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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Android on x-86


Android on Toshiba Tecra A 3:
The instructions of how to port Android to x-86 PCs don't link directly to the SDK download files from the same site: This here links.

Android System architectureOnly that partitions, once having been formatted with raiser and installed a Linux/Unix/Android kernel needn't run Windows anymore. Less final will be the free virtual boxes from Oracle, but appropriate for all platforms.

Who just wants to switch between applications for different platforms should explore these portable apps, because they can be installed on  USB drives and on SD-cards, with and without the portable platform. Android SDK packages for ASUS and EEPC's are available at Google code pages for download.

Windows Developer Preview


This is the Download Page of the ISO image file, taking up to 16 GB memory during installation.

Depending on each special device, maybe several drivers are missed, as there is the Audio Device Driver CM8738 from C-Media Electronics Inc., available for free.

Google's search engines link to the best reviews, insights and tweaks for this prelease.
 

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Android Virtual Devices on PC and Laptop via USB


  At Android-x86 , porting Android to x86 PC's, various source codes and links to Google Code pages are as interestingly discussed as the SDK and NDK download packages. Installations from a virtual box via the OS, executable from USB Stick or from CD with Android 0.1 - 0.3 Live let us choose the diplayed size freely. The best may be to explore the ANDROID Developer Guide Site before. Here is a short video of the default Google SDK r1.6 installation and an ugly image of my last virtual device, because I had installed no camcorder for screen recording.
  This article at Android Authority provides with a complete step-by-step description for a very special virtual box on a USB drive. The download of that Android4 API must be requested indirectly from inside of the virtual box installation process, but then it is possible to turn pixel areas of an ordinary PC screen into touch-screen areas of Android Ice Cream Sandwich.. Important only is to disconnect the drive again and before the next system booting from the next desired partition.
 Who doesn't want a virtual box, not to realize any SDK and who does the less intend partitioning his entire OS for several systems, may be happier with the link above. The instructions are, simple but complete, perfect for installing an Android Virtual Device on a USB Stick and run two Android versions on x86 and x64 PC's as on Touch Screen devices. All platforms are appropriate for these packages, but defining a small proportion of the screen for the planned device before its virtualization recommendable.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Samsung Omnia SHG-900i vs.Sony Vivaz U5i vs. Samsung Pixon GT-8910



 Inspired by GSMARENA, (my favorite source of matter, when I am interested in a certain phone), I am going to compare my old phones by pixel resolutions and images for an individual point of sight. Anyone individual point of sight this may seem, because of all the numbers of pixels, the resolutions, the perspectives, the objectives, the angles of sight and these of the lenses, the distance to the objects and finally, because of all the proportions of everything that matters for relevant images; but these will count for me as well.

 The usual color charts and everything else relating to the quality proof of copied documents I already know. But shooting photos without a traditional scanner, scanning only one-dimensional, the reality of light outdoors, in general, turns every comparison into a crisscross of units, emotional impressions and confronts with my small skills. Images don't only hide the distance taken by the photographer for shooting.

 Following there are two images, taken with the SHG-900i, at a resolution of 1280x960px the first - and the double-folded number of pixels, 2560x1920px the second - both illustrated as 1:1 (100%) and shot from the same distance.

Both images can be zoomed equally, but the second image consists of a higher number of pixels and displayed at a wider angle of resolution it shows darker colors and a less differentiated structure of grasses and wall.


The next, shot from the same point of distance, as follows:
 Pixon GT-8910(1.6x1.2MP),               Pixon(12MP),                                 SHG900i(4.7MP)



The following: SHG-900i (4.7MP and 2.5EV) - in contrast to U5i with 8MP, but +/-0.0EV



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The next images are to compare 5MP with 8MP and 12MP, from different distances:


The following images, shot with Pixon GT-8910 (5 MP+Fall Color) and with SHG-900i(5MP+2.5EV):



The next with Omnia 5MP, 2.5EV first, and following with Pixon GT-8910,12MP, 0.0EV, Fall Color:



Huawei Ideos S 7 ROM Update 2.1 Eclair to 2.2.2 Froyo (radio 2.6.32 to 2.6.32.9-ideos)

 Depending on my previously bought ROM and free RAM of 169 MB, I only lost 31 MB by the update from Eclair 2.1 to Froyo 2.2.2. But the android browser plays flash files (.swf) now and half of the memory apps need is installed on sd card (appstosd). Adobe Flash Player 11 is loaded smoothly in the background and videos need no buffering time. The name IDEOS appears on screen during the start-up for the duration of one minute - instead of the letters "Huawei S 7" bound to Android 2.1 as I had received the device. Several features of HTC's ROM's were being deleted during the implementation of the new one.

 Although the variety of available ROMs is getting widened, choosing one you like needn't be easy. I had downloaded the Indonesian full sized package, inspite of worrying about the reduction of RAM. Huawei Ideos s7 device automatically installs the right clock work module and radio definitions via the installation of the sd card - proposed you have added all the necessary data before. In Germany, Ideos S7 is sold with Android Eclair 2.1, fitted with the German and English system languages only. Its radio definition 2.6.32 instead of the usual one for Eclair, namely 2.6.29, won't matter, but Eclair itself does. Adobe Flash 10 for Android 2.1 devices required arm version 6, 7 or 9 once, but video playback featured a stressing long buffering time by this software configuration - distracting from watching the finally downloaded videos later.

 If you buy the device in Germany at the time, resetting the software to factory default will not re-install Froyo as sold by manufacturer Huawei Inc.. As I bought Ideos S7 here, the installed radio file was named "2.6.32" and the model no.: "Android 2.1".posted from Bloggeroid