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"does this have a microphone though?"
well, on the back, where the various ports, etc. are labeled... 'mic/reset'
i'm assuming there is a microphone up there with the reset button...??

"look for google voice search, it's a non-free app like the market, so it will take a little digging to find a working verion"
weird. from what i'm reading, it is built into gingerbread by google. it uses google translate to convert your speech into text (doesn't work without wifi connection)

google translate installed. voice input still doesn't show up under 'voice input and output' in settings. neither does it show up under 'language and keyboard'

i'm pretty sure it's the build.prop thing. i found 'voice search' on the android market web page
(https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.voicesearch)
when i clicked to install, a little window came up asking me which device to push it to. when i try to select "sony ericsson r800i" it tells me 'this item is not compatible with your device'

if i recall, i can just text-edit that build.prop file on my computer and then push it back to the jxd??
...but i don't know what i should change it to...would it hurt if i used the same build.prop i have on sch-i500 phone?

well, i tried playing around with the build.prop file to no avail. i even went so far as to straight-out copy the build.prop from my phone (sch-i500) to the jxd. still no voice input.

obviously, i'm clueless here. as said earlier, i did *find* a google voice search (2.1) apk and installed it with no problems. still no voice input. quite frustrating. i give up for now.

I think there are other dependencies, like I said this is propritary google stuff, not your average install application. I don't think the build.prop file has much to do with that stuff other than maybe changing some flags so the file is installable on the phone. And some minor tweaks to the dalvik VM that is being loaded at boot time.


here is something that might be helpful to your cause.
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps

EDIT:
native mouse/ usb keyboard is only available in OS 3.x or later... it can be built into 2.x much like usb host mode but I don't know how to do it.

EDIT2: instead of posting a new reply, you can always modify your previous post and put whatever you want to add in, replying to yourself isn't good form unless maybe you have a ton of information to put down.

yea it's because of the line (don't have it in front of me) that says something about lcd density, it should be 120, if it's changed to 240 you'll get the messed up resolution. (or the other way around) It's just due to the number of pixels on the s601. Same thing will happen to your monitor if you change a monitor with a native resolution of 1600x1200 to 800x600 or something like that.

Think of build.prop as android's config file for user level changes.. different parts are in different files but most are in that one file

it's not annoying, just an eyesore.

oh thats good... it's not bricked... it might be possible to brick the bootloader but I'm under the belief this thing is unbrickable as long as the battery holds out

1) format your sdcard in your computer

2) redownload all the files from jxd

3) unrar the contents to the sdcard

4) hod R trigger while power on and reflash bootloader (less than 1 min)

5) hold menu while power on and will wipe and flash everything else

the site doesn't offer a md5 hash check so it's not really posible to run that on your download but I'm guessing corruped download.. your system is fine as long as you see something on your screen... black screen with no activity is a brick... anything activity is good

EDIT; one scarry possiblity is that your nand is defective if it passed the sig check and didn't fail out and still tried to flash, but the "disk" it is writing to is damaged or defective it coud do what you are describing... but I'd still lean on just a corrupted download

I tried to download again  the files from jxd. But today in the morning the handheld even can turn on or show something on the screen. I charge it all the day (the led was on) but now after 10 hours i can't turn it on (the red led is off too).

Well

  black screen with no activity  is a brick...

Now i have a plastic brick...

if anyone can manage to get access to amlogic's git servers, it would be extremely helpful. SNESFAN has instructions about applying for it here: http://forum.openhandhelds.net/index.php/topic,25.0.html

you need to supply a company name/email/website.I tried applying with my gmail email address but I was denied access (at least Annie replied though..)

currently, we don't have android source code for the meson 3 boards, which the S601 uses. Also, amlogic probably have android 4.0 source in their git. Unfortunately, they do not release their android source on the website.