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still waiting for the android or motorola droid crew to release multi-touch for your browser? well the company that makes the dolphin browser has released its newest version which includes pinch-to-zoom and is available for free in the android market.
quick tutorial here…
if you’ve been having continued trouble mounting your motorola droid to your windows xp or vista machine, then check out this quick tutorial. it seems to be helping quite a few people…
For me, I have to leave USB debugging turned on all the time. I have to plug in my
Droid (Motorola), bring down the notification bar, tap on the USB connection, click
mount, then see things not work. At this point, I go into Device Manager, uninstall
three things: 1) ADB Debugging device, Motorola A855 device, and the only connected
USB Mass Storage Device. Next I disconnect my Droid, reconnect it, then bring down
the notification bar, tap on the USB connection, click mount, and it works.I have to go through the connect, uninstall devices (x3), reconnect, mount process
each time and this works without fail. Simply turning on/off USB debugging does
nothing for me.Keep in mind, my computer sees the phone’s SD card, it simply refuses to mount the
SD card without the uninstall/reconnect option I’v described above. When I
say “Sees the phone’s SD card” I mean that the SD card shows as a drive (i.e. F:
drive) but refuses to let me open it even after clicking Mount under the
notification bar. Only after the uninstall/reconnection option I’ve described above
can I click Mount under the notification bar and see the drive (i.e. F: drive) and
see the drive become active (not grayed out) and see it’s size and contents.
let me know if you have any questions!
we keep hearing about people’s issues with either a slow running droid or a battery draining droid. we wrote and gave a tutorial on an application called advanced task killer just a week ago to show many of you how to help save battery drain during the night.
well we wanted to bring you another application which is also free that we’ve switched to over the last week. it’s called advanced task manager (big difference eh?), is free, and seems to come with a ton more options than the free version of advanced task killer.
not only does it show you the applications you have running in the background, but it gives you all the processes you have running and which items in your system directory that are taking up memory. pretty fantastic right?
with the battery drain and slow phone news breaking all over the place, there have been a barrage of new app killing apps out there, but we suggest advanced task manager first, since it’s free.
we put together another quick video tutorial to help you with your battery drain issues. basically it comes down to the number of apps your phone is running when you aren’t using it. if in standby mode and you have 15 apps running, you can said “bye bye” to your battery.
we use an app called advanced task killer which is free through the market and is a must have…
went to bed with 2/3 of a battery and woke up this morning with a dead phone. at first i thought it was just a screen freeze up, but then after turning it back on realized i had 2% of my battery left.
as you can see from this forum post, battery drain has become quite the topic.
as a point of reference, i do not turn my phone off at night and just leave it in standby mode. still, dropping from 60-70% to a dead phone in about 6 hours with just syncing and background stuff working is quite a drain.
one quick tip: before going to bed, use the app “advanced task killer” and kill off any running apps before shutting those eyes for the night. this might eliminate all those unauthorized background tasks from killing your phone.
anyone else with battery drain issue? any fixes besides turning off my background tasks?
at first glance, these pics look pretty sharp. and then you blow them up or really focus in and you can see that the camera is still under-performing for a 5MP camera. oh well, still fun!
i can get my droid to mount on my windows 7 machine without hesitation. however, when i try to mount it to my windows xp machine, it can’t figure out what the hell to do.
apparently google and android developers have been using a fixed usb driver that seems to work. you can download it here:
http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip
some people have also suggested that you just use a different data cable than the one provided in the droid box. as far as i know, the data cables for new blackberry devices should work.
with the first actual live video we took with the motorola droid’s camera, we captured this from in the rose garden arena. some views of the crowd and then a focus on the jumbotron. it’s not awful quality, but not superb. i will say that we’ve come a long way since 1MP flip phone cameras haven’t we?