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Good Day to you all.
This is my first post here as i joined just now because of an ongoing promo on XDA2 and P900 in SMART Philippines.
I am a avid :shock: SMARTPHONE user, Tanager E100, is and was my previous unit UNTIL im gonna decide to go for either XDA2 or P900.
Now, I wouldn't have registered here if I didn't LIKE the XDA2, however since MOST of you here are already experienced users, I would like to ask ALL of you TO HELP me COMPARE the two units and SHOW the GOOD as well as the BAD sides of each. Pocket PC / Communicators are a new field for me as I am a SMARTPHONE user.
Thats where I need your INPTS. Thank you.
It really depends on whether you want a fantastic pda with a built in phone function (XDAII) or a phone with a built in pad function (P900). The 'built in' part being compromised on both machines.
I personally have have all of Nokia's Communicator series and both types of XDA and having seen and used a friend's P900, I would definately recommend the XDAII.
Thanks, I need more info though.
Thanks, Now for Techies, The SPECS say that:
XDA2 has 400MHZ Intel PSX??? processor whereas SE P900 has 154Mhz ARM10 processor. How does this compare?
This sounds like comparing a MAC and a PENTIUM based PC does it?
And which has the larger market support Windows Mobile 2003 or Symbian Technology?
Hope I get your comments, Thanks.
chameleon
They're both ARM processors, so no it's not like the difference between 680??/PowerPC MACs and 80x86/Pentium IBM PCs - There is a REAL speed difference here.
I would think that the 'largest' market base is with Symbian as it's used in lots of phones and not just the P800/P900s (they're just the top end). Consider that most of the current Nokia (who are the largest global supplier of mobile phones) use the Symbian OS and that there are FAR more Mobile Phones than PDAs
jwealthall said:
I would think that the 'largest' market base is with Symbian as it's used in lots of phones and not just the P800/P900s (they're just the top end). Consider that most of the current Nokia (who are the largest global supplier of mobile phones) use the Symbian OS and that there are FAR more Mobile Phones than PDAs
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I'd have to disagree with that view, yes there are more Symbian based phones than there are WM2003 based phones but only a few Symbian handsets have any real PDA functionality.
The PocketPC userbase is vast and growing with a huge array of applications, utilities etc, far in excess of that available for P800/P900's.
Griffog,
I agree, when comparing P800/P900 numbers to Pocket PC numbers then there are far more Pocket PCs .... Although I wouldn't like to guess that this were true for Pocket PC Mobiles.
Yes, there would be a far greater range of applications for Pocket PCs although far fewer mobile specific ones.
At the end of the day, I'd personally choose an XDA type device - I just wish that the specification meant that you didn't loose all your software/data when the device ran out of power - In this day and age that is quite simply rediculous!!!
Thanks a lot folks, JWEATHALL and GRIFFOG and XDA-ROCKS
British/English Folks help a lot, dont they? im still waiting for replies from other nationalities.
You've CONVINCED me. Though I needed less convincing anyway, as I was inching towards having an O2 XDA II as offered by our service provider here.
My XDA II will be arriving shortly and I cant wait. :wink: :wink:
Now the FUN part, trying to understand how it works, with my smartphone background, i know it would be easy, but its not going to be a walk in the park.
My favorite amd very useful apps in smartphone are:
1. PHM Registry Editor (for cool tweaking)
2. Smart Explorer
3. SP Task Manager
4. Mitac Phonebackup
5. Pocket TV and MVP
6. Sprite Backup
7. Twyx Imeter
8. Nintendo Emulator
Are these EASILY available for XDA2?
:?:
Im looking forward to GREAT PDA functions from my XDA, would greatly appreciate the MS Office apps.
Im planning to buy :shock: Wi-Fi SD expansion card :shock: , which I will use to our Wi-Fi server, is it easy to setup?
Id appreciate the replies. Thanks again
You're in for a treat - most of those apps are available for PocketPC and if you're into emulators there's even freeware emu's for the Playstation and Gameboy Advance
@chameleon,
Welcome aboard!!!
I used to have a P800 (wich is very close to the P900)... I was really into Sony Ericsson phones/pdas, I even have a portal dedicated to them... www.sonyericssonfans.com
But I really went ahead switched to the MDA2 and love every bit of it...
Lots of software and emulators!!!!
Let us know what you think once you have it...
Rayan
you wont have a problem working the XDA if you know how to use a windows pc
the SPV series is hard to set up and configure compared to the XDA as you can touch whats on screen and not having to navigate through menus all the time
gaz
I was there. I got XDA2 as soon as it was released in Dubai. Then, P900 came out and I've sold XDA2 and got P900. It's a very cool device, specially 5 way jog - it is something every PDA maker should license from Sony, IMHO. Functionality wise I wasn't very impressed. And the most annoying part was BT. They just hate each other - P900 and HBH-65
Back to XDA2 now and more hat happy with it. Really hope that SE will bring functional BT and better dialer.
Hi, All out there
I am also a NewBie here. Happily came here with a good chance, I have learned a lot from here although not long. I had bought an O2 XDA2 for my wife and I am going to buy another one for myself. I am going to dwelling deeply into it technically. The bad side of this stuff, my personal feeling, is that they only implement one SD slot. If they can implement it with two SD slots, then things would be much more wonderful.
missa,
i think there is a BACKPACK accessory than you ca purchase for your XDA 2, it contains 2 SD/MC slots and an additional BATT, plus an RCA jack??, not sure with this.
Thanks FOLKS, i have my XDA already and im tinkering with it right now.
This is GREAT. hehehe.
Ive got a P800 and I want to go for a XDA something, I might wait for the XDA3, I need something with Wifi and the new P910 just doesnt have it and you cant get extra wifi with the sony memorystick duo! which sucks a little.
Yes the 5 way jog dial from sony is totaly cool and just great for doing stuff with one hand, only real good thing about the phone. As for a PDA device, its not that great! I try and use it to the max but the screen is just that little to small to do most things with!
They said that the iPhone uses a similar CPU that is on the Hermes and other pocket PCs.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/01/iphone-processor-found-620mhz-arm/
If it this is possible it would be the best port ever!
A clever person could certainly find a way to create a ROM dump of the iPhone.
But you'd almost certainly brick your PocketPC by trying to flash it to an iPhone ROM.
not possible. hardware is different altogether.
someone please tell me this topic isnt really here....
this topic really isn't here
Apple toyphone vs Hermes
Apple's phone is a toy, not a work machine. It's more a media gadget, good for tunes, videos and stuff. Not for business functionality.
Dumping that ROM into the Hermes would be like putting a Smart Car engine into a Cadillac (Ok, I am exagerating a bit)
The closest thing to an IPhone will be to get Touch to work fully on the Hermes, and we are close to that if you read the threads here. Then it will make the IPhone the obsolete object that it pretty much already is.
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someone please tell me this topic isnt really here....
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Reminds me of a Firesign Theatre album, "I think we're all Bozos on this bus" .....
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Reminds me of a Firesign Theatre album, "I think we're all Bozos on this bus" .....
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how true.... its incredibly hard not to lock this thread.. but i would hate to censor this..
...... somebody hand me a gun, and the address of whoever would commit such a henious act. Now WM is FAAAAAAAAAAAAR from perfect....... but it's a hell of a lot closer to getting there then whatever the iphone has. If this was a brain transplant we were talking about your basically asking "Can I put the brain of a worm inside this human?"
You guys had to know this question was coming. Calm down, this too shall pass.
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You guys had to know this question was coming. Calm down, this too shall pass.
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Sounds like what I told my wife concerning her kidney stone... when I picked myself off the floor I realized some questions shouldn't be asked, ehehe!
Is it possible to port Carmen Elektras body onto my wife?
Well, kidney stones don't ALWAYS pass. I should know, I had an 11mm one that got stuck in between my kidney and my bladder that I had to have surgery for.
Luckily, the iPhone isn't quite as bad as a kidney stone. Being impaled might be close.
I think if nothing else iPhone is good to get M$ to wake up and start making WM more userfriendly. Looking at the iPhone "tutorial" video it is for sure that things are really well thought throgh in their GUI. VERY userfriendly.
I wonder if M$ didn't help HTC making the TouchFLO happen really quickly...
yes the iphone uses an ARM processor but the hardware is completly different... not to mention the OS is using 700MB of the FLASH space on the ishite anyway....
this is avery good topic. Just joking...!!!!
Hi,
There is already an iPhone Os Image downloaded from Apple. The file is around 90 MB. it is encrypted in some parts, but the meaningfully part of this issue is that iPhone is a completely different hardware with a faster processor with tailored features. It means you can´t.
But if the hardware may be similar, the OS X on iPhone has a 2 strong security systems for slow down the crack from enthusiasts. Up to day, after 3 days, the crypted portion of the iPhone have not been decrypted.
It´s mean too... if you like it, buy an iPhone BTW, there is a buzz about exchange support on iPhone. Just a rumor...
Regards,
Taguapire.
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Hi,
There is already an iPhone Os Image downloaded from Apple. The file is around 90 MB. it is encrypted in some parts, but the meaningfully part of this issue is that iPhone is a completely different hardware with a faster processor with tailored features. It means you can´t.
But if the hardware may be similar, the OS X on iPhone has a 2 strong security systems for slow down the crack from enthusiasts. Up to day, after 3 days, the crypted portion of the iPhone have not been decrypted.
It´s mean too... if you like it, buy an iPhone BTW, there is a buzz about exchange support on iPhone. Just a rumor...
Regards,
Taguapire.
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its a restore IMAGE not the whole OS...
I am going to correct a few people here.
First of all - it IS possible to get the iPhone OS to run on a hermes or similar. It would take a hell of a lot of work though, and it would have to run in a virtual machine, and it would be slow and worthless. But I don't think it's nearly impossible. I do think it's highly unlikely that anyone would do it.
And once again, I gotta call out the iPhone hatah's. A toy, huh? Just a toy with many features more advanced than any other piece of technology on the market. Not ditching my 8525 yet, but phones are going to get better and Apple is going to be responsible.
Apple responsibility.
. . . yes very very responsible.
Hi, several of we GT 10.1" tab owners over in the tab specific area are looking into adding a external micro SD to our tabs. I am hoping that we might find some more expertise and input in this section of the forum.
The ongoing thread we are discussing the mod in can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600661, but hopefully we can merge the threads, or somehow keep things straight, but it seems this may be the more appropriate forum section.
Brief recap is that it appears the early/pre-release GT-P7500 had an external SD card. My later model GT-P7510 has the associated area on the MOBO unpopulated. I found the connectors, the OP in the thread found the factory SD card holders. I used my tab for a test, soldered the the connector on, and early indications are it is not functioning. So far I haven't been able to dig back into it, but common consensus is that the unpopulated area near the SD reader connector is needed. I have a lot of experience with simpler analog electronics, and analog design, but to repopulate the needed components with no idea of where to start is beyond the scope of my abilities.
We have the GT-P7500 service manual, at least most of it I think. The MOBO photos in the manual show the area populated, but the photos are to low resolution to gain any useful data. I found some supposedly leaked FCC photos of the tab disassembled pre-release. It also shows the SD card area populated, and this one shows the SD card holder as well, but again low resolution.
Currently we are hoping that maybe the very early HW revisions of the 3g GT-p7500 may have had the SD card area populated, and possibly one of you owners could help us.
If anyone has any input, or can help build the circuit from the ground up I am happy to provide any testing/data/pinouts I can.
On a side note-- does anyone know how many times I can disassemble my tab without ruining the case?
Thanks in advance folks!
Jason Campbell
In addition to any missing components, you need to figure out which SDHCI interface of the CPU that is hung off of and add it to the platdata:
https://github.com/pershoot/galaxy-2636/blob/ics/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-p4wifi-sdhci.c#L296
Looks like 3 is the internal eMMC, 0 is the wifi chip (BCM4329 and 4330 are SDIO wifi chipsets), 1 and 2 are not used.
I too have been toying around with this idea. Looks like I'm not alone in thinking this tab would rock with a microsd. Only you guys are way farther ahead than me! Also I know for a fact that the gtab 10.1 v2 that's coming out sometime this year will have an SD slot. And it looks like little else that's different. Maybe when one of us gets our hands on it we can see on the inside where things are populated or not.
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Hipcatjack said:
I too have been toying around with this idea. Looks like I'm not alone in thinking this tab would rock with a microsd. Only you guys are way farther ahead than me! Also I know for a fact that the gtab 10.1 v2 that's coming out sometime this year will have an SD slot. And it looks like little else that's different. Maybe when one of us gets our hands on it we can see on the inside where things are populated or not.
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Turns out that you're most likely wrong on this - all evidence (including the recent source release I believe) indicates the Tab2 10.1 will be OMAP4-based just like the Tab2 7.0 is.
interesting thanks
Looks like I will finally have some free time to open my tab up again. I plan to ring out the SD card holder to the connector, and then on out from there. I will go at least as far as the unpop area if that is indeed where it leads. While I have it open, do you folks have any suggestions as to other testing or mapping to do? I appreciate the input so far-- I don't really know much about the software side, but we can burn that bridge if/when we get there. Will keep you all posted.
Later,
Jason
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Hi! Do you know that if you add a sd-card extension, you must develop new drivers and kernels? And this could probably make you lose your warranty...
SD card
why do manufactures insist on leaving sd card slots off the build? doesnt seem like it would cost to much include one.
thanks for this
Hi,
My friend has a 10.1 GT 7500,
He bought an external adapter for sdcard.
Perhaps you can use the layout schemas from such a device to discover what you need to make it work internally.
Its probaply the same "signal wires" but now abvailable on the external connector.
Hope this helps/.
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Hi! Do you know that if you add a sd-card extension, you must develop new drivers and kernels? And this could probably make you lose your warranty...
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Yes, thank you. The tab has been rooted and running experimental roms from ~6hrs after I bought it. Warranty has been void for quite a while...
macdova said:
why do manufactures insist on leaving sd card slots off the build? doesnt seem like it would cost to much include one.
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I doubt so much that it is the hardware costs, although it would add up to a significant amount, but rather due to the desire to sell the more costly tabs with more internal memory. After all, why would the you buy a 64gb tab for $200 more than the 16gb one, when you could throw in a 32gb card for $30? It seems pretty clear in this case, Sammy had developed the tab with external SD. There are lots of photos floating around of the pre-release tabs with slots. There is some evidence that they planned this nearly to the last minute, as we are buying the factory holders which "don't exist" on ebay. Unless they could not get the SD reader working properly or had more issues than the time solving was worth, then I think all things point toward this being a plain and simple money move.
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Hi,
My friend has a 10.1 GT 7500,
He bought an external adapter for sdcard.
Perhaps you can use the layout schemas from such a device to discover what you need to make it work internally.
Its probaply the same "signal wires" but now abvailable on the external connector.
Hope this helps/.
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I appreciate the input, I have the Sammy autherized adapters. These all use the USB OTG protocol, and I think it is unlikely that the hardware will be the same. I will deffenitely investigate this though.
Thanks,
Jason
If you don't succeed with the adapters you could do what i'm trying to do with the Kindle Fire. I'm building in a microsd adapter for use with USB host.
Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25953776
Since I don't have a Galaxy tab I can't really be of any more use, sorry.
Hi Everybody,
so i was looking at the teardown for our little baby, when i came across this:
Toshiba THGBM5G6A2JBAIR 8GB Flash
So i went online and do a little search. It turns out that Toshiba builds other sizes of this particular chip.
Looking at the specsheet, it seems that every single spec is the same (can't post the link yet)
So i was wondering if we can replace this damn chip (since i'm stuck with an 8gb version of the Nex 4 (Yeah..since they don't sell in Italy...i had to find a compromise) I know it would take a lot of soldering works, but the real problem is: How to install the OS and stuff?
So i'm planning to ger one of this chips, or a broken phone with one of this (from 16 to idk) and try to do some research, in order to get if i can do this substitution.
So..anyone tryed this before that can help me out with some advices?
Thanks everyone and for the mods...if this is not the right place to post this, i'm sorry...:angel::angel::angel:
p.s.
Sorry for my bad English
Don't attempt to replace the chip with a soldering iron. You need someone with a dedicated SMT rework station that can handle BGA devices. (this chip is a VFBGA according to the datasheet).
Even then, it may not boot at the end of it... Be prepared to have a bricked phone... On the other hand, if it works, you may be able to make a buisness out of selling 32GB Nexus 7's until Google/LG makes them....
Basically, it's not something an end user could do.
Ok, so since is a BGA device, reballing and reflowing should do the trick.
I know that is something that an end user shouldn't do...but give it a try should be nice...of course i would not go straight for the replacement on the n4, i will start with something else before.
Installing it is one thing, it's getting the important stuff on there that is the problem.
It's not a case of just fastboot flash, since there are more partitions than that.
Plus you need fastboot to be there in the first place, JTAG would probably cover that, but the rest? God knows.
Yeah..that's my problem afterall...i mean..put the chip on that is kinda fine..i mean i do this on notebooks so i'm used to reballing and stuff.
But the OS thing is going to drive me mad...meh..need to figure out how to do that!
Just don't do it. You're gonna regret it. Laptops is one thing but a cellular device is another. Chips are way smaller and complicated. It's not as easy as you may think.
But it's your phone, you can do whatever you like to it.
This is retarded. You realize those connectors are so small it requires machines worth millions of dollars to attach and connect. Might as well use some Elmer's glue or a hot glue gun if you're gonna do it yourself, or hey maybe even some ear wax, you'll get the same result.
Ok, nevermind.
I'll do some tests with my machine and some old crappy phone...u never know what is going to happen..lol
Tnx anyway guys!!
Everyone else here is an unambitious ass
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Ok, nevermind.
I'll do some tests with my machine and some old crappy phone...u never know what is going to happen..lol
Tnx anyway guys!!
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Dude you shouldn't let people detour you, soldering chips is not that hard and the size of the chip doesn't really make a difference for BGA most of these guys probably have never soldered a BGA chip in their life so how would they know how hard it is. I would suggest that you practice on some old pcs or an old game system that you dont care about. the hard part about this would be getting your hands on the new chip (and weather or not it is pre-balled because re-balling is a *****), from what I can tell toshiba only will sell the chip in a minimum quantity of 5 chips per order so if all goes well you may be able to charge people to upgrade their nexus 4s.
People are to scared now-a-days to get their hands dirty and take risks to get what they want and I commend anyone willing to put in the time, learn a new skill, and get what they want even though no one will just give it to them.
I hope you decide to do this anyway.
PS. The bootloader/recovery should be a separate memory module all together and should still exist when the chip is replaced, so if I had to guess i would say that you could just flash a new rom assuming your bootloder is unlocked and the chip comes pre-formatted.
Everything is held on the eMMC chip, nothing is separate.
Hello,
been digging in the "fun" world of buying a JTAG. Jeeez.... Loads and NOT cheap....
What do you guys and gals use?
I looked at so many different ones and I don't know really what to buy here to get some more insight in the hardware.
Saw there are USB-Jtags but does that work with the phones?
Google came with Segger? They had an "edu" price that was in the range of accessible.
Saw this one as well: "Riffbox - Best in the Galaxy!". Sounds...uhm... yeah right.
Or is it really good and they just have the worlds worst marketing director?
The Segger seemed more general purpose?
Saw there are some variants that doesn't need welding but I guess you must. Schematics?
Of course it would be great if it worked for a Raspberry as well so I could automate my house like the master of the world!
And I need one again. I think I found my golden road in life, but I don't want to throw away 1k Euro on something worthless but listen to you who
have experience.
Because I really want is to have a way to plug something into the phone and read out the secrets it possesses
I mean, E-Fuse data, doesn't that just sound like you HAVE to get?
Please. Can you give me some advice here? :fingers-crossed:
/Absie