God, I just realised we're in the same timezone as Hong Kong, and the Prime is rolling tomrrow at 9.30am HK time.

Which translates to... 9.30am local time.

It's refreshing not having to calculate the time difference of a product launch really.

I might be going. Gonna give them a heart attack with my mutated SGS2.

"What... is this thing?"

"An SGS2 lah!"

"Uhhh, we can't use this for promo material."

"Eh, tot you want to take pictures of a real SGS2 in "use"?"

"But that doesn't look like an SGS2 any more."

*wink, wink*

See lah if I got time. Sked they'll write off my warranty right there and then for heavy modding.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 18 2011, 12:46 PM

I think I know.

But lets not ruin the surprise shall we... *wink*

Anyway, RPG lovers will also be happy that we can actually run ANY of the Baldurs Gate game (Planescape Torment included) as well on the SGS2.

Control without a BT mouse is... painful though.

Still waiting for someone (anyone!) to port Jagged Alliance 2 to Android. For the love of God, if my old N900 and even my N810 can do it, why not my android superduperultraphone?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 18 2011, 01:32 PM

Don't remind me about the N900. Played with the N9 the other day and nearly broke down in tears thinking about the potential Nokia squandered when they went WP7.

And yea, Baronic. You cheated, as I thought. That ain't native lol. But I didn't even know they made Diablo for the PSX.

Persona2 English and Front Mission 3 is running dandy over there though, sound and all. As is my pristine, extremely rare copy of Ace Combat 3 Japanese Version, all 3 cds of it.

Now to find Descent: Armageddon.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 18 2011, 02:20 PM

Galaxy Prime specs out. Camera's 5MP (hopefully with BSI) and front 1.3MP.

Sigh. Is it just me or is the Galaxy HD just a mite cooler then this? Design is effin hot though.

In SGS 2 related news:

Extended batteries are getting crappier, at least the ones from Spider-Foot (and by extension, most of the other nameless OEMs):



Taken from eug at XDA, one of the guys with the cap testing rig.

It should be finelah. It's one of the most prevailant reso out there, so unless Googster is denying an upgrade for EVERYTHING pre-Nexus, it HAS to be supported well.

Hopefully the cheezy software buttons are optional though, or at least reconfigurable.

@iori: Tried, went back to VR in about a day. Stuffs all cool but I have most of it in stock anyway. Main issues for me:

1) Dat camera app. No touch focus - fail.
2) No smart dialing.
3) Those horrid fonts and hinting system (plus the fact that changing fonts is a pain in CM7).

Minor points but it drove me mad. Especially no 3.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 19 2011, 10:27 AM

Yeah, theme changer was way cool. Sucks it didn't have a proper Orange theme though - not a fan of NEON Orange.

BUT, ONE thing was beyond cool on CM7 and I would pay for it to be ported out. System wide haptics. I mean, touch links also haptic, way cool.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 19 2011, 10:30 AM

2) Speed dial - touch hold any number to dial a pre-defined contact. Smart dial - touch any combo of numbers and the dialer treats them as alphabets and auto-searches contacts.

3) Font changer bricked my CM7 installation when I tried it. Then I tried again and the hinting/font smoothing (cleartype) was still quite off (fonts look really rough around the edges). Font hinting is an mDNIE feature (the UI driver of the SGS2) so it's locked to Samsung framework ROMs (it's like the BRAVIA engine on the Arc, but Sammy kept it largely unhyped).

It'll be fun in flipfont is enabled on CM7 though, as I have not seen my peculiar font in any font changer app anyway (Ubuntu Titling Bold Small Re-sized), except on a flipfont apk.

And, for the love of God, quickly release ICS for the SGS2 already.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 19 2011, 11:11 AM

Seen. Not customizable so sticking with WL + Executive Assistant widget combo.

But then again, I don't really use the Exec Assist widget much anyway lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 19 2011, 04:08 PM

Playing Sprinkle no problem here too.

Using Smart Keyboard Pro here for general gibberish in Japanese. For more serious stuff I fall back to multiling too, full handwriting recog for kanji is sick.

SKP works better in English and has a full black skin though.

Swiftkey has been promising CJK input for months, nothing yet out though.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 20 2011, 02:10 PM

Hmm, Galaxy Nexus does USB Digital Audio Out to external DAC/Amps. http://is.gd/H34Ozk

Oh mai.

For the love of God this better be ICS related rather then requiring HW we don't have on the SGS2. Because using a USB DAC/Amp with the SGS2 would be total pwnage on an portable audiophile kinda way.

The TI DAC on the GNexus (I STILL think it should have been called the Prime) is no Wolfson either lol.

Mmmmmm.

@all: the sieg03 camera firmware is actually for the Infuse 4G. Of course stuff (like the flash) wouldn't work.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 21 2011, 02:21 AM

Lol, looks like the entire thread is gonna be a G vs non G battle lol. Truth be known, Sammy is primarily a NAND manufacturer, NOT a SOC manufacturer per se.

Thus it's understandable why they couldn't ramp up production of the Exynos to meet demand thus they re-manufactured some SGS2 with the OMAPs.

Just be thankful they could cope AMOLED-wise. Remember how some of the original Nexus had to be retooled with an SLCD? That's also simply due to limited supplies of the part (from Samsung).

So, WHY Samsung did it has been answered. Now, which one is better? Google, but in actuality, differences will be sorta slim. G = SLIGHTLY less heat, less performance, less ROMs (for now), more battery life - roughly anyway. So more or less, to non-geeks, THEY ARE THE SAME.

Except for the whole sgx240 = more game compatibility argument is gonna be moot soon as more games are gonna be released to NATIVELY support the Mali, now that the Exynos is running in TWO of the THREE American variants of the SGS2. So if anything, we're not gonna be left out for much longer anyway, game wise. Heck, even the new GTA3 has the (old) SGS2 listed as a supported platform (besides the 4s, the iPad2 and several other dual core Droids).

As of why the new Exynos is NOT in the GalNex, it's simple. It wasn't ready in time. Plus I have a hunch that it HAS to be a Samsung Flagship to get the honour anyway. GalNex is primarily a Google device after all.

So now, the next guy who asks about G or non-G is gonna get silence from me. Unless it's a specific modding question.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 21 2011, 02:45 PM

Well, it SHOULD be like that. Unless the ROM is broken. Which ROM you coming from and which are you trying?

And yeah, clearing cache and dalvik helps, most of the time. Unless it's a fullwipe ROM you're moving to, which, as its name entails, needs a full data wipe (factory restore).

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 21 2011, 02:46 PM