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[Xoom General] Dgree03:
my review below

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] blozout:
It really is like comparing apples to oranges.

I look at the ipad as purely an "app launcher". The OS itself has zero functionality. But the app quality is great and it's runs very smoothly. Then again Apple did have their own OS to work off of when the created iOS so it's not like starting something from scratch as with Android.

The Xoom (and Android in general) is more a fully featured OS that has functionality aside form launching apps. However this is also the downside, there is a lot more that can go wrong (example - the multitasking can bog the OS down). I think eventually Android will be as smooth as iOS, but right now it's not. But if you want a full featured, incredibly functional device, the Xoom trumps the iPad.

Basically if you just want to launch apps the iPad is great. If you want anything else out of the tablet, you have to go with Xoom.
[Xoom General] rlabarca:
For me, the Xoom beats my iPad. This is my first Android device period, and I have used iOS strictly since waiting in line for the first iPhone.

I gave my iPad to my wife to use for things around the house - airplay to the stereo, recipes in the kitchen, quick additions to the grocery list...

It is excellent at what it does - appealing to the broadest base of users possible. But I could not truly be productive on it. I want to IM, email, read RSS, edit docs, and keep track of a multitude of other things at the same time - and even with the multitasking bar at the bottom, it feels like a single-task device.

Here are specific things it did that made it feel like a single-tasker:

- With many things running, exiting and entering the browser effectively had to reload every tab because it couldn't keep it all in memory.

- Alerts were cumbersome, interrupting and not persistent.

- Many productivity apps would lose state when they were put in the background (suspend).

- There were many good replacement browsers for Safari - but you could never bind any of them to open links by default. So you always felt like a second class citizen using them.

- Many large productivity apps show their loading screen again to get back in when you quickly switch out and back again. I feel the lack of RAM consistently.

I enabled developer mode in OS 4.3 on the iPad so I could use swipe gestures to move between apps and get back to the homescreen without using the button. But it made all of these flaws stand out even more. Even if they upped the RAM, these gesture controls don't hold a candle to the Honeycomb task switcher or WebOS' card view. Apple's paradigm breaks down in that use case and they need a real overhaul.

For me, iOS is still the most bulletpoof, whille still super-functional OS - and I want to rely on for my smartphone. I don't need to achieve these levels of productivity in that use case. But for a tablet OS, Honeycomb wins, and the Xoom makes an excellent showcase for it.

Oh, and a bonus for me - I have gigs and gigs of photos that I just happen to use Picasa to manage. Never used the web albums though. I always used the iPad to show photos by syncing what I could - but I rarely plug it into my computer so it was always out of date. But with the Xoom, all I have to do is tell Picasa to sync what I want with web albums and they show up on the Xoom - without using up storage! Genius.

Can't wait to see this excellent tablet and tablet OS evolve.
[Xoom General] scores87:
is scrolling and pinch to zoom smooth?
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCilGpUvXuE&t=2m01s
[Xoom General] badandyg:
+1 Xoom

The iPad pales in comparison and only can aspire to one day be recycled into a Xoom
[Xoom General] ZBoater:
I like the Xoom better because of Android, but I am also getting an iPad 2. I have too many apps and Android has a while to catch up in that regard. But I'm keeping my Xoom. :)
[Xoom General] BoozeRob:
I have both the iPad and the Xoom... I havent touched the iPad since I got the Xoom. I just love Honeycomb over the iOS. That being said, I won't get rid of the iPad until Google releases a movie store so that I can rent movies while I travel.
[Xoom General] funnycreature:
Why not have both!!?

I know I've been called a "technology whore" before so what the hell... I was thinking about buying my wife an iPad2 for her birthday; in part so I don't have to feel too bad about having spent $571.09 (price on bill) on the Xoom. So I could enjoy the best of both worlds.
[Xoom General] codeman05:
I had an iPad, ended up getting it for a steal and just to tie me over until the android tablets started rolling out.

Since I picked up the Xoom, I haven't touched the iPad since. I gave it to my wife...and now she wants a Xoom too lol...so it will likely be on eBay soon.

Even without Flash/4G, I've enjoyed every bit of it. Once we get those 2 things, a few custom roms etc, I'll be in heaven.

Used handbrake to shrink some of my bluray collection for a trip next week...looks/runs fantastic.

My $0.02
[Xoom General] DocSavag:
I haven't touched my iPad since the night of the 24th. I loved it when I got it and I used it every single day. It is extremely useful and handy to have.

The Xoom has done everything I was doing on the iPad with the exception of Netflix which I do miss and hope to have return some day one can believe Nvidia's press release. Other than that I want more apps and I want them faster than it is possible for developers to get them ready but I am happy with my choice. I love the cameras, I love the ability to have widgets and more control over the device. I am looking forward to LTE and Flash being on the device and eventually the SD card being unlocked. I don't miss my iPad.
[Atrix 4G General] uskr:
I tried to search the forums and couldn't find an answer.

Anyone know how to force the Contact list show the Gmail Contact full name instead of Twitter/Facebook/Social name when you link those contacts?

Thanks!
[Atrix 4G General] Tchen811:
I would like to know as well...anyone?
[Atrix 4G General] holtenc:
when looking at your contacts, try hitting the menu soft-button, then "display groups". Select Google.

I don't do social networking so I can't test it out.
[Quantum General] drtolson:
If you have, how did it go?
[Quantum General] morbital:
came thru on tuesday, update took about 15 minutes, no problems. :)

I'm on bell

and the phone has been unlocked with chevronwp7
[Quantum General] greggerca:
Not here yet.

I'm on AT&T. Haven't heard anyone on AT&T getting it yet (on any device), but that's in California and I mostly know Samsung Focus users.

Given AT&T's track record of pushing updates, I'm guessing they'll skip this.

If the "update policy" rumor is correct, AT&T can skip one update, but must apply the next one. So, NoDo would be deployed... however, AT&T customers must hope Microsoft pushes a micro-update between NoDo and Mango to make AT&T push Mango!
[Quantum General] sure haven't:
I'm on Bell in Ontario and I got mine on the 21st when it came out.

However it didn't notify me on my phone, the Zune software told me when I hooked it up to the computer.

And the update went as smoothly as could be! Looking forward to Mar 8!
[Quantum General] myrandex:
In Ohio on AT&T...no upgrade yet grrr.

Jason
[Quantum General] phanquangkhanh:
anyone on Telstra Aus have updated yet ?
[Quantum General] christianboy_83:
I recently just got my LG Quantum, how do I know if I have the latest update because I know that ATT said that they were shipping them with the latest, but that doesn't mean a thing to me!:p
[Quantum General] shiftylock:
Ohio and AT&T as well, no update. :c
[Quantum General] Zaslav:
For those of you that got the update can you check what your device is branded as?

I debranded and thought I would get it but maybe if I could use the Bell one I could get it?
[Quantum General] jose.vu:
Which update you're talking about?

is it Pre-NoDo or NoDo?
[Quantum General] jlott069:
AT&T does not have to push the update if they keep it in the testing phase. and if they "say" they are having "problems" with it, then they dont push it and we wait longer. They could feasibly wait untill mango before we get NODO - thats why i just did a debrand - now i dont wait for AT&T to ok it, once its released for my phone, I get it.
[Xoom General] BBalz:
Anyone able to find a compatible version of Swiftkey for Honeycomb?

I tried sending it to my tablet from my computer via the market but it says it's not compatible. I tried clicking the DOWNLOAD now from the browser on my tablet and the same thing when I try to install it gives a notification of being not compatible.
[Xoom General] 513:
It's still being developed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jmaurice:
Flash these files in odin with the re-partition checkbox checked, then do a factory reset from the recovery menu. You might get errors about the mmcblk0p3 partition being missing, but that partition is only needed for the dictionary app.

PIT: PIT file for SC-02B

PDA: CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar.md5

PHONE: MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar.md5

For reference, here's how I made the backup:

(on device)
dd if=/dev/block/stl6 of=param.lfs bs=16k
dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=zImage bs=16k
dd if=/dev/block/stl9 of=factoryfs.rfs bs=16k
dd if=/dev/block/stl10 of=dbdata.rfs bs=16k
dd if=/dev/block/stl11 of=cache.rfs bs=16k
dd if=/dev/block/bml12 of=modem.bin bs=16k

(on my pc)
tar --format=ustar -cf CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar zImage param.lfs dbdata.rfs factoryfs.rfs cache.rfs
md5sum -t CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar >> CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar
mv CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar CODE_SC02BOMJJ1.tar.md5

tar --format=ustar -cf MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar modem.bin
md5sum -t MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar >> MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar
mv MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar MODEM_SC02BOMJJ1.tar.md5
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] snapper.fishes:
Cool. Any note worthy app/function in it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jmaurice:
No but if you mess up your SC-02B and want to revert to its original OS, or if you want to extract something from the Japanese OS and put it in your own ROM, this is very useful to have.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] abid77:
I got Samsung Galaxy S/SC-02B with Samsung 19000 firmware; with no IMIE and no base band .I flash it with your [ROM] Original docomo SC-02B firmware SC02BOMJJ1.

IMIE and baseband is back ,but when I put the sim card it say “ no data network found” and no service.

any idia:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] oleg_k:
You SC02 is SIM locked.Find it unlock service in internet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rubberman542:
Thanks so much for this... I live in Tokyo and bricked my SC-02b and this saved my phone!

Much appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] babakinvan:
Thank you

i installed the Darkys ROM on my japanese Galaxy S phone..

everything but the phone worked..

this really helped.. i could get my phone back.. but i still want to go back to Darkys or another ROM.. any recommendations anyone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dejanet:
Currently there are no ROMs, themes, or kernels that will work on our phones perhaps could convince some Dev that their contribution to Japan disaster relief could be something for us to flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] babakinvan:
So i used the above files to flash my phone back to the Original Japanese OS..

Now, it does not recognize the SIM card.

is this because the phone is locked, like the post above suggests?

should i be looking into unlocking the phone? and does anyone recommend any special way to do it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] babakinvan:
first of all, thank you for the files that you shared here.

i have a question .. maybe you can help.

i also have a galaxy tab from docomo..

is there a way, to get the modem and dictionary files from the tab to be flashed onto the galaxy s?

your files work , but i cant get the phone to recognize the sim card.

wonder what would happen if i just took it to docomo to get it repaired.. wonder if the warrenty would cover it..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] radevilcool:
guys did you find the solution for your sim identification problem???

if not then please read my thread i hope it works , for you all !!!!!!!

if it worked then please do something for my thanks meter tooo!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] LiquidSky:
hi,

i have sc-02b flashed to i9000 by my friend and we managed to flashed it with your dumped rom and now his phone was stucked on ntt docomo splash screen..

can you help me sort out the problem?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] IparryU:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116140

Use this method to update with root to the latest version.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ruwanjk:
can you tell me Darkys witch rom have you installed ????

please reply
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] OHGIE241:
Sco2b file lost

Pls need the files

Pit

Pda

Csc

Tnx:)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] troby1986:
Anyone know how to do a firmware dump, I want to work on something, but dont know how to dump the firmware. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mavictb:
posting the same tread in two sections is a no no. this belongs in the android development section.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] troby1986:
Sorry. There isnt much activity in the development thread. Mods please delete this topic.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoergSteiner:
Hello together

First of all i searched to solve my problem already. But after spending several hours by searching and trying I thought i better ask the community.

Well my problem is, that I can't root my phone. I tried diffrent ways and there was always the same result. If I use Visionary+ r14 and press temp root now (usb debugging activatet) it loads for a while and then it hangs on a black screen. Seems to freez always.

If I try it with the terminal emulator and the manual found http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD here, it hangs in the terminal emulator. I don't know the reason but i couldn't find another possibility to root my device.

sorry for my bad english and thank you
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemm:
Which version of the stock rom are you on? 1.34 or 1.72 or 1.85?? If its 1.72 you need to downgrade your version number to 1.34 in order to root using the Psneuter Method found Here. If its the new 1.85 update, im not sure if that version is rootable or if the psneuter method works on it also.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoergSteiner:
I've got the 1.72 version of the rom. Well this exactly is my next problem. I tried to downgrade using your method some time before. When i enter the bootloader and it checks the sdcard it just prints CID incorrect.

I know that I have to create a goldcard to make the downgrade possible. To create a goldcard I fallowed also different manuals.

here are two i've tried:

http://android.modaco.com/content/general-discussion/305672/creating-a-goldcard/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=572683

there are always the same steps. I tried different manuals and tools. But in the end i got always the same cid which looks something similar to this: 1501004d344732444503ad020c67ade0 then i need the reverse string and the hexeditor and overwrite the first sector of the sdcard. but no matter which method i try, in the end I get always CID incorrect.

anybody already had a similar problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoergSteiner:
nobody had a similar problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoergSteiner:
well solution found... in all the manuals there was written about the "adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid" command.

because this method didnt work for me i searched and found the solution to change the command to "adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:*/cid". With this command i got a CID.

The problem was that I didnt search further in this direction because I had a CID. with the command "adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2:*/cid" everything worked and i got another CID.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sajdaman:
im hving th same problem....im on 1.72 rom and get stuck at wrong cid part like u.. ive tried everything...no joy
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoergSteiner:
You tried all the mmc methods?

with mmc1 i got no cid, with mmc0 i got the wrong cid and with mmc2 it worked.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sajdaman:
I will try again tomoz ..actually im gona try everything again...and then wait foor my hair to grow back so i can pull it out again
[Optimus One, P500, V General] titch.ryan:
Ok so I've decided to stop using live wallpapers as they eat up battery and break launcher pro if I underclock my CPU to save battery.

However I'm having problems getting wallpapers the right size.

I've tried resizing them to 320x480 but when setting them it still asks me to crop them and the crop box isn't even the right shape rectangle when maximised!

So what size should my backgrounds be to fit nicely on the screen?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] masteryx:
Try 640 x 480. It worked for me, on Zeam.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dirtyplay:
For Optimus One wallpaper must be a resolution of 640x480, and all other phones with resolution 320x480.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] titch.ryan:
thanks for the replies, i'll try it out.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Joga5000:
It's because the background moves as you swipe home screens. Basically, android wallpapers should have the same height as the screen but twice the width.

Good article on it: http://m.lifehacker.com/5657727/whats-the-deal-with-androids-weird-wallpaper-requirements
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ocovarr112:
Hi this is me again =D

Well yesterday I install CyanogenMod6 v3.1 on my xperia x10 mini pro, really awasome!!.. but when I open Market I see the old market no the Froyo's market...

My question here is: How can I get the new Market on my xperia with this CianogenMod??

I know my english is pretty bad, please try to understand me.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] D4rKn3sSyS:
i got the same question :D
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] mick39:
Get the market.zip from the first page of the topic and read this post : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11565382&postcount=185
[Kyocera Zio M6000] phazei:
I've tried two covers on my phone

This one which is a rubberized plastic 2 piece case that snaps together.

And this basic soft single piece silicon case.

The first was a pain because since the phone froze a lot, I needed to pull the battery often, and the case couldn't stand up to being taken on and off repeatedly. The hooks eventually snapped.

The second is ok, but it is loose and not very solid.

Does anyone know of a hard single piece rubber one? Like that reinforced silicone stuff?
[Kyocera Zio M6000] Spz0:
I have tried both, and they both suck. Dont add enough protection.

I found a black hard rubber one from a cricket corp store. It was an official zio sleeve made of really tough durable rubber. Had the ZIO logo on the back, but has since rubbed off (it use to have a matte finish, but the wear and tear causes it to turn a bit shiny).

For $20 and the amount of times I've dropped my phone,, it was a well worth investment. :)
[Kyocera Zio M6000] wwwilly1986:
Yeah, DO NOT buy those plastic snap together cases. Total garbage. When you drop your phone the case splits in two and your phone ends up getting scratched up anyways. Amazon has amazing deals on cases for our phone. Under 10 bucks I got a silicone case and love it.
[Kyocera Zio M6000] phazei:
It looks a bit like this one. They appear to be solid rubber and have the same looking holes as yours from what I can tell.

I also just found this one that looks interesting, but there aren't any other pics :(
[Kyocera Zio M6000] Spz0:
Yep, those are the ones. I have the black, and it doesnt have any extra gfx on the sleeve asides the word "Zio".

Good cases, and highly recommend them. :) If you're jonezin for one, just go to a cricket corp store and ask, Im sure they've got stock of them, or will in the near future.
[Kyocera Zio M6000] dreamstryder:
I have one like the rubberized plastic ones you linked to first... mines black and have had no problems with it at all.... have dropped it a few times with only some white showing through where the rubberypaint stuff flaked off but thats only in one tiney little spot by the volume controll..... have not had any problems with that OR the screen protector I got off ebay for a few bucks and the phone itself looks brand new still
[Kyocera Zio M6000] Spz0:
Thats good. :) My snap on case actually scratched up my phone!! o.0

It left a scratch line around the perimiter of the where the front piece touches the actual phone. Every time I dropped it, as stated above, the case split in 2, so I'd have to chase down 3 pcs on the floor. lol Pretty embarrassing in public. hehe

The case asthetically-wise however, is very sound. :)
[Kyocera Zio M6000] DarkkEnergy:
I'm surprised that you guys haven't thought about hitting up the Sprint store for their very own Zio accessories. They put cricket's Zio accessories to shame. I bought a 2 pack of hard and glossy (smoke and blue transparent) silicon cases for my cricket Zio for $20. They are the best Zio cases that I have seen. I kept the black and gave the other to my brother.

They also had an all white hard plastic 2 piece case for the Zio. It resemble the iPhone 3G incase phone case. I didn't get it because I learned from the rubber cases that the front and back of the Sprint Zio are a bit 'bigger' than the cricket Zio.

The Sprint cases for the Zio fit well on my phone though. Hope that this helps.