone. I really hope jelly bean isn't killing that off

Sent from my HTC Vivid using the XDA app
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Nope. If you watched while they were demoing games, they put it in landscape mode and it looked just like the Galaxy Nexus does in landscape mode. It's the phone interface through and through.

I'd say the main reason they did this is, as others have pointed out, to show off the notification bar, but even more importantly, the biggest devices that this thing is competing against in the marketplace is the Kindle Fire and the Nook, both of which operate in portrait mode by default. Android's tablet interface is specifically designed for landscape and (as a Xoom owner I can attest to this first hand) doesn't offer a very good user experience in portrait mode.

I personally would have liked to see tablet mode, but given its competition, I think they made the right decision.
[Nexus 7 General] blackhand1001:
Its not the pure phone mode. Its like a hybrid which makes more sense on portrait 7 inch devices. The regular tablet mode is a little awkward on 7 inch portrait devices like the galaxy tab 2.
[Nexus 7 General] antiochasylum:
You people gripe to much.

Regardless of CPU, GPU, screen, tablet mode, phone mode blah blah. Its a 200$ Penta core tablet. That gets updates directly from google.

The updates from google are alone enough for me.
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
But where will you rest your hands? The bezel is kinda necessary or else you will accidentally touch the edge of the screen.
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
Really? Then Google's doing it wrong. Phone UI is one of the major reasons Gingerbread tablets sucked, and Tablet UI works regardless of screen orientation. IMHO, books would be better with tablet UI.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
It's pure phone mode, through and through.

This is interesting for a completely different reason too...if they are using phone mode on this Nexus 7, does this mean that it's not really a true successor to the Xoom? Sometime in the next year could we see a true Google Experience Device to supersede the Xoom that has a 10.1" screen and runs stock Android in the real landscape tablet mode? Inquiring minds want to know!
[Nexus 7 General] thronnos:
Haters gonna hate. I see nothing wrong with this UI. I even find it familiar and sexy. Stop crying like apple fanboys and just enjoy the thing. I mean Damn they ain't even shipped yet.

Shifted from Outer Space
[Nexus 7 General] ben83s:
I like to think that some code could work out the difference between hand and figure tips. I know some Asus laptops can work out the differences with there touch pads. :)
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
Wut. Do you realize how hard that will be to use? If you're using landscape (which you will be a lot), the two bars would be a pain to use.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
The only time you'll use it in landscape mode will be to watch movies. Have you ever held a 7" tablet? They fit very nicely in one hand in portrait mode.
[Nexus 7 General] aaronpoweruser:
if phone mode is such a huge issue and mind you it wont be google knows what its doing, the new launcher negates the need for a dedicated tablet mode by allowing a larger grid for the homescreen and supporting the tablet Ui of applications. You could force tablet ui with by simple lowering the dpi with a quick build prop edit and reboot, problem solved. keep in mind that 800p isnt that much more than 720p like the galaxy nexus, so using phone mode was a wise choise considering the pixels available
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Uh yeah I'm holding my 7 inch HTC flyer in landscape now. I don't use portrait unless I have to land that's usually because some lazy developer (Zynga anyone?) didn't make an app tablet optimized
[Nexus 7 General] Cares:
No complaints here. I am eager to get my hands on this.
[Nexus 7 General] CreepyDroid:
The big question is: will apps also be in phone mode ? (the YouTube application showed in the keynote was the phone version, wasn't it?
[Nexus 7 General] aaronpoweruser:
apps will be displayed in tablet mode, due to the screen resolution, the tablet identify s its self as XDPI (large)
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
^this. the tablet UI is the only reason that android tablets took off.

the UI on this deivce is no different from the original galaxy tab, the very first android tablet. there were many tablets up through gingerbread and they were a total failure. it wasn't till honeycomb that there was ANY reason to purchase an android tablet.

somthing in me is very fearful that they killed off the tablet UI, in favor of a "unified interface" across all devices. if they did this, well then, android tablets are doomed.

also, the combination of onscreen buttons and seperate status bar is just stupid... it takes up way too much screen real estate

-sent from THIS THING
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
Firing up the SDK emulator with Android 4.1, it looks like a hybrid mode specific to 7" tablets. Setting the emulator to a 10" tablet has the traditional UI. Despite having a phone status bar and navbar, the apps themselves are tablet apps with the exception of settings. I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
Thank you! a real answer!

my laptop is having issues so i can't exactly update the SDK right now. Could you share a screenshot of the 10" UI?

-sent from my Satellite
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
Sure. Give me a second, and I'll have some 10.1" screenshots as well as 7" comparison shots. Android SDK is kinda slow on linux.

Edit: 10.1" Jellybean at 160DPI - http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o48/jotokun/Jellybean101/
[Nexus 7 General] beanboy89:
Thanks for those screenshots. I'm currently downloading the 4.1 APIs just to give it a try; it's a slow process. It looks like the clock in the 10.1" tablet mode uses a condensed version of Roboto, much like 4.0 uses in phone mode, instead of the expanded version that 4.0 uses in tablet mode.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
So it looks like there's a 3rd UI mode...cool! I stand corrected.
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
Here are the same screenshots with the emulator set to 7". Sorry about the wait, the emulator kept starting up without both the status bar and navbar.

These are at the newly added DPI option of 213, which I'm assuming is for the Nexus 7 since it has a ppi of around 215. Going 240 just gave me a complete phone UI.

http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o48/jotokun/Jellybean7/
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
what is image 5 of 6 there? can't figure it out....

-sent from LE WORK BOX
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
Notification tray. I'll get another screenshot with a lighter background, might make it more visible.

Edit: Just added it. Notification on top of calender app.
[Nexus 7 General] smallba:
6 Looks to be the native landscape mode and 5 is the new drop down for the status bar, this hybrid style ui they have going on would look good on a phone
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
Keep in mind that the emulator is locked into whatever mode its started in. The phone version of the ICS launcher did the same thing in the emulator, but on actual phones it was portrait only.
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
ah, ok.

hm... i see how that would work. thanks!

i like that idea! this UI on a bigger phone (say the GS3) via a rom? not bad. tho i'm not sure how the lower nav bar would work....

-sent from LE WORK BOX
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
If the phone has physical buttons, the navbar wouldn't be present. Just like on ICS phones.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah it might not be so bad if the apps are running in tablet mode. Here's a question, is there a way to hide the bars when gaming? Nothing more frustrating than playing a game and bumping a virtual button and ending up on your home screen
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
true, but you know the first phone to have this hack will be the gnex, which has onscreen keys =P

not built into the OS (as of ICS) but you can using root apps like GMD gesture control ;)

-sent from LE WORK BOX
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
I just had an idea: Google should make a feature to toggle between the two tablet modes! Then the people will get a say in it; the people who like the 7" hybrid mode will get to keep it, while the regular tablet mode users will love the tablet too! :D
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
I'd imagine that only the notification bar would disappear. If the navbar goes away, how will you get anywhere? :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] Phazor:
This is definitely a new tablet mode, Dianne Hackborne confirmed it at the Fireside Android Chat at Google I/O earlier today.

Personally I think this is a welcome addition. 7" tablets don't quite do so well with the older tablet style.
[Nexus 7 General] cmstlist:
Interesting about the 213 ppi thing. I have a Springboard/MediaPad with the exact same size and resolution, but I find a lot of apps are confused by that density and revert to a phone UI or a small corner of the screen. But in "high resolution mode" (where it sets the DPI to 160, essentially lying that it's a 9.3" tablet of the same resolution), apps either go into tablet mode or trigger the zoom/stretch option feature.
[Nexus 7 General] Brigaid:
I assume that Google is hoping consumers focus on using the big widgets to cover their Nexus 7 homescreens. It'll look closer to a Kindle Fire competitor if it were clothed in Play Store widgets.
[Nexus 7 General] cmstlist:
You know what would be a great addition to that big spacious bottom bar? A button to pop down the notification tray, so you don't have to reach up.

C'mon, devs, how about it. :-)
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah I was thinking that too. See I don't read books so I keep my tab in landscape 98% of the time and even then I need a reader to explain.to.me why the new hybrid ui is necessary
[Nexus 7 General] Einride:
Having both the soft key bar and the notification bar in portrait mode makes sense, but having both bars in landscape is just silly IMO.

Not only do you "lose" out on twice the amount of pixels where there's already few enough as it is (with the display being widescreen), but judging from the screenshots a few pages back from the SDK there should be plenty of space to go with tablet layout when in landscape mode. I.e. the soft keys put on the far left of the bar and the notifications etc on the right.

Edit:

This is what I mean: http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/...&current=2012-06-27-152234_1282x827_scrot.png

You're basically getting two black bars taking up precious pixels for no good reason when they could've been combined into one bar at the bottom, as on larger tablets.

Hopefully CM9, AOKP or similar will give us options for these things.
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
I wish that Google would give an option to toggle between the two bar modes.
[Nexus 7 General] Smurphjw:
I feel like they could have gone a few steps further on the hybrid UI. There's no reason for a dock bar on a tablet you can already fit plenty of apps on the screen. And the smaller app drawer button in the top corner is all you need. Portrait or landscape. And a pull down notification bar is why android on tablets sucked before HC

Sent from behind you.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
I really feel like it wasn't broke so there was no reason fix it. I really don't get why Google hasn't mentioned the change yet.
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
^this. i really don't understand the pulldown notification bar on a tablet. at all. it was an improvement to ditch it

if i got a tablet with the hybrid UI, i'd be ROMing this to have the 10" UI. i understand the appeal for a more optimized UI, but i think this is a step in the wrong direction

i can't explain the dockbar on a tablet. i've seen a lot of people here put it on their tablets, even 10.1" tabs, but IMHO, a dock has limited functionality even on a phone. the more you scale up the less useful it is.

i LIKED the honeycomb+ app icon position. i'd like to see it more, perhaps brought to the phone interface?

(if i'm rambling or making incoherent words that's because i got 3 hours of sleep last night)

-Sent from my Satellite
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
I'm starting to think that Google just has no clue on how to make a decent tablet UI. This is very disheartening for me because I have been waiting to pull the trigger on an Android tablet specifically because I have hated the UIs on all of them. IMO, the ICS one was best, and if there was a way to hide the status/nav bar during games it would have been perfect. Having this hybrid phone/tablet junk on the Nexus 7 is a major step backwards. Like others have said, it's like a gingerbread tablet all over again. It's a 7 inch screen, having a bar at the top and bottom, especially in landscape mode, is a complete waste of screen real estate. I can't believe Google thinks this is a good idea. I wish they would just go back to having capacitive/hardware navigation keys again because I seriously HATE the onscreen ones. Worst decision ever on Google part.
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
But then how would you close the app or go back? :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] Smurphjw:
The transformer prime has the option to lock the nav bar. The bar is still there, tap it and it brings a small slide to unlock option. No more accidentally quitting games or opening the multitasking.

Sent from behind you.
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
Cool.
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
That's why they need to bring back hardware keys. For devices without hardware keys maybe a swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring the nav bar up.
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
there are plenty of root apps that let you do this on 3.X and 4.0. ;) i;m sure they'll be coming to 4.1 as well.

-Sent from my Satellite
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
That's all I needed to hear :D
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Really it's a simple solution. When running in full screen tap the lock button once to bring up the navigation bar, twice to turn off the screen.
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
Perfect. Now get cracking on making that mod! :D
[Nexus 7 General] Epic_VS:
For everyone complaining about the split notification bar, it is only(presumably) there for 7" tablets and below. For 10" tablets, they will use the standard unified notification bar.

[YOUTUBE]UGJbPPjANKA[/YOUTUBE]

see 18:06
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
I'm on my flyer with a unified bar now and honestly it looks great so why change it at all? This isn't necessarily a deal breaker but imo its not as good looking. The honeycomb UI gives you this appearance as if your using a linux desktop. No dock, one bar on the bottom, subtle search bar and app buttons on the edges just look good imo. And its all there for a reason, so you can reach everything with your thumbs. I guess for me I'm just puzzled as to why Google felt change was necessary. They really kind of just showed of the tablet and never really said why or even acknowledged a more phone looking UI
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
Yeah but considering we are all talking about the Nexus 7 here... I think most of us could care less how it is handled on a 10".
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Even weirder with that video was they just straight said the 10 inch will use the standard action bar and changed the subject. Why won't Google tell us why they changed it? There was a reason for the tablet UI to begin with surely google had some reason as to why this supposedly works better for 7 inch models
[Nexus 7 General] Tone_Capone:
I'm fairly sure they wont get rid of the tablet UI. Think how much business Samsung and Asus would lose if they decided to change something as drastic as the UI.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Imo I think it'll be better than most of us think. One of the worst things about gingerbread was having full screen phone versions of google apps like YouTube, gmail, voice, maps, etc. This may look phone like but your getting your tablet optimized apps. And from the videos I've seen stuff still pops up like a tablet, ie the notification drawer overlaps your screen, doesn't cover it. I think after a week you'd probably not care anymore and would be used to it. I just want to know myself for curiosity reasons why google felt their honeycomb based tablet UI just didn't work on a 7 inch tab
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
But it's actually pretty important, because once we get the tablets we will be able to mod it to use that 10.1" UI. :D
[Nexus 7 General] nerfman100:
One problem with hardware keys is that manufacturers tend to order them however the hell they feel like it. The navbar makes it less confusing and more user-friendly. :)
[Nexus 7 General] pttymcgee:
Thank you! Someone finally feeling the same as I do. It's $200!
[Nexus 7 General] _MetalHead_:
Yes, this I agree with. I am not concerned at all because I know with all the devs that wil be working on it I will be able to set it up exactly how I want it.

Meh, all Android devices up to this point have had similar hard buttons (with the exception of those that don't have any). It hasn't caused any problems thus far.
[Nexus 7 General] mtmerrick:
My personal favorite method for accomplishing this is GMD gesture control. it does wonders to a rooted android tab ;)

-Sent from my Iconia
[Nexus 7 General] sulfobus:
An alternative solution would be NOT to rotate the nav bar, but instead keep it to the right when in landscape mode and just rotate the icons. There are games that sort of do this (s.a. Machinarium), but it should be built in as an option.

Very annoying that Google still didn't figure this one out, and in fact making it even more wasteful with the Nexus 7 in landscape mode (what is that, maybe 20% wasted screen area!!). There's been a long-standing issue (see code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15408 and code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18922) but Google ignores it. Gesture control works well on my Transformer Prime, but more ways to control/modify the status bar is needed.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
You don't have to worry about landscape mode on the homescreen because jelly bean doesn't support it. Wtf, yeah screw jelly bean
[Nexus 7 General] Smurphjw:
Where did you hear that?

Sent from behind you.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
From googling it. All the reviews mentioned it and found another Xda thread discussing it. What the hell is the logic in this move? I was warming up to the new ui till I found this out! Guess all 7 inch tablets will be glorified ereaders from now on. Thank god for third party launchers!
[Nexus 7 General] SoonerLater:
< 5" = Phone

5" to 8" = Phonlet or Tabone

> 8" = Tablet

I say that a Phonlet needs a hybrid interface that's part phone-ish and part tablet-ish, but more importantly, give the user the option go with whatever he wants.
[Nexus 7 General] Shade21:
the launcher doesnt support landscape mode... (my galaxy nexus doesnt either) doesnt mean the apps that run in tablet mode dont support it. also, there are plenty of much better launchers than stock (nova supports JB atm and im sure apex will soon)

Remember guys.. the launcher is in phone mode apps are in tablet mode.
[Nexus 7 General] thebobp:
The launcher itself is just an app. So, once custom launchers start coming out, I don't see this being a very big deal.

(Unless they did something stupid, like disable rotation for all launchers. In which case, would need a custom ROM because that's bloody stupid.)
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Can someone please give me a logical explanation of why the honeycomb ui apparently just doesn't work for 7 inch tablets and why wanting to rotate the tablet in landscape is just a bad idea too? Overall the ui is the biggest disappointment of the nexus tab and what's worse is going to spread like cancer to every other android tablet once jelly bean becomes the new standard
[Nexus 7 General] Jotokun:
I cant answer your question on rotation, but if you've ever used a HC/ICS 7" tablet in portrait its kinda obvious why they did... the combobar just gets way too cramped. You wouldnt be able to see your notifications.
[Nexus 7 General] k.janku1:
So, recently I tried tablet mode on JB on my phone and it still looked like phone ui. Just different screen resolution