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[Nexus 10 General] Tomatoes8:
Let me take a crack at it. It is human nature for people to make quick baseless judgements and some people are just too feeble minded to break this chain of thought and become more open minded about other methods of construction that are potentially just as good or better.
[Nexus 10 General] mi7chy:
Jewelry is flashy glittery scratch and dent prone metal. Tools should not and, instead, should have a durable soft finish like my Makita powered hand tools. Furthermore, metal is bad since it degrades signal for transmitters and receivers like cellular radio, WIFI, GPS, bluetooth, etc.

If you put an iPad/Transformer/etc. on concrete it'll scratch and turn ugly. With Nexus 10 it's a non-issue.
[Nexus 10 General] BamAlmighty:
I don't care what it is made of as long as it is SOLID. Metal, plastic, whatever, as long as there isn't flex I'm good.

In this application I'll take a light hard plastic over metal any day. This is something that is constantly going to be handled, set on hard objects, etc and coated, anodized, oxidized finished metals are easily scratched and scuffed the way these things are handled.
[Nexus 10 General] Blown 89:
Pretty much.
[Nexus 10 General] sunoryjim:
If plastic is good enough for the 787 Dreamliner, then it's good enough for my 10" tablet of choice.

I seek to shed the implant Apple put in my brain that says one must have aluminum.

I seek to shed the implant Apple put in my brain that says one must have aluminum.

I seek to shed the implant Apple put in my brain that says one must have aluminum.

I seek to shed the implant Apple put in my brain that says one must have aluminum.

I seek to shed the implant Apple put in my brain that says one must have aluminum.
[Nexus 10 General] rkirmeier:
Too many people more concerned about looks and style then function and usability! Most iDevice users are so hung up on looks of the device is just ridiculous...
[Nexus 10 General] CreepyDroid:
People who care that much about aesthetics generally buy their devices to show off not to actually use them. I don't mind plastic as long as it's well made.

That being said, I will NEVER buy a device with a glass back.
[Nexus 10 General] Nutsonfire:
Plastic is a lot better if you drop it. Look at how the iphone and even the nexus 4 break if they fall. Better have something with some flex in it.
[Nexus 10 General] tkoreaper:
I don't know why people say "cheap plastic"... Aluminum is actually cheaper, if not as cheap, as the plastic used in our phones. Speaking of which, the plastic used in our phones and devices are much stronger and more durable than aluminum. It's just an excuse IMO.
[Nexus 10 General] shook187:
I've always wonder why HTC fanboys only argument over HTC vs Samsung was the premium feel :rolleyes:
[Nexus 10 General] e.mote:
>why having the premium aluminium feel is so important?...The cheap plastic don't suffer from this.

You're welcome. :)
[Nexus 10 General] newellj79:
Agree one hundred percent. Having had a prime and a infinity I can tell u from personal experience that aluminum well pretty for a week or so is horrible for function. I've never owned anything more prone to dents and scratches. They are meant to be used, not put on a shelf and looked at from afar.
[Nexus 10 General] e.mote:
>I can tell u from personal experience that aluminum well pretty for a week or so is horrible for function.

Putting aside the crappy Asus QC for the nonce, the difference in your case is the week of use--or more pointedly, a week AFTER you've made your buying decision. Buyer's remorse doesn't matter to the seller at that point. It doesn't matter to you (the buyer) either. Early adopters have intentionally short memory on bad buys, else they wouldn't continue to be early adopters.

Peeps saying "oh plastic case isn't so bad, it's the functionality that matters" are basically rationalizing to justify their (N10) buying decision. If it were the other way around, where iPad had the plastic case and N10 had the aluminum case, you'd hear plenty of crowing in this forum about N10's superior "premium aluminum feel." :)
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
I'll take my "premium" on the inside, thank you. The "aluminum" tablet looks like a back alley restaurant kitchen while the "plastic" tablet looks like a hospital operating room. Beauty as they say is more than skin deep.

And plastic doesn't look like this after a couple of months of use.
[Nexus 10 General] EniGmA1987:
There are ways around the signal issue, but generally speaking building the frame out of aluminum does in fact help to block a wifi signal. The early Transformer Prime was not designed well enough to get around the inherent blocking properties of the aluminum. Aluminum is used quite a lot for EMI shielding in that frequency range, and would affect the 5GHz band even more so than the 2.4GHz. So in addition to costing more to build a tablet with, it also makes the design a bit harder. Personally, I prefer a quality ABS plastic build over aluminum
[Nexus 10 General] dakine:
What is this rubberized back they are talking about? I hope its not the usual rubber coating that is used on plastic because those always wear off after a few months leaving an ugly mess. Definitely will need a full cover if that is the case.

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[Nexus 10 General] mi7chy:
My guess it'll be like the Nexus 7 back and not like Thinkpad that wears quickly and leaves a shiny spot. Just wished they made the whole back dimpled like the Nexus 7. I was perfectly happy with that.
[Nexus 10 General] Croak:
I'm guessing its the same rubberized plastic they used on my Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE. I'm hoping it is, anyway, because it's good stuff.

My Tab 8.9 is over a year old, I use it daily and mostly without a case, traveled with it a good deal, and the back still looks like new, feels great, grips great, doesn't even look that bad when covered in smudges/fingerprints.
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
According to the Verge it's not at all like the N7.

I do wish the Nexus 10 looked a little more like the Nexus 7, though, particularly on the back: the soft-touch, Steve-McQueen-gloves material on the back of the Nexus 7 is grippy and comfortable, and just feels much better than the smooth back of the Nexus 10.​

I had a UK 3G OG 10.1 and it had a smooth black back cover. It was really durable and resisted scratches well. They don't look that different.
[Nexus 10 General] dakine:
Yeah it's that shiny spot I'm worried about. Lets hope its not that stuff.

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[Nexus 10 General] Semantics:
Samsung generally sucks, plastic or not. I'm no HTC fanboy either. I just call a spade a spade.
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
I have a Teg3 One X that replaced a i9100 and have a 3G Note 10.1. Both are great devices. They both also have some stuff that's really impressive and some that "sucks." They are both built well using high quality components and they are both plastic. I'd buy devices from either Samsung or HTC again based on the way they perform. I'd never by a LG device (even a Nexus) because of engineering issues with the O2X/G2X that any MIT grad could have prevented. Motorola just screwed any purchasers of their 2011 high-end phones by saying "never mind" to JB after promising it. Sony's devices are always six months behind feature wise and their update track record is awful. So who's left?

And I assume you're pleased with your N7. Too bad about the second-tier components Asus uses in their devices. There's a reason Google chose Samsung to create their high-end tablet and Asus the entry-level one.

More recently users have been noticing very poor performance with ASUS Android tablets whenever there's substantial background IO going on, particularly multitasking while writes are taking place (e.g. downloading a torrent and browsing the web). The slowdowns range from multi-second long pauses to sluggish response time. Even though downloading a large file is a largely sequential write operation, any other action performed while that download is in progress will effectively turn the IO stream from purely sequential to pseudo-random. Some manufacturers seem to do a better job of picking their storage solution, and the Kingston eMMC in the Nexus 7 is faster than the Hynix e-NAND ASUS has used in previous tablets. Neither is perfect however. There's a tangible impact on simple multitasking if you're downloading a lot of files or installing apps in the background. Even operations in memory are quite negatively affected by background IO.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6073/the-google-nexus-7-review/6​
[Nexus 10 General] Tomatoes8:
Honestly, that is the only argument anyone has over Samsung products because they can't really come up with anything else. The funny thing is that the Lumia 800 had creaks near the sim card flap, some Lumia 920 has creaks near the top, and the HTC One X you can push the entire digitizer down for flexes in the corner. Yet squeeze a high end Samsung phone as hard as you can and nada. LOL

Or they just say they suck without an ounce of evidence backing it up like Semantics over there.

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That says it all right there. Not an ounce of wasted space internally. This is why I had absolutely no doubts ordering the Nexus 10 and GS3 online. With the One X and Nexus 7 I waited until they came to the stores so I had easy access to refunds and exchanges. Good thing I did too since there was defects galore on both.
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
My only concern with Samsung is that with their success I'm afraid they are going to start behaving like the "Apple" of Android. Dominance breeds arrogance. Love them or hate them their good at what they do and their sales reflect it. The SGS3 outsold iPhone in Q3, they created the phablet space with the OG Note (they've sold 3MM Note II's so far), they changed what tablets can do with the Note 10.1 (which they've sold 2MM of in the first two months), and they sell more Android tablets than anyone else.

And they consistently win innovation awards across the industry.

Samsung Electronics was the big winner at this years CES Innovation Awards where the company took home 27 wins. If you have been keeping count, Samsung has won 117 CES Innovation Awards over the last four years. Among some of the company’s prizes were awards for its Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, and its TecTiles NFC sticker system.​

So plastic must be OK after all. ;)
[Nexus 10 General] EGill42:
It would be great to see a percentage of broken phones that are attributed to the plastic vs aluminum. Might help realize there is a hidden cost for clumsiness.
[Nexus 10 General] brandonstuff85:
amen to this. My GNex has held up pretty good for the (nearly) year i have had it all things considered. i dont use cases (unless im headed out for what i know is a rough night out or something) ever, and *knock on wood* its still in great shape. I think solid and sturdy is the thing to worry about over build material. it could be aluminum but also be a flimsy piece of junk, its all in real world application and build process.
[Nexus 10 General] GTabJosh:
I had a plastic tab for over a year and never broke it when it fell. Two months with my metal-backed tab and it's got a bent case (that won't retain the power button) thanks to a drop. I want my next tablet to be backed with vulcanized rubber.
[Nexus 10 General] Icetech3:
i dont like the feel of alum at all.. the ruberized plastic on my kindle fire is just perfect..
[Nexus 10 General] Venekor:
I don't like metal because it scratches like ****.
[Nexus 10 General] samagon:
I don't get the argument. What specifically makes aluminum premium? Other than marketing hype from companies that tell you it is?

I have used plenty of plastic stuff my whole life, from when I was a kid and used my speak and spell, I had a synthesizer, plenty of plastic stuff. These days I still have lots of plastic. Not least of which in the engine bay of my car. Hardware in there has to be durable, solid, lightweight. These are good things.

I do understand premium metals vs plastic. I have a really nice watch, cost a lot and is made of premium metal (it's called gold and platinum), I also have an 80s style swatch that is all plastic. I wear the swatch every day, it's durable, lightweight, lasts. The other one I wear when I wear my suit. If I had an aluminum watch I doubt I'd consider it premium, I'd consider it lightweight compared to the gold watch, or a stainless steel watch, but I'd probably take it off before putting on the suit.
[Nexus 10 General] thebobp:
The ideal material would probably be the N7 back. It's oodles more ergonomic than, say, the aluminum back of the 7.7. Aluminum feels frankly gross and slippery after that.

Not sure what the "grippy plastic" would be like; from what I gathered, it's not like the N7 but okay.
[Nexus 10 General] Croak:
Said this before, but pretty sure it's the same or similar material used on the back of the Tab 8.9 LTE and the international Tab 10.1 3G. Pretty good stuff.

It's also similar to what you find on the back of the Nook Color/Tablet and the Nook Simple Touch e-readers, if that helps give you an idea.
[Nexus 10 General] Biohazard0289:
I had the Infinity (5 actually) and I never found an instance where I was admiring the backing on the tablet. As soon as the Nexus 10 was announced, back it went.

I also had a Note 10.1 and I never had an issue with it. I'll take the far superior build quality of the Samsung product (in my personal experience) over an aluminum backed "pretty" tablet any day.
[Nexus 10 General] Tomatoes8:
The racing wheel rubber grip back on the Nexus 7 is gorgeous. The plastic frame at the front where the screen lifting occurs not so much.
[Nexus 10 General] Croak:
Yeah, every time I look at my N7 I wish the plastic bezel trim was darker, would have gone a long way toward making it look higher quality. Not to mention the screen lift, creak and backlight bleed issues on all four of mine, including my new October build 32Gb (which is going back to Futureshop this week, I'm done).

Asus is my go-to motherboard and video card maker, love them to death, have used them since the 90's. But thanks to my own personal experience with the Zenbook, the Transformer Prime and Infinity and finally the N7 I will never buy another tablet or laptop from them again.

Samsung has never let me down in build quality or durability, I've owned four tablets, three laptops, five phones, and several televisions in the last few years. The one and only hardware failure I had with a Samsung product, my Tab 10.1, was actually an Nvidia issue with Tegra 2 tablets (sleep of death), not a Samsung engineering issue.
[Nexus 10 General] Kookas:
I think the big deal with metal is that it's detailed and shiny. Plastic tends to be less detailed (i.e. less noisy) and dull. If you could make plastic with a crisp, noisy texture, I reckon it'd look pretty good.
[Nexus 10 General] pizzadragon:
twinkle twinkle

i won't deny that shiny metals look pretty and premium like the brushed aluminum on the iproducts, the brushed nickel hardware i have in my bathroom and kitchen and lighting fixtures, and the shiny chrome accents on my truck.

after i week i've never looked at the back of my ipad. not. once. it's mounted in a little zippered case with a cover flap. Adds a bit of weight to it but keeps the screen unscratched.

but a gorilla glass 2 (I was really amazed at how resistant my sgs2 screen is against scratches) display might not even need a case in my lifestyle. and with a comfortable grippy light plastic back that's comfortable to hold, well, holy hell the thing could be ugly purple for all i care as long as it's comfortable to use and does what i need it to do.

anyone get to check out the lenovo yoga 13? played with it at Best Buy the other day and I was surprised how much i like it. definitely heavy for tablet mode, but the versatility would easily find use in my workflow and lifestyle, and the matte textured rubbery plastic (whatever it is) is super comfortable feeling. only downside is high price for such small storage after the massive sized W8 is installed. bump it up to 256GB and dual boot debian/android and i'm in.
[Nexus 10 General] GTabJosh:
Take a look at the Lenovo IdeaTab Forum:

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-IdeaTab-Slate-Tablets/bd-p/Idea_Slate

I haven't read the threads but it seems like they have quite a few problems. Worth investigating...
[Nexus 10 General] espionage724:
Can't say I would care if the backing of the device was made of plastic or aluminium. As long as the back is made out of something hard, it's doing its purpose right?

With that said though, I have a feeling a rubbery-feeling back might have a better feel to it than cold (or hot), sleek aluminium. On the other hand though, aluminium would probably look more stylish.
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
The irony is, unless s/he's in front of a mirror, the owner never gets to see it. And with tablets becoming so prolific I'd doubt strangers would stop and say "Wow, look at the guy in the corner. His tablet's made of aluminum." And does anyone really care what strangers think? Hell, 2/3 of the world think all tablets are iPads anyway and that the one's that aren't shiny must be in a case.
[Nexus 10 General] Croak:
Something else to mention, that's worth something to me: I don't WANT my device to look like it was designed in Cupertino.

It's also why I don't wear skinny jeans, I shave, etc. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kresh0:
Hello!

I have some good news about warranty and rooting and custom ROM. Many phones have 1-2 year warranty but they say if you root you void warranty. But here comes the best part:

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - said that warranty should be given no matter what (unless you modify hardware). And you SHOULD get free repair incase anything happens. Because there so many ROOT apps on market that it should be "legal".

Therefore if you have custom ROM or root on your phone you need to get free repair or call you local European Consumers' Organisation and get their help. (But don't do that if you don't have warranty left...)

Hope this will help some people that are desperate

Cheers

Source: http://goo.gl/dJglu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArcticFish:
Yay it had begun

Sent from my Sbeaned SGH-T989 with KKO
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kresh0:
bump

so more people can read this
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiM:
Right now I'm using the Pattern Lock for my Note 2. Using Elixer2's single widget set to enable/disable the pattern lockscreen, it seems to randomly work. I've made sure to allow admin rights to Elixer2.

I'd like to be able to lock the screen when at work, and not have it enabled when at home.

The Elixer widget is very random. Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it'll work after a delay, after I try to open some apps, etc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faekie:
Llama can do this and it's free. Also you can turn it on/off depending on which area you are in right now.

However the result seems to vary and this seems to be because of how Android is built.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Ichigo-Roku:
Hi,

I have this rom and I tried to install this battery icon. Now my phone don't want to start...

Is it possible to put my old icon without flashing the whole rom ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Ichigo-Roku:
I don't know what I've done (I tried to install again the ROM) but my phone don't want to start now... It stays at the "Samsung GALAXY Ace GT-S5830i" screen...
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Rubenyz:
Your phone is bricked.

You have to flash it with Odin (v3).

Search for it in the "sticky" thread.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] SemBoyHehe:
can u help me change color on quick panel@toggle.. based on stock rom green to blue like cm?? i have framework-res and systemui.apk.. i need help.. :(
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Rubenyz:
Maybe.....
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] Ichigo-Roku:
I dont know how to use it...

I have an S5830iXXLA2_S5830iXEFLA2_S5830iXXLA1_HOME.tar.md5 file but I dont know how to use it with Odin, I have a .pit file but I dont have any PDA PHONE CSC file, how to get them ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] farrukhafzal:
just extracted the files from mindcr 2.3 rom. Its already blue there
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Turbo Brian:
so it seems i can wake the phone with either the home button or the power button. thats all good. the problem is when im using poweramp with its lockscreen enabled. if i wake the phone with the power button, the poweramp lockscreen immediately appears. if i wake the phone with the home button, i get the normal lockscreen and then after a couple seconds, the poweramp lockscreen appears. i cant find any settings anywhere that would possibly treat home button wake differently than power button wake. anyone else notice this or know of a setting somewhere im maybe missing?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloneOne:
Hi all,

I recently rooted my phone so I could install a custom ROM. I´m new with android and also with rooting. After reading a lot of articles about rooting and flashing a custom ROM, I decided to give it a chance. Because the CyanogenMod is very populair, I decided to flash this ROM. I rooted my phone with Odin adding the Siyah Kernel. This worked and I followed the manual on the CyanogenMod Wiki for I9100. I flashed CM10 with ClockworkMod Recovery. Everything went fine and I saw the great interface, which is a lot better than touchwiz.

But I could't use the camera app: No external storage available. A 16GB SD card is inside. It appears CM can't mount the SD. I also saw the internal storage: 1.97GB. But the internal storage has to be a lot more than that.

I might think that it has something to do with the encryption I did within Touchwiz. I haven't decrypted the file system before flashing the ROM...

Anything I can do?

Update: I went back to the stock ROM, and could acces the internal storage and SD card. Then flashed CM10 again, and everything was working well!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Midyr:
Same Problem here, I update from CM 9 to CM 10 and I can't use Camera and It seemd than there is no internal SDCard

Frank
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmarinos:
I am too having this issue ever since moving to custom ROMs. Its not the ROM as its happened on RR and RB ROMs.

I find it happens when the phone crashes and needs to be rebooted by holding the power button down.

Sometime after a few restarts I am then able to get the internal storage to mount, other times I need to turn the phone off and leave the battery out for a while but its just happened and nothing I am doing is working.

I really hope someone can help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Try dori kernel. Should Mount OK custom is either 8.xx or 9.xx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmarinos:
I am using Dori (9.33). Having said that it never used to be as much of a problem when I used to run Siyah.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Try 9.32 I use 8.32 and have swapped ROM this week about 7-8 times and have no problems.
[Blade General] Faiz Malkani:
Hey guys

I've been noticing an increasing number of posts here concerning devices like the ZTE Skate, ZTE Blade 2 and the ZTE Nova. I would like to remind all of you that this is the ZTE Blade forum, and while the manufacturer is the same, the phones are totally different.

After talking to a senior moderator about the same, we've decided that instead of giving your threads the boot, we would create a new thread where all ZTE non-Blade questions could be asked.

This is mutually beneficial since people will know where to look, thus conceiving a quicker response time and helping us keep our forum clean

Thank You for understanding

Here's the consolidated thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1987960

Regards

QuantumFoam

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