Many, many times thank you for the experience of ICS on Galaxy Tab 7. AOKP's Android 4.1 rom is showing up smoothly, a real improvement in comparison with Android  Gingerbread installed.

Download Roms for Dell Streak 5

1. Gingerstreak 2.4Beta   
2. Streakdroid 2.4.4

With many thanks to XDA-Developer DJ Steve and Modaco Representant Steve Hyde.

Mozilla Will Demo a Smart Phone OS This Year - Technology Review

Mozilla Will Demo a Smart Phone OS This Year - Technology Review

ZTE reveals a pair of new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones ahead of MWC | PhoneDog

ZTE reveals a pair of new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones ahead of MWC | PhoneDog

How often do you check your phone? | PhoneDog

P.S.: I do rather check it for feed updates filling in RAM than for messaging, but this I enjoy quite as often as the author at PhoneDog.

Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture - CNN.com

One whole page on-site, filled in with videos, reports, articles and links, with each possible detail about Apple manufacturing plant workers complaining of long hours and militant culture - CNN.com

DROID RAZR with Voice Actions for Android vs. iPhone 4S mit Siri

Screenshots, Converted and Aggregated to any Video Frame Rate

This is a row of screenshots, taken with the screen capture shortcut to PrintScreen. WinStep Nexus Dock 11.10 installation turns the keyboard shortcut into an easy-to-touch symbol for screen capturing.This row of shortcuts is converted to any video format with Avidemux - the frame rate of 1.000:13 is just my choice, because I like the result.

 My browser can't playback at this frame rate, therefore, the above video seems to be a slideshow only. To understand this joke a video player capable of playing this certain framerate were necessary.

Windows XP Customization

Toshiba Tecra A3, showing a video in the wrong format,
recorded with the screen recording program CamStudio 2.6b.
I uploaded it just for fun to share this.

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.

Only 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.
 

Installation and Start up

Free Download Digital Cube Desktop Manager

Free download of a manager for the ultimate virtual digital cube on x86 desktops, running Win XP/2000/Vista.

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.

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

:

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

Vivaz Apps Download Link

Vivaz Blogspot

Huawei Ideos S 7 Kernel/ROM Update/Upgrade

Here the kernel v. 2.6.32 of Android Froyo may be downloaded, its ca. 64 MB size added to the ROM and the Kernel versions are then uplisted there. Even, if the Kernel upgrade from 2.6.29 to 2.6.32 were possible without a complete ROM Froyo, flashed before, the RAM memory will be remarkably reduced, running an upgraded kernel.

Android forums are filled in with posts about the disappointing small RAM, left on updated Huawei tablets and phones.

Flashing the ROM version Android 2.1 with ROM 2.2, or higher, adds small data packages to the ROM, but data of the first ROM won't be deleted thereby.

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Links to more information: - http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/huawei-tablets/

Toshiba Tecra A3 WinXP Re Installation

Installing WinXP in Toshiba laptops from cd/dvd, with software from manufacturers as Dell, Fjutitsu, and others, needs more than ten driver downloads from Toshiba Corporated Websites.

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China Mobile Star C5000 Wifi TV YouTube Video Reviews

 I have been told that China Phones could neither be repaired nor were they known well enough to not face too many problems dealing with them. Every search engine contradicts by millions of web addresses with verbal and video reviews, blog articles and downloads for each model. Especially recommendable, qualified reviews with Roman letters and vocabulary there are.
 I have bought this phone several weeks ago to explore the 12 MP camera mainly. Sold it is commonly as fitted with a 2 MP camera, but this,indeed, consists of a 12 MP enabling lens. From then on I was reading articles about digital cameras, digital imaging, video recording, megapixels and the likes, but yet I am not more skilled in photography. My Mobile Star C5000 definitely shows neither MPEG motion quality nor JVT (Joint Video Team's H.264, MPEG-4 formats) nor features of the JCT-VC inventures for playing videos. Neither YouTube Channels, AOL, MSN nor Google Videos can be watched, nor DVD nor Blu-ray discs edited.

 But Mobile Star C5000 enables video recording impressively instead: The file size may be limited in the settings, but can grow unlimitedly, the less the recording time is possible with limitless time frames. Whether with or without audio recording, the formats set to H.263 or MPEG-4 differentiate the quality of this java phone. The Anti-flicker effect can be put to 50 Hz and 60 Hz optionally, therefore PAL, SECAM and NTSC recording is basically enabled. Files formatted in .gp and .ggp can be watched on external TV devices via the TV-Out port of the phone. Analog TV may be recorded internally and saved to the storage cards. Radio tuning is recorded accordingly and may be stored as well - securely and digitally or on the phone storage of eight Gigabytes.

 The C5000 digital camera starts with a pixel resolution from 160x120 pixels to 240x400p and 640x480p, but extends its capabilities up to 1600x1200p and 1280x960 pixels. Continous shots of 5 at a time can be switched off or the shooting of one and several in a row enabled.


 

China Mobile Star C5000 WIFI TV Software Download

Here, there are mp3 ringtones and midi downloads, Java J2ME apps, wallpaper and screensaver downloads, ebooks (jar, pdf and txt files), 3gp and mp4 video downloads and games for screen resolutions of 240x400 and 240x320Pixels.

Nokia 9300 Communicator s80 Review Video

An introduction with written words:

About China Phone HD 7, 4.3'', 8 MP, HD Video, Flash LED

 

Smartphones, available in Chinese warehouses, are commonly called China Phones at the time. Ordered directly in China, sometimes they are delivered with Asian ROMs. The Android,  Windows, Apple and Symbian platforms then are fitted with Chinese, Malaysian, Polynesian gadgets and apps, but will be worth their price. Flashing another ROM reduces the  internal memory down to zero Megabytes. Even the the 256 MB RAM of my HD 7 is too small sized for my disgust. The gadgets needn't matter, but averagely two or three gadgets are written with Asian fonts, many of them implemented in the ROM and using RAM memory. Inspite of this, I am enjoying these Chinese devices, technical knowledge, technics, electronics and the Chinese customer service very much. My HD7 had been branded by Vodafone and HTC before it went for sale refurbished and fitted with a next one-year-warranty without the brandings.

 At the moment it is yet waiting for repair: the starter cable has torn into two parts - no longer connected with the motherboard. After I had used it for more than three hours outside, during heavy rain falls, Android did no longer start. I screwed its coat off, but unfortunately tore the micro starter cable into two pieces. Yet I am missing this phone working very much.

 The HD 7th's best features maybe are, for example, beneath its affordable price, its screen size with 4.3'',  the quality of video recording, its rear camera with 5 Megapixels, front camera with 3.2 Megapixels, automatic lightning and zooming, the color depth.of the images and last, not least, how well this micro mobile computer works at all sights.

 The precision, speed, data transfer rate, colors and, last not least the political, economical and social meaning of these communication means in principle and across the entire universe is impressing and proves the electronic revolution of all centuries. The prizes, according to the rising demand of computer electronics cause feelings of real grace in me, because slowly, but securely I am the proud owner of a growing number of such electronic toys.

China Mobile Star C5000 Firmware Update Download Link

 For everyone, who has bought C5000 just as me - there is a firmware update and download link for purchase of $2.99 any, in no way described firmware update. Bored as me with the old Java firmware - perhaps this will help. Only that we are to buy a black box, because the seller does not tell anything about the update content.
 I bought C5000 because of the 12 MP Camera Lense. For real, its camera and camcorder programs provide with resolutions for images from 160x120Pixels, 640x480, 1280x960 up to 1600x1200Pixel resolution. And personal video recording is possible with 1000Pixels, up to 3000 Pixels and with unlimited storage for the length of recording.

 My dog takes me for ver curious yet, recording everyone of her steps daily.

Android ARM Flash Player with HTC HD 7 Download

 Interested in the download link for the Android Flash Player 10? These download files are limited for function in armv6 processors only, but if you install them on phones with armv5 hardware, you will need between 8MB and 13 MB free internal storage and the same amount on an sd card. All flash videos online can be played then, but more than 512MB RAM free internal memory are recommendable, because no additional program can start any more. Therefore all that matters depends on the RAM.

 For enjoying mobile browsing the physical smartphone processor could matter, but doesn't. Android phones commonly provide with the ARM architecture and most players on the Android market are pronounced to substitute Adobe Flash Player 10 and 11 by armv6 and armv7 architectures, but what about armv5? The main difference seems to be the hardware, but the arm files for installation are data configurations only. And Adobe programs are definitely written for Windows phones - but web videos are not.

 My HTC HD7 Android phone plays all videos flawlessly in its browser, although fitted with the old armv5  processor. But: before I had installed and uninstalled all available versions of ARM and had hard reset the device, most of the web videos could  not neither be played by armv5 nor Marvell processors.

 These processors do exist as objective features,  but most modern phones miss them and the average people - just as me - prefer arm versions 5 and 6, because they are sold at affordable prices. These versions do work very well and show all available videos on the internet. So I am no longer bothered with messages as "Please install Adobe Flash Player, ... your flash player must be updated for viewing this video, ... and you don't have installed the right version of flash player on your phone, ... please go to this download page: ... ."?

Android's Animated Weather Forecast Widget

 The best widget for Android phones may be this stunning application. It can be placed on one and more today screens and forecasts the weather of three days at one sight. This widget can appear almost anywhere in the android system or for the start up additionally fitted with time, date, location in amazingly rich colors. Here is the demonstration of all features as video on YouTube. The free download is available at once - upgrades to the ProWidget can be watched on YouTube before.

Animated Weather for Android - Weather forecast application. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.

Fujitsu Lifebook S Series Inverter Display Replacement

For two weeks, my already used Fujitsu Lifebook S Inverter Display was travelling from California to Berlin. As my old inverter display is broken and replacement parts for this notebook model are no longer produced I had been searching for an already used part, finally on Ebay, offered for sale by Tech Exchange Services in Rancho Cucamonga. The replacement itself took one hour, although I had saved time, if I had had disassembled it completely.  Now it is working properly again.

Driver Installation on Fujitsu Lifebook S Series

WinXPProf installed from a disk labeled DELL missed three drivers first: the Fujitsu FUJ02B1 Device Driver (included in the downloadable BIOS Flash files from Fujitsu Support&Drivers) Website and two network drivers. Concluding that Dell´s WinXP installation disc can be used for platform installations on a Toshiba Tecra laptop also; seven additional drivers are necessary and available at Toshiba support sites.

Acer Aspire One Netbooks

As I have surfed with an Aspire One for quite a long time, I was asked to write or tell the whole personal value it had provided in any form. Instead of an insight into my life, I am going to add some specs in general for a later review.

The best of all netbooks, of course, will be my one - but really the same as all the same aspire one models . The brand has been born in Taiwan, grown worldwide and different from everyone that has been sold already it is yet being sold in growing varieties. Acer Corporation is an incorporation of computer systems and hardware, because the brand is being enfolded in meaning as the genus of maple trees was and it is incorporating the sugar of energy regulations by now. ACER is an abbreviation as well for European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), directing to the European Body of Electronic Communication Regulators (BEREC) and fitted with an endless number of unique capabilities, crowned symbolically by an Armored Combat Engineer Robot, created by Mesa Robotics.

Acer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and electronics corporation for IT services. Acer Group is headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Subsidiaries are Acer America Corporation, Acer Computer Australia, Acer India, Gateway Inc., Packard Bell, eMachines and E-TEN. Acer Aspire may be one of manyfolded series of desktop computers, notebooks and one of the eleven Aspire One netbooks.

This subnotebook/netbook tolerates 8 and 16 GB SSDs and obligationally 120/160 Gigabyte as well as 250 GB hard drive disks. Possible operating systems are Linpus Linux Lite, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Starter, powered by 3-cell batteries with each of  2.2 Ah, 2.4 Ah, 2.7 Ah, 2.9 Ah or 6-cell batteries of 4.4Ah, 5.2 Ah or 6.6 Ah. The central processing unit with 1.6 Ghz and the Intel atom processor of 1.66 Ghz, N270-N280, carry through the web with incomparable speed. The latest fit of 1.7 GHz AMD Athlon II with the neo memory of 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB, 2 GB will prove unreachable reliability of electronic power, compressed on one small mainboard inside. The display sizes vary between 10.1 in (26 cm),11.6 in (29 cm), 8.9 in (23 cm) 1024×600 and 1366×768 LCD_TFT resolution (with HD glossy LED LCD input of 89% or 100% ). The fully sized keyboard and touch pad, a camera with 0.3 Mp Suyin or 1.3 Mp Liteon and integrated Webcam , all they guarantee smart handling and mobility throughout each working day with three USB ports and a 5-in-1 card reader that is yet fitting every purpose. The VGA video-out port, 3.5mm audio jacks, the Realtek 10/100 Mbit/s LAN, Atheros 802.11b/g WLAN and ethernet connection provide with a unique informational, fast and practicable companion for even 3G and UMTS networks. Finally the weight as well as its size suit every small pocket.

Unknown Device/Device Driver/Unbekanntes Gerät/Treiber Update

Updates for Fujitsu computers and laptops are located on their support sites, filed under drivers and downloads. Fujitsu FUJ02B1 driver downloads differ by product/model/operating system, but the files' name is the same. If this driver isn't being installed by a driver update program or the device manager, an ISO image file of FUJ02B1 written onto CD ROM or floppy disk will help.

If it isn't yet recognized by your device, it may be necessary to open one of the Flash BIOS ISO image .zip files after their download and to move the single, unzipped files to cd, disk or to input the directory path to the .BUP file into the OS_System/MS DOS. To install both ISO files (BIOS and FUJ02B1) should activate the FUJ02B1 driver and won't leave an unknown device.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series in HP Compaq nc6000 without AMD Athlon

My ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series graphic card had run optimally with an Intel Pentium IV CPU and nVidia graphic driver with neither a Ge/NForce processor nor graphic card.

After an ATI Controller installation via the HP Compaq nc6000 driver download page for WinXPProf (look up the link of my latest posts) white frames around several start up symbols and basically long buffering of YouTube videos hindered me from enjoying HP Compaq nc6000 videos as before. De-installation of the ATI Controller and re-installation of a common ATI Radeo driver has not yet brought back the video quality of the former nVidia driver, but the common one is compatible with all device components as well - opposited the nVidia driver was corrupted after deinstallation of the ATI Controller of any series.

This ATI driver, catalyst and controller download did not show white frames on my screen, but videos were played only with - partly very long lasting - interruptions and buffering. In contrast, that VGA Driver ATI.zip file on Cnet.com hadn't been recognized by WinXPProf.

Audio Driver Incompability

Conexant audio driver had had destroyed every audio and video driver installation ( the ATI video controller as well) - system recovery was impossible, but reformatting the whole hard disk was successful. My HP Compaq nc6000 is running better than before.

Personal Events and Failures

My latest laptop, HP Compaq nc6000 is awaiting a new system installation, due to overclocking. Agere Systems AC'97 Modem driver (980kb) reported an installation failure, then I downloaded Conexant CX20468-31 AC97 Audio Driver EQ (316kb and 960kb, both released at March 31, 2005) and installed these three drivers/updates. Meanwhile, ADI Soundmax Audio Driver was activated automatically, but all installations were successful finally. After a system restart, defragmentation and registry cleaning everything seemed perfect.

But while MS Windows Scan Disk was executing, the screen suddenly splashed and three penetrating sirens were yelling - therefore I forced the system shut down by the switch off button. The boot process is to be as follows: ROM BIOS executes the logo, splash screen, MSWindows logo, but now the Welcome to Windows log in screen is no longer displayed. Neither safe mode nor network access mode can start up now, although HP's troubleshooting pages suggest that the hard disk is not destroyed yet.

Acer Aspire One z5g AOD150 Disassembly

Now I have removed the last screw. One battery, CPU and CMOS had caused strong traces of oxidization on the rear of the keyboard. For two and half a year I had used it ca. 18 hours daily.

Self-Repair HP Compaq nc6000 Notebook PC

How to locate parts of your laptop is shown here. How to remove/replace/repair parts these videos display.

HP Compaq nc6000 Updates Download Links

Hewlett-Packard's free download pages enable 53 updating programs:

	BIOS,
»	Driver,
»	Driver - Audio,
»	Driver - Graphics,
»	Driver - Graphics - Intel,
»	Driver - Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices,
»	Driver - Modem,
»	Driver - Network,
»	Driver - Printer,
»	Driver - Storage,
»	Firmware,
»	Operating System,
»	Operating System - Enhancements and QFEs,
»	Software - Network,
»	Software - Security,
»	Software - Solutions,
	Software - System Management,

I gratefully explore all these free goods looking forward to use my over-aged device. WinXP does not only change its outlook, it seems new to me.

Personal Updates

As my Aspire One zg5 AOD150 does no longer start up successfully, I urgently needed a substitute, and I discovered a big deal at Amazon.de for 150€. Proud owner of a real HP Business Notebook, Compaq nc6000, 1.4GH Intel Pentium M, Intel Centrino inside,  30GB hard disk, French keyboard, Win XP/Pro, I discovered on HP's Sites the warranty of s/n, p/n and model identity late: Expired since 2000-01-23, but I am going to explore my refurbished laptop happily inspite of its age.  MS Updates took 15GB of hard disk, HP updates will take 10GB in all.

Download mscf3.5cab file

Took me a long time to find a direct link to the cab file, thanks to jayceooi - for them who cannot synchronize now: http://www.jayceooi.com/2010/02/26/download-microsoft-net-compact-framework-3-5-cab-for-htc-hd2/. This cab file may be installed on every Windows Mobile System  - all programs will run by the appropriate runtime automatically, all runtimes simply coexist in the implemented ROM, unnecessary to exchange registry values.

Windows Mobile /CE

Here, you need an account before you may download the extracted cab file. The arm4 processor is unnecessary for the installation.