Update Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 P5100XXDMC3 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean France Kies Official Release

Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GT-P5100). TO be exact the roll out was began in Asian country. Now, from Europe region that might have been waiting for this 4.1.2 tweaks, you must better be aware now that update is hitting currently in France. The firmware build number is P5100XXDMC3 with a current baseband of P5100XXDLL2. This update Brings the 4.1.2 Jelly Bean stuff such as Google Now, new Notification panel, re-bumped widget and for system’s better enhancements and improvements that fixes lags and re-draws issues.

Again, this Android 4.1.2 update build P5100XXDMC3 is only available on Samsung Kies server for French owners of the unbranded Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 P5100. All other owners of this device across Europe regions that might be a carrier branded and still runs on 4.1.1 like P5100BUCLL1 might take another time to wait.  For advance users and has a rooted Galaxy Tab 2 p5100, you can grab the stock firmware from the below source. You will lose root when you install the official stock, but you can re-root again using the root method you used in 4.1.1 such as CF-Auto Root, SuperSU via CWM or any root method you used that I never known or heard about.

Manually Update Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean

This guide is for advance users only, those who have rooted and installed with modified firmware on their Galaxy Tab 2 GT-P5100 and having issues updating via OTA or Kies, this is your alternative method. Ordinary users may only update via OTA or Kies and do not use this method, for your Galaxy Tab 2 still runs with official firmware and you can simply update without facing any issues.

This is also useful to unroot or restore back your Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 to official factory firmware.

Disclaimer: Though this method is proven safe but you may use this guide solely at your own risk!

- Make sure the battery is fully charge

- Make a back-up copy of all important files stored from your device such as contacts, messages, photos, videos, etc

- If you came from custom ROM and wants to restore back your Galaxy Tab 2 to completely stock, perform wipe data via custom recovery first to avoid bootloop issues.

- If you installed Samsung’s Kies software, make sure it is closed and not running on system tray.

- Use the supplied USB cable of your Galaxy Tab 2, failures in flashing is caused by a bad USB cable.

Grab Odin3_v3.07 download
Install the USB Driver: download
Download the original P5100XXDMC3 stock firmware (unbranded)
France – XEF-P5100XXDMC3_P5100XXDLL2.zip link




1. Extract or “unzip” the downloaded firmware. Use winzip, 7zip or any decompressing tool in your computer.



2. Reboot the Galaxy Tab 2 into Download Mode
Turn it off, then press and hold down the “Power and Volume DOWN ” buttons at the same time. Press the “Volume UP” to get into download mode. Don’t connect the tablet into the computer yet.

3. Extract and Run Odin flasher tool.

4. In Odin’s checkboxes options, DO NOT Check the “Re-Partition”,  just leave “Auto-Reboot and F-Reset Time” marks.

5. In Odin, click the PDA button. Select the P5100XXDMC3_P5100XEFDMA2_P5100XXDLL2_HOME.tar.md5 file you extracted.

6. Plug the tablet to PC USB connection. In Odin, under ID:COM will highlight and shows the current com port of your Galaxy Tab 2 connected to. If you don’t see this and Odin doesn’t responds,  it means the device is not connected yet, just try another USB port or USB cable.

7. Click the START button.

8. Wait until it’s finishes flashing. Once it’s done, the tablet will just reboot.

If you have something to mention, just drop it on the comment form. Enjoy!

Source: androidromupdate.com

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Report: Apple Returned 8 Million Faulty iPhone 5 Smartphones

 

The iPhone certainly took the smartphone world by storm since it was introduced back in 2007, and we have seen our fair share of iterations and next generation iPhones over the years. 

Well, moving 8 million units of smartphones is certainly no mean feat no matter how you look at it, considering how majority of the other smartphone manufacturers do not sell that many handsets, it seems even more incredible that recent reports claimed that Apple has returned exactly this number of iPhone 5 devices to the factory that manufactured it (i.e., these units never made it to the market because of quality control measures).

Of course, more than a single grain of salt is required as you take in this bit of news, because the reports of that many faulty iPhone 5 smartphones being returned does not seem to be logical at first, second, and even the third glance. 

The China Business Journal quoted an unnamed source within Foxconn, aka Hon Hai for those living in China, touting that Apple has already returned five million iPhones because of either damaged appearance or malfunctioning before they were deemed to be worthy of being made available to the masses. 

The same source also said that this figure has ballooned to 8 million now. Hon Hai naturally denied this report, and Apple did not leave any comment. 

Source : ubergizmo

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As the PC market turns, touchscreens start to take over

Google’s Chrome OS isn’t exactly setting the online universe on fire, according to the latest numbers from NetMarketShare. In fact, Chromebooks are so lightly used that they don't even appear on the latest reports from the web metrics company.

When I wrote that news earlier this week, I heard two reactions, for the most part. The first was, "This surprises you?" The second was: "But that can’t be. The Samsung Chromebook has been at the top of Amazon’s bestselling laptops list for months!"

Indeed it has. That apparent contradiction surprised me, too, so I decided to take a much closer look at that Amazon list. I came away with a plausible explanation for Samsung’s success and some insights into the PC market as we head into midyear.

First, a little background. As a book author, I know a thing or two about Amazon’s bestseller lists. They’re based on complex (and highly secretive) algorithms that blend long-term sales with short-term momentum. So a product that sees a spike in sales in a single day can move impressively up the charts for a day or two, and then drop quickly back to its normal slot. But the products that stay atop the charts are those that sell steadily over time.

By that measure, there’s reason to congratulate Samsung for the Chromebook’s performance. Its tenure at the top means it has been selling consistently over time. So what’s the secret of its success?

Let’s start with the most obvious attribute: its price. At $249, the Samsung Chromebook is the second-cheapest device on the Amazon list. In fact, when I copied the list into a spreadsheet and sorted by price, lowest prices first, Chromebooks magically rose to the top.

Two of the top five notebooks are dirt-cheap Chromebooks. When you sort the 100 laptops on the list by price, only one Windows-based machine, the Acer Aspire One, managed to sneak into the bargain basement. With the Samsung getting excellent reviews for its build quality, at a price of $249, it passed the “What the hell?” threshold for many gadget buyers.

But I found the rest of the list much more enlightening. Here’s the short version:

• Apple’s MacBooks are very popular indeed.
• Touchscreens are making inroads into the mainstream.
• Cheap PCs are still the no-profit lifeblood of the industry.

Let’s dig in.

For starters, there really aren’t 100 discrete devices in the Amazon top 100 list. I threw out 10 of the entries on the list that were available only from third-party sellers, not fulfilled by Amazon. This group included three ancient Apple iBooks powered by G4 CPUs. It also included listings for five equally antique refurbished Dell machines. After excluding those listings, we end up with a total of 90 entries in the Formerly Top 100 list.

And there are a lot of duplicates on that list. The Samsung Chromebook comes in a single configuration, but many of the other entries on the list represent the same device with a different CPU or memory, in a different color, or with a slightly different model number.

One could, in fact, make a plausible case that ASUS deserves the top spot on the list with its amazingly inexpensive low-end touchscreen notebook powered by an Intel i3. The ASUS X202E appears in the #10 spot on the list, but its siblings, the silver and pink units with the same model number and the identical device sold as the Q200E, appear on the list as well. All told, this machine appears five times. If those sales were consolidated, it would certainly move up the charts - perhaps all the way to the top.

I found a total of six Apple MacBooks in the top 100. They paint a picture of Apple’s amazingly successful sales strategy. Create a manageable number of models, build them very well, slap a premium price on each one, and collect the greenbacks.

If you sort the list by price in reverse order, MacBooks float to the top of the list. All of the 12 Mac models on the bestseller list were among the 20 most expensive laptops you can buy at Amazon. Only one had an actual selling price of (barely) under $1000. Collectively, they represent only six models: the 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs, and the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros, with and without Retina displays.

And then there’s the incredibly diverse Windows laptop lineup.

When I combined all the duplicate entries, I found a total of 46 Windows-powered devices on the bestseller list. Here’s the breakdown:

• Only 2 were running Windows 7
• 32 were running Windows 8 on conventional notebook form factors
• 12 were running Windows 8 with touchscreens

That middle group is basically the strip mall of PCs: ho-hum, mostly heavy lookalike devices at price points that make you wonder how the OEMs can make a dime of profit. Of that group, 56 percent were priced at $500 or less and 88 percent were $700 or less.

But if you’re looking for signs of life, look at the list of touchscreen devices, most of them fairly recent additions to the bestseller list.

• Acer: Aspire V5
• ASUS: Taichi Convertible Ultrabook; VivoBook S400CA and VivoBook S500CA; Q200E/VivoBook X202E
• HP: Envy X2 convertible
• Lenovo: IdeaPad Yoga 13; Thinkpad Twist; ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch
• Samsung: ATIV Smart PC 500T; ATIV Smart PC Pro XE700T
• Sony: VAIO T Series

On average, the touchscreen devices sold for $802 each. By contrast, the non-touchscreen devices sold for $515. Part of that is the current premium price for touch-enabled displays. But as volumes go up, that component price should go down, making touchscreens more popular.

What I found most fascinating about this list were the Lenovo entries. In the recent dismal Q1, Lenovo nearly hit the top of the worldwide PC sales charts. And it’s not doing it with just cheap PCs. The Yoga 13, ThinkPad Twist, and X1 Carbon Touch are genuinely innovative designs, sold at premium prices.

We are in a time of transition in the PC industry. By the end of the year, I predict this list will look very different indeed.

Source : zdnet

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Researchers Build New Batteries That Charge Instantly And Hold Hours Of Juice

A group of researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created microbatteries that charge 1,000 times faster than normal batteries and can, feasibly, “jump-start a car” while powering a cellphone. The group, led by William King, is working on shrinking the batteries down to fit inside a “credit-card thin” device.

The batteries use a design that offers a much larger surface area for the cathode and anode which improves discharge as well as charge rate. While cathode (or plus side) improvements have existed for a while, this is the first one that also improves the “minus side” or anode.

In practice, the batteries could help create devices last 30 times longer or transmit farther distances – albeit with a hit in battery life. Many batteries either have a high power – the ability to pump out a lot of juice quickly – or high energy – the ability to store that juice and mete it out. Capactitors, for example, charge quickly but express their power very quickly as well. Li-Ion batteries hold energy but take a long time to charge. Because these batteries can hold so much energy and charge so quickly, you get the best of both worlds.

“Now we can think outside of the box,” said James Pikul, a graduate student on the project. “It’s a new enabling technology. It’s not a progressive improvement over previous technologies; it breaks the normal paradigms of energy sources. It’s allowing us to do different, new things.”

You can read the paper here but be warned it’s a bit nerdy and bit pricey to download. 

Source: techcrunch.com

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Microsoft Confirms Its Plans To Bring Windows 8 To Smaller Touch-Enabled Devices Soon

During its Q3 2013 earnings call today, Microsoft’s outgoing CFO Peter Klein noted that the company plans to bring Windows 8 to smaller devices. Until now, Windows 8 was mostly geared toward desktops and larger tablets, including Microsoft’s own Surface and RT machines.

With the forthcoming Windows 8 Blue, rumor had it that Microsoft would enable its OEMs to run Windows 8 on smaller devices, too. Klein confirmed this on today’s call, though he mostly talked about OEMs and did not mention whether Microsoft also plans to launch a smaller Surface tablet, though that’s probably a fair bet, too. Currently, there are no sub-10-inch Windows 8 tablets on the market, but according to Klein, we will hear more about these in the coming months.

During the Q&A phase, Klein also noted that Microsoft is working on “expanding and improving the experience, not just for Surface, but for Windows 8 devices at multiple price points, including lower price points going forward.” Earlier this week, Intel’s outgoing CEO Paul Otellini also noted that his company wants to ensure that OEMs can build Windows 8 machines for under $200 soon.

In addition, Klein also acknowledged that the transition to Windows 8 isn’t easy, but the company remains “excited about the opportunities ahead of [it].” According to Klein, Windows 8 has prepared Microsoft well for the transition from desktops to touch devices. “We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but we feel comfortable about where we are going.”

He also expects to see more – and more attractive – Windows 8 touch-enabled devices to come on the market in the near future, too, and he thinks these will become more attractive.

 Source: techcrunch.com

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Yahoo plans to launch iPad email app, new iOS weather app tomorrow

Yahoo plans to release an in-house weather app for iOS and an iPad version of its Yahoo Mail app as soon as tomorrow, according to a person familiar with the apps.

The iPad version of Yahoo Mail is optimized for the iPad’s larger screen, and it is already available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Late last year, Yahoo released a redesigned version of its iPhone application that focused on speed and intuitiveness.

Yahoo’s new weather app is notable as the company already is in a partnership with Apple to provide the data for the Weather app pre-installed on all iPhone and iPod touch models. Yahoo already offers a search app, an Axis web browser app, a Yahoo Finance app, and more for Apple’s iOS devices.

Recent reports have said that Yahoo and Apple executives have been meeting to discuss ways that the two companies can further their partnership. Besides Weather, Yahoo provides data for iOS’s Siri and Stocks functions. Yahoo search is also an option for the Safari browser.

Source : 9to5mac

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Apple Not Releasing Anything ‘New’ In 2013 [Economist]

Like all days, Apple has been in the news today as well, though primarily because its shares have reached their lowest point since 2011 and that iPad mini shipments are expected to plunge by 30%. Now Haydn Shaughnessy of Forbes is reporting that the company won’t exactly been releasing anything ‘new’ this year. He believes that entirely ‘new’ revolutionary products such as Macbook Air, iPad and iPhone were back when they were first announced, can’t be expected from the company. Rumored revolutionary products such as the iTV and iWatch, according to him, won’t be released this year. He cites this as the reason why there are more iPhone 5S rumors these days as opposed to rumors about these devices.


Haydn writes that the technology needed for such products isn’t quite there yet, and even if it is, its bogged with legal conflicts. The iWatch needs OLED displays, without which it would be impractical, but Samsung is the only supplier that can match Apple’s demands. Apple has already begun shifting the component business it was giving Samsung, so it doesn’t make any sense for the company to get back in business with its Korean rival.

There’s no doubt that Apple wants the latest and greatest technology available for its products, the same goes for its much rumored television set. Haydn believes that Apple would want a 4K quality screen, based on OLED technology, and with LG as its preferred supplier a launch is impossible in 2013. That’s because LG itself missed its 2012 launch estimate because its production line is proving to be problematic, which is something that Apple can’t launch its revolutionary product on. Beside that Samsung and LG are in a battle over OLED technology, a battle which recently led to Samsung offices being raided.

That being said, there will obviously be new models of the iPads, probably multiple iPhones, a refresh of the entire Macbook line and a new MacPro as well. If all of this is indeed exactly the way it has been reported, then we’re in for an evolutionary Apple year instead of a revolutionary one.

Source : ubergizmo

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Now Convert PDF To Word For Free, Without E-Mail Or Registration

The new online service built on an artificial intelligence system, claims to recreate real tables in Word document and converts some of the complex vector graphics (e.g., lines, curves, polygons) in a raster image.   

Wednesday, April 17, 2013:  Have you ever converted a PDF file to a Word file? If yes, then you know that almost every website out there ask you to register or e-mail. That may not be the case any longer. Sautin Software has launched a new free online service http://www.pdftoword.us that allows everyone to convert a PDF file to Word (.doc) format, images, or text. Another point of interest is that http://www.pdftoword.us converts PDF files to Word faster than any competitor. 

The new online service built on an artificial intelligence system, claims to recreate real tables in Word document and converts some of the complex vector graphics (e.g., lines, curves, polygons) in a raster image. This innovation significantly reduces the size. Doc file and the time it opened in MS Word.

A PDF document doesn't have real tables. Tables inside a PDF document in fact is a set of graphics lines. Conversely, a lot of documents created in MS Word often have a lot of complex tables. The engine of the online service can understand and recreate real-world tables with rows and cells from set of orthogonal lines or text.

Another interesting feature is that the online service allows to convert PDF to Images with a desired image format: JPEG, PNG, Bitmap or Multipage TIFF, and set image dpi.

Either a businessperson who needs a quick way to convert PDF files into a more convenient format, or home user who wants to edit PDF files, or a student who needs to bring Adobe PDF files into an editable *.DOC format, for all of them http://www.pdftoword.us could be a useful product

Source: efytimes.com 

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How 'High-Performance Clothing' Will Power Your Phone And Monitor Your Health

If you had a heart condition, or diabetes, getting on-the-spot data about your condition from the clothing you wear could revolutionize your treatment.

People who live with conditions ranging from diabetes to Alzheimer's rely on medical devices that monitor symptoms, perform diagnoses, and even provide treatment. Some, like insulin pumps, are worn on the body. The trouble is that many of these devices are bulky or inconvenient.

But researchers specializing in nanotechnology are developing ways to build materials and machines that can be worn comfortably by patients either inside or outside the skin.  

A conversation with his ten-year-old daughter inspired nanotechnologist David Carroll of Wake Forest University to find a material that could charge a phone or laptop by converting heat into electricity. What he ended up inventing does that and much more.  

This thin material — which he calls "power felt" — can convert both heat and movement into electricity. Besides charging your phone, or capturing the heat lost through your car's tailpipe, this revolutionary fabric might change the way we practice medicine as well.  

Unlike the thermoelectric materials currently available, Carroll's fabric is lightweight, feels like wool felt, and can be wrapped around surfaces or even sewn into clothing. That is because it is made from sheets of carbon nanotubes instead of the ceramics materials usually used to make thermoelectrics. 

With a manufacturing cost of somewhere around 25 cents for a couple of square feet, the stuff if incredibly cheap to make.  

Carroll says that a lot can be known about a person's physiology just through carefully measuring changes in body temperature and respiration.  This information can say a lot about symptoms a person might be experiencing or an injury someone might have.  

For example, infected areas are often hotter than normal. 

And, because it collects power from the heat of the body, it eliminates the need for batteries, which add weight to the sensors and can cause discomfort. 

Here's a lightly edited version of what David Carroll told us about the medical applications of power felt.  

Busines Insider: This power felt is amazing. Besides charging your cellphone, collecting heat from the sun solar, or making energy out of the heat lost from appliances and homes, what other applications does it have?

David Carroll: We have some really interesting applications for high-performance clothing. We expect that to be in testing for next year. And that high-performance clothing will do things like not only will it be useful for you to collect to power, I think the bigger story here is that we are also going to be using it for health monitoring.

Business Insider: Can you explain what you mean when you say, "high-performance clothing"?

David Carroll: So it collects power, but it also manages to collect information that lets us know an elderly person's risk of falling. Or if you are an Alzheimer's patient, it helps to monitor certain bodily functions, let us know the respiration of your skin, let us know things like sugar levels and things like that.

All of those functionalities need power associated with them, and most of those cases, for Alzheimer's patients, for people who are really elderly, for children that are handicapped, you can't really include battery supplies for stuff like that.

So you have to be able to power it from the body itself. So we suspect we will not only be able to integrate power function but on the spot diagnosis with power felt.

BI: With the power felt itself or in conjunction with other devices?

DC: With the power felt itself. The felt is measuring temperature locally. It's creating power from that temperature, but it is also measuring it. If you measure temperature locally and you do it the right way, you can know an awful lot about a person and their physiology.

Source: businessinsider.com

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PS4 price hints from Sony are promising

As the world waits for the next big Sony PS4 reveal, one crucial factor about the system is the price that consumers will have to pay, with many fearing high costs due to the promising new potential of the console thanks to the new PC-based architecture that is significantly different to the cell-based PS3.

This week, we have some encouraging hints from Sony that the price will not venture on the ridiculous side, as we saw with the £425 and $600 price tags for the 60GB PS3 model at launch. It’s safe to say that we won’t be seeing a repeat of this with the PS4, but Sony are well within their rights to charge more than the Wii U considering what the system is now capable of with hardware such as 8GB of RAM on board.

Michael Denny, Sony’s Worldwide Studios vice president has given an interview with Edge this week, revealing that the PS4 price is going to appeal to consumers ‘in the broadest sense’, suggesting that gamers won’t have to cough up a near fortune this time like they did with the PS3 at launch.

With the Wii U launching at $300 for the Basic model, how much will Sony increase this price though if they are going to appeal to consumers in the ‘broadest sense’? That tells us that it is going to be affordable, so a price between $300-400 surely has to be considered here.

Anything over that price isn’t really appealing to a broader sense of consumers is it? Sony obviously wants to attract as many consumers as possible with the PS4, so hopefully they start prices low to really gain an advantage on Microsoft and Nintendo.

Denny has added that we should ‘draw our own conclusions’ on what he meant by appealing to the broader sense – so it is looking promising we feel. It’s clear that a lot of people are already very interested in picking up the PS4, despite not seeing the actual hardware yet.

How much would you be willing to pay though at launch? Do you agree that $300-400 is a reasonable amount and anything over that is unacceptable?

Source: product-reviews.net

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