Thread: All Things Android

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

^^^can't enlarge it and actually see what it says,

model number
GT-19300

Android version
4-2-1

Baseband version
I9300NELK2

Kernal version
3.0.31-742798
se.infra@SEP-111 #1
SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 22 17:04:04 KST
2012

Build number
JZ054K.I9300XXELLA


Any help....

I don't recognise any custom build name there. If you press and hold your power button, is there a reboot option? And if there is, and you select it, does it have other options like "recovery"?

no and no

it's not rooted, that baseband comes up as stock or original when googled.

maybe it's something to do with your old carrier.

I'm guessing you were on o2 as that was mentioned earlier, although i forgot why now after a few beers

Originally Posted by Dillinger

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Jeeese, where I am from rooted means broken...

Originally Posted by Dillinger

it's not rooted, that baseband comes up as stock or original when googled.

maybe it's something to do with your old carrier.

I'm guessing you were on o2 as that was mentioned earlier, although i forgot why now after a few beers

Then maybe the CSC is the problem? I have someone with a similar issue, his Camera doesn't work on an S3 and apparently it needs a firmware update which you can do through a USSD code. But the USSD code gives an error on a custom ROM, instead of the camera firmware menu.

From what I can see the CSC code must match the provider.

Perhaps taking it to a shop and getting it rooted and upgraded to CM would be a better bet.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The S3?

note 2

Originally Posted by baldrick

note 2

Sorry to hear that, my commiserations, hope it all turns our well for you in the end...

The S3 build is not far off by all accounts. I wanted to dual boot it with Siyah but it needs a later version of CWM.

Meh.

I didn't realise that AOSP builds cannot do exfat so you are limited to a 32gig SD

apparently the exfat on android is proprietry to msoft and sammy

Originally Posted by baldrick

I didn't realise that AOSP builds cannot do exfat so you are limited to a 32gig SD

apparently the exfat on android is proprietry to msoft and sammy

Don't need more than that anyway TBH.

They're now taking pre-orders for this clever little design.

But only in Russia.

$600 though, bit steep.

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Performance-wise it's the best yet.

^how do you know? Have you tried it...

I should be getting the 4.3 upgrade during the first couple of weeks of December. Sony are never the quickest with the upgrades, but they do come along... I've been happy with 4.2 and 4.2.2, so if 4.3 and 4.4 are even better then I'll be very happy.

I'm equally happy with the 4.2.2 as I am with the Windows on the laptop; in some ways I prefer the Android. It'd be interesting to see how Android works on a tablet/netbook device, running office style applications and full blown applications such as Reaper and Fender Fuse - not sure Android could, yet.

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I've also downloaded a build for the TF700T which I'm going to install tonight.

^yes, the transformer pad is very nice - good buy.

How have you found it? Would you buy one again? Is it as good as my HP 14" win8?

I should've gone that route and got a large LCD screen to use as an internet TV, etc... But, in my defense I bought the win8 machine for the missus not me; sensibly, she didn't want it...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^yes, the transformer pad is very nice - good buy.

How have you found it? Would you buy one again? Is it as good as my HP 14" win8?

I should've gone that route and got a large LCD screen to use as an internet TV, etc... But, in my defense I bought the win8 machine for the missus not me; sensibly, she didn't want it...

It got progressively slower as they updated it to 4.2.1 until I rooted it and stuck a custom build on it.

But now I've seen 4.4 it's a no brainer.

^hope it works well for ya.

I've seen this Asus memo 8. I fancy a cheap 8" tablet with microSD and ok screen from a good brand. Should be about 9,000 baht. As soon as it comes out in Muscat, I'll grab one. Comes in pink!

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Comes in pink!

better than comin in goats eh ?

^get off to the iTard thread, Judas!

All the Tablets are shite .
The Nexus 7 is sans a Sd card slot or HDMI out , and the operating systems eats up over 4 gb,,, plus a it sports - in technical parlance - a gay 7'' screen
Far too little, especially as its wide screen .

The latest Ipad mini looks a winner , but has no Sd card slot either and they will charge $100 for every $6 worth of extra RAM upgrade, making the final price silly .
Though it has a lovely heterosexual 7.9'' screen in the manly 4:3 aspect ratio- I was brought up on square TVs....

I ended up with a cheap Acer Iconia , nice screen size, as above, but poor at picking up wifi signals .. has the poxy little speaker on the back - DOH...


The Pipo M7 pro looked the best, but not for sale easily here .

I saw the Asus memo 7 in a shop , the screen was very shinny indeed , perhaps they are all as bad ; why don't they use matte screens .

Here's a video of the memo 8 - a nice reflective screen ?
watch any few seconds of it - he might as well have been holding this sweetheart mirror .....

Originally Posted by blue

Here's a video of the memo 8 - a nice reflective screen ?

I'm living in the desert, so I don't go outside; the screen doesn't reflect much, if at all, inside. I'm not fond of Acer... &, rather gayly, Acer isn't manly enough to come in pink...



&, if that isn't pink enough, it also comes with a free cover:



It simply does not get any better than that...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

&, if that isn't pink enough, it also comes with a free cover:



It simply does not get any gayer than that...

I have to agree with you there.

^oh really...



Anyways, comes in black, blue and white too...