On 1/6/2014 9:44 AM, Eli Marmor wrote:
I want to overwrite the OS of Sony U by a MOD version of Android,
without the garbage of Sony, but I am afraid to destroy the phone
because of lack of experience in such upgrades; what do you recommend
to do?
And regarding the specific phone:
Actually, i
Wow! Thank you very very much!
Last time I checked was before Dec. 3, so I didn't see it.
It helps a lot!
But now I'm more afraid:
15 steps, badly written, some of them ambiguous, when any small mistake or
misunderstanding, damages the phone...
I'll have to re-consider it.
Thanks again!
On Mon
On 1/6/2014 10:39 AM, Eli Marmor wrote:
Wow! Thank you very very much!
You are welcome.
Last time I checked was before Dec. 3, so I didn't see it.
It helps a lot!
But now I'm more afraid:
15 steps, badly written, some of them ambiguous, when any small
mistake or misunderstanding, damages th
2014/1/6 geoffrey mendelson :
> On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>>
>> Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with
>> time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it
>> did then what it says on the tin it will still do it now, won't it?
>> W
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:14:58AM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> Depends on the OS and it's support but yes... (my n900 still has great
> support and if it wasn't falling apart as a result of severe abuse
> would still be using it, but that's also a much more open system,
> we'll see what happens
On 1/6/2014 11:14 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
Depends on the OS and it's support but yes... (my n900 still has great
support and if it wasn't falling apart as a result of severe abuse
would still be using it, but that's also a much more open system,
we'll see what happens with the Jolla now)
Soft
geoffrey mendelson writes:
> So all Android 2 devices, almost all 2 year old cell phones, can no
> longer buy or update an app.
> So yes, the phones become less useful, and eventually no use at all.
I discern two patterns:
1. App is absolutely critical for me, way more important than making
"E.S. Rosenberg" writes:
> On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>>
>> Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with
>> time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it
>> did then what it says on the tin it will still do it now, won't it?
>> With
2014/1/6 Oleg Goldshmidt :
> geoffrey mendelson writes:
>
>> So all Android 2 devices, almost all 2 year old cell phones, can no
>> longer buy or update an app.
>
>
>
>> So yes, the phones become less useful, and eventually no use at all.
>
> I discern two patterns:
>
> 1. App is absolutely criti
On 1/6/2014 12:02 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
We are not discussing past-EOL versions here, so the implicit
assumption is that critical security updates are provided, without
downgrading functionality.
But they are not. While very few companies are providing Android 4
upgrades for Android two
The N900, at least the ones I have, start falling apart sooner-or-later due
to GSM chip BGA solders getting loose (like the red-ring-of-death on Xbox
360).
The symptom is a yellow banner saying that all Telephony functions are
disabled.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66870
I have 2 phones t
2014/1/6 Oleg Goldshmidt :
> "E.S. Rosenberg" writes:
>
>> On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with
>>> time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it
>>> did then what it says on the tin it will
geoffrey mendelson writes:
> On 1/6/2014 12:02 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>> We are not discussing past-EOL versions here, so the implicit
>> assumption is that critical security updates are provided, without
>> downgrading functionality.
>
> But they are not. While very few companies are provid
On 1/6/2014 12:56 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
AFAIK, there is no indication (not that I check obsessively) that
Gingerbread went the way of XP [chuckle]. You said yourself that you
see 2.x devices being sold today. Personally, I know I am behind on
the patchlevel, but upgrading is a MUCH bigger
Hi all,
I installed Debian 7.x.0 from the LXDE CD (debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso
) into a VirtualBox VM (both i586 and x86-64) several times in the past,
and was always frustrated at how long the installation process is. I
specifically ask it not to contact a remote mirror, but the installation
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote:
P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y
dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me
questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a
way to make apt-get completely non-int
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y
> dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me
> questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a
> way to mak
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