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[Nexus 7 Accessories] slack04:
Maybe, but you just killed your battery using this, so the advantage of adding storage (presumably for more media) is denied by the disadvantage of battery life. Seriously, if you really need more local storage, buy another tablet.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
Streaming video does not play nicely with Google Drive. I have a 80GB drive for $20 a year (leftover from docs). It's a no-go for video. I also have 60GB of Dropbox storage. Dropbox streams, but you cannot adjust the aspect ratio. It letterboxes my letterbox movies and makes them 1/2 the screen. A no go for video.

Not even an issue. Batteries die. That's what they do. My N7 came with a charger. Problem solved.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
In all fairness (because it WILL be brought up), the user interface on the GoFlex SUCKS. Evidently there is a whole other software you can upload to it from www.hackseagatesatellite.com, but after you figure out the mess of the factory software, it's actually quite simple to use.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
Here is the main screen interface

And here is the menu from the Video tab

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Accessories] simplyphp:
To be brief, this might work for you if you don't travel and you don't mind disconnecting from your wireless internet / connecting into this device, but I imagine it's not practical for the majority of us.

Mobility. Convenience. Simplicity. Accessibility.

Those words represent what I expect from a storage solution - Google Drive, Cubby, Skydrive, Dropbox, etc. Nothing to lug around, nothing to bring power cords for, nothing to connect into/disconnect from (practicality says wifi switching would be an annoyance). It's there when you want it, nothing for you to maintain. Nothing to die and you lose all your stuff, nothing to buy and need a warranty for. As simple as an app to open up your storage. Accessible from anywhere that has an internet connection. If you leave that 500GB drive at home, you left all your stuff at home as well.

I've got 25GB with Google Drive, 25GB with SkyDrive, 10GB with Cubby, and 3.75GB with Dropbox. That's almost 65GB of cloud storage - I don't use anywhere NEAR that. Not to mention Google Music stores all my songs (up to 20,000 songs free!) so I don't include my huge collection. 65GB is more than enough, if you want to stream a movie just do it from your computer to your tablet at home. If you want to bring a bunch of movies "with you" on vacation, either copy them to your tablet or throw them up in the cloud. Voila. There's no need to have your whole collection of movies in the cloud, unless you've got a fairly small collection. Additionally, as someone else pointed out, Google Drive offers 100GB for $4.99/mo.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Thador:
Say you go camping in the woods for a week and there's no WiFi, no cloud around to hear you scream? No access to the cloud in that situation May be plausible for the wi drive.....hopefully there's a power source
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Shano56:
sadly this wouldn't help with storing apps and nandroid backups. I can only hold a couple HD games and nandroids before filling up 8gbs :( really wish i had the 16gb version!
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
It has a power source where you can leave it plugged in if you want. It even comes with an auto adapter to plug into your accessory outlet in your car (cigarette lighter plug). It has a rechargeable battery which seems to last around 6 hours on constant streaming. And that's exactly why I bought it was to take in the RV on the weekends for a rainy day, and to take on road trips. It's not like it's my ONLY storage, as I have over 150GB of cloud storage that it's all backed up on. I use cloud storage for files other than media, although I use Google Music, if you're in an area without 3G or better, (and many of us are quite often still) then you're screwed with the cloud. I love the cloud, but it's not ready for mainstream just yet. This device fills that void, and it does it better than anything else I have found. I bought a 64GB microSD card and micro usb cable, rooted my N7, and could only get a few movies on it. That simply didn't satisfy what I was looking for. Sure this device is not for everyone, but for those of us who want to use the N7 as a mini-movie theater, you won't find many things better.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] simplyphp:
If I'm going camping for a week I'm definitely NOT bringing a tablet with me. Camping is about connecting with the outdoors and enjoying life, not being pampered by electronics. Anyway, assuming its not me who is going camping for a week, they'd likely have known they're going camping and they should've loaded stuff onto their nexus before they left. :angel: Also, as you pointed out no power = no charging anything. Tablet will die, your phone will die, storage drives will die.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
I don't camp like a caveman.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Semantics:
Then what you do isn't called camping. If you have showers, and sleep in anything other than a tent, you really aren't camping. Its like saying I'm going on Safari in Africa, and staying in a 900 dollar per night room, and having 5 star Chefs cook your meals under big canopies.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
And what's wrong with that? I was a Boy Scout when I was a kid. I slept in a tent many a night without a Seagate GoFlex. I was a poor college kid who ate ramen noodles 3 times a day, and didn't have a Seagate GoFlex. I struggled early in my adult life providing for my wife and children, and I work very hard to achieve where I am at today, and needed something like the Seagate GoFlex. Why can't I enjoy the spoils of life and be happy with my Seagate GoFlex? Anyway, my broken back doesn't like sleeping on the hard ground anymore, and I don't like to stink, and having my own private crapper sure beats the less-than-sanitary public restrooms.

But hey, this thread isn't about me. It's about my Seagate GoFlex.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Thador:
My camping analogy turned this into a camping thread. My point is if your camping and have no wireless signal 3g or otherwise the cloud is useless.....at that point the drive would be great to have on hand.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] slack04:
Yep, except that brings up my point: If you're using up your battery connecting to the wi-drive, you're going to need to tether it to... something. Hence, you have extra storage, but you just used up the battery to use the storage, and you're going to run out of batteries before you run out of media. It's a catch-22. (BTW- rip your videos at a lower bitrate and this whole conversation would be pointless anyways. Really; it's a 7" screen with a tiny speaker. It won't make that much difference...).

But there is a solution: USB Host dongle + flash drive. Delete stuff on the tablet, transfer your media, detatch. No battery hit, far cheaper (and modular), and no tethering.

Also, camping is camping. I once stayed with people in New York who told me we were going camping. We drove through the woods to their massive 8-room "cabin." Not rustic, but they called it "camping" and to them it was really "getting back to nature." Meh, obviously it's not the same thing for people from the West, but it's just semantics at this point.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] tandeh:
It work great with xbmc, and the official satellite software (market)
[Nexus 7 Accessories] corvato:
they seem like nice hardware, but the overall review is the apps kinda suck. and most people likely won't need 500gb to carry around.

the Kingston wi-drives supposedly have MUCH better apps and reliabiltiy, also much smaller, but not even close to as much space (16-64gb)
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
I considered the Kingston WiDrive, but it would have been no different the OTG with 64GB microSD, except that it can share files. It was only like $20 or so cheaper too. The apps are not as bad as everyone makes them sound. I use the drive to stream video and music, and I can do that effortlessly. I guess YMMV depending how you intend to use the device. With 500GB, I can rip nearly ALL of my movies to the HDD, which was the deal maker for me. This is more for my kids, than for adult use and file storage. It works great as a mobile media server.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
Yes, I have been able to use Drive that way, but if you are less than 3G you're screwed. It was my goal to eliminate the Internet connection altogether.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III running Android 10.1 Alaska King Crab
[Nexus 7 Accessories] lanwarrior:
A couple of quick question:

1). Can you access the drive via AFP/SMB? That is, using File Manager app (available in Google Play), you "map" the network drive so you have access through the drive directly WITHOUT the Satellite app. The benefit of this:

- Drag and drop multiple files

- Stream ANY video files supported by the MX Player or VLC

2). There's discussion about Seagate pushing a new firmware to allow BOTH network access to the Internet AND the drive. Did you try this?

The solution I have now is to use the StickMoutn app, a USB OTG Cable and a 64GB USB drive. The USB drive have movies, videos, etc. It's not the same as having a 64GB drive, but it's can do the above and less expensive. I don't mind paying for the Satellite if the above two things are doable.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
I have a Macbook Pro and I plug the drive in and it shows up just like an external drive. I then open up a file manager (or Drive) and drag the files right to the HDD. Then when you disconnect the drive from the Mac it automatically goes back to wireless mode, and populates the files on the Apps appropriately. It is effortless.

And yes, you can connect to Wifi while connected to it. I have only tried it once, and it worked, but I didn't necessarily put it through any grueling internet session. Take that FWIW.

I have not found any negatives to it, other than the Seagate software is clunkier than we nerds usually prefer. But it is totally usable.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] lanwarrior:
I meant via Android File Manager, not Mac or PC.

Example:

1). Connect to Satellite from N7 via WiFi

2). While connected, open Android File Manager app

3). Connect via "Network"
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
I was not able to make that work, so I would say no.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] DeadLeftovers:
I also got 50GB free with my HTC Sensation months ago but is it free 50GB for life?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] kpjimmy:
I thought it was an annual thing. I could be wrong.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] proud_whovian:
I'm deciding between something like this or a usb OTG.

How is streaming video from this to the nexus 7 or ur phone if you've tried it? ( as in is it smooth, does it jutter etc).

Can I move files back and forth from the drive and the device?

Is there more of a battery drain watching video streaming from the drive than watching from a USB OTG?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] beestee:
That is a cool idea and it got me searching, and I found this:

http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Gauntlet-Hard-drive-Enclosure-PCGTW25S/dp/B008KW61XK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343944905&sr=8-1&keywords=patriot+gauntlet+node

Wonder if it would get any better battery life with an ssd?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] grizzly660fan:
Just a FYI to others out there, I have one of these Seagate Goflex wifi drives (use it on ipad and iphone also) and it works GREAT with my N7.

---------- Post added at 04:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:08 PM ----------

Your cloud model is great if you live in a population dense area with strong cellular service, but many of us don't have that luxury and I travel all the time out of cell range via car/truck/plane and having this drive with a lot of media on it fits my needs. I do use cloud services/storage also, but for me on the go, this hard drive serves a very good purpose.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
I certainly dont call living in a population-dense area a luxury. More of a major bummer. :cool:

Sent from my Galaxy SIII
[Nexus 7 Accessories] tandeh:
You can use the android app to use a wifi pass through, and the latest fw increases battery life and allows more than 3 concurrent users
[Nexus 7 Accessories] grizzly660fan:
Which app is that? I would like to give it a try.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] yeahmon:
This thread = LOL

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1812111

Sent from my Galaxy SIII
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] revoltech:
Hello all, I am coming from a HTC Titan 1 Windows Phone v7.5 back to android with the latest and greatest Galaxy S3. The reason I left android is because all the force closes, lame battery life and choppy mechanics. Windows Phone was so smooth and worked great out of the box. Also the HTC felt solid with metal backing and unibody construction.

I was excited to get the Samsung and the first app I installed was Voice because I love the voicemail transcriptions but the app hung on setup. I thought, "great back to the quirkiness of the android os.." however, I did manage to get the app to install. I do not like the cheap feel of the naked Galaxy S3 but it feels very rugged with an otterbox case. The battery seems on par with my Windows Phone but the Titan has only a 1650mAh battery which does not compete with the 2100 mAh battery that the Galaxy is packing.

Ultimately, I got rid of the Windows Phone because it had some quirks (couldn't sync exchange with a self signed cert (before you call me out on this it's the stupid self sign cert FQDN not matching up on the actually forwarded hostname) and the outgoing call quality sucks on the Titan). Really amazed on how far android has progressed since my HTC Eris (amon-ra recovery, workshed GSB v2.3.7 - v4.5 CM7 rom, conap's CFS kernal and sprint Hero radio). Customized the hell out of my Eris back when it came out 3 years ago and it came with v1.5 rom stock.

Sadly this Samsung is not has smooth as the HTC with Windows Phone v7.5 but it's comparable with the android JB v4.1 update. I played with a handset at the ATT store with v4.1 (I guess one of the employees rooted and dropped the rom on there) and it was really fluid. I hope to have as much fun with the Samsung as to my old HTC Eris.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] elementaldragon:
Yea... even on a slightly older phone like the Motorola Atrix (which in no way is an outdated phone... just kinda neglected-ish), JellyBean is a treat to use.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] PeritoX:
I'm trying to downgrade my phone, I downloaded 4.0.2.A.0.42 and 4.0.1.A.0.283

When I import them to flash tool both show NO files at all.

What's the problem? I tried downloading the file from different location in case it turned out to be corrupted ...

Please help
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madfysh:
1) which flashtool version are you using?

2) try with .ftf file from here(second part of the post): http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24113310&postcount=64
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] CZMagic:
Try older version of flashtool (v6 or v5 should be OK for usage with GB firmware), with v8 and up I had the same problem with firmware 42, firmware 62 works correctly for loading in new flashtool version.
[Defy General] Deformat:
Hello everybody,

So these days I've been interested in theming MotoBlur since I had PS skills and wanted to put them to use since being 17 and with so much free time I said it might not be THAT hard.

However, **** happened.

Finding out those pesky MotoBlur apps wasn't that hard - found it rather easily after checking up a system backup.But finding out the MotoBlur apps wasn't the problem - the problem were the apps.

This is how a simple .apk file (MotoBlur Phone app) folder looks like:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk125/secretalex125/untitled.jpg

See that little thing there? Yeah, you're seeing right - that is the Motorola FlipFlop (or how it's named) phone. But God, why?

Don't ask me; ask Motorola. This may be the reason why they ended up making a striped version of their newer phones' skin/OS updates' skin.

Not to mention these images come up with .xml files. Now, as a dumb idiot with relatively limited text editing (.xml / .ini / whatever coding files) knowledge, but still a basic one enough to know not to screw up with the position of some text, I know that checking up ALL these files would be a damn hard task. Not to mention editing them properly. However, I'm in for the images. And I'm somehow sure that some of these files are pretty much useless. So they should be deleted. But then, when you have 2 apps called "BlurContacts" and "BlurPhone" and notice both of them feature pretty much the same images in some folders, you know you're screwed.

But this is only the foreground idea. The background, the immense sea of files is what is annoying. How could someone be able to create an entirely new skin? All that comes in my mind is that he must be a masochist.

So questions pop up:

1. Did anyone else try to skin ALL the files?

2. Did anyone try to remove files?

3. I know that out there is only one more GB skin. One more. But is it any better?

4. Are there replacements? How easy is to replace these files? Would simply removing these Motoblur apps make my life easier and revert me to classic Gingerbread?

4. I think there's more on my mind, but it doesn't come up right now.

All in all, I don't like what I'm seeing.
[Defy General] NITRO_100:
I was able to theme almost all motoblur apps when I was on ms2ginger rom, so it was the gb version of defy. I didn't remove any of the files, but yeah it takes some time to understand where goes what.

Sent from my ICS Defy
[HTC Rezound] drioddude:
One of my favorite features of CyanogenMod 7 on my Droid Inc. was that you could long press up or down on the volume rocker to go to the next or previous track. Unfortunately, CM hasn't made it to the Rezound yet :crying: I made an earnest attempt to find one myself, but had no luck. If anyone knows of a ROM with this feature, please post up :laugh:
[HTC Rezound] yojoe600:
venom rom can do this as well as newt one XXX
[HTC Rezound] Abu-7abash:
Every rom with a tweaks app can do that. Some even without that and uses the Aroma installer instead.
[HTC Rezound] drioddude:
Thanks.:victory: I was actually downloading newt one as I refreshed this thread to look for responses. CleanRom was just getting a little old.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Guide to move these mods to your system

PORTING THE 1% BATTERY INCREMENTS & DROPDOWN (QUICK PANEL) TOGGLES TO YOUR SYSTEM VERSION

---ATTACHED BELOW IS A ZIP OF THE STOCK DEODEXED VERSIONS OF THE SystemUI.apk AND services.jar FOR YOU TO DIFF/COMPARE WITH THE MODDED ONES - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLASH THE ATTACHED ZIP, IT IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY (the framework-res.apk is included so you may set your framework for apktool)---

This guide is based on moving these mods for ICS to other similar ICS-running devices. The process varies a bit going from GB to ICS. Or ICS to JB..

My “get started” thread may hold some tips for accomplishing the tasks below – check it out HERE

Don't forget to install your framework for apktool by putting your framework-res.apk next to apktool, cd to that folder (or hold-shift right-click), and do a:

apktool if framework-res.apk

SystemUI.apk:

services.jar

If this is for an ODEXED system, you must then re-odex the SystemUI.apk and services.jar. See HERE for how to do that

These were originally ported using a similar process from GB to ICS for the Atrix 2 (except I ended up re-doing all of the resource ID's in the quickpanel smali). Since then, I have used the above method to move both mods over to the RAZR. --- UPDATE 9/13/12: I also used this method to move the 1% battery increments over to CM10/JB for the A2... watch the v3, v4, etc, notation in the BatteryService.smali... pay attention to detail.

Please post questions or PM with complaints.

Big thanks to nitroglycerine33, cogeary, and whoever else first did the smali/xml coding, and all the devs/modders who came before..
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
can you make a zip that just has the drop down toggles? or instruct me on how to do it? thanks so much! :)
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Yup. Got 'em separate already.. hold on.. I will update the OP..
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
The drop toggles zip has both the toggles and the battery mod. :eek:
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Oops... hmmm. Sorry bout that. I will make a zip to get you back to stock, but gotta look at my other files.. check op again in a few...

Did you install the one with both first?

Sent from my phone's mind
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
No I flashed the one for just the drop down toggles. I almost didn't notice but for some reason the 1% battery mod makes it seem like the battery drains faster lol. I just prefer the stock one.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Ok. Yup, sorry about that. I put the toggles edits on top of the 1% edits, so.. it would take me a little time to separate those. I will probably do that though at some point..

But, in reality, the 1% mod doesn't physically make the batt drain faster.. but, yea, you can watch it go down every 1%, and it feels faster..
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
Lol I know it just seems that way. But anyways thanks and take your time!
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Updated OP with the deodexed versions... which, unless someone is rocking their own custom deodexed ICS, these are only good for those on scv7 (which rdavisct will be updating relatively shortly with this and more..)

I got an idea for you.. maybe I'll post something else later today..
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
The leak is odexed, am I right? That's what I'm on right now. I was on scv7 but restored to a backup I made beforehand.

And aahh now I'm excited! :)
[Motorola Atrix 2] mtnlion:
Yup

Motorola lied and I'm still locked mb865
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Yes, stock is odexed. You can always check in your /system/app or /framework folders, and if you see a bunch of .odex files... then your system is odexed.

And, I just PM'd you with something..
[Motorola Atrix 2] fran7382:
And I just noticed, in the zip that supposedly only had the drop down toggles, it had the numbered icons but in 10% increments...
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Yup. That's because it was only half of the actually battery mod... it didn't have the services.jar with the rest of the 1% increment stuff (the actual meat & bones of it). So, it was stock 10% increments, but showed you the percentage.. and had way more battery icons sitting in the res folder than needed.
[Motorola Atrix 2] shardul.phatak:
worked

Thanks a lot man ..... u saved my notification bar space :highfive:

waiting for more :fingers-crossed:
[Motorola Atrix 2] lilhaiti:
Question...since this includes a service.jar file, if I flash this over SCv7 will I loose half of the SuperCharger since it is in the service.jar file or is this service.jar file modded for SuperCharger scripts?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Great question! I honestly don't recall if I used rdavisct's services.jar for the deodexed version.. but, one could, in theory, copy the services.jar from scv7 and reinstall it after flashing this mod..

Or, you could just install the Drop Toggles only mod that I just put back up in the OP (it doesn't have the services.jar included)... ;)
[Motorola Atrix 2] lilhaiti:
Thanks a million!!! I will try the toggles only mod and report back

Works fantastic!!!
[Motorola Atrix 2] Fall of Enosis:
Your welcome altered! Always willing to help you out!

Sadly, I don't have the mods anymore, cause I was one of the Guinea pigs for jims script to get back to 2.3.5 from 4.0.4.

So I am rocking bone stock 2.3.6 right now.

Will be doing so until my new phone comes from at&t. Just because I'd like to send it back stock.
[Motorola Atrix 2] xLordNitro:
I know this might be kind of a hassle. Is there any way you can do a 1% with the numbers with the stock ICS battery? The one from the leak with the white border? I like the way that battery looks. If not, that's cool too :)
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
You're going to need to find a set of the 204 battery pngs that you like, then I could slip them into the apk then zip it for you.. or I could show you how. There's a nice one with grey border here, but it's horizontal..

Btw, I think that might be where I found the images to the icons I used... thanks for making me look again!