I downloaded the game Hero of Sparta when it was free during Gameloft's Advent Calendar promotion. But now the sound files for it (all 109 of them) are showing up in the Music app. I added a dummy file named .nomedia to the folder, but they still show up. Anyone here have any ideas?
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Android Thread - 2011 Edition | Stuffed on Gingerbread, Hungry for Honeycomb!
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For playing gba and snes games you'll want a hardware keyboard on the phone. Certain games are simply not enjoyable with touchscreen only controls. I found one CNET articleBest cheap Android phonesinvaluable back in December when I was considering getting an inexpensive phone.hadar said:This thread, despite being awesome, makes me feel poor
Need to buy a new phone and was thinking about buying a droid but for now I'd have to go budget.
So far the best thing I've found has been a version of the Orange Boston, specs here: http://www.gsmarena.com/gigabyte_gsmart_g1305_boston-3201.php
I also have my eye on the San Francisco, mostly because of the larger screen, but that'd be 70 euro over the Boston
Anyone with experience with this one? Since this'd be my first smartphone i'm not expecting to do it all, extra features would be reading ebooks on the go and using (if able) gba and snes emulators
Edit: XDA has a dedicated forum for the Orange San Francisco (known as ZTE Blade in America). XDA community support makes life with any Android handset a lot easier.
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Charred Greyface said:
What about a Droid X or Incredible? I'm considering those right now.
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Oozer3993 said:
Did you reboot your phone?
thetechkid said:
GBA and NES (Play them the most) look and play awesome on my X with it's big screen. The touch screen controls take some getting use to but there are plenty of options to help you, however I tend to use my Wiimote as a controller anyway so it isn't even an issue.
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dream said:
I love Samsung, but this is typical of Korean electronics design. Outside of HTC, I can't think of a distinctive looking product from a Korean company.
Even Hyundais look like cars from other companies.
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Same here but I've rooted my Captivate. So, since 2.2 isn't coming to this phone anytime soon, what suggestions do you guys have for things like custom roms or whatever else. I just want my phone to run at peak performance. Thanks in advance.ep85 said:
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Ephemeris said:
1.6 was Donut.
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It's a little confusing because 2.0 and 2.1 are both Eclair.
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Ephemeris said:
Thanks.
This place is so cold without the smilies though...sableholic
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Wasn't there a new common DRM scheme for Android released with the Gingerbread SDK?sableholic said:
Agent Icebeezy said:
Go to xda forums...and I suggest getting Cognition first. It is basically the only custom rom built from a Captivate source (others are off the base galaxy s /i9000). There are tons of great roms, some different modems, different kernels....but I'd start with Cognition - nearly no bugs at all (actually I know of none), uses the ASOP launcher, clean, built off captivate source.
The new Cog 3 is built from the Armani 2.2 source, older cogs built from a beta froyo leak from Samsung forever ago.
The Captivate is an awesome phone that I absolutely love - but only because I have a custom froyo rom. My GPS is perfect, I don't have lags, no bloatware, good battery life.
If you currently have the stock rom, and rooted phone - the upgrade process is super easy. Basically download the custom rom (xxxxx.zip), put in the root of the internal SD card (just remove your external so you don't have confusion). Download Rom manager from market (free, by clockwork mod). Use to flash rom from SD card. Done!
Edit: also use something to backup your data if you want to keep it....more info on this at XDA
http://androidandme.com/2011/01/new...w-android-chrome-os-and-google-tv-will-merge/
Google will own you before 2012
Google will own you before 2012
I love my droid 1 physical keyboard. But i need to get a new phone in about 6 months. Are the making any more droid (or any android phones that work for verision) phones with keyboards besides the droid 2.
Ill get the droid 2 global if i have too. but i want the top of the line in 6 months.
Any ideas?
Ill get the droid 2 global if i have too. but i want the top of the line in 6 months.
Any ideas?
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Luckyman said:
Not gonna happen.
A lot of phones could come out in 6 months time, I'd wait and see what gets released but I think Verizon will have another phone with a keyboard the HTC Merge if it ever comes out, not sure what else they have coming out down the line with a keyboard unless the Droid 3 comes out this year.Zonar said:
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They already own me.
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So I realised today why some people are on 1.6 - phone companies are shit.
A good friend came round, and has an Xperia X10 - on 1.6. I presumed they'd be an update, checked, but you have to use PC software. Fair enough.
Oh, no, to make it worse - you have to back up everything, because it wipes the phone.
Took a while and was a bit of a faff really. It's impressive that others do OTA updates fine - this one does an OTA check and went "go to the website and download Windows only software!".
Great, thanks.
A good friend came round, and has an Xperia X10 - on 1.6. I presumed they'd be an update, checked, but you have to use PC software. Fair enough.
Oh, no, to make it worse - you have to back up everything, because it wipes the phone.
Took a while and was a bit of a faff really. It's impressive that others do OTA updates fine - this one does an OTA check and went "go to the website and download Windows only software!".
Great, thanks.
Hi AndroidGAF,
Thinking about moving over to Android when I can upgrade in a couple of months, but I'm on Rogers with a plan I can't give up, and my experiences with on-screen keyboards have been painful to say the least.
From looking at the options on google.com/phone, it looks like I'm fucked if I try to get anything now that isn't the Flipout. Is there anything expected to hit in the next couple of months that might be suitable?
Thinking about moving over to Android when I can upgrade in a couple of months, but I'm on Rogers with a plan I can't give up, and my experiences with on-screen keyboards have been painful to say the least.
From looking at the options on google.com/phone, it looks like I'm fucked if I try to get anything now that isn't the Flipout. Is there anything expected to hit in the next couple of months that might be suitable?
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http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/15/verizon-wireless-2011-lte-city-roll-out-leaked/
Nothing in California? Fuck off Verizon.
Nothing in California? Fuck off Verizon.
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Bought
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womp said:GBA and NES (Play them the most) look and play awesome on my X with it's big screen. The touch screen controls take some getting use to but there are plenty of options to help you, however I tend to use my Wiimote as a controller anyway so it isn't even an issue.
Thanks.
Been leaning towards the X, but a little unsure because of it's size. I would also appreciate some info/feedback on hows the camera(outdoor, indoor, macro) and how long on average the battery will last.
I've been reading up on rooting and a lot of websites say that it's hard to do on the X, but then again most posts that I'm finding are from June on last year. Has this changed?
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I'm running a custom ROM on my X. Battery is definitely better compared to stock. My battery is still at 80% and I took it off the charger around 8:30AM today (it's 4:30 ET now). I haven't done much on my phone today (sent/received a bunch texts, played a 3D game for like 5 minutes, played music for around an hour), but that' still impressive IMO. There's also an extended battery available.
As far as mods/rooting/ROMs, Motorola locked the bootloader on the X. From what I understand, this basically means only Moto can make changes to/issue a new kernel. Whenever a new release of Android comes out (for example, the recently released 2.3 Gingerbread), the kernel needs to be updated. So basically no Gingerbread on the X until Moto says so.
You can still root and mod the device to your hearts content though. Lots of awesome custom Android 2.2 ROMs are available. Check out the Droid X section on the XDA forums.
I'm pretty big (6 foot 185 lbs) and the X feels perfect in my hands. I don't think I can ever buy a phone that is smaller than 4 inches now.
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Acid08 said:
The official word is "not soon" I believe. Something about DRM or somesuch.
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Netflix app will be out before the year is over.
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Looking at the ads coming during Football playoffs, a March 1st release date for Atrix would be a mistake. They are building excitement right now and would need to capitalize on it.
Atrix Video running Quadrant test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndHy-kSJv4
Atrix Video running Quadrant test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndHy-kSJv4
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cartoon_soldier said:
I was actually expecting a higher score. My OCed G2 just scored 2522. Maybe Quadrant just isn't programmed with dual core in mind.
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It's definitely not designed for dual core.Jamesfrom818 said:
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