Bricked OnePlus One, here is a fix.

If your oneplus one suffers from the audio fx force close bug, or the very seriously annoying bug of no IMEI, no radio, no Wi-Fi... Yeah, the brick nightmare, where flashing a backup or a new rom doesn't fix it...

Here is a possible fix.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2879061

This guy, @markbencze on xda has found a possible fix, and this awesome guy is helping a lot of people fixing the issue.

Oneplus one

Oneplus one, 1+1.

My experience so far:
Very buggy software, lag, stuttering, freezes, hickups and random reboots. This was on cm11s 33r.
I've tried a lot of different roms and kernels. All are buggy, some more, some less.
They all score insanely high on Antutu benchmarks. That's not the same as having a smooth experience in daily use..
The cool thing is that the is so much development going on, so many different roms. Bugs will be fixed sooner or later.

Camera.
I'm impressed with the video recording. And macros.
Other than that, meh.
Pictures come out blurry, and color reproduction is lacking, photos look washed out. A lot of noise. HDR mode is worthless.
I have not tried the ColorOS, I've heard the camera is better with that software.
Yeah, I guess it's not the sensor that is bad...
I used to take a lot of photos, but this device... It's just not fun anymore.
Good selfies though.

The screen,
5.5" is nice, and the screen is great.
Very bright and sharp.
A frozen pixel appeared after only a few hours of usage, I didn't bother to return my device, customer support is... Well, are there any?
Pixel still frozen, red. Tried many fix apps...

Battery is great,
I was used to charge 3 times a day, now I have battery all day, sometimes 2 days.
Really really great battery.

Speakers.
Placed at the bottom, when gaming in landscape mode speakers are covered. And that's crap.
Sound quality is crap, and the speakers being loud only makes it worse.
Though, the speakers are pretty good for voice. Loud and clear in speaker calls, video calls..

Capacitive buttons,
yeah I love those.
I really do hate on screen navbar, it's the worst thing that ever happend to Android.

64GB internal storage. 3GB RAM. Brilliant.

Signal,reception.
Very buggy, very unstable.
Have no 4g in my area, only gsm and 3g. Terrible on 3g, good on 2g.

So, to wrap it up, for it's price it's a good device. Eventually the experience will be better, when bugs are fixed. I would not label this device a "flagship" Definitely not a flagship-killer.

Update: CM11S 38R, after this update, the user experience is noticeably better, smoother. I've only had one random reboot, during video playback in the gallery app. (That has happened before, yes..)
Still, my Xperia ultra opens apps faster, and lags less when playing games.
GPS lock is still slow, even if I modify gps.conf.
3g data is still not good.

Sphere 5

Sphere 4

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The picture:

The sphere:

Showbox - Everything you need (almost)

http://media-apps.cc/android/

That's the place to go. Download the showbox.apk
Untick "use internal player", then you are free to choose your favorite chromecast app, I recommend LocalCast.
Enjoy free movies and series.

Tv portal, now with chromecast support.

Tv portal has a lot of movies and series available for streaming. And now it even supports chromecast.

Well, it was possible to cast earlier, via apps like Localcast etc. But kinda frustrating since not all links are of the formats supported by chromecast.

Now there is a built in function for chromecast, making it a little easier.
To be able to cast you need the Chromecast plugin.

Link to tv portal app + chromecast plugin.

Streaming torrents to Chromecast (android)

Flixtor, (Google play link)
This is cool, it's a good looking app.
Very smooth, and allows you to stream videos to chromecast via torrents.

So, you must have the pro version of the app to be able to cast, and since its pirated stuff, here is the link to a pirated version of the app. :)

Ok, I think the developer has done a good job, and deserves something in return, but I also think this kind of stuff should be available for everyone.

Popcorn time is also out there, supporting Linux, Windows, osX and now also Android. I believe it will support chromecast in a near future.

Spotify Free, tablet mode on phone, chromecast.

Now and then I listen to music on spotify, mostly when my friends post a link.
Being a Google play music all access subscriber, I don't see any reason for having spotify premium.
But only shuffle mode is available on phones with spotify free...

Unless you have root, xposed framework (link) and a little nice module called TabletMetrics (Link)

So, there you go, tablet mode.

Now, the even nicer part is the app Spoticast (link)
It makes it possible to send the music from spotify to your chromecast.
Absolutely brilliant.
Spoticast has just been released, so it's not "perfect" yet, but it works fine for me.

All this technology is magic, and these developers are wizards.

Update: Spotify went 100% retarded and deliberately broke the spoticast function. I can only recommend finding another music streaming service.

Update 2: The SpotiCast developer has fixed the functionality, it's possible to cast again. At least until spotify breaks it again. :)

Apps and websites for streaming free movies and series.

Showbox
App that has an incredible library of movies and series.
Untick " use internal player" and you can send the stream to your chromecast.
Most material available in 720p
The last two weeks the streaming has been problematic for me, but others have reported success.

TV-portal
App with a lot of movies and series,
Not all links are compatible with chromecast, and some links are dead.

Movie Tube
App. Movies, series. A lot of the material is hosted on YouTube. 😃

Simplymovies.net
The same material as showbox.

Youtubeonfire.com
The same as movie tube.

Tfplay.org
Some movies and series. 720p. Nice page.

Swefilmer.com
Swedish subtitles available.

Dreamfilm.se
Well. This page is sometimes useful too.

So, there it is.
Watching a movie online is not illegal.

Where is my CD? Downloading torrent...

This album isn't available on any of my streaming services.
I bought the CD back in 2009, I listened to it a lot.
Today I wanted to listen to this record again, but it's nowhere to be found.
All my DVD's and CD's are "somewhere" in a box,
why wouldn't it be, it's 2014 and I have a 30/30 connection to the interwebz.

 I am not going to track it down, I have no idea where i put it.
 And I don't have the time or energy to track it down.
So, I found it on the web, in the form of a torrent.
The download is complete right now.

I feel it's morally right to grab a digital copy of this music.

Chromecast and desktop computers

On my laptop, from time to time I wish to cast a browser tab to the TV.

Well, it's possible from Chrome browser, if you have the Google cast plug-in.

Ok, actually it's kinda useless. But it's cool.

Videostream for chromecast is another plug-in that lets you play videos from your PC to your chromecast.

I'd rather use Plex for that, but that's another story.

VidCast, this is what i've been looking for. It's a way to cast videos from the web.

Vidcast is a bookmarklet, open a video in your browser, click the bookmarklet, and if the video is in a supported format it will play on the chromecast. 

CR Cast is a chrome browser plug-in that turns your browser into a chromecast receiver.

This is very cool, at the moment it's kinda limited, but the developer is working on it.

Here is another tip:

Chromecast and some apps.

Times are changing.
I don't watch traditional TV, I don't use my computer for surfing the web.
I use my phone for all that stuff.
Chromecast has made my TV a sort of extension to my phone.

I listen to some music on my phone, wants to hear it loud, push the cast icon, and voila, it's sent to my TV.
I watch a lot of stuff on youtube, same there, if i find something nice and want to watch it on the big screen, Cast it.

Netflix, no problem.

If i want to show my photos to the kids, I make a diashow and throw it to the TV.
I like the fact that i can just lay on the couch and control eveything from my phone.

There are a lot of websites streaming movies and series.
With my favorite app for chromecast, Localcast, I can play almost any video from the web on my TV.
I also use Localcast to cast the media i have on my phone.
Castpad is another fun little app, me and the kids can use our phones to draw on the TV.

There is a lot of stuff going on with the Chromecast right now, new services and apps almost every day.
Caststore, nice app that keeps track on what new stuff is released for chromecast.

And it's a cheap little device, well worth the money.

Google Play Music All Access

Google play music is Google's Music streaming service, you can compare it to Spotify or Wimp.

So, here are the reasons why I choose GPM(AA) (Google play music (all access)):

Google is taking over the world, you might as well take your business there now. :)
You can upload 20.000 songs to Google's servers, they will store it in the cloud for free.
This is really nice, I have some Mp3s that are not available on any streaming service. Uploaded.

Even if you don't have the Premium/all access subscription, you can access the music you have uploaded.

And you can access GPM from everywhere, on up to 10 devices.
This is nice, I log in to GPM on my kids phones, and they can listen to their music. '

Another thing that I think is cool is that with the push
 of a button I send the music to my Chromecast device.

Yeah, almost all the music I need is available on GPMAA, the songs I cant find there, I find somewhere else and upload them.

It's possible to buy songs and albums also, and from what I understand the artist gets up to 70% of that money, so that is kinda cool too

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