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how do elves even know how to build a god damn Smartphone anyways

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Thanks for the advice.

    I'll be sure to do that. I was hoping a computer parts store like Micro Center would have what I need in-case I me to bring it back on short-notice and see it in-person so I can tell if it will fit.

    I hours that was wishful thinking.

    Damn this digital retail future!

  • IdentityCrisisIdentityCrisis Registered User new member
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Thanks for the advice.

    I'll be sure to do that. I was hoping a computer parts store like Micro Center would have what I need in-case I me to bring it back on short-notice and see it in-person so I can tell if it will fit.

    I hours that was wishful thinking.

    Damn this digital retail future!

    before I begin, Naphtali asked me about your question, he knows i'm a notebook geek.

    Check out the Forums on Notebookreview's website. These topics are discussed regularly there. Normally laptops such as yours have a soldered, dedicated card, not to mention it is designed to accept a certain power draw and heat thresh hold. Anything above that will shorten the life of your notebook.

    In the future, if GPU upgrades are something you would like to try, I would pick up a clevo based notebook from Sager (buy from xoticpc), malibal, mythlogic, or any of the other clevo resellers/boutique vendors. Or buy alienware, and even the Dell mobile workstations can have MXM slot GPUs.

    Your laptop most likely is soldered, but if it did have an MXM slot, you would then need to determine the version (2.0, 3.0, etc..) and the type (a, b, reversed, standard, etc...) Then there is a mountain of other factors to consider.

    I would do your homework on NBR before dropping any cash, its a small chance its upgrade able.

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    Apparently, if you're using a samsung phone with touch whiz AND the stock browser, pre-jelly bean, you need to be carefu
    The USSD code to reset the phone is *2767*3855#, meaning entering that at the phone screen resets the phone

    Now that alone is not the important thing, but the fact that the combination touch whiz + standard browser allows this USSD being called by clicking a simple link in the browser.
    I have no idea if there is a security prompt or not, but if you're on touch whiz and ICS, better switch to non-stock browsers for the time being, until samsung releases a patch for touch whiz or Jelly Bean for your phone.

    Apparently using chrome prevents this from happening, for example

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    have you tried mapple yet?

    maps look fine here in the Seattle area. Satellite view looks a bit funky until it loads all the way. All of the "lol apple maps" screenshots I've seen look like people just didn't wait for all the data to load.

  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    i might buy a macbook air even though i have a desktop PC, an iPad, and an iPhone
    and a work laptop

    because i want to be able to do productive personal things somewhere other than my apartment, which i do not find to be a productive space

    is this silly?
    maybe

    i can afford it though........ hmm

    I'd like to do that a bit more with mine, if only there were places to go...

  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Thank you @IdentityCrisis that is exactly the information I need.

    I didn't originally intend to upgrade my laptop's hardware but thought if it weren't too expensive that it might be a preferable solution to my problem over fiddling around with drivers and such.

    Catalyst Control Center seems to have completely ballsed-up and re-downloading and installing my display drivers has yielded no result.

    I'm even considering a fresh re-install of Windows in hopes it will flush wherever garbage is in my system out but I think I'll stick to software solutions from her on out.

  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Damnit, I wanted to order a Kindle Paperwhite but Amazon has no plans announced on selling them in Canada

    What the hell Amazon

    Steam ID
    PSN: Robo_Wizard1
  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited September 2012
    Beef, where do you live? If you're close enough to the border you can always use one of those US address services and just go pick it up.

    Larlar on
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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Vancouver

    Steam ID
    PSN: Robo_Wizard1
  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    How convenient. I also live in Vancouver.

    BEHOLD

    http://www.thelettercarrier.com/

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    interesting

    Steam ID
    PSN: Robo_Wizard1
  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited September 2012
    It will end up costing you about $3 in storage fees and a 40-50 minute drive for a Kindle (more, I suppose, if you don't have and need to buy a valid passport). Plus you can fill up on gas while you're across the border and save like 20 cents a litre.

    I've been using that place for years. Might actually be going down to pick something up this weekend.

    Edit: it may also cost you if the Canadian border wants to charge you taxes on your items on the way back through. But I've only been charged once, and that was on a MacBook Pro that cost me a grand. Everything else that cost somewhere between $50-150 they didn't seem to care enough about.

    Larlar on
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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    Does anybody know much about TVs and Soundbar/DVD combos and getting them to play nice?

    My dad has a new Samsung smart tv and a Philips DVD/soundbar and I can't seem to figure out how to get the tv to use the soundbar as speakers.

    PSN: ThatDaveFella
  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    It'll just turn on the DVD player if I use the any link or whatever it's called.

    PSN: ThatDaveFella
  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Tankhammer You're planning on replacing the card in the laptop? You might be constrained by what the motherboard/case can handle or fit. Is the current 6770 in there a mobile edition card, and is it soldered to the motherboard? TBH you might be better at selling the laptop and getting a new one with a better card.

    The card is a dedicated graphics card, not on-board. I haven't tried removing it yet but it is separate from the motherboard and my HP representative that comes through my store has told me people have replaced them easily-enough in the past. It was on hits suggestion that I started trying to look-up replacing it instead of trying to resolve the driver problem. The laptop is (or was in late 2011) very high-end so I doubt I'd be getting a good deal by putting it up on eBay. It's a $1200 machine that I chose because of its long-then viability.

    I just wanted to know if there's an online resource to match my system with compatible hardware. I don't know my motherboard model off the top of my head but I can find it easily when I'm home.

    I would think getting more appropriate drivers wouldn't be a terrible hassle.

  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    So The Room is a kind of awesome puzzle game for the iPad. Pity it is so short, but it's a good time while it lasts.

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  • AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    No one was at my office when the delivery guy came by.

    Damn. It.

    Nothing. Matters.
  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    Presign! :(

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    I can't! They won't allow it somehow! I CAN DO NOTHING.

    AND I'LL BE IN THE OTHER OFFICE TOMORROW.

    AGGRAVATING!

    Nothing. Matters.
  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Tankhammer You're planning on replacing the card in the laptop? You might be constrained by what the motherboard/case can handle or fit. Is the current 6770 in there a mobile edition card, and is it soldered to the motherboard? TBH you might be better at selling the laptop and getting a new one with a better card.

    The card is a dedicated graphics card, not on-board. I haven't tried removing it yet but it is separate from the motherboard and my HP representative that comes through my store has told me people have replaced them easily-enough in the past. It was on hits suggestion that I started trying to look-up replacing it instead of trying to resolve the driver problem. The laptop is (or was in late 2011) very high-end so I doubt I'd be getting a good deal by putting it up on eBay. It's a $1200 machine that I chose because of its long-then viability.

    I just wanted to know if there's an online resource to match my system with compatible hardware. I don't know my motherboard model off the top of my head but I can find it easily when I'm home.

    I would think getting more appropriate drivers wouldn't be a terrible hassle.

    I have to get them from some blog in Russia and grant them access to my system which makes me uneasy and apprehensive.

    The official drivers won't work so my only choice is home-brewed, unofficial drivers, you see.

    If I wanted to go through this kind of crap I'd be running Linux.

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    So The Room is a kind of awesome puzzle game for the iPad. Pity it is so short, but it's a good time while it lasts.

    You're tearing me apart, Rank!

  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    Aphostile wrote: »
    I can't! They won't allow it somehow! I CAN DO NOTHING.

    AND I'LL BE IN THE OTHER OFFICE TOMORROW.

    AGGRAVATING!
    Do they just come by every day then?

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    Goose! wrote: »
    So The Room is a kind of awesome puzzle game for the iPad. Pity it is so short, but it's a good time while it lasts.

    You're tearing me apart, Rank!
    I'm doing what to the who now?

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  • AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    Aphostile wrote: »
    I can't! They won't allow it somehow! I CAN DO NOTHING.

    AND I'LL BE IN THE OTHER OFFICE TOMORROW.

    AGGRAVATING!
    Do they just come by every day then?

    I think so. For three tries, then it goes back. I'm not sure if the office manager girl will be around with this big stuff coming up here. Oh nooooooo.

    Nothing. Matters.
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Goose! wrote: »
    So The Room is a kind of awesome puzzle game for the iPad. Pity it is so short, but it's a good time while it lasts.

    You're tearing me apart, Rank!
    I'm doing what to the who now?

    The movie The Room

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Yeah @Tankhammer even though I am out of my depth on laptop computing, it strikes me as bizarre that someone would tell you to buy a new card as opposed to finding a way to change the drivers

    Why can't you use the drivers straight from the AMD website? Failing that, why can't you roll back to an older HP-released driver version?

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    My plan is to run xbmc.

    I don't technically have a spare hdmi, I was just going to nick the ps3's cable.

    @Blake T I've got a spare HDMI cable I can loan you. I'm pretty sure I won't be needing it

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Oh I'm getting some mailed to me. It's no biggie, they'll get there by the end of the week.

    It's more the sd card reader I need.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Oooh. There might be one on my parents' laptop that I still have. I should check that.

  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Yeah @Tankhammer even though I am out of my depth on laptop computing, it strikes me as bizarre that someone would tell you to buy a new card as opposed to finding a way to change the drivers

    Why can't you use the drivers straight from the AMD website? Failing that, why can't you roll back to an older HP-released driver version?

    The card requires I use the drivers from HP's site over the direct-from-AMD drivers.

    I can try rolling it back to see if it works again on older drivers. I'll do that tomorrow I think.

    Getting a new card appeals to me because that means I can upgrade now rather than wait a couple years for my next machine. Until recently I've been able to run most programs and games on the highest settings but Borderlands 2 needs to be turned-down and it'd be cool to drop like a hundred bucks or so and be able to crank it back up to high.

    I can live with medium for now, though.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Fair enough.

    Is it bullshit that they won't let you install the official drivers? I want to say that's some bullshit but laptops are crazy

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    The thing is, samsung has known about this and been silently fixing their phones for weeks or months even, by now.

    Edit: The reason this was done silently was probably so even the slower carriers can get to it before it gets wide spread
    On the SGS3 it doesn't work, even on 4.0.4, even on my slow-as-hell-to-update German carrier.

    http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/25/video-most-galaxy-s-iii-devices-are-not-vulnerable-to-ussd-wiping-exploit-it-was-already-fixed-in-an-update/

    autono-wally, erotibot300 on
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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    There are still a high number of phones effected by this this though Due to carrier delays and all that. Even phones with 4.1+ are vulnerable.

    Tech savy people, who load their own roms will be fine, but your average user could easily be caught out.

    Blake T on
  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    I wasn't exaggerating.
    We've also heard the issue has been patched in newer updates on phones like the Galaxy Reverb, so it's clear Samsung is very much aware of the problem, and has already started addressing it on multiple pieces of hardware.

    Even the low-budget phones are already being patched since forever. It should affect a really small number of people. And even those can still install a secondary browser.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    Also
    Update: We have confirmation that this exploit is also fixed in Jelly Bean, as well, so any device running Android 4.1 should be safe.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    So I've read a few iPhone 5 rundowns, correct me if I'm wrong here; there's absolutely nothing interesting about the new iphone at all. it's got a slightly longer screen, it's a little bit lighter. That's it. I thought Apple were supposed to be these amazing innovators? Aside from Siri and the retina display it doesn't appear to do anything that my second hand 3 doesn't do.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Runs faster too obviously.

    Few more integrated features into the OS.

    I dunno, what extra features do you want in a mobile phone?

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    It also does a less competent maps.

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