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i think maybe we should adopt a stance that before answering any of these ridiculous questions that can be done with a simple search we should first ask the individual what searches he/she has made to find a possible solution then from there if it's a case of understanding then we can try to explain to the person in simpler terms

ahmedgafar7: STOP insulting dis guy,I'm sure there was a time in ur life u ‎ guyz didn't knw wat an android means.u said he should make research iz d question nt part of d research..enough said

yeah there was a time when we didn't know what android meant and we are advising him to do what we did - google/bing/search it up o. We keep referring to XDA when people talk about issues with their android devices. I don't know about anyone else here but i for one have never posted anything on XDA and God help you if you make a post before reading the rules of the forum or you post in the wrong forum. All the answers/solutions i've gotten from xda i've gotten by searching, not asking questions. Before they even answer your question they will first refer you to the rules and tell you to modify your post accordingly. So over here we are pretty polite.
That said, noone here knows it all, i can't remember how many times i've had to look up a certain issue on the internet, just so i can give someone a solution to an issue.
My point is, you say we should help the guy; i say before we can help the guy we would probably look up the solution to guy's problem (maybe i'm wrong, maybe there are some pros that have the answers on th tip of their fingers, but i'm not one of them). So if either way the solution gets searched online, then won't it have been better if the person first searched online before coming with a question?

And for the person asking about the difference between android and tablet, go to google.com, type: difference between android and tablet i'm sure you'll get enough answers and no one will laugh at you

TrebleChamp: Hello tech gurus, pls can i run ubuntu OS on my Dell Insiron n5040 3gb ram, 300gb hdd, 2.13mhz laptop? Am currently on Windows 7 Proffesional 32 bit OS, thanks.

i wonder why people keep using these titles, we're not gurus (except maybe pc guru), i feel a simple hello would be adequate enough

puskin: hmmmm.........this thread??
Whats with all this roforofo questions??

I'm starting to envisage someone would soon buy an Android device and come here and ask "Please how do I switch-ON my device"

or "which side of my tablet is the screen"?

LeJeun3: .Good evening, just started using this tab, and it just goes of today and won't boot. Power+vol up gives me r screen below. Any help??

what kind of tab (make, model etc)?

4llerbuntu: just buy another one. u might get lucky this time.

u wicked o, let him buy a galaxy tab instead

[quote author=Lord_Reed]Poorly spec-ed phone and tablet. Single core in this day and age? Even Tecno does better. This market no go sell o.[/quote]hmm a website domiciled in the uk that has the price of products in naira; na wa o

4llerbuntu: one of the hazards of this thread and perhaps NL is that you stand the risk of losing the ability to help yourself.

you run the risk of developing learned helplessness. at its advanced stages you require people to wipe the crack in your arse for you after you shyte.

people like leopantro are known vectors of this disease. they spread it recklessly.

Puskin, why is this? do we have to report this site to Ministry of Health and WHO for posing a health risk to thousands of users?

you know the most annoying one, sometimes a person will post a question about something that was answered one or 2 pages earlier; if only they bothered to search sigh

but bros leave leo alone o! unless you want to see 200 posts by the same annoying person repeating the same question over and over again

Maleeq: Guys, as i am typing this message, i am seriously sweating. Come to my rescue before something do me o!

Wetin happen? Oya, listen:

I wanted to create an Ubuntu Startup disk on a 4GB USB flash drive. The *.iso file is contained on my USB HDD (1Tb partitioned as 3 ext4 primary partitions, 1 NTFS). I somehow accidentally selected my HDD as the "Disk to use" instead of the Flash drive. Now I have a single FAT32 partition on the HDD.

This HDD contains files (over 500Gb) and I really would like to get it back.

I have tried testdisk but no success yet...(I ran analyse on the disk all night, d thing no gree finish o )

Has anyone been in my position before? or what can you suggest I do?

yeepa!!! that na serious yawa o,glad you were able to fix the issue sha; i too was about to say testdisk should have been able to fix the issue but since u've done it, no wahala

ahonzi: hi folks ... whenever i downloads it goes straight into my sd card.how do i access them and also access my sd card"?

download from where? your browser? if so u need a file manager, install one from the play store

ciphoenix: why use torrent? it's free

torrent is for sharing files, and not necessarily illegally, sometimes even the download sites recommend that u download torrents to reduce load on their servers. That happens a lot in linux, especially when a new version comes out

4llerbuntu: ^^^^
Point is, we are not recommending. At least I'm not.

The man already bought the device. He simply came here to inform us after he did.

Like I said..... read above again on why I think etisalat might havr 3G on the device.


Anyways he already bought it. U won't suggest he throws it away? Its not a bad learner phone for someone who does not even know what APN is.

actually i was refering to this post:

fadinus: Bros its not possible for the htc inspire 4G to recieve 3G/4G signals because its frequency band is not supported here in nigeria.

He should get a Desire hd instead.

fadinus: Bros, naija gsm operators transmits 3G frequencies at 2100 MHz, if ur gsm cannot receive 3G signals at 2100 MHz then you may not b able to receive 3G/4G signal here in Nigeria. I maybe wrong sha. Check out this link www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html

[s]Agreed, but on checking the phone spces i have to agree with 4llerbe, it is a quad-band phone and does support 2100mhz[/s]

my mistake, checked the specs of the desire hd instead of the inspire 4g, i agree, probably won't work on 3g in naija; but why are u peple even recommending a phone running a 2/3yr old os in this day and age anyway? Abeg if u want to change your phone, get one that came out this year or at least late last year

frosbel: ^^

Trouser is not a MAN's dress, do you know that MEN wore dresses in the old days called garments, gowns etc, even the Scottish today wear skirts.

As far as the trouse is not tight to be too revealing, that's fine, but this is my opinion.

Thank you joo, i wonder whether men were wearing trouser when that law was even written. And besides there are trousers made for men and trousers made for women. Going by that passage it would be wrong for a man to wear a trouser made for women

samsard: Hey guy tecno F7 is has a full HD display(unlike the lenovo), do yu mind doing away with your sentiments so, yu can analyse things more clearly +who told yu the fone(s) are or is scrap?

ok i did a bit of googling, some of us hear this HD/FullHD thingy and we've absolutely no idea what it means.
Anyway fullhd is actually 1080p (1920x1080), meanwhile the tecno f7 is 1280x720 which IS HD but not FullHD

i hope we'll stop having this argument from now on.

4llerbuntu: calculate PPI you say? since when does 320 by 480 screens become "HD"?

Oga 4ll3r, u sef u wicked o, why u go call dat kain phone 320x480?

paulabdeel: Yes, I did. Thanks.

so are you saying it didn't work or the problem is now fixed?

castrokins: Dear NL,
I bought a Bematel (Andriod) Tablet just over a month ago. It's a 7" device. Quite unfortunately, I woke up yesterday to discover it would boot past the Andriod Logo. All effort to get the device back to life has been futile. It's actually my first andriod device as I have been on RIM's Blackberries all the while. I just need advise if anyone else ever encountered such.
thank you

you might have to boot into recovery and reset data (which will also mean that you'll lose all your installed apps);
i haven't actually tried it before so i don't know if it works, unfortunately i don't have a bematel tablet to try it with. Anyway power off your tablet, then hold the power button for 3 seconds, while keeping your finger on the volume up button. hopefully you should be taken to a recovery menu where u should see an option to reset/clear user data

hope this helps

paulabdeel: Hello everyone, I need assistance. I just installed Ubuntu Raring and tried to update. After everything had been downloaded, I was to Ok a font EULA then it got stuck. I was at this point for almost an hour. I could not exit from APT-GET. The process is still stuck there. The terminal reads: E dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg-- configure -a' to correct the problem. I don't know how to proceed. Please help. Thanks.

have you tried to run: sudo dpkg-- configure -a

ideology: hello pals, am using Samsung galaxy pocket, pls just yesterday, the apps that use data such as yahoo, what'sapp and others stopped working only opera, pls what could be the cause?
thanks

what do you mean by "stopped working"? do you mean the app crash whenever you try to use them or you mean they come on but you cannot access your services from them (i.e. even tho your whatsapp is up your whatsapp messages are not going)?

[quote author=F.K.O]GUY UR QUESTION Z FUNNY, BUT I WILL ADVICE U TO MODIFY UR POST NOW N ASK THIS QUESTION AT TECNO THREAD.
COS "DEM" GO EAT YOU WHOLE FOR HERE[/quote]but you know, that question is android specific - not necessarily tecno specfic question.

@versace400 i'm pretty sure you have a way you partitioned your sdcard before; why not use the same way?

if you were a linux user partitioning and copying your files from one sdcard to the other would be pretty straight forward -especially the one on the other partition; as it is, i haven't tried it using windows.
Next time you have issues on an android device it might be a good idea not to mention tecno - at least for now, we're in the middle of a heated war between "properly registered/ branded" phones and phones that aren't recognised outside 3rd world countries

shosky1794: The advertisements(coupled with distribution) are some of the overheads which make phones from these big manufacturers expensive. This was confirm by the CEO of BLU, a phone manufacturer in the US. By the way, I'll like you check out the just released range of Android devices from BLU at amazingly cheap prices on sales (without contract) on AMAZON. They are even cheaper than Tecno if we are to do a direct comparison. I'm sure if those phones were to be from Tecno or available in Nigeria, you will give them all sort of names.

I've gone to the blu website, i've seen their devices; if i saw their phones for sale in nigeria i won't mind buying; Huawei is a chinese company, the last time i went to their website, i saw the types of android phones they have; tecno on the other hand, their website ... well let me just say that when i saw the announcement of the tecno n4 on nairaland, i wen to check their website to see what the had to see about it. Nothing, nada; went to check for the N7 recently same thing. Any serious company marketing a device on the international level will have information about such devices on their website. So what's the proof that the phone is even from them?
A lot of the people on this thread check other sites for information about some of these phones. When the most popular phone analysis sites don't have any information about a phone brand then your esteem of such a brand can't be so high. Believe me, when sites like gsmarena and xda start featuring tecno phones (they feature blu and huawei by the way) then we'll take them more serious.

malign: Used to do this in 2006, shipped a pack of five CD's right to my doorstep in Abuja twice a month, which I shared amongst friends, but the general interest in Linux at the time was minimal at best. Glad to see it's gained momentum over the years.

I was in talks with some developers circa 2010, about having aggregated mirrors hosted in Nigeria, so that it may help with package control, (apt/aptitude, et al), seeing as how horrible an experience it was to sync gentoo portage, and so on back then. It never kicked off, however, in part due to the small fact that Nigeria didn't have a large enough user-base.

Might be time to re-evaluate that.

Gentoo? haba! even i have never used gentoo,and i believe i've used more than a couple of distros and i've even tried more than one bsd. I don't know how many hardcore linux users we have in naija, but i'm not sure there'll be too many using gentoo

aze: or Galaxy Y

my advice just go for the galaxy young (s6312) it's 23k at the slot website and it came out this year and runs android 4.1

i'm a bit curious, i've seen a number of posts where people are having trouble installing whatsapp. I'm confused, isn't whatsapp supposed to be as easy to install as any other android app?

but men eyin guys, those tecno people dey post o; 277 pages for the n3 compared to 107 for android; those guys try sha

shosky1794: If you've got no solution to their problems then I think it's polite to say you don't but putting them down is rude. Most of all these high end phones you so much brag about are only just for status symbol. I'll say it again, I can bet you hardly use up to 65 percent of the phone's functions here in Nigeria.
.... and making sacrifice all in the name of buying a phone(that's so 'Nigerian').

emm bros, i think it's more than just about status o. at least for those who are regular on this thread; it's also about being able to get adequate support, software updates etc. I've gone to tecno website before on more than one occasion, i'm yet to see the n3 or the n7 on their website. Granted i don't have a high-end phone, i can afford one but it's not practical, all the same i would rather get a samsung galaxy young than a tecno n7, at least i'm sure of getting a jellybean device. Ice cream Sandwich is so 2 years old,and some of these devices are still coming out with gingerbread!
Well use whatever works for youbut i don't think most of the regulars here use high end phones JUST because of status

Chxta: For those looking for a lightweight DE with an Ubuntu base, look no further than Crunchbang Linux. It does what Lubuntu wants to do slightly better.

i thought crunchbang was less stable or at least more subject to unexpected incidences than other ubuntu derivatives

As for me and myself, i buy low-end phones, but i just don't have the nerve to buy a tecno phone - at least not for myself sha. Do they talk about tecno phones on xda? 'cos those are the kind of criteria that determine the kind of phone i can buy: custom roms, clockworkmod etc.
Agreed the tecno devices they buy work for them, however they won't work for me so i don't think i'd want one

Toroze: @ 4llerbuntu i know the are light de's but i want the full package and although there are distro built from ground up for netbooks like pingeee and easy peasy they are to slow on a netbook, my only options now for de are gnome 2 enlightenment and MATE but i don't which is the best and please does any de work on any distro

i don't see why Xubuntu won't work for you, i'm pretty sure it's adequate, you can even use kubuntu AND disable graphic effects i think it's called compositing

i think what he's saying is that he has created a vm where he's installed ubuntu, however he's unable to access his windows files.

Come to think of it, there's an easier way to do that, though he won't have as much control.
By the way what do you mean by external drives? do you mean the drives on your local computer or on a usb device?
and way you can use the folder sharing method to share folders on your windows machine so you can access them as network folders on your guest os

Mueeze: Ok. But how will I access external drives and connect to a network from the virtual box. Very important.

you will have to add another virtual disk, there's a command to do it but i don't remember now. Search the virtualbox help file, it's somewhere in the advanced options, the command starts with vboxmanage. Just check the help file

4llerbuntu: hmmn.

did u read the logs?

I upgraded from 12.10 over the testing period and still don't have one issue. only crap is virtual box is misbehaving.

try the fresh install sha, but I think reading the log will give u an idea wassup.


plus a new kernel

For the first time did a distro upgrade (i normally do a fresh install) and i'm surprised i don't have any issues

what's your issue with virtualbox? perhaps it's the kernel module that has issues in which case u have to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
or in the worst case may need to reinstall your vbox

all4naija: Linux Mint uses Cinnamon and very slow when compare to Xubuntu that uses xfce. So, the choice would still be Ubuntu.

or you could use kubuntu and disable graphical effects