Friday, November 19, 2010

Flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Doc Froyo 7.6.2

After waiting so long for the official Froyo to be available here in Malaysia, I decided to just get on with the European version. So last night, I flashed from WXJM1 (European version of Eclair) to a custom version of JPM (European version of Froyo).

The whole process was very easy although I did a small mistake that nearly gave me a heart attack - I bricked the phone, but I managed to recover. It's true that they say the phone is quite hard to actually brick it. LOL.

Now I'm testing out the lag fixes. currently using NoRFS + ext4 formatting but it seems that the battery drain is quite noticable. I've read that flashing SpeedMod kernel is enough rather than applying the lag fixes. Maybe I'll try that later.

Edit: Crap! just about 12 hours I flashed the custom Froyo, the official Froyo for Malaysia came out. zzzz

Thursday, November 4, 2010

How do you use your social network tools like twitter/facebook/etc. ?

For me, in my opinion, I usually use it to describe the state of my mind, pitching my thoughts, ideas or interesting articles which again in my opinion are more appropriate to be shared with friends.

I'm writing this as I feel kinda really annoyed reading updates that are of little value such as what you've been eating or ranting about something without reason. I couldn't care less about what you eat whether it's delicious or nauseating. It just doesn't add value and a waste of time and network bandwidth unless you include the details on why it is delicious/nauseating and the location of the food joint. Now that, at least have some value to be shared socially and could be helpful.

So people, please at least post something useful and have value instead of some mundane general status update such as "am at <location>" or "<something/someone"> is stupid" or "eating <delicious/nauseating> <food name>". Elaborate them a bit like telling what's happening at the location, your reason for rating the food or why you think that something/person is stupid/good. Now that, I believe will add value to the posts/updates and will usually start some discussion. "Why would we need discussion on the update?" you might ask. Well, it is simple. It is not called "social networking" for nothing.

So people, update wisely or you'll just be labeled as another idiot spammer.