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hi all,
i am quite seriously considering the 7501 here in the usa, as an upgrade from the hermes, vs the kaiser, or eventual omni.
one large concern is the poss. of the magnet demagnetizing my credit cards.
as i almost had my honeymoon ruined 12 yrs ago in italy when i bought a magnet money clip and put it in the same pocket/area as my wallet, later after my atm card would not work i realized the blunder and have not used it since.
i searched the forums and came up empty.
the question is has any of you advantage users actually had their cards or other magnetic based(hd's) devices demagnetized, and if so can you tell me how exactly it happened in terms of proximity to the cards, length of time in proximity, OR if you have not had any problems and have had the advantage next to your cards/wallet, etc.
i like to use a leather fanny pack when walking/hiking for long distances and keep my wallet, cell phone, dig camera in it together but in diff compartments sep by fabric only.
i would hate to have to think of always keeping my wallet and main device exactly 6.25346???? inches apart to prevent disaster.
secondly maybe you engineers could tell me how to protect the cards in the wallet with a shield of lead( small enough to put in a wallet, of course or other material), or something that would block the magnetization effects.
thanks in advance!!
djsell
has not happen to me.... YET
There are a couple of posts in the Athena forum from members saying that their laptop hard drives have been damaged. Not seen any mention of credit cards though.
I am careful not to get the keyboard of the Athena anywhere near my laptop or wallet, I don't want to be the first to test it...
Haven't you seen Mythbusters?
It isn't possible for any type of commercially-available magnet to wipe a credit card. They tested cards with huge electromagnets and the cards were just fine. It would take at least 1000 gauss to erase a credit card. Most likely the "demagnetized" cards people keep swearing they have are damaged by other means, like scratches on the magnetic stripe. And it wouldn't necessarily have to entirely destroy the data on the stripe; just one well-placed scratch would be enough to destroy just enough data that the reader wouldn't be able to make sense of what it's seeing.
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It isn't possible for any type of commercially-available magnet to wipe a credit card. They tested cards with huge electromagnets and the cards were just fine. It would take at least 1000 gauss to erase a credit card. Most likely the "demagnetized" cards people keep swearing they have are damaged by other means, like scratches on the magnetic stripe. And it wouldn't necessarily have to entirely destroy the data on the stripe; just one well-placed scratch would be enough to destroy just enough data that the reader wouldn't be able to make sense of what it's seeing.
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That said, I believe T-Mobile recommend you keep the Ameo 5cm away from credit cards.
my athena has killed 2 hard drives (both laptop) so it does that, not sure about credit cards...
i just googled "credit cards and magnets" and found serious problems people have said they've encountered with the magnet in the sidekick-3 and losing all data on credit cards, dr. license , and someone tested a card with a 1 second exposure and the card was unrecognizable!!
also the "basics" of credit card magnetic stripes, and they are actual tiny magnets!
not looking good, ...and as this thread plays out some harddrives lost...makes me wonder how the advantages own hd is not affected.
i'll have to read up on "mythbusters", and the myth of these lost hd's and card data...i would love to believe it is a myth!!
the question for me is can i keep the advantage away from my cards and hd's 100% of the time!!!...knowing me, not a chance!!
djsell
The answer is you just need to be a bit careful - don't put the unit or the keyboard on your laptop or wallet. Also, if you are wearing a jacket with your unit in one breast pocket and your wallet in the other and put the jacket down on a flat surface, take one or other out before you do!!!!!
the answer is yes to credit cards in my x7500 manual it says to keep it away from credit cards and mag stripes as it can possibly harm them.
its just a warning not a guarantee just thought id throw this in there
Hi,
I can only speak of my own experience: on two separate occasions my Athena rendered my daily parking ticket (which is made of paper with a thin magnetic stripe) completely unreadable by the automatic cashier mashine.
Once the ticket was put in my bag right on top of the Athena(bad idea...). The other time I had the ticket in my shirt pocket and the Athena in my inside coat pocket, so the two of them were only separated by a few layers of fabric...
Since these two incidents I try to keep my Athena separated from anything electronic and/or magnetic. And if someone came up with a way to remove the magnet I'd be happy to test (I don't use the keyboard anymore).
Regards,
Silviu
The whole magnet keyboard thing is a bad design IMHO. Carrying around magnets with you 24/7 can't be a good thing. I do know people use magnets for therapy.
But for everything else it can just cause a problem. They should have just done away with the keyboard all together or done it the smart way like the Universal. Swivel style.
Sure the Omni might have this design but is the Omni going to have a 5" screen. I bet not.
I remember seeing something about removing the magnet(s) here on XDA-devs. If HTC puts them in, I'm sure some intrepid XDAer has/will take them out...
I've not managed to kill any of my cards (as yet), but now the UK's moved over to Chip and Pin, the stripe barely gets used. No problems with the storecards in their either mind. I quite often carry my wallet atop the closed Ameo. I have managed to knacker one lappy hdd though with my Ameo.
One thing I have noticed is the magnet seems to be quite focused - its grab doesnt seem to emit too far from the bottom of the device. However, the keyboard seems to have far greater radiance than the gadget (from holding them both upto a CRT).
thanks for all the feedback....still undecided on the advantage, i agree that if htc simply used the universals swivel design this would have alleviated a lot of poss problems....no magnet problems, adjustable viewing angles in laptop mode, no losing the kb or keeping track of it, etc., ....well i'll wait a few wks for the poss omni...kaiser still will be with an unprotected screen.
i loved the universal but for me it was quite slow, and the camera was essentially unuseable for my purposes, and important to have in the device.
ces la vie!!
djsell
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thanks for all the feedback....still undecided on the advantage, i agree that if htc simply used the universals swivel design this would have alleviated a lot of poss problems....no magnet problems, adjustable viewing angles in laptop mode, no losing the kb or keeping track of it, etc., ....well i'll wait a few wks for the poss omni...kaiser still will be with an unprotected screen.
i loved the universal but for me it was quite slow, and the camera was essentially unuseable for my purposes, and important to have in the device.
ces la vie!!
djsell
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Whoah there!!! Every PDA I've ever had had its drawbacks - each of which you had to find a workaround for. It is true that the magnets require a bit of careful thought but they are the issue you come up with a workaround for. There are other minor issues but generally the Ameo is fantastic - and I defy you to go back to a smaller screen once you've tried it!!!!
I have been able to kill two hotel keycards with my X7500. Another one to be wary about, since you will need to walk back aaaaalllllll the way down to reception...
silviu.h said:
Hi,
I can only speak of my own experience: on two separate occasions my Athena rendered my daily parking ticket (which is made of paper with a thin magnetic stripe) completely unreadable by the automatic cashier mashine.
Regards,
Silviu
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Me to... thankfully it had my entry time printed on the ticket and so I wasn't charged a full day (it was airport parking too - very pricey).
Most of my credit/debit cards are probably already wiped by my Ameo, not sure, but I've not had a card swip done in ages since chip and pin so I suppose I'll only find out when I go to the one place that still relies on mag-stripe technology.
i agree apd,
my real objective...so i tell myself....is to find that near perfect all in one device to use for the longest poss period of time w/o having to continually switch to another phone and reload all my software and endure the new horrors of active sync, i am a physician that basically has the patience, with tech devices, that is, of a newborn baby looking for a nipple!!...I HAVE NOT MUCH, and i want everything to work fairly well and w/o side effects and time consumption.
i loved my universal ( you're right the vga screen!! ) and stuck with it for about a year, which as you know in gadget years, thats about 80 years!, but i really need a camera for my work, and its is insuff, so i had to carry a 2nd device, a dig camera which defeats the purpose.......anyway i just want to avoid the SERIOUS side effects which could be credit card dysfunction, harddrive loss, etc and certainly could live with the viewing angle, and size , since its evidently not that much larger than the universal.
we'll see...the omni proposes a 4" vga screen, 3mp camera,swivel design (minus magnets), and all the other stuff, minus the 8 gb hd, but with micro sd now coming out with 8 gd memory, thats ok.
maybe in its case i could slip in a material that would block the magnetization??!!
btw, here in the usa everything on cards seems to be magnetized still!!
djsell
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I have been able to kill two hotel keycards with my X7500. Another one to be wary about, since you will need to walk back aaaaalllllll the way down to reception...
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me two and the first time i only had my pants and socks on went next door to borrow somthing of my work colleage, at least the receptionist found it amusing
Well I was watching Discovery Channel about a yr back. N I remember watching Myth Busters. They did a test about demagnetizing a credit card and the results were if u wanna demagnetize ur credit card...... the amount of energy required would actually destroy the card into pieces first..... I Doubt Athena has the power to do that... =D.....
Cheers
Hi guys,
last week I went for holiday in London.
At the airport, when leaving, before the x-ray checkin I used the phone and all worked fine, after the x-ray I looked at the phone and it was dead...it didn't switch on using the hang-off call button and nothing..they only way was to take away the battery and reinstall it...than It restarted wihtout problem....btw I thought that was some kind of bug and didn't give it too much importance.
Than when I come back, again before the check-in I used the phone without problem with the wi-fi airport, then check-in and when I tryed to switch it on again the phone was again dead!!! So I remember what happend just the week before when I was at the airport and start to think that when the HTC HD2 is x-rayed for some strange reason it stop working and freeze...and the only way to make it running again it's to take away the battery and reinsert...
The phone of my wife (a Nokia) hadn't any problem...and to be honest I never had problem with all my previous phone....(I had an HTC P3600 before and never had problem with x-ray).
So, did you have the same problem?
Luca
I had a succesion of devices fail on me. The only common factor was that each had been through airport security within 24 hours of failing. The scanner is supposed to be safe but make of this what you will. My HD2 has been through the same airport 3 times and it is still fine.
Your not actually supposed to expose any electronic device to any sort of radiation while it's turned on. Especially Gamma, xray or EM (electromagnetic).
I'm very surprised that they are making you xray your phone these days. It's been a little over 10 years since i was in an airport and back then they asked you to prove it worked by turning it on. I guess things have changed a bit since then.
As a case in point though, if your abit handy with computers take the side off, stick your phone in there and just very gently touch one of the chips on the motherboard. You'll notice your pc will hang. This is because the EM radition emitted from the GSM antenna screws with the chips on the motherboard.
So remember for next time. Turn your phone off and pull the battery till you get out of the immediate area of the xray machine
That's odd. I've been through many airports with many different phones and none have ever suffered as a result.
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Your not actually supposed to expose any electronic device to any sort of radiation while it's turned on. Especially Gamma, xray or EM (electromagnetic).
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i seen a video some time ago on youtube where someone left their point n shoot camera in video record mode and put it though the xray scanner. you could visibly see "electrical noise" in the recorded video as it passed though the xray beam.
safe to assume this will happen in phone too, so any data being processed or written into ram or maybe even flash as the phone is bombarded with xrays has a potential for corruption. like you said its probably best to remove all power to any device with important info, or atleast reboot it afterwords just to make sure there isnt any corrupt data sitting in ram
actually now that i think of it dram is constantly being refreshed, so there's constant data between the chip set and ram modules. all kinds of chances for xrays to corrupt data there
So would it be best if we turn our HD2 off when passing through xray machine?
Everything gets x-rayed now, without exception. I always remove the batteries before security. Note that my airline only allows 2 spare (ie. loose) LiON batteries. I haven't been hassled by this.
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So would it be best if we turn our HD2 off when passing through xray machine?
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Id suggest a battery pull, even when asleep the phone is still partially on, and the RAM is always active because it would loose data if it wasn't
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Id suggest a battery pull, even when asleep the phone is still partially on, and the RAM is always active because it would loose data if it wasn't
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Slightly off topic but i feel sorry for those suckers that pass through those x-ray machines with the laptop they just put into standby or hibernate. Say good bye to the hard drive!
Strange. I'm a frequent flyer, my HD2 went through x-ray scanners many times, always on, and I have never experienced such problem...
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Slightly off topic but i feel sorry for those suckers that pass through those x-ray machines with the laptop they just put into standby or hibernate. Say good bye to the hard drive!
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I dont see how xrays would damage the magnetic media any more so being on or off. I could however see the memory dump file being corrupted if the laptop was still in the process of hibernating as it passed though the xray beam, since the xrays would get at data being processed in the HDs onboard DSP, cache or bus cable
i would think there would be a better chance of xrays damaging data stored on flash memory and SSDs than magnetic media, especially as the lithographic processes shrink to create the flash memory chips
I dont understand why do hospital keep wasting funds on please turn of your mobile posters in the hospitals when people like you dont bloody read it and then go cry on XDA. You not meant to expose any phone to radiation!! jeez
seriously
evolutionqy7 said:
I dont understand why do hospital keep wasting funds on please turn of your mobile posters in the hospitals when people like you dont bloody read it and then go cry on XDA. You not meant to expose any phone to radiation!! jeez
seriously
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Trust me the hospitals don't give a **** what their radiation producing equipment does to your phones or any other portable devices, they are worried about a 1watt maybe a little more transmitter inducing stray currents in their sensitive electronics.
Though you would think now a days they would take cellphones and other transmitting devices into account when developing medical hardware, especially when you consider how much hospitals pay for this hardware. I could see medical hardware in a hospital a decade and a half ago not being hardened against transmissions, since it was relatively uncommon back then. in my opinion it would be sheer incompetence from a hardware maker today not to take that into account and test for it when developing a piece of hardware.
There is also the added benefit that newer cell technology seems to induce less or no interference in other nearby equipment, and possibly use less transmit power. for example GSM/iDEN phones put next to audio equipment would almost always create noise from the signals. newer 3G/CDMA does not do this. I remember other technologies TDMA i think when placed near a CRT monitor would make the monitor look as if it were being degaussed
krzyzag said:
Strange. I'm a frequent flyer, my HD2 went through x-ray scanners many times, always on, and I have never experienced such problem...
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Keep praying, you might stay lucky!
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I dont see how xrays would damage the magnetic media any more so being on or off. I could however see the memory dump file being corrupted if the laptop was still in the process of hibernating as it passed though the xray beam, since the xrays would get at data being processed in the HDs onboard DSP, cache or bus cable
i would think there would be a better chance of xrays damaging data stored on flash memory and SSDs than magnetic media, especially as the lithographic processes shrink to create the flash memory chips
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SSD's were exactly what i was refering to but if a laptop is in hibernate mode then the RAM image is stored right at the start of the disk. If the drive has any power to it at all you run the risk of seriously damaging the electronics in it. Remember all disk drives -HDD's, SSD's etc - still have controller boards on them
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Trust me the hospitals don't give a **** what their radiation producing equipment does to your phones or any other portable devices, they are worried about a 1watt maybe a little more transmitter inducing stray currents in their sensitive electronics.
Though you would think now a days they would take cellphones and other transmitting devices into account when developing medical hardware, especially when you consider how much hospitals pay for this hardware. I could see medical hardware in a hospital a decade and a half ago not being hardened against transmissions, since it was relatively uncommon back then. in my opinion it would be sheer incompetence from a hardware maker today not to take that into account and test for it when developing a piece of hardware.
There is also the added benefit that newer cell technology seems to induce less or no interference in other nearby equipment, and possibly use less transmit power. for example GSM/iDEN phones put next to audio equipment would almost always create noise from the signals. newer 3G/CDMA does not do this. I remember other technologies TDMA i think when placed near a CRT monitor would make the monitor look as if it were being degaussed
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Most UK hostipals are so underfunded that they are still using that ancient kit. It's only in the last 2 years that the newer kit has been coming in and the restrictions have started to shift. If your american then there is no issue. They are so overfunded they complain that they have no idea how to spend all the money
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Keep praying, you might stay lucky!
Most UK hospitals are so underfunded that they are still using that ancient kit. It's only in the last 2 years that the newer kit has been coming in and the restrictions have started to shift. If your american then there is no issue. They are so overfunded they complain that they have no idea how to spend all the money
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All medical equipment used in UK hospitals must be CE marked. The CE mark on this equipment means that it must be able to perform with out being effected by radio waves.
The original ban in UK hospitals was because of the old analogue mobile phones, that used to pump out their signal at full strength. Not once did they ban the pagers that the medics used or the walkie talkies that the porters used - and they really pump out a massive signal.
My mate was modify monitoring computers at patient's beds in and Intensive Care Unit. He made quite a few mobile phone calls and noticed that it didn't effect the monitoring equipment once. And this was done on the 9th to the 11th of September 2001.
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Trust me the hospitals don't give a **** what their radiation producing equipment does to your phones or any other portable devices, they are worried about a 1watt maybe a little more transmitter inducing stray currents in their sensitive electronics.
Though you would think now a days they would take cellphones and other transmitting devices into account when developing medical hardware, especially when you consider how much hospitals pay for this hardware. I could see medical hardware in a hospital a decade and a half ago not being hardened against transmissions, since it was relatively uncommon back then. in my opinion it would be sheer incompetence from a hardware maker today not to take that into account and test for it when developing a piece of hardware.
There is also the added benefit that newer cell technology seems to induce less or no interference in other nearby equipment, and possibly use less transmit power. for example GSM/iDEN phones put next to audio equipment would almost always create noise from the signals. newer 3G/CDMA does not do this. I remember other technologies TDMA i think when placed near a CRT monitor would make the monitor look as if it were being degaussed
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most digital signals are now shielded against in medical equipment.
Analog signals on the other hand (walkie talkie's)....
Ive never had any problems with x-raying the phone when i worked on an airport here in Sweden. I had to x-ray it every day before work.
Where I work, there isn't any equipment that can be harmed by phones. There are x-ray machines but nothing I own has been harmed by them. Then again, I don't go anywhere near them myself. If a a patient's phone is fried, tough. We do have signs saying that phone use is forbidden but not because they will cause damage.
No, the problem is patient's who answer their phone during treatment. You really wouldn't believe some of the situastions I been in when someone has whipped out their mobile and started talking (or tried talking; I work on the head end!) Worse still are some of the ring tones. A really loud scream coming from a pocket does nothing to steady my hand.
I work in an airport, have done for the last six years and everyday my phone goes through the xray machine.
Never thought about it before but will certainly start turning it off just in case.
Sitting here with a broken hand, had numerous xrays done, phone was in the vicinity and on standby. No problems so far (touch wood).
After nearly a month of waiting, I finally got my nexus 7 on hand.
While i was having fun with it, I find the NFC Signal is not so strong enough.
For example, if I put my octopus card [A kind of NFC payment card] under my nexus 7 with leather cover,
the apps would take 4-6 seconds to detect my card. However, if i put off my cover, everything work fine.
Therefore, i was googling around to find if there are any ways to hack the output rate of the nfc.
Unfortunately, nth were found.
Is there anyway to make it works better?
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After nearly a month of waiting, I finally got my nexus 7 on hand.
While i was having fun with it, I find the NFC Signal is not so strong enough.
For example, if I put my octopus card [A kind of NFC payment card] under my nexus 7 with leather cover,
the apps would take 4-6 seconds to detect my card. However, if i put off my cover, everything work fine.
Therefore, i was googling around to find if there are any ways to hack the output rate of the nfc.
Unfortunately, nth were found.
Is there anyway to make it works better?
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I can't get my N7 to read my MiFare 1k Classic's through the case, period. And only when touching the back of the N7 without the case. My Galaxy Note will read them from about 2" away.
Rather disappointed here too, although not sure what I'd use NFC for on my N7. I use it for some stuff on my phone.
Hey, quick question. Is anyone else's spring terminal in the bottom-right-most corner too low to make contact with the back? Mine is and my gps seems a little inaccurate compared with other phones ive had in the past. Just wondering if this could be it.
There's lot of them. Bend then slightly up with a plastic knife something. Took my galaxy note 4 apart and did same thing to all the contacts. Got improved reception and GPS working again.
Yeah, I probed a little with a little pick tool but they're so small I need something even tinier like a sewing needle. And it looks like ill have better luck if I remove the back shell as there isnt much room to get at it as is. It is so low I wondered if it was intentional. Hence the reason I asked on here. When I look across the edge of the phone I can see the others peek above the plastic but this one shows nothing. Hope that makes sense, it is an awkward visual to describe.
I'm disappointed that I even have to consider opening my brand new expensive phone. But I also
dont want to fork over $20 to Tmobile to swap it. I've owned the G2 and the G5 before this and both of them had faults requiring replacement as well.
Mine is too, leave it
Hmm...strange. I just tested mine without my case or the battery cover, and my GPS locked on faster and better than it ever has since getting this phone. Seeing how recessed that connector is, I'd have to say it was intentional, though I'm not sure why it was made that way since there is a contact pad on the battery cover in that spot. I'm going to have to agree with wing_addict_usa, and say leave it as it is.
My gps sucks with just a simple plastic case on the phone. It goes bonkers. I swear it's the gyro/compass thing in the phone.
Did you calibrate it? And I didn't lay it on the camera lens. Just a flat surface with camera lens hanging off the edge.
Thanks for the replies, glad to know my spring comtact is normal. At least I can look elsewhere for the cause.
I've done the figure 8 calibration while in Google maps with no change. Using the "GPS Test" app it was struggling to stay under 35ft of accuracy.
The problem seems to be a little inconsistent though. After posting I was able to eventually get between 15 and 20 feet of accuracy. I wonder if it is emf noise while data polling or noise while charging that could be interfering with the reception of gps signal.
The poor reception occurred with my phone on a magnetic holder attached to my windshield driving on interstate highway. Other phones of mine normally get pretty good signal in that situation.
Ill keep an eye on it and post any new findings but for now I'm kinda stumped. GPS worked fine up until the day of my posting.
To be honest, I completely forgot about calibrating the GPS. It has been so long since I've had to do it since my last few phones had great GPS radios, and were accurate out of the box. I calibrated mine last night after having to look up how to do it again, and it seemed better this morning. Still not as accurate as the M8 I upgraded from, but now it's not all over the place like it was.
How do you calibrate it?
Just an update to my situation. I seem to be getting better reception now but not as good as my alcatel idol 3 5.5" . I can get down to 15ft of accuracy on the v20 and 10 ft accuracy on Idol 3 in same location.
Btw, The GPS antenna is located in the top plastic piece which has metal tabs that make contact with more of those metal springs. I removed mine and put it back on to see if I could get a better connection. It seemed pretty snug though and not much chance for a weak connection.
I'm not totally convinced that was the issue but I'm happy for now as the navigation seems to be more reliable.
Oh and the calibration is not the gps but the gyros so that the maps orientate correctly to the position your phone is in. Its done by moving the phone in a figure 8 pattern. There is also a leveling calibration in the menu somewhere that has you set the phone on known level surface and then press calibrate to zero the level to the phones position.
The figure 8 is the one I was referring to though and now that I think of it, not much use for GPS reception.
Hey there,
I met up with OnePlus at the 2014 Web Summit and secured an invitation to purchase the OnePlus One and I did. It took nearly a year to break the screen. I'm Not known for being easy on my phones, having played hackey sack quite a bit I'm more likely to boot my phone across the street than I am to try and catch it.
8 replacement screens, 2 earpiece speakers, 2 phone housings, & 3 batteries in total, none were purchased from and installed by OnePlus. Always a gamble (and wait) when purchasing parts from eBay or aliexpress. Anyhow, that wasn't it.
I tinker.. I think that's more or less why we're all here. So the phone was oc'd as far as I could push it, 2.88GHz, SD card buffer changed to something or other (this was 2015), and I moved to Acapulco for half a year which meant a lot of humidity and heat, by god it was hot. The bacon overheated more than once I can assure you of while in Mexico. When my friend got his Nexus 6, I had to try and beat his Antutu score, so I did, but it required putting the phone in the freezer for a bit. I forgot it in the freezer overnight a handful of times and usually was top impatient to wait for it to heat up on its own to room temperature and just fired it up in 5 minutes anyway.
Jump to 2017, When it came to the 8th screen, the quality was absolutely horrible. I couldn't wait for a replacement screen so I purchased a Nexus 4 for 35 Canadian (it's real money I swear) and waited for about 5 days before I smashed the screen on that one falling out of my lap as I got out of the car.
Luckily for me, some gentleman was selling his used OnePlus One for $100 and I scooped it up before even asking if it was 16GB or 64GB. Luckily it was the latter.
This phone has been protected by a case from day one, not a scratch, ding, no dead pixels, no yellow tint at the bottom of the screen, just flawless. I've protected this phone much more than the first one (pun intended)
Running AospExtended, stock clocks, and it's not showing any signs of being less than fantastic. Battery life is great for 3 years old.
What's your story?
...dude I can't beat your score.
bazu said:
...dude I can't beat your score.
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I now see my maths score,and man,I feel ashamed.
bazu said:
...dude I can't beat your score.
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Haha yeah I never set out to set a high score, but I guess I was chosen. Luckily though, should my second slice of bacon have any serious hardware trouble I do have a bunch of spare parts.. Screens that partially work, one extra of each pcb and tiny components. I plan on using one of my two old batteries in a Bluetooth speaker project I'm working on.
When I got my Samsung galaxy vibrant back in the day I killed the internal sd card within thirty minutes, and about the same time for the replacement. Samsung didn't want to replace the replacement so I began phone surgery. My Samsung jack met its demise in new Jersey when I dropped it at a McDonalds, but at that point it was still holding on to its life, so I promptly stabbed it in the face with a screwdriver and upgraded to my Nokia E71 on Symbian OS and had some really interesting and legally questionable fun. Windows Mobile 6-7 was, for a tinkerer like me, Friggin fun.
I rant, but I guess what I'm saying is we all have a story about a phone that we abused, neglected, or treated with so much care it brought upon the very thing you were trying to protect it from. You don't need to feel bad, we can all share our stories here and have even more fun, in the memories of phones that once we're.