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Radbot posted:I keep hearing talk about "tablet mode" and how Paranoid Android and other custom ROMs for phones can move the soft buttons and clock around to make it look more like a tablet. It's the modder communities shorthand for the original Honeycomb 3.0 UI layout:  Basically it was retired in 4.2 for something more consistent with handheld form factors, and the N10 was the first 10" tablet to use the new format. The mod community didn't really like this since they feel the button layout was more optimized to holding the tablet in two hands and that the pronounced difference from the Phone UI gave tablets an exotic quality so they regard the original layout as the true tablet layout, whereas the N7/N10 are just running the phone layout in their eyes.
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Probably a dumb question and potentially irrelevant once I get a new laptop, but those USB OTG cables for hooking up an external drive to a Nexus 10, what sort of external case will work with those assuming I have one that always powers itself through USB and not a wall adapter? http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-2-5-Inch-External-Enclosure-NST-200S3-BK/dp/B0058YY202 I have that hard drive enclosure (except not USB3, it's older) will the USB OTG cables power that drive or am I gonna be screwed until I'm able to tether both the Nexus 10 and the HD to a real computer? I'm going to be away from all my stuff for a month and wanted to take some stuff with me in the case that something stupid happens to my server or internet connection while I'm gone.
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Telex posted:Probably a dumb question and potentially irrelevant once I get a new laptop, but those USB OTG cables for hooking up an external drive to a Nexus 10, what sort of external case will work with those assuming I have one that always powers itself through USB and not a wall adapter? I'm pretty sure you're not going to be able to power a hard drive with your tablet.
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Telex posted:Probably a dumb question and potentially irrelevant once I get a new laptop, but those USB OTG cables for hooking up an external drive to a Nexus 10, what sort of external case will work with those assuming I have one that always powers itself through USB and not a wall adapter? You could try getting something like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...CFUPc4AodjnYAwA paired with a wall socket USB adapter.
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So I'm new to android completely. Just picked up an Asus transformer tf700. I've been playing around with it for a while, picking up apps, etc. It is unlocked and rooted. All that stuff is a bit overwhelming and confusing. I understand an unlock is permanent and voids the warranty. And that being rooted is like being jailbroken. Currently I'm on 4.1.2 and would like to upgrade to 4.2.1. I found this but it's a bit confusing. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223918 I'd like to backup all the apps I have and their settings, do a system restore/wipe/whatever, and then upgrade to 4.2.2 and still be rooted. How do I go about this? Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Christoff posted:So I'm new to android completely. Just picked up an Asus transformer tf700. I've been playing around with it for a while, picking up apps, etc. Titanium Backup is a great app for backups, and is free in the Play store. You *should* be able to do a system wipe and then install the 4.2.2 ROM you have from the bootloader. Have you found instructions on accessing the bootloader on the TF700?
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SyHopeful posted:Titanium Backup is a great app for backups, and is free in the Play store. You *should* be able to do a system wipe and then install the 4.2.2 ROM you have from the bootloader. Have you found instructions on accessing the bootloader on the TF700? Yeah I got titanium backup trying to figure out how to use it. What's wrong with the way it backs up to your google account? I don't know it seems like I couldn't because I might brick it? Something about them changing the partion of the software or some poo poo. It's all very confusing and new to me.
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Christoff posted:Yeah I got titanium backup trying to figure out how to use it. What's wrong with the way it backs up to your google account? Google "backs up" the apps you install in the sense that it keeps a record of those apps and will reinstall them fresh on a new device. It doesn't back them up in the sense of keeping app data: save games and other data will NOT be backed up. Titanium Backup will keep app data. If you tell it to back up an app, you can then copy the files to a new device and restore them, keeping things like save games, app settings, etc.
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RVProfootballer posted:Google "backs up" the apps you install in the sense that it keeps a record of those apps and will reinstall them fresh on a new device. It doesn't back them up in the sense of keeping app data: save games and other data will NOT be backed up. The cloud doesn't backup app data? Huh. I thought it'd just re-download the apps and keep the app data. That's lame.
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Christoff posted:Yeah I got titanium backup trying to figure out how to use it. What's wrong with the way it backs up to your google account? http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/07/26/asus-releases-transformer-pad-infinity-tf700-bootloader-unlock-tool-get-your-rom-on-in-1080p/ So that'll get you into the bootloader, where you should be able to wipe/install ROM. Just make sure you have a solid and well-vouched-for ROM.
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Apr 28, 2013 03:00
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Vagrancy posted:It's the modder communities shorthand for the original Honeycomb 3.0 UI layout: Thanks for the info, didn't know it was retired in 4.2.
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Christoff posted:The cloud doesn't backup app data? Huh. I thought it'd just re-download the apps and keep the app data. That's lame. You're thinking of iCloud. Android doesn't have anything like that yet, unfortunately.
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Apr 28, 2013 11:02
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randyest posted:You're thinking of iCloud. Android doesn't have anything like that yet, unfortunately. Well, it does - but developers don't tend to use it (it isn't automatic).
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Telex posted:Probably a dumb question and potentially irrelevant once I get a new laptop, but those USB OTG cables for hooking up an external drive to a Nexus 10, what sort of external case will work with those assuming I have one that always powers itself through USB and not a wall adapter? It varies from drive to drive but I have a 1TB 2.5" USB powered external drive that works fine with my Nexus 7 using an OTG cable, I previously had a 750GB drive that worked fine also.
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Sendo posted:It varies from drive to drive but I have a 1TB 2.5" USB powered external drive that works fine with my Nexus 7 using an OTG cable, I previously had a 750GB drive that worked fine also. Please post model info? Also, what app are you using to mount drives? I was upset to find out the N7 didn't do it natively like the S3.
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I'm about to drop the cash on a nexus 10 but can't seem to find a cover I like. Ideally I want one of these foldable style ones But I'd rather have it clip to the back like the official one on the play store does. I've been trawling amazon/ebay for days with no luck yet.
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Shannow posted:I'm about to drop the cash on a nexus 10 but can't seem to find a cover I like. Ideally I want one of these foldable style ones http://www.amazon.com/MoKo-Lightwei...s=moko+nexus+10 Can't beat it for 10 bucks. Doesn't use the silly little pull off tab like the Google one, but it clips on the back and it's not thick and doesn't add a lot to the weight of the device or anything like that.
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So I have an hp touchpad running android which I really enjoy. Recently upgraded it to android 4.2.2 which has multi account support. I set up two accounts, one for me and one for someone else that uses it. My only issue is that I can't seem to figure out how to either share or move apps from one account to the other. Is this possible somehow?
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Splizwarf posted:Please post model info? Also, what app are you using to mount drives? I was upset to find out the N7 didn't do it natively like the S3. The 1TB I'm using now is a USB 3.0 WD My Passport, not sure on the model number of the drive. I'm using StickMount to mount the drive (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount) which requires root, alternatively Nexus Media Importer works without root (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer).
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Harminoff posted:So I have an hp touchpad running android which I really enjoy. Recently upgraded it to android 4.2.2 which has multi account support. I set up two accounts, one for me and one for someone else that uses it. My only issue is that I can't seem to figure out how to either share or move apps from one account to the other. Is this possible somehow? The whole point of multiple user accounts is to have separate accounts. If you want to share apps, why not use a single account? Google didn't add in multiple accounts so that you could share paid apps between users, for example. They did it so people could share a single device, while still having all their personal stuff sectioned off from each other.
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RVProfootballer posted:The whole point of multiple user accounts is to have separate accounts. If you want to share apps, why not use a single account? Google didn't add in multiple accounts so that you could share paid apps between users, for example. They did it so people could share a single device, while still having all their personal stuff sectioned off from each other.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:It sucks that letting someone play a game on your tablet means also letting them see your Gmail and Gtalk and Google Voice. There's numerous apps that allow you to lock off other apps with a password.
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Harminoff posted:So I have an hp touchpad running android which I really enjoy. Recently upgraded it to android 4.2.2 which has multi account support. I set up two accounts, one for me and one for someone else that uses it. My only issue is that I can't seem to figure out how to either share or move apps from one account to the other. Is this possible somehow? You could also look into shell commands to create a linked appdata folder accessible to both accounts on the Internal/SD file system, which could work marvelously or break everything, so keep a decent nandroid backup before you experiment.
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RVProfootballer posted:The whole point of multiple user accounts is to have separate accounts. If you want to share apps, why not use a single account? Google didn't add in multiple accounts so that you could share paid apps between users, for example. They did it so people could share a single device, while still having all their personal stuff sectioned off from each other.
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Syrinxx posted:It doesn't make sense because it doesn't work like PC/Mac/Linux which give access to installed software for different accounts while keeping mail and personal things separate. It does if you use "Multi User App Share," but that requires root, so 
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RVProfootballer posted:The whole point of multiple user accounts is to have separate accounts. If you want to share apps, why not use a single account? Google didn't add in multiple accounts so that you could share paid apps between users, for example. They did it so people could share a single device, while still having all their personal stuff sectioned off from each other. The best solution for this is to use a shared family account for Google Music, App purchased and the like. My wife and I both have our own GMail account, but then we have a family account that we purchase all our apps with. We add this secondary account to all our devices, and set it to the primary account the market uses. This allows us to share our paid apps but not have our main GMail accounts on each others devices. She has an iPad and an iPhone, so it's not really that useful for us, but if she decided to switch to Android, it's already setup to make it easy to share everything.
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Syrinxx posted:It doesn't make sense because it doesn't work like PC/Mac/Linux which give access to installed software for different accounts while keeping mail and personal things separate. I'm not saying it couldn't work a different way. However, it seems to me the model is rather different between Android and PC. All your Google stuff is tied to your Google account. You can install whatever software is tied to your account on whatever hardware is also tied to your account. Computer software is often licensed to specific hardware, where you can officially only install it on X machines. They're just very different models. I see Google as much more similar to something like Steam, which (at least by default) ties everything to a specific user. Unless you're willing to share a Steam account, you don't get to freeload games that other users of the computer have purchased, right? You can keep everything separate, both personal stuff and games, or you can share it and just use one user account on the computer. Jerk's suggestion is one solution, but since you can't move purchased stuff from one account to another, you have to plan it that way from the start.
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Maybe you should ask yourself if you're using multiple accounts to hide your Gtalk and Gmail why you are being so dishonest to the people around you and hiding the details of your life  Anyhow, for devices we share my girlfriend and I just have all our purchased apps on our shared gmail account. It's a lot easier.
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FordPRefectLL posted:Maybe you should ask yourself if you're using multiple accounts to hide your Gtalk and Gmail why you are being so dishonest to the people around you and hiding the details of your life Yeah, you don't have a girlfriend.
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I should be more clear when I'm invoking Eric Schmidt.
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SyHopeful posted:http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/07/26/asus-releases-transformer-pad-infinity-tf700-bootloader-unlock-tool-get-your-rom-on-in-1080p/ I appreciate the help but it's still all very confusing to me someone needs to be literally walk me through it, haha. This is my first android anything. All I know is I have a rooted and unlocked transformer tf700 with 4.1 randyest posted:You're thinking of iCloud. Android doesn't have anything like that yet, unfortunately. Oh ok I thought it did. And it would remember what apps to download and their data. Good to know. I've been messing around with apps and poo poo and I gotta say gmd gesture control is awesome. If you have a tablet get it It does feel a bit sluggish at times is there any apps or tweaks to make it a bit more snappy Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:It sucks that letting someone play a game on your tablet means also letting them see your Gmail and Gtalk and Google Voice. Install App Lock? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock
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My reason for it is simple. I previously had a version of android without multi account support. I share the device with my daughter and we would just download everything to one account. Now that I have multiple accounts I would like to remove her apps from my account and move them to hers without having to redownload everything. It looks like Multi User App Share should work though. I just don't get how there can't be an admin account that has a settings that lets you toggle what account can access what apps. If we both have games that we play does multi account install it twice or just once and store the save files in different user directories?
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Harminoff posted:My reason for it is simple. I previously had a version of android without multi account support. I share the device with my daughter and we would just download everything to one account. Now that I have multiple accounts I would like to remove her apps from my account and move them to hers without having to redownload everything. It looks like Multi User App Share should work though. Why can't you just keep doing it the way you have? There's absolutely nothing stopping you. I fail to see the problem. A new feature was added, it only adds another option. Heck, you can still add your Google account to her account, and turn off Gmail and Google voice syncing, and just have it sync Play store purchases.
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Is it worth buying a nexus 7 now, or should I wait for the refresh this summer?
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I would wait. The updated SoC alone will be worth it let alone any screen upgrades. If it is a quad core S4 with a 1080p screen, I'll probably end up selling off my 7 and picking up a new one. Which is another reason why you should wait. Even if these things aren't important to you, the used market will end up being flodded with 1 year old Nexus 7s. The Nexus 7 is cheap enough to not feel guilty about a yearly refresh cycle so I can see a lot of people dumping the old one for the new hotness. I generally prefer the 7" form factor for a lot of my stuff, but the screen and speed on my N10 have ruined me for the N7.
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bull3964 posted:I would wait. The updated SoC alone will be worth it let alone any screen upgrades.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:I feel exactly the same. If the 7 is refreshed with a better screen, I'll be getting one and one of my friends will be getting my old 7 for $100. Ha, that's exactly my plan down to the price. I have a friend who has wanted a tablet but needs a deep discount to push him over the edge. I'm sure he'll take it off my hands for $100 which makes picking up a new one for $249-$299 a no-brainer.
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