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[Windows 8 General] e.mote:
>A full sized, non touch keyboard is a must for productivity

That's the crux, isn't it? Productivity on a smaller form factor.

The elephant in the room is that the keyboard as presently constituted can't be downsized, and it has defeated every attempt to shrink productive mobile computing beyond 10" size. The QWERTY/AZERTY layout (and sizing) has been with us since time immemorial, and there's been no real attempt to innovate it directly because of the high learning curve involved. Instead, present efforts at progress all work around it, eg touch screen, voice rec, gestures, etc. But none has the granularity, simplicity, and versatility of a tactile keyboard. That's why productivity is predicated upon it.

The present mobile computing paradigm has yet to come up with a solution to reconcile productivity with mobile. MS in its chase toward mobile has no real answers, either. Its attempt to push hybrids (read: mobile w/ keyboard) has gotten no traction. Neither have its Surface devices, based on a "flattened" keyboard that doubles as cover. The success or failure of Metro is actually irrelevant, because even if Metro succeeds as a touch UI, it still can't solve the productivity conundrum to make "desktop mode" disappear. And if Metro can't become a superset of "desktop," then we'll be stuck with a franken-OS for quite a while longer.

Somebody (probably not MS) need to innovate the keyboard.
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
I agree with you on the innovation side, I think that if there is enough demand for it you will find all kinds of ideas coming along but sadly demand has to come first

Metro isn't the start screen or the apps that runs in it, it is the design philosophy that focuses on content (fonts, icons, typography . . .), apply that to desktop and you get a metro desktop, hopefully microsoft is focusing on that

Desktop is what differentiate windows from any mobile os, it shouldn't be killed (taking away decades of apps) but should be more metro and more touch friendly with full multi touch/gesture/pen/voice support if microsoft can do that then i don't see any reason for going to any other mobile os

I have a samsung ativ smart and i use it almost 99% of the time instead of my pc, that couldn't have been possible without win 8 and i hope it keeps getting better
[Windows 8 General] go0gle:
AMD Temash is looking very good in terms of power consumption...

The A4-1200 tops at 3.9W TDP... in other words, iPad form factor territory :good:
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
GPU wise its way better than clover trail but in RAW CPU power its lacking, Bay trail is not far off so we have to wait and see
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
Acer is really is really innovating this year

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[Windows 8 General] go0gle:
Even the quad core version ? That is a bit disappointing considering that clover trail is really old..

I think the AMDs also support more/faster RAM than clover trail.. the quad core paired with 6gb RAM should be fine.

Silvermont is at least 6 month away as far as I know.
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
The quad core will definitely be better but i don't think it will match the clover trail 10+ hours of battery life

Remember that clover trail has a TDP around 1.7
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
And a clock speed of 1.8ghz whereas the amd chips are 1.0 or 1.4. However 1 clock signal does not result in 1 processor cycle and different cpu instructions take a differing number of cycles to complete so who knows how they really compare (as I doubt the clocks>cycles>instructions relationship is the same for clovertrail and amd, hell, clovertrail and bay trail aren't even the same in that regard).
[Windows 8 General] e.mote:
Re: AMD - Specs notwithstanding, it'll be tough for AMD to get design wins. Intel has always been ahead on power efficiency, and it's now closing the gap between Atom and Core where AMD is trying to target. Bay Trail is getting more (50%+) perf, and Haswell more battery life. Intel is also dropping price to compete against ARM, with $300'ish ASP for Bay Trail vs $500 for Clover.

The larger question is how well x86 tabs can sell, since Win8x still requires keyboard/mouse, and a keyboard dock will add to the price and bulk. The lower overall pricing should help, but the competition isn't standing still. There'll be iOS7 iPads, and Walmart is selling $99 7" Androids now.

I'm not a fan of the Acer W3 setup, ie with oversized keyboard dock. Aside from being fugly, it defeats the purpose of having a smaller tablet, and you might as well buy a 10". Credit to Acer for trying new things, but all of its weird designs have never caught on with the public. Anyway, this issue has already been solved a couple of decades ago, with the foldable PDA keyboard.

After the keyboard, you need a *precise* pointer (read: not your finger). The FlipStart UMPC below had both a track pointer and a mini-trackpad. These aren't as functional as a mouse, but they should suffice along with touch screen input.

Next up, what makes a Win device useful, aside from keyboard/mouse, are its USB ports and it-just-works USB connectivity. The Acer W3 and most mini-tabs will likely have only a single micro-USB port, which isn't enough. I'd like to see a battery-powered USB 3.0 hub w/ 3-4 ports.

Lastly, I want to see Microsoft take the lead in standardizing connector/form factor specs for these separate accessories so 3rd-party products can interoperate. This will help build a thriving ecosystem and drive down prices for accessories. But realistically, I expect MS to continue its Apple-wannabe ways with its own proprietary toys and ludicrous prices. It's why I'm looking beyond MS for my next transition. The world doesn't need another Apple.

BTW, looks like the first shoe on "software as services" has dropped on XB1, and we can kiss selling used games goodbye. MS: 1, gamer: 0.
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
I doubt we will see standardisation.

Hell, Asus skipped a beat in my opinion for not reusing the transformer docking connector (width of keyboard wouldn't have lined up but it would have maintained compatibility with their standalone dock, ethernet and usb adaptors).

I think the keyboards and trackpads for convertibles are currently HID devices on an i2c bus though, so if not compatible with the physical connector they may at least be electrically compatible if provided the correct adaptor cable. With i2c several devices can even daisy chain although a keyboard, mouse and accelerometer might already be occupying a fair portion of bandwidth, doubt you could double up on that.
[Windows 8 General] e.mote:
No need to jerryrig connectors. Theoretically you can hang all your periphs off the micro-USB port w/ powered hub. It'll look a bit ghetto with the cables vs a snap-in dock, but you don't have to buy a separate (proprietary) dock for each toy. That, or go the BT route, but this last excludes high-bandwidth uses like with a HDD.

Bifold keyboards have sadly gone the way of the PDA, and battery-powered hubs are rare. Tabs are still new, and use cases are still limited to mostly streaming online stuff. Plugging periphs to a tab is still a geek's game. Maybe Win tabs can add new uses to the mix with a "productivity" OS onboard. Here's to hoping that bifold KBs make a comeback, along with them yummy red Thinkpad nipples.

The new Surface 8 (probably a Bay Trail) should come out at Build. I'm hoping MS can at least do a portable, self-powered dock and not just a shrunken keyboard cover. But my optimism for MS is at low ebb, so am expecting exactly the latter.
[Windows 8 General] go0gle:
You mean announced at Build.. I thought Silvermont is not shipping until q4/2013 - q1/2015

1.7 .. wow, I did not know that. It explains the amazing battery life those machines get. I wonder if Intel would manage to keep that TDP with BayTrail... it might be hard to do considering the bump in performance.
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
From Anandtech
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
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[Windows 8 General] e.mote:
Below is Engadget's hands-on of the Acer W3 at Computex. Official pricing will apparently be 329 for 32GB (same as iPad Mini) and 379 for 64GB, in both USD and Euro. Keyboard dock is said to be €69, which should also be same in dollars.

The keyboard dock is battery-powered (2xAAs), and has no physical connector with the tab, so apparently it's a BT keyboard. The dock slot looks to accommodate only a single fixed angle. Also, no trackpad or trackpoint.

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I'd be very surprised if Acer actually put this model on retail sale.
[Windows 8 General] DynamicRam:
379$ including Office is not bad at all & you can attach any keyboard/mouse, I hope that they ship with a better display though

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ASUS launches VivoMouse, a wireless optical mouse with a multi-touch trackpad
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
I unlocked boatloader and it worked, I get the *****unlocked***** at the top of the screen

I can not get my custom recovery to install.I followed all the directions here (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265618) and it wont install. I go to "C" prompt and when I type on the fastboot boot recovery.img I get back:

c:\mini-sdk>fastboot boot recovery.img

cannot load 'recovery.img': No error

Help................!!!!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
I also get this:

c:\mini-sdk>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

error: cannot load 'recovery.img': Unknown error
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rooster_yang:
try disable fast boot under power setting
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
Just did that, still same error. I am STUMPED !!

Also when I hit FASTBOOT the re "FASTBOOT" disappears quickly..

All this to get rid of BlinkFeed !!!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c5satellite2:
Does your phone day fastboot usb on the screen when you are doing this?

Try a different usb port on your pc. Don't use usb3 ports!

Sent from the HOXL dimension of S-OFF
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
Yes it says fastboot and I am not using a USB 3
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riyal:
use the all in one toolkit instead of that... Seems like you don't have any ideas working with directories and command line. It's showing that error because obviously your computer cannot find the file named "recovery.img"
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
He managed to unlock the bootloader :confused:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
Yes boot loader is unlocked. Just looking for a little help.

I appreciate the sarcasm as well, I am aware on how to use the command line as well.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rooster_yang:
Here is video for install recovry and root and make sure disable fast boot under power setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkAHw_GmIs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
I wasn't being sarcastic, I was pointing out to Riyal that you must be familiar with this as you would have had to use it to unlock the bootloader. ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetback:
Gotcha..........just a bit annoyed right now. My apologies. I have rooted and ROM'd every HTC I've owned.

This one is causing me some issues lol
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
Make sure that you have the latest version of the sdk installed.

Make sure recovery.img is in the correct folder and make sure it is named exactly that ie recovery.img not recovery.img.img.

Make sure you have the correct recovery version for this device.

Try with phone booted into android,..navigate to folder in command prompt....adb devices...adb.reboot-bootloader......wait for reboot into bootloader......fastboot devices...fastboot boot recovery.img (to make stock backup) or fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] darkdave:
anyone know how to make xda2 vibrate non stop?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Deadman:
Um.... *giggle* that could be fun, but it would drain the battery. Why don't you get a real one instead.

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] yoc81:
lol i suppose u would need a constant tone as a ring tone :wink:

Not sure its a documented feature tho :P
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] collins199820:
add aload of songs together and save it in .wma (Windows media audio) and hey that shud be enuff My ringtones 3/4 mins long anyways
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] darkdave:
i set my xda2 on vibrate mode and rang me self from home, but the vibration is in pulses of 2 seconds and 2 second pauses instead of a constant vibration.

need a hak to remove the pauses. any idea anyone ?

i dont suppose theres anyeay to "water proof" the xda2 during it's vibration?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] zfiser:
I could write you an app. to do that, but that would work only on demand (a button), not when someone calls you...

do you really want it?

~Zzzz
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] AcidSlide:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :twisted: :twisted: hehehehe... just think of it... an XDA2 with continues vibration in a water proof casing... for what may I ask??? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] darkdave:
mhd propulsion (magneto hydro dynamics)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] collins199820:
To take take pictures of the inside of your missus using your camera? :twisted:

While on this subject it gave me an IDEA!

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=60159#60159
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] darkdave:
XDA2 vibrator

who said it's for a girl?

As long as it vibrates continuosly all i need is preasure.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topgun_iceman:
I have installed a custom ROM on my phone, and now when I slide to unlock, it gives me tons of messages about apps crashing. I can't use the phone. I downloaded the stock ROM, but I cannot extract the files. Help please? I just want to reset the phone to the stock ROM.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HS™:
If u already habe stock rom dowmloaded may be its corrupt so its not getting extracted

Or

Download from here and use it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1915386
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aukhan:
Flash it VIA Pc Odin after you've downloaded the stock Rom from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] userdefind:
You can do it thought kies using this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2088809 it takes a lot longer to do but it's more stock and you should be able to get you ota updates if u do everything right

If this helped please hit thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AskinSavascisi:
In case u want to go back to fuly stock and if you have still warranty dont forget to use triangle away after that flash stock via odin x)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohammed779:
I think you got these crashes because you didn't full wipe your phone..

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcolonto:
I have a Sprint Galaxy S2 and I am out of the country without access to a store. I recently was unable to get my phone past the starting screen. YES IM AWARE OF THE ROUTE AS TO HOW TO DO A HARD RESET! First I took out the SD drive and did the proper way to get to the RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS (and lets be clear, the factory screen did come up!). However, this is where I screwed up, I accidentally cleared the "cache" one I believe, not the "restore factory". It then took me back to that screen and I was able to do the normal factory wipe. It never really restarted like it did with the numerous other posts on how its "suppose to reboot itself". I now turn it on and it just goes back to the Galaxy start up screen again, only now, I cannot even access the factory menu. Can someone please give me a step by step process on what to do? I have seen the word ODIN everywhere and I have no idea what that is...
[General Questions and Answers] Unlimate:
So hey guys i am new here i have one question no i own HTC DESIRE C this phone is very slow so i want upgrade to much faster device i am thinking about HTC DESIRE X but my main concern is can this device play 720p videos without lag?:confused:

And what you guys think about Sony Xperia P ? :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] the drugstore:
My wife and I have Galaxy S3's on Sprint's crappy network. Uptill yesterday in are messaging folder we would have orange and green dots by our names. Orange for when you are off your phone and green when you were on it. As of know there are no dots ay all. Any idea's
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
The dots where for Gtalk when you where logged into gtalk. It would be represented on the messaging app so if you wanted to chat or video via gtalk. Gtalk was replaced by Hangout which is the new chat/video app for Google.

Transmitted with a portable device using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] the drugstore:
Here's the thing is we never used Gtalk in the past, so I couldnt tell you if we were ever logged in or not. We have updated to that Google Hangout, I have tried logging into to it to see if I dot was replaced on my wifes phone and its not, so I'm kinda confused....Anybody have any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] the drugstore:
So we both logged into Hangout, and no icon by our names, anybody have any idea's...........
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
No hangout does not have that feature so you will never see them again, unless Google incorporates into hangout or you might see a different thing. Your phone would have automatically logged you into gtalk once you signed on your phone with your google account. If you did not go into gtalk manually and logged off you guys where always logged in.

Transmitted with a portable device using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] the drugstore:
What odd is my wife had it on Friday for like a few hours and then it dissappeared again, I should say I'm refering to the dot notification. Very bizarre, it was a nuce useful feature
[General Questions and Answers] deep4anand:
Hi brothers

I have 10k in hand and do not know which phone to buy

my mind is blocked , samsung , micromax,, xolo, htc what

please recomend me the best phone

my use is whatsapp and songs n e mail n calls

regards and love

Deep
[General Questions and Answers] immortalneo:
Please ask here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620179

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] enzosly:
Is there a ROM to get the S4 software on the Note 2? is it possible?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] KennyG123:
Formal warning

Next person to disrespect another member gets an infraction!

Read rule 2.3

Thread cleaned

Thank you for your cooperation

Friendly Neighborhood Moderator

Either answer the question or ignore it. If no one answers perhaps the OP will check Google or read the rules about searching first

Disrespect will not be tolerated! This is a development site, not technical support or Twitbook.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] boystuff:
At this time the only Rom with any S4 features integrated during install are DR4.9 and that's just widgets. It's gonna take time the S4 is only a few weeks old now and stability is huge factor on this forum things simply take time, be patient and just keep checking the forums.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titanshadow:
On my GS3 I have Locate My Droid installed and works beautifully. Problem comes in that I would like the same functionality for my tablet. Obviously I know the tablet will need an internet connection, which it has WiFi. I notice that I can't seem to find tracking software that works with my GT-P3113. I am running CM 10.1 so the Samsung software won't work for me as it requires me to be running the stock ROM to access.

Any ideas?
[Android General] tp2215:
Reserved for Changelog
[Android General] tp2215:
Bumping, Anyone like it so far?
[Android General] mgbotoe:
Looks organize. Good for those rare moments I ever decide to flash
[Android General] michael0617:
Great job lots of info thanks for putting together
[Android General] doga.ozkaraca:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2323596

don't forget to add this :D :D
[Android General] jayRokk:
Bump!!!

These tweaks are still amazing!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freedda:
Okay, before I delve in, I will say I did try to find an answer to my noob question, and did see some posts about similar stuff, but really didn't find an answer and much of it was too technical for me. So . . .

I've been downloading photos to my Nexus 7 using my OTG cable, and placing them in folders like:

(sdcard) /storage/emulated/0/pictures/my images/

I noticed when viewing in my file manager app, that these folders (with files) seem to get copied/emulated in a 'root' folder:

(Root) /storage/emulated/Legacy/pictures/my images/ (It looks like the same string, but '0' is replaced by 'legacy' and of course its in the 'root' directory, not 'sdcard'.)

Three questions about this:

I wonder, are these files and folders being copied, so they're taking up more storage on my device, or are these 'legacy' folders virtual, and only look like they've been duplicated?

When I go to view my images in the Gallery app supplied with my N7, it sometimes shows both 'versions' (including the 'legacy version in the 'root' directory) of the folder(s)/files, and sometimes it only shows one version--the one I created. I can't tell, why is it doing these two different things?

And, to remove this duplicate folder from the Gallery view, I have to temporarily copy over the files to another folder, delete the folders they were in and recreate a folder to copy the images back to. So, is there a way to not have this happen in the first place?

Thanks David.
[Networking] -Jen-:
i just got my i-mate like 3 days ago, i'm using I-mobile service.

when i went to forum and tryied to post anything on forum

it said something like

" error sql from database MySQL server ...

you heve an error in you SQL syntex.

Check the manual that corresponds to your MYSQL server version for the rigth syntax to use near "

any suggestion ?, did i set gprs wrong ? if yes, could you give me a link or teach me how to set gprs account , because last time my friend did it for me.

thanks a lot
[Networking] -Jen-:
relly need help ,, dont any know how to solve this ?
[General Questions and Answers] nice_guy75:
My laptop is unable to recognize my A116 tried each and every thing but still the driver is missing. I want to install its new ROM i.e. v2 recently released but SP tool is keep searching for my A116.

I have Sony Vaio VPCEB3TFX and I am on W7 x64 bit OS.

The driver that comes with the device is also not working. I have tried that driver as well.

I have also tried driver genius it shows some driver but unable to download the driver, I have also tried DSP but there also no driver in the database.

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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elephant007:
I was able to install the CM Trebuchet Laucher on a rooted stock ROM and although there are some bugs, it still functions like I need it to function. Does anyone know how I can install cLock on a stock ROM?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elephant007:
Found my answer, as it turns out lockclock aka cLock is only built for 4.2+
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tyler DeLarge:
Boys is now spent quite a bit 'of time since its arrival in your hands. So, this jewelry is delicate? It is easily scratched? Especially the black version! Thanks guys
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tyler DeLarge:
up :) :é
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ECEXCURSION:
No scratches on silver. The phone is aluminum.. you can scratch aluminum easily.

Sent from my HTC One
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tyler DeLarge:
and black?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ECEXCURSION:
Black scratches easier than silver.

Sent from my HTC One