Orange (EE) Updating Samsung Galaxy Note 1 to 4.1.2 :-)

At last!

About time Orange!

Just saw that AT&T in the states was rolling out an update a few days ago, I wonder what the connection is…

Maybe EE were just embarrassed about being so late?

Anyway Samsung were so lucky… as I had just made a promise to myself that I would be going Nexus 5, as the carriers were so slow with updates.

So to recap I have had 2 updates one to 4.04 and another to 4.1.2 in the 13 months I have had the phone.

They were pushing things this time but… OK.

The plan I have been following is:

Go with a flagship phone from a successful company, who updates.

Go with a phone company that updates.

Next time? 

Well if the Nexus 5 is a good phone, in 11 months, Google may have another customer.

Want:

1. Big hi-resolution screen with LTE.
2. Removable battery
3. Upgradeable storage

1 is a dealbreaker, but 2 and 3, I think I can (possibly) live without.

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4.1	9 July 2012	Smoother user interface: Vsync timing across all drawing and animation done by the Android framework, including application rendering, touch events, screen composition and display refresh Triple buffering in the graphics pipeline Enhanced accessibility Bi-directional text and other language support User-installable keyboard maps Expandable notifications Ability to turn off notifications on an app specific basis Shortcuts and widgets can automatically be re-arranged or re-sized to allow new items to fit on home screens Bluetooth data transfer for Android Beam Offline voice dictation Tablets with smaller screens now use an expanded version of the interface layout and home screen used by phones.[86] Improved voice search Improved camera app Google Wallet (for the Nexus 7) High-resolution Google+ contact photos[87] Google Now search application Multichannel audio[83] USB audio (for external sound DACs)[83] Audio chaining (also known as gapless playback)[83][88][89] Stock Android browser is replaced with the Android mobile version of Google Chrome in devices with Android 4.1 preinstalled[90] Ability for other launchers to add widgets from the app drawer without requiring root access
4.1.1	23 July 2012	Fixed a bug on the Nexus 7 regarding the inability to change screen orientation in any application
4.1.2	9 October 2012[91]	Lock/home screen rotation support for the Nexus 7[92] One-finger gestures to expand/collapse notifications[93] Bug fixes and performance enhancements

Note: Speed up Chrome mount .cache/google-chrome in RAM

Create the script: chrome_tmp_cache.sh

Add the following to the script:
#!/bin/bash
if test -d /tmp/chrome; then
exit 0
else
rm -r ~/.cache/google-chrome
mkdir /tmp/chrome
ln -s /tmp/chrome ~/.cache/google-chrome
fi

Change the script permissions:
$ chmod +x ./chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Add the script to the Session and Startup > Applications Autostart:
Name: Chrome Cache
Command: /home/<user>/chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Comment: Move Chrome cache to /tmp

From here.

Check:
/home/<user>/.cache/google-chrome/Default/
/tmp/chrome/

Note: Speed up Xubuntu mount tmp in RAM

Copy /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab-old

edit fstab and add:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

Note: Check if realtime is the default with cat /proc/mounts

How to know if noatime or relatime is default mount option in kernel?

This should list all the options a filesystem was mounted with:

cat /proc/mounts

from here.

Ubuntu looks to default to relatime :-)

Note: xfce appfinder slow to start – try “xfce4-appfinder -c –disable-server”

xfce4-appfinder -c –disable-server

via tmartiro

Interesting: The Dell Buyout: Storm Warning for the Tech Industry

The Dell Buyout: Storm Warning for the Tech Industry

What it means to the rest of us

I think the Dell deal is just the beginning of the Windows 8 fallout. There are several other, bigger, shoes waiting to drop.

What will the other major PC licensees do? If you’re working at a company like HP or Acer, everything about this situation feels ugly. Your faith in Windows has been broken, you’re losing share to Lenovo, and now Microsoft is subsidizing one of your biggest competitors. I’d be tempted to fly out to Redmond and demand my own handout. And I’d also be willing to look at more radical options. There are several possibilities:

Okay Upgrade to Xubuntu 13.04 works ;-)

Yeah I succumbed to temptation and hit the big shiny upgrade button.

All working OK.

My actual distro is Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop added, but after the upgrade it still remembered that I log on to Xfce \o/