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Steam website inaccessible?

xavier7 — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:11:51 +0800

Are you guys able to access steam?

Web and the steam app both cant connect to internet.

I notice my mobile game on phone (Knight Chronicles) has no connection as well.

Other websites are ok so far.

[WTS] Freedom Wars Chinese Version - Used Game

xavier7 — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:15 +0800

[WTS]

Freedom Wars Chinese Edition, Used Game (PSV) RM85

POSLAJU FREE

DLC Code Used

Reply post / pm me if interested.

[YOUTUBE]iY8_GoIm2cg[/YOUTUBE]

[WTS] Razer Kraken Pro used PRICE DROP! FREE ITEM

xavier7 — Thu, 22 May 2014 09:32:59 +0800

Item(s):
Razer Kraken Pro - Black Color (Used)
Free: Cloth Ear Cushion Replacement - I bought this via Razerzone.com @RM67 to replace the leather ear cushion as I prefer the feel of cloth.

Package includes:
Razer Kraken Pro - Black (with box)
Cloth Ear Cushion Replacement (with box)

Price: SOLD

Warranty: 7 months (receipt from ALL IT HYPERMART)

Dealing method:
COD only @ following locations with coordinates:

Setiawalk Puchong - 3.031476, 101.617280
Tesco @ Bandar Bukit Puchong 2 - 2.981995, 101.617353
Aeon Big @ Puchong Utama - 2.991724, 101.614360
IOI Mall Puchong - 3.045456, 101.619155
Cyberjaya

Location of seller: Puchong

Contact method/details: PM me

Age of item: Bought on 17th January.

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Item(s) conditions: 9/10

Picture:

Kraken Pro with Cloth Ear Cushion in black box beneath

Cloth Ear Cushion

Cloth Ear Cushion

Reason for sale: Want to try out other headsets

[WTS] Razer Kraken Pro used PRICE DROP! FREE ITEM

xavier7 — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:43:16 +0800

[WTS] Used Dell Monitor, Wireless Keyboard Mouse

xavier7 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:30:06 +0800

Item: Dell Wireless Keyboard and Mice

Item conditions: Used, but in good condition 99%

Price: RM100

Warranty: None

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Item: Dell 17 Inch LCD

Item conditions: Used, but in good condition 90%

Price: RM200

Warranty: None

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Item:
ICute Casing (no power supply) with

Side casing vent with "cup", about 7 to 8cm
12cm transparent Cooler Master fan in front

Item conditions: Used, but in good condition 80% (Front slot cover missing 1 piece)

Price: RM50

Warranty: None

Dealing method:
COD @
Puchong Area >>> weekends
One Utama >>> week days. 10am - 4pm

Contact method/details: PM

We can BUY APPS NAO >: )

xavier7 — Thu, 12 May 2011 08:55:44 +0800

https://market.android.com/support/bin/answ...y?answer=143779

Best news eva.

No Root Needed To Buy Apps!!!!!!!!!

Motorola Droid 2 Global

xavier7 — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:24:35 +0800

Hi Guys, just wanna separate the topic from the usual Motorola Milestone 2 thread, as the workings of these 2 phones are different.

MODs this is how I think, if you feel differently, feel free to close this thread, but I did this just to make it easier for discussion.

Thank you!

[addedon]February 18, 2011, 10:30 am[/addedon]Ok, I guess we all know that the D2G has horrendous battery issues.

Below is a guide from a D2G user that is having better battery life, he has an extended battery, but I guess by following some of the tips here would increase the battery life slightly or better.

This is taken from: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-g...tml#post1220501

QUOTE

First: I'm no expert. I'm just a guy who reads a lot of forums, talks to a lot of nerdy people, and likes to tinker. I can only share with you what I've read, or seen for myself.

Second: I take no responsibility for anything that happens to your phone. I didn't write any of the apps that I recommend, etc., etc.,

Third: Some of the Apps I use require you to be rooted. If you haven't done it already, you should do some reading and make the decision for yourself. It's not hard (Z4Root is a one click root, with unroot option), and has almost zero risk, especially now that RSDLite 4.9 and the SBF are available. Now don't ask me any more questions about rooting (here, anyway), as that's not what this thread is for.

Fourth: I obviously can't promise that what works for me will work for you (or anyone). Usage habits play a large role in battery life. To give you an idea, I work 8-12 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week. I use my phone as an mp3 player (with headphones) for almost the entire day straight, as well as text, email, a few voice calls, and some light web browsing during my lunch break. The majority of my usage is with the screen off, and data turned off which obviously increases my battery life. If you play games, or stream music constantly, my suggestions will only help, they won't get you battery life like mine.

Fifth: I have the Motorola BP7X extended battery. If you don't have an extended battery, you obviously won't see battery life like mine, but my instructions should help prolong yours. I still regularly see >24 hours to go from 100% to 30% or so on my stock BP6X battery.

If you want to buy an extended battery, you should know that you can't use the battery door with any case on the market right now, but if you take it off, the battery fits PERFECTLY inside, with any case that I've tried.

If you have a WHITE D2G, you need this extended battery and battery door, which is for the Droid R2D2, but the white matches perfectly. The model number is the same as the regular one, but with a W on the end, if you go to the VZW store and they don't know about it, you can tell them that and they should be able to look it up.

If you have the BLUE D2G, you need this extended battery and battery door, which is the matching blue.

Before we begin, here are some articles I think you should read:

Your battery gauge is lying to you, and it's not such a bad thing.

Android task killers explained, and why you shouldn't use them

If you use a task killer, I won't answer your questions in this thread, because I'm being very explicit when I say: Task killers are bad for your battery life, and unnecessary in Android 2.2.

Ok, first off, things you can do without downloading or installing any apps:

1. Settings -> Wireless and Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Network Mode -> CDMA if you're in the US and don't plan on going global with your phone. You can set System Select (right underneath it) to automatic, assuming you have a nationwide plan. Some say that the GSM radio is only turned on to search for a signal when there is a weak CDMA signal, but I figure why risk it?

2. Settings -> Battery Manager -> Battery Mode -> Custom Battery Saver (Click the little gear next to it to access the settings)

Set your off peak hours according to your usage. I don't often use my phone once I'm home for the night, or before I go to work, so my off peak hours start at 10PM and end at 8AM, with data set to go off after 15 minutes. During peak hours, data is set to always on (never know when I might ACTUALLY be using the GPS, or streaming music or something).

Set the display brightness to fairly low after the battery <30%. For reference, I keep my screen at 28% brightness, and have that slider down around 15%.

3. Settings -> Data Manager -> Background data
You can uncheck this, but certain apps won't work, like the market. I generally keep both Background Data and Data Enabled unchecked except for when I'm actively using data. I have a shortcut on my home screen to this screen, so that I can disable them quickly. The advantage to turning your data off this way, instead of with most apps/widgets is that it actually turns off power to the 3G radio, whereas most apps/widgets simply change the APN, which doesn't actually turn the radio off. To make a shortcut, long press your home screen, choose activities, go to Data Manager, and it's the first process. If you MUST have a widget, I've found that SMODA Widget in the market works in the proper manner.

4. Settings -> Display
Turn off auto brightness. Set your screen to the minimum you can live with. I keep mine at 28% and it's usable outside, in sunlight, 99% of the time. (That's important, because I live in Florida). When it's not, I have an app that I use to quickly bump it up, but I'll get to that later.

Go to Animation -> No animation

Screen timeout -> Again, the minimum you can live with. I have mine at 15 seconds, but I use an app to keep the screen on when the phone is in use (as detected by motion and/or the orientation of the phone.. Again, I'll cover that later)

In Pocket Detection: I don't know if it actually saves battery, but I recommend you turn this off. The forums are littered with stories of people whose phones turn the screen off when their finger gets too close to the sensor, and I found that whenever I forgot to turn the screen off and put the phone in my pocket, the phone never turned it off anyway, so what's the point?

5. Settings -> Wireless and Networks -> Wifi Settings then press your menu key (the haptic one, at the bottom of the screen) and press advanced. Set your wifi sleep policy to never. This means that when you turn wifi on, your phone will ALWAYS try to send data over wifi first, which uses less battery than 3G. HOWEVER, if you are NOT in range of a wifi network that you can connect to, this will COST you battery life, as your phone will poll for an open network more often. So if you do this, remember to turn your wifi off when you're done with it.

Ok, next: Bloatware. We all know the D2G comes with lots of Verizon crap installed that we don't want/need/use. Theoretically, this stuff shouldn't really tie up system resources, because android 2.2 should kill the stuff whenever it needs those resources. Well, the nerd in me isn't happy with that, I want that stuff gone. HOWEVER, you NEED all of the stock bloatware (Amazon, Kindle, Blockbuster, CityID, VZWNavigator, etc etc) to get any updates from Verizon. The reason for this is that the updates run as patches, so they look for the original system files, then update them. If ALL of the system files aren't there, the patch won't run (In fact, your phone won't even perform the CHECK for updates).

So your options are to root your phone, and then use a root explorer program to find all the .apk files for this bloatware and change their names from CityID.apk to CityID.bak or something like that, so that they won't run, but when you want an update, you can go back and rename them to .apk. However, this is tedious. I use an app called Titanium backup to freeze these programs. It does essentially the same thing, but with a nice gui, and the ability to do backups of your apps and/or data, as well as doing it on a schedule if you choose.

List of things I have frozen in Titanium backup:
(Note, again, I take no responsibility for any of these causing instability in your system, but this works FOR ME with no problems)

3G Mobile Hotspot 2.2
Admin Notifier 2.2
AdService 1.0
Amazon MP3 1.8.14
Android Live Wallpapers 2.2 (Obviously, you need this if you use live wallpapers)
Backup Assistant 2.2
Backup Assistant Client 1.0 (Need these if you use BA)
Blockbuster 0.9.99
Calendar 2.2
Calendar Service 2.2
Calendar Storage 2.2
Calendar Sync Adapter 2.2.1
CarDock 1.0
CityID 1.0.30
DLNA 0709.69
DLnaSystemService1.0
Email 2.2 (Note: DO NOT freeze Email Client, it will make your text messaging non-functional)
Emergency Alert 1.0.0
Global Phone Authorization...Mode Switch 2.2 (If you won't go global)
Global Unplug 1.0: (This used to kill the "unplug your charger from the outlet" message, but since the last update, it doesn't... oh well)
Help Center 2.2
Home Screen Tips 2.2
InPocket 2.2 (This never worked right for me, so screw it)
Kindle 1.0.2.80600055
Live Wallpaper Picker 2.2 (Again, if you use Live Wallpapers, don't freeze)
Magic Smoke Wallpapers 2.2
Manage Sim Card 2.2 (If you're not going global)
MediaShare 1.0.0
MediaSync 1.0.0
News 2.2
News and Weather 1.3.01
Print to Retail 1.0
Quick Office 3.3.67
SIM Contacts 2.2
SIM Toolkit 2.2
Skype Mobile 1.0.0.20
Social Networking 2.2
Social Sharing 2.2
Social Status 2.2
Sync Service 1.5.7
Toggle Widgets 2.2
Voicemail 1.1 (But holding 1 to check your voicemail still works)
VPN Client 1.0
VPN Services 2.2
VZ Navigator
Weather 2.2
Work Contacts 2.2
World Clock 1.0
Yahoo Contacts 2.2

Ok, that's bloatware gone.

Next up, Apps I have installed to help improve my battery life.

1. Battery Indicator Pro doesn't really improve my battery life, but it's a nice app to have for monitoring it. It can place another battery indicator in your notification bar, with a text readout of the battery percentage, as well as color indicators. It can also display a window with approximate usage times left (Unfortunately, the usage times are set based on user defined times, not actual predictions, but it's still cool, if you have a good baseline to plug in).

It looks like this in your notifications bar: (The battery icon changes colors to yellow and red when the battery hits levels you define)

It looks like this when you click on it:

The View Battery Use button takes you to the stock battery manager for a detailed rundown of battery runtime, usage statistics, etc.

As you can see, it also has an option to disable the lockscreen, which works well, but seems like an odd additional feature haha.

2. Quicksettings is a nice, free app for one click access to toggle things like GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth (And data, but it does the APN trick, so I don't use it for that), as well as adjusting things like volume, ringer, brightness, etc, AND it's got a built in flashlight. It's on my homescreen, and I love it. For maximum battery life, I keep ALL my data (including 3G) off except when I'm actively using it. I'm not important enough to need true push email, and when I'm at work, I'm generally too dirty to want to do a lot of emailing anyway.

3. Screebl Pro is an app that monitors the orientation of your phone, and when it leaves certain, user defined ranges (different for portrait/landscape) it turns the screen off. But if the phone is being moved, or within those ranges, it will keep the screen on. This lets you set your screen timeout super low (15 seconds), without being constantly annoyed by the screen going off when you're browsing webpages, emails, etc. It also SAVES you battery life.

4. SetCPU lets you set different profiles for your processor, based on different variables (how full the battery is, if it's plugged in, WHAT it's plugged into, if it's too hot, etc). SetCPU require root access. SetCPU lets you set a profile that has a maximum and minimum processor speed while the phone meets those conditions. It follows your profiles in order of priority. Obviously, the higher the priority, the higher the precedence. So for example, mine is set to 600MHz/300MHz(max/min) when the screen is off, but 1200MHz/300MHz when it's plugged in or fully charged (>60% battery). The screen off profile has a higher priority, so even if the phone is plugged in, it will throttle to 600/300 when I turn the screen off. You can tinker with these settings yourself. The priority numbers don't matter (as far as I'm aware) so long as they're in the right order numerically. Scaling should always be ondemand (that is, the system will speed up the processor as there is a demand for more power).

My profiles, in order of priority from highest to lowest:

Temp > 42.0C 600/300 (~40C is where performance starts decreasing and the battery actually drains FASTER, but I've read that the batteries are rated SAFE up to 60C)

Charging AC/Full 1000/300 (This is to keep it from getting too hot while charging from the wall charger, which provides ~850mA vs the ~500mA that a USB charger delivers)

Charging/Full 1200/300 (This is the standard profile, when the battery is >60%, and not plugged in)

Battery <16% 600/300

Battery <31% 800/300

Battery <41% 1000/300

Remember, the system can only read the battery values in multiples of ten (down to 20%, then it can read 15%, 10%, 5%, I believe), so that's why I have the steps at 16, 31, 41.

Car Charger for Nexus One

xavier7 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:06:16 +0800

Guys,

Need your kind help, would anyone tell me if this Belkin Car Charger is available in Digital Mall PJ?

http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.pro...oduct_Id=488681

Thank you very much!

[addedon]June 16, 2010, 1:27 pm[/addedon]Nevermind, I got my answer, they do sell it there.
I saw in ALL IT Hypermart (RM69) and AONEPlus (RM68.90)

Bottleneck issues with GTX260?

xavier7 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:10:36 +0800

Hi all Sifus,

I need your kind help, as I seems to be having stuttering issues on my Palit GTX260 Sonic 216SP.
Its not just in games, even when i watch normal videos / youtube videos, it stutters every few seconds! Its driving me crazy.

This is my rig setup:

AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 4800+ (2.51 GHz)
2 Gig DDR2 800Mhz RAM
Silverstone ST65F Strider 560W

I did not OC the card nor my CPU. its all at stock speed.

Does this have to do with bottleneck issues?

does any of you guys have any idea on this please?

this is my temp at startup where no temperature has changed, and video stutter occurs even.

HP Pavillion DV4-1038TX wireless problem

xavier7 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:27:18 +0800

Hi there, good morning.

Just want to inquire, my gf bought a HP Pavillion DV4-1038TX with Windows Vista Home Premium.
All was fine for first few months, until recently the wireless seemed to be not working anymore.

When i enable Wireless, it seems unable to detect any wireless network.
After clicking Connect to Network, it really doesnt detect any network at all.
I tried to use Diagnose, it says my wireless is not turned on, but i've turned it on.

I did the following: -

- made sure my Dlink modem router has WEP wireless connection enabled. (should i try other security options? tho WEP was working fine last time)

- made sure the Wireless is ON, its in Blue colour state on the Quick Launch button on upper right of keyboard.

- tried manually creating a new wireless connection with WEP password, but problem persists.

- checked HP Wireless Assistant, Wireless is enabled. Tried to setup from there, but it says my Dlink 6240T is not supported

- tried Windows System Restore 3 times to few earlier dates, coz i thought its some windows update that messed up, but each attempt failed, seems something wrong with System Restore. (but does this have any relation to wireless problem? i'm afraid my wireless adapter is faulty...)

- Reinstalled both Wireless Adapter driver and HP Quick Launch Buttons drivers to factory defaults.

- i never installed pirated windows on it, its still the original one, since its bought.

Hope to receive some answers/help here..

Thanks for reading!

Streamyx 2Mbps / 4Mbps

xavier7 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:01:33 +0800

right. so anybody used these 2 packages?

is it really faster (at least faster than the 1Mbps package)?
or its the same old crap.

i'm applying for a new service at my new house, might think of upgrading later..

dont flame me if there's a thread already, just point me to it pls.

Gigabyte Geforce 8600 GTS

xavier7 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:54:03 +0800

Guys,

Please kindly help me out...

I recently bought this Gigabyte Geforce 8600 GTS.

Tried playing most games are no problem, but when i loaded Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, it played for awhile then it hangs for like 10 seconds, after that the graphics go distorted. This same problem occurs when i played RO2.

Maybe this card has problem with different rendering (engine?) of games?

Anyone of you have this similar problem?

I updated it to the latest driver already from NVIDIA website.