On Wed, 7 May 2014, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
There are other ways to deal with this, USB-on-the-go for instance, or a portable drive that gives massive storage via WiFi, or a Samba share with the right app.
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-tell-if-your-android-phone-or-tablet- supports-usb-on-the-go/ The above article explains USB OTG and has a link to an app that tests for it. http://www.androidcentral.com/android-advanced-usb-otg-nexus-4 According to the above getting it to work on a Nexus 4 is more trouble than it's worth for me. Storage via Wifi isn't a good option, I've tried playing video via HTTP on the Nexus 4, it works but it's difficult to setup and not always reliable. For larger apps like The Sims Freeplay there's no good option for a phone like the Nexus 4. The Sims will fit, but it really limits what other things you can do. On Wed, 7 May 2014, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
Right now, I am disillusioned over any device that has to have lots of extra crap on it from the manufacturer -- Samsung ... for one. If only every Android device could be sold with vanilla Android directly from Google or some other retailer WORLDWIDE, not just in the US; as well as being able to get updates quickly for a good period of time.
Having to root a device to get the latest software shouldn't be necessary either, glad it's possible, but it shouldn't be an issue at all.
I haven't had any problems with Samsung modifying the OS. I've got a replacement launcher on all my Samsung devices (Go Launcher on the Galaxy S and Nova on the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2) but that's not particularly difficult to install. The one Galaxy S I still support came from Optus and has a lot of Optus rubbish on it, but that's an Optus thing not a Samsung thing. On Wed, 7 May 2014, Robert Parker <rlp1938@gmail.com> wrote:
One of the members of Chiang Mai Geeks has installed the latest cyanogenmod on his Samsung device without problems. He can access Google Play Store with it. That is a change from earlier versions.
I had CyanogenMod with the Google Play Store running on a Galaxy S when it was one of the latest and greatest phones on the market. But it was a bit of effort to install it and I haven't felt that I'd get the benefit from doing it on later phones. I can't hack on every computer I own, sometimes I just need to get stuff done. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/