first impressions with the Sprint HTC Evo 4G cell phone. Note to readers, there is no 4G in the state I live in, South Carolina (unless it bleeds over the border from North Carolina), and according to the maps, there are no current plans to add 4G to my state, so I have not gotten a chance to even test it, although I drove through Charlotte, NC 3 times now and keep forgetting to stop somewhere and see what happens when I turn 4G on and do a speed test. Ok, the very first thing I noticed after turning onthe phone was a notification asking me what application I wanted to use for this request (I later determined it was asking about what to do when I pressed the home screen) and I was presented with two choices, HTC Sense and (I forgot the name and cannot seem to get it to come back up) the default android home screen, then when I selected the HTC Sense UI I got to see the Weather animation as it loaded the default widget layout.
many installed apps later I have noticed some interesting things about my new HTC Evo 4G:
1. the battery does drain quickly; however it is at the same speed or slower than the drain on my HTC Touch, so I am not upset about this, especially since the battery is the same size and the Evo is much more powerful. this is a good thing (for those comparing to the iPhone you have to understand the iPhone uses a much more expensive battery technology, Lithium Polymer, which is more efficient as well)as it means that the power usage has been regulated a lot better in the Evo allowing a more powerful device to do more things with the same amount of power. until HTC switches to Lithium Polymer batteries this is the best we will get without using bigger batteries (of which I will be buying a 3500mAh battery for my Evo ASAP, or at least as soon as it becomes comercially available, and probably I will wait till it goes on sale because of low sales volume!) I can get a good 10-13 hours of life out of it, if I am not using it constantly the entire time, I think the most I have gotten so far was 15 hours and had 30% battery life left (did not charge over night one night), but I forgot to check the usage and uptime on the phone before the battery died on me while using it. The good news is the phone will automatically shutdown when the battery reaches extremely low levels (between 2% and 4% remaining), so you do not have to worry about damaging the battery by draining it dry.
2. some devices cannot charge the Evo any better than they can charge an iPad. plugged into my laptop while powered off, to charge my cell phone it took over 6 hours, but when plugged into the wall outlet it took 2 hours and 15 minutes. Also, one time I was using an app that required wifi and gps, I also had auto-brightness on, was plugged into the laptop via usb, and used my phone for about 2 hours constant with those settings. Well, the battery went from 33% when I started to 28% when I stopped, so the phone can actually use more power than some USB ports can provide!
3. the charge light changing from orange to green does not mean the battery is full. I have noticed that unplugging the phone and turning the display on (or powering the phone on) within 10 minutes of the light changing to green, the Evo will display 91% or 92% battery charge!?! I have noticed someplaces stating that you need to continue to charge the battery for approximately 2 hours to obtain 100% battery life, after the charge light changes to green.
4. 3 times now the Evo has not given me a keyboard when I touched a place that required me to type, and sometimes exiting out of the app and returning did not fix the issue. Additionally in the game Robo Defense when returning to th egame after reading a text message, the game stated that it successfully restored the game, but the play/pause and fast forward buttons would not appear, and while I could scroll left to right, I could not scroll up and down. The menu button worked however and I was able to “save and quit” then when I returned to the game, all was working again. I believe these issues to be related.
5. one time today in fact, when I turned the display on my background was there, and the notification bar was at the top of the screen, but I never got an unlock bar to slide down. multiple attempts never provided the bar, I finally had to remove the battery from the phone to power it off, then it worked just fine.
6. I have installed an app called “my lookout” that is an antivirus, anti-spyware (apps only), backup manager, and remote phone locator (vey cool , you can make it blast out a siren if your phone was stolen) application. when this is scanning an app I have installed (or upgraded) the phone runs at about 30% performance of normal, not sure if this is a good trade off, since I don’t install apps from places other than the android market.
7. the phone does not do a very good job determining if you need the “web” application (the one with the “@” symbol and the “.com” button.
8. if you speak clearly and not too fast, the voice to text feature works perfectly as long as all the words are in the spell checker (this includes user defined words).
9. the HTC sense UI does NOT rotate into landscape mode, something I do not understand, as my HTC Touch used the first version of HTC Sense UI and it worked great in landscape mode, infact I went at least the last 9 months without ever switching it into portrait mode.
10. the dumbest thing about the phone is the search button on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, this is a touch sensitive button, like the rest of the buttons on the bottom of the screen, and I hit it by accident at least 8 times a day. this initiates a voice search (most of the time) of the phone, no matter what else you are doing, pulling you out of any app to do so. A friend of mine who also bought the Evo told me he has never had this problem, he also told me he never uses his phone in landscape mode.
Next up, “Let’s talk about th eEvo 4G camera…”
Welcome back to part 3, glad to have you here, I’ve been a little distracted the last few days and apologize for not getting this done sooner. So, here are some first impressions with the Sprint HTC Evo 4G cell phone. I am completely in love with my Evo, despite any flaws I may complain about on here, I just need to get used to touching the screen softer (my previous phone the HTC Touch, has a resistive screen and requires a moderate amount of pressure to sense your touches), as my finger hurts if I use it too much at this time…
Note to readers, there is no 4G in the state I live in, South Carolina (unless it bleeds over the border from North Carolina), and according to the maps, there are no current plans to add 4G to my state, so I have not gotten a chance to even test it, although I drove through Charlotte, NC 3 times now and keep forgetting to stop somewhere and see what happens when I turn 4G on and do a speed test.
Ok, the very first thing I noticed after turning onthe phone was a notification asking me what application I wanted to use for this request (I later determined it was asking about what to do when I pressed the home screen) and I was presented with two choices, HTC Sense and (I forgot the name and cannot seem to get it to come back up) the default android home screen, then when I selected the HTC Sense UI I got to see the Weather animation as it loaded the default widget layout.
many installed apps later I have noticed some interesting things about my new HTC Evo 4G:
1. the battery does drain quickly; however it is at the same speed or slower than the drain on my HTC Touch, so I am not upset about this, especially since the battery is only 15% larger and the Evo is much more powerful with a display almost twice the size. This IS a good thing (for those comparing to the iPhone you have to understand the iPhone uses a much more expensive battery technology, Lithium Polymer, which is more efficient as well and can also blow up if it gets too hot) as it means that the power usage has been regulated a lot better in the Evo allowing a more powerful device to do more things with the not that much more power. This is the best we will get without using bigger batteries (of which I will be buying a 3500mAh battery for my Evo ASAP, or at least as soon as it becomes comercially available, and probably I will wait till it goes on sale because of low sales volume!) I can get a good 10-13 hours of life out of it, if I am not using it constantly the entire time, I think the most I have gotten so far was 15 hours and had 30% battery life left (did not charge over night one night), but I forgot to check the usage and uptime on the phone before the battery died on me while using it. The good news is the phone will automatically shutdown when the battery reaches extremely low levels (between 2% and 4% remaining), so you do not have to worry about damaging the battery by draining it dry.
2. Some devices cannot charge the Evo any better than they can charge an iPad. plugged into my laptop while powered off, to charge my cell phone it took over 6 hours, but when plugged into the wall outlet it took 2 hours and 15 minutes. Also, one time I was using an app that required wifi and gps, I also had auto-brightness on, was plugged into the laptop via usb, and used my phone for about 2 hours constant with those settings. Well, the battery went from 33% when I started to 28% when I stopped, so the phone can actually use more power than some USB ports can provide!
3. The charge light changing from orange to green does not mean the battery is full. I have noticed that unplugging the phone and turning the display on (or powering the phone on) within 10 minutes of the light changing to green, the Evo will display 91% or 92% battery charge!?! I have noticed someplaces stating that you need to continue to charge the battery for approximately 2 hours to obtain 100% battery life, after the charge light changes to green.
4. 3 times now the Evo has not given me a keyboard when I touched a place that required me to type, and sometimes exiting out of the app and returning did not fix the issue. Additionally in the game RoboDefense when returning to the game after reading a text message, the game stated that it successfully restored the game, but the play/pause and fast forward buttons would not appear, and while I could scroll left to right, I could not scroll up and down. The menu button worked however and I was able to “save and quit” then when I returned to the game, all was working again. I believe these issues to all be related to one another.
5. One time, actually while I was writing all this over the weekend, when I turned the display on, my background was there, and the notification bar was at the top of the screen, but I never got an unlock bar to slide down. Multiple attempts never provided the bar, I finally had to remove the battery from the phone to power it off, then it worked just fine.
6. I have installed an app called “My Lookout” that is an antivirus, anti-spyware (apps only), backup manager, and remote phone locator (vey cool, you can make it blast out a siren if your phone was stolen) application. When this is scanning an app I have installed (or upgraded) the phone runs at about 20% performance of normal (I checked with the app System Panel and the CPU is only running at 54%, so I do not know why it is doing this, maybe it is maxing out the IO capabilities of the flash memory), not sure if this is a good trade off, since I don’t install apps from places other than the android market.
7. The phone does not do a very good job determining if you need the “web” keyboard (the one with the “@” symbol and the “.com” button) or the standard keyboard, it also fails to automatically show the #’s keyboard when you click on phone number fields. I have gotten entry into the SWYPE keyboard beta, and while it does not have a “web keyboard” (or at least I have not seen it), it is absolutely fantastic, I LOVE IT, and will never get rid of it!! I can type almost twice as fast on my phone with it!
8. If you speak clearly and not too fast, the voice to text feature works perfectly as long as all the words are in the spell checker (this includes user defined words thankfully).
9. The HTC sense UI does NOT rotate into landscape mode, something I do not understand, as my HTC Touch, which uses the first version of HTC Sense UI, works great in landscape mode, in fact I went at least the last 9 months without ever switching it into portrait mode.
10. The dumbest thing about the phone is the search button on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, this is a touch sensitive button, like the rest of the buttons on the bottom of the screen, and I hit it by accident at least 8 times a day. This initiates a search everything screen in some apps and a Voice-to-Text search most of the time, no matter what else you are doing, pulling you out of any app to do so. A friend of mine who also bought the Evo told me he has never had this problem, he also told me he never uses his phone in landscape mode…
11. Yesterday I had the first instance of my phone randomly rebooting itself
12. Today I had an issue where my phone refused to go to my home screen when I pressed home, instead it went to a very clean interface only allowing my to choose from 6 options, mostly make a phone call or use navigation choices, only by hitting the menu button and changing the settings of the app I was able to get out of it. apparently it is some kind of a lockdown system to prevent you from doing things you shouldn’t while driving. Except it activated when I plugged my phone into a wall charger… I have since turned that off of automatically activating; however hitting the Home button still does nothing but “refresh” whatever screen I am currently looking at…
Next up, “Let’s talk about the Evo 4G camera…”
(ok, just direct FTP’d 14 pics and videos from my phone to my website using AndFTP app for Android, I got the stats on 3 files for you…)
1. a 2.0 MB picture
in 22 seconds transfer time
with a 3 second setup time
peak transfer rate of 86.4MB/s
2. a 13.6MB video
in 1 min 34 seconds total
with a peak transfer rate of 91.3KB/s
3. a 41.9MB video
in 8 mins 7 seconds total
with a peak transfer rate of 87.5KB/s
All files uploaded on 3G with a full 6 bars of signal, with a max data upload rate of 92.4KB/s
(I had a hard time adding the images to this post, I kept getting errors adding them to the wordpress gallery and had to manually link to them)
The week before the Evo launched I read about the SD card error, which I immediately wrote off as “idiots trying to use a class 2 SDHC to write 720p video” when any photographer could tell yo uyou need at least a class 6 to do HD video. so I was not worried I had already planned to spend the money on a 16GB class 6 micro SDHC card. then they started complaining about battery life, the lack of an AMOLED screen, then it was confirmed it was shipping with a 8GB micro SDHC not the rumored 16GB card. Then there was the extra $10 fee to “unlock greater than 5GB data usage per month” NOT for 4G access like everyone kept saying, please read the fine print people! Next came a charge for tethering, then you needed a special HDMI cable to do the HDMI out, next was the supreme compression level of the 720p video and the 8mp images, the final issue was the monthly charge for Qik!! I could not believe how badly Sprint and HTC had fucked up the perfect cell phone. At least the promised to give Froyo to the Evo before years end, that was the only bonus to look forward to…
then I started using the phone, I installed 259 apps that I had preselected using appbrain.com (also an android app called “app brain”) that uses the Android Marketplace to search for and “queue” apps to install on your phone. what you do is go on the website, find apps you want to use, and then you click install and it loads them into a queue on the website. then when you get your phone (as was my case, since I did this 3 days before the Evo launched), the first thing you do is go to the market and install “app brain” then unfortunately you have to launch the app and login, then it will check the installed app database and compare it to what the website says you want/have installed. DO NOT CLICK THE SYNC BUTTON AT THIS TIME!!! I did not on my phone, but when I upgraded my wife’s Samsung Moment to Android 2.1 I used AppBrain and hit the “Sync” button, instead of updating the phone to match AppBrain’s database, it made the AppBrain Database match the phones (which at the time only contained AppBrain), and I had to go through the marketplace and manually locate and install everything again.
Ok, back to using AppBrain on my Evo, I clicked the “Install” button to add the 259 apps to my new Evo, this sucks, the only thing AppBrain is capable of doing (I think it is a security limitation set by google) is to:
1. open the Android marketplace
2. insert a search query for the apps you selected on their website, one at a time.
So, after clicking install you are provided with the marketplace search screen and after a few seconds it pulls up the app you were looking for (if it is available in your country/OS version, while there is a filter on AppBrain’s website for OS version and country, you may still find and select apps that are not available to your phone, personally I selected about 12-15 that were not found in the marketplace when I tried to install them). from this point on it is almost like doing it yourself, you have to click the install button (or buy if it is a paid app, but I recommend doing th efree version first to make sure it runs well on your device. I ran into several apps I wanted to buy after trying them on my wife’s Moment, only to find out they REQUIRE a physical keyboard, or a ball, or a D-Pad), the install button gives you the warning page of the access that the app wants (if any), just the same as if you did this without AppBrain, select OK and it will initiate the install. NOW, to get to the next app in my huge list to add to the phone (by the way, after 8 days I still have not narrowed the list down to less than 200, but I am working on it) you MUST HIT THE BACK BUTTON on your phone, some apps when they start downloading the MarketPlace will automatically take you back to your search results (which by the way, AppBrain searches by the Unique Identifier for the app, so only the correct app will come up in the search, or no apps), some apps will leave you on the details to watch the progress meter go by while it downloads and installs, if yo uare on the details page, press the back button to get to the search results, once you are on th esearch results page, press the back button again to get the next app on your list. This seems to be the only way to do it, so yes, I had to do this process more than 200 times to get all those apps installed on my phone.
The only benefits I found to using AppBrain, was that I was able to use my laptop to interface with the marketplace and I did it days before I hand my phone in my hands, saving me hours after I got the phone. Now, one more limitation on AppBrain, their website can only show you 50 pages of 10 apps each per category. this means that the maximum number of apps you can browse from AppBrain without doing a search is about 15% of the current android marketplace. So to compensate for this without doing specific searches (yes I looked at all 50 pages of almost every category) they place a “similar apps” and “others by this developer” list on the right hand side of the screen when viewing the details on an app, very handy.
Not too long after I started this process (at exactly 8:00am) my Evo received the now famous SD card patch OTA update.
Alright, so within 2-3 hours I had all 250+/- apps installed that were found, time to start loading them and testing them out, several were duplicate apps that I could not decide which I wanted to use without having actually used them. To this day, I still have not loaded all of the apps on my phone, I have purchased 3 or 4 total, 2 or 3 of which were planned purchases before I even got my phone, I was just waiting to make sure the demo’s worked first (that means 1 was not a planned purchase and just plain surprised me when I found it). There are others that I intend on buying, but need to wait until my next paycheck to afford it, as Android apps on average cost 2-4 times as much as comparable iPhone apps AND the graphics on almost every single Android app looks like an 8 yearold designed it. I really feel that google needs to step in and regulate some quality controlls over the apps, not content, but quality. I am sick and tired of loading an app and finding stick figures, or a plain black background and hand drawn squares and circles and teardrop shaped drawings (see a couple of pictures below for examples, what is sad is those are some of the games I really like too, but won’t buy because they are $2.99 or $4.99 and the graphics are a blank screen with “stick figures”). If you really want to understand my frustration with the graphics, go find someone who is an Apple lover, and has owned more than one iPhone, and ask them to show you some games, then you will understand. some of my favorites are the rogue trainer, field runners, rocket bears (I think that is the name, it’s a teddy bear looking brown bear that is under attack by zombie panda bears), and pocket god (I’ll have to check out my friends iPhone and see what some of the others I like are called, so you can go check them out. trust me there is a huge difference and almost everything he buys is either $0.99 or $1.99 sometimes he waits for it to go on sale before buying, but never pays more than $1.99 for an app).
People complain about the “fart” apps on iPhone, well I think there are more on Android than iPhone, AND Android has a ton of freaking jigsaw puzzle games, I cannot understand that, why is there not 1 or 2 apps, and the rest could be download add on packs that give you more images to use in the jigsaw app…
right next post will be about the phone itself, I’ll post it in a few minutes…
The week before the Evo launched I read about the SD card error, which I immediately wrote off as “idiots trying to use a class 2 SDHC to write 720p video” when any photographer could tell you you should use at least a class 6 card to do HD video. So, I was not worried I had already planned to spend the money on a 16GB class 6 micro SDHC card. then they started complaining about battery life, the lack of an AMOLED screen, then it was confirmed it was shipping with a 8GB micro SDHC not the rumored 16GB card. Then there was the extra $10 fee to “unlock greater than 5GB data usage per month” NOT for 4G access like everyone kept saying, please read the fine print people! Next came a charge for tethering, then you needed a special HDMI cable to do the HDMI out, next was the supreme compression level of the 720p video and the 8mp images, the final issue was the monthly charge for Qik!! I could not believe how badly Sprint and HTC has fucked up the perfect cell phone. At least they promised to give Froyo to the Evo before years end, that was the only bonus to look forward to…
then I started using the phone, I installed 259 apps that I had preselected using appbrain.com (also an android app called “AppBrain”) that uses the Android Marketplace to search for and “queue” apps to install on your phone. what you do is go on the website, find apps you want to use, and then you click install and it loads them into a queue on the website. then when you get your phone (as was my case, since I did this 3 days before the Evo launched), the first thing you do is go to the market and install “AppBrain” then unfortunately you have to launch the app and login, then it will check the installed app database and compare it to what the website says you want/have installed. DO NOT CLICK THE SYNC BUTTON AT THIS TIME!!! I did not on my phone, but when I upgraded my wife’s Samsung Moment to Android 2.1 I used AppBrain and hit the “Sync” button, instead of updating the phone to match AppBrain’s database, it made the AppBrain Database match the phones (which at the time only contained AppBrain), and I had to go through the marketplace and manually locate and install everything again.
Ok, back to using AppBrain on my Evo, I clicked the “Install” button to add the 259 apps to my new Evo, this sucks, the only thing AppBrain is capable of doing (I think it is a security limitation set by google) is to:
1. open the Android marketplace
2. insert a search query for the apps you selected on their website, one at a time.
So, after clicking install you are provided with the marketplace search screen and after a few seconds it pulls up the app you were looking for (if it is available in your country/OS version, while there is a filter on AppBrain’s website for OS version and country, you may still find and select apps that are not available to your phone, personally I selected about 12-15 that were not found in the marketplace when I tried to install them). from this point on it is almost like doing it yourself, you have to click the install button (or buy if it is a paid app, but I recommend doing th efree version first to make sure it runs well on your device. I ran into several apps I wanted to buy after trying them on my wife’s Moment, only to find out they REQUIRE a physical keyboard, or a ball, or a D-Pad), the install button gives you the warning page of the access that the app wants (if any), just the same as if you did this without AppBrain, select OK and it will initiate the install. NOW, to get to the next app in my huge list to add to the phone (by the way, after 8 days I still have not narrowed the list down to less than 200, but I am working on it) you MUST HIT THE BACK BUTTON on your phone, some apps when they start downloading the MarketPlace will automatically take you back to your search results (which by the way, AppBrain searches by the Unique Identifier for the app, so only the correct app will come up in the search, or no apps), some apps will leave you on the details to watch the progress meter go by while it downloads and installs, if yo uare on the details page, press the back button to get to the search results, once you are on th esearch results page, press the back button again to get the next app on your list. This seems to be the only way to do it, so yes, I had to do this process more than 200 times to get all those apps installed on my phone.
The only benefits I found to using AppBrain, was that I was able to use my laptop to interface with the marketplace and I did it days before I hand my phone in my hands, saving me hours after I got the phone. Now, one more limitation on AppBrain, their website can only show you 50 pages of 10 apps each per category. this means that the maximum number of apps you can browse from AppBrain without doing a search is about 15% of the current android marketplace. So to compensate for this without doing specific searches (yes I looked at all 50 pages of almost every category) they place a “similar apps” and “others by this developer” list on the right hand side of the screen when viewing the details on an app, very handy.
Not too long after I started this process (at exactly 8:00am) my Evo received the now famous SD card patch OTA update.
Alright, so within 2-3 hours I had all 250+/- apps installed that were found, time to start loading them and testing them out, several were duplicate apps that I could not decide which I wanted to use without having actually used them. To this day, I still have not loaded all of the apps on my phone, I have purchased 3 or 4 total, 2 or 3 of which were planned purchases before I even got my phone, I was just waiting to make sure the demo’s worked first (that means 1 was not a planned purchase and just plain surprised me when I found it). There are others that I intend on buying, but need to wait until my next paycheck to afford it, as Android apps on average cost 2-4 times as much as comparable iPhone apps AND the graphics on almost every single Android app looks like an 8 yearold designed it. I really feel that google needs to step in and regulate some quality controlls over the apps, not content, but quality. I am sick and tired of loading an app and finding stick figures, or a plain black background and hand drawn squares and circles and teardrop shaped drawings (see a couple of pictures below for examples, what is sad is those are some of the games I really like too, but won’t buy because they are $2.99 or $4.99 and the graphics are a blank screen with “stick figures”). If you really want to understand my frustration with the graphics, go find someone who is an Apple lover, and has owned more than one iPhone, and ask them to show you some games, then you will understand. some of my favorites are the rogue trainer, field runners, rocket bears (I think that is the name, it’s a teddy bear looking brown bear that is under attack by zombie panda bears), and pocket god (I’ll have to check out my friends iPhone and see what some of the others I like are called, so you can go check them out. trust me there is a huge difference and almost everything he buys is either $0.99 or $1.99 sometimes he waits for it to go on sale before buying, but never pays more than $1.99 for an app).
People complain about the “fart” apps on iPhone, well I think there are more on Android than iPhone, AND Android has a ton of freaking jigsaw puzzle games, I cannot understand that, why is there not 1 or 2 apps, and the rest could be download add on packs that give you more images to use in the jigsaw app…
right, next post will be about the phone itself, I’ll post it in a few minutes…
outdoor image in full sunlight taken with the Evo
outdoor image in full sunlight taken with the Evo
taken indoors with minimal lighting from about 6" away
taken outdoors in early morning sunlight in the mountains with the Evo
taken at the same time and place as my dog (the previous picture)
taken about 5 minutes after the last picture of the house from about 2' away
taken just after dusk outside
ok so to start, Appcelerator Titanium is still not working on either x64 or 32-bit Kubuntu 10.04. I even found a video on YouTube on setting it up for Ubuntu 9.10 that had about 4 or 6 steps and took almost zero time, in fact he did it in an edited 10 minute video and did not install and dependencies or compilers… (gcc, gcc++, python, or ruby) on a clean OS install. I am still not able to get it running. I have a new weird error I have not been able to find helpful info on at this point. will update this post early next week, I have a busy weekend ahead of me)
Final Fantasy XIII – still playing, found some things I am happy about, still not attached to my characters, although I care enough about my accessories that I want to complain that you don’t get them back when your party gets changed (which happens a lot). I spent all my gil upgrading 1 weapon for each and 3 accessories, and I don’t always get a chance to un-equip the accessories before there is a party swap. Also found a new thing that pisses me off!! THEY MADE UP WORDS TO THE CHOCOBO SONG!!! I can’t believe they stooped so low! (yes I know there was a pun in that statement)
Good news though, no 999hp limit (I know not the first FF to do so), damage is not capped at 9999 nor 99,999 (I believe, as the only not secret achievement in the game is do more than 100k damage in a single attack). I am now in chapter 8 and have noticed a significant ramping up of CP rewards, and CP cost for new abilities. I spent 4 hours at the level 7 sweet spot, Hope’s house, just run around inside and the soldiers respawn when you get halfway to the opposite side. I made 125k gil from celling incentive chips (2.5k each) and got 60 phoenix downs and 25k CP. not too bad a stash, but it was not enough… I could not buy any of the better upgrade components yet, so could only upgrade 1 item and 1 weapon (got Lightning’s starter sword to level 12, or maybe it was 11) and when I got to chapter 8 I was not able to max out anyone’s new CP skills. better yet! after I finished a relatively short and easy section wit h Sazh and Vanille (whom I always call vanilla) I had 33k CP available to upgrade the other team!! which means that easy part at Nautillus which took about 45 minutes +/- gave me almost as much CP as 4 hours in Hope’s house… if I had known that, I would have stuck around Nautillus a bit more.
Right, on to my PC state of affairs… again, I have been using KUbuntu 10.04 for a week or two now, and have an installation post to make still, have it written on little scraps of paper that I need to type up, all seems good, Fedora 13 should be out tuesday, I have prepared my system for a clean install of that on a separate HDD. Should get that done Wed, so there should be a post about that coming Saturday (maybe friday, I am going to try and post everything in the order it has been happening, so nothing gets left behind. Also look out for a post on Sprint’s HTV Evo 4G sooner or later (might wait till I pick mine up on June 4th!!! although I will be out of town that weekend to watch a dance recital, 4 yr old and a 9yr old). hopefully I will be posting my 32-bit Appcelerator install guide tonight if I can figure out this new error. I want to get started on a couple system apps/widgets for my Evo before I get it.
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