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considering we are all Android fans in this group I have always wanted a means to have an online reservoir where we could easily transfer files and docs without using email addresses. I think I have found a way.
install google drive or dropbox on your Android phone or tablet then install SEND IT. now long tap on the file you want to send and click send by or share by then select SEND IT. it would upload the file to your online storage and send a text message to the contact with a link to where he can download it. I know this method had been around for a while but we could try it.

on another issue, it is an established fact that Android cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks. however, I have a MID cortex A-9 tablet that identifies and connects to Ad-hoc networks. how and why it does that, I don't know. is it possible to back up the ROM and isolate and extrapolate that capability to other phones? am I making sense here and is it possible?

Lordwize: My android laptop is giving me stress when I on it, it takes time to boot and when it did, it will be so slow til after a long time. I need your help please.

an alternative solution is to do a factory reset and re-install only the necessary apps. also search and install this app SEEDER. I don't understand the explanation of how it works but it helps

i'm interested in making an Android app, specifically targeting the hotspot functionally of Android. I have no iota of code understanding. can someone help me out with a contact or links to understanding app creation?

spcoded: Any youtube downloader apps

tubemate

also, have you noticed that PHCN hardly ever go round to check the readings of your meter anymore. they give you an estimate and tell your to pay. to counter that, take the last bill that was ever estimated, your new bill and a picture of the readings on meter.your meter must be working. go to PHCN office and demand that your bill be calculated and you are only going to pay what they calculate. you will be shocked by the actual cost of your bill.

a PHCN official tools me the real story about those meters. the meters were made and imported from a country were the electricity supply is constant and at a constant flow rate., in Nigeria, the electricity flow rate is never constant. at a certain level of electricity supply the meter cannot record the flow rate. that means your get electricity that is not recorded our billed for. when your electricity supply is low but can carry your fridge with a stabiliser, the meter would read error. thus,PHCN losses when you use the meter. that is why the prefer your use the old meter and if your use the new meter you are charged maintenance fee which doesn't make sense

Source
m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/why-we-took-cocaine-out-of-soda/272694/

When cocaine and alcohol
meet inside a person,
they create a third unique
drug called cocaethylene.
Cocaethylene works like
cocaine, but with more
euphoria.
So in 1863, when Parisian
chemist Angelo Mariani
combined coca and wine
and started selling it, a
butterfly did flap its
wings. His Vin Marian
became extremely
popular. Jules Verne,
Alexander Dumas, and
Arthur Conan Doyle were
among literary figures
said to have used it, and
the chief rabbi of
France said , "Praise be to
Mariani's wine!"
Pope Leo XIII reportedly
carried a flask of it
regularly and gave
Mariani a medal.
Seeing this commercial
success, Dr. John Stith
Pemberton in Atlanta --
himself a morphine addict
following an injury in the
Civil War -- set out to
make his own version. He
called it Pemberton's
French Wine Coca and
marketed it as a panacea.
Among many fantastic
claims, he called it " a
most wonderful
invigorator of sexual
organs ."
But as Pemberton's
business started to take
off, a prohibition was
passed in his county in
Georgia (a local one that
predated the 18th
Amendment by 34 years).
Soon French Wine Coca
was illegal -- because of
the alcohol, not the
cocaine.
Pemberton remained a
step ahead, though. He
replaced the wine in the
formula with (healthier?)
sugar syrup. His new
product debuted in 1886:
"Coca-Cola: The
temperance drink."
After that, as Grace
Elizabeth Hale recounted
recently in the The New
York Times, Coca-Cola
"quickly caught on as an
'intellectual beverage'
among well-off whites."
But when the company
started selling it in bottles
in 1899, minorities who
couldn't get into the
segregated soda fountains
suddenly had access to it.
Hale explains:
Anyone with a
nickel, black or
white, could now
drink the cocaine-
infused beverage.
Middle-class whites
worried that soft
drinks were
contributing to
what they saw as
exploding cocaine
use among African-
Americans.
Southern
newspapers
reported that
"negro cocaine
fiends" were
raping white
women, the police
powerless to stop
them. By 1903,
[then-manager of
Coca-Cola Asa
Griggs] Candler had
bowed to white
fears (and a wave
of anti-narcotics
legislation),
removing the
cocaine and adding
more sugar and
caffeine.
Hale's account of the role
of racism and social
injustice in Coca-Cola's
removal of coca is
corroborated by the
attitudes that the shaped
subsequent U.S. cocaine
regulation movement.
Cocaine wasn't even
illegal until 1914 -- 11
years after Coca-Cola's
change -- but a massive
surge in cocaine use was
at its peak at the turn of
the century. Recreational
use increased five-fold in
a period of less than two
decades. During that
time, racially oriented
arguments about rape
and other violence,
and social effects more so
than physical health
concerns, came to shape
the discussion. The same
hypersexuality that was
touted as a selling point
during the short-lived
glory days of Vin Mariani
was now a crux of
cocaine's bigoted
indictment. U.S. State
Department official Dr.
Hamilton Wright said in
1910, "The use of cocaine
by the negroes of the
South is one of the most
elusive and troublesome
questions which confront
the enforcement of the
law ... often the direct
incentive to the crime of
rape by the negroes." Dr.
Edward Williams
described in the Medical
Standard in 1914, "The
negro who has become a
cocaine-doper is a
constant menace to his
community. His whole
nature is changed for the
worse ... timid negroes
develop a degree of
'Dutch courage' which is
sometimes almost
incredible."
Yes, even the Dutch were
not spared from the
racism.
The Coca-Cola we know
today still contains coca --
but the ecgonine
alkaloid is removed from
it. Perfecting that
extraction took until 1929,
so before that there were
still trace amounts of
coca's psychoactive
elements in Coca-Cola. As
Dominic
Streatfield describes in Cocaine:
An Unauthorized
Biography, the extraction
is now done at a New
Jersey chemical
processing facility by a
company called Stepan. In
2003, Stepan imported
175,000 kilograms of coca
for Coca-Cola. That's
enough to make more
than $200 million worth
of cocaine. They refer to
the coca leaf extract
simply as "Merchandise
No. 5."
The facility is guarded.

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go to filecrop, type isilo Android click enter and check the links you are given

okay, my bad on the dumb part.
what is the meaning of "feature phone" and why do they need to train people on data use on the phone?

lucky for me I got a friend to give me his windows 8 laptop and discussed with my friend google. was able to get it it out the loop. I made a recovery image with his system and tried it on my system using the recovery menu. computer starts the process then crashes. by now I was chewing nails. remember its an aspire one with no CD ROM drive and didn't come with installation CD. went to MS website and found out I wasn't the only one with the issue. the best news was that MS was also clueless on how to solve the issue. they gave some instructions about some commands to run in CMD which I did with no result.
my new laptop became a beautiful ledge for books. yesterday I got so angry I went out and bought windows 7 and an external CD ROM drive. window 8 had no BIOS screenso I had to ask google who told me to hold F2 while booting the PC. was able to change boot order and install windows 7 into the system.
I still have have nightmares about tiles and revolving dots

I have issues, serious issues, with windows 8. for me, windows 8 = vista.
come gather round and hear me tale.
I bought an aspire one mini laptop with windows 8 for xmas. picked it up last week. it booted up, got to the tiles screen with different colours and froze. this was on the first bootup. I restarted the system and it showed Automatic repair setup. problem solved? that was just the beginning.

after that screen it said diagnosing repair then it showed the recovery menu screen. remember this was the first time I was starting the system. I clicked on the troubleshot option. I click on refresh; it said unable to refresh your system, an error had occurred ( didn't I know that?). I clicked restore and it said windows could not restore your system. I clicked on automatic repair and the computer restarted and entered an automatic repair loop. on a brand new computer

jmaine: Yeah, i concur . . . .

Hallelujah. we finally agree on something. just came back from work to continue our discussion when I saw your post. remember when I said this

i'm
feeling insulted that they
have to make a dumb
phone just for Africa
because they suddenly
discovered a market here.
the other companies don't
care because they know no
matter what they make,
people will still buy their
products.

I didn't mean the windows phone was dumb. I meant they had to do dumb phone specifically for dumb Africans. no other phone company had that line of thought.

by the way, they have a commitment with Nokia in making phones and Nokia had unparallel success in Africa fire a long time and knows the market well. why didn't they ask Nokia to make a windows phone specifically for Africa? they didn't trust Nokia? Nokia still has a name and presence in Africa. Why use another company?

wait, that is just behind my aunts place.

Lols. no, you are waiting

I believe the general question is "what's the point of a windows 8 phone?"
was the same question asked by PC advisor. ( you do know PC advisor? they don't work in Africa. at least i'm not sure). you can check this link for the write up.
http://mobile.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/mobile-phone/3416553/whats-point-of-windows-phone-8/

now, before you start foaming at the foaming at the mouth and people start wondering what's up, please read the link where it says "3 reasons why windows 8 phone WILL (not has) succeed".

now doesn't that make you feel better? don't you feel all warm inside, like a ruptured spleen?

please note I didn't contribute to the articles in any form so what ever floats your boat.
peace man.

now see what you have done. you have made me break my rule about responding to critics. right now, for me, its IOS, Android, windows then blackberry. when the BBZ10 comes out, it will be IOS, Android,BBZ10 & windows. when the oppon free comes out it will be Android,IOS, BBZ10 & windows. personally, i'm feeling insulted that they have to make a dumb phone just for Africa because they suddenly discovered a market here. the other companies don't care because they know no matter what they make, people will still buy their products

first off,I love Android but before Android I loved symbian. I was so good in symbian I was making money in school selling apps and tweaks for symbian. i'm at home with the internal workings of symbian and Android. I sell Android tablets and make money from the side jailbreaking and installing apps for both IPhones,IPads and Androids. were I work people seek my advice before buying any tablets. even the guys that bought the windows phones needed my help to set up zune on their laptops. so I don't follow the pack, its from my years of experience

now,I refuse to respond to the statements you made in regards to what I said. I leave that to @4ller.
BTW, you do know of the contest that windows set up against Android around the beginning of last year claiming that they were better than any Android phone and when someone with an Android phone proved them wrong, they cheated. or the time they were boasting about the mega pixels of their lumina phone in their ads until it was proven that they were using another phone to take those pictures. please tell me you know these stories. I follow the tech news very closely so I don't display oral diarrhea because I have a mouth

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[quote author=Nairaland=info]guy abeg i need ur help for Samurai X season 3. The ones (Season 3) available in the mkt are not the continuation 4rm season 2.
Tankz[/quote]wait, hold on.didn't samurai X end at where batusai fought the guy with the bandages ( can't remember his name) at that fire place and the guy burnt up from internal combustion and the whole place burnt up and the guy with the fang thrust died in the inferno?

@ 4llerbuntu, good point there. you just can't best the uniqueness of Android. I have two friends that got the Nokia windows phone and they are seriously regretting it. the low cost windows phone will have sub par functionality and will still require zune ( in this day and age.? ). my first Android phone was 20K and I was performing wonderful and amazing things with it. I have gone through their app store; is very depressing. considering you can't side load apps on a widows phone, why waste time and money?

first of all, its perfectly normal to experience this feeling.most people pass through this feeling occasionally. life had its issues and most times it can be overbearing. but what makes you unique is how you tackle and take care of your issues.

there was a time I was close to ending it all. I could get no satisfaction in my work, had financial issues, family issues where complicated. I wake up in the morning and cry asking why i'm still alive. people I talked to said I should take it to God but I didn't see the point. I talked to a friend who sat me down and told me what she was going through. I found out I didn't have a basis to be depressed.
try to take it one day at a time, indulge in things that make you happy. you are in school, consider a change of environment. if its possible cut classes because your attention would not be focused. also, try to be with friends that can motivate you. and be strong; it usually last for a while and you return to your happy normal state. don't forget God too.
wish you all the best

@ Infoseye, still have it. you do know that there is a PSP emulator for Android. haven't tried it yet. got a slim psp with 32gb memory card with 36 games and emulators. don't play it much now; work is hectic. got a component cable to connect it to my TV but colour is still off, don't know why. is there now a working untethered IOS method that works? since you just got into the Android world, go to this website "sinfulandroid" .

May God give you strength in this time of need. I know how you feel,I also lost my mum 7 years ago and its still painful. it is well

@ Infoseye, long time no hear from.I remember you from long ago during the PSP era. what happened? with the unlimited capabilities of Android I can't believe you are just joining the club?

I know and she knows it too and we are both working on it. I usually step back and ask myself, in 5 years time is this what I will be receiving in marriage? if i'm not happy with it we discuss about it. nobody is perfect and waiting for the perfect woman will give you gray hair. thank God she is changing gradually.

I have an S2 and one app I hate is Voice talk. no Mayer how many times I deactivate it, I always get the "what would you like to do?" sound. I hate that thing.went to XDA forum about it and they were speaking Mandarin. I remembered I saved an app called "No Bloat" that can uninstall boasted apps. I installed it and removed Voice Command app.no more "what would you like to do?". praise the lord!

NnekaGirl: Silent treatment is emotional abuse and it can lead to a break up in any relationship if the receiving party snaps!the longest I have treated my bf with silent treatment is two weeks!
I just don't know when to stop ...

girl, stop that. two Weeks? you are very lucky he's still there for you. I could be crazy about you but if you can't talk about your issues like an adult and prefer to keep malice for two Weeks then bone, i'm better off without you. there are other fishes in the sea. what makes you think there aren't girls waiting for the opportunity to grab your guy from you?

know that one woman's Vaseline is another woman's MaryKay. as someone wrote earlier, his girlfriend was giving him the silent treatment and lost him to another girl. also for the guys, remember the car of the banker that killed his wife. you don't know when you might push someone beyond hoods or her limits then later regret your actions

can someone tell me how to overcome this? my girlfriend that I want to marry uses this a lot.you need the patience of the gods not to shout at her.when she gets angry she uses this then I would have to beg and plead and pet her before she responds.
the other day she did it again and I just had it.I didn't say a word to her. she left and I didn't follow her. five minutes later she came back pleading and said she was only playing. sometimes I wish she would be serious and solve things like a guy