What Google TV device should I get? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What's the best Google tv out there? Something around under 150$. I been looking but I start reading the reviews and I get squeamish.
I looked at the new Asus cube, it looks great but I don't need that many useless features. I also checked Vizio Co star. But it has some annoying bugs.
I also want the latest generation.
Update:
I got the cube for 152 after taxes.
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iwillkillyou said:
What's the best Google tv out there? Something around under 150$. I been looking but I start reading the reviews and I get squeamish.
I looked at the new Asus cube, it looks great but I don't need that many useless features. I also checked Vizio Co star. But it has some annoying bugs.
I also want the latest generation.
Update:
I got the cube for 152 after taxes.
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Hows your cube? Im not sure as to choose the cube or the co-star. Help!

suquet.paul said:
Hows your cube? Im not sure as to choose the cube or the co-star. Help!
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A few bugs here and there but it works as expected. Everything works, I don't know about the primetv feature because I haven't used it. Crome, YouTube, Netflix, a few games even streaming work without lag. The browser and games do lag a bit tho.
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iwillkillyou said:
A few bugs here and there but it works as expected. Everything works, I don't know about the primetv feature because I haven't used it. Crome, YouTube, Netflix, a few games even streaming work without lag. The browser and games do lag a bit tho.
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Ok, sounds like the traditional issues people have with Google TV. I already ordered the Asus Cube instead of the VIZIO Co-Star (or the expensive Sony Internet Player). My only hope is that I'm able to install Tunnelbear from the play store, or install the APK from dropbox or an external source in order to get US content, if not, I'll find a use for it.
Thanks for the quick feedback.

suquet.paul said:
Ok, sounds like the traditional issues people have with Google TV. I already ordered the Asus Cube instead of the VIZIO Co-Star (or the expensive Sony Internet Player). My only hope is that I'm able to install Tunnelbear from the play store, or install the APK from dropbox or an external source in order to get US content, if not, I'll find a use for it.
Thanks for the quick feedback.
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I'll do you a favor, I'll try to install it and tell you what happens. Btw we're getting jellybean in a few months. Im looking forward to it.
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iwillkillyou said:
I'll do you a favor, I'll try to install it and tell you what happens. Btw we're getting jellybean in a few months. Im looking forward to it.
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That is a tremendous update. As far as the trying the apk, I'd appreciate it, although I wouldn't want you to go out of your way, plus, I've already ordered the cube. So, even if it doesn't work, I'm still excited to play around with it.
Thanks!

suquet.paul said:
That is a tremendous update. As far as the trying the apk, I'd appreciate it, although I wouldn't want you to go out of your way, plus, I've already ordered the cube. So, even if it doesn't work, I'm still excited to play around with it.
Thanks!
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It definitely is but it will so worth it. The apps crash. A few open there and there but crash shortly after.
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iwillkillyou, how's the cube working out for you? i'm on the fence with either buying the vizio costar or the asus cube. those seem to be the most popular gtv boxes. the sony one is just too more than i want to pay.
i have had the logitech revue for close to a year, but the repeated app crashes (netflix is the worst) are so annoying. the sluggishness of the entire device is also very annoying. why they stuck so little memory and such a poor processor into it is beyond me.
anyway, i'd really appreciate if you could share your experiences withe asus cube. thank you so much.
-Lucas

Ingot a chromecast and its pretty sweet
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Jelly bean?
iwillkillyou said:
I'll do you a favor, I'll try to install it and tell you what happens. Btw we're getting jellybean in a few months. Im looking forward to it.
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Any new info on that jelly bean update? I understand that's very necessary. In order to install and run XBMC.

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[Q] Yongzh's Emu vs the new one on market (nes.emu etc)

Hey just wondering. Now I was a follower of Yongzh's work and have his emulators paid for before they pulled it from the market. Now I see a new line of emulators on the market, nes.emu and others .emu
So the real question is, are these new ones better? Or should we stick with the old ones. Also anyone know if Yongzh is still updating his apps? Where is he hosting them now? I know one time he was hosting on a different market, but didnt really look much into it. If anyone has some insight to this all, would be nice. =)
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Hey just wondering. Now I was a follower of Yongzh's work and have his emulators paid for before they pulled it from the market. Now I see a new line of emulators on the market, nes.emu and others .emu
So the real question is, are these new ones better? Or should we stick with the old ones. Also anyone know if Yongzh is still updating his apps? Where is he hosting them now? I know one time he was hosting on a different market, but didnt really look much into it. If anyone has some insight to this all, would be nice. =)
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Not sure if he's still updating, but his are still my favourite.
md.emu is by far my favorite Genesis emulator plus he is working on Sega CD emulation for it as well.
The same dev's SNES emu is excellent. In fact , all his emus are my favorites and I too have Yongzh's
Well according to what I read about .emu ones. Is that he has built in Wiimote IME support vs having to download an extra app?
Also as for the Sega Cd stuff. Been there done that, still host the project. www.gens.me =) Been awhile since anything happened. Contacted the dev to see if he wants to link in.
Yonghz is still supporting his n64 emulator on the slide me market. It is 4.99 the rest are free, snes, gba
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Slide ME Market? Do I download that from the market store or what? I used to see on superoneclick talking about multiple markets, never quite understood it.
Mysticales said:
Well according to what I read about .emu ones. Is that he has built in Wiimote IME support vs having to download an extra app?
Also as for the Sega Cd stuff. Been there done that, still host the project. www.gens.me =) Been awhile since anything happened. Contacted the dev to see if he wants to link in.
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He posted a video recently of bios booting so I least there is something
been with yongzh for what? like 2 years now?
Love his stuff, emailed him on numerous occasions and he always answers back promptly.
ill dl and try out these new ones though and see how they are, seriously doubt ill change though... i could get around yongzhs emulators in my sleep and have beaten over 100 games to the end with his emus...
Question, if you paid while it was on google market, Does he still provide you updates for free? How does that work?
Anyone know if he still honors updates?
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Question, if you paid while it was on google market, Does he still provide you updates for free? How does that work?
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U need to buy the n64oid on slideme then they are honored. The google market purchse isn't honored on slide me. Remember only n64 is not free, everything else is. Do a simple google search and u can find it for free (don't pm me, I won't send u the file). Hell dude its 5 bucks... for over 400 n64 games lmfao....
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Yea.. thats the thing, I bought all his emulators when he released them on the Google Market.. thing is, I dont know if I wanna pay "AGAIN" just for slideme.
Mysticales said:
Yea.. thats the thing, I bought all his emulators when he released them on the Google Market.. thing is, I dont know if I wanna pay "AGAIN" just for slideme.
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Again, google search the torrent. I've seen the newest version available.
The 5 bucks were totally worth it to me, btw the newer versions run 10 times better then the older ones.
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Mysticales said:
Yea.. thats the thing, I bought all his emulators when he released them on the Google Market.. thing is, I dont know if I wanna pay "AGAIN" just for slideme.
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You don't have to pay again for any except n64oid..
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joshnichols189 said:
You don't have to pay again for any except n64oid..
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Ya, that's been covered
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Ok so now that we covered n64, Lets talk about the .emu
Anyone here tried them? How do they stack up?
What is this emulator for? PCE.EMU
https://market.android.com/details?...loper#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLlBjZUVtdSJd
Could I run windows 95 games with it and such?
No thats a TurboGrafx-16 emu. Which ok, not too bad, Good game on that is Military Madness.

[VIDEO] Google Currents App for Android on the HP Touchpad Tablet

Google Currents is the new big thing from Google. It allows you to view your favorite news and media pages in a magazine style format. This runs great on Android tablets, especially the HP Touchpad! Check it out:
On the Android Market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents
Saw this on Android Central, and grabbed it right away.
Ill be honest, I've been kinda neglecting my TP lately. After loading Currents and getting it set up, I didn't want to put it down.
This feels like exactly what the tablets were meant for.
Go Google!
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Nophix said:
Saw this on Android Central, and grabbed it right away.
Ill be honest, I've been kinda neglecting my TP lately. After loading Currents and getting it set up, I didn't want to put it down.
This feels like exactly what the tablets were meant for.
Go Google!
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I couldn't have said that better myself.
Way better than pulse, imo.
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Way better than pulse, imo.
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its fairly similar to feedly though. I think i may like currents better. We'll see once the new factor wears off.
If anyone is having FC's with it, fix permissions. That fixed it for me.
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Only avail in the US. I don't know why the devs/Google does this sh!t for. Non US residents read English too. Now I have to resort to side loading. Pathetic Market.
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I'm sorry I'm new to this. What do mean by fix permissions
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nomadman said:
Only avail in the US. I don't know why the devs/Google does this sh!t for. Non US residents read English too. Now I have to resort to side loading. Pathetic Market.
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Link for Outside the US:
http://geeknizer.com/how-to-install-google-currents-apk-outside-us/
Enjoy!
Krunk_Kracker said:
If anyone is having FC's with it, fix permissions. That fixed it for me.
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Do you mean fix permissions from cwm? Tried that but I'm still force closing.
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hockey4life0099 said:
Do you mean fix permissions from cwm? Tried that but I'm still force closing.
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Seems like some people are having issues, while others are not. Be sure to post which ROM or build version you are running so we might be able to get a handle on this.
Wow, gotta get this with all the reading and tab browsing I do. Thanks for sharing.
No rss, no ability to click links, not for me.
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I'm on XRON B1.3 but moved to that from Alpha3 to see if it'd fix the problem I was having given that there have been some fixes in XRON since the latest core CM7. In both cases Currents locks up for me until I get the "Not responding. Wait/Force Close/Report" dialog. I can wait as many times as I want, but it doesn't come back. If I FC then it restarts Currents but it happens again shortly after browsing around.
I think I've seen the same behavior in Google Reader which I have installed to support the Android Pro Google Reader widget, though not nearly as frequently.
I've performed a completely clean reinstall (wipe system and data in addition to cache), and I've done the whole fix permissions and wipe Dalvik/cache partition thing repeatedly.
I'm really impressed by Currents (I also run it on my iPhone and Nook Color) and think it really makes the 10" tablet profile shine! I'm hoping someone can help me figure out why it's locking up frequently on the TP.
I had the force closing problems in alpha 3 but after I switched to alpha 2 everything seems to be working fine.
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using cm7 a3 and i'm getting a lot of force closes recently. it seems to be sporadic since i didn't get them at until the other day. i'm patient with the force closes since i'm really just waiting for ICS.
I'm currently using alpha 2.1 and have not had a force close on this app yet.
seems to work perfectly for me
I'm getting FCs on Currents constantly to the point where its almost unuseable. I was alpha 2, in place upgrade to alpha 3. Everything else seems stable.
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cyanogenmod alpha 3.5 has been released. anyone tried currents on that?

Nova 3 problems

Not sure if anyone else has purchased this game but I can't get past the checking license screen. It just goes black and exits.
I'm thinking possibly a compatibility issue with my ROM or something (which happens to be seraphim memosphere). Anyone have any ideas how I can get it working?
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i dint buy one but i can give you a nova 3 apk that is cracked and does not verify license and worcks fine i use it all day
if i help hit thanks
N.O.V.A 3 worked fine for me when I was on seraphim, do you have allow mock locations checked? Not sure if that will help or not.
@flow alkeada
I'd be careful about offering hacked software on XDA, forum rules and all you know.
From my G-Note via the ether that is.
@ flow thanks but no thanks.
@tazman thanks ill maybe try that and a few other things.
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sorry guys joust trying to help
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sorry guys joust trying to help
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Np man. Appreciate the response
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I purchased this game when I was on my ATRIX 4G, then I sideloaded to my transformer tablet (which was listed as not supported by google play at the time). No problems on either device. I just installed from google play and it is downloading game content now on my note. Ill report back once im actually in the game, but all is going smoothly so far.
[edit] I'm getting the same results. Crash to desktop when checking license.
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pyro254750 said:
I purchased this game when I was on my ATRIX 4G, then I sideloaded to my transformer tablet (which was listed as not supported by google play at the time). No problems on either device. I just installed from google play and it is downloading game content now on my note. Ill report back once im actually in the game, but all is going smoothly so far.
[edit] I'm getting the same results. Crash to desktop when checking license.
SGH-i717 running seraphim mesosphere-remix
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Damn. I wonder if it has to do with the remix version cause that's what in am also using. The other user didn't specify his version, but I'm assuming its not.
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I was running TP Objection and the game worked fine. I am now on jaxx 0.6a and it goes to load the game and just sits there on the splash screen with the circle in the middle and never goes past that. I have tried clearing the data, deleting the downloaded files and then installing the game again but that didn't work. I wonder if it doesn't like the aosp rom's.
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I was running TP Objection and the game worked fine. I am now on jaxx 0.6a and it goes to load the game and just sits there on the splash screen with the circle in the middle and never goes past that. I have tried clearing the data, deleting the downloaded files and then installing the game again but that didn't work. I wonder if it doesn't like the aosp rom's.
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Yeah that's probably what it is. They need to fix it though pronto.
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HarmonyFlame said:
Yeah that's probably what it is. They need to fix it though pronto.
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It's working fine on aosp on my tf101.
SGH-i717 mesosphere-remix
Not sure what is happening to it. I really like the game but I like the rom I am too much to replace it.
The picture comes and goes on the ICS ROM from a month ago. It runs perfect though on the 8.9" ATT TAB.
flow alkaeda said:
i dint buy one but i can give you a nova 3 apk that is cracked and does not verify license and worcks fine i use it all day
if i help hit thanks
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Piracy is super frowned upon and against xda rules.
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flow alkaeda said:
i dint buy one but i can give you a nova 3 apk that is cracked and does not verify license and worcks fine i use it all day
if i help hit thanks
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can you plz send me the cracked nova3apk plz...My Email- [email protected]

No flash support after 4.0.X

So.....what happens after no adobe....?
And why did adobe and Google stop support?
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Can someone tell me if it is another way to support flash in android 4.0.X????? I need it
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fernandodx15 said:
Can someone tell me if it is another way to support flash in android 4.0.X????? I need it
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Flash is supported in 4.0.X
Just not beyond
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I'm pretty sure some people here on xda will find a way to get flash to work on JB.
Atrix_Owner said:
I'm pretty sure some people here on xda will find a way to get flash to work on JB.
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They already found it and it's working
chaki- said:
They already found it and it's working
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I used the way. Super easy. Frustrating that its not supported tho
I mean, what is to come of flash if its no longer on android and there isn't an alternative.
Its like we will be trying to view imbedded videos on a 5 year old Motorola lol
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cam1john said:
Its like we will be trying to view imbedded videos on a 5 year old Motorola.
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5 years ago, there wasn't HTML5.
Adobe is doing us a favor with getting rid of adobe flash, if it wasn't so resource hungry then it would've kept going. Adobe dropping flash will not effect it either, in fact it'll probably free up resources for them (i.e. ongoing support) . They've already started to get on the HTML5 bandwaggon (see Adobe Edge).
Hot Air Won't Substitute for Flash
I've heard all kinds of baloney about the use of Flash being sooo bad on Android phones. Well without this, the Samsung S3 and the HTC S1 doesn't work for streaming video on some sites. Now, complainers, give me a GOOD alternative. Or is this a plan to cripple Android phones so they will work as bad as an iPhone?
Former iPhone and Windows programmer
John Cipolletti said:
I've heard all kinds of baloney about the use of Flash being sooo bad on Android phones. Well without this, the Samsung S3 and the HTC S1 doesn't work for streaming video on some sites. Now, complainers, give me a GOOD alternative. Or is this a plan to cripple Android phones so they will work as bad as an iPhone?
Former iPhone and Windows programmer
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Chill, and go sideload flash. Problem solved. Android is still not crippled.
And well this is the first step of moving over to HTML5
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Basically Flash is obsolete with the introduction of HTML5 video just like 32bit Windows programs are obsolete since 64 bit has been around for years. Yet in both cases most sites still use flash and most Windows programs are still only 32bit. I think discontinuing flash support this early was a bad move by Adobe. It was one of the top apps in the Play store and had mostly good reviews. Its just too early to call it dead. Flash was pretty well performing, it allowed 720p youtube videos on my Droid 3 without noticeable lag and 1080p videos on my Touchpad. Since HTML5 has no DRM its not replacing flash anytime soon as its very easy to download an HTML5 video.
If you want flash you can download it from the site in my signature. It runs okay on JB even though its not supported.

Youtube app no full screen..

Hey everyone, happy holidays . so today i noticed that when i docked my prime to the keyboard and went into the youtube app the fullscreen button didnt show up! i undocked it and BAM there it is, dock it again there it goes. anyone else having this problem? and is there a solution?
Thanks
Mine does the exact same thing. Must be a bug in the application.
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Mine does the exact same thing. Must be a bug in the application.
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i just hope they fix it....pretty annoying :/
It's a problem with the YouTube app. It works just fine if the tab is undocked (not in the keyboard dock).
I think all of the transformer devices have this issue at the moment. It'll get fixed
If its really bugging you revert to the original app by uninstalling the update in the app management settings
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It's pretty amazing that such a big bug was not picked up before release, the transformer series has been a pretty popular tablet!
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yep, i noticed that too. Good thing I searched first before asking
I'm having the same **** with my UG007 Android TV stick.. Very annoying, should get an old apk somewhere as I don't have any older versions installed on the system..
Google search 'youtube 4.1.47 apk' to download a good version that works in full screen.
It is there, but you have to undock and sometimes rotate to get it to show up. It is a bug, I'm sure it'll be fixed.
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I've only been using my TF recently for YouTube and imagine my dismay when I finally upgraded to JB 4.2.1 tonight and found the full screen option missing.
After a quick look I discovered that it's not a bug, it's a feature that was added.
Not to worry though, here's a version to try out with the feature disabled. :fingers-crossed:
I take no responsibility for this if it breaks something.
Thanks all for the comments and suggestions and wait what 4.2.1??
nabil alami said:
Thanks all for the comments and suggestions and wait what 4.2.1??
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aosp on my tf101
Roach2010 said:
aosp on my tf101
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bout that topic do you feel that custom roms affect the speed of the prime (positively)
cuz as you can see in the video mine is running pretty well does it get better than that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCKTel2e01Y&list=LLUi34fgtSlXrOQdYuwB4RdA
Roach2010 said:
I've only been using my TF recently for YouTube and imagine my dismay when I finally upgraded to JB 4.2.1 tonight and found the full screen option missing.
After a quick look I discovered that it's not a bug, it's a feature that was added.
Not to worry though, here's a version to try out with the feature disabled. :fingers-crossed:
I take no responsibility for this if it breaks something.
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how do you install the app?
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nabil alami said:
bout that topic do you feel that custom roms affect the speed of the prime (positively)
cuz as you can see in the video mine is running pretty well does it get better than that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCKTel2e01Y&list=LLUi34fgtSlXrOQdYuwB4RdA
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try to make a video when you have something running in the background, then its a different story.
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Uppenberg said:
try to make a video when you have something running in the background, then its a different story.
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there are many apps running in the background, i dont close each app as im using it...?

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