darrenm

I really wouldn't mind him not being in the dugout on Monday night if things haven't been finalised by then and he officially starts next week. I won't be happy if he's not at the match at all as there would be no excuse for that. I also think the comments (which he did say, it's not lost in translation or out of context, I've read the French article) were ignorant and ill-advised, but he can soon sort that out this afternoon. I would think someone would have had a word by now.

Probably the same you would unrooted. Worst case you wait an hour until someone on xda puts up a rooted update.zip. Yep. Plug your phone into Kies and let it do a firmware update Rooting doesn't touch the firmware version or anything. It simply gives you busybox and the su program. Look at what the update.zip actually contains: darrenm@darrenm-desktop:~/Downloads$ unzip update\ \(2\).zip Archive: update (2).zip inflating: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF inflating: META-INF/CERT.SF inflating: META-INF/CERT.RSA inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/update-script inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary inflating: system/xbin/busybox inflating: system/app/Superuser.apk inflating: system/xbin/su OK so far all the zip contains is the signing stuff (manifest and certs), the actual update scripts and 3 programs: busybox (a more powerful shell), Superuser.apk (a program for Android programs to call to gain root access), and su (the shell switch user program). The update scripts contain: show_progress 0.100000 0 show_progress 0.500000 0 delete SYSTEM:bin/su delete SYSTEM:xbin/su copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM: symlink ../xbin/su SYSTEM:bin/su set_perm 0 0 06755 SYSTEM:xbin/su set_perm 0 2000 0755 SYSTEM:xbin/busybox show_progress 0.100000 10 and assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-I5800" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-I5800" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-I9000" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-I9000" ); show_progress(0.100000, 0); show_progress(0.500000, 0); mount("MTD", "system", "/system"); package_extract_dir("system", "/system"); symlink("../xbin/su", "/system/bin/su"); set_perm(0, 0, 06755, "/system/xbin/su"); set_perm(0, 0, 0777, "/system/xbin/busybox"); unmount("/system"); I don't know the exact format of Android update scripts but that seems to me all it's doing is installing those 3 things and setting permissions. Nothing else on the system is being changed so there's no reason for anything to stop you getting a standard firmware update.

I wish the General's thread was still open. I have an urge to make an amazingly sarcastic post right now.

I've been extremely positive about this whole appointment but as of now I will state I'm dead against the GH being our manager if: 1. He really doesn't know how we've performed over the last 3 seasons and the whole of the PL in general. 7th-12th is a bit of a piss-take for the all-time PL 5th best club and 6th over the past 3 seasons. 2. He can't make it to Stoke on Monday night and leave 'tying up loose ends' to another time which isn't Monday night.

No, the SGS doesn't have a locked bootloader so you can just flash update.zip files from the internal SD card in recovery mode. It's so easy to root it's untrue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728754 Essentially, just download the update.zip on that post, copy it to the internal SD and turn your phone off. Hold down volume up and home and turn on the phone. It will get to the recovery menu where you just scroll down to apply update.zip and select it. It will then restart the phone and it will be rooted. Rooted just means to give read/write access to the root filesystem of the phone so you're able to access all parts of it. It can't void your warranty as it only changes software. You can quite easily flash it back to factory if you need to using Kies / Odin. Then to apply the lag fix just search the Android market for lag fix and use the RyanZA version. http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rc.QuickFixLagFix

I'd say so yes. You can then use apps like screen shot, my backup pro, various other apps that are great when they have root access to the file system. Also you can backup the nv data so you can restore the phone product code and imei if required. It's so easy to do you may as well as nothing will change in how the phone looks and works. Typed using swype.

BIASED not bias. I'm really sorry but this one really grates on me.

Hmmm, how best to word this.. I made the wording of the initial post such that non-tech users would be able to understand. Assuming that more tech savvy users would be using linux I thought this should help keep the poll neutral. I just need some data to back up a point I will be making about villa fans on the web.

Didn't really wanna ask as that's information that some people may not want to be known. At least like this it's only information from those that volunteer it. There's a stats section on the site anyway. Didn't spot that, thanks. However, looking at it I don't think it's up to date for all the browser strings now cos the awstats stuff I look at on other sites don't have anywhere near that number unknown.

Didn't really wanna ask as that's information that some people may not want to be known. At least like this it's only information from those that volunteer it.

Posting in this forum though is going to be heavily biased. The tech room is mostly frequented by the sort of people that will run linux, rather than the main forum where I bet it's near 99% windows. Depends on how people browse the site. I just use new posts where this will show up with everything else.

Thanks guys so far. Just building up a bit of ammo

Could you please vote for whatever Operating System you have on the main computer or device you use to access Villatalk. Windows - Any variant of desktop Windows e.g. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Mac - Any variant of Mac OS on an Apple Mac. Linux - Any Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, openSuse, Mandriva etc. Phone - You mainly use your phone browser to access VT. Other - Anything else (please post what). Thanks.

Very interesting. Big meeting or a routine one?

I've got the first official Samsung Froyo ROM on the SGS now. Runs very nice but JIT doesn't give Hummingbird anywhere near the FP boost that it gives Snapdragon. To get it in the UK just connect to Kies, go to firmware upgrade and press CTRL-ALT-U-P together to put it into test mode. Then go out of firmware upgrade and back in where it should tell you there is an update to JPC available. Touchwiz on this ROM isn't much different to Eclair TBH. I'll be going to CM6.1 when it's stable on the SGS but it will take a while I reckon. Wes is keeping RFS to start with which I reckon will just waste a bit of time because he'll end up having to go YAFFS2 even though it doesn't wear-level as well when he realises it's the only way to get the device IO to perform to HTC standards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/31/aston-villa-new-manager-shortlist

Do you have a link?? Search Twitter for #DavidMoyes (can't get to twitter from work, sorry. Saw it on the phone.)

ReTweet. Like a trending topic but with less substance because one person says it and lots of others want it to be true.

I studied the effects of stress at university, and actually met basset during my project. So forgive me if I find your supposition pretty hysterical. I envy you and you're justifiable approach to the time he spent pondering whether taking villa forward was the job for him, unfortunately I and many other people are not particularly inspired by the belated decision. *your Didn't study English then?

There's a massive RT going round on Twitter that Moyes has told Everton he wants to join Villa.

Hi General. About a year ago when people were asking about an iPhone app I (and others) said that if you were looking to release an iPhone app you should also develop an Android app as market share was catching up. As it is now Android-based phones outsell iPhones in the US and UK and I think that while the iPhone is still a massively popular platform, you've missed an opportunity to reach more devices. Can you confirm or otherwise if you're planning on developing an Android AVFC app? I would pay for it. This is not an 'I told you so' or any kind of debate on the merits of either platform (there's other threads for that) but I do feel yourself (on behalf of the club) could draw on the resources in this forum a little more - there are people from all trades on here and some of them really know what they're talking about, willing to give advice for the good of the club. Cheers

You're using that A word again. Can you please try and think about something else and keep this thread on topic?

Yeah you're probably right, the thing that makes me think they will have to do a wipe flash is that they use RFS in the main data partition which is the main cause of the lag issues. Once people create ext2 images inside the RFS partition and mount them as data suddenly it flies again. Apparently they used RFS because they thought it wear-levelled better than YAFFS2 on the internal SD, but now it seems the throughput just isn't good enough so either they need to change RFS to YAFFS2 like the Desire/N1/everything else or reformat RFS with a better layout. Otherwise, they may just try and optimise the RFS drivers as much as possible. FWIW, as soon as cyanogenmod is anything approaching stable I'll be putting that on instead which will use YAFFS2. Just a little snippet - apparently the SGS uses Gorilla glass like the iPhone 4 so is unscratchable and you don't need a screen protector. Bollocks, I've managed to finely scratch mine testing this out with a small screwdriver (somewhere inconspicuous) so I'd still highly recommend using screen protectors.

There's overclock and undervolt kernels available to up the performance and save battery respectively. Not sure I'd want to try it out without lots of good reports first that the battery life / phone hardware isn't affected majorly.

More than likely yes. My guess is they'll not even try to do a non-wiping update as it seems they have a fair bit to fix. I'm now running JM1 official UK update (available on Kies now) which is the best firmware so far. I've not bothered to install a lag-fix as it doesn't need it, whatever Quadrant score I get (haven't even tried since). Most people with the lag-fixes get around 2300 on Quadrant now with the people running the overclock kernel getting even more.