Video float screen on Galaxy Note ICS 4.0.4

I noticed that last week samsung sent an update but i don't know that they updated my galaxy note to 4.0.4, not until just now (i upgraded it to 4.0.3 before). There is a new feature that allow you to watch the video while you are doing something else on your phone. I.e, you can minimize the video screen and it will float on top (it can be dragged around too!!!!). I came to knew about this new feature from malaya android facebook page, thanks to them. It is the same feature equipped by samsung on their latest android smartphone, the galaxy s3.
Please refer to the attached photos. Thanks.

 

 

 

play a video using the original video player, tap on the minimize icon

you can drag the  windows/floating screen around

Euro 2012 semifinal 2 (italy vs german)

Germany was again defeated by italy in a big tournament, italy lead by 2 goals as early as 35th minutes thanks to 2 goals by balotelli, german consolation goal was by mesut ozil who scored a penalty in the 92nd minutes.

europe financial crisis

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How To Enter the Recovery Mode For Samsung Galaxy S Plus (I9001)

Recovery mode is used to install system updates in form of update.zip files (such as the one for rooting your phone), performing a factory reset and wiping the cache.

To enter recovery mode, turn off the phone, connect the USB cable, and then hold down Volume Up + Power.
If done properly, the phone will show the SAMSUNG and Galaxy S Plus screens and then end up at the "Android out of the box screen".

"Android out of the box" icon indicating successfully booted recovery mode"

Now press Menu to enter recovery mode.
The options for actually performing recovery when something is wrong with your phone are very limited with the stock recovery that comes preinstalled on your phone. However, you have the option to replace it with a much better, fully-featured recovery called "ClockworkMod Recovery" (CWM).

Getting into recovery mode can be a bit fiddly and you might need several tries. Connecting the USB cable makes it a lot easier. CWM recovery does not have this problem and boots reliably. If you are still having problems getting into recovery mode, download Easy Reboot Recovery.zip, unpack and run RebootRecovery.bat while your phone is connected with the USB cable. The phone will reboot into recovery mode.

Navigation in recovery mode is done using the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons to scroll up and down in lists and the Home button for choosing an item. Sometimes a simple push of the Home button is interpreted as two pushes so be careful.(From my experience long press or hold the Home button, simultaneously using the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons to scroll up and down in lists, once you have selected the desire option well normally, factory reset. let go the Home button.) Found this out while upgrading my wife's S Plus from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6


Recovery mode is a separate partition on your device that holds its own minimal Android system with a kernel and a small set of tools.

* The photo and text taken from http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Plus/GT-I9001,
except the text in red color.

GOGGLES by GOOGLE

tonight (in malaysia that is), i would like to share an android apps, GOGGLES and of course it was developed by (who else) GOOGLE. it is very handy apps for recognizing an object, photo,logo etc.
one example of its' usage i will explain below, recently my wife's nephew posted a car photo over his facebook page, as i'm not sure what car it was i decided to try goggles app. here are the steps

This is the screen shot from my galaxy note,
showing photo from of my facebook 's friend......

Next tap on the menu button, the menu will be shown
 on your phone as photo above. Tap share...... 

The option will appear, select to share with  goggles
 (you must install the apps first on your phone).......

Goggles will start the recognition process.....

If Goggles finds an image or images that similar on the web,
 it will show the result once the analyzing/recognition process completed.

You can also take a photo with your phone camera and let Goggles analyze..... until next time have fun. by the way goggles can be downloaded from here:
goggles on play store for android
apple store for iphone

Blogging from an email

Just found out that you could post to your blog by using an email, thought to give it a try. 

In two weeks time school will be on holiday again, for those who wish to bring your family for jalan-jalan better make an arrangement from now. Me and my family will be heading to Malacca for company's family day......

Hairul Izham bin Ishak
Global E-Technic Sdn Bhd
Perlis Power Plant
Persisiran Pantai Kuala Sungai Baru,
02700 Simpang Empat, Perlis.
Tel: 04-9806035
Fax: 04-9806036
Mobile: 019-4709544

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

Galaxy note keep on rebooting

Just like to share my experience with fellow android users. Tonight suddenly my samsung galaxy note keep on re booting, just after media scanning is finished.

Frustrated i browse thru the internet for the remedy of the problem. I found one solution look very promising, (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563).

In here the android user (credit to him/her), has encountered the same problem as i am and i'm sure so as many more android user. He/she has gone to some extent to get a new sd card, lucky for me i learnt from others mistake.

The root of the problem is that when you moved more that 50 apps to the sd card, using what ever app2sd card that available out there.

My version of this problem solution:

1. switch of the phone.
2. remove your sd card
3. on the phone, using app named appinstaller v1.0.4 by fun trigger, i managed to uninstall the unwanted apps, reducing it to below 50 apps in the sd card. The appinstaller v1.0.4 can uninstall the apps even if we moved the apps to sd and the sd card removed from the phone.
4. After reducing the app installed on sd to below 50.
5. Switch off the phone again.
6. insert the sd card
7. I restarted the phone........ NO MORE REBOOTING. The phone works as normal.

Remember what works for me might not work for you..........if after the above steps your phone still rebooting, try consider swapping with another sd card....anyway good luck.