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[Xoom General] Diversion:
I haven't gone more than 2 tabs in the browser so far.. i'll open a lot more windows and see if I can get mine to FC.
[Xoom General] vitodintino1228:
Thanks buddy, I appreciate it. So far i'm imperssed, honestly. I think it's a solid device. Worth 800 bucks? Probably not, but over 18 months, what the hell, I can afford to be an early adopter. I may invest in an anti glare screen. I can't tell if it's so nice looking that its glassy, or so poorly implemented that its a glare magnent, lol.

Either way, i'm happy with my investment, and I really hope google puts a lot of attention to fixing bugs and any other issues with Honeycomb.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
It's just as glossy as the iPad/Galaxy Tab (I own both).. I was in my car using my Xoom in a parking lot.. and it was just badddd.. sun glaring in my eyes lol.. But I expected that.
[Xoom General] vitodintino1228:
I can agree with that, I don't know.. It doesn't outweigh the pros as of yet. The main thing that i'm eager to test at this point is the Battery, and some of the dual core optimized games and what not. What about you? Are you looking for anything in particular? Any other experience you can comment on? So far, by the way, tethering to my droid x is working phenomenally.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
What I'm really looking for is a Tablet with an alternative OS (anything not Windows) with great battery life and gives me the tools to be as productive as a netbook.. Far reaching goals im sure though.
[Xoom General] schnoz:
Does honeycomb have an easy way for selecting in the middle of sentences / words? I know the IPad has a magnify glass come up when you hold your finger near a word so that you can see exactly where the cursor is, does honeycomb do something similar? Also, how is the copy/paste in honeycomb? I know on my 2.3 phone, it's not that great and hard to select exactly what you want.
[Xoom General] JimmyHACK:
you able to find google body app... cant find it on market and it's not preinstalled???
[Xoom General] Protokoll:
Can you try viewing streaming websites on WiFi (justin.tv or ustream.tv) and see how the tablet handles higher quality streams?
[Xoom General] keitht:
I was wondering the same thing.
[Xoom General] gigglebox:
The only one that I've seen so far is when trying to run "Remote Desktop Client" by Xtralogic. No dice so far, so I'll have to keep a look out for a Xoom-Approved RDP client :(
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
When you click the words a little pointer comes up, drag it were you want it.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
I have no experience with Android 2.3.. but there seems to be a pretty nice/decent cut and paste built in.. I haven't used it yet.
[Xoom General] Dgree03:
I have had an iPad since july of last year, sold it yesterday in prepartion for the Xoom purchase today. Walked into Verizon purchased the Xoom and walked right out no hassle, no activation required. Here my Mini Review so far, with some comparisons to my previous 32gb ipad.

Hardware:

Nice heft, feels really solid and has that industrial feel. I do not feel I am going to drop it because it slips out of my hand... i always felt that way when holding an ipad.

its a 16:10 screen so it is wider than it is long. Should be perfect for movies.

Screen is a finger print magnet like ipad.

Software:

Gmail- is incredible on this thing. Drag and drop, color labels, etc. the workflow with gmail is priceless and so fluid. I cannot speak of the general "email" app because i only use gmail.

youtube- way way faster loading videos on this than it was on the ipad. it has some eye candy, which is always nice.. esp for android.

browser- Browser is great! and it loads pages faster than my ipad did. also it has tabs and THEY DO NOT RELOAD ON SWITCHING!! I had 8 tabs open... flipping through them flawlessly! As always using google account you can sync bookmarks and such between desktop and xoom.

Havent tried the music app yet

The gallery is like your standard vanilla android gallery.. loaded all my picasa pics from the cloud.

Other apps- there are very few "tablet apps" in the market. The 2 I did DL was pulse and accuweather. Pulse was pretty basic but did take advantage of the fragments. Accuweather is slick... but they need to polish up some pixelation i saw tapping the background "live" water.

Apps like facebook and kindle scale up nicely. While some apps dont like the speedtest app.

Speaking of speed test, i did a load on my wifi connection at 15mbps down and 3 up and i pull 14mbps down and 2 up. My ipad could never pull above 10mbps. I also noticed my signal holding strong than it did on my ipad.

Workflow is great!! This is what i have been missing on ipad... background task, unintrustive notifications.

Thats all I have right now... so far I am liking the decision i made. But i know i will be missing my apps the ipad had!!! Android cant match it yet... it will take some time.
[Xoom General] HorsexD:
If Xoom battery life is anything like G Tablets (Also Tegra 2) it should have pretty damn good battery Life :p
[Xoom General] Diversion:
I'm getting "Your device does not support Justin.tv".

Once you install the Ustream app.. it works fine. Video quality was pretty bad over 3g though.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
I had a Viewsonic G Tablet for a few days and found the battery life to be horrible.. Maybe they've come out with a few updates to address this since then.. This was back when they first came out.. I promptly returned the unit because of it's poor performance, screen, battery life.. list goes on for me.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
In regards to the battery.. the 2 screws on the bottom of the unit are some kind of micro-torx.. of which I have none of this tiny size.. I really want to open this thing up and see the battery and confirm it's mAh size.. ugh.
[Xoom General] vitodintino1228:
Can anyone confirm blurry camera app? I don't know if it's my eyes, but I am really, really disappointed, this camera looks super blurry.
[Xoom General] JimmyHACK:
google body app... where is it.. help :)
[Xoom General] HorsexD:
They did have alot of updates but Mine had custom rom on it and the battery lasted me all day. way longer than any laptop for shure.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Theres no needed to confirm, verizon had it on their site that it was 3250 mah. 47% of the size if the galaxy tab 10.1 battery.
[Xoom General] Diversion:
Wow.. then the Galaxy 10.1 should be a 30 day standby time device with 20+ hours of video playback... INSANE. And i'll most likely be getting that and returning this unit if true!
[Xoom General] Diversion:
All day long's not saying much when my iPad lasts me a few days of heavy use :P
[Xoom General] Diversion:
The pictures I take on my Xoom also look blurry... I'm hoping after you e-mail/xfer the pics to something/someone they come out looking much better.. here.. i'll test...

I think they come out great!
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Im always amazed when I fall asleep watching a show streaming to the ipad through air video and I wake up the next day and the ipad has 98% left.
[Xoom General] bogatyr:
They're working on an update for Honeycomb.

Note: I switched my name obviously, but the rest is verbatim from the email.
[Xoom General] bogatyr:
My iPad only lasted 10-12 hours of continuous use (Kindle reading all day).
[Xoom General] Diversion:
Strange.. I bet mine would last a lot longer :/
[Xoom General] KwestJones:
hmmmm---battery?

I got my email from verizon that it was activated at 10:16am. When I started using it the battery was about 95%. Right now it is 3:28 and my battery is at 51%.
[Xoom General] galactic.surfeur:
It is a USB Host port ? it is possible to plug a external HDD to play some music/movie directly in the Xoom ?

thanks!
[Xoom General] keitht:
I read somewhere that you must use the USB cable from Motorola (the one that came with the Xoom) for host port to work. Special pin change or something. However, I have not tried an external drive yet.
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
Judging from this logic..

We're gonna say it took 5 hours for the Xoom to go down 40%, therefore it would take maybe 10+ hours for it to die completely. Your statement was very vague though, no usage listed at all.

At this I point I don't really care though, it seems the reviews say 8+ hours with heavy usage. I have seen no standby time.
[Xoom General] galactic.surfeur:
Ok thanks for your reply. If you can test with an external drive, it would be appreciated :) Just to know if it's possible or not ... maybe Honeycomb is not ready for that yet..
[Xoom General] ggoldfingerd:
I played around with one today at Best Buy, but didn't get a chance to try everything.

How is PDF viewing on the Xoom?
[Xoom General] Polarfuchs:
The 'mah' do mean nothing, if no voltage is given.

Only watt hours are meaningful an comparable.
[Xoom General] Geri-Ann:
I have a wifi Motorola xoom... is there a way that I can use my Samsung Messenger phone so that I can use my xoom's internet?

Also... Since I have the wifi xoom... if I wanted it to be 3G or 4, can the xoom I have now be taken in and upgraded?

Thank you.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Wow geri-Ann, this is a wicked old thread...

Yes you can tether to an android phone (is the Messenger an android phone?) if it uses infrastructure or something like that (I don't tether). Otherwise, you need to flash a tethering fix. You need to be rooted I think, for that to work. If you don't know what rooting is, read up on it but I would recommend you go slow unless you are really interested in techie stuff and have nerves of steel. Well, nerves of steel are not really necessary, but it can all be a bit tricky.

I don't know of any offer to swap out WiFi Xooms for 4G (or 3G). If you want 4G/3G do what I do and get a mifi hotspot. I have the Clear 4G Wimax hotspot, but there are others.
[Xoom General] vari9:
Does it play full hd mp4 videos??
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Yes, some players are better than others and some need conversion. There are a number of threads devoted just to that topic and you will find a lot of info in them.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
The Moto spec sheets say there is one. Is this like Zork, where you have to look under a grating in a dark closet? I've used headphones but didn't see any "radio" options happen.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strahlenkanone:
I cannot find anything about a FM radio in the official Motorola atrix specs...but I also would like to have a fm radio
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panflute:
fm radio

Yes there is an FM radio but you can't use it just yet. There is an app called CMP Connected Media Player that Motorola is working on but not released yet. There is a leaked version out there that connects to the FM receiver but it is not working (yet). Maybe they haven't enabled that feature yet, or maybe AT&T is blocking it because they want you to pay for their radio service, we don't know yet. I installed CMP and it is only half completed so it's probably best to wait for the official release whenever that will be. CMP uses the SAME icon and title as the current installed music player, so when you install it you will have 2 identical music app icons....like I said it may be better to just wait until the official release.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
Any info on when it might be released?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
Thanks, Panflute. Some things I'll meddle with, but resist the temptation to meddle for FM radio right now. I've got a chip full of MP3 stuffed in there that can keep me happy for a long time, and I'd like to explore the full range of lockups and lapses (Huh, was someone trying to use me as a phone?!) first.

The phone seems to get lost every once in a while, but that seems to be an Android thing, I'm guessing some tasks (like connecting to Google) sometimes take 100% CPU utilization and just don't bother telling the user to "wait please".
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strahlenkanone:
The Atrix has an FM chip inside that is true, but also the Milestone 2 has one and there is still no working fm app for that phone. Motorola only seems to activate the fm radio on there lower priced phones. I don't know why. In Motorolas specs list is nothing to find about a working fm radio. But something officially about the fm radio would change my mind.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GhostXtreme:
Looks like someone has figured it here by updating Connected Music Player:

url://fabdroid.com/goodies/Motorola...er_1.0.179.apk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
Had to rename to .apk extension, but fm radio still does not work...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
"but fm radio still does not work..."

Forgive me if this is obvious...But you know the FM radios only work if you have a headset plugged in? They use the headset wire as the FM antenna. I'd expect the hardware won't "run" the radio unless it detects earbuds are plugged in.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
Yes my headset was plugged in, the app won't open without the headset, unfortunately it's not working...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FNugget:
I just tried it, doesn't seem to work yet. I have headphones in and it says it's playing, but there no sound.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastAndJam:
I have to disagree with just waiting for Motorola to unlock this feature. The dev community had to unlock it for the Droid 2 as well...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
I wonder why Motorola can advertise that the Atrix has the FM Radio with RDS, but their only service provider for now which is AT&T does not mention it at all.

I really don't want to blame anyone, but I miss this feature very much. One of the main reasons I purchased the Atrix is because I wouldn't be losing any existing features of my older phone.

Does anyone know the status of the Motorola Connected Music Player app?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nsaia:
Just wondering if anyone knows if there's been any progress on this.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnCommonGrafx:
It's gone now.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] franciscojavierleon:
the broadcom chip on the phone supports fm radio but there isn't an application that has been developed to use it.

so unless some dev has ample knowledge of the broadcom chip and develops a new app for it, we won't get support.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/330308#330308
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
"I wonder why Motorola can advertise that the Atrix has the FM Radio with RDS, but their only service provider for now which is AT&T does not mention it at all."

That's an easy one to answer. If you buy an Atrix from Motorola, you can get it with the FM radio working. Oh, wait, that's right, Moto doesn't sell any of them.

So you buy it from AT&T, who has all their phones built/configured "OEM" just for AT&T's own specs, and funny thing, you get what AT&T advertises: No radio.

And that's the way the game is played. Buy it from Moto, you're entitled to a radio. Buy it from AT&T, you're not. Unless someone can convince the FTC or another agency that kneecapping hardware is an unfair trade practice that falls under their regulation.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
But that doesn't make any sense, you just stated buy it from Moto, I'm entitled to radio, but just above that you say Moto doesn't sell any of them. So my conclusion would be I can't purchase one with an FM Radio working out of the box. If this is the case, it would definitely be false advertising.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquariumdrinker:
My lawyer senses were tingling. I'm not that kind of attorney, but I'm pretty sure there's no false advertising here. Did AT&T tell you you were getting a radio? Sucks, yes. Actionable, no.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
"But that doesn't make any sense, you just stated buy it from Moto, I'm entitled to radio, but just above that you say Moto doesn't sell any of them. So my conclusion would be I can't purchase one with an FM Radio working out of the box. If this is the case, it would definitely be false advertising."

What's false? Who's advertising? Think about it, your conclusion is correct. YOU can't purchase one, at this time, with a working radio. Or perhaps you could, if you bought one directly from Moto. AT&T probably has some exclusive with them, but no doubt you could order a hundred thousand phones after that runs out, and have them FM radio function implemented for you. Ohyeah, wholesale, retail, there are all kinds of markets and Moto never has, AFAIK, sold phone directly retail. If AT&T or some other carrier chooses to kneecap the product, or just supports a partial feature set...well, what's false about that, as long as they tell you what they are or aren't delivering?

Is it, perhaps, what some of us would opine "ungentlemenly conduct" or "not the best behavior" ? Or perhaps, bordering on "smarmy" ? Does the phrase "What WHERE they THINKING?" come to mind?

Well...if it was, that still doesn't necessarily make it false or illegal. Heck, the cellcos are allowed to charge 1000x more for SMS than they do for voice calling time, and that's not illegal. So, this one wants you to pay for data rates and get your music by the byte, rather than for free. Sadly, that's the way capitalism works. Or, not so sadly, when you're the capitalist.<G>

I'd suspect there's good pocket change to be made by any programmer who can sell a little applet to enable the radio. Like the Chinese ideogram, or the tarot card, that has two meanings: Chaos, and opportunity. All the same, no?

Now, if Moto had only released the Atrix in a ruggedized body, like the T-Mob Defy! Who knows, maybe in six months time. With an FM radio. And supporting the data bands from BOTH carriers. <G>
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James62370:
I guess I understand your point. Prior to purchasing the phone, I was pretty sure I saw an Ad from Motorola that said FM Radio with RDS, but I could be wrong. There were so many specs and rumors floating around I probably assumed that it would be there since the hardware was in placed. Oh well, I do hope someone can mod Connected Music Player and get the FM Radio part to work with our Atrix. That would be so cool...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
"Probably printing error? I saw no fm radio mentioning on the official site, so tough luck."

What official site? There's no "official" Atrix site, although there's one hosted by Motorola and another hosted by AT&T. If you were following the announcements and reviews posted since CES in early January, there were plenty of mentions that the phone had an FM radio built in. And a number of feature listings by AT&T that omitted any mention of a GPS. Yes, errors are sometimes made.

What you or anyone else sees on the web today should never be mistaken for fact or history. The web is George Orwell's nightmare, a place where history can be rewritten in seconds a thousand times a day. Fortunately, there are archives. There is an actual "web time machine". And some of us have screen captures. Yes, there were many posts saying there's an FM radio in the phone. Among other things, Broadcom makes a number of cell phone chips that have GPS and FM both built into the same chip, for use in cell phones.

You want to be able to use the radio that was reported multiple times by multiple sources to be in this phone? OK, email your complaint to Antitrust.Complaints@usdoj.gov they will be looking into whether there is in fact a radio, and whether AT&T intentionally disabled it to prevent competition in trade. (i.e. are FM broadcasters and advertisers now locked out of this market by AT&T.)

Maybe AT&T didn't disable the chip. Maybe Moto did. Maybe there were good reasons. You'll never know the truth, unless the DOJ demands a formal explanation. Might as well ask it, since your tax money has already paid for the service.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noxlord:
What a load of crap, I hate having a gadget that I can't use at it's full capacity for some ****ty commercial reason.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
"for some ****ty commercial reason."

Well, you being Canadian apparently, the USDOJ might not want to know about your problems. But surely, there are Canadian regulators who also take a dim view of crippled products?

The cellular industry has been widely known for many years as having manufacturers who customize almost every product for every carrier release--at carrier specification. That's just business as usual. Doesn't mean the carriers can't or shouldn't be taken to task when they shortchange the customers though.

If you don't know who to file a complaint with, find someone who votes, ask them who the lowest-level local elected official is, and call their office to ask. Too many people just lie back and take it, and that's why the crooks get away with more every year.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] martyotaku:
Im rooted now im wondering whats the best app to get for tethering?

I want to usb tether and wifi teather ....any ideas?

thanx
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] lsxrx7:
use the google one

current stable release is 2.06 i think
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Snakeyez86:
I use Barnacle, nice and easy
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Scholarly:
Well if you are interested in tethering with a lapdock (as I am with unlimited) Barnacle works flawless after associating. The wifi tether required I change the network proxy to default before it passed validating. But I got it off the market so the beta pre 3.0 may work better. Market version also didn't allow some controls.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] PixoNova:
I use a combo of Barnacle + Mobile Hotspot.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] MadViper:
What do you guys use for a wired tether?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] PixoNova:
I use PDAnet if I need to tether via USB. But I rarely have to.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NOMster:
There is also a wired tether app. I found it with a Google search. Its just like wireless tether except wired. I can't attach it from the app here but its out there.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] SpoonerPS3:
Android Wifi Tether

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

Get the 2.0.6 one. Thank me later! :p
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] eatkabab:
YES. This.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
dont mean to hijack, but when you go to enable tethering, do you guys get the att validating notification and says your account is not setup for hotspot? how do you get arround that? i already have the apn set per the other thread.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] youngWMuser:
tried to install this app and received the dumb security code for:

"THIS APPLICATION COMES FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE AND FOR YOUR SECURITY ONLY APPLICATIONS FROM TRUSTED SOURCES CAN BE INSTALLED." WTH. =/

Tried to go into settings and can't find a way to bypass this.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] PhillyBlunt474:
Are you rooted and enabled third party apps? Have to be rooted to use wifi tether and need to enable third party apps when you root to be able to install the file
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] youngWMuser:
Hey thanks for replying, I've only been using android for about a few months now, used to be a windows mobile fan, dislike it. Switching over to this, not sure what exactly that is, am a techno dude, if there are some steps maybe you could guide me, appreciate it. thanks.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] PhillyBlunt474:
briefmobile.com/motorola-atrix-4g-root

Might want to do a little reading on what all rooting is before you do it. But basically it gives you more control over the phone. Once rooted and allow third party apps you should be able to download wifi tether and install it.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] youngWMuser:
Thanks for the article. completed, also followed the sticky for rooting on here. ATT=money maker company, can't believe we can't install non market apps right out of the box.