TF201 Clockworkmod Recovery Bootloop Easy Fix on Windows

Last year I installed Virtuous ROM on my Asus Transformer Prime (TF201) with "One-click Root for Asus Transformer Prime on Android 4.0.3". Yesterday after I cleaned cache and data, I encountered "Clockworkmod Recovery Bootloop". I could not boot my TF201. Thanks to a hint from mungo10 @ forum.xda-developers.com, I did fix it as follows:

(1) Donwload "Universal Naked Driver 0.72.zip" from forum.xda-developer.com;
(2) When TF201 on recovery mode, connect it to a Windows machine, install the above driver;
(3) Optionally install a new ROM from Asus;
(4) adb shell to TF201 and type "echo boot | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=0", exit and reboot;
(5) If a unrooted ROM is installed, an updated "One Click Tool" "viperMOD_PrimeTime_v4.6.zip" can be still used.

Q1 2013 Android Shipments Explode, iPhone Stalls, Windows Phone No.3

Research firm IDC found that Android shipments increased from 90.3 million in the first quarter of 2012 to a whopping 162.1 million units in Q1 2013. Google and its vendor partners accounted for 75% of all smartphones shipped in the first quarter, up from 59.1% in Q1 of 2012.

iPhone shipment growth slowed significantly, increasing a mere 6.6% from 35.1 million units to 37.4 million last quarter, as shown in the following IDC vendor estimates comparison  Apple’s operating system accounted for 17.3% of shipments, a decrease from 23% in the same quarter of last year.

Top Five Smartphone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, 2013 Q1 (Units in Millions) by IDC

Vendor	1Q13 Unit Shipments	1Q13 Market Share	1Q12 Unit Shipments	1Q12 Market Share	Year-over-year Change
Samsung	70.7	32.7%	44.0	28.8%	60.7%
Apple	37.4	17.3%	35.1	23.0%	6.6%
LG	10.3	4.8%	4.9	3.2%	110.2%
Huawei	9.9	4.6%	5.1	3.3%	94.1%
ZTE	9.1	4.2%	6.1	4.0%	49.2%
Others	78.8	36.4%	57.5	37.7%	37.0%
Total	216.2	100.0%	152.7	100.0%	41.6%

Windows Phone shipped 7 million smartphones, accounting for 3.2% of all shipments in the first quarter of 2013, more than double the year-ago quarter. Microsoft was able to overtake BlackBerry, which despite its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, saw smartphone shipments decline from 9.7 million units to 6.3 million units, accounting for 2.9% of global channel sales.

See more "Android shipments explode in Q1 as iPhone stalls; Windows Phone tops BlackBerry".

Can't login on Fedora 18

The default Fedora 18 installation does not set user and password. We need to manually add them. Thanks to menea:

Ctr+ alt +F2
Then type root
#useradd
#passwd
type your password.
Ctr+alt+f1
The type the user and password that you created

Live555 Compilation on Linux

$ wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
$ tar xvf live555-latest.tar.gz
$ cd live
$ ./genMakefiles linux
$ make

Wireless Connection After Installing OpenSUSE 12.3

Since OpenSUSE 12.3

got serveral decent reviews, I tried it with Gnome. Just like many complaints in OpenSUSE forum, there was no wireless connections. Fortunately after I restart right after the first Gnome, the wireless icon magically appeared along with battery icon. The wireless connection works.

How Google Glass Works

Current Android and iOS Device Usages/App Launching Per Day

According to "Flurry Five-Year Report: It’s an App World. The Web Just Lives in It",  currently the U.S. consumer spends an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes per day on smartphones and tablets. 80% of that time (2 hours and 7 minutes) is spent inside apps and 20% (31 minutes) is spent on the mobile web. 

All mobile browsers combined control 20% of consumers' time. Gaming apps remain the largest category of all apps with 32% of time spent. Facebook is second with 18%, and Safari is 3rd with 12% Worth noting is that a lot of people are consuming web content from inside the Facebook app. For example, when a Facebook user clicks on a friend’s link or article, that content is shown inside its web view without launching a native web browser (e.g., Safari, Android or Chrome), which keeps the user in the app. 

The app economy is thriving, with The Wall Street Journal recently estimating annual revenue of $25 billion.

From left to right, we see that the average number of apps launched per day by consumers climbs from 7.2 in 2010 to 7.5 in 2011 and finally to 7.9 in 2012. 

The following chart shows that, on average, only 17% of the apps used in Q4 2010 were in use earlier in the year on a device compared to 37% in Q4 2012. 

That means that 63% of the apps used in Q4 2012 were new, and most likely not even developed in 2011 (or possibly poorly adopted). Flurry believe that with consumers continuing to try so many new apps, the app market is still in early stages and there remains room for innovation as well as breakthrough new applications.