waterrockets 

Yeah, you can blow away bloatware with Titanium Backup, and it's awesome (needs root). Regarding tethering, T-mobile probably needs to enable the hotspot connection for you... for a small monthly fee. With the free hotspot, I have had no trouble with any device ever connecting to my phone over wifi. iPhones, iPads, laptops, macbooks, iPods, they all work flawlessly. We watch Netflix on my laptop or my wife's iPad through my phone a lot. My bet is that you just need to root and install the hotspot software (which needs root access).

ridethecliche

I'm online right now using my phone as a hotspot, so that isn't the issue though tmo has kicked e off a few times which is annoying.

That's one of the big root reasons though. I just need to find a good cyanogen guide for my phone so I'm not left with a brick. That and I need to figure out if I'll lose some of the stuff that's saved on my phone now and if so, what that stuff is.

I should probably back up contacts etc to my sd card now that I have a 32 gig card...

Honestly, I have no issues with my phone. I just want to keep getting some android updates as well. Tmo stopped pushing updates and I'm only on 2.2

waterrockets 

I don't use phone contacts, I always use google contacts when I add them. If my phone disappears, I don't lose anything other than configuration (Tasker would be a bit of a hit).

Enthalpic

One of our computers at work is having some hard drive issues.

I pulled the drive out and put it in an external USB drive mount on another system. I can open the drive in windows explorer but when I open the folder containing the instrument software I get a "cyclic redundancy check" error.

I ran Chkdsk but that doesn't seem to help. Any other ideas?

waterrockets 

Haven't had that one before, but I'd look at some of the troubleshooting guides on a google search for "CRC hard disk" and see if anything looks good.

Ultraslide

Did you run chkdsk with the /R option? You may need a sector scan.
Sometimes hard disk CRC errors can be caused by bad ram. Run memtest as well.

TMonk

note to self: don't spill a couple droplets of con nitric acid on ur arm

waterrockets 

I just ordered the rare Google Nexus 4.

Can an Android user be smug? I feel smug.

pjcampbell

Anyone know who the WKO 2.2 activation works? I was tinkering with registry and my WKO stopped working (it said my trial expired on my Paid for version of the software). I don't know if this was coincidence or a result of my dinking with things. I e-mailed them and asked them to give me a new key and then voila, it was fixed WITHOUT me having to re-enter anything.

mollusk

Just thought that I would drop by and say "hello".

Actually I have been doing some very geeky things lately. I have been designing mini-folding horn speakers for applications where there is limited amplification and high sound pressure level requirements with a decent audio experience. Fun stuff. Versions 1 and 2 were an off-set front loaded horn and a tapped horn. In the first one I ported the rear space to get the treble and it worked like a charm! The second had awesome bass for a 3" cheap driver, but the mid-range and up suffered a lot.

The next one will be a rear loaded horn, but that will be tricky with the space constraints. In theory it would work the best.

Cheers!

Homebrew01

So I just got an android incredible somthing-or-other phone, and wondering why the map function sucks so much compared to the iPhone. When you are driving the iPhone shows a blue dot almost exactly matching where the car is. But with the android, the blue arrow is all over the place. I was in the pet store but it showed me in the river. Is there a better version, or some setting I need to change ?

shovelhd

Did you turn the GPS on? If you don't, it navigates by cell tower, which would explain your situation.

Homebrew01

Bingo. I guess I had a bunch of settings off after reading all the warning screens that pop up.
I'm a smartphone noob

waterrockets 

Write it down, as this is the last time you will say that Android's map program sucks compared to the iPhone's

I love being able to say (in Google Now) "Navigate to Sea World San Antonio" and the next thing I hear is directions.

ridethecliche

Anyone have a used but not dead android phone for sale? Mine is about to commit suicide and I can't plonk down for a new one right now. Gotta check with family too.

mattm

I have some IDE hard drives I want to get data off of - what's the best IDE->USB adapter thingy? I see lots of options online, but some of them are just IDE->USB cords with no power source. (no, I'm not really a hw guy..)

saratoga

Finance is in the middle of building their forecast and a user crashed our obiee presentation server today. They had 17 sessions open at the time this happened.

shovelhd

Your best bet is a cheap USB external drive enclosure.

Enthalpic

I can't say it's the best but we use an Icy Box mount like this one at work. No complaints


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Drive-E.../dp/B000B8TT5I

waterrockets 

+1 on the cheap enclosure. Should be able to find something for less than $20 out there. Just go 3.5" IDE to USB (unless they are 2.5" drives -- then the price goes down).

We pass ours on to the kids when they get upgraded. I'd recommend the HTC Incredible (Verizon) off of ebay -- they're going for $75, and it's a pretty sweet phone for being 3 years old.

ridethecliche

Cool. Thanks. I was hoping to snag an S2 that way. I have an old galaxy S1. It is really really unhappy. I think my aunt has an old S1 too, I'll see if she'll part with it since she just got an S3!

Homebrew01

Does anyone know about calling MSSQL stored procedures from PHP (ver 5.4) ?
I've seen PHP for the first time today. We want to replace embedded SQL code with SP calls, passing variables.

If a sql table has 10 columns, but I just want to update 2, can that be done ? How does SQL know which columns are getting passed to it as variables ? Based on the variables being the same as the SQL column names ?

I assume a bicycle forum is the correct place for this type of question

mattm

I haven't done PHP in a long time, but I think this is what you need to call an SP: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-execute.php

Separately, to UPDATE colums the syntax is something like:

"UPDATE my_table
SET col1=value1, col3=value3
WHERE col1=value4"

https://www.w3schools.com/SQl/sql_update.asp


Ugh, I hate databases.. glad I don't need to mess with them at work. Good luck.

Homebrew01

Thanks. I'm OK with the SQL end, just not sure how the variables (parameters) get handled. In your example, I want to update col1 & col3, do I need a placeholder somewhere for col2 ? Or does SQL use the actual variable names of @col1 and @col3 to match to the SQL column names, so that I can ignore the fact there are 8 other columns that I don't care about for the update ?

It's the PHP end I'm unsure about.

agoodale

a simple MSSQL SP for the sample above (slightly modified) would be:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[MY_Table_Update]
@RecordToUpdate as int
, @NewInt as int
, @NewVarchar as varchar(50)
AS
begin
UPDATE my_table
SET col2=@NewInt
, col3=@NewVarchar
WHERE col1=@RecordToUpdate
end

To execute the SP
execute MY_Table_Update @RecordtoUpdate, @NewInt, @NewVarChar