bunch of thrive questions.

[shane4golf]

I am looking at buying two of these one for me one for my wife. from what i have read it looks like that the battery life has about 9.6hrs of viewing. is this accurate? whats the avg. battery life when normal surfing or game playing?

does this work well with Remote desktop? Sometimes i need to log in to my server.

8gb vs 16gb. wouldn't be better to buy the 8gb and put in a large SD card for memory?

like i said i have a bunch of questions. i have done so much research and it looks like the Thrive is the better of the tablets, unless i am missing something.

Any help, opinions, or suggestions.

 

[nonie]

I have the 16gb and have sd card in for music, photos, books. But you can't move apps to sd card.

So keep that in mine when deciding size. There are things pre installed, that unless you are rooted you can't remove, even if you don't use them.

I haven't tried remote desktop, so can't comment on that, I'm sure others will comment.

Amazon has a free app a day, that is usually a paid one. So be sure and check there site daily.

I have downloaded quite a few things, games, etc. But still have lots of room left.

I love mine, no regrets on my purchase.

 

[shane4golf]

i never even thought of the app on sd card. so maybe it would be smarter to go with the 16gb. i will defiantly check out Amazon thanks for the tip.

do you watch movies on yours? any tips on how to put them on that. like if i own a movie and want up put it on my tablet to watch on a plane?

 

[nonie]

I've never done that. But have read where you can. Think you have to copy movie on to sd card or usb stick, then put in thrive to watch.

 

[ryaxnb]

i never even thought of the app on sd card. so maybe it would be smarter to go with the 16gb. i will defiantly check out Amazon thanks for the tip.

do you watch movies on yours? any tips on how to put them on that. like if i own a movie and want up put it on my tablet to watch on a plane?

(hopefully this wont get me in trouble)
The Thrive accepts movies in MP4, M4V, AVI format. You use a dvd ripping program such as HandBrake, combined with a dvd decrypter such as DVD43, to rip movies to MP4 format. Select the iPad preset in HandBrake if you want good quality, or make your own preset with lower quality and small er space requirements (768kbps or 1024 kbps h.264 w/128kbps AAC audio is a good setup for lower space than normal). You must use HandBrake on a DVD already ripped to your HDD, or a video file you have on your HDD that you've acquired elsewhere. Then move the converted DVD to your SDXC, SDHC, microSD or other storage medium (usb flash sticks and HDDs formatted as FAT32 work too).

If you have video files you've acquired elsewhere, that are in AVI, WMV, FLV, or similar formats, consider a video player like MX Player Pro ($6) for your Thrive, that support playing any format at all. Then you can just drag and drop a standard defintion video file, of any file format, onto an SDXC/SDHC/USB drive/stick/card and play it back on your Thrive.

If you have YouTube, Blip.tv, Twit.tv etc videos you want to download, try Video DownloadHelper for Firefox, which downloads them in FLV or MP4 format, depending on the site and the video chosen. The Thrive can play MP4 format Out Of The Box, but for FLV you'll need a player like MX Player Pro to play without converting. With MX player, they should play flawlessly.

You can also rip Blurays using HandBrake, but they must be decrypted using BluRay decryption software first. And you must have a BluRay drive in your PC. Rip them to MP4, 720p iPad format.

If you want to watch video on demand, the Android Market has a number of Movies you can download for offline viewing at 99c per rental, and you can stream video from Tv.com, Netflix, and Slingbox and other streamers.

 

[max_stirling]

I haven't watched one of those "Digital Copy" movies on my Thrive yet, but the outlook is not too bright. I do download a lot of video podcasts and the Thrive seems to have problems playing the HD versions or files larger than 100mb. Very odd since my Motorola Atrix phone has no problems playing the same podcasts. My phone and tablet seem to have the same chip and memory specs. Maybe displaying video at the higher tablet resolution maxes out the Tegra2 chip.

 

[bc-short]

I had a similar problem with HD videos freezing after the 3.2 update. Solution (finally!) was to change the lease time settings in my router from "forever" to "2 days". Works like a champ now.