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Sunday, June 17, 2012

$200 Tablet Display Accessory Converts Your iPhone 4S Into an iPad Tablet!

Not to be outdone by Asus with its newly announced Padfone device at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, ECS and ICE Computer have joined together to show off a prototype of the same hybrid convertible form factor that will convert an ordinary iPhone 4 iOS smartphone into an iPhone 4-powered tablet akin to an iPad! Best of all is the accessory’s relatively low asking price of $200.

Essentially, similar to the Padfone, a modular dock on the rear of the tablet is where users can slide their iPhone 4 into. The device itself just houses the large 9.7-inch 4:3 aspect ratio display, connector and dock for the iPhone 4, SD card, front-facing camera, and two USB ports.

Once docked, the dock connector will output what you see on the iPhone 4 via HDMI and connect that content to the display, just as you would if you were to connect your iPhone 4 to an HDTV or to a projector, for example. The companies involved says that the docking slot is modular, and can potentially work with Windows Phone and Android devices via simple upgrades or alterations. Hopefully, we’ll see some device-specific dock accessories be available as well for Android users, and the company is saying that device is future-proof and would work with slight modifications for the iPhone 5!

The benefit here is that users don’t have to manage both an iPad and an iPhone, and the concept is similar to the Motorola Atrix 4G, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, and the new Asus Padfone in having a multi-purpose device that can change and transform to different form factors. In terms of overall cost, it will definitely be cheaper for iPhone 4 owners than having to get a separate iPad 2, but there are some limitations with the solution as well. For one, games optimized natively for the iPad 2 may not be as smooth running on the single-core A4 CPU on the iPhone 4. Additionally, various apps may upscale what’s on the iPhone 4 to fit the display on the tablet accessory, rather than displaying contents natively like on the iPad 2.

The accessory still doesn’t have a name nor a launch date at this time. For comparison, the laptop dock that the Eee Pad Transformer goes into to convert from tablet to laptop form factor costs US$150 while the Atrix 4G’s Laptop Dock accessory costs US$300 (US$400 at launch). The difference is that when docked, the Atrix 4G used a custom Linux-based Webtop OS whereas Android 3.0 Honeycomb is present on the Transformer in laptop or tablet mode.

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Rocky Racoon Convert Jailbreak Tethered 5.1.1 to UnTethered

How to use Rocky Racoon Convert Jailbreak Tethered 5.1.1 to UnTethered Jailbreak 5.1.1 on iPhone 4, 3GS – iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G, 4G.

If you have a tethered jailbreak running iOS 5.1.1 on A4 device and you wanted to convert it to untethered without any risk for your data so can use the new Cydia tweet Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether it will allow you to convert the tethered jailbreak to untethered jailbreak iOS 5.1.1

Rocky Racoon Convert Jailbreak Tethered 5.1.1 to UnTethered is a free Cydia tweak will allow your 5.1.1 device to reboot without requiring an external tool such as redsnow all you have to do in order to convert your tethered jailbreak to untethered jailbreak 5.1.1 follow the steps below.

Note:

Your device must be jailbroken on RedSn0w iOS 5.1.1 to perform a tethered jailbreak first.

Step 1: Open Cydia.

Step 2: Search for Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether and install.

Note: your device must be jailbroken on RedSn0w 5.1.1 to perform a tethered jailbreak first. also this tutorial is for A4 devices only there is no tethered for A5 devices.

Step 3: Reboot your device and verify that you can reboot without having to perform a tethered boot

If you have an Un-Jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 on A4 or A5 devices you can use our tutorial posted to jailbreak your A4 or A5 devices using Absinthe jailbreaking tool.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Power user tips and trick: How to capture screen shot in the HTC One X

Taking screenshots of a mobile phone interface is one of the most regularly done things by the users, no matter if they are a general user or a developer. There are several reasons for taking the screenshots, especially when you are trying to capture anything in the interface or messages as a record, or are trying to share your highest score in a game to flaunt about that amongst your friends, or are sharing the screens to teach someone how things are done in the device. We won’t list out more reasons, but would actually explain how the screenshots are taken in the HTC One X without any usage of the applications.

There are two ways of taking screenshots, and these are both included in the Instructions manual too, but users usually ignore that part. The screenshot capturing can be done in either the HTC way or the Android way. And to make the confusion lesser, the screenshots are stored in different folders.

HTC One X Screenshot

Capturing screenshot in the HTC One X – HTC Method

The screenshots when taken in the HTC’s trick, would be stored in the camera folder directly, i.e. in the DCIM folder. This would be a little annoying as HTC is including these screenshots in the folder where all the captures from the camera are located. To capture a screenshot in this method, you need to press down the Power/Lock key and along with that, you need to press the Home key (the 2nd touch sensitive key in the bottom).

HTC One X Screenshot HTC One X screenshot saving

Capturing screenshot in the HTC One X – Android Method

Many might already be knowing about this one, the standard volume down along with the Power/Lock key and this would put the screenshot into a separate folder named “Screenshots” and this would appear separately in the file manager and gallery.

Quality won’t be different in both the ways and it would be the best quality, the format being the PNG one. These images are of 1280 x 720 pixels quality. It totally depends on the users and the accessibility on the way they want to get it done but we would still go for the Android 4.0 way, as it would involve the physical keys and the images are placed separately and not amongst the camera captures.

If you want to have something using the Android apps, there are several of them and most of them would work when the phones are rooted. Rooting is not usually suggested, so you would have to cash out a few dollars to get the paid apps which help in taking screenshots without rooting the device, but when we have the direct tricks of capturing the screenshots, looking for something else would be of no much use.

How to maximize your HTC One X, 1X's battery life?

The HTC One X is a beast of a device. It is arguably the best Android smartphone around right now. But no device is perfect, and neither is this one. It seems a little issue with a large consequence slipped through HTC when making this device, and now the battery is draining faster than it should.

It seems the issue is that an app called NvCPLSvc.apk was placed in the wrong directory. It should be under the system\app directory, and it is located at system/bin, instead. The fix is relatively simple: one needs to move the file to the right place and change the file’s permissions.

This is possible via ADB, and instructions can be found at XDA Developers’ site. Users have been reporting a 10%-20% increase in battery life, so this little trick might very well be worth a shot. Extra juice is always good.