Did I screw myself and get a Galaxy Nexus that doesn't work for me?

aviewanew · 2012-05-25T14:34:05.720203+00:00

It certainly should work. I'd suggest calling T-Mobile and double checking the settings. Maybe it's something incorrect in the APN settings?

trot-trot · 1 day

If 1000's of untrusted devices are that dangerous for your network, imagine how much damage a single device placed there by an intentionally malicious attacker could cause. :-)

The fact is that "enterprise" IT organizations fear "untrusted" devices because they already know, but don't want to admit, that their applications and servers are woefully insecure. But rather than fix the real problem, they'd rather continue to mask it by chicken little'ing about the threat of untrusted devices. The real threat of untrusted devices on a corporate network isn't a security threat, it's the threat of unmasking that the emperor has no clothes.

uzimonkey · 2 days

As long as they keep selling the traditional through-hole Uno, I don't care. More choice is good!

Although if you're worried about burning out your AVR, maybe you need something like a Ruggeduino?

xargham11 · 3 days

The last thing I want on my tablet is a launcher that changes with location and time of day. No fricking thanks.

TrueAstynome · 4 days

Really? I tell people to avoid it at all costs.

TrueAstynome · 4 days

Screw that. I ate there a couple times when I was a kid. No way in hell I'm ever going back.

albatrossnecklassftw · 6 days

You are very, very wrong.

Because the makers of the Arduino have been generous enough to release their design under an open source license, it is perfectly legit to produce Arduino compatible boards. And there are many great Arduino compatible boards out there like the Teensy, Seeduino, Freeduino, Freakduino, etc.

But the name "Arduino" and the Arduino logo are trademarks and it is illegal to use them without permission. The Arduino team specifically asks on their website that people not name their products "Arduino" without permission from the Arduino team.

The board the OP bought is made by scumbag counterfeiters who are trying to turn a quick buck off the Arduino community without doing any original work and without contributing anything back to the community. Instead they're selling low quality shitty products (the OP's picture shows badly crooked header) while trying to trade off the quality reputation that team Arduino has worked hard to build.

This Makezine article says it much better than I can, but counterfeiters suck. They hurt the community by hurting the companies that truly support the community, and they hurt the community by misleading unsuspecting buyers into thinking that the low quality shit they bought is representative of all Arduino and Open Hardware products.

If we care about Arduino, if we care about the Open Hardware and Maker community, we need to as a community take a stand against the counterfeiters that are looking to leach off the community.

CroydonC · 8 days

Sounds like the Streisand effect is gonna expose this talk to a lot more people than the TED website ever would have.

johny5w · 13 days

Brooklynbrewshop.com sells 1 gallon kits if you want go all the way down to single gallons. I realize a lot of home brewers on the internet disparage single gallon brewing because of the relatively small yields/time ratio, but it's something I'm considering doing in order to be able to experiment with more recipe variations.

dvereber · 13 days

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a big difference be that with the Pi, you've got the care and feeding of a full linux distro? Where as with the Arduino, it's pretty dead simple to compile and upload simple "sketches" to the board.

dvereber · 14 days

A USB wifi dongle needs only needs to have the wifi radio. The TCP stack runs on the computer you plug the dongle into. A wifi Arduino shield needs to have everything that's in that USB dongle, but also a processor thats powerful enough to run the TCP stack including a telnet daemon, usually a web server, etc.

basmith7 · 16 days

The Nook Color is also only an 800Mhz processor, only 512Meg of RAM, doesn't have GPS, and doesn't have a camera of any sort.

For comparison, the A100 is a 1Ghz Tegra2, 1Gig of RAM, has GPS, and has front and rear cameras.

basmith7 · 16 days

I'd suggest neither. For the same price as the Nook Color, you can get an Acer Tab A100. Same form factor, but it's a full Android tablet with front and rear cameras, GPS, Google Play Market, microSD (which the Nook has, but the Kindle doesn't), etc. It's shipping now with HoneyComb, but leaked versions of the upcoming ICS upgrade are already available on XDA.

notor · 20 days

You mean like this? http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Arduino/

or this? http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10184

or this? http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone

It's pretty easy and inexpensive to build your own Arduino compatible if you should choose to do so.

rhuang114 · 24 days

Here are the instructions for flashing cyanogenmod: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Nexus_One:_Full_Update_Guide

Apps listed as on the SD card will not still be installed after you re-flash. You'll have to re-install all apps. You can do that by re-downloading them from the market (don't worry, you won't have to re-pay for payed apps, as long as you still use the same Google account). Or you can backup your apps with a program like Titanium Backup and restore them after you flash the new OS.

rhuang114 · 25 days

Back when my N1 was still running stock, I had good luck running SuperOneClick to get root while remaining on the stock OS with my bootloader still locked. Using SuperOneClick to get root doesn't erase or reset anything (although I'd still recommend backing up anything irreplaceable and/or valuable, just in case of some wild never-before-seen catastrophe).

But, if you've already unlocked I do agree with the other comments that you should consider flashing a custom rom. CyanagenMod is the most popular. It's similar to the stock OS, but with a huge amount of tweakable settings. I tried it initially, then tried MIUI and loved it so much I've stuck with it since.

One of the big advantages of re-flashing an N1 is that you can reclaim some storage space on the device (MIUI seems to be a lot smaller than the latest stock OS). Also, but MIUI and CyanogenMod support an enhanced apps2sd functionality that lets you re-map part of your SD card to work as internal memory (slightly difficult to setup on MIUI, never tried it on CyanogenMod). All of these features really help alleviate the problems with running out of space on the N1 because of it's tiny internal storage.

Do note that re-flashing will erase everything on the phone itself. It shouldn't touch anything on the SD card, but anything on internal memory will be erased.

AstroboyA · 28 days

Over at the Let's Make Robots website, you can view information about tons of simple robots that the websites members have built (many of them using an Arduino). IMHO, it's a great way to get idea and tips.

biodrone · 1 month

Why the hell you would want a video player built into your launcher? That's just stupid, unnecessary bloat.

daimou · 1 month

I'm assuming the OP didn't include a source because it's pretty common knowledge.

Basically Li-Ion batteries require built in intelligent charging circuitry that micro-manages the charging and even the discharge. Completely discharging the battery, for example, would actually destroy it. Also, Li-Ion batteries deteriorate over time (usually a 2-3 year expected lifespan) regardless of how you use them or even if you use them at all.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/lithium-ion-battery.htm

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/is_lithium_ion_the_ideal_battery

hoshi_ronin · 1 month

In Reddit is fun: Click the Reddit logo in the action bar at any time to get back to the home page.

hoshi_ronin · 1 month

I'm pretty sure that Android (and IOS for that matter) are designed so that using native apps is a lot like using web apps. The user should be able to just jump around from place to place without ever worrying about closing apps or even really about when they've left one apps and entered another. Apps are automatically there when you need them, gone when you don't.

A manual "Exit" or "Close" button is pretty much foreign to the design of the Android UI.

hoshi_ronin · 1 month

If an "Activity" isn't "on-screen", it's not consuming resources. It's suspended. It's left in memory on the assumption that people frequently return to recently used apps (the same reason that the "Recent Apps" list exists). But that memory will be instantly given to any other app that needs it. Also note that being suspended but in-memory does NOT increase battery consumption.

4channelmixer · 1 month

Depends on how remote it is and/or how shy you are! :-)

thrik · 1 month

MIUI US. I love it!

redditchulous · 1 month

Have you tried doing a factory reset? Just to make sure there's nothing software related that's causing the battery drain?

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