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kmcormick9 posted:Any tf700 case recommendations? I ended up making a really incredible case from a cereal box. Just hear me out on this, it's pretty simple and strong. Heres the quick and dirty method: 1: any empty Kashi box(organic and freetrade){personal preference} 2: cut the flaps off the top and bottom, cut one of the thin sides off so it roughly looks like a huge book flap. 3: now place the tf700 in and against the back wall and use a pencil mark the edges. 4: cut according to the marks, now at this juncture you're going to need some kind of felt, I just ordered some off a ebay, color is up to you. 5: cut felt to shape and using Gorilla glue(gorilla glass anyone?) spread a thick coat on the box and align and place the felt together with the box cardboard. 6: whilst the glue is drying I went ahead and added a small leather latch to keep it closed but that was just a personal bit of flair. 7: in a few hours your case is ready, now all you really need to do is wrap it around your tf700 when not in use and it should be good to go. The only caveat I find with this is that it falls apart pretty quickly and doesnt offer any protecting if the device is not on a flat surface, but I can just make another if/when that time comes. Good luck friend. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 28, 2012 17:26
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:I ended up making a really incredible case from a cereal box. Just hear me out on this, it's pretty simple and strong.
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Aug 28, 2012 17:43
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:If you're more economically-minded you can make this work with bag cereal. If you're like me, you have several empty cereal bags stashed away for situations like this. Layer several of them together with glue sandwiched between them and mold it to your tablet for a perfect fit. If you get the glue just right you can get the bags to form a hinge. For additional protection you can just glue more layers of cereal bag to the outside. For the inner lining I used fabric that I cut from a couch that I found sitting on a curb. It had been there a few weeks and was rained on so I don't think anyone minded.
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Aug 28, 2012 17:47
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invision posted:You can definitely find it. I'd post the link but I'm not sure if it qualifies as "filez" or not. I'm sure a copy of a free app isn't filez, but if you're unsure we could discuss the moral fine points in pm's. E: the important question might be whether it works on JB, but we can only try.
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Aug 28, 2012 17:47
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:It would probably take ~10 minutes to do all of those steps, it's just written like this: Is it hard to do all those steps since you never put any of those things down? They're all still in your hands.
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Aug 28, 2012 18:06
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chemosh6969 posted:Is it hard to do all those steps since you never put any of those things down? They're all still in your hands. 
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Aug 28, 2012 18:16
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I'm looking to purchase a N7 within Canada and seeing as my Australian cards are rejected by the Google Play store I have been able to locate one in store. However, I have been told it is a bilingual model. My first thoughts is that it would have English/French language options but does anyone know any more specifics about the "features" of a bilingual model?
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Aug 28, 2012 18:36
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Let's all remember that page 133 is the funniest page in the Android Tablet Thread.
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Aug 28, 2012 18:41
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Iro posted:I'm looking to purchase a N7 within Canada and seeing as my Australian cards are rejected by the Google Play store I have been able to locate one in store. My Galaxy Nexus came with several languages preinstalled and I can switch between them if need be. You should be able to select US/UK English on your device.
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Aug 28, 2012 18:44
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beerinator posted:Let's all remember that page 133 is the funniest page in the Android Tablet Thread.
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Aug 28, 2012 18:49
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Iro posted:I'm looking to purchase a N7 within Canada and seeing as my Australian cards are rejected by the Google Play store I have been able to locate one in store. Manuals and other media included in the box will be in both in English and French. You set the device language when you first turn it on which has more than English and French as options. The whole bi-lingual model thing in Canada is to meet some legal requirements I believe. I have not worked retail in ages ( thank "god" ) and I vaguely remember some details on this from some training manuals. e: http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/01248.html bigmandan fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Aug 28, 2012 |
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Aug 28, 2012 18:58
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Iro posted:I'm looking to purchase a N7 within Canada and seeing as my Australian cards are rejected by the Google Play store I have been able to locate one in store. Any stock Android device should have like hundreds of languages on it. Generally, all core Google applications will support all these languages, and including like not just French but French (Belgium) and French (Canadian) and French (Switzerland).
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Aug 28, 2012 20:20
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Thanks for your help guys, I figured it was something as simple as that but you can never be too careful. Thanks again.
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Aug 28, 2012 20:50
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:If you're more economically-minded you can make this work with bag cereal. If you're like me, you have several empty cereal bags stashed away for situations like this. Layer several of them together with glue sandwiched between them and mold it to your tablet for a perfect fit. If you get the glue just right you can get the bags to form a hinge. For additional protection you can just glue more layers of cereal bag to the outside. For the inner lining I used fabric that I cut from a couch that I found sitting on a curb. It had been there a few weeks and was rained on so I don't think anyone minded. gently caress it, use a condom. Touch screens work thru nitrile (ask me how I know), no reason to suspect latex would be much different. Keep it water proof and semen-free!
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Aug 28, 2012 21:33
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So back on-topic, I'm sure everyone is dying to know how my RMA experience with Ebuyer worked out - pretty well overall, got a new unit a couple of days ago and have been playing with it. First thing I looked at was the screen, no lifting issue but I'll keep an eye on it. And I haven't noticed any flickering (which was why I sent it back in the first place). I'm probably not going to unlock and root it for a while (I did this with my first N7), I only did that so I could use the OTG (On The Go) USB cable, which worked great. When you plug the N7 into a PC it becomes a mass storage device so it's easy to fill up the memory with videos, comics and ebooks enough to keep you occupied for a few days on a trip or something, so the OTG functionality isn't critical IMO. The only issue I've got is that Gmail keeps crashing on me, but that's been the case with my new phone I got a few days ago (Galaxy S III), my old phone recently (Galaxy S) and the N7 so I don't know what the gently caress is going on, even after removing updates and doing full resets. That's not a fault with the N7 though.
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Aug 30, 2012 14:38
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I wanted to review I bought an Ainol Novo7 Aurora-II 7 inch tablet. http://www.ainol-novo.com/ainol-novo-7-aurora-ii-dual-core-1-5ghz-7-inch-ips-touch-screen-1g-ram-android-tablet.html What it has: Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4000Mah battery CPU: Amlogic8726-M6 Cortex-A9 Dual Core(1.5Ghz) GPU: Dual Core Mail 400×2 RAM:: DDR3 1G 1333MHZ Storage: 16GB Screen: 7 inch Capacitive 1024x600 IPS Screen Camera: 2MP front HDMI: mini What it doesn't have: Android Jelly Bean (for about 2 more months) bluetooth GPS internal 3G (which is no big deal to me because I tether to my phone) a second camera It is only like $130 or less depending on where you find it. I bought mine from Aliexpress and put a 32GB TF card in it. Then I bought a couple of mini HDMI adapters from ebay, but I think they are lemons. I tested them on this Aurora II and then on my Asus Transformer which is also mini HDMI and neither will play. I tried it on both of my TV's. I don't know if it is just user stupidity. The Aurora II has a Amlogic HDMI app and it doesn't seem to detect the TV's. I had another adapter that I used on the transformer without issue on my TV's a while back and lost it. All chinese mini HDMI to HDMI adapters are not equal? Either way I just spent more money on two actual cables on Amazon. EDIT: It was the new adapters! I found my old one and everything works fine! B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Aug 30, 2012 |
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Aug 30, 2012 16:47
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beerinator posted:Let's all remember that page 133 is the funniest page in the Android Tablet Thread. The funniest page in this thread is whatever page you finally realize that the "Ainol Elf II" isn't some long, abstracted meta-joke and is, in fact, an actual product that goons are buying.
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Aug 30, 2012 16:50
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Are these ainol products using stock android? Or do they put crap on it? I almost purchased the Elf, but i cancelled and looking at more user experiences with the fire.
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Aug 30, 2012 16:51
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Mister Fister posted:Are these ainol products using stock android? Or do they put crap on it? It appears to be pretty stock. I had to switch the language first thing. Then threw out a few weird asian social apps and games. Otherwise it looks pretty pure. I am not sure what is up with Ainol. The Fire/Flame is my tablet plus bluetooth, plus 1000Mah more battery, plus 2nd camera with LED flash, for $50 more, but still no GPS?
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Aug 30, 2012 18:39
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My dad uses his Ainol Elf for jacking/gambling and it suits his needs just fine, who cares about the name when it satisfies him so well?
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Aug 30, 2012 20:28
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Yes, the name was funny. Move on.
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Aug 30, 2012 21:37
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As much as I really didn't want to I threw a ROM on the Nexus 7. Finally got sick and tired of the notification bar on top instead of something convenient like say on the bottom where your fingers are likely to be on a large device. At first I felt mystified on how someone at Google thought a giant phone interface on a 7" device was a good idea and then I remembered because Google. That said, holy poo poo this is so much better. I went with Paranoid something or another (I can't be bothered to remember stupid ROM names). It has a really clever per app DPI setup so you're not stuck on a system wide DPI that will inevitably break something. Its a pain to set up and in the beginning you kinda have to guess what each app likes but after some fiddling it gets quite nice. You don't even have to reboot after each change. Haven't run into a single hiccup either which kind of surprises me after 4 years of busted rear end 3rd party crap. My one app hangup is Google Talk. You can trick it into tablet mode but it doesn't scale right. But to make up for it i just raised the DPI so it eases that jarring stretched look a bit. Past that I'm pretty pleased. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 31, 2012 07:17
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Alright, so my Xoom (original, WiFi Only, 32GB, EU) finally updated to ICS. It's rather nice, but there's a few new quirks it introduced that I don't like much. First, for some reason the lock screen doesn't obey the screen rotation setting, and keeps rotating even though it's set to not rotate. Second, I can't see an option to change the lock screen shortcuts. Is there any way to change these?
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Aug 31, 2012 14:08
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Here's a new…thing http://www.reghardware.com/2012/08/31/archos_gamepad_pushes_play_with_physical_controls/  Looks like it will be the same price as the Nexus 7.
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Aug 31, 2012 14:25
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ChrisAsmadi posted:I can't see an option to change the lock screen shortcuts. Is there any way to change these? Stock? No.
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Aug 31, 2012 16:35
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Here's a new…thing
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Aug 31, 2012 16:55
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ChrisAsmadi posted:Alright, so my Xoom (original, WiFi Only, 32GB, EU) finally updated to ICS. It's rather nice, but there's a few new quirks it introduced that I don't like much. Take a look at this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker
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Aug 31, 2012 18:56
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I've had my Toshiba Excite 10 for about a week now and overall pretty happy with the purchase. Only thing that I am disappointed with is I am reading that the tablet can't be rooted. From looking around this seems to be true. Has anyone heard otherwise? Also I've been reading several pages back and no one has mentioned this tablet. Just wondering what is the general consensus on this tablet. Don't really keep up to date on this stuff so wondering if I made the right choice.
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Sep 1, 2012 02:51
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NegativePower posted:I've had my Toshiba Excite 10 for about a week now and overall pretty happy with the purchase. Only thing that I am disappointed with is I am reading that the tablet can't be rooted. From looking around this seems to be true. Has anyone heard otherwise? IYG only recommends quality tablets such as the Nexus 7 and the Anal Fire Elf Swordsman. Sorry for your loss. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 1, 2012 03:36
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Any thoughts on the HardCover by Dodocase for the Nexus 7. Seems cool and most people seem to like it. I'd go for a Portenza, but those things are drat pricy.
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Sep 1, 2012 03:49
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Any thoughts on the HardCover by Dodocase for the Nexus 7. Seems cool and most people seem to like it. I'd go for a Portenza, but those things are drat pricy. I used to have a dodocase for the original iPad, worked pretty well for me. I went with the offical Apple folder for the new iPad though. They make quality stuff though, if you like the look, then I'd say go for it.
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Sep 1, 2012 03:58
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Any thoughts on the HardCover by Dodocase for the Nexus 7. Seems cool and most people seem to like it. I'd go for a Portenza, but those things are drat pricy. Problem with the Dodocase is that it uses adhesive. On the iPad it would be fine because it's just aluminium backing and you could easily remove it. But the Nexus 7 has that faux leather and I have no idea what it would do to it. Take a look at the Treegloo cases. I ordered one last week, I'll review it when it comes in.
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Sep 1, 2012 05:01
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IT Guy posted:Problem with the Dodocase is that it uses adhesive. On the iPad it would be fine because it's just aluminium backing and you could easily remove it. But the Nexus 7 has that faux leather and I have no idea what it would do to it. Take a look at the Treegloo cases. I ordered one last week, I'll review it when it comes in. Hmmm, I'm assuming it would be okay. The case is specifically designed for the Nexus 7, so I'd think they wouldn't use the adhesive if it was causing issues. The Treegloos look cool too, thanks for the tip.
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Sep 1, 2012 05:30
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I highly recommend the Blurex Ultra-Slim Case for the Nexus 7. You're able to convert it to a two-position stand. It fits very closely and it feels very wellmade. Only $15.
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Sep 1, 2012 05:37
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So, I popped the back off of my Nexus 7 to investigate the screen lift issue. What causes it is so amazingly stupid. There's a rectangular piece of foam as filler between components. It is misaligned ever so slightly so that a small part of it is on TOP of an adjacent component. That causes extra thickness when the back is on and pushes on the screen, popping it forward a bit. This would be why putting pressure on it solves it for some people, it probably compresses that overlap permanently. So, there you have it. An 8th of an inch misalignment in a tiny piece of foam caused this defect. People can solve it however they want (RMA, removing the overlapping sliver, whatever), I'm just letting people know what the cause is.
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Sep 1, 2012 05:41
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Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. My Asus netbook had a wonky trackpad caused by a bit of foil that contacted with a screw - the fix was as simple as removing the offending bit of foil
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Sep 1, 2012 05:47
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For any Ainol owners, I'd highly recommend popping the cover over and checking the solder on the various connector sockets. A friend of mine just brought one over with a broken/loose mini-usb socket. I popped the case off to find the tracks torn off the pcb and no solder on two of the four spots that were supposed to hold the socket in place. The power socket wasn't much better. Quality workmanship.
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bull3964 posted:So, there you have it. An 8th of an inch misalignment in a tiny piece of foam caused this defect. People can solve it however they want (RMA, removing the overlapping sliver, whatever), I'm just letting people know what the cause is. Without wishing to imply that XDA is a source of reliable information, there is a huge thread there about this problem where "the cause" has been found about six times. It seems to vary from case to case and no single thing has fixed it for everyone. That foam was one of them and worked for some people but not others.
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I just put the thing inside a case, and never looked back. Only real disadvantage is that it nixes the NFC capability.
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Sep 1, 2012 12:47
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.