yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] forsakenexile:
Hello again fellow nookie lovers....

DISCLAIMER: If you do not know what the following information does, means, or could result in if not performed correctly, please stop now and go no further. I hold no liability for how you use the following information or if you brick, bork or f&*k up your device.

Now with that, let's continue.....

I decided to post up a modified .IMG file I was able to throw together after getting my hands on a honeycomb preview. The original IMG was provided to me by a good friend (Thanks J and Thanks to the creator of the IMG) and then honeycomb come shortly after.

Using WinImage or a similar program to burn the IMG to a SD card, 1G or larger, will give you a bootable SD allowing you to boot directly into clockwork recovery and install the following:

B&N Original Firmware 1.0.1

Nookie Froyo

Nookie Honeycomb (SN:Overclocks to 1100 default)

Google Apps

Before installing any of the 2 Android systems, remember to visit "Mounts and Storage" and format the Data, System, and Boot partitions. Save Boot for last as it will lock up the nook and require a restart of the device. Once these areas are formatted, continue to install your preferred system of choice. Once that is completed, be sure to install the Google Apps zip to give you the market.

As of this time, the IMG file is approx 978 MB. As I modify I am sure it will grow to require a 2 GB SD.

For my next project, I will be including an image with some of the most important apps a Droid user needs, ie:

ADBWireless

Applanet

BetterTerm

SetCPU

etc

If there are any good apps that I might overlook, hit me up here and let me know.

Nookie-Installer - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PLNQ9QYZ

~Exile~

"When All Else Fails, Try Linux"
[Galaxy Tab General] da_in_sd:
I know most of you tab owners have probably installed a third-party web browser. Which one is your favorite and why?

I'm tired of the default browser that came with my Tab. It gets stuck too many times and crashes (signal 11 seg fault)

-dan
[Galaxy Tab General] 05GT:
Dolphin Browser HD is what I use on all my mobile devices. You really can't go wrong with it.
[Galaxy Tab General] Coolsaber57:
Haven't found anything better than Miren Browser
[Galaxy Tab General] pawces:
dolhpin browser HD for me. nice sidebars, plugins and gesture commands. not as fast in loading pages as opera, but faster than stock browser,and renders page layouts properly. plus it has a plugin for switching from mobile view to standard in one touch.
[Galaxy Tab General] Stevenjcarney:
Personally I use Dolphin HD. It lets me set the useragent as iPad, so you get a lot of pages in standard view. Plus it has great addons and the sidebars are amazing.
[Galaxy Tab General] roy8846:
I use Miren browser and think its great.

However for flash I use stock browser as it seems to run smoother to me.

Last dolphin HD I used seemed to have ads and bloat?
[Galaxy Tab General] ziffos:
What other browsers can I try?

Firefox is so far the ONLY browser that has openned ALL of my required sites.

Opera Mobile nearly gets there but:-

Stock browser - no good

Opera Mini - no good

Skyfire - no good

Miren - no good

Dolphin HD - no good

Dolphin Mini - no good

xScope - no good

If you can suggest any others that I can try then it would be much appreciated.:)
[Galaxy Tab General] GiggleGut:
Miren user here. I haven't tried firefox for the SGT yet. I'll go check it out.
[Galaxy Tab General] lamtutu:
Fire fox support flash?

Dolphin HD is the best for me.

I tried firefox but not flash support =nogo
[Galaxy Tab General] 00r101:
Dolphin Mini. I think this is better than Dolphin HD. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
[Galaxy Tab General] Locster126:
Dolphin mini is definitely my favorite browser at the moment. Consumes very little, does anything I need from a browser and it does look amazing too.

Swyped from my sexy galaxy tab
[Galaxy Tab General] w4rmk:
Lag time during scrolling/pinching is my biggest gripe with all Android browsers. I haven't found one that equals the iPad in this regard. FireFox responds the best but I'm not crazy about the UI, I like the tab interface on Dolphin better. I hope that Honeycomb's browser is better especially with the new dual core processors.
[Galaxy Tab General] da_in_sd:
Wow. I didnt expect such great responses. Thanks to everyone who replied.

I plan to try Dolphin HD and, if it doesnt work well, I will try Miren.

-dan
[Galaxy Tab General] alex2792:
I use Dolphin Mini, it's very fast and great with flash content. Much better than iPad's safari IMO.
[Galaxy Tab General] milomak:
didn't know dolphin had a mini version. will try that out.

i still find that keyboard lag is an issue with browsers
[Galaxy Tab General] polbit:
While I was going to say Dolphin HD, I installed Dolphin Mini last night based on what people said in this thread, and a big +1 to the Mini! I like the clean interface better than HDs, and seems a little faster too.
[Galaxy Tab General] n2s2k2india:
I have a simple method of deciding on the browser. I have installed most popular browsers. Now, first I open the stock browser and open this forum site, then I copy the address to the clipboard. Next, I open let's say Miren, paste the address and hit enter, I count 1001, 1002, 1003.....and mark the number for COMPLETE opening. Do the same with other browsers. So far (for me) Miren is the winner (1016) followed by Dolphin mini (1024).:D
[Galaxy Tab General] FC1032:
I've got miren, opera and firefox installed.

Miren is the one I use all the time, it seems the most "balanced" for me, its nicely laid out and is pretty fast (faster than the other two for me at least). Prob is it had an issue with large downloads, it would just load like a few kb and say its done. new update seems to have fixed that though

Opera was second best IMO. Firefox was slowest to load and slow to load pages. But both work more like desktop browsers.

I think I might try out dolphin mini :)
[Galaxy Tab General] ziffos:
No sorry but Dolphin Mini was rubbish - it did not open some of my required sites - just gives usual message of "Server Failed to Communicate"

therefore

Firefox so far remains the ONLY browser that will open ALL of my required sites.
[Galaxy Tab General] EVOme:
I have to agree
[Galaxy Tab General] da_in_sd:
I have tried Dolphin HD for a few days and I must admit I like it. I like the gestures feature but was annoyed with the facebook gesture that kept being called so I removed that one. I also created a few gestures for cnn.com and espn.com.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab General] le3ky:
Nothing like an accurate scientific method is there!! :D

But it must have worked because miren came out on top :p
[Galaxy Tab General] dkelley:
server failed to communicate isn't a browser issue. it's a network connectivity issue.

if these browsers aren't connecting to your sites it doesn't make the browsers rubbish, it makes something in your connectivity rubbish. If I were you I would perform some network diagnostics to see what's wrong.

of course if "your websites" are custom hosted on an unusual port with non-standard security certificates or something like that then most of those browser could be giving you errors, but that would the fault of the websites, not the browsers.

be fair to the products - if you're seeing network errors reported then the error is in the networking or communications or hosting, not in the browsers. if one browser (firefox) works better than teh rest it could be a fluke (good network connectivity during your firefox use for some otherwise unrelated reason), or it could be that firefox simply retries http or https calls more than the other browsers. Either way it would be firefox working around a problem in your hosting, network connectivity or website security - not an issue with the web browsers.

those browsers which are showing that specific error you mentioned are very helpful and the message should be used to track down the real cause of your trouble.

Possibly your wifi or data connection in the tab isn't working very reliably?
[Galaxy Tab General] ResonanceZero:
Miren is fast, and I like its bookmarks interface, but it failed fundamentally as a browser by not having any way to manage SSL certificates, meaning that using SSL on sites not signed by the major vendors is an exercise in frustration as a fresh alert pops up on every freaking page.

It also failed my in some page rendering tests (though that isn't entirely fair because the only browser which seems to get them all right is Firefox, and Firefox is notably slower), and failed the large image test (again, slightly not fair since *no* browser gets this right, though Firefox is better than the rest).

Opera failed something fundamental as well, I think privacy-related since it's the only browser I tested that I actually made sure was completely uninstalled, but I forget exactly what.

I'm using mostly Dolphin HD at the moment, and it's in the category of "fast enough for me". xScope is reasonably quick and doesn't irritate me too often, but its bookmark manager kind of sucks, and I like some of the Dolphin plugins like the text resizer and Google translate. Firefox I pull out for sites with large images or rendering that breaks other browsers, but I don't use it for everything because it's just too slow.

In short, they all suck, but some of them suck in different ways, so keep a couple around. I recommend Dolphin HD + Firefox at the moment. If you're an absolute speed freak that doesn't care about SSL, you might do Miren + Firefox.
[Galaxy Tab General] :
anyone has tried firefox 4 beta 5 on the tab?
[Galaxy Tab General] ilsolito:
Skyfire. anyone???
[Galaxy Tab General] AlexTheStampede:
If it was privacy related, you (probably) uninstalled Opera mini as it's not a browser but a client that shows the pages after the proxy recompressed them. I'd feel more worried about my isp, those guys actually know who i am... Anyway Opera Mobile is a real browser and unless you enable Opera Turbo (funny fact: long ago it was an experimental and PAID feature, soon enough it generated Opera mini and obviously it became free) that is a compression proxy.

And with that in mind, you get the best browser for the tab :D
[Galaxy Tab General] stefanpowell:
Thanks guys, very useful :)
[Galaxy Tab General] ResonanceZero:
I've tried it. It's nominally faster than beta 3 at rendering, startup time is still horrid. As I noted above, its primary advantage is that it's currently the only browser that seems to render all pages correctly and displays large images without massive blurring (though it's not perfect there, either).
[Galaxy Tab General] ResonanceZero:
I'm pretty sure it was Opera Mobile I was testing, but I can't remember for certain. In any case, I pulled it back down for another look, and it 1) fails to manage SSL certificates which is an instant fail (actually, I found a way to kind of do this, though it's cumbersome, see below), 2) doesn't do double-tap-to-fill-column (though pinch-to-zoom still works, if less accurately), 3) has no easy way to switch user agent (you can do it via about:config, but you have to look up and type in an entire string by hand, and switching back and forth would be a nightmare), 4) has no Flash support (something Firefox also fails at), and 5) the Opera Turbo feature is probably what caused me to uninstall it, even though it's disabled by default. It's definitely not the best for general use.

The good news, however, is that it also properly rendered some of the trouble pages that nobody other than Firefox gets, rendered almost correctly and was able to scroll with reasonable speed the one trouble page that no other browser seems to handle well (though sadly the lack of Flash support meant that the pages beneath it were still unusable). It even had better large image handling than Firefox, being the only browser that seems to render pixel-perfect, but there's something buggy about it -- getting the image to render *at all* generally requires refreshing the page at least once. Not fatal, just slightly annoying, but much less annoying than an unreadable image.

I also went back and forth testing with Firefox and discovered that the reason that Firefox wasn't annoying me on the site I was testing with is because it was *silently redirecting to the non-SSL version of the page!*

While I was hunting around about that problem, I discovered that if you use Opera to download ca signing certificate for a site, *then* you can permanently accept it the next time you visit the site, and it leaves you alone thereafter. The same trick works on Miren. That covers my biggest personal problem, since I actually do have access to that file for the problem sites I need the most, but it remains a general weakness, since not all sites not signed by the major vendors have that file available for direct download.

So Opera Mobile trumps Firefox, and has replaced it for my secondary browser when I need to have something rendered correctly. So, thank you for making me take a second look, and I'm now recommending Dolphin HD for the primary browser for the flash/plugin support/better viewing interface, and Opera for correct rendering.
[Galaxy Tab General] jeffnucci:
I use Dolphin HD on both my Droid X and my Tab. I like Firefox but I'm content waiting for the final release.
[Galaxy Tab General] DarkPal:
I am using skyfire. Native flash support. Quick browsing tried dolphin HD. Didnt work quite as well. Opera works on symbian phones but isnt as good on galaxy tab and ither festure supporting devices.
[Galaxy Tab General] vince_junior:
skyfire is faster than dolphin hd.....however, i notice that there is no exit button in skyfire, i have to press the back hardware key a few times to exit....
[Galaxy Tab General] TexasBlack:
I have miren skyfire and dolphin....i mostly use miren....its faster....saves your favorites sites as tabs....skyfire definitely for.... flash
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
Miren, it's the best after trying all off them.

swyped from a galaxy far far away...
[Galaxy Tab General] Manicova:
miren for me and thanks to who show me this browser, its mine for now! firefox is good but need some improvment, still in beta I know!
[Galaxy Tab General] a-kid:
Flash Game support...

Hi guys,

sorry for the noob question and its my first post in the forum so pls be nice :)

i wanted to know whether the Galaxy Tab can play some of those Facebook games like Mafiawars or Cityville (which i think are flash based) on its stock browser or maybe even on Dolphin or Mirren or Firefox etc...? I regularly play a few of the FB games and would want to play them on the Tab if possible...when I buy it next week.

just wanted to check here first. thnx for any input.

Cheers.
[Galaxy Tab General] keyl10:
I saw this thread and decided to go ahead and do some tests. Here are my results after 54 tests.

Average page load time

Miren Browser – 10.6 seconds

Skyfire Web Browser 3.0 – 10.8 seconds

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser – 11.2 seconds

Dolphin Browser HD – 13.9 seconds

Default Browser – 15.5 seconds

xScope Browser – Web & File – 17.5 seconds

Read more below

http://www.galaxytabs.com/2011/03/galaxy-tab-browser-speed-tests/
[Galaxy Tab General] Sarsippius:
Has anyone noticed the cpu on their tab gets fairly hot using Miren? I usually use Dolphin HD but have been trying Miren, I like it but I can feel the area around the cpu gets noticeably hotter using Miren. Maybe it's quicker as it's working the cpu more, it doesn't seem to translate to more battery drain though.
[Galaxy Tab General] quattr0:
Xscope here. If u will run sunspider benchmark u will know y :)
[Galaxy Tab General] iguanasterix:
Opera 11 for android just came out and it's looking great on the GT! Very quick and it supports Flash as well!
[Galaxy Tab General] vrupp:
I think speed is the most important, so opera
[Galaxy Tab General] IP IHI II IL:
Wow... I'm really surprised I'm the first to suggest it! (i think....lol. lotsa posts on this one)

I can honestly say I've used EVERY browser, and XScope is IT for me... I won't use another browser on my EVO OR SGT til Google releases Chrome, 'cause XScope is so similar to Chrome. I've yet to find a website (mobile or desktop version) that has problems, or won't load. There's a free version, but I paid the $2.99 for it after a very short amount of time. In my opinion, its better than all others...
[Galaxy Tab General] FC1032:
Just got opera mobile a while ago, its very responsive and fast. In fact I use it over miren now
[G2 and Desire Z General] khrei:
For me thus far it's a tossup between gingervillain and virtuous, I love the sense feel and style but I can tell the strain it puts on my g2 when compared to running gingervillain. If i could get the htc widgets and skins on gingervillain with go launcher as the "stock" launcher i think i'd be set. all in all though my vote is:

gingervillain.

p.s: thanks to the douche team for all they have made possible.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
Cm7 + ULV kernel hands down. I <3 speed + 12 hours battery life heavy usage.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 running Cyanogenmod.
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
CM7 nightlies have been awesome for me so far. Of course I did love CM6 too but these nightlies are very very stable and I'm loving the 2.3 goodness.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KarlosTheJackal:
Enomthers TheOffical. I can't stand sense so as soon as I got my DesireZ I wanted stock, plus I love all the spare parts options I get to play with the phone even more!

Delivered by Western Union in the rain after 70 Years
[G2 and Desire Z General] b1oh4zard:
CM7 Nightlys :) cause its stable and smooth :) and i got 2 days with light usage with mugen 1800mah and 1 day with middle to heavy usage :) still waiting for the official rc1 from cyanogen.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ChronoReverse:
Which ULV kernel are you using?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Gunlance:
CM7 nightly. Stock with no fuss and all the options I feel should have been available in the first place.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TrueYears:
MIUI

Hands down MIUI wins

heck, even CM needed their help with thier FM radio ;)

Its fast, its stabler now (1.2.4)

and battery just lasts longer with it, not to mention, better perfomance

I like its easy editing mode.

I like the dock that stays there and how it manages its screens.

I love that is has built features, other roms need apps to do

Wireless Sync Ready, Wireless Thether, ready ect ect

has some battery saving modes that really do help

Better theme management

Built it Back up app which backs up your system settings, texts. call, address. and apps

Simple setting guide with tabs in the button

I get around 12 hours with stock battery (with 3 hours of internet) and calls/texts

CM is good and all but just seems like a typical stock with a few added twicks to it
[G2 and Desire Z General] Cimer:
I have tried all of the G2 ROMs except for the ugly new ones. I would love to take features from all of them and put them all into one ROM, however I think MIUI wins because it is so very customizable and it's only getting started, although new releases are delayed because they need to be translated into English. With this being said I would love to take features from all of them and put them all into one ultimate ROM. However I am not a developer, and I would have no idea where to start.
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Solutor:
I use the 1.85 stock rom, not because I like the HTC sense UI but becouse I find useful a couple of thinks, mainly the USB menu that can be defaulted to anithyng, and the HTC email app.

Also Gingerbread looks ugly on the DZ (unlike on the milestone I used for a whole year) because the UI is mainly black, and the black of the DZ's screen is so poor, so greysh.
[G2 and Desire Z General] donovan1983:
My favorite so far is the CyanogenMod 7 nightlies. Amazingly stable for something that isn't even labeled a beta, has only the basics out of the box, and great battery life (even better with Pershoot's kernel). A big seller for me is the fact that I could customize the autobrightness levels which makes my phone much more usable in the typically dim environments I use it in, a feature which is also in CyanogenMod 6 (if not earlier versions, too). I also like ADW.Launcher so its inclusion by default in CM works out great for me. Gingerbread's simplified, higher-contrast, and more subdued UI scheme is leaps and bounds above previous Android versions once you get used to it, IMNSHO. Basically, it just makes using my phone more pleasant on a day to day basis and there's not much more I could ask for in a phone's OS.
[G2 and Desire Z General] conizius:
Well I like my Virtuous 0.9.

It's pretty stable and I like the sense look and feel. And Virtuous just adds the goodies to that as well as bugfixes and some basics for essential topics (like vpn etc)

Eventho I does not use an advanced kerlen I am right now at 30% after 15h inkluding 100% wifi on, 2h contigous browsing while on subway and sticking around a while in the xda app.

And for sure moderate usage of sms and phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] durps:
Which Rom and Kernal do you guys think is best when it comes down to battery life?
[G2 and Desire Z General] crimsdings:
using Virtuous 0.9.5 with the advanced kernel.

only thing is that all htc sense roms seems to be a little "laggy" ... when i first got my phone i thought those htc widgets are awesome (friendstream, news etc), but over the time i disabled them actually all - so i'm really thinking about switching to cm7 nightly builds.

only thing i'm concerned about are the missing security "features" sense provides (disable the phone, locate the phone etc etc)
[G2 and Desire Z General] troby1986:
GingerVillain for speed, CM6 for stability.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wderyl:
Hey Anyone know what those connections are for, on the back of the phone behind the battery cover?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asj2583:
Lol I asked the same quesion when I had my evo. I believe these are for antenas for when the phone was being tested. You can hook up some antenas same you hook up antenas to a laptop wifi card.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
Yep antena hook ups, don't try and use them though, I've heard of people not getting signal back after trying an extention.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RanT476:
ok i jus got my vibrant i tryed going into recovery with holding volume up and down at the same time and then pressing and then holding power till the vibrant disappears and comes back up then, i release it never goes to recovery so what method should i use to root? trying to get this going asap im rdy to do w.e my drivers are alrdy installed for my galaxy s vibrant so let me kno thnx peeps
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcghee1973:
You hold all three buttons at the same time and wait for vibrant screen to flash twice....then when it goes out the third time..release the power button only
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RanT476:
o ok let me try that
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RanT476:
na booted up regularly i just got it today so i think i gatta go about rooting another way so whats the other ways?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcghee1973:
You can use superonclick or the easiest is to odin supercurios ka6+voodoo kernel...read up first on voodoo so your not back here tomorrow sayin you bricked your phone though... :-)

** oh..wait..are you on 2.1???

Sent from my Bionix V powered Vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RanT476:
im on 2.1 update 1 i just got my phone today so i figured i'd be able to do the recovery thing with the volume buttons but it seems they locked that but i kno they have a way around it i saw it im trying to remember
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcghee1973:
Did you power your phone off & then hold all three buttons down, let the vibrant screen come up twice and when it goes out the third time let go of the power button...keep holding the volume buttons down...

For 2.1 you just need the update.zip on your internalsd to flash for root

Sent from my Bionix V powered Vibrant