Comments on: A Week With Android (HTC Magic) http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=24 Stealing From Smart People Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:12:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marc MERLIN http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-15 Marc MERLIN Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:24:36 +0000 http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=24#comment-15 Hi Rusty, since I have some user experience with android phones, a few comments: Silent calendar notifications and calendar entries that default to local are not what I get on my G1 or my Droid (android 2.0 on Motorola phone). I'm not sure if your HTC magic is running stock google android or some modified version, but that does not seem right. Screen flipping: it's faster in newer phones like the droid :) entering on the screen: sucks always as far as I'm concerned, I only get phones with keyboards :) battery life of 1 to 2 days is indeed typical with android phones. It's the price to pay for the extra stuff. As for being afraid of losing data or wiping your phone to try something: 1) get the android sdk and fastboot 2) install http://www.cyanogenmod.com/downloads/recovery-image (read up a bit to make sure it works on magic, but it should) This recovery image lets you do full backups of your phone so that you can wipe everything, upgrade to cyanogenmod or go back by just restoring a nandroid backup. Cheers, Marc Hi Rusty, since I have some user experience with android phones, a few comments:
Silent calendar notifications and calendar entries that default to local are not what I get on my G1 or my Droid (android 2.0 on Motorola phone). I’m not sure if your HTC magic is running stock google android or some modified version, but that does not seem right.

Screen flipping: it’s faster in newer phones like the droid :)

entering on the screen: sucks always as far as I’m concerned, I only get phones with keyboards :)

battery life of 1 to 2 days is indeed typical with android phones. It’s the price to pay for the extra stuff.

As for being afraid of losing data or wiping your phone to try something:
1) get the android sdk and fastboot
2) install http://www.cyanogenmod.com/downloads/recovery-image
(read up a bit to make sure it works on magic, but it should)

This recovery image lets you do full backups of your phone so that you can
wipe everything, upgrade to cyanogenmod or go back by just restoring a nandroid
backup.

Cheers,
Marc

]]> By: Anand Kumria http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-8 Anand Kumria Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:10:55 +0000 http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=24#comment-8 Good luck with the whole Exetel thing. Good luck with the whole Exetel thing.

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