I spend too much time on blogs these days. Have you noticed? Almost nobody ever apologises. It's part of the blog credo. Because you're (effectively) anonymous, your only important organ is your spleen. And because it's trivial to swap from blog to blog, your spleen carries over.
Which is not an excuse.
I apologise humbly and profusely and abjectly. I'll do better next time, as the trans-sexual halfway through the operations said to the punter.
I'm not one to object to a personal IT choice. (I've never understood why anybody would want a phone that costs more than £30 and does anything more than a phone. But then again, I bought one of the first brick-like "mobiles" at £300 plus rental. Oddly enough, the one feature I miss was the button that told me what my number was ...) If an Android works for you, it's good news, and I'll file the fact away as a "plus."
Since you're still using Windows elsewhere, you might find the following to be useful on your UAC issue (http://www.ehow.com/how_5862299_disable-vista-avoid-pesky-reminder.html). Should you have to do that? No. Not all hardware is designed for people with an IQ of higher than 110; Microsoft, less so.
Please wrap the following comments around a continued apology on the same abject level, but I'm not sure what you mean by "the Android o/s comes on straight away, hasn't frozen except when trying to disconnect from a Windows machine that didn't want to let it go."
I'm just guessing that this involves (a) a USB cable and (b) a Windows notification along the lines of "Safe to remove USB hardware." Presumably a lousy guess. Unless there's some dialog box on Windows that says "I don't want to let go!," or alternatively a directory in File Explorer or whatever that still claims that your Android device is attached, even when it isn't, then I'm just offering the hypothesis that your Android freezes -- whilst not connected to anything any more -- because your Android freezes.
Short of other information, and knowing USB devices (simple ones like pen-drives, slightly more complicated ones like cameras, and not as yet really complicated ones like an Android) as I do, the fact that your USB device (ie your Android) freezes is difficult to reconcile with the assumption that Windows doesn't want to let go. Unless Windows is the Borg. Which is always possible.
On the principle of triage support, I'd suspect the Android OS. And not just because I know the underlying Unixy file system has been susceptible to this sort of thing for the last forty years.
Whatever. That was an extremely obnoxious response; particularly since I asked for your honest opinion. I have no excuses. I was utterly in the wrong.
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Before anything else, abject apologies...
Date: 2010-08-06 08:55 pm (UTC)Which is not an excuse.
I apologise humbly and profusely and abjectly. I'll do better next time, as the trans-sexual halfway through the operations said to the punter.
I'm not one to object to a personal IT choice. (I've never understood why anybody would want a phone that costs more than £30 and does anything more than a phone. But then again, I bought one of the first brick-like "mobiles" at £300 plus rental. Oddly enough, the one feature I miss was the button that told me what my number was ...) If an Android works for you, it's good news, and I'll file the fact away as a "plus."
Since you're still using Windows elsewhere, you might find the following to be useful on your UAC issue (http://www.ehow.com/how_5862299_disable-vista-avoid-pesky-reminder.html). Should you have to do that? No. Not all hardware is designed for people with an IQ of higher than 110; Microsoft, less so.
Please wrap the following comments around a continued apology on the same abject level, but I'm not sure what you mean by "the Android o/s comes on straight away, hasn't frozen except when trying to disconnect from a Windows machine that didn't want to let it go."
I'm just guessing that this involves (a) a USB cable and (b) a Windows notification along the lines of "Safe to remove USB hardware." Presumably a lousy guess. Unless there's some dialog box on Windows that says "I don't want to let go!," or alternatively a directory in File Explorer or whatever that still claims that your Android device is attached, even when it isn't, then I'm just offering the hypothesis that your Android freezes -- whilst not connected to anything any more -- because your Android freezes.
Short of other information, and knowing USB devices (simple ones like pen-drives, slightly more complicated ones like cameras, and not as yet really complicated ones like an Android) as I do, the fact that your USB device (ie your Android) freezes is difficult to reconcile with the assumption that Windows doesn't want to let go. Unless Windows is the Borg. Which is always possible.
On the principle of triage support, I'd suspect the Android OS. And not just because I know the underlying Unixy file system has been susceptible to this sort of thing for the last forty years.
Whatever. That was an extremely obnoxious response; particularly since I asked for your honest opinion. I have no excuses. I was utterly in the wrong.