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I got a Essential from an ebay reseller, I checked the IMEI before buying it , said it was clean... and thought that's all that mattered :/ It's locked to someone's sprint account or something, i can't use it on sprint even if I wanted! I have no way of contacting that owner... what can I do...

I used the recommended CyanogenMod rom, and it was alright. I'm about to try a new rom, and I was wondering if there are any that are more battery efficent/ is CyanogenMod power hungry?

Thank you again for you time and help. I've been pacing myself though the guides and things seem to be going well. I have saferoot/safestrap installed now, however being the noob I am in this world, can not pick the rom I should use. Septfox: said I should probably use a kitkat rom, and...

I forgot to ask, where do I down load the tools and roms I need? Can you link me?

Thank you very helpful. Will this make it work on my current network?

I just ordered a droid 4 from ebay. I'm on Fido(Rogers) in Canada BC. I was wondering what are some good mods/hacks/roms/flashes/etc I should consider doing to this phone? -I want nice reliable performance out of it. Also how to unlock it? It's been a long time since I did this...

For a while now my shield seems like it's always draining power excessively, even while shut/sleep. When I put it on the charger(while on sleep) it often is very warm and the fan is on. When I take it off the charger the battery icon often shows it's still charging. Even when I restart the...

Not sure if this is the best section to ask this in... I need suggestions/advice picking out Hardware(tablet+accessories) and Software/Firmware. I need a tablet or large screen phone to act as my Motorcycle's Navigation and MP3 player. I don't know if there is a product already out...

I've seen the shield being used to control Parrot Drones, which seems an idle pairing of screen controller and quadcopter. I use other brands of helicopters, namely "blade" brand, and tho I don't own a blade brand quadcopter, I would prefer to have one over a parrot. My question: Is...

still on the low side, and it really looks like crap. like even pointing the camera at things with out taking a picture it looks grainy and awful. my blackberry torch camera looks better. I mean I guess this tablet might just have a cheap camera on it. Should I try putting s camera on it to...

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I'm coming in late on this. I just got a new windows 8.1 lenovo miix2 tablet. It has a 5.0megpix camera but it looks like crap. Word is it's locked at 2.0, which was something that came with 8.1. A thread pointed me here to get s camera, as it is suppose to let me pic what resolution i want...

I have a motorcycle with a car stereo amplifier and I want to use a Windows 8 tablet (lenovo miix2 8) as my head unit/navigation. ◘My goal for this thread is to come up with a solution that uses the fewest amount of wires connected to the tablet. ◘I need to be able to charge the tablet and...

wow, this is messing me up, i plan on buying off ebay, used, so it's not like I can test it out ether to find out.

Are you saying that the Miix 2 8" also doesn't have gps?

I am interested in getting a thinkpad 8, but only if it has GPS so I can use it to navigate, that is a must. I can't for the life of me find a solid answer if it truely has gps or not, some say yes others say no. Can any one give me an answer I can trust if it has GPS? The specific...

I had one for a day before I returned it. First of all it has no GPS, so right from the start it got eliminated from my options. Secondly it's speaker is TERRIBLE, even at full volume It was barley audible in a quite room. With my Air conditioner on i couldn't even listen to a movie. I don;t...

A funny thing happened to me last night. For the longest time I was under the impression that NON-RT Windows tablets were quite expensive and quite large. Then I find out that there are 8inch full version windows tablets with decent specs and a reasonable prices. So in short now i'm after a...

I was referring to the 8.4tab and 8.0 note. You remind me about my nature, bang for the buck, is probably the biggest factor. I guess it will come down to which ever one I can save the most on, relatively. I find when entering the $300+ for a tablet, I get in the zone for I might as well...

I have two primary uses for the tablet in question: 1. I will be using it as a GPS navigation unit on my motorcycle. And it will be used to play music thru my motorcycle's speakers. *I will most likely be using the headphone jack, or possibly some kind of usb audio out / charger (if I can find...

Thank you for the reply, Some really handy information here for avoiding the update but getting the goods out of it. I do have three follow up questions : 1. I want to really confirm what you are saying, that "the shield will not update on it's own" I've had my shield since July/13, I could...

So when I noticed my Shield downloaded the 4.4 update, and went over the notes in it, I was like I better come to XDA and see if this is for me or not. CLEARLY being an emulation junkie I need to stick with my beloved 4.3. What I need to know is if there are any safeguards I can take to stop my...

I have n64, GBA, SNES, paid for emulators. One day I start up one of my emulators and it just crashes every time it trys to load a game. I try other games, same problem, I try other emulators, same problem. After using these rom files for months, I try reloading my roms, no effect. I tried...

I sorta did the same thing in the end. Love the shield, hate the support. Thanks.

Humblebundle "android pack" + Beathazard onsale, & is fantastic with button mapping! For those of us who didn't know, https://www.humblebundle.com/ sells android games. both in weakly bundles sales, and in their store. They have a great package of android games for really cheap right now in...

Not the way the Shield Stream is set up. Steam's "Big Picture" has to be fullscreen and on top at all times, other wise it will cancel the stream. Which means your best option is Splashtop.

So I see "Sonic 4 Episode 1" in the Shield Store, I got a message on "appsales" saying it's on sale for $1.00, so I go to the play store and it says it's incompatible? That makes no sense right? Is there a way to bypass this? A way to buy it while it's on sale even tho there is some kind of...

I hear that people with true multimonitor setups, that shield streaming disables the other monitors any ways. I found a work around, it's kinda dumb, but works. In my case my monitor is a 100" projector, so great for movies, So I got my old blackberry playbook, installed plex on it, and...

I was wondering, is there a way to watch shows on my computer screen at the same time I'm streaming games to the shield? I run a single monitor (1080p projector), I was thinking could the "steam big epicure/stream" run in the back ground while I make use of the desktop (ie: watch movies) ; or...

I have searched up and down the internet and can't find an answer with the keywords I've been using. I want to play a game like risk of rain, it shows a half colored in controller icon in the steam big picture window, but cant seem to get it to interact with shield controls. I would also like...

I just got it off ebay, I couldn't tell if he had used it or not, aside from the original box it came it wasn't mint condition.

I already talked to nvidia, and that's what they told me. The guy I got it from traded in a bunch of games to gamestop for the shield, and then sold it on ebay. Tho he didn't use it he is considered the first owner, which according to nvidia, makes the non transferable warranty void. So unless...

I'm in the market for a new router, and done a bit of research into a couple of units. How could the Asus rt-n66u out perform the rt-ac66u? They are practically the same router, cept the ac66u has wireless ac and costs more.

I got my shield "new" off ebay but because it was from ebay and not a retailer they wont support me with warranty. I put in a micro sd card for like the 5th time ever into the shield, and it wont pop out any more, i got to fish it out with some needle tweesers. which isn't terrible, but I'd...

I'd like to jump in with some newb questions: If I download splashtop THD and combine it with Tincore, I can mimic using the shield game streaming? As in, I can play something like FFXIV from my computer to it and be able to control it properly? THD is on sale right now 50% @ $9.99 Do I buy it...

I can't find an answer to this online, if I buy any of the need for speed games for android(not streaming) can I use the shields controls/buttons to play it, or am I forced to use the touch screen?

I am of the opinion that the shields magnet is so weak that even if a micro SD card could be affected by a magnetic field that it would need a much more powerful magnet to damage it. To be realistic the magnets in the shield faceplate can't even hold on to the fridge. When you take a piece of...

I like to take my shield on car trips, so WiFi isn't something that's on the freeway around here. I buy a game at the play store (asphalt 8 and worms) and they won't boot up unless they have WiFi to do checks of authenticity... Sigh... Making me wish I just pirated the games in the first place...

I like to stream videos from my main computer to my laptop. So far I have never had a video file, no mater how high quality it couldnt play flawlessly, and my lap top isn't anything special at 4 years old and was around $600 new. I have been able to use "ES File explorer" and "MX player" (with...

So I'm thinking to myself, this faceplate should be more useful then just a cosmetic attachment. If you were to carefully cut out some small chamber into the back side of the faceplate you could probably make a way for storing Micro SDcards. Seems like a simple enough an idea I thought, not sure...

I have older standalone gps devices that work ok, but I would like to run a gps app on my android, and being that it only has WIFI I was wondering two things. 1. Does the Shield have a reliable enough antenna for GPS Navigation? 2. Which is the best "off line" GPS app to use for Canada/USA? (I...

Just an update, So... I was going to rma it cause every one is like nvidia are the rma kings or w/e. I got my Shield from ebay, in a New(other) condition, the owner got it from a game stop on a trade in, so they tried it afterward but couldn't return it, so its basically brand new. But because...

The shield is a tablet and at the same time it isn't. If you think your going to be doing more tablet specific things that a true tablet would do better then go with the tablet, if how ever you want an android device built for gaming(which is a big difference from a tablet that was converted to...

Just to be clear. The screw fell out of the Shield. I didn't lose the screw. When I tried to put the screw back in it had NO THREADS in the screw hole for any screw to grab on to. If I RMA it, it's not because I can't get a screw to fit, it's because there is no threads in the hole.

So I just got FFXIV today(MMO) and I was thinking, this would be a great way to control an MMO like this! (Basically I'm stealing some of the concepts used when they made the wii-u screen controller.) FFXIV was designed with controllers in mind (like a xbox controller), but we can do better then...

Yeah just fell out, there are like no thread in the hole to put it back in, I dunno, seems weird. Is it easy to transfer all the files from one to the other?

So yeah, I was just playing a game and randomly a screw feel right out of it from above the top left trigger. I don't know how it was in there at all as it seem to have no threads for it to be tightened back in. What should I do?

Is there been any more progress looking into this? I would love to be able to use it just as a controller on the pc. it's much more comfortable then an xbox controller.

I kinda doubt we'll see a suction cup style, window mount for the shield, least not any time soon. I would really make use of the shield as a car navigation unit. Any ideas for some parts to maybe make one of my own, or some sort of universal mount? ... Tho would the shield be too heavy for a...

I've ordered my shield, it should arrive on the 23rd. While I wait I thought I would get some suggestions for things I may want to do before it arrives; download software, buy any accessories, etc. My current PC wont be able to stream with out something like SplashTop. I'm building a new rig in...