The GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

[Ted_v2]

2 questions

i saw theres a jelly bean update for the galaxy tab, i currently have 4.0.3 ice cream sandwich

what could i upgrade to?

also besides hacker keyboard and swiftkey what other good keyboard apps are dere?

[ismithx]

question, rooting a phone voids warranty?

it does, but there are ways to reset it as if it has never been rooted (i know that is possible for the samsung galaxy line)

[Strauss]

Why is a removable battery so important?

I am a heavy user. It is a pet peeve for me to have a phone with a dead battery. I take lots of photos, surfing, searching, gaming all over 4G. Car charger doesn't do it all the time as i am at most 1hr in car.
For me it is important.

You need convert to the Borg.

More and more phones and tablets will be going with built-in batteries and soon no removable storage to get phones thinner and lighter. (Also nano sims)

[nervewrecker]

question, rooting a phone voids warranty?

it does, but there are ways to reset it as if it has never been rooted (i know that is possible for the samsung galaxy line)

Well thats the thing, phone has a sd card and there is no way to select where you want info to be stored (file manager).
Yesterday I was looking to update some stuff and I see 'not enough space' so I delete some pics but meanwhile the card empty. What am I to do? This is pretty effed up.

[ismithx]

what phone is it? maybe your apps or something else is taking up space on the phone memory itself

[pete]

Lower end phones have very limited space available for applications. I find it really ruins the experience.

[nervewrecker]

galaxy y.

Not really looking for any fancy expensive phone.

[Strauss]

Lower end phones have very limited space available for applications. I find it really ruins the experience.

But apps are so tiny.
Movies are the storage hogs.

[nervewrecker]

Not really an app fanatic, all I dl is an animated wallpaper and powerbar widget, dont like the widget so I getting rid of it (the one that came with the phone is just fine).

Would have loved different wallpapers for the different home screens but I only use one screen anyways.

[pete]

The galaxy Y he mentions above only has 180MB of internal memory. Yes apps are small but for example

Google+ 27MB
Maps 12.5MB
Facebook 12.2MB
Whatsapp 10MB
Play Store 9MB

There are also a bunch of smaller apps which are needed for the OS to run. Right now my X-Cover has 146MB Used and 20MB free and I really don't have very many apps installed on it. Bare minimum.

My note on the other hand has 2GB Dedicated to storage and I've used 0.9GB of that..

[ismithx]

yeah the SGY has very little internal memory, but if you have only two apps and no space something wrong... reset the phone

[nervewrecker]

have a few other stuffz running too like Samsung Apps, SamsungAppsUNA2, mobi.mggeek.TunnyBrowser, google+, Google Play store etc and if I try to close it says phone wont function properly.

I forget, I dl facebook and dropbox too.

I really dont need any heavyweight phone, this one is just fine but the memory have me concerned.

[Strauss]

The galaxy Y he mentions above only has 180MB of internal memory. Yes apps are small but for example

Google+ 27MB
Maps 12.5MB
Facebook 12.2MB
Whatsapp 10MB
Play Store 9MB

There are also a bunch of smaller apps which are needed for the OS to run. Right now my X-Cover has 146MB Used and 20MB free and I really don't have very many apps installed on it. Bare minimum.

My note on the other hand has 2GB Dedicated to storage and I've used 0.9GB of that..

How much of the memory does the OS take up?

My sisterinlaw has the Y (which I recommended for her needs). It's still a snappy phone in a nice form factor. My only issue is connected to proxy'd Wifi is not so straight forward. Sometimes flaky with HTTPS connections. Small issue but a pet peeve of mine.

[Ted_v2]

nerve whatchu think of the galaxy y? gimme a review na

[nervewrecker]

What do I go into in order to find out how much memory the OS picks up? (I not so tech savvy with these stuff nah, now graduated from a $100.00 flip samsung that came out when digicel now come here).

Galaxy Y is a real nice sinple phone for the average joe. You wanna check it out weekend soundboy?

[Ted_v2]

What do I go into in order to find out how much memory the OS picks up? (I not so tech savvy with these stuff nah, now graduated from a $100.00 flip samsung that came out when digicel now come here).

Galaxy Y is a real nice sinple phone for the average joe. You wanna check it out weekend soundboy?

going iere bazzar? walk with it if you going, ill check it there if not pass by me, ill show you the galaxy tab

[nervewrecker]

not sure if markus going and I have to drop him, if not then no.

Depending on what time I rise and shine I will swing by you, you gotta hear my music system

[fallen18]

You should check out link to sd, allows you to pretty much send any app to the sd card. Used it alot with my galaxy 3, had like 80+ apps and still bout 90mb internal free.

[nervewrecker]

^^^

I just take a quick google on that app, seems the device needs to be rooted.

Trying to avoid that, thanks anyways.

[Strauss]

You should check out link to sd, allows you to pretty much send any app to the sd card. Used it alot with my galaxy 3, had like 80+ apps and still bout 90mb internal free.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... p2sd&hl=en

[S_2NR]

Jellybean leaked for S2.
Downloading now.

[kurpal_v2]

Leaked os?

No thanks

[S_2NR]

Confirmed to be 100% functional on XDA.
Backing up now. Gonna flash. Wish me luck

[Kronik]

Rather get the official...

Post your results, if your phone still working

[S_2NR]

Why allyu men so scared



not my vid, trying to figure how to get back root before i do it. I NEED root.

[S_2NR]

Whoever have d balls..

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8107


you could use mobile odin to flash. thats what i did.

working great. looks like a gs3

[pete]

I think one came out for the note as well.. started downloading it but as nobody had tried it on XDA I backed off..

[M_2NR]

After the last time with ICS and the leaked rom caused bricks.. I real good.

[S_2NR]

Jellybean wukkin bess. Will use this till the final version. This pwns cm9 and 10.

[AGENT RORO]

Got the update about two weeks ago but didn't install it, is it really heavy on the battery as reported?