| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| pjp wrote: | | Koala Kid wrote: | Quick question - a friend of mine currently visiting in the US and I want him to buy one piece of this Nexus 7 thing.
Where can he buy it (physical store) at San Jose, CA ? |
I'd check with Google to see if they list retail partners. Staples is one that was mentioned, but no guarantee it is in stock. |
The list I found is:
-Gamestop
-Staples
-Office Depot
-Best Buy
-Adorama? (camera store)
They've been selling pretty fast. The only reason I found one at Staples is because nobody knew they were available for sale yet. That morning I got it the email went out that Staples could sell them. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Naib
Advocate
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 3927
Location: UK - Birmingham
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| danomac wrote: | Apparently there's going to be a dock with external speakers too.
I did find this, thinking about ordering it. Google has one on the play store as well, not sure which I like better. The one in the Play Store is not available yet.
There's also an invisibleshield out for it now, when I looked last Friday/Saturday there was nothing. |
looks a bit plasticy.
http://www.amazon.com/Exact-Leather-Google-Android-Tablet/dp/B008INVV7M
looks a bit better
Only thing that made me raise an eyebrow with this was the powerbrick. it is bent tinned copper wire used to plug into the country-specific plug. Cheap, have they REALLY gone cheap on the powerbrick to keep the overall cost low? - it is larger than other bricks providing similar wattage
_________________
A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny. Where men have the habit of liberty, the Press will continue to be the vigilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citizen. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Koala Kid
Guru
Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 376
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| danomac wrote: | | pjp wrote: | | Koala Kid wrote: | Quick question - a friend of mine currently visiting in the US and I want him to buy one piece of this Nexus 7 thing.
Where can he buy it (physical store) at San Jose, CA ? |
I'd check with Google to see if they list retail partners. Staples is one that was mentioned, but no guarantee it is in stock. |
The list I found is:
-Gamestop
-Staples
-Office Depot
-Best Buy
-Adorama? (camera store)
They've been selling pretty fast. The only reason I found one at Staples is because nobody knew they were available for sale yet. That morning I got it the email went out that Staples could sell them. |
Thank you 
_________________
Digital Gunfire |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, I'm on my second Nexus 7 now. After having it for a couple days I noticed the screen was popping out of the case on the one side. Called Google and they told me it's a defect and to exchange it. Had to wait a couple days to get replacement stock though...
I should've taken a picture. It was weird, the actual glass lifted out on the left side. I could push it down and it would click (sort of) but a few seconds later there was a pop and it popped back up.
Koala Kid: np - remember that there's probably limited or no stock at the stores. It's pretty dang popular. I know the Staples where I am sold their shipment of 8 in less than an hour... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Naib wrote: |
Only thing that made me raise an eyebrow with this was the powerbrick. it is bent tinned copper wire used to plug into the country-specific plug. Cheap, have they REALLY gone cheap on the powerbrick to keep the overall cost low? - it is larger than other bricks providing similar wattage |
I never even looked at mine! It could be wrapped aluminum foil for all I know.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Koala Kid
Guru
Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 376
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yeah, I figured that out from reading reports on the internetz 
I'll buy it anyway, if not now, then online later and send via one of the companies who specialize in that.
_________________
Digital Gunfire |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I was googling around to see how (ahem) durable the Nexus 7.
I found a video where they drop both the Nexus 7 and an iPad from multiple heights and compare the damage. They also dunked it in water bathtub-style.
At least it looks like the Nexus will fare better than the iPad. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: |
|
|
After some messing around I finally got mtpfs working. Now I can actually copy media to the damn thing.
Create a udev rule: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
| Code: |
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="4e41", MODE="0666", OWNER="<yourusername>"
|
Make sure the Nexus is not plugged in to the PC, restart udev:
| Code: |
$ /etc/init.d/udev restart
|
Reconnect the Nexus if needed. Make a directory and make sure it's writeable:
| Code: |
$ mkdir /media/Nexus7
$ chmod a+rwx /media/Nexus7
|
Then mount the damn thing:
| Code: |
$ mtpfs -o allow_other /media/Nexus7
|
To unmount:
| Code: |
$ umount /media/Nexus7
|
Took several tries to try to get it working. Honestly I don't know if all the steps are required, but that's everything I did to be able to copy files. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Fran
Guru
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
Posts: 511
Location: Coruña (Spain)
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
| danomac wrote: | | Took several tries to try to get it working. Honestly I don't know if all the steps are required, but that's everything I did to be able to copy files. |
Is it faster than adb push? I always use adb to push files to my Galaxy Nexus at 4MB/s, but the Nexus 7 is unbearably slow at 1MB/s :/
_________________
~amd64 13.0 // linux-3.9 // gcc-4.8 // glibc-2.17 // xorg-server-1.14 // dwm-6.0 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
danomac
l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Posts: 810
Location: Vancouver, BC
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I never timed it, so I don't know. Maybe I'll trying copying something to it later and timing it.
I only copied a few eBooks to it yesterday, but those weren't very large.
Edit:
| Code: |
$ time cp * /media/Nexus7/Videos/
real 3m7.319s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m3.890s
$ time sync
real 0m0.115s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
|
| Code: |
$ du --max-depth=1
1739288 ./Videos
$ du --max-depth=1 -h
1.7G ./Videos
|
Size of data transferred: 1739288 KB (1.7 GB) / 1698.5 MB (dunno if du reports KB or KiB, I divided by 1024 to get this value.)
Total time: 187.434 seconds
Transfer rate: 9.06185644013 MB/sec
Assuming my math is fine. Is that good? That's kind of slow compared to my USB drive.
I wonder if the Nexus 7 will even play those files... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Kalin
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Dec 2002
Posts: 107
Location: Japan
|
| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
If you want to avoid doing the math use: | Code: | | rsync -HavPS ./ /media/Nexus7/Videos/ |
or even | Code: | | for f in *; pv -petrab $f >/media/Nexus7/Videos/$f |
NB: Code above is untested, dumping from my /dev/brain |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
djdunn
l33t
Joined: 26 Dec 2004
Posts: 617
Location: Under the moon and all the stars in the sky.
|
| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
usb hard drive is plenty fast on my nexus 7.
there are also some benchmarking apps in the market that score I/O
_________________
Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the only two options.
--Linus Torvalds |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Off the Wall
