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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
The website of the shop is http://www.palm-center.com, but it is in Chinese. If you can't read Chinese, let me know and I may help. I suggest you better send an email to the shop for futher enquiry.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] damn66:
i'm chinese but hopeless in mandarin..can assist pse, tks.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] JoyTEK:
8) ...why do you want to travel so far if you can have it so close. See www.expansys.com. It is available in a lot of countries!! O.K. Hong Kong is a great city :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] jackleung:
Because it's much cheaper just the upgrade cost alone
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
How long does it takes for the upgrade? I may juz travel there for the upgrade from Sgp...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
Several buddies here PM me, and I just phoned the company for the answers:

- To ptan218: it takes 2 to 3 hours to do the upgrade. They provide 3-month warranty after the upgrade.

- To bono_80: Yes, you can send your PPC to them to upgrade. They will then charge you the additional postage fee on top.

- To JDH: they quote that they use the same brand of RAM (with larger capacity) as of original, and no significant increase of power consumption after the upgrade.

- To DJW: for bulk upgrade, they offer some additonal discount:

1 --- US$125

2-10 --- US$113

11-20 --- US$102

21+ --- US$88

- To Nevin, you can go directly to the shop stated in the website to do the upgrade.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] JoyTEK:
...eXpansys needs about 2 weeks. As far as I know they support only the mail-in way. It is not possible to go directly to a kind of an eXpansys shop. And btw, I guess it is still cheaper than a flight to Hong Kong :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] DJW:
Hi,

I am "MadMonkeyBoy" on HoFo,

I would like to send 11 units to be upgraded, and have them returned to me in the USA.

How do I make the arangements, and how do I insure that they will be returned?

Your help is greatly appreciatted.

If anyone else would like to send together with me, we could lower the price to $88 each, and save on shipping.

dweiniger@aol.com
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Yorch:
Hey David!, yeah, that would be cool if you cheaper upgrades, I might buy one from you with the upgraded RAM.

I sell my old JAM and get a new one!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
Hi, I've just talked to the company this morning about your queries. They welcome your mail order; however, there is no mechanism for them to provide gurantee to mail order client. Some more info:

- you can send an email to info@palm-center.com for detailed arrangement.

- upgrade fee can be settled by PayPal

- the company, Palm-Center, is the local distributor of "Palm Dragon" (Chinese Palm system), and also used to do repair and upgrade for PDAs for several years (including mail order)

- I *** do not *** have any connection with the company. I am just providing some information here for your reference. So I am not responsibile to whatever transactions the company does.

Let me know if any more help needed.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] bnycastro:
@palmVer can you give the exact address and telephone number of this company. I'm going to HK next week and might drop by. tia.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] cupertino:
Re: Upgrade to 128MB RAM @US$125 (UPGRADED T-Mobile MDA @US$

Hi plamVer,

How is the battery life after 128MB ? I am thinking of doing the samething when I visit HK next month.

Thank you

Alan
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
Contact pt. can be found in http://www.palm-center.com/htm/us.htm

Excerpt:

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
Re: Upgrade to 128MB RAM @US$125 (UPGRADED T-Mobile MDA @US$

As of previous post:

Actually, as many buddies here got interest of doing the upgrade, I decide to do the upgrade this weekend and let you all know the result of the feeling of 128MB RAM.

I will try asking extra discount for overseas buddies, if possible! :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] bnycastro:
Thanks palmVer and I hope the upgrade goes well.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
Lucky for me, the 2-way return flight from Singapore to Hongkong on a budget airlines is about SGD69.

I will probably gather a few units and split the cost to the rest of the guys.

Cheers :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
I did the upgrade today and I now got a 128MB RAM O2 mini!

- the upgrade takes about 1.5 hour

- Same brand of RAM with higher capacity (2x64MB) is used (Infineon)

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
Hey brother, how's the quality of the work done?

Is there an increase in performance of the system? How about the battery performance?

My colleague is going HK today and will be upgrading the set for me based on the address given by you. I called them up and was quoted HKD980.

Cheers.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Yung:
If I had known about this service, I would have bought one of the units instead of ordering one here in the U.S. for $540 :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] bnycastro:
I'm going to HKG on Thursdaty still undecided if I will get this upgrade though. I know my i-mate will be great with it but I'm also sure I'll be buying a new device with WM5.0 hehehe.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
After the 128MB RAM upgrade, I find it wonderful! It's stable, no obvious drop of battery life (as I plug in the USB cable quite often, I can't tell exactly the actual difference of the battery performance).

Apart from doubling the RAM storage, as I load nearly all the applications (after that, still a plenty of RAM left :wink: ) into the RAM, my O2 runs noticeably faster than before.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] bnycastro:
hi friends saw this at the unwired.net (previously pccw.net) http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2488 basically there news that a 128MB Magician will be coming out. Still no Wi-Fi though... :roll:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
Dopod 828 is 128MB ram Magician and it's about available in the Market (July). More details in http://mobile.sina.com.tw/mobile/n/2005-06-30/1104650143.shtml . However, estimated price is RMB7000 (ie USD840) :shock:

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
Well, with the 128MB upgrade from HK Palm Center, there's no need for this Magician Refresh as the only difference is the RAM.

Cheers :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] bnycastro:
yeah. kinda weird huh! they call it refresh but then only the RAM is changed still no wifi or even a bigger battery... just plain RAM. I'm not saying more RAM is bad just that it kinda seems lame to just add RAM when people are looking for more and more in devices. If I remember correctly they did this with the 1st XDA at that time they re-released it and boosted the RAM from 32Mb->64Mb.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
haha... :D Maybe HTC have lots of no-brainers working there...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ptan218:
Finally got my O2 mini upgraded at Palm-Center in HK :D . Here's some pictures of my O2 mini. Will upgrade you guys on the performance when I am back from BKK to SGP in 2 weeks time.

Cheers :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] ATHelp:
Hi,

Did you do the upgrade yourself?

Are the chips easy to remove and replace?

Best Regards
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] palmVer:
The upgrade is done by a Hongkong shop called Palm-center. I don't know how difficult to remove the ram, I just know it's kinda soldering work plus some electronic wiring. The two pictures here maybe helpful, or you can go to http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=20928 for more information of DIY. :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] elkay:
Oh come on, any Radio Shack soldering iron could tackle that!! :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] PaNa-S:
great

thankxxxxx
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] xmoo:
HJmzzz, mayb I will do this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetaA:
Hey,

I just got my galaxy. Rooted it yesterday to delete bloatware.

I tried being really careful with what I delete but I must have delete something essential, my phone won't go past the samsung logo.

I'm actually really freaked out. I rooted using Odin but didn't quite get to anything else.

I tried battery pull, didn't work. Same as for wiping data in recovery mode. Don't know if it means something but when I tried wiping cache, it gave me a little dead android pic and restarted.

Right now I'm waiting for a stock firmware to download (BTW, I9505 isn't officially sold in my country, so I downloaded a UK version. I hope that's alright).

After it downloads I'll try to flash it using a guide from XDA.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

I could really use your help...

Thank you!

Edit:

Flashed it. Turns out I downloaded a German version (What my phone originally came with).

I just want to ask - Is there anything wrong or worse with being with this firmware? What are the differences between UK and German firmwares for an unlocked device?

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

It is like choosing between a Green or a Blue BMW.

Same car.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetaA:
Edit: Accidentally wrote two posts... How do I delete this?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NetaA:
Okay thank you very much!

Is there anything different I should do next time? (Besides let the bloatware live)

I read about rooting with recovery (CWM?). Can someone please explain a bit about it (How to do it and why isn't it the regular root)?

Btw, I saw that there are a few other rooting tools besides Odin. How are they different?

And what's BusyBox? I'm really sorry about all the noob questions. Every guide I find keeps referring to other terms that I don't understand :P

Thank you!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ams84:
Hi

I I deleted Musicplayer.odex in system/app folder of my rom SGS2 JB, pls. anyone help me with upload it:confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul Blake:
Serch for "odex me app" and this will create the odex or http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2364746

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ams84:
I didn't mean that... I mean i've deleted file "Musicplayer.odex" from my rooted SGS2 directory system/app, and now I can't see music apk in my programs, so what I want to someone who has stock rooted JB ROM that can upload this file, which I have removed from my device
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul Blake:
Use tha program from above link it will create the odex .... most people with odexed roms anre not rooted

And if you dont understand why to create yourself odex its cuz you didnt offer informations about your rom

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ams84:
:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Great Job Google on the new YouTube app (version 5.*). Most of the annoying issues have been fixed although there are a few minor things I'll do just for myself like Roboto Light looking terrible on low res screens. Keeping Dark version of 4.5.17 for now.

Install Instructions

Device must be rooted.

Download YouTube-4.5.17-Hoky-SystemApp-Dark.apk attached below

Completely remove YouTube from your device (uninstall, uninstall updates, remove youtube apk from /system/app using a file manager)

Reboot

Move the downloaded apk to /system/app using a file manager

Reboot

If you don't completely understand steps 3 and 5 please ask so you don't make a noob move and mess up your device

Want to download videos?

Install this app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2137743, browse to a video in YouTube app, press share, and select youtube downloader.
[Android Apps and Games] Galaxy Latino:
Nice work

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[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
What devices are those and what android version. Is it working on the other device? Sweet font btw.
[Android Apps and Games] frantisek.nesveda:
Hi,

this looks very good, but I have a feature request: could you disable rotation of the app when rotation is locked system-wide? In standard youtube, even if I lock the rotation to portrait and then turn my tablet to the side, the youtube app still rotates to landscape. This is super annoying when trying to watch videos lying in bed.

Thanks, and thanks for your hard work!
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Yeah that drives me insane too. Unfortunately I can't or don't have the patience to fix this because it seems a possible fix is in source files, not resources. I appears the problem is related to the app going into fullscreen in landscape on a phone even when auto-rotate is disabled. I use the Set Orientation app and use landscape(sensor), which will force all apps into landscape or reverse landscape depending on which side you lie on.
[Android Apps and Games] moonzbabysh:
This is awesomeness, now we just need the screen off playback and download video mods added in and it'll be the best YouTube mod apk yet :)
[Android Apps and Games] Airtioteclint:
Exactly what I needed. I even gave up the other screen off mod because this is more important for me. Big thanks. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Version 2

Hey Guys I made a new version with some improvements:

New unified thumbnails layout for all thumbnails

author,views, upload time on all thumbnails

Why title on bottom? To not cover the hot chick or dudes eyes of course! :silly:
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Version 2

Version 2 uploaded. Op updated. Enjoy
[Android Apps and Games] Citizen_Snips:
Very nice work!! Samsung galaxy nexus, toro. Official pacman ROM thanks...
[Android Apps and Games] bhupatib:
Very thoughtful! I have sent a tip to Android Police about your work. Let's hope their coverage (if they pick this up) can make Google take notice!
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
I hope so

​

Thanks for doing that. It would be great if Google does something similar to what I did so all people can have a better app. I wouldn't bet on it though since Google hasn't done anything for years. I cant be the only one who has these issues so are those people at YouTube just that dumb?

BTW should I remove version 1?
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Hehe. Look closely. Of course I would not upload this without OsamaGahreeb's permission. I'll pm him and see what can be done.

Sent from my pink iPhone
[Android Apps and Games] danchoivt:
nice work
[Android Apps and Games] bhupatib:
I personally don't use OG's version due to the "Video not available" bug and in general the resolution selector tweak just feels broken. The best youtube downloader for me has been this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2137743

But the idea of an all-in-one YouTube app with your interface tweaks and the integrated downloader is very tempting! If possible provide both versions (with and without OG's tweaks). :)
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
OsamaGahreeb's OGYouTube with my interface

Ok guys,

Here's a version of OsamaGareeb's OGYouTube with my interface changes applied. If you like the quality selector, download, and screen off playback features in Osama's app please go to his OGYouTube thread and show some love.

Install Instructions

Download the attached apk

Uninstall OGYouTube if you have it installed as a user app

Install the downloaded apk (make sure unknown sources is checked in settings > security)

If you only use download feature and could care less for screen off and quality selector I suggest you use this app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2137743 because OGYouTube still has a few bugs others have reported.

Enjoy
[Android Apps and Games] abhi08638:
Could you make an inverted one please :)
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Sure I'll make an inverted version based on an already inverted app tonight
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Dark Version Available

Dark/Inverted version now available in OP.

Enjoy
[Android Apps and Games] arjiegodz:
nice work
[Android Apps and Games] MJFox78:
I have some problems installing this

can somebody give me a little more info on that? I tried to use ES Explorer to browse into /system/app but I didn't find anything from youtube inside that folder

I just uninstalled the youtube-app and rebooted

I couldn't do that, I always get permission denied (I tried to use ES Explorer and also "App Installer" and "Easy Installer")

yes, I'm rootet and yes, I'm pretty new with Android

Greetings

MJFox
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Uninstall updates and remove from system/app are not always required . If you uninstalled and rebooted and don't see youtube in your app drawer you should be good. To move apk to /system/app you need to mount /system as r/w (read/write).
[Android Apps and Games] MJFox78:
this did the trick, thanks a lot!

Greetings

MJFox
[Android Apps and Games] sag35:
hey dude can you make a version with all the options from og like turn off screen and video quality options etc but inverted, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2213945 but with your ui and inverted?
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Sorry but the answer is No

I did this because the tablet ui of the youtube app is simply unacceptable and staying on an old version with a better tablet ui was not a good permanent solution. I'm happy with what I have and paired with youtube downloader, I have everything I need. I don't need screen off or quality selector. Inverting OG would require me to do all the inverting myself and I personally don't care enough for inverted ui or the features in OG to make that effort. There is a normal version of OG with my ui changes available but until someone else inverts a recent version of OG the version you requested won't be available.

*If you want things exactly the way you want it, most of the time you have to do it yourself
[Android Apps and Games] bhupatib:
The only thing I find useful in OG's version is the screen off playback which can be achieved using this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkahoang.screenstandby

When the video starts playing you can tap the proximity sensor and the screen will "turn off" (different from screen lock) but the video will continue playing.

I read somewhere that Google is working on background playback for YouTube and the new version is expected by year's end so it's a temporary fix till then!
[Android Apps and Games] hokypoky:
Play YouTube Music: PVSTAR+

I'm don't really like root apps like that which run constantly in the background. For YouTube music playing PVStar+: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.asbit.pvstar works great and is the best YouTube music app I could find. Unlike the other options, it plays all videos, has playlist feature, isn't buggy, and doesn't force you to look at Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. Navigation and controls could be much more intuitive but it can be learned.

*No it doesn't work for all videos
[Android Apps and Games] erdal67:
Awesome

Sent from my HTC Sensation powered by JellyBam ROM!
[Android Apps and Games] evandromon:
I did all the steps but after reboot the device for the second time, the new youtube app doesn't appear and when I try to install it from the apk at system/app, it fails. What can I do?
[Android Apps and Games] dasdsad1:
It is no longer supported (API V2 is dead). But YT2009 works just playback error
[HTC One SV] loCe45:
Sense 5 icons mod, grabbed it from One S forum -> link

Flash it through TWRP and that should be it.

...but just in case, do nandroid backup first - it cant hurt ;)
[HTC One SV] Petert87:
There is no root necessary?
[HTC One SV] old.splatterhand:
You need a recovery to flash, so you must be at least unlocked with custom recovery.
[HTC One SV] Petert87:
So only instal with TWRP don't work?
[HTC One SV] loCe45:
TWRP = Team Win Recovery Project
[HTC One SV] Petert87:
I'm a noob at this kind off stuff. I tried to flash a rom on my One S. That won't work. So I have to buy a new One SV. So i'm very carefull now with my phone :D.

Is there some readme or how to install-guide or something?
[HTC One SV] old.splatterhand:
[GUIDE] Root for HTC One SV

[Recovery] TWRP Recovery 2.x
[HTC One SV] Petert87:
Thats too much work for me. I don't want my phone crashes hehe. I'll just wait till the official update.
[HTC One SV] NeoDJW:
are you serious?
[HTC One SV] Petert87:
Yes I am. I don't want to do some stuff that I dont have any knowledge.

If its possible that I only have to instal it with TWRP, thats easy. But root and stuff. The last time I did it with my One S, it went wrong.
[HTC One SV] ZeussPL:
I'm not be the genius, but i can flash items :cowboy:

And I have changed some icons except. Vibrate, Silent and Statusbar background.
[Nexus 7 General] UC_Wallter:
I have had my Nexus 7 stolen (stolen from mail box - so I have no way to get the MAC address off my router).

Is it possible to find out the MAC Address from the device's Serial Number?

I called Google Support and have gotten the Serial Number - but they say they are unable to get me the MAC Address (I find that hard to believe).

I would like to contact the local Police with the MAC Address and try and track down the device - but as I don't have the MAC Address I can't.

Is this possible?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] Rirere:
Why can't you just contact the local police with your serial number? It's significantly more likely to be useful. Leaving aside the stupid conspiracy theories about PRISM, the police can't just drive around town scanning for your Wi-Fi MAC/demand every ISP in the area look out for a device with a given MAC. Most stolen devices are going to be located via their S/N anyway, since those are more readily available.

I don't find it hard to believe at all. Every single wireless chip (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and potentially cellular) that goes into these things has a different MAC. There's no benefit at all to Google for tracking these MACs during production and tying them to an S/N. There are other, better identifiers for their metrics.

Still, sorry to hear that. That's got to suck. The long and short is that no, it's probably not possible because there's no relationship (mathematical or otherwise) between MAC and S/N.
[Nexus 7 General] GldRush98:
Yeah, I'm not sure what good a mac address would do you.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
On another forum some people have been investigating possible reasons for quick battery drain they have been having and at least some of them narrowed it down to some service in firmware trying to index huge ammount of files these people had on their memory cards. Like some of them had caches for their mapping software installed on the cards (basically the maps) with thousands of files, others had huge libraries of pictures/music and some service tried to index them all and it was taking a lot of time. The battery drain in all cases stopped when they removed the memory cards from their devices. Worth giving a try for all the people experiencing similar issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Troute:
That might stop the drain but it's not a cure, the cure would be to stop the indexing service.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dchsub:
If this is the case, shall we see a lot of wakelocks by mediastorage and media scanning?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
taking out a memory card isn't a solution it's a simple test to see if it's happening for this reason.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Troute:
Sorry baladev, you had titled it as a possible solution so I assumed it was meant that way. Yes it would be a good way to test.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
right, i see, i didn't explain the possible ways of fixing the problem.. well.. you've made it clear what to do next :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Troute:
Happy to be of assistance.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] gauravxda:
Try rooting and install Titanium backup to freeze unnecessary bloatware and download Greenify to hibernate some less frequent apps. That should improve your battery life .