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hey guys.
i`d like to ask if there´s an app that allows to use your android phone as gamepad for windows. just like nebudroid, but with multitouch.
some suggestions?
Although personally I cant find anything that allows you to do that, if you just want to use your phone to play emulators on windows or other things, then try using RemoteDroid, but its really only that useful if your phone has a physical keyboard. Its incredibly easy to set-up, took me 3 minutes.
i know android can pretty much do anything, but IMO there are just some things it shouldn't. wired xbox 360 controller will make you at least 5^14x happier.
Well... a "wired xbox 360 controller" might "make you at least 5^14x happier." but I don't feel like carrying that around all the time whereas carrying a phone around is already a necessary evil
maybe someone could share any news regarding this topic?
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maybe someone could share any news regarding this topic?
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agamepad ??
you should try to check at http://code.google.com/p/agamepad/
I just have a couple questions. I came across the look-a-like iPhone called F8, don't really know to much about it but I'm wondering if anybody else might. If anyone has any insight on the phone itself or whether or not if it would be possible to install android (any build) would be appreciated. The most I know is that even tho that it looks like an iPhone, it can not access the app store or iTunes. afraid that's all i know. Youtube isn't that helpful either. Thanks
There is an Iphone look-alike that runs android 2.3. Google it or youtube it.
here is one of the phones that i found.
http://www.ahappydeal.com/product-56789.html
After some messing about on-line I was intrigued to find this video review of something that "looked" similar to the Galaxy note.
Obviously its not the real thing as you and I are well aware but it prompted me to do some more researching.
After a few nights of checking out the different versions of the "clone" I decided to bite the bullet and buy one to play about with.
Now I don't know much about Android phones and was hoping someone might be able to give me some advice as to exactly what this phone is capable of in terms of using the android marketplace and installing generic android apps.
I am a little unsure of some of the screens. It shows that it has Android Version 4.0.3 - Does that mean it has ICS already installed?
The other thing I was wondering is whether or not there are any custom roms that will do away with some of the China/Far East apps/languages that this thing will be able to run?
I have attached some pics and also the pics that I was sent in .rar files from the supplier..
**I understand that this is not the real deal so anyone who feels like having a nice flaming session then rant away. My questions are genuine in the hope to learn something..
Cheers
It's probably the cheapest hardware around in that. Don't expect any smoothness and it's on the completely opposite end of the phone spectrum from the Note. Doubt there are any custom ROM for it as well, but it probably runs many apps from Play.
I don't know why you would waste money on it, unless you try to look cool by pretending you have a genuine Note. It's a bit like walking around with a fake Rolex.
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Yea for sure I know what you're saying. I know someone with a fake rolex. He has had it for many many years. It still even tells the right time
I in no way purchased it to "pretend" to have the real deal. I have an iphone already and this was more something to play around with.
I like the "open source" side to it and with my Linux background and Programming and coding firmware for Satellite TV Receivers It took my fancy as its not locked down as badly as an I-Phone.
I guess from reading a bit more I would have do dump the firmware that is already on the phone and decompile it and figure out how to edit it to my own needs and then re-flash.
Hell, for £130 if it keeps me amused and out of mischief for a few months then its money well spent.
I would rather learn on something that costs a LOAD less. Once I am familiar with the whole system structure, Tools, Terms, Apps, etc etc I will probably buy the real deal.
Take Care..
I was thinking of buying one. Are they good? Where did you buy yours? The white one looks nice.
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I was thinking of buying one. Are they good? Where did you buy yours? The white one looks nice.
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hi mate, when it arrives I will let you know!
still beats the dell streak lol
not bad for a fake phone imo, anyone who wants a big screen on a budget could use it.
Hey I woudn't mind using this over my (screen-plagued issues) Gnote..
This phone easily beats the features of the real mccoy.
I wonder how would Sammy feel that a run of the mill cheapo phone like this has their branded logo emblazoned on it?
Watching the video mesmerized me on the myriad capabilities this knockoff can offer.
Also great music, it 'tranced' me while watching the phone's features...
Cheers!
Does it run real ICS ?
There are fake Chinese 'iFones' in the market which certainly don't have IOS.
He says in the video it runs Gingerbread which would also explain the GB in the build number.
For 130 pounds I guess it's a pretty decent phone. It has a pretty slow single core CPU and a relatively low resolution for such a big screen but in the end you get what you pay for. I'm sure it's a nice toy to play around with and for a first Android experience you could do a lot worse but since I first used my Note I'll never settle for anything less anymore
Because these types of phones are never meant for international sales I doubt there will be any viable custom roms anytime soon and I think you can forget about official updates but even stock Gingerbread is a very decent OS. You'll miss out on a big part of the 'openness' of Android though.
Once you decide to get the real deal you'll be amazed at what the real Note is actually capable of.
I guess it has 800x480 res which gives you pixels like golf balls with a 5.3" screen. That's so extremely far from the Note hi res experience...
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I guess it has 800x480 res which gives you pixels like golf balls with a 5.3" screen. That's so extremely far from the Note hi res experience...
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screen is 5"
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screen is 5"
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In the movie the guy says "it's got a 5.3 inch 5-point multi-touch screen".
That's another difference from the real Note, only being able to detect a maximum of 5 touch points. The Note detects at least 10. Nothing to be concerned about I think, I've never used more than 3 fingers at the same time.
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In the movie the guy says "it's got a 5.3 inch 5-point multi-touch screen".
That's another difference from the real Note, only being able to detect a maximum of 5 touch points. The Note detects at least 10. Nothing to be concerned about I think, I've never used more than 3 fingers at the same time.
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Ah okay cool cool. I think in the vid he says 5.3 but on his blog, he later corrects it.
Good that you mention about the 5 touch points. I wondered what he was doing when he touched the screen like that.
How and why would you use more then 5 fingers at one time anyway? Still pretty cool that the "real" note can do 10.
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He says in the video it runs Gingerbread which would also explain the GB in the build number.
For 130 pounds I guess it's a pretty decent phone. It has a pretty slow single core CPU and a relatively low resolution for such a big screen but in the end you get what you pay for. I'm sure it's a nice toy to play around with and for a first Android experience you could do a lot worse but since I first used my Note I'll never settle for anything less anymore
Because these types of phones are never meant for international sales I doubt there will be any viable custom roms anytime soon and I think you can forget about official updates but even stock Gingerbread is a very decent OS. You'll miss out on a big part of the 'openness' of Android though.
Once you decide to get the real deal you'll be amazed at what the real Note is actually capable of.
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Ah okay. I am already mooching about for legit ones and there seems to be a good deal on the Real Note from amazon.de for about £350
I am actually quite looking forward for the fake one to arrive to see what its like. When I spoke to the seller, he said it came with some Legit Sammy software so who knows what that's for..
Looks like it Left Guangzhou on Friday so I expect it to be here sometime before the end of this week.
I think spythedude is aware of the fact this phone doesn't come anywhere near the specifications of the real Note. Everything about the phone screams FAKE!!! But still, for 130 pounds I think it's a pretty decent device given it's large capacitive screen. I can't think of any Android phone getting anywhere near such screen size for 130 pounds. It won't be the fastest phone around but there used to be Android phones with even worse hardware that still gave a good user experience.
@spythedude >> If you want, please let us know what you think of the device when you receive it, I'm really curious about it.
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Then I mostly emphasized about Colonel Zap reviewer and Fastcardtech fraud, as this is indeed a real fraud when mixing up Samsung product images during unboxing with this so called clone.
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I didn't mix up any pictures, I'm showing in my video exactly what I received when I ordered it. I have the FEELING (and I don't know this) that the box it came in might actually be an original box but of course it could be a fake as well. The phone definitely is NOT made by Samsung and whatever specs I mention in the video, I did so to the best of my knowledge.
I'm not trying too "fool" anyone, I'm just reporting about a phone, trying to show people how a device like this operates, that's it!
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@spythedude >> If you want, please let us know what you think of the device when you receive it, I'm really curious about it.
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Hi mate, yea for sure. I'll try and do my best to give an accurate feedback and as much info as possible.
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I don't know what the laws say about such a "promotion" in your own country,
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I'm not promoting or selling anything. I just make videos of the phones and tablets that I order from China, giving who ever might be interested in these devices "the heads up" what the devices are all about.
I couldn't care less if some likes a particular device or not and/or orders one of them from whatever online store
I've been reviewing phone and tables for years now, some are "fakes", some are not and so far my videos have been very much appreciated by the majority of my viewers
If you don't like my videos, don't watch them. If you don't like the device, don't buy it But please don't accuse me of mixing things up to fool anyone, I've never done that and I never will.
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I'm not promoting or selling anything. I just make videos of the phones and tablets that I order from China, giving who ever might be interested in these devices "the heads up" what the devices are all about.
I couldn't care less if some likes a particular device or not and/or orders one of them from whatever online store
I've been reviewing phone and tables for years now, some are "fakes", some are not and so far my videos have been very much appreciated by the majority of my viewers
If you don't like my videos, don't watch them. If you don't like the device, don't buy it But please don't accuse me of mixing things up to fool anyone, I've never done that and I never will.
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ColonelZap, don't worry buddy. When people sit on a high horse its difficult to see things properly or for what it is.
I appreciate and really enjoy your site for checking things out and I am sure others do too.. You will always get a small percentage of people who like to cry about things they don't agree with or understand.
Take Care
I have been looking into this because my phone is a blackberry and is not really working out for me... so when you get the phone, woud you mind making a video showing how fast is temple run and other such games, also please do a camera video test
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I have been looking into this because my phone is a blackberry and is not really working out for me... so when you get the phone, woud you mind making a video showing how fast is temple run and other such games, also please do a camera video test
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Oh okay cool.. I'll do my best. I don't really play games but I'll have a go
[Q] KFHD7" With Camera/Swype Update Suddenly Can't Find Camera in ES File Explorer!
(Fair warning: this post got a bit ranty and, feel free to not read it. My problem is in bold. The rest I needed to say, but you don't have to read it.)
So, I guess I didn't backup my installed software well because none of it's there. I distinctly thought there was a program sending me notifications and backing everything I installed up. I guess I should look into that, too.
But basically, I cleaned up some files on my Kindle using the Wifi Explorer at this laptop earlier today. I thought I just deleted media files that I didn't need there and some remaining folders with nothing in them of programs I had long ago uninstalled. Nothing like com.android.importantfiles.thecamera or whatever it is.
So, I notice at first that I can't get the video camera. I can open the photo gallery and click the camera icon and get the little simple camera with the shutter icon and no other options. But even after going into ES File Explorer and looking, all I found was this crappy Free HD Camera with no video camera and giant ad to prompt me every time I run it.
So then, I found FireCamera.apk searching around, installed that, and to my surprise, BOOM the camera I wanted but suddenly couldn't find anymore just opens back up. No proof of it existing anywhere, even on tools that were mentioned better than Amazon allowed without them.
Well, apparently I made a mistake. I decided to select the HD option since it's is a bloody Kindle Fire HD. But all this caused is the app to crash every time I put it into video record mode. And I can't undo this setting because I can't find it in any application manage. Ok, I've yet to download a different one and look for it, which I guess I can try... Anyway...
I would settle for not being able to use the HD setting if it just crashes but I can't put it back. I can't find the program. I've been raging and researching and screaming at people who make YouTube videos to explain things that could have been said in a few sentences, blown up into entire three minutes of garbage and self indulgence, as if they actually help anyone except people who need someone to read stuff to them and feeling so glad that people root their Kindles and (mine isn't rooted, btw) and make it do stuff they didn't want it to do for some reason olr other and just Man.
I usually don't ask forums as much as I read through them and find my answers patiently, but I've been doing that and I figure if someone doesn't know what to do I won't figure it out this time. And I hope as an afterthought that Amazon and pretty much, honestly, most tech companies in general experience devastating loss that destroys their entire company and leaves their crappy merchandise in the hands of people that are going to make it work anyway and get the apps from wherever they want. I probably should have researched why the Kindle was so cheap when I bought it (and don't get me wrong, I love it, only because I can force it to do what I want and laugh at how pathetic filthy rich Amazon tech moguls are for trying to corner the market and make their stuff incompatable with anything they don't receive money for just because, to hell with the consumer, we can make money as much as we want to and we can make them pay us, because we're bloody amazon and we can afford this tactic to enter the tablet market.
I hope their identities get stolen, and if I could, I would refuse access to anything Google or third party services to anyone affiliated with or working with Amazon. I would laugh as they hide their heads in shame and have to use Bing or some crap. I hope I can get this camera working again, whatever happened, and that you guys won't be very offended that I feel like blowing off steam in order to let this go for a while after trying and trying and trying. I'm being dramatic.
But I would be so pissed if I bought this thing and there was no way to work around it's... honestly... programmed dysfunction on purpose.
I mean, it just makes you angry. Capitalism is supposed to make better things for the consumer, not a bunch of crap that has to be hacked so that industry tycoons can run things however they can dominate the most.
Thanks if you took the time to hear me out, and thanks even more if you just skimmed it all and know how to get my video camera and the one with the good options that I just had a while ago to work... Maybe to be available for download somewhere... God forbid it be on the Amazon Appstore. You know I almost didn't even look at all because I just knew better, but after not finding anything I finally just did.
It's only their own program that comes with the hardware. But like a lot of apps, they just decide to pretend they don't exist, or that it's normal for them to only do certain things.
And off topic... I used Windows 8 the other day for the first time, and they basically decided that the whole being able to use your own computer without their constant hand holding with you is just not an option any more, because if they work like our phone and tablets, well... technology will not be as good until people hack it and thank god for the open source movement. Like, thank god.
And I am starting to have no sympathy for those who just want to be able to be paid for their work, like software developers. None. If it keeps going in this direction, I say to hell with all of them. They really just don't deserve to make ,money pushing crap like this. Most people using this tech are too... they're even less savvy than me, and I can usually research out the answers to my own problems at least. But so many people have no greater expectations because... Well. they just don't think to wonder why their device is a piece of junk that could have been (at no cost) allowed to soar so to speak... but basical managing of files and processes and that sort of thing... that's better left for people to not know about, so that they just buy another piece of hardware.
It makes me sick, and I honestly just have had the day off to brood about it. Sorry and thank you again. I'm going to sleep on it and see if anyone makes sense of this.
I have a broken screen S6 that I've been using as an IOT device. I've been having fun with it, but really want to do a little more with it. I'm using But adb and my Chroot I can do quite a bit with it, including using sidesync. But, I'm just not able to access a lot of the hardware with the Chroot setup, and having problems with typical Chroot conflicts with running things. Busybox and ports for pkgs like brew are okay-ish, but then I still have all Android doing everything in the BG and IPtable issues. (idk why I have IPtable problems with only my Samsung devices, never hard the issue with my Nexus's)
Has anyone tried janos.io on the S6? Is there a native Linux I can flash that I'm unaware of.
Basically if someone could please point me in a direction that gives me a better experience for using it as better linux box. Something that allows me to make it more of a IOT board alternative. Thanks!!
Sell it and get proper iot boar with linux support that you need. You may buy few for that.
Or fix the screen, sell and then buy even more.
It's hard even to get MM update on S6, not to mention any other linux os. It is quite useless as IoT board and quire expensive.
Hi,
After some goof'n around I actually have a decent setup. I'll do a write up and provide files on here if people want, regardless I'll post them on my site when i get to it. Basically, paws, brew, full busybox, adb, ssh give me everything I need. Anything missing my chroot seems to take care of. i wanted LAMP, MEAN and dnsmasq. works great and paws gives me hardware access, gps,mic,cam, even accelerometer. I'm pretty happy with it and its a hell of a lot faster than a Pi. Flashing in the future will be strange, if not frustrating. does fastboot work on Samsung's?
thanks for the reply! under normal circumstances i'd just get a proper one, but it was just sitting there screaming to be used.
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Hi,
After some goof'n around I actually have a decent setup. I'll do a write up and provide files on here if people want, regardless I'll post them on my site when i get to it. Basically, paws, brew, full busybox, adb, ssh give me everything I need. Anything missing my chroot seems to take care of. i wanted LAMP, MEAN and dnsmasq. works great and paws gives me hardware access, gps,mic,cam, even accelerometer. I'm pretty happy with it and its a hell of a lot faster than a Pi. Flashing in the future will be strange, if not frustrating. does fastboot work on Samsung's?
thanks for the reply! under normal circumstances i'd just get a proper one, but it was just sitting there screaming to be used.
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Hi, I am very interested in this. Surprised there is so little intrest on XDA. "old" phones have some excellent hardware that can be very useful and cheap. I am playing around with an old S4 and IBM Watson\Bluemix at the moment and a little frustrated with the limitations.
Actually just ordered a Nexus with a broken screen to load JanOS or Firefox OS. Sadly I am a noob, and just getting started. Can you please post anything you have, code, links, resources.. anything at all?
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Hi, I am very interested in this. Surprised there is so little intrest on XDA. "old" phones have some excellent hardware that can be very useful and cheap. I am playing around with an old S4 and IBM Watson\Bluemix at the moment and a little frustrated with the limitations.
Actually just ordered a Nexus with a broken screen to load JanOS or Firefox OS. Sadly I am a noob, and just getting started. Can you please post anything you have, code, links, resources.. anything at all?
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Hey, sure! Here's the thing about the S6. I couldn't get anything like janOS on it. Eventually I got Android to stop booting and i could get into a chroot shell via adb. This is after I experimented with PAW and other apps.
The advice above; get a proper board, is damn solid advice. I spent so much time trying to just get an environment I liked. Raspberry Pi might not be as powerful, but after getting my zero I had it running headless and transmitting fm/am in less than 15-20min. I learned shortly after this frustrating experience that using something that has a large community behind it is extremely valuable. Doing it alone I was constantly over my head and had little places to turn for help. Plus, honestly; After really really thinking about it, a rooted android with chroot linux can handle almost everything I needed.
My nexus 5. JanOS was a fun experiment. I put it back together and just kept ubuntu on it. Again, a lot you can do there as well.
Seriously consider a dev board like the guy above said. More powerful boards and probably better suited for deep learning
-ODROID-C2 armv8 cortex A53 64bit
-UDOO x86
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Take demon_xxi's advice.
get proper iot boar with linux support that you need. i
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Go to adafruit or something and get a starter kit. I learned more and found it to be way more fun. My S6 is sitting as a flaky web server and it's a serious pain to do things on. @demon_xxi was 100% right!