Recent content by idarwin

Who could say no to winning such a cool piece o' tech? Thanks for running this contest, BTW!

Re: [APP] Flash Image GUI - Flash Kernels and Recoveries from nor Is there someplace you can download the "Stock" Recovery for Maguro (GNex), for use with this program? My OTA update 4.0.4 -> 4.1 did not end well as I had previously installed CWM, and apparently forgot to do a backup of the...

All very nice, and good instructions EXCEPT that it should say "... follow the on-screen instructions to *apply the zip update from sdcard*" - the words 'flash the OTA package' are misleading - flashing implies erasure and loss of data, which is not what happens during an update.

My avatar is taken from my Android Cookbook site androidcookbook.com

Plan A - get it from FactoryDirect.ca, when they have them in stock. Theirs are "refurbished", and come in at C$399 (90 day warranty, can extend it for a fee). I used Plan A, but I went into the store, not by mail, so I could see that I wasn't getting one with the minor screen discoloration...

New tablets always welcome! :-)

I want one :-) My Nexus One is dying of old age - thankfully CynanogenMod put the "click trackball to power on" hack into CM7, or the phone would be scrap. Hope the newer Nexii are better built. :-)

Re: The Android Dictionary (aka "What the hell are they talking a ANR - App Not Responding (usually but not always caused by a buggy app!). OpenMoko - an early open source cell phone handset project, now mostly defunct :-( See Openmoko Web Site. They started with their own Linux distro, but...

The forum says to introduce yourself, so here goes, in case anybody's reading this. I've used Android since 1.5 Cupcake on a variety of devices. I'm the editor of the Android Cookbook (whose URL is just those two words with dot com at the end), an O'Reilly Cookbook for Android develeopers that...