Improved battery with new ERE27 update? Hint for an extended battery life...
Half solution for the N1 again!
Arabic on the Nexus One? Almost a complete workaround...
Update 8, Feb 4: PLEASE DON'T INSTALL THIS UPDATE IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED THE RECENT UPDATE FROM GOOGLE ERE27! GO HERE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION!
Update 7, Jan 22: There is an even newer update file!
Update 6: For Motorola Milestone, I believe you can in the mean time enter the commands to get Arabic working. Check the comments in this post, and please let me know if works for you so that we can report this to other users.
Update 5, Jan 22: Updated image file.
Update 4, Jan 21: A new modified update image with full support for Arabic in SMS, Gmail and Browser.
Update 3: It will actually not work on Motorola Milestone yet, since there is no custom recovery image yet. Though It should work on the Motorola Droid since there is a custom recovery image for that.
Update 2: This solution will also work on the Motorola Droid or any device using Android 2.0 and above.
Update 1: Arabic will also be displayed correctly in the Gmail client app.
OK here we go again.
The Nexus 'Superphone' One...I finally got it!
I have to tell you I was very excited when I saw that this website: http://google.com/phone was up and running and it took me 3 minutes to make up my mind and complete my purchase (yep its a very speedy purchasing process). I chose not to engrave because I couldn't wait for another 72 hours expected wait time. I don't live in any of the countries the phone is available in for purchase, which are: US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. Nevertheless that didn't stop me from going ahead with the purchase. I will not reinvent the wheel and tell you how to do that, just visit this post which talks about purchasing the phone from outside the US: http://mobilesyrup.com/2010/01/11/how-to-order-a-nexus-one-if-you-live-outside-canada/
Well I'm not going to give a review, there are plenty of reviews already available on many websites, also since I'm a big android fan, I will probably be very biased. I will just leave my impressions of the phone in general. I can only tell you that this phone is amazing. Performance is unbelievable, its blazing fast. A very sexy device that feels very good in the hand. I won't compare with other phones, but I think you can figure out where I stand on this one.
Reinstalling Activated Winodws 7 Upgrade?
I have lately upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, I have written about this experience in this post.
Now I because I have upgraded my original Windows 7 Professional over the RC release, things were not very promising for me. Windows 7 was not acting as it is supposed to be and Microsoft clearly had a reason for not allowing upgrade from RC. So I decided to reinstall. I was worried for 2 reasons:
1) I have already used and activated my original Windows 7 Professional key.
2) I have to upgrade from Windows Vista since the version I bought was the upgrade version of Windows 7.
In any case, I had no choice and I went ahead with the reinstall.
Windows 7 & Mapped Drives Crednetials!
Don't you just hate it when you map a network drive that requires a username and password and after your restart your Windows 7 you have to re-enter these credentials again! Especially that you made sure to tick the "Remember my credentials" option while mapping the first time and every time thereafter!!!After struggling for a while I found the solution:
Upgrade from Windows 7 Utimate RC to Winodws 7 Professional RTM!
When I pre-ordered my Winodws 7 Professional upgrade copy from Amazon more than 4 months ago, I had no idea that I won't be able to upgrade my existing Windows 7 Ultimate release candidate (ironically Microsoft only offered the Ultimate edition for a release candidate). Back in June Amazon and Microsoft ran a short promotion to pre-order the upgrade version of Windows 7 and I went with the Professional upgrade version for US$100. Last week when I finally got my original copy of Windows 7 I was very disappointed to learn that Microsoft doesn't officially support upgrade from RC to RTM. While I understand their reasoning, I just couldn't accept it. I had so many apps installed and I don't want to go through installing them again. Not to mention that this is an upgrade version, so it means I have to first install my original copy of Vista 64-bit and then install the Windows 7 upgrade (I received the 32-bit and 64-bit version DVDs in the same package which I think is a nice move by Microsoft). In any case I was willing to take the risk of moving from RC to RTM without a clean install.
PS3 not reading your disc???
Wow, I thought the PS3 was not as vulnerable as the XBOX 360 and its red lights, but luckily (or unluckily for that matter) I found a problem with this big box. I say that since I'm a 360 fan, I use my PS3 as a media player mainly, and to play such games which are exclusive like MGS4 and Little Big Planet. Of course its a great console, but I just like to play hardcore games on the 360.
Myanmar fonts on the G1
Easier fix for the half-solution...
Note: Please offer feedback when possible, let me know if it works.
This solution would also apply to Farsi, Hebrew, Urdu, etc.
This is an update to my second post about trying to solve the problem with displaying Arabic on the Android-based HTC G1 (Google) phone. My original solution which I posted about back in January of 2009, involved some manual steps which I think some of you weren't happy with. I got many comments and emails regarding this issue. So today I'm telling you about a very small update file that I created which contains the main DejaVu font (unaltered) that is required to be placed in your G1 to be able to display the disconnected Arabic words. The main condition is that your phone should be rooted!
Here are the steps:
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