[Q] cifs.ko?? - G Tablet Themes and Apps

Any word on a cifs.ko for VEGAn-Tab beta3? I am dying to get connected to my home server which houses my music, movies, and ebooks.
I have searched some, but no one has mentioned it since November...

huntar said:
Any word on a cifs.ko for VEGAn-Tab beta3? I am dying to get connected to my home server which houses my music, movies, and ebooks.
I have searched some, but no one has mentioned it since November...
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There isn't a cifs.ko that I am aware of yet for this kernel but you should check out the Gmote app - I use it and have access to music and movies on my Windows home server/pc from my phone (and my tablet).
Works great too (it is the only reason my home pc is still on Windows). You can play on device or launch on the server/pc. It works fairly well over the 3g / 4g network too but not so well on Edge.

I think cifs.ko is really needed in some use cases... Gmote is great, but just remote control and playing music. I've also tried all the UPnP/DLNA sharing and viewing apps -- most have good aspects, but have a scenario in mind that uses the Android device as a control & redirector. I'm using my Viewsonic Gtab as a multimedia endpoint -- to play music, videos and view photos (e.g. glorified LCD picture frame). The default tools on my rooted Vegan b3 ROM are great for all those things if I could just mount the dang SMB share the media is sitting on!
Does TnT have cifs module?

No, it doesn't unfortunately since the kernel hasnt been released (yet). Until viewsonic let's the source out into the "wild", it wont happen.

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bbc iplayer on android

is it comeing to android ? i think i read somewhere is was like 2 weeks ago cant remember exactly where is this true?
and is there any tv sreaming apps for android?
Search Marketplace for "Beebplayer"
Works well over WiFi - No download and its not offical.
Has anyone got this working on 3G in the UK? Or anywhere for that matter?
I keep getting "Cannot play this video" which apparently means the carrier does not support iPlayer (?)
Does this mean that T-Mobile UK block the iplayer ports? Could we get this to work with an ssh tunnel or something?
It doesnt seem to be in the market anymore????
Anyone have the apk?
Cheers
estecman said:
It doesnt seem to be in the market anymore????
Anyone have the apk?
Cheers
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It is still in the market, just a bit hard to find. You need to search for 'beebplayer'
Attached the apk (zipped) anyway.
Cheers for the zip!!!
Thats totally weird I did of course carefully search for beebplayer and I never got a hit?!
Anyway I'll try the apk, thanks.
for any who can't get it to work, it needs 1.5 firmware.
This is an impressive implementation, and the only choice to hand, however as the owner of both an iPhone 3g and a white G1 i have to say the the comparison between the two shows up just how much better the iPhone h.264 streams are to the mobile streams used via the mobile iPlayer portals.
It's a shame these streams can't be utilised by the developer, but I imagine the G1 just doesn't have good enough graphics acceleration to cope with it
leoni1980 said:
This is an impressive implementation, and the only choice to hand, however as the owner of both an iPhone 3g and a white G1 i have to say the the comparison between the two shows up just how much better the iPhone h.264 streams are to the mobile streams used via the mobile iPlayer portals.
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Getting the iPhone streams on there was my first choice - in fact all the code to resolve the streams is in beebPlayer but unused. The problem is that the G1 can't play the iPhone streams.
leoni1980 said:
It's a shame these streams can't be utilised by the developer, but I imagine the G1 just doesn't have good enough graphics acceleration to cope with it
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Actually, the G1 is more than powerful enough. The problem is that the iPhone streams are in a .MOV container that the G1 video player can't decode. It's annoying - it's SO close to being MP4 which would be perfect, but of course Apple had to ruin the party!
Does that mean if the streams weren't in a .mov container we'd be able to use the direct iPhone iplayer page using the Steel browser and the iPhone user agent spoof option?
That would be pretty cool.
Impressed as I am with this app the mobile streams are just too poor for me.
Hi DaveJ!
Is there any chance you could put server/port options in beebplayer (or release source code) so that I can play around with getting it to work through a proxy? I'd love to be able to use this app over 3G...
Thanks for making a great app! (and great maps )
leoni1980 said:
Does that mean if the streams weren't in a .mov container we'd be able to use the direct iPhone iplayer page using the Steel browser and the iPhone user agent spoof option?
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Nearly... the next issue there would be to deal with the media player spoofing, as iPlayer checks the HTTP request and expects it to be exactly the same request and behaviour as the QuickTime player on the iPhone, and is actually the trickiest bit to copy.
In Python, this was fairly easy to forge. On Android's Java however, it likes to make forging this very difficult and is what gave me most of my problems when I last tried it.
Billthe4th said:
Is there any chance you could put server/port options in beebplayer (or release source code) so that I can play around with getting it to work through a proxy? I'd love to be able to use this app over 3G...
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This is theoretically possible, but is actually pretty similar to the iPhone media player problem - it would need a custom video player app, rather than the one built-in to Android that beebPlayer currently uses (beebPlayer never touches the video streams itself.)
I'm already toying with the idea of a custom video player which would deal more pleasantly with errors (particularly "Video cannot be played" could use a better description!) but it's not my priority right now unfortunately.
Have you seen the Windows Mobile implementation of iPlayer done by a guy here at XDA-Devs? (It's called myPlayer)
That can use VLC on a desktop PC to re-encode the BBC streams to more suitable sizes for mobile devices, this also gives the option of viewing live tv channels (which the BBC now broadcast online) as the mobile app uses telnet to command VLC to open the BBC stream, convert it on the fly.. then streams it to the phone.
Would be great to have something like that on android, and may help with the quality issue of using mobile streams?
Any chance we can make use of get_iplayer?
i like this app. im only really able to run it over 3g when i use adrenalin
since running JACs hero roms beebplayer is working for me on 3g as well as wifi with t-mobile UK.
I don't know if this is a change in T-mobile's blocks on streaming or because of the hero rom. but shhhhhhh keep it quiet, I don't want TMob to switch it off again...
MyPlayer
Any chance you could get together with the developer of Myplayer for Windows Mobile? I really like Beebplayer, works a treat on my Hero ... but I'd really really like to be able to listen to Radio 5, which Myplayer lets you.
Cheers
what a great (not previously found) app.... thank you.
Been watching the wifi stream over 3G without a problem couldnt ask for anything more.
t-mobile UK
JF ADP1 1.5
great app,
this app is great!, couldnt find it with a search on the market place, if you have trouble, view all applications in the marketplace and keep scrolling till you see it, i couldnt find it with a search for some reason,
this app works like a charm over wifi, really fast and great quality,
i have a g1 and on the network "three". I have no problems with using beebplayer over 3g, the app also tells you the download size just in case your on a limited data plan.
this is a must have application, just wish thier was on for demand 5, and channel 4od.

MythTV on Android

Has anyone seen an app for Android like this one for iphone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-l6tMWlzYY
I am waiting on a Sprint Hero phone and building a Media Center. I think I will be building a Myth box and this app or one like it would be great for the phone.
Not sure what mythTV is.. but i think it was a way to stream video and music to you iPhone via internet from your home computer (?)
If this is it, "Winamp remote" works just fine to stream musik (havnt tested with viedo yet, will report back when i do)
It's really awesome
Edit: Video streaming did not work.. which is pretty weird, since winamp remote do have a flashplayer so you can stream movies to the nintendo wii(HTC Hero has newer flashplayer than wii, so it should be possible to stream to the hero(?))
I Might aswell email them about it
nofowuw said:
Not sure what mythTV is.. but i think it was a way to stream video and music to you iPhone via internet from your home computer (?)
If this is it, "Winamp remote" works just fine to stream musik (havnt tested with viedo yet, will report back when i do)
It's really awesome
Edit: Video streaming did not work.. which is pretty weird, since winamp remote do have a flashplayer so you can stream movies to the nintendo wii(HTC Hero has newer flashplayer than wii, so it should be possible to stream to the hero(?))
I Might aswell email them about it
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MythTV is a free Linux open source Media Center with a PVR and other addons. I thought it would be cool to be able to stream my recorded shows whenever I wanted to.
here are a couple of links that could show you more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry8w8-Ov6ts
This is a Longer video with more info.
http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt
I just thought it was funny that iphone has an app for this Linux Media Center but Android may not.
Thanks for you reply
slikgman said:
MythTV is a free Linux open source Media Center with a PVR and other addons. I thought it would be cool to be able to stream my recorded shows whenever I wanted to.
here are a couple of links that could show you more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry8w8-Ov6ts
This is a Longer video with more info.
http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt
I just thought it was funny that iphone has an app for this Linux Media Center but Android may not.
Thanks for you reply
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I second that! Would be awesome to be able to use your Android phone for this.
slikgman said:
Has anyone seen an app for Android like this one for iphone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-l6tMWlzYY
I am waiting on a Sprint Hero phone and building a Media Center. I think I will be building a Myth box and this app or one like it would be great for the phone.
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There is already an app called mythdroid.
http://code.google.com/p/mythdroid/
I've tried it and could use my hero as a remote for my frontend, browse backend status; There is a patch to apply ton backend to have a better tv programs list. I don't think you can watch recordings or video on phone by now.
I know that the mythweb addon can do streaming to a browser on another computer. If an app on the Android phone could play the file that is streamed, it might work that way? I can't try it until I get my new phone.
Has anybody gotten mythdroid working? I can use it as a remote but playback on the device does not work.
Or does anyone know of a good upnp client that might do the trick?
Thanks
Mythtv and android
Myself is running an mythtv setup, and my way to go would be adding an rss feed to mythtv
web interface, there is a few examples out there..
Code:
www .mythtv.org/wiki/Android_RSS_Video_Feed
ps. sorry for the broken link, im not allowed to post links before 8 posts..
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[Q] Why Don't Streaming Apps work?

The following apps don't seem to work on my G-Tablet:
Streamfurious
imsdroid
sipdroid
(Apparently, sipdroid may just be an audio issue)
Others have said that certain other video/audio streaming apps or VoIP apps don't work.
They all seem to have network streaming in common. Is there a framework or something missing from the G-Tablet? If so, perhaps we can provide it in one of the unofficial f/w's
Linuxslate said:
The following apps don't seem to work on my G-Tablet:
Streamfurious
imsdroid
sipdroid
(Apparently, sipdroid may just be an audio issue)
Others have said that certain other video/audio streaming apps or VoIP apps don't work.
They all seem to have network streaming in common. Is there a framework or something missing from the G-Tablet? If so, perhaps we can provide it in one of the unofficial f/w's
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i can streamtalk radio
I use TuneIn radio, UPnPlay, and they both work. Iheartradio seems to not work with anything anymore, but has stations i like. Streaming seems ok here.
Interesting. Iheartradio works for me on my EVO 4G. So does the Xiiaalite (or whatever the shoutcast renamed streamer is now).
I got Xiiaalite to work briefly the other day. Then after about 5 minutes it said it kept buffering. Iheartradio did the same but never started.
I believe it *MIGHT* have something to do with the ads being taken away. I'm just guessing. Or a broken pipe somewhere, but that wouldn't make sense if some other streamers are able to do it.
**Correction** i Reverted Adfree back and Xiialivelite still doesn't work, nor does i heart radio (((
I've tried to find a TV/video streamer that works with no joy SBP TV most notably doesn't work though the app is running fine on my PDN. Crystal TV and others all give me the same problem in that they seem to be unable to open the video or audio streams.
I'm running TNTlite 2.0.2
Slaterman
Someone suggested in the Slingplayer thread that disabling stagefright fixes slingbox streaming. I wonder if it would work for other streaming apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9512133&postcount=12
I'll have to try that. Anyone here a VLC user? I can't seem to get it to work either with any of the apps out there on the market.
I'm using TVersity to do my streaming. It has a flash interface that works quite nicely. It's not exactly what I want but it gets the job done. It's a little bit of a pain to setup, but it's the only solution I was able to get consistently working.
I had trouble getting the Slacker app to stream. I'm running a TnT Lite which has a modified /etc/hosts file to reduce ads, so I edited /etc/hosts and took out all of the "extra" entries that roebeet put in and it works fine, now.
I understand there's an app in the Market that will do this for you if you're not comfortable editing /etc/hosts or just don't know how to do it. Supposedly you install the app and then click on Revert.
Gmote works to stream your PC media
Gmote is the only app I've found that streams video from my home media PC to the Gtab.
AndroStream and VLC Stream and Convert, will stream over RTSP, but Gtab only plays audio.
Stream with Orb Live
I got used to the OrbLive app. That thing works great on my EVO, anyone have any idea why it cant work on the GTAB ?
FWIW I'm streaming my home audio library with AudioGalaxy just fine on vegan beta 3.
With Orb, I had much better luck avoiding the app and just logging in at mycast.orb.com and using the web interface. I found that setting the User Agent in Dolphin HD to Android made it easier to use. I was even able to stream movies from my NAS, which is pretty cool!
jsergel3 said:
I got used to the OrbLive app. That thing works great on my EVO, anyone have any idea why it cant work on the GTAB ?
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I am running an MT-DAAP server at home and the DAAP program from the market loads and streats great on the Tab running Vegan.
I haven't tried any video streaming since there is no Myth front end for Android yet.

NC for HTPC remote - thoughts?

Going to be setting up a HTPC pretty soon and was looking for remote control options. Considering I just want it to mainly be a HTPC remote, it would just need Wifi, a big screen, and Android, the NC does seem a strong contender at first glance.
XBMC with it's Android wifi-based remote app seems like a very nice solution, as well as some others, (as long as the apps work fine on the larger screen).
Anyone have any thoughts or experience with this, or alternate suggestions?
The Nook is a fantastic media remote. I've not tried the XBMC apps specifically yet, though they should work fine.
I've built a home theater & home automation setup around a Windows program called Girder, from Promixis. Girder offers a full web server with javascript hooks so you can create html pages and use any browser to control things.
I started with this, using Nokia 800 tablets as the controller. It worked great, but I wanted more responsiveness and features than browsers would easily let me achieve. Thankfully Girder has a nice web service interface, against which I've been writing a native Android app that acts sort of like a Philips Pronto universal remote, except with all the Android goodies like voice recognition, gestures, etc.
Regardless of the implementation details, the Nook is a solid media remote control when paired with a decent back-end. The battery life is fine if you don't mind keeping a plug nearby (I get just under a week with moderate remote usage and occasional browsing), the form-factor isn't too big, and the bundled capabilities of an armchair browsing/<insert Android app here> device are hard to beat.
My only wants that the Nook doesn't have would be a few more physical buttons (I already map the volume buttons to TV volume controls but would like channel and FF/Rewind/Play or D-Pad controls), vibrate feedback for button presses, and a less finicky plug, ideally a drop-and-charge dock of some kind.
HTH!
I'm an avid XBMC fan. Been running it for a good while now. I ordered a NookColor for the same reason you did OP. The XBMC app is great on my Android phone, and I've been talking with the dev who works on it, trying to come up with some improvements for when it's run on tablets. I'd definitely recommend using it if you've got XBMC running off a machine at your place.
Thanks for the responses. Think I'll end up getting one later on, once I get the rest of the setup going (who knows, they might be back in stock by then ).
I've had XBMC running on my home server as a test for a little while, with the app on my HD2 running Android. App hasn't been 100% stable, force closing here & there, but hard to tell if it's the app, or just some of the quirks found in running Android on HD2. I did notice battery life suffered quite a bit, but that was with heavy remote testing today. I'll have to see how that goes with more testing.
The Girder stuff looked interesting, except for it's price tag. I'm on a bit of a budget & still have to get HTPC specific hardware, and slightly redo the backend. XBMC on Ubuntu is free and quite acceptable, so that's what I'll stick with for now. I did like that the stock phone volume controls worked through XBMC to control it's playback volume.
I use my Nook for a remote on my Ubuntu HTPC box.. Using Boxee instead of XBMC though. The Boxee app works great.
I tried both the apps for xbmc in the market - they both work well.
My problem is I have freeze-ups with xbmx on win 64 computer; don't know if it is related to nook as controller yet.
XBMC is the way to go, no doubt.
The app works fine now, but since the screen is so much larger, there is room for scaling improvements throughout the app. Nothing is a deal breaker, though.
I love that you can send links to stream to XBMC
Another XMBC user here using the Nook as a remote. Also on my Ubuntu box I'm running Subsonic (/w the Android app) - makes a much better streaming music server.
The boxee app is what I use on my HTPC. Then I use the Cloud Boxee remote app on my nook. It works great!
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I have tried a few of the remote apps on the Market and I havent found anything yet that really fits.
Can anyone point to a tutorial on how to set up the XBMC/NC remote to work with a Win7 HTPC?
Still very new to the rooted NC world.
Many thanks!
sorry, found it shortly after I'd posted this
I installed both "the official" xbmc remote, and the other one that is rated well, but neither one is working. The official one asks that I set up Hosts in Settings, but the settings page it offers is blank. So there is no way to do what it is asking
The other one, keeps telling me to make sure XBMC is allowing control via HTTP in Network settings (which it is) My Nook is connected to my wlan, so it should be connecting
Unified Remote Control offers the most remotes I have seen in 1 program.
Really simple and handy.
RASTAVIPER said:
Unified Remote Control offers the most remotes I have seen in 1 program.
Really simple and handy.
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Do you know if it successfully works in XBMC?

[Q] new to CM7 XRON-ified need recommendations

hi:
just installed today..
i am blind how to navigate etc..
i spose i ll stumble through that..
i am looking for recommendations for :
printer app to send to networked printer -- non HP
video player.. i have kalem player on webos and it streams from lan or from hotspot out of lan
it plays about all formats divx, xvid plus all usual suspects.. idk about mkv tho
radio .. on webos i use tunein radio..
keyboard.. i dont like default from webos.. top choice would be a fully functional layout including all the shortcuts.. ctrl + c,, ctrl + v etc..
overclocker.. currently used on webos phantom + govnah
weather app..
i have video flood and like it ok.. something like that would be fine..
file transfers over lan.. maybe somehting like tbtransfer..
some race games would be nice..
i dont care if they are free or paid.
i dont know what i dont know..
the app market is huuge and it helps to narrow down choices some..
all recommends etc are appreciated
thanx
amkaos said:
hi:
just installed today..
i am blind how to navigate etc..
i spose i ll stumble through that..
i am looking for recommendations for :
printer app to send to networked printer -- non HP
video player.. i have kalem player on webos and it streams from lan or from hotspot out of lan
it plays about all formats divx, xvid plus all usual suspects.. idk about mkv tho
radio .. on webos i use tunein radio..
keyboard.. i dont like default from webos.. top choice would be a fully functional layout including all the shortcuts.. ctrl + c,, ctrl + v etc..
overclocker.. currently used on webos phantom +
weather app..
i have video flood and like it ok.. something like that would be fine..
file transfers over lan.. maybe somehting like tbtransfer..
some race games would be nice..
i dont care if they are free or paid.
i dont know what i dont know..
the app market is huuge and it helps to narrow down choices some..
all recommends etc are appreciated
thanx
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For playing video, try MX video & Meridian, both free, between them your should be able to play just about anything.
For music, there's iheart radio, and of course, Pandora. There's plenty more in Market, do a search. I have a lot of my music on my TP so I don't use them much.
Do a search for keyboards in Market, you'll find a lot of options.
I oc mine with master cpu @ 384 min and 1.7 max, in Android.
I assume that you have webos tweaked, preware installed,etc
Most Gameloft games are on sale, go to Market and check them out.
Search Market and you should be able to find most of what you've looking for.
chicle_11 said:
For playing video, try MX video & Meridian, both free, between them your should be able to play just about anything.
For music, there's iheart radio, and of course, Pandora. There's plenty more in Market, do a search. I have a lot of my music on my TP so I don't use them much.
Do a search for keyboards in Market, you'll find a lot of options.
I oc mine with master cpu @ 384 min and 1.7 max, in Android.
I assume that you have webos tweaked, preware installed,etc
Most Gameloft games are on sale, go to Market and check them out.
Search Market and you should be able to find most of what you've looking for.
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thx.. i exactly do have webos tweaked as far as i can..w/ all apps i care about that is offered..
the Market is great.. tooo many choices really lol..
thats why i was curious about opinions/reviews etc..
thanx
By far my favorite keyboard for the Touchpad is thumb keyboard. You can set macro keys, too, so I bet that is what you are looking for. I don't know if Swiftkey X Tablet will work on Gingerbread but if so, look at that, too....
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epicstar1 said:
By far my favorite keyboard for the Touchpad is thumb keyboard. You can set macro keys, too, so I bet that is what you are looking for. I don't know if Swiftkey X Tablet will work on Gingerbread but if so, look at that, too....
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Try TouchPal tablet keyboard.. .I'm thinking is the best one out so far. But in the end is what you're comfortable with.
Sent from my HTC PucciniLte using Tapatalk
thanx for the suggs.. i will try these
steeeep learning curve to me for this OS
amkaos said:
thanx for the suggs.. i will try these
steeeep learning curve to me for this OS
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Read the forum, it's one of the best ways to learn Android.
amkaos said:
hi:, i am looking for recommendations for :
printer app to send to networked printer -- non HP
video player.. i have kalem player on webos and it streams from lan or from hotspot out of lan
it plays about all formats divx, xvid plus all usual suspects.. idk about mkv tho
radio .. on webos i use tunein radio..
keyboard.. i dont like default from webos.. top choice would be a fully functional layout including all the shortcuts.. ctrl + c,, ctrl + v etc..
overclocker.. currently used on webos phantom + govnah
weather app..
i have video flood and like it ok.. something like that would be fine..
file transfers over lan.. maybe somehting like tbtransfer..
some race games would be nice..
thanx
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My suggestions:
printer: Samsung printer app - works well if you have a samsung printer.
keyboard: I like SlideIt. Swiftkey X is also excellent on a phone, I do not have experience for the Tablet version
Overclocker: My choice is SetCPU, another option is No Frills CPU
weather app: beautiful widgets has also a weather widget, or weather.com there are numerous else in the market.
file transfers over lan.. : Airdroid is quite good, else look for an ftp server (e.g. swift ftp)
m.getjar.com has some nice Apps and games in their gold apps section, which are released really for free. They are worth a look!
For remote printing I use PrinterShare Mobile Print by Dynamix USA, LLC. It is a paid app, I got it for free and it works well most of the time. The printer must truly be a network printer, as far as I can tell there is no way to access a printer hooked up to a pc that can be normally be used as a network printer on other systems.
For lan filesharing if you have windows or samba (smb) shares set up I reccommend Samba Filesharing by funkyFresh. It is free. It basically sets up your sdcard directory to be a network share.
Donation
Keep up the good work, Leo. Thanks to your ROM, my Touchpad is reborn. Here is something to help buy more Touchpads for the developers. This is the confirmation: 01631660YD854641W
4 file transfers over lan i prefer "File Expert" File Manager/WIFI File Transfer Web & FTP...
any suggestions for a ebook reader app that can do two pages in landscape mode?
geomens said:
Keep up the good work, Leo. Thanks to your ROM, my Touchpad is reborn. Here is something to help buy more Touchpads for the developers. This is the confirmation: 01631660YD854641W
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Thanks bro. Yup...al money is going towards two touchpads. You've raised our savings to $135 of the $460 needed. I'm kicking in money Friday and one of the devs is kicking in some too next week. At this rate we will be set and wont need anymore touchpads for the devs...whew...
Sent from my XRONified Touchpad

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