That said, your use-case seems a bit extreme... WTF are you doing? You should really be spreading that out over a few 2560x1600 displays... nothing like being able to see everything all at once.
OK, then your device just doesn't like the car dock:p. Mine doesn't get particularly warm while just charging - only when charging and using GPS + hotspot at the same time...
Unfortunately, Motorola's ineptitude isn't limited to Motoblur. Their stock ROMs on the Droid/Milestone were similarly slow-as-molasses... other devices with slower processors and less RAM are snappier than my old stock Milestone:(
If you're running Moto's original Froyo firmware that's no wonder. I used to have a Moto Milestone (the GSM version of the Droid) which was annoying as hell in that regard. I now have an HTC Dream lying around for testing purposes, which has even less RAM than the Droid, and with a decent custom ROM that locks the home screen in memory, there are no such problems.
You luckily still have an unlocked bootloader on that Droid (the Milestone and nearly all of the models following the Droid are locked up really tight), so try out CyanogenMod... It won't give you more RAM, but it will allow you to tweak a few things like keeping the launcher in memory at all times.
How exactly are you counting? Android in all its smartphone iterations up to Gingerbread runs just fine on phones with 192MB of RAM (less than 100MB accessible by the system at runtime!)... does B2G use roughly -100MB (negative one hundred megabytes) of RAM?
If you're just counting used RAM in a task manager type app in Android: Don't bother - Android precaches very aggressively.
"People sent their Galaxies away for a minor chip in the screen, but I regularly see people running their fingers over shattered glass panes on their iPhones, little chunks falling to the floor with every touch."
WTF is up with that? I keep seeing more and more of this here in Germany... on the bus, at my university, in cafes... you'd think these iPhones/iPods were all spontaneously cracking their glass by themselves. One of them (replying to my question as to whether the broken glass doesn't hurt or cut him) actually told me, "I don't mind a few splinters..."
It's the battery that generates the heat. As far as I can tell, Android phones don't run off a connected charger like laptops - they run off the battery, and charge the battery at the same time with the charger. Pretty stupid, because with GPS, screen on full brightness, and the WiFi hotspot running full throttle (for the kids in the back seat), the battery is supplying ~700mA while also being charged at 700mA... +- 0, but generating the same amount of heat as discharging or charging at 1400mA...
All assumed, of course, but the intense heat coming out of my Desire today (pretty much the same phone as the Nexus One, but with Sense... bah... thank God for Cyanogenmod!) seems to support my theory;)
Agreed, we need more stuff along the line of Sony's Bluetooth watches, but with bigger displays and better software. The current models all seem to be rather restricted in terms of what they can do, and the main problem seems to be the tiny two line LCD.
I'd love a watch that displays all my notifications and such, and has a decent speakerphone built in, but you're right - it really doesn't need to be a standalone Android device.
When transferring music to a portable device, not having to transcode is a good thing. Pretty much all Android phones play FLAC, either via codecs directly in the ROM or third party music apps like PowerAMP, and just dragging over FLAC instead of reencoding to MP3 or MP4 is just handy... and it gives you that warm fuzzy feeling;)
Also, headphone outputs on phones are becoming surprisingly good. Usually they're quite well suited (often better than standalone amps) for driving low-impedance phones like in-ear-monitors...
The feature/stability/security gaps don't seem huge until you realize that the exact thing you just wanted to do on your Android phone isn't supported until the next version... imagine poor 2.1 users without tethering, or 2.2 users without the SIP client. Everything's fine and dandy until you want to use the feature and then discover you don't have it because the manufacturer of your phone didn't think your handset was worth the effort of an upgrade...
Yes, but was that 32GB eMMC bootable? Or was it something akin to external storage (like SD cards on Android), with Maemo itself actually residing on a (much smaller) NAND partition?
Don't know about that (the males part), but the German tabloids have been circulating "Oral sex causes cancer!" every few months for a while now... unfortunately nobody seems to understand that it's actually HPV that *might* be causing an increase in mouth/throat cancers through oral sex, because HPV is only mentioned on the side... I guess blow jobs causing cancer is just a better headline...
No app can compensate for the fact that capacitive screens have an accuracy of about a quarter inch in all directions... it's like fingerpainting. And yes, I've used iPad styli...
If you're limited to notes that can be typed, sure... as soon as you need to write down a formula or make a little diagram, you're screwed. I can't think of many real-world note-taking situations (unless you're just transcribing a meeting word for word) where that applies...
And even if you are limited to typing: Even better, go for tactile feedback and use a real keyboard.
Correct on all counts but the Tablet PC. Those were never meant for the consumer market, but rather education and business... and there's still no "app for that", what with suitable ARM hardware and software combos still completely absent from the market. The HTC Flyer and Thinkpad Tablet are a step in the right direction with their N-Trig pens, but have a ton of catching up to do. I don't think we'll see a worthwhile contendor until Windows 8 tablets with digitizer pens and a ported version of MS OneNote appear.
Until then, I'm stuck schlepping around a heavy-ass Tablet PC with mediocre battery life - because iPads and Android tablets suck ass for taking notes.
"Apple really does present a cohesive, usable platform with most of the rough edges filed off."
True, but that usable platform has some additional (completely artificial) restrictions which make it unnecessarily difficult to use for many things. Best example I've heard in a while:
1. iPad user installs VLC on iPad from app store 2. VLC is removed from app store 3. iPad user upgrades to iOS 5 4. During the backup=>update OS=>restore procedure, VLC is magically lost 5. All the videos which were "associated" with VLC were restored and are now inaccessible because the iPad doesn't have a proper user-accessible filesystem... the space can't even be reclaimed because the files can't be deleted
I haven't followed the thread closely, so I'm guessing they may have found a solution by now, but still... WTF?
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That said, your use-case seems a bit extreme... WTF are you doing? You should really be spreading that out over a few 2560x1600 displays... nothing like being able to see everything all at once.
Ever thought about using a tiling application?
OK, then your device just doesn't like the car dock :p. Mine doesn't get particularly warm while just charging - only when charging and using GPS + hotspot at the same time...
Unfortunately, Motorola's ineptitude isn't limited to Motoblur. Their stock ROMs on the Droid/Milestone were similarly slow-as-molasses... other devices with slower processors and less RAM are snappier than my old stock Milestone :(
If you're running Moto's original Froyo firmware that's no wonder. I used to have a Moto Milestone (the GSM version of the Droid) which was annoying as hell in that regard. I now have an HTC Dream lying around for testing purposes, which has even less RAM than the Droid, and with a decent custom ROM that locks the home screen in memory, there are no such problems.
You luckily still have an unlocked bootloader on that Droid (the Milestone and nearly all of the models following the Droid are locked up really tight), so try out CyanogenMod... It won't give you more RAM, but it will allow you to tweak a few things like keeping the launcher in memory at all times.
How exactly are you counting? Android in all its smartphone iterations up to Gingerbread runs just fine on phones with 192MB of RAM (less than 100MB accessible by the system at runtime!)... does B2G use roughly -100MB (negative one hundred megabytes) of RAM?
If you're just counting used RAM in a task manager type app in Android: Don't bother - Android precaches very aggressively.
"People sent their Galaxies away for a minor chip in the screen, but I regularly see people running their fingers over shattered glass panes on their iPhones, little chunks falling to the floor with every touch."
WTF is up with that? I keep seeing more and more of this here in Germany... on the bus, at my university, in cafes... you'd think these iPhones/iPods were all spontaneously cracking their glass by themselves. One of them (replying to my question as to whether the broken glass doesn't hurt or cut him) actually told me, "I don't mind a few splinters..."
It's the battery that generates the heat. As far as I can tell, Android phones don't run off a connected charger like laptops - they run off the battery, and charge the battery at the same time with the charger. Pretty stupid, because with GPS, screen on full brightness, and the WiFi hotspot running full throttle (for the kids in the back seat), the battery is supplying ~700mA while also being charged at 700mA... +- 0, but generating the same amount of heat as discharging or charging at 1400mA...
All assumed, of course, but the intense heat coming out of my Desire today (pretty much the same phone as the Nexus One, but with Sense... bah... thank God for Cyanogenmod!) seems to support my theory ;)
Agreed, we need more stuff along the line of Sony's Bluetooth watches, but with bigger displays and better software. The current models all seem to be rather restricted in terms of what they can do, and the main problem seems to be the tiny two line LCD.
I'd love a watch that displays all my notifications and such, and has a decent speakerphone built in, but you're right - it really doesn't need to be a standalone Android device.
D'oh. OK, then never mind :D
Quite atypical for Apple though, huh? :)
"FLAC supports RG. ALAC supports Sound Check. What's the difference?"
I've heard of RG. Soundcheck on the other hand sounds like something that's (once again) limited to iDevices...
When transferring music to a portable device, not having to transcode is a good thing. Pretty much all Android phones play FLAC, either via codecs directly in the ROM or third party music apps like PowerAMP, and just dragging over FLAC instead of reencoding to MP3 or MP4 is just handy... and it gives you that warm fuzzy feeling ;)
Also, headphone outputs on phones are becoming surprisingly good. Usually they're quite well suited (often better than standalone amps) for driving low-impedance phones like in-ear-monitors...
Isn't that a reason NOT to use an iPod? Jeeze, stop buying crippled crap.
Sounds just like Android, where older devices simply install apps and OS data (dalvik-cache for instance) on a separate EXT partition on the SD Card..
The feature/stability/security gaps don't seem huge until you realize that the exact thing you just wanted to do on your Android phone isn't supported until the next version... imagine poor 2.1 users without tethering, or 2.2 users without the SIP client. Everything's fine and dandy until you want to use the feature and then discover you don't have it because the manufacturer of your phone didn't think your handset was worth the effort of an upgrade...
Yes, but was that 32GB eMMC bootable? Or was it something akin to external storage (like SD cards on Android), with Maemo itself actually residing on a (much smaller) NAND partition?
Don't know about that (the males part), but the German tabloids have been circulating "Oral sex causes cancer!" every few months for a while now... unfortunately nobody seems to understand that it's actually HPV that *might* be causing an increase in mouth/throat cancers through oral sex, because HPV is only mentioned on the side... I guess blow jobs causing cancer is just a better headline...
Then he writes in very, very large letters.
No app can compensate for the fact that capacitive screens have an accuracy of about a quarter inch in all directions... it's like fingerpainting. And yes, I've used iPad styli...
If you're limited to notes that can be typed, sure... as soon as you need to write down a formula or make a little diagram, you're screwed. I can't think of many real-world note-taking situations (unless you're just transcribing a meeting word for word) where that applies...
And even if you are limited to typing: Even better, go for tactile feedback and use a real keyboard.
Looks like it really was just a bug, fixable with a backup of the user's VLC.ipa file...
Any idea as to the cause?
http://thinkpad-forum.de/threads/124585-gel%F6st-Ipad-1-iOS-5-und-ein-paar-Schwierigkeiten...?p=1220936#post1220936
It's in German though... maybe Google Translator will be enough :)
Sounds like the dude tested it himself and just checked how much RAM was in use during compilation... or something like that?
Correct on all counts but the Tablet PC. Those were never meant for the consumer market, but rather education and business... and there's still no "app for that", what with suitable ARM hardware and software combos still completely absent from the market. The HTC Flyer and Thinkpad Tablet are a step in the right direction with their N-Trig pens, but have a ton of catching up to do. I don't think we'll see a worthwhile contendor until Windows 8 tablets with digitizer pens and a ported version of MS OneNote appear.
Until then, I'm stuck schlepping around a heavy-ass Tablet PC with mediocre battery life - because iPads and Android tablets suck ass for taking notes.
Interesting, any idea what might have been the culprit?
"Apple really does present a cohesive, usable platform with most of the rough edges filed off."
True, but that usable platform has some additional (completely artificial) restrictions which make it unnecessarily difficult to use for many things. Best example I've heard in a while:
1. iPad user installs VLC on iPad from app store
2. VLC is removed from app store
3. iPad user upgrades to iOS 5
4. During the backup=>update OS=>restore procedure, VLC is magically lost
5. All the videos which were "associated" with VLC were restored and are now inaccessible because the iPad doesn't have a proper user-accessible filesystem... the space can't even be reclaimed because the files can't be deleted
I haven't followed the thread closely, so I'm guessing they may have found a solution by now, but still... WTF?
I've been using CM pretty much since I bought the device. The power usage on AMOLED devices really is so stupidly high...