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what do u use your g1 for!!!

I got a nexus s but I still love my g1
I really use my g1 to test stuff out on it is there any
other hacks or stuff that I can do with this phone besides
Trying out different roms and kernels

Kids use it as a PTT, like a 2 way Nextel.
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I use it as a streaming media player, with Pandora and TuneIn Radio. It works great for this. Also, I let my kids use NESoid on long car trips to play old NES games.
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I use mine with Gmote as a wireless mouse and keyboard connected to my tv computer. And as a little portable listening device: NPR streaming via wifi, Toddler Lock to stall the girls momentarily.
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Haha nice the g1 still a baby beast

used it as a frisbee once
Nexus One 3g

the g1 is still my main phone sadly :/ only one more month and i can finally upgrade

I've had my G1 since it came out. :O 1st Smartphone. I use it as my Daily Phone. I have n iPhone 3G and 3G's. My iPhone 3G runs Android *2.3.5 AOSP Build* and my 3Gs is my iPod. I could never Drop my G1. The only reason I'm getting a new phone is because I'm getting a massive deal on a MT4Gs. I'm probally going to just Keep my G1 in Airplane mood, load up FBL, and play emulators on it. :3
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My 3 year old has been using it for a play phone. Just charged it and still works perfectly except a few dings. No scratches on the screen though. Going to root it now for fun.
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Use it to test roms and such, but my main phone is a mytouch 3g so is the same lol
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If you can believe i just got a g1 a couple days ago, Thought it'd be cool to play around with an older droid like this. I love it actually still a great device and good phone. I use it for my daily phone.

It's my phone, it works so well I'm not thinking in getting another.

Its the remote control for my htpc! With the radio for cell off the battery lasts forever. Keyboard lets me search easy for shows and through Netflix interface.
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mindstate said:
If you can believe i just got a g1 a couple days ago, Thought it'd be cool to play around with an older droid like this. I love it actually still a great device and good phone. I use it for my daily phone.
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I'm interested in doing the same thing! Where did you get your
g1? I'm looking for a brand new one, if there still are any..
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theROMinator said:
I'm interested in doing the same thing! Where did you get your
g1? I'm looking for a brand new one, if there still are any..
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you can try swappa.com or search at craiglist, can get if for a very cheap price if you are lucky

i still use it as my daily phone

sharphooter said:
i still use it as my daily phone
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i still use it as my daily phone

AndDiSa said:
i still use it as my daily phone
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Still use and love my little ole G1! In fact half my family have G1's because of me and my constant ranting about them

I use it as a streaming media player, and whatsapp

Makes a great backup phone (convert to t-mobile prepaid and charge it up for $100 for 1000 minutes which doesn't expire for a year), then load ebook reader apps on it from the market and use it as an ebook (epub, whatever) reader (Aldiko & Foliant).
Also, rooted and using wireless tether apps it becomes a backup internet connection for a computer.
calculator
backup camera
marine compass
gps
weather station
...the list goes on and on....

[Q] Is it laggy?

Hi to all the Iconia Users,
Guys, I am thinking about buying the A500, but I have been put off a little by comments about the unit being laggy and non-responsive.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and love it. It does everything I ever ask and does it without a moments hesitation. I also went out and bought a Samsung Tab 7inch, but have found it to be very laggy and Samsung are hopeless at supporting their devices with upgrades. I don't want to make the same mistake again. Do you guys find the A500 slow and unresponsive? Especially with web browsing and emails? I would use the device for mainly browsing, powerpoint, reading pdfs, and maybe remote access to the work computer. Do you think the A500 can cut it?? Thanks for your replys.....

I have a EVO 3d and the a500 and I don't think the tab is laggy when its in portrait with the ffc is on the left side. But any other orientation it can be a little slow to respond. But I only noticed that on the home screen.
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I had some lag on the home screen etc.. but that was down to a stupidly hungry live background.. fixed with a static wallpaper..
I have noticed some noticeable lag with the stock browser, my initial switch to MXBrowser seemed to fix it but this is now also giving some lag.. but this is down to the browser not the dev itself

Install only quality apps that do not keep running in background and it will run fine. I would buy this again.

yyiinn said:
I had some lag on the home screen etc.. but that was down to a stupidly hungry live background.. fixed with a static wallpaper..
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I experienced this same issue and fixed with a static image as well. other than that it performs splendidly.

Even a Core i7 computer lags if you don't maintain it. This thing has the same cpu and ram as 5 other devices in the market with the same spec that cost more.
Use a custom rom that have stock apps remove because those tend to slow things down. Personally I use a background composed of a black image 1x1 pixel. There are people who said you don't need Task Killer but my experience digress.

Thanks guys!
It looks like I might soon be an A500 Acerian.
I am really glad there is a forum like this that is available when embarking out with a new piece of technology. Really glad you are here to assist and share your opinions.
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rosse912003 said:
Thanks guys!
It looks like I might soon be an A500 Acerian.
I am really glad there is a forum like this that is available when embarking out with a new piece of technology. Really glad you are here to assist and share your opinions.
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You may want to consider the A501. Has a 3g sim for data when you're not near a Wifi. Same device as the A500, just the 3g (no, it is not the same as GSM)

Moscow Desire said:
You may want to consider the A501. Has a 3g sim for data when you're not near a Wifi. Same device as the A500, just the 3g (no, it is not the same as GSM)
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Is there any problem tethering the A500, as I was thinking I could use the GSII as a hotspot??

rosse912003 said:
Is there any problem tethering the A500, as I was thinking I could use the GSII as a hotspot??
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No. I actually have a SIM with unlimited data laying around (for which I pay the fee and don't use) but i still choose the wifi version. There is even a kernel which enables USB tethering but wifi tethering works out of the box with my Desire HD (infrastructure mode but I suppose SGS2 uses that too, for ad-hoc you'll have to change some files). I'm on vacation right now and for two weeks I have my phone on the charger next to the window (wifi tethering is really power hungry) and I'm down by the pool with the Acer.
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i am using my htc hd2 as wlan hotspot for my a501 and it works fast and smoothly...the hd2 with an android sd-build

christcrusher said:
i am using my htc hd2 as wlan hotspot for my a501 and it works fast and smoothly...the hd2 with an android sd-build
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Just out of curiousity - why did you bought the a501 if you don't have data plan for it?
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To Tkolev, you have your phone by the window and relaxing with your A500 down by the pool... I think you have made a whole bunch of users jealous .. Now that is the way to use a computer tablet....
Thanks for your reply..
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rosse912003 said:
To Tkolev, you have your phone by the window and relaxing with your A500 down by the pool... I think you have made a whole bunch of users jealous .. Now that is the way to use a computer tablet....
Thanks for your reply..
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Yeah, but unfortunately it all ends tomorrow . Back to the noisy, jammed, dirty city...
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Welcome back to reality mate. But it is the holidays like yours that gives us something to look forward to.
How far away was your phone from the A500? Is the wifi pickup really good?
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rosse912003 said:
Welcome back to reality mate. But it is the holidays like yours that gives us something to look forward to.
How far away was your phone from the A500? Is the wifi pickup really good?
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Well the picture is taken from the window I had my DHD near so I'd guess about 30 meters or something like that. Also you should know that the DHD is not known for it's best wifi performance. All alluminum phones suffer from that and it's inevitable. The connection was weak (1 bar) but stable, which is much more impotrant as the 3G network speed is not that great either. All in all I'm pretty pleased with its performance (I honestly did not expect it to work anyway)
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Gta III

Anyone got it running?
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Yes i did and it works ok controls a lil choppy but they said you could use a ps3 controller but i have it for ps3 so a lil more of a challenge but still good

Gta 3 with a ps3 controller on the phone?? Wtf
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20357000

Yea been playing it, can get a little laggy on the shift but no where near as bad as the OG EVO (heh)
PS3 controller will be a nice addition, just gotta be on CM7

I can't get it to load into a new game.
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It installed fine and ran good for me. Gets laggy somtimes though.
Edit: I was messing around and discovered the cheats on the same for PC. Like GUNSGUNSGUNS for all... Guns work. Lol and im gonna mess around with the img file today to see if i can add car mods and etc. Like PC.

Got it running on mine, took quite a while to get all the extra files downloaded but it runs. Albeit a bit laggy at certain spots.

Well this sucks. I was going to purchase this today and now it's not even showing up in my market. When I go to it online it keeps saying that my device is not compatible with this app.
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sparksco said:
Well this sucks. I was going to purchase this today and now it's not even showing up in my market. When I go to it online it keeps saying that my device is not compatible with this app.
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Same for me, just clear market Data and cache in the manage applications menu and reload the market. Then search for GTA 3 and it should be like the 2nd or 3rd app in the market search,
Although I can say it doesn't run smooth enough for me on the shift to play it. Works great on A100 tho

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Same for me, just clear market Data and cache in the manage applications menu and reload the market. Then search for GTA 3 and it should be like the 2nd or 3rd app in the market search,
Although I can say it doesn't run smooth enough for me on the shift to play it. Works great on A100 tho
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Still a no go for me. I'm thinking they removed the shift from the list of supported devices
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sparksco said:
Still a no go for me. I'm thinking they removed the shift from the list of supported devices
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Your right...they finally filtered it out. It really wasn't that playable honestly. couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes before i had to quit because of lag

notsointeresting said:
Your right...they finally filtered it out. It really wasn't that playable honestly. couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes before i had to quit because of lag
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even oc it still was laggy?
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
even oc it still was laggy?
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Once I clocked it up to 1.6ghz I played with it for another 30 minutes , and I can say it played better at that point (was playing at 1.4 before). Although there still were noticeable framerate drops alot of the time, but it was alot better than getting 10 frames a second 70% of the time.
At 1.4 there were times that the sound would keep cutting in and out, and I probably got 1-2 fps. Most of the time it was when I hit other cars or started speeding as fast as I could. (thats what GTA is about tho right? xD)
Keep in mind too I was on Sense so that may make the experience different from AOSP users.

So, I bought the game when they first launched but never downloaded it, when I tried to download it my device wasnt supported anymore lol so I had to google it up and found version 1.1 apk and I had the issues like the ones described in this post already.
Luckly enough a couple days ago the apk got updated to 1.2 and all I can say is that is very playable if you are in my situation you just need to download the apk (google it) I had installed the SD files already ( the ones for adreno gpu) because I actually bought it.
But if you want to try it you can get the sd files too from the black internet market :0
Im running Supreme sense, dodge kernet at 1.6 on demand, I bet the version 1.2 runs way better on a AOSP room plus you can use an external controller, but still I'm already progresing thru the game almost to the second part of it.
- Desik

I run it fine with no lag at all
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thronnos said:
I run it fine with no lag at all
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How did you achieve this? Lol
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peanjr said:
How did you achieve this? Lol
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Yea im sure we would all like to know, it's not really needed but id love to play it on my shift perfectly just so I can say I can lol
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Yeah I would like to know also
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Yeah, I have it on the A100 too, its runs like a beast, I can't say for my shift though, since I'm waiting on a replacement. On my A100 though, the buttons don't quite scale right, making movement a little wierd other than that, fine though. Someone on AOSP (a mostly clean, not bloated AOSP) should try it and see how it plays.

Using a laptop keyboard with the A500

Is there any way to use my laptop keyboard with the A500?
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Have you looked at droid vnc (don't know if there is something else similar). I thought I saw another app that would also work, but haven't tried anything yet.

I did. I couldn't get DroidVNC to run on the tablet without crashing.
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Ugh, sorry, I was planning to try it out myself but hadn't had a chance yet. There is another thread on androidforums about this also with some possible usable apps:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/8858-remote-control-my-phone.html

You dan do it wit WiFiKeyboard that is in the market

Just tried that wifikeyboard and seems to work well for me. hopefully it is what the OP was looking for too

I use it to get cheats in gta 3 ;p

There is this... haven't tried it.. http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...blet-android-phone-your-pc-other-android.html
And other than that I have a Microsoft keyboard that has a little 2.4 ghz dongle and it works great. Mouse works too. If you really want the keyboard-tablet experience. Lags in not-native roms.. perfect in gmail, talk and a few others.. My two cents.
And of course there's always the transformer..

ok...I'm officially bored. What tricks can I teach my N7?

So far I basically use this thing as a web browser, twitter reader and forum crawler.
Of course I rooted, themed, installed new kernels, bricked it, brought it back to life, and now I'm back to stock rooted.
So what else can this thing do? I bought a USB dongle thinger but I don't like watching movies on the small screen (I get headaches easy). Give me some ideas?

rudeguy said:
So far I basically use this thing as a web browser, twitter reader and forum crawler.
Of course I rooted, themed, installed new kernels, bricked it, brought it back to life, and now I'm back to stock rooted.
So what else can this thing do? I bought a USB dongle thinger but I don't like watching movies on the small screen (I get headaches easy). Give me some ideas?
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Frisbee?

rudeguy said:
So far I basically use this thing as a web browser, twitter reader and forum crawler.
Of course I rooted, themed, installed new kernels, bricked it, brought it back to life, and now I'm back to stock rooted.
So what else can this thing do? I bought a USB dongle thinger but I don't like watching movies on the small screen (I get headaches easy). Give me some ideas?
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Have you tried alternate ROMs? If not, I'd recommend Paranoid Android. It's smooth, fast, stable, and it allows you to choose between phone, phablet, and tablet mode for every app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800268
If PA isn't your style, try Slimbean or Cyanogenmod 10.
There are a lot of ROMs out there to mess around with.
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How about getting tablet mode by installing ROM Toolbox Lite and changing the DPI from 213dpi to 160dpi?
It's under Performance/build.prop.tweaks
You'll need to be rooted though.
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rudeguy said:
So far I basically use this thing as a web browser, twitter reader and forum crawler.
Of course I rooted, themed, installed new kernels, bricked it, brought it back to life, and now I'm back to stock rooted.
So what else can this thing do? I bought a USB dongle thinger but I don't like watching movies on the small screen (I get headaches easy). Give me some ideas?
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Games, news, geocaching (tether it to your phone via bluetooth), use it as a GPS on your bike/car if you have one (I use my phone for now, and you can cache the maps before hand too, so no data connection needed), control your DSLR camera if you have one, setup an andruino system/project and use the N7 as a remote, use it as universal remote in your home (friend is doing that w his Galaxy Tab 2 7"), etc.
Imagination is the limit.

ollie.olsson said:
Games, news, geocaching (tether it to your phone via bluetooth), use it as a GPS on your bike/car if you have one (I use my phone for now, and you can cache the maps before hand too, so no data connection needed), control your DSLR camera if you have one, setup an andruino system/project and use the N7 as a remote, use it as universal remote in your home (friend is doing that w his Galaxy Tab 2 7"), etc.
Imagination is the limit.
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Galaxy Tabs have IR transmitter to be a universal remote, N7 doesn't have it.
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Tablet mode. EOS Rom.
Emulators. Sixsxis.
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What more you expected from a tablet?
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DL source and experiment with it. Thats what Ive been doing. Learned how to add 720p video thanks to guy in dev and change nav bar height.

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What more you expected from a tablet?
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Breakfast in bed with a happy ending?
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Try productivity out. Ever note, Pocket Informant, etc
Also tablet SMS allows you to do all your texting via your tablet. Making this thing useful is all about how you use it.
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rudeguy said:
So far I basically use this thing as a web browser, twitter reader and forum crawler.
Of course I rooted, themed, installed new kernels, bricked it, brought it back to life, and now I'm back to stock rooted.
So what else can this thing do? I bought a USB dongle thinger but I don't like watching movies on the small screen (I get headaches easy). Give me some ideas?
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Buy tasker. You can spend hours figuring out awesome tasks to build.
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Buy tasker. You can spend hours figuring out awesome tasks to build. Not only that but you can package your tasks into an app from tasker app factory and sell them on the market.
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I don't know if you are into reading books, but ever since I got the N7, I've started downloading and reading ebooks (not through Google Books tho). Prior to that, the last time I actually read a fictional book was years ago. After I finish my current series, I'm thinking of downloading Wattpad.

xbmc and comic books

Install google currents....then it will get the paper for you
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Disappointed now
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Breakfast in bed with a happy ending?
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Hummmmmm . Well mine does not have Vibration feature .So well ahhh humm Yea not happening...
On topic You could always use your Nexus 7 to do some online shopping. Message me for my sizes and what i want.....
This should keep you busy for a life time. well at least the life of your credit cards..
Love your nexus Just in the correct ways.. :laugh:

Do a barrel roll.
Say "do a barrel roll" in Google Now

Install TeamViewer or another remote desktop app on your tablet and your PC, go to a country on the other side of the planet, log into your PC, and rearrange your desktop icons. Log out, go home.
Well, you did say you were bored...
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DL source and experiment with it. Thats what Ive been doing. Learned how to add 720p video thanks to guy in dev and change nav bar height.
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This. I bought the 7 because messing with my phone, which is a necessity, got annoying. Building Android will definitively keep you occupied, if not completely exhausted.
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