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[Xoom General] ashura3:
I agree. I spent a lot of time this afternoon reading up on the other Honeycomb tablets coming out and one thing I've noticed is that it's possible the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a better screen. Engadget noted that it might be the same screen used in the Tab 7 and AnandTech gave the Tab 7 lots of praise for it's viewing angles. If the screen is better, and because the Tab 10.1 is as light as the lightest iPad 2, I'm considering selling my Xoom, holding onto the one bought at Verizon Wireless and returning it at the end of my 14-day period, and buying the Tab 10.1 once it comes out. It's supposed to release in Asia and Europe in March and US should presumably be soon after.

I'm still e-mailing around to find out whether or not the Tab 7 screen is better than the Xoom's. If yes, the Tab 10.1 knocks off two pretty important bullet points from my list of iPad 2 things I'm jealous of.
[Xoom General] lstrike:
Aside from netflix I just hope that Google can make things smoother and soon. Truth is I can't imagine this browser with Flash running as is. It has a bit of chop to it and can get laggy. I dont know the more I use this thing the more the choppiness ans lag bothers me.

Another problem is that music can interupt while doing some casual web surfing. I tried dolphin HD and also skyfire. Neither one makes the experience any smoother.
[Xoom General] stanglx:
Specs dont mean shiate!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/...rmance-explored-powervr-sgx543mp2-benchmarked

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4215/apple-ipad-2-benchmarked-dualcore-cortex-a9-powervr-sgx-543mp2

All I can say is wow!
[Xoom General] muyoso:
That is amazing that the Tegra 2 was outclassed completely in under 2 weeks. What an amazing turn of events especially because NVIDIA is the manufacturer of the SoC. Wow.
[Xoom General] Elysian893:
I kind of expected more from the Tegra 2 than just slightly more power than a Samsung Galaxy S... Oh well, I'll enjoy it for now and sell it and upgrade when quad core tablets come out :p
[Xoom General] gigglebox:
Seriously... most people on this board.
[Xoom General] gigglebox:
The ifixit people opened it up and found 512mb...
[Xoom General] neonflx:
what good are all those things if you can't sell enough devices to be profitable

i'm loving my archos and wish android tables will offer more that what they do right now, as i have stated before for a device that was suppose to dethrone the ipad it has come way short maybe not specs wide but actual implementation
[Xoom General] muyoso:
And instead of cutting those non important specs, they included a dumpy SoC from Nvidia that gets completely outclassed within 2 weeks of launch by the A5. I would gladly sacrifice:

notification lights

built in HDMI

4g

camera quality

for a lower price. Also, the speakers they include in the Xoom are nothing special and are not a feature to be touted above the iPad or iPad2's.

If you are just trying to shove every feature you can into a tablet, you are going to be left with mediocre everything, which is a pretty good summation of the Xoom at this point. Mediocre SoC in the Tegra 2. Mediocre screen. Mediocre speakers. Mediocre 4g implemenation (ie. none at launch). Mediocre SD card slot (ie none at launch). The thing about Apple is that they know where to skimp and where to go all out. They went all out on their SoC, screen and speakers and they skimped on their cameras, HDMI, USB, etc. They make you pay extra if you want those non important features so that the core experience of their tablet is awesome. Screen, speakers, SoC. Everything else should be on the cutting block to hit a price point.
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
Well it is obvious (to some) that Motorola let us down.

We have HTC, Samsung, Toshiba, and other random manufactures to look forward to. Can''t wait to see what happens
[Xoom General] Salpula:
I just read that the ipad2 out performs the xoom in terms of graphics. I want my xoom to be better. WTF NVIDIA?

Edit:That said I love my xoom and still wouldn't trade it for an ipad2.
[Xoom General] falconeight:
I am using both the xoom and the iPad 2 side by side. I wouldn't put the xoom in the same league as the iPad 2. It's all apps.
[Xoom General] cwizardtx:
The best buy I was at was completely out of iPad 2 within 2 minutes of going on sale. I lingered around and someone ended up not buying theres... lo and behold I'm the owner of a 16gb wifi white model. I gave it to my wife and so far she absolutely loves it. My opinion is that the screen is freaking hands down miles better than the xoom. If the Xoom had this screen.... it would clearly be the winner. The apps are definately a deal breaker for someone like my wife. She has no interest in the technical level that android operates at and I thinkt hey really need to kick their market into high gear.

I love my Xoom, she loves her iPad2... there's peace in the valley.

FWIW: I have never owned an Apple product, this one is my 1st.
[Xoom General] knut150:
I have both and definitely the Tab’s screen is better than the xoom, so if the 10 version of the galaxy has the same screen there you have another factor to consider.
[Xoom General] knut150:
yes... I know the feeling "tablet envy":D but seriously the water will reach its level by the end of the year.
[Xoom General] falconeight:
Nicely said I am definitely not a fan of any one company or os. I am a tech fan, and I love the honeycomb concept. With that said it has some serious ground to cover in the app department. People will not pay 800 to check email and the Internet.
[Xoom General] Elysian893:
Anyone using Tegra 2 is going to continue to disappoint... Samsung's dual core processor(which is basically the same as the iPad's, though will likely have double the ram) is about the only hope and I just don't trust Samsung when it comes to software not to mention the terrible screens they're putting on their tablets, just really not interested in their products just for high performance. Like I said previously, I'll upgrade with Tegra 3, I'm sure I'll still be able to sell my Xoom for a fair amount at that time.
[Xoom General] smilepak:
Like any product, Apple spec usually isn't the best out there. From Macbook to PC or from Cell Phone to iPhone. Apple spec is usually not the best and you will find better.

What Apple got for them is

1) Apple product have been market so well, it is now a lifestyle, a trend, a fashion statement

2) Their outstanding integration of iTune and the library

3) Their strong collaboration with 3rd parties on making devices like Bose and other. The standarization of their plug making thing backward compatible.

With that, they have gain great followers.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Except in this case Apple is making a big deal of saying that hardware doesn't matter while putting out simply the best tablet hardware at a very low cost vs the competition. They won't be the best for very long most likely, but they are way ahead of current competition.
[Xoom General] ChongoDroid:
Vnc, emulators, and flash still get the "can I get that on my ipad?" questions. The main reasons I wouldn't get an ipad isn't because their lack of flash or the fact that they need to be connected to a PC out the box. Its the fact that you have to enter your password every time you need an app.. even free ones. I need a tablet not a whiny insecure toy. Root remove bloat ware.... dl spare parts disable compatibility mode and enjoy your device. If that's too much for you then your not a super user and need more milk.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
And the answer to all of those questions are yes, yes and yes. Flash works with iswifter much better than I expected it to, even plays hulu videos smoothly and for free as well as flash games. Emulators work, but the need for them is near non-existant with the amount of other games.

Very true about the password popup everytime you try and install an app, its annoying as hell.
[Xoom General] dch921:
Bottom line is what you want to do. I know too many people happy that the ipad plays music and videos and is made by Apple. On the other hand, like myself I like playing with the different layouts, settings, and every other option is to cancel touch. I want it to be mine and not just a screen of icons.
[Xoom General] mobius999:
In the time it takes for the Ipad to "verify" if you jiggle the usb cord while it's synching (which I just did) you can hit a couple threads on this very site and have the same multimedia experience that makes you call the Ipad a different beast. And with microsd:)

I've got my ghetto china knockoff running just as smooth as my Ipad, the ONLY concession is that I use Play On for Netflix. But I like all the additional content so I use Play On with the Ipad, Itouch and my Evo as well, so kinda a moot point.

Can't wait for my wifi Xoom to ship!

As a side note, I find it funny that people call the Ipad a multimedia device. When I have to spend hours converting content from various sources into the ONE medium the Itunes library accepts, I don't consider that "multi"media. I realize there are workarounds, but most people reference the ease of use/smoothness of integration with Itunes and the Ipad. The workarounds blow that out of the water, since I get the same results with workarounds from android.

The fact I can drag ANY format on earth onto my android device and enjoy with zero hassle is a point I think many people overlook. At least I did until I picked up my Ipad.
[Xoom General] alex2792:
You can't playback every type of content on the Xoom,have you missed all the threads about getting mkv files to play smoothly?
[Xoom General] mobius999:
I did say it was a side note. To expound I was really thinking iOS tablets vs. Android overall, not specifically the two mentioned in the thread.

Honeycomb is a baby. I'm not overly concerned with choppy play on one format while the OS is in it's infancy.

If I look back at my experience from the last 6 months my statement still stands. Can't blame Google for having a bug this early on with a bleeding edge rewrite of their OS.

In general if functionality is lacking, with Google it's a bug, and addressed quickly either from the community or the company. With Apple it's held back as part of a marketing scheme. And that was really my point. Google isn't STOPPING anyone from playing a format, it just needs a little fine tuning.
[Xoom General] alex2792:
I like Android,but Google's products are generally not very polished that's why they stay in beta forever. To say that Apple doesn't address bugs is asinine,iOS may not be as customizable but it's smooth as hell.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
Of course it's smooth as hell. It doesn't take much processing power to render a simple wallpaper and rows of icons. Not to mention at a lower resolution.

But hey, I say it's a plus point for the iOS. I'm just not impressed by it.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Uh, what are you talking about? The original iPad can play 720p high profile MKV files with XBMC. The Xoom is INCAPABLE of playing that back due to hardware limitations. The Xoom can barely play back main profile h.264, and does so smoothly only if its encoded with zero B frames and even then does so by using the CPU to decode which cuts the battery life down by a large bit. The Xoom is the one that is limited in the files it can play. I think you need to read up on the situation before you invest $600 on the tablet.

Edit: You seem to be under the assumption that this is a Honeycomb limitation. It's not. Its the Tegra 2. You REALLY should read up on this more before you go spending all that money. The xoom will never hardware decode high profile h.264@l4.1 or higher and in reality wont probably hardware decode any high profile h.264.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
I think the problem here is some people are a bit confused about h264 profiles. I'm pretty sure Nvidia did not specifically publicize that the tegra 2 supports high profile h264 playback. But that does not mean it's not HD capable since it does support baseline profile h264 playback.

I'm not a video guy and I'm not going to use my soon to be released wifi Xoom for playing back HD videos so that doesn't really concern me.

I suppose it's a trend for most people to encode their HD videos in high profile h264 hence the complaints? I agree nobody wants to reencode their entire HD library to baseline h264 just to be played on the Xoom.
[Xoom General] Elysian893:
You can't play high profile 720p h.264 on the original iPad without transcoding either, it doesnt have the power for that.

Also, Xoom has more power than GLBenchmark shows, GLBenchmark cant do OpenGL 2.0... anandtech's benchmarks were flawed and will remain so until GLBenchmark is updated to properly utilize Honeycomb. Same version number means jack when the OS is different.
[Xoom General] mobius999:
I didn't.

I said when functionality is lacking from iOS, it's a marketing ploy. When lacking from android, it's a bug.
[Xoom General] olisim:
Greetings all,

Concerning video playback, I converted a few 720p movies to the xoom and tried a few players. None of 3rd party video players were able to play the videos correctly. Stutters and audio sync were the biggest issues. I was ready to give up but decided to try the xoom player and guess what, smooth and perfect playback. Watched Tron and it was a great experience. People around me were very impressed.

Cheers - OS
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Really? This must be magic then:

http://vimeo.com/20636064

720p high profile h.264@L5.1 with bitrate spikes up to 23000kbps. Its a stress test video, basically the hardest to play high profile h.264 720p video that I have. No transcoding.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
I don't get you. If the ipad does play high profile h264 well and it does so with a chip that's theoretically less powerful than the tegra 2 on paper, shouldn't the tegra 2 play them fine too? Even the gpu benchmarks from the anandtech site show that the xoom performs better than the ipad in a few cases. So this is rather contradictory to your earlier claim that the tegra gpu is too weak. Even if the tegra 2 is offloading some processing cycles to the CPU, doesn't that mean that if the software and drivers are done right, the tegra 2 should be able to decode h264 properly by using both CPU and gpu? After all it can perform well in gpu tests against the ipad. And this ipad can play high profile h264 files.

Also wasn't there some mentioning of the Adam notion ink playing high h264 after a firmware upgrade? It's using tegra 2. Of course I might be mistaken.
[Xoom General] kalfou:
He just owned you.

Everything his guy says is legit
[Xoom General] musashiken:
Well actually I could be mistaken about the notion ink Adam. And after some quick searching there might be some fault with the tegra 2. I'm still leaning towards drivers and codec issues.
[Xoom General] Cooki3s:
It's probably because the iPad uses a graphics chip very similar, but a bit less powerful than the galaxy s. These powerVR-chips are able to do a ton of decoding, every audio file (even flac) to just about every video format (like 720p MKV) flawlessly.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
The power of the Tegra 2 as a graphics processor has nothing to do with the power of its video decoding capabilities. The Tegra 2 has a video decode processor that is completely seperate from its GPU.

That is why we call them SoC (system on chip), because they integrate basically an entire system on the chip. This means that the GPU could be the best thing since sliced bread, but if they include an iffy video decode processor than high profile h.264 wont play smoothly. There is a good rundown of the architecture here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4144/...tegra-2-review-the-first-dual-core-smartphone

Its kind of a review both of that phone and the Tegra 2, so ignore the phone parts.
[Xoom General] smilepak:
I have to say, the iPad 1 or 2 has much bright, brilliant, and cleaner screen. Xoom has higher resolution, but the screen look wash out and lack strong color and contrast.
[Xoom General] johnbecerril:
bored

i am so bored of the ios "revolutionizing" with every device but its been pretty much the same thing since the ipod touch first came out
[Xoom General] luudee:
Actually, if you consider how much a USB and HDMI adapters are for the iPad 2, the Xoom IS CHEAPER than the iPad2.

Cheers,

rudi
[Xoom General] ski309:
Can you point me to where you found this info about GLBenchmark not supporting OpenGL 2.0? I can't seem to find it online anywhere.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Very true. iOS as an operating system is boring and pretty ****ty. The hardware though, damn the hardware is amazing.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Its because its a lie. From GLbenchmarks About Us page:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goingthree:
I saw a couple of screenshots with text used instead of the icons and/or folders. If its an app what is it? I have the minimalistic text.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blizzard1017:
Post up the screen shot you are referring to, I'm not sure what you are looking at.

If you are reffering to icons that say "phone" instead of a picture of a phone it's just a simple png file. ADW and LauncherPro(i think) allow for icon changes. Widget Locker also allows custom icons. The files are all over the net, look in the Android section of xda, they have a huge Icon thread.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jdom58:
Danny has a theme that uses text for the main screen instead if Icons, looks pretty nice, after unzipping the file you can use what you need if you don't want the entire thing.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957856
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bnielsen40:
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.mediafire.com/?bi6xcug62hktann. I didn't make these, just found them using a google search.

As was mentioned, you need a launcher that allows you to change the icon image. For example, long press on a dock icon in launcher pro and select "change icon," then you can select any icon you've put on your sd card.

Hope that helps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Venal_System:
You can try the texticons app in the market. Seems to work with most roms and launchers.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
If you still need some, I have about 160.

Edit, here they are. From XDA, can't recall who to credit.

http://db.tt/Rl0InqU
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kayanip:
I cannot receive, make any calls. After installing Dark10 theme. The phone was rooted and the theme appear successfully, the only problem is it cannot find my sim card. HELP! I love the theme!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiefels:
Use Xrecovery and wipe your user data "Factory Reset"

Then try again with the theme. Obviously you need to back all your contacts n apps up first.

Also check that the theme isn't baseband specific.

It may require the newer 435 baseband or an older baseband.

If you have the wrong baseband on your phone you will get the result you have now.

Check "Settings"

"About Phone"

Scroll to near the bottom and if it says "Baseband Unknown"

That is your problem.

Crossed basebands!

Plenty of info on fixing this all through this forum.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jik saw:
i had the same problem

just do the fowling

1- backup all ur data

2-install se update service

3-connect and re update ur phone

4- its all done

i 've just done it and it worked just fine
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorahole:
as title states, all of my texts just disappeared. not after a reset or anything, just went to send one, and non are there?

where does the stock messaging keep texts at? any ideas on how to get them back?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackbtha1:
My brothers phone was doing the same thing. He had an AMOLED Inc, after a week or two of that the phone just started going into a boot loop. Couldn't even go into recovery or anything. After trying many things to get the sucker going again I gave up and he said f*** it and went and got a Thunderbolt (technically he's still waiting for it!)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveG12543:
That's happened to me once. Not sure why or where they're stored. It was odd lol.

Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5.3.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onfire4g05:
Same. Mine did it about a week or two ago. I thought it might be GO Messenger... maybe it wasn't? :P

Thankfully I didn't have important texts I needed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luke1987:
I think messages are stored in data/data/com.android.providers.telephony. You'll need a root explorer or adb to look.
[Defy Android Development] Jason78729:
I'm debluring my US Froyo rom and there are some system apps that I want to remove completely. My question is if I remove the apks, should I also remove the odex files that they are associated with. I'm learning how to develop on Androids (Mainly my Defy but have friends that want me to clean up their phones) and a detailed explanation would be awesome.

Another question would be if I'm just renaming the apk, what should I do with the odex: leave alone, rename, or remove. And why?

PS: the original /system/app folder is completely backed up is I decide I want that app later
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
[Patch][Rom]Malware Exploit for all pre-Gingerbread phones

Who is affected? All phones pre-gingerbread

Who should act? Users and developers using pre-gingerbread roms

How do I fix? Flash attached .zip at the bottom of this post or use one of the alternate methods down there

What if I think I was infected? Completely wipe your device, format sdard, go back to stock and re-apply rom, then flash the attached .zip (before installing any apps)

Why should I care? read below...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...-android-nightmare-and-weve-got-more-details/

As you can see androidpolice.com reports on this backdoor and roots and steals personal information. The apps are removed from the market but that doesn't mean they got them all. Attached is a flashable fix as suggested by androidpolice.com

So users can flash this .zip or simply create a blank file called profile and place it in /system/bin/ (developers are encouraged to include this file in future releases. A blank file is not going to affect performance at all)

Alternate methods:

Using 'adb shell' or terminal emulator (should work on any ROOTED phone) as suggest by xaueious here

$ su
su
# remount rw
Remounting /system (/dev/stl9) in read/write mode
# touch /system/bin/profile
# chmod 644 /system/bin/profile
#

Alternate 2:

Download blank profile file from here (or create one and name it profile)

Use a program like Root Explorer to copy it to /system/bin/

Then longpress on it and check the permissions should be read/write for user, read for group, and read for others.

Alternate 3:

cyansmoker has put together an apk for the patch here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.voilaweb.mobile.droiddreamkiller

Thanks for pointing this out photoframd and androidpolice.com for investigating and reporting!

UPDATE: I renamed the .zip file and reuploaded it (350 hits wow). Also in the edify scripted version I added 644 permissions to the file (but if you already flashed it then it should have defaulted to that). I also added a pre-edify version of the patch thanks to xaueious for people using a recovery that does not yet understand edify.
[Epic 4G Android Development] k0nane:
Rodderik - very useful, thanks much. This will be in SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0.1.

EDIT: Between this and CIQ removal, we devs have malware removal/prevention covered. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Does Superuser provide a layer of protection against this exploit also?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Rodderik:
i wouldn't count on it...i've tried to root the epic using rageagainstthecage without the use of a computer and got no where with it because the only exploit that works for root is an adb bug (that doesn't mean it cannot be done!!!). but it is technically possible that malicious software once installed can install a modified version of superuser or do anything else it want's without the user's knowledge...so I wouldn't count on superuser protecting you.