I have bought LG Optimus 4X HD also nick named “P880” after reading great reviews of it everywhere on the net.

To be honest with you, the phone is great and it is one of the best “quad-core” phone available in the android phone market as of this date of this article. You can read the entire spec of this phone at gsm arena website but there are problems with this phone ….

The first problem I noticed was poor signal in the house when compared to my other Samsung phones which can pickup good signal in my home. This could be also because of my service provider AT&T poor signal in my neighborhood.

But the show stopping problem is that it’s unforgiving battery drain, from full charge at 100% – 0% in 4 hours without even using the phone during bed time or moderate use of the phone during the day which about in ~3hours or less.  Tried to return the phone but found out that I would need to pay 15-20% restocking fee, then I started researching on the web on possible solution to this problem. Came across many article but no trick worked. As this is a relatively a new phone in the market, there is not that many forum or articles which talks about this problem when compared to other comparable phones that are in the market relatively longer.

Anyway, I stumbled upon a forum where a user described that “all LG Optimus model phones suffers from the same GSM/CDMA auto prl cell standby bug which affects its battery life! But there is no word about this on LG official website. So skeptically, I followed the instructions which is as follows:

1. Dial *#*#4636#*#* which will take you to the phone’s “Testing Menu”
2. Click “Phone Information” Section, scroll down till you see “Set preferred network type: and a drop down box which is originally selected to “GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)”. Click on that drop down to select “GSM Only”
3. Go back two times to exit out.
4. (Optional) Restart the phone to check to see that value you selected in #2 sticks after reboot. It is set for good in my case after the reboot.

After doing the above, there is drastic increase in battery life!! Now the battery comes the whole day with moderate use. BUT at what cost? In the above step #2, what you are doing is to ask your phone to do only 2G connections not 3G connection. Which means a) slower data download/upload b) you may be even paying already for 3G/HSDPA but instead of using it you are downgrading yourself voluntarily to 2G – that’s a shame.

Unless battery technology improves in the near future you will be buying phone after phone and run into the same old problem “poor battery life!”

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Note: If you have AT&T branded smart phones like Samsung Infuse 4g, you are going to have tough luck downgrading to 2G data speed (to improve battery life -oh really!) as mentioned above steps as I found that the value “GSM Only” that you select in the dropdown does not stick and it would revert back to  “GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)” ! You may want to do the following for that type of phones:

1. Dial *#2263#
2. You will get band selection menu
3. Press Menu Softkey>Select>Enter “3” (for GSM Band)

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HP Webcam problem – solution

January 1, 2009, 1:01 am

WEBCAM PROBLEM SOLVED!! (fingers crossed, here’s to hoping…)

I think I solved the webcam problem! I’m still being very, very wary because of how maddening this problem has been. I’ve now tried my webcam in six different programs, even including YouTube’s “quick capture” mode where you can capture video right through the Flash plugin in your browser. I’m very interested to hear what success others have with this (if any). Man, it’s so nice to actually be able to USE my webcam now.

Want to know what worked for me? Acer drivers.  Acer Extensa 5210 Chicony Webcam Driver 5.7

Here are the exact steps I took.

1. Downloaded the file.

2. Unzipped it to a folder on my desktop.

3. Ran the “Setup.exe” file in the folder that got unzipped.

4. Went through the installer until it got to the end and then let it restart my computer.

5. Waited for my computer to restart.

6. It popped up something saying it was installing the drivers for my webcam. Waited until it was done.

7. Opened the Control Panel.

8. Opened the Device Manager.

9. Find my webcam under “Imaging Devices”. I noticed it was listed as “HP Pavilion Webcam” despite having just installed the Acer drivers.

10. Right-clicked on my webcam and chose “Update Driver Software…”

11. Chose “Browse my computer for driver software”

12. Chose “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”

13. Unchecked the “Show compatible hardware” checkbox.

14. Scrolled down to the Chicony manufacturer.

15. Chose the “Acer Crystal Eye webcam.

16. Told it to install anyway when it asked me a question about installing that driver.

17. Waited for the driver to be installed.

18. Noted that my webcam was now listed as an Acer Crystal Eye webcam in Device Manager.

And that was it. It appears to work totally fine now! Again, I have my fingers crossed that it won’t suddenly break again, but so far so good.

Forgot to note: This is on a DV6000T running Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium.

URL:: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=149463

Fckeditor issues in Firefox – Solved!

Setting Prefs for the Mozilla Rich Text Editing Demo

To protect users’ private information, unprivileged scripts cannot invoke the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands in the Mozilla rich text editor, so the corresponding buttons on the Mozilla Rich Text Editing demo page will not work. To enable these functions for purposes of the demo, you must modify your browser preferences.

For Firefox:

1. Quit Firefox. If you have Quick Launch running (in Windows, an icon in the toolbar), quit that too.

2. Find your Firefox profile directory. On Windows, this is often located in

C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<one folder>.

(See also editing configuration files for more info on locating your profile folder.)

3. Open the user.js file from that directory in a text editor. If there’s no user.js file, create one.

4. Add these lines to user.js:

[important]NOTE: IF YOU ARE SEEING SMILIES BELOW THOSE ARE MISREPRESENTED FOR A SINGLE CLOSING PARANTHESIS![/important]

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://www.mozilla.org");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");

*Change the url “http://www.mozilla.org” to where you want to enable this function.

5. Save the file, and restart Firefox. The Clipboard buttons should now function.

Note: The preference is site as well as protocol specific. For example

user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://www.mozilla.org")

is not the same as

user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "https://www.mozilla.org")

(the first is http and the second is https)

If you want to allow multiple urls to access the Paste operation, separate the urls with a space. For example:

user_pref( "capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites","http://www.mozilla.org https://www.mozilla.org" )

For more information about security policies, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html.