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[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
No, on a hard drive (or solid state drives or even SD/memory cards), what you buy is what you get. However, due to formatting, space reserved for backup/spare sectors, and what is considered a "gigabyte" to manufacturers vs consumers (1000 mb vs 1024 mb) you often end up with around 95% (probably off on that percentage) of the stated capacity. With RAM this is not the case, as that type of memory doesn't need formatting as its holding raw data with the computer making up its structure. And manufacturers of RAM are in agreement with consumers as to what a gig is.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
This is the difference between a gigabyte and a gibibyte. Hard drives are usually advertised in gigabytes (literally 1 billion bytes), while most OSes use gibibytes (2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes), since they do everything in "base 2", or binary. So an advertised 10GB hard drive has 10 billion bytes. Once you format the drive, the OS reports size in gibibytes, so you end up with:

10,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = ~9.31GiB

That's also why if you look on most hard drive packages, it says "formatted size may be different than advertised size" or something similar.

Just a random fact of the day. Feel free to ignore it. :p

On topic: I don't believe the giga/gibi (or in the case of phone RAM, mega/mebi) is the issue. 512MB converted to mebibytes is roughly 488MiB. I believe the Charge is a 512MB device with some of that memory reserved for OS/system-only purposes. I could be wrong on that, however, so if anyone could clarify that'd be great.

Edit: Could have sworn I read through all of the replies before replying myself. I guess I didn't because multiple people beat me on both points by a day. Sorry about that duplicate info.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Cilraaz, let's just say you compiled both answers into a single post...
[Verizon Droid Charge] dbaps:
The number one lesson I learned from buying this phone

Check the amount of run time memory before you buy a phone, especially if you have two companies like Verizon and Samsung loading bloatware. You were forced to root the phone and rid yourself of the bloatware, or not buy apps. I totally agree with the OP. He is 100% correct about the run time memory.

So I restored back to factory to get ready for another root. After the required Verizon and Samsung updates, hitting the clear memory button, I'm using 268MB of 373MB. Now I know the OS can swap, (because we love paging), but it really is ridiculous. I can't wait until March. Good luck everyone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] salilsurendran:
I couldn't understand what you are saying here. From what I understand you are saying that is that when you rooted your phone you had 512MB of memory but after you installed Verizon and Samsung updates it started saying you had 373MB. So is it that Samsung and Verizon updates are taking away about 147 MB of memory? What is going to happen in March?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
No. Hardware wise the Charge has a total of 512 mb of RAM. The GPU and other hardware have to take from that pool, and the end result is that the Android OS has 373 MB of RAM to use. Verizon and Samsung bloatware and updates have no control over the hardware aspect, but the bloatware DOES utilize some ram while the phone is running (but does not take from that pool). March is probably when his upgrade is.
[Verizon Droid Charge] texbuck:
What rom are you using? My son went swimming with his fascinate and I'm in the process of reviving my dc. I have compiled a few odds and ends and am mostly concerned about speed as well.

texbuck
[Verizon Droid Charge] salilsurendran:
I am using Eclipse 1.4 with PBJ.
[Verizon Droid Charge] salilsurendran:
Ok so I can clearly see that my phone is becoming slow again. Not sure as to what it is related to. Though one thing that surprises me is that I overclocked the CPU to 1.2 GHz and set the governor as 'conservative' and sometimes even ' smartassv2' but it changes to 'ondemand' even though I never changed it to that value. Why is this happening?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Kernel? OC app?
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Plugging the phone into a pc does that for some reason.

Sent from my handheld computer using electromagnetic radiation.
[Verizon Droid Charge] salilsurendran:
I have to agree that even though my phone was initially fast it slowed down considerably after some time. Frustrated I then backuped my phone using Titanium backup and installed Tweaked 2.2 Rom + PBJ. But this time I did the conversion to EXT4 and the phone has become super snappy and the fastest I have ever seen. However, I am not rejoicing right now because I have only installed some very necessary apps like navigation, yelp etc. Don't know if the phone will be come slow after I install more apps. On Seepu I can see for the first time my used memory is green and this probably is a major reason why the phone has speeded up. Another factor is the EXT4 conversion.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
Infinity was known for slowing down over a short period of time. Tweaked 2.2 is quite a bit better. But running a Droid Charge for several days without rebooting it once in a while will cause it to slow down too. Just reboot when it starts slowing down. It should help.
[Verizon Droid Charge] salilsurendran:
Before I add any more apps I want to save this state of the phone so that I can go back to this if the performance degrades. What do I have to do for this? I used Titanium backup but I see that it saves app data and you have to install each individual app. What I want is to make one click and restore my phone back to the state it previously was. Should I do a nandroid backup
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
backing up the apps is really not necessary as you can always re-download them from the market again. I simply do a backup of system data. after installed tweaked 3.0, my apps updated (downloaded) automatically - have not seen that since installing the Humble ROM.

you can do a nandroid backup, but I have heard of folks having issues if they are on RFS.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] john.2011:
I got my $10 prepaid Google wallet for free. Has any one know how to use it? Does it require WiFi connection?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroKhar:
Yes, you need and Internet Connection and NFC enabled on your Nexus 7 and just tap and pay with your Tablet!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
You actually don't need an internet connection.

To the OP. There should be a white bar on the bottom of the app that leads to a tutorial.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansskittles:
After setting up google wallet, enabling nfc and being connected to wifi, and fallowing the tut included. I scan my nexus 7 and nothing happens...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
Although it used to run, after updating, I get the message, "wallet is not supported on your device or on your carrier".

I am rooted but I wouldn't think that should matter.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmerbb:
From the Google Wallet FAQ:

So maybe it really is because you are rooted...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
Maybe. But the same exact thing is happening on my HTC EVO LTE. It's rooted also, but Wallet ran on it before this update. First it didn't work. Then they updated it and it did work. Then they updated it and it didn't. Then it did. Now it doesn't again.

You know what keeps working? My actual plastic credit cards!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland Deschain:
I just bought dinner at Jack in the Box literally four minutes ago using Google Wallet with my rooted Nexus 7. It had the unsupported device warning, but it didn't matter; it still worked.

Sent from Gilead using my Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] my_username:
Can anybody tell me some of the major companies who now have the ability to take payments from Google Wallet?

I saw a couple of posts where people they said they used Google Wallet at places like McDonalds and Jack n the Box, which made me admittedly chuckle a bit, as I pictured somebody rolling up to the drive-thru window and handing the cashier their tablet. Obviously they paid inside, but what are some other major places that support it? It's almost 3am and I want to drive to a 24/7 Walmart and brandish my Nexus 7 at the cashier when they give me the total and NFC their ass.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AZImmortal:
http://www.google.com/wallet/where-it-works.html
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland Deschain:
I don't know about your area, but the Jack in the Boxes in my area (Kirkland, WA) all have PayPass terminals hanging on the outside, no drive-thru person has to get their hands on my tablet. :)

Sent from Gilead using my Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hieutrungdtvt:
I love this issuse. However, it's risky
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buff McBigstuff:
Search for MasterCard Pay pass Locator in the store. That will sow you the places near you that accept Google wallet.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland Deschain:
To clarify for the OP, you need an internet connection to select your card in Wallet, but as long as you have already selected one, it will work without as connection; you just can't change cards, for instance, without an internet connection.

Sent from Gilead using my Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drewski_1:
good to know. was wondering about that vs. the notification & email saying my Google Wallet was set up and good to go.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland Deschain:
One thing I just found out that I'm disappointed over in regards to Jack in the Box, is that the Kirkland, WA (Totem Lake) location's PayPass terminal doesn't have the chip turned on in the drive-thru, only the ones inside are on. I ate there last night, but when getting lunch today via the drive-thru, it doesn't work. The guy in the window also said the Redmond, WA location's drive-thru PayPass terminal isn't turned on, either. Let's all email Jack in the Box to get them fixed/turned on! :)

https://www.jackinthebox.com/corpor..._address=12409+Ne+116th+St+Kirkland,+WA+98034

Straight link to submit feedback for that location, in case anybody wants to help me out... ;)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlanza1054:
Hi all,

Since Google has made the big announce in the past few days, about now supporting all credit cards, I decided to activate it.

But never realized that if you have a rooted device it won't let you use it to protect you.

I get that.

But is there a workaround for this?

Thanks

Rob
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C0dy:
You can still use Wallet, the app will just say Unsupported Device because you're rooted. I use Wallet all the time on my rooted Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
No, at least not for everybody.

I have both my Nexus 7 and HTC EVO LTE rooted, and when I attempt to run Wallet, I get a message "Sorry, wallet isn't yet available on your device or in your country".

Before this update, wallet ran on both devices. I never got the chance to actually use it, but the app ran. Now it won't even open.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krelvinaz:
I've used it twice and I am rooted without any issues.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansan382:
so hold up, you can really use it to pay for things without actually having an internet connection? how is that possible? How does it communicate with google servers to check your balance on the card against the balance of your purchase? whats stopping me from using more than is on my prepaid card if it has no data connection

unless.. the only thing that communicates with the outside world and server is the paypass/google wallet terminal that you tap. guess thats what it keeping track of it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlanza1054:
It won't let me select a credit card. I think if you had it setup before you rooted and added all your credit cards it may then continue to work.

But I went to set it up today and did manage to activate it, but then it complained when I got to the part where you select your credit card.

And the version I have which came with the Nexus 7, is not allowing me to pick any card, just the two it offered originally. So I went to upgrade the app and Google Play Store is not longer making it available for download because it knows I am rooted.

I even tried to use VooDoo to do a temp unroot and that doesn't work, so they afre looking at a variety of stuff to know you are rooted.

I don't care too much about Wallet, but would have liked to try it out.

Rob

Siuent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krelvinaz:
No, works fine with root, it doesn't care. All it does is tell you you are using an unsupported device because it is rooted, Period!

If you are having a problem adding a card, try...

o Launch Google Wallet Hit menu button> Settings> Reset Google Wallet

o Goto applications, Find Google Wallet, and Force it to close

o Now on the same screen, Clear Cache and Data for Google Wallet.

Now exit and try again. If you haven't gotten the newest update that came out the other day, you won't be able to add other cards, just activate a Citi Card if you have one and the Google Card.

---------- Post added at 06:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:51 PM ----------

The Google wallet basically when used via NFC is like handing them your credit card. The wallet has the credit card info encoded into and when you pay, and use the NFC terminal, you are simply passing the credit card info to the terminal.

The balance is still dealt with by the terminal the same way as it does with any credit card.

The advantage is that you don't have to carry around a bunch of credit cards, just your NFC device once you have provided the card info to it. New newest version allows you to add other cards now.

To get the balance of the Google card, you have to have an Internet connection to see it on your device, but when using it via the NFC, the terminal makes that check just like any other credit card or debit card purchase.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krelvinaz:
I didn't touch the wallet until I had already rooted...

If you can't get the update, go to the Web Google Play site and tell it to install onto your device. that is how I did it, there is another thread on this already.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frigidazzi:
The Jack in the box's in Salem Oregon are like that too. The ones in drive thru's aren't working. I bet it's like that everywhere.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dansan382:
yea after i posted that i took a quick second and realized how it actually works. we're all so use to needed an internet connection to process things but i completely forgot about the terminal itself.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroKhar:
If you want to install Google Wallet on your Nexus 7, or any other NFC device, check out my guide here! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1810282
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojo4747:
Flash modacos ROM and for some reason it doesn't know your rooted
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Improbulus:
Has the security issue with Google Wallet on rooted devices (see eg this link and I think the original research) been fixed by Google yet, does anyone know? I couldn't find anything on it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland Deschain:
You need to update the app. Assuming you're in the United States, that is. There are threads around here on it, just do a search for threat titles with the word "wallet" in them. I had to use the Play store to send the update to my Nexus 7, since for some reason, it wasn't showing in the Play store at all on the device itself.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Questions

So in the app I see the $10 google debit card. I do not see it at wallet.google.com. Is that normal? Is there no way I can use that card at an etailer?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
I installed the latest update. I am in the US.

It still won't open. I continue to get a message saying Wallet isn't available on my device or in my country.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiewee3:
I just tried to pay with my nexus 7 without WiFi and it didn't work. I had the $10 credit selcted. Anyone know why it didn't work?

Edit: never mind, I found the problem was that my balance was too low. Gas stations try to pre authorize larger transactions, but when there's only $10 you can't use it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsrrr:
So how do you pay with their nexus/google wallet? Do you just hold it up to the NFC reader by the cashier and unlock your tablet or does the app need to be open/running?

If it is the latter, the app gets stuck during initialization (because it's not connected to wifi?).

I just tried at CVS and could not get it to work.

EDIT// Nevermind, I think it was not working because my battery was too low. Will try again another time.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uh60m Pilot:
Still can't get mine to update. I added a non citi card using my computer but it will not let me see it in the Nexus.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drewski_1:
have you done any Build Prop mods that might be preventing you from getting the update?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eris1981:
I paid at the local hardware and it worked without wifi. I woke the tablet, and held it to the reader, then had to enter my pin and the transaction went through.

I tried it at Staples an hour before that and it did not work. I think a lot of these companies have the NFC turned off on their kiosks.

I didn't see the debit card on mine... I need to go look.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Groid:
I bought lunch at McDonalds yesterday to spend some of the credit. It was my first try using NFC. I opened Wallet and entered my pin, and left the screen on as I ordered. I was not connected to McD's wifi. She gave me the total and I touched the top of my N7 (actually touched the back of the leather case at the top) to the reader. It went 'bing' and a receipt spit out that she handed me, saying, "that's pretty cool, first time I've seen anyone do that."

What I gather from this is that if you enter your pin and have the Google Paypass card selected, you just touch the N7 (even in a case) to the reader and it works. No wifi or data connection required. My balance didn't update until later when I was back home on wifi, but that doesn't matter since you have to have a credit/debit card backing up the transaction.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ayaad:
How to put a video as a boot animation with audio???how???

Help???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] strumcat:
I don't think there's any way to do boot audio on the gnex. I've heard that it can be done if you're using certain ROMs. On most phones, you make an MP3 or whatever, give it a specified name and put it in a specified place. As far as I know, the stock ROMs don't support boot sound.

galaxy nexus (gsm) / cm9 / trinity @ 1.4GHz
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] BaronInkjet:
I have hundreds of old pdf books that are formatted as 8-1/2 x 11... so they look like crap on Nexus 7 with any of the readers I have tried. What I would like to find is a reader app that will convert -- on the fly -- the files to a format easily read on N7. Any ideas?

I know I can use Calibre, etc. to convert the files before transferring them, but this is a royal pain in the rear. My files came from multiple sources so there is no consistency in data field info, etc. I would spend days converting them.

So the ideal world would be a Nexus 7 app that would take the existing format and display it in a more readable form.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks,

BIJ
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] newbie1908:
iam using QuickOffice, complete office aap. word, excel, powerpoint, pdf
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] boisy:
try ezPDF Reader.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] lin013190:
+1
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] BaronInkjet:
Thanks, guys! I bought the $2.99 version and it does what I need and more.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] BaronInkjet:
Do you ezPDF users know how to change the font size in text reflow mode? It says it can be done, but I can't figure out how. :confused:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jaywhojaycee:
Ezpdf is the best well to me it is
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bile:
I really like Repligo.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] volwrath:
Mantano is a kluge but it allows you to crop the margins which I dont think repligo and or ezpdf can do, and can definitely change text size on reflow as well
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] popsnorkle:
In ezPDF I just do a tap with 3 fingers and it fits the text to the edge of the screen, getting rid of the margins. It can do that with columns too.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tony1208:
Just got it
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] volwrath:
Hmm I have ezpdf. How do you set that up?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] maddog975:
Try mantano it's the best reader i have tried.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Nexus Avro:
Have you tried FB reader?

I personally just use calibre portable, batch convert everything into epub and walk away for a while. Then do a windows search for *.epub and dump them all in an 'ebooks' folder. Bam.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] RawrDuy:
I'm having some problems with opening textbooks with ezPDF and Adobe. Are there any other apps that handle large pdf documents (~1000 pages) better?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] popsnorkle:
Weirdly,the method I used most I couldn't get to work when I was checking things before replying. When in pdf display, tapping with 3 fingers would expand the text and get rid of the margins on my nook color (CM7) but now on the n7 its switching to text reflow when I do a 3 finger tap. Another way is to tap the middle of the page to get the bars on the top and bottom, tap the 3 horizontal dots on the bottom right bar to get the menu and choose "Fitting to Text Column". This also locks the scrolling. Or you can zoom to the size you want and use the menu to lock horizontal scrolling.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] popsnorkle:
I found a manual for ezPDFat:

https://www.google.com/url?url=http...manual&usg=AFQjCNExz7WM3UoPlQX44LP1AOAOc5fHaQ

This is the first time I've seen one.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] transportguy:
+1 for ezpdf. it even reads text back to you
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thebobp:
Tap with three fingers switches to text reflow mode on my ezpdf, which is not the same thing as cropping margins. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?

The "fitting to text column" thing is actually kind of annoying to me, because I can't just scroll down after doing so (it actually locks me in a particular page unless I manually go to the next column, which is also annoyingly highlighted). If there's a better way to use it, I'm all ears.

ebookdroid is the only other app I've tried that that gets the correct margins. It also reads djvu. (Disadvantage: the official version doesn't have search; you have to download a beta version from their dev site.) The mantano margin fit was terrible, at least for my documents.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] egomezmorales:
Adobe reader is quite good also
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] deaffob:
I constantly use both repligo and ezpdf for large PDF files, textbooks and magazines that are at least 100mbs. From my experience, ezPDF can't handle large PDF as well as repligo.

Both can do the reflow text and our can change the font size by two finger pinching.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] deaffob:
Try just simple double tapping on the text in either reader but the file has to have readable texts for the reader to zoom in correctly.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thebobp:
Double-tapping in ezpdf sends it to column fit mode, which while decent still doesn't let me scroll down. In mantano it seems to zoom randomly. ebookdroid still seems to offer the best option for permanent margin-cropping.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
http://deals.woot.com/

8gb Samsung class 6 micro sd card. $1.99+free shipping. good deal for anyone who wants a cheap micro sd.
[HTC Rezound] AshtonTS:
deal = over :(
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Dam :/ was pretty good too
[HTC Rezound] AshtonTS:
I know I was about to be all over it
[HTC Rezound] wlmeng11:
Who wants 8GB anyway.

Even the stock Rezound card is 16, although it's a slow class 4.

Although $2 IS a deal.