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Android Hardware Thread - 2010 Edition
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Kinitari said:NooooOooOooOoo!!!
My cats chewed through my brand new stock Samsung headset! I had never head an in-ear headset that was THAT good. Treeees sad. It was my fault for leaving them on the coffee table overnight I guess, cats get crazy overnight.
Now I need to figure out what to do for a replacement, special order (which will probably be expensive as all hell) or utilize a combination of my staff discount and pity to get a good deal on some other branded headsets.
Can anyone recommend anything good? I really liked these in-ears, astounded by it's sound isolation/cancellation (pretty much on par for me with expensive over the ears I've purchased in the past).
The headset is $29.95 from Bell.
Zombie James
Banned
The story of the Desire is almost as stupid as the Legend's. I get the idea that if I buy a Desire I could sell my iPod Touch, which world bring the cost of the phone down to the point where it would end up cheaper than the Legend. Well everyone was sold out of the Desire, too... or at least that's what they tell me over the phone.Kinitari said:
I decide to go to Best Buy anyways and check out some Blue-rays. On my way out I stop by their phone section and ask if they have any Desires. After he checks the computer it turns out they actually DID have them, an entire drawer full of them.
So yeah, I picked one up and will probably choose a plan in the next dart or two. So far, after writing out this post with it, I can safely say that keyboard input and text editing (copy, paste, selection) is easily my least favourite thing about it. Downright bad, even.
JonathanEx
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What? I love the Desire on screen keyboard - HTC have done a great job. And I'm on portrait 99% of the time.
Might be a thing to just get to used to - moving from iTouch etc?
Might be a thing to just get to used to - moving from iTouch etc?
Zombie James
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JonathanEx said:
Yeah, the iPod Touch has been my around the house/on the go portable device for the past year or so. My main gripe is text selection and copying. Like, I noticed a typo on a line above so I held my finger on the screen expecting something to select text or move the cursor, but all I get is a menu asking me if I want to select all the text or copy the text. What text? I haven't selected anything yet. I thought HTC had a magnifying glass thing similar to iOS?
Zombie James
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Oh, and apparently I can't disable HTC Sense and get the stock Android launcher?
Randy Lanzarote
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Google 'disable desire sense' and u should find videos showing how to disable sense launcher. You can't completely remove sense though as it is more than just a launcher, there is also messaging, contacts etc. You wont get a stock android experience until people are producing custom roms.Zombie James said:
And yeah, text input on android isn't the best (I miss the accuracy of a resistive screen). Correcting mistakes can be a pain. Just make sure you have the spell prediction/helper on!
sionyboy said:
there are a few stock roms here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=628
I was using Defrost 2.4 until recently, then switched to OpenDesire 3.0.5 as it seemed more stable and updated more frequently (already has 720p video recording at 19fps - none of the other stock roms for desire do yet, i think)
Also if you guys haven't tried it already, check out swift keyboard (replacement keyboard in the market) .. works great
Zombie James
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sionyboy said:
Yeah, i'm thinking of switching over to CyanogenMod 6 once it becomes final. I've heard that HTC's Froyo update is going to bring 720p video recording to the Desire, though, so I hope they'll include it.
Randy Lanzarote
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If you bought an unlocked phone then the 2.2 updated should already be available (well, it is in the uk, would've thought north American would have it too).Zombie James said:
And thanks for the swiftkey recommendation, giving it a trial now. Like all the long press options. Pain in the butt having to go to that although screen all the time.
Samsung should be paying me goddamn, I'm going to get two of these phones (one for me and my female), but I also have my roommate considering getting a Galaxy S over an iPhone - a friend I hung out with yesterday a Galaxy S over the new blackberry, and one of the mobile girls I work with a Desire or a Galaxy S over a blackberry.
I think what does it more than anything else though is the screen, everyone is drawn in by the screen, I even have a widget just for changing the brightness (well it also turns on and off wifi and stuff) because I have to put it to max so often.
Now I just wanna see if there is a way I can change the 'swipe to unlock' screen.
I think what does it more than anything else though is the screen, everyone is drawn in by the screen, I even have a widget just for changing the brightness (well it also turns on and off wifi and stuff) because I have to put it to max so often.
Now I just wanna see if there is a way I can change the 'swipe to unlock' screen.
Randy Lanzarote
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Kinitari said:
Just go into settings, location and security and enable the screen unlock pattern. You will have to do your own unlock pattern when you want to use the phone, but at least you won't be accidentally unlocking it (I find the samsung stock lock screen far to easy to unlock) and it provides a layer of security on your phone (handy if you live in fear of being raped on various social networks). Enable 'use visible pattern' as well, lets you see what you're doing when you are trying to unlock it.
There are 3rd party apps that allow you to change the lock screen, but last time I read up on them it seemed that it disabled the alarm on the phone.
JonathanEx
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Zombie James said:
Use the 'trackball' to go back and forth letters.
And yeah, I have 2.2 on Desire - it's 720p recording, WiFi tether, new widgets and apps too. Full list of changes: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741491
Randy Lanzarote
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So, as many Galaxy S owners will know, the handset is prone to lagging/stalling once you start installing plenty of apps on your device. This can be quite annoying as given the hardware inside this bad boy, it really shouldn't be happening. The reason is that Samsung are using an RFS file system for their system/app partition which is really bogging things down.
Quite a few fixes have been found which involve mounting an EXT partition onto your SD card and using that. This has been found to greatly increase performance of the phone.
Some guy over at XDA has found another fix, which involves taking a chunk of the 2gb nand and running a virtual EXT2 file system inside of it, which is giving him this sort of performance;
http://a.imageshack.us/img32/7803/201008060404passedreboo.png
Quadrant score = 2234
edit: "Benchmark filesystem total score: ~260. Was 25-50 on RFS."
That's on a 2.1 based kernel, not Froyo. No JIT improvements here. Although the consensus seems to be that using a EXT2 system is not safe enough for daily use on a mobile phone, so don't expect Samsung to come out with this sort of improvement in their next firmware. Although it should be pointed out that the safer fix (google for mimocan/galaxy s) uses EXT4 and that produces Quadrant scores around 1700.
If Samsung get their shit together with their future firmware, then its good times ahead for the good ship Galaxy S/Captivate/Vibrant.
Quite a few fixes have been found which involve mounting an EXT partition onto your SD card and using that. This has been found to greatly increase performance of the phone.
Some guy over at XDA has found another fix, which involves taking a chunk of the 2gb nand and running a virtual EXT2 file system inside of it, which is giving him this sort of performance;
http://a.imageshack.us/img32/7803/201008060404passedreboo.png
Quadrant score = 2234
edit: "Benchmark filesystem total score: ~260. Was 25-50 on RFS."
That's on a 2.1 based kernel, not Froyo. No JIT improvements here. Although the consensus seems to be that using a EXT2 system is not safe enough for daily use on a mobile phone, so don't expect Samsung to come out with this sort of improvement in their next firmware. Although it should be pointed out that the safer fix (google for mimocan/galaxy s) uses EXT4 and that produces Quadrant scores around 1700.
If Samsung get their shit together with their future firmware, then its good times ahead for the good ship Galaxy S/Captivate/Vibrant.
Course this is Samsung we are dealing with, so that's a big IF
That's cool and all, but I suck at itwoeds said:Try swiping the very top of the screen from left to right and back
.sionyboy said:
Thanks for the info! I haven't noticed the lag yet, but I'll take your word for it - it was obvious that Samsung's UI has some problems after I swapped it for launcher pro.
What gets me is, why do I have so little free ram? I have maybe two running apps, and I only get like 50-70mb free at any time.
Edit: Just did a proper reset of the phone and now I am back up to 170mb, much better I guess.
Randy Lanzarote
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Kinitari said:
Android as of 2.1 can only address up to 256mb of system memory, 2.2 brings HIMEM support and the os will use up to 512mb. Now some people say that HIMEM is already enabled on the SGS, others say it is not, so at the moment its a little unclear.
I know that on my SGS Quadrant reports my Total memory as 326mb, and lists about 130~mb as 'inactive'. Whether that's because the os is not adressing this memory or its set aside for something else (gpu) is unknown. I've searched XDA/Modaco forums but no-one seems to have a conclusive answer!
FleckSplat
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Dammit. My Motorola Droid hasn't even asked me if I want Froyo yet! Anything I can do?
FleckSplat
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zoku88 said:
Boo.
jonnybryce
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sionyboy said:
That's awesome work but it's just so funny how Samsung is so consistent. I want to like them, we all love their hardware but they ALWAYS manage to fuck it up for themselves.
Randy Lanzarote
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jonnybryce said:
Yep, they've put together a smartphone with some of the best components available, and then they've gone and shot themselves in the foot by seemingly duct-taping together some code from their other feature phones..... Derp.
Damn your avatar too, I can't resist the urge of scanning QR codes!! :lol
nolookjones
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Zombie James said:
get swype....using it on my legend and you will never be able to go back one you switch
Opus Angelorum
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HTC Desire HD caught on film :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJoPXmwVAE&feature=player_embedded
The back is horrible, horrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJoPXmwVAE&feature=player_embedded
The back is horrible, horrible.
jonnybryce
Member
sun-drop said:
Set flash to on demand (you don't have to turn it off completely) if that's what's causing the problem.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Davidion said:
Its just about to launch in the US.
Davidion said:
Well, this was the phone I wanted to buy even before I knew the Nexus One existed.
The Nexus was release in January, that was close to 9 months ago. Imagine waiting that long to get the X10, and to top it off it has 1.6 installed?
Sony is really dropping the ball. I really like the hardware on the x10, and the UI skin is not bad looking. But too little too late.
fortified_concept
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SimleuqiR said:
SE dropped the ball from the day they introduced their first smartphone. They have a horrible software team that doesn't know shit about smartphone OSs. They're also very slow at fixing bugs and bad at support in general.
Just curious about the Galaxy since it's equipped with dual cameras -- is there a facetime like application on it? Would be a huge selling point in me getting it over the iphone 4 since I'm in a long distance relationship and we'd both like something like facetime.
If so, I'll probably go to Bestbuy to pick one up :lol
If so, I'll probably go to Bestbuy to pick one up :lol
RS4- said:
IIRC Fring supports video chat. Skype has said they'll do something later this year (probably behind the curve due to the paucity of Android handsets with front-facing camreas). They've been doing it for PC w/ webcams for years too, it's not like this is new technology.
jonnybryce
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That's pretty awesome! I know I'm in the minority but I'm undecided - I don't know if I'd rather have something like Android powering my inevitable tablet purchase or a Windows 7 skin. A laptop/netbook in iPad's clothing is super tempting to me but I know not everyone sees it as I do (I would love to run true computer programs, from Chrome to Nook Study).
We'll see what happens.
The Sprint Epic 4G is the only one with a front cam out of the Galaxys in the US I believe. With it you can use apps like Qik or Fring (haven't heard of the Skype app having camchat but that's a possibility too) to videochat and it's not restricted to Wifi!
We'll see what happens.
RS4- said:
The Sprint Epic 4G is the only one with a front cam out of the Galaxys in the US I believe. With it you can use apps like Qik or Fring (haven't heard of the Skype app having camchat but that's a possibility too) to videochat and it's not restricted to Wifi!
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