Samsung does seem to be willing to try ANYTHING at least once.....

BTW ... for guys who are in tech support, or just enjoy this kind of stuff:


http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus7/comments/1h...able_usb_drive/
I realize this may or may not be possible but I figured I'd ask. I know that tablets can be used as mass storage devices when plugged in to a PC via USB. I also know that it's quite easy to make a USB thumb drive bootable. What I'd like to know is if there is a way to setup the tablet's storage in a way that will make it bootable if it was plugged in via USB at startup. I'm not asking about booting in to android on a PC, I would have a different os on the volume and use that for PC booting. Yes I could just use a USB drive, but I want to know if this is possible.


ANSWER:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...kery.drivedroid

DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives. The paid version of DriveDroid does not include ads and helps the developer.

DriveDroid also includes a convenient download menu where you can download USB-images of a number of operating systems from your phone.

You can also create USB-images which allows you to have a blank USB-drive where you can store files in. Another possibility is to use tools on your PC to make a bootable USB-drive out of the blank image that DriveDroid created.

How do you make this work?
* Connect your phone to your PC using an USB cable
* Download an image file (.iso or .img) or create one
* Select the image file in DriveDroid to let your phone 'host' the file over USB
* (Re)start your PC and make sure the correct boot priority is set in the bios
* The image should now be booted on your PC

I suppose you could record some battery consumption data points before and after and make your research software do some gee whiz what-if modeling for you


UPDATE:
Anyway, it's just a FILE SYSTEM....your file will still exist whether it's FAT32 or NTFS.....only that NTFS provides a bit more checking that your file is not corrupt. But file systems have been around since computer storage began, so......

This post has been edited by joytest: Jul 9 2013, 01:14 PM

Oh well....should we now petition Samsung for aluminium devices...




The Huawei Mediapad Lite takes a bullet and saves the owner....

thanks to ericmaxman

Source:
http://www.gizmochina.com/2013/07/08/yu-ch...ediapad-tablet/

I believe it hit the battery pack, so both the aluminum and the battery stopped the bullet. It's a 4100mAh battery, so it's quite large.

Luckily the lithium didn't catch fire either.

Nice one. I'd still prefer for the snap out case to be a full bezel enclosure though. That would make it perfect.

Hi yes, asking in the Note 2 thread, a device 5.5" in size, yet you are saying you are constrained to 5" max. Well, as has been pointed out by some of the answers to you, the battery life is a killer on this device ie it kills EVERYTHING ELSE (except the larger 6" Huawei with 30% more battery).

I would take a presumption you are female from your username. A lot of women use the Note2, whether carried in the hand bag, clutched in the hand, or perhaps having it jut halfway out of the jeans pockets. Even if you're a guy, there's no problem as evidenced by the many male users here.

But if you want a max 5" device, then go for the many other 5" device choices.

Do be specific on what features, as antt00 said. Quite a number are rather gimmicky as evidenced by posts in the S4 thread, some can be useful depending on individual. For smoothness, Note 2 still holds its own vs S4, and the perception of smoothness is better on the Note 2.

If you want office productivity, the S-Pen is a real bonus since you can write your notes and email them.

Then just take the Note 2, since I think you can get it for around 1700 or less. Or if you want to wait the Note 3 should be here by end Sep, mid Oct probably.

Find a friend who has a Note 2 and play around with the S-Pen.

What do you mean by the bolded text?

And why is S4 better for anime?

See, the S-pen uses what is known as an Active Digitizer, meaning that it is the same type as used by Architects, CAD draftsmen, Digital Artists. This is what sets the Note family apart from ALL OTHER smartphones and featurephones out there. This allows you pinpoint accuracy in writing and drawing, and has pressure sensitivity to simulate thinner or thicker strokes.

As hooh888 pointed out, the others can only use the fat styli that are not accurate and I have tried a few myself on my other Android.

MXPlayer can play MKV nicely on the Note 2. But the MKV format is just a container. Depends on the codec it was encoded in, and you can download codec packs for different players. Don't know about the green line though.

No. Samsung also provided an alarm feature which will sound if you walk away holding the Note without the S-pen.

We can all be your part time boyfriends to teach you

Do you plan to get it at a Samsung outlet or somewhere else? Are you getting an SME set or parallel import?


I suggest you read posts 3 and 4 first to know the device and what to do when you get it. Then when you want to play with it some more, read post 5, 12, 13.

Link to vidcode? later add to post 12.

03	2013-07-09	Added link to VidCode, a transcoder, by hooh888	12	MediaPlayers
02	2013-07-09	Added link and excerpt to article regarding the supposed massive Android vulnerability	12	2nd "quote"
01	2013-07-06	Added XDA's collection of ported apps, by alexng2208	12

I heard somewhere, perhaps an old Chinese saying, that young men can, but don't know how, whereas old men know how, but can't .... so in the end everybody misses out

Oh, Gwiyomiz, beware Geeks bearing Gifts.....although calling alexng2208 a "geek" will be quite a stretch of imagination....

Updated...using Handbrake as the back end eh..nice. Actually Handbrake is good enough, but maybe interface a little complex.

Note 3 update:

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/07/09/samsun...alaxy-note-iii/

It's coming.......but damn the arithmetic progression !!!!

SOT 5hrs is a little above average.

Initially he/she had no tag, then I think added the Female tag somewhere near the end of the chat...