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Please Sir, only one simple question

Hi,
I use pda from the Qtek 9090 with wm2003. After I have purchased one Qtek 9100 and finally one Universal Qtek 9000 with the hope ... I have expended a lot of money for these pda. These PDA, better, windows mobile, have donate to me bugs, freeze, lost call, lost sms, random reset, ecc ...nervous and austerity.The list is very long!
In all these years I have never seen one, only one windows mobile rom stable and fast, not super-fast, only fast, usable. The same is for windows on desktp or server arch. Random reset, freeze, blue screen, bugs, ecc ...
Now my question is simple: I have read here which you develop new roms for passion. Then, it is not for profit. Then, why all developers not develop with another o.s? Today exist Linux, Symbian, Android, Open moko, and a lot of other probably.
I not understand why use windows. If all Senior present here abdicate windows for linux, per example, probably after less than one year, all of you will develop a very stable, fast and usable operating system!
Really I not understand why ...
Best Regards and many thankS for your attention and your work

If you search around the Forums for threads on "Android" you will find out where they are in the Linux process.
Generally Getting Linux to work on a handheld device is not as simple as installing it on a PC.
Windows Mobile comes from the Manufacturer with everything working, there for it is easier to tweak Windows then to write a whole new base code, like Linux.

Hi,
first, thanks for the answer.
Yes, I know which linux and android are work in progress. But are work in progress from long time, maybe because there are few developer which work on it?
However, usually open source software which control the hardware, drivers, is based on reverse engineering. Because some Manufacturer not provides the datasheet of the hardware. Cause of this, you have reason. But probably if a great number of capable developer want, with the current relase of linux for pda, is possible to make easier this too.
Unfortunately I have some trouble to speak or write English like my native language. However, I hope have wrote aprox correctly.
Best Regards

If we port symbian to out devices, there is a chance that this site could get shut down. You see, each windows mobile device is sold with a license to use windows mobile, similar to how you have to use a serial number to register certain applications.
Because we already have the license to windows mobile, there is not any specific legal problem to creating custom roms.
However, because we have no license for symbian, we are not legally and contractually allowed to port it to our devices, because the makers of symbian recieve no licensing fees from us, which is essentially piracy.

Moved To General Discussion.

I can say that when cooking ROM's, I'm fixing all the pieces of the OS that bug me and add parts that are missing. Through trial and error, I get my greatest OS!

I have no doubt on your work. But if the o.s. born bad, remain bad! Independently from your hard work!
About other o.s. and license: today exists a lot of possibility instead of microsoft products what are know to be bad and expensive ...
However, I hope which one day I can use my pda as use my N95.
Regards

[Q] Native code, dead or just waiting?

As far as my stock quantum goes, I really can't complain about wp7. Great features, flows great, everything I could ask of a marketplace based OS. I got the phone knowing it would be locked down, but hoping the possibilities would grow. I do miss the seemingly endless capabilities wm offered though. Access to all resources, running native apps without the need to sideload.
I noticed a month or so ago a few guys in the forum were discovering ways to gain higher priveledges within WP7 and with the little knowledge my noob self has, have looked into the differences between wm6 and wp7, new kernel, beeing sandboxed and whatnot. And im curious, are we waiting for m$'s release of limited native code execution to oem's to be exploited, or is there an update in the privilege adventure?
With the amount of wp7 devices released and soon to be, I doubt I can look forward to an exploited bootloader to run a custom rom on my first gen wp7 quantum (such as a tricked out wp7 or possibly wm support...?), but a ported version of haret to run xdandroid as I did on my diamond would be exceptional, and from what I understand not too impossible considering wp7 uses ce7 (not sure if there's backward compatibility for ce6 though). We would just need a new UI, and an understanding of the device specific hardware for support in android...?
Where do we stand on any of these options, are they likely or if so, nearing?

I can understand your frustration with the restrictions on WP7 but for most scenarios, access to native APIs isn't that essential in my opinion (and I have been developing on WM6 myself). WP7 uses WinCE 6.0 R3 and not CE7. The Windows Phone team do recognise that they have been quite strict with the exposed APIs and I am sure that was a combination of fear of what developers write (in terms of crashing your phone) and work need to be done with Silverlight for WP. Mango brings new low level functionality and should be made available soon - Sockets been the first that comes up in my mind. Is something wrong with sandbox solutions? I believe not

For any other reasons I probably wouldn't have much to say on the subject, but I've always been one to tinker with my Xbox, psp, router, anything fun. If I can get more functionality out of it, I look for a way. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough to make it happen, so I look upon the gurus. In this case I consider dualbooting wm or even starting android from within the current OS as expanding possibilities. Which is why I look for answers to my question. Any answers?

[Q] Does WM7 support flash

Hi every one , simple question .
Does WM7 support flash ?
thanks

machhho said:
Hi every one , simple question .
Does WM7 support flash ?
thanks
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Windows Phone 7 doesn't support flash.

thanks for replying, but what about the mango release does it include flash support .

I think it doesn't. It gives better support for browsing (html5 and i think Silverlight). Other than that, nope, nothing.

machhho said:
thanks for replying, but what about the mango release does it include flash support .
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HTML5 support has been added in Mango. Flash will never be an added functionality to the phone.

You get flash in windows 7 but not windows 7 phone seems pretty stupid to me, because they have the right hardware to support e.g. CPU.

dilzo said:
You get flash in windows 7 but not windows 7 phone seems pretty stupid to me.
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I dont think it's stupid. It has to do with licensing and the fact that flash is a competitor. Furthermore, flash is starting to become defunct and HTML5 is becoming the new standard. Microsoft is even starting to embrace html5 and say the hell with Silverlight.

dilzo said:
You get flash in windows 7 but not windows 7 phone seems pretty stupid to me
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What is "windows 7 phone?"
There's Windows 7, which is a PC OS, and there's Windows Phone 7, which is phone OS. They share the word "Windows" and the number 7 in their names, but they are not the same thing. In particular, Windows Phone 7 is not a mobile version of Windows 7.

It also seems to be an issue with Adobe even creating a Flash engine to work on the WP7 platform. They have supported Android and that is it as far as mobile.

LiFePo4 said:
It also seems to be an issue with Adobe even creating a Flash engine to work on the WP7 platform. They have supported Android and that is it as far as mobile.
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Yeah it would require access to some low-level api that MS isn't willing to expose. I'll say they may have been able to get flash working on Nodo, but since Native code is disabled in Mango.. that's a DEFINITE NoGo ( )

Flash would also be another attack vector for the platform, over which Microsoft would have no control - it will solely depend on updates provided by Adobe. So a more Microsoft-based sandboxed environment, this problem is avoided.
Besides, I think soon enough we will see a migration to non-flash content for a lot of popular resources (e.g. YouTube, ScribDB, Vimeo), so spending time on implementing a 10+ year old technology inside a modern platform would not make much sense when much more attractive alternatives are available.

No flash support.....one of the reasons I left wp7. Among complete control over my device. I loved wp7 concept but y'all will never have total control over your devices.
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[Q] Optimizing Ubuntu Performance

So I have had Ubunutu installed on my tablet for a few good months now and love it. It actually works so well that I sold my macbook and now only use this. I have been trying to improve the speed of this thing and was hoping that some of you might have some insight.
I have been using Xfce instead of gnome or Unity because its faster but the keyboard shortcut keys (brightness, sounds, etc.) no longer work. Is there a way to fix this or is there a better working alternative.
I have also heard people mention they updated to 12.04. Are there any performance or interface improvements?

yes very good idea, i just started using ubuntu myself..any insight from a veteran on performane tips or programs will be wonderful.

I just finished reading through the other Q&A thread and several people mentioned that updating to 12.04 fixed the battery display. I think its worth updating and just seeing what happens.
As for different enviorments, I have run unity, gnome, xfce, and lxde. Gnome classic was nice but I found xfce to be the best compromise between performance and features.
I am interested in running chrome so I would like to get hardware acceleration working. I have been reading over what lilstevie has written but its not clear if I need to use uboot to use the cros. If that is the case does uboot only work with linux or can it be used to launch the android as well?

CaffeineHead said:
I just finished reading through the other Q&A thread and several people mentioned that updating to 12.04 fixed the battery display. I think its worth updating and just seeing what happens.
As for different enviorments, I have run unity, gnome, xfce, and lxde. Gnome classic was nice but I found xfce to be the best compromise between performance and features.
I am interested in running chrome so I would like to get hardware acceleration working. I have been reading over what lilstevie has written but its not clear if I need to use uboot to use the cros. If that is the case does uboot only work with linux or can it be used to launch the android as well?
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Hmm, I'd been dualbooting stevie's work for a while. I believe he had partial (very partial) acceleration using the CrOS kernel.. not the OS. I believe uboot was linux only though, I had never gone that far. However, I'm unsure of what's changed, I've been locked up in studies the past few months. I had been pleased with a tweaked gnome classic build for a while but I took a break to try paulburton's ICS preview.

CaffeineHead said:
I am interested in running chrome so I would like to get hardware acceleration working. I have been reading over what lilstevie has written but its not clear if I need to use uboot to use the cros. If that is the case does uboot only work with linux or can it be used to launch the android as well?
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Google does NOT release Linux builds of Chrome for this processor architecture, so it is impossible to use Chrome on the Transformer without emulation or using Chrome for Android (ICS only) beta. The open source Chromium browser is available and is not Google Chrome.
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Hello,
My flavor of Ubuntu being slow as hell, i would like to use Xfce as a WM. I tried to install it via the GUI and the command line, but no success at all. No package on the repositories (I enabled all of them).
Can you explain me how you installed xfce?
Thanks in advance and forgive my poor english.

So, considering the TF is ARM, what exactly can you do on Linux on the TF? Id imagine a lot of programs wont work properly..?

Goatshocker said:
So, considering the TF is ARM, what exactly can you do on Linux on the TF? Id imagine a lot of programs wont work properly..?
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It's no great deal, browsing, writing, learning japanese... when i think about it, i would nearly get rid of X...

for it to work fast you need 3D support that will come soon , i dont know if lxde has gles support but any gui on tf with linux needs GLES support to make it fast , this will reder in OpenGL-ES (tf does not have OpenGL !!!!)
Unity does not YET have gles support it will, its in dev.
kde has gles but never tryed it.( you stil need a kernel with the 3D support )

Thank you for this precious information. Maybe should I try to make an image of another distro...

[Q] For productivity: will you go for linux or stay with android?

Currently, I'm having a difficult time in using office substitute in Android for my work(as a teacher). I don't want to let go of my TF300 but I really need to make it functional so I'm planning to port linux into it.. Will this be a good move or will I just be left with the same problem after porting to Linux? I need a fully functioning office and the possibility of installing Prezi.. hope you guys could help me out.. thanks!

migs_jaime said:
Currently, I'm having a difficult time in using office substitute in Android for my work(as a teacher). I don't want to let go of my TF300 but I really need to make it functional so I'm planning to port linux into it.. Will this be a good move or will I just be left with the same problem after porting to Linux? I need a fully functioning office and the possibility of installing Prezi.. hope you guys could help me out.. thanks!
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Supposedly there's a port of Libre Office in the works.

migs_jaime said:
Currently, I'm having a difficult time in using office substitute in Android for my work(as a teacher). I don't want to let go of my TF300 but I really need to make it functional so I'm planning to port linux into it.. Will this be a good move or will I just be left with the same problem after porting to Linux? I need a fully functioning office and the possibility of installing Prezi.. hope you guys could help me out.. thanks!
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Prezi - beta player for android
http://community.prezi.com/prezi/topics/final_beta_for_unofficial_prezi_player_for_android

first decAobs
I've been running the ArchLinux port for a few days now as my daily driver, more or less. It has some kinks yet but if you know what you're doing productivity is a ton higher. The Arch repos don't have libreoffice for whatever reason but google docs works fantastically, substantially better than under Android.
Admittedly Prezi probably won't work as you can't run Flash but office is alright. There's also an unofficial libreoffice build floating around here that I'm in the process of downloading to test.
As for anything else you can dual boot with standard Android pretty easily so you don't lose out on Android features (e.g. decent graphics accel, YouTube, etc)