The Official Acer Liquid 'Ask Paul' Thread...

[Guest goa200]

Anyone else experience a FC whenever you go to edit contact details and choose social network and pick facebook?

mine times out and i get a FC

EDIT: seems to be working just fine now

Edited December 11, 2009 by goa200

[Guest Rocky7]

Just done a test on my Liquid...

Took approximately 45 seconds from the initial buzz from the bootloader to bringing up the desktop, then a few more seconds to load the icons and pick up my 3G service.

To be honest, unless something is wrong with your phone, you shouldn't be booting more than once or twice a month or so anyway...

I've rebooted mine twice today and its very quick ... quicker then my mate Sony Ericsson candy bar. When I had to restart it I put it down expecting it to take a while (like my Magic) and suddenly it was showing the lock screen with NO SERVICE and then a couple of seconds later it was working.

40 seconds ish as Paul says. Very very respectable.

[Guest TheTinyToon]

my 2 cents.

The Cons:

• very unresponsive touchscreen edges
  
• extra vendor junk marked as undeletable
  
• wireless LAN antenna doesn't have a good reception
  
• handbook errors on a lot of pages
  • no cisco VPN client although stated otherwise
    
  • no usb drivers on cdrom, although stated otherwise
    
    
  • only average camera quality, no LED flash
    

  The Pros:

  [*]very fast (switching of portrait to landscape, etc)

  [*]nice grip

  [*]sound quality is good

  [*]gorgeous screen, wide luminessence options

  [*]environment light sensor

  [*]battery life nice (~1.5 days with wireless on and constant fiddling)

[Guest janjan2]

Hello Paul or other friends, which one of these you will like to have Motorola Milestone OR Acer liquid?

[Guest Paul]

My Milestone arrives today, so i'll let you know!

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[Guest janjan2]

Oh nice. thanks a lot. waiting for you

Edited December 12, 2009 by janjan2

[Guest Seth Cold]

Paul, how's the phone reception? and how's android without keyboard/scrollwheel ?? ( i have only used the G1) thank you.

do you recommend it? ( its the first android phone with 3G 1900mhz support, other than the elusive roger's g1... been waiting for this for months!!)

[Guest three_pineapples]

my 2c:

I'm in a regional area of Australia and have no trouble with the reception on the GSM network.

What advantages does the scrollwheel offer? I haven't found i need anything other than the touch screen. Sometimes i find when i'm zoomed out to far on webpages that it won't register clicks on links, so you have to zoom in a bit (would be cool if we had multitouch zoom like iphone!) but thats it. I guess maybe there are apps where you could use a scrollwheel... Keyboard seems good in landscape mode, though as the edge of the screen is a bit unresponsive i miss the space bar sometimes, but not often. Only had it for about 4 hours, so will get used to it no doubt! Can type quite quickly though with my two thumbs in landscape mode!

So far i'm finding the phone awesome ;)

[Guest Seth Cold]

my 2c:

I'm in a regional area of Australia and have no trouble with the reception on the GSM network.

What advantages does the scrollwheel offer? I haven't found i need anything other than the touch screen. Sometimes i find when i'm zoomed out to far on webpages that it won't register clicks on links, so you have to zoom in a bit (would be cool if we had multitouch zoom like iphone!) but thats it. I guess maybe there are apps where you could use a scrollwheel... Keyboard seems good in landscape mode, though as the edge of the screen is a bit unresponsive i miss the space bar sometimes, but not often. Only had it for about 4 hours, so will get used to it no doubt! Can type quite quickly though with my two thumbs in landscape mode!

So far i'm finding the phone awesome ;)

thank you for your quick response!!

I-d also like to ask if the screen is OLED or TFT??

[Guest Paul]

TFT.

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[Guest Shuflie]

my 2c:

I'm in a regional area of Australia and have no trouble with the reception on the GSM network.

What advantages does the scrollwheel offer? I haven't found i need anything other than the touch screen. Sometimes i find when i'm zoomed out to far on webpages that it won't register clicks on links, so you have to zoom in a bit (would be cool if we had multitouch zoom like iphone!) but thats it. I guess maybe there are apps where you could use a scrollwheel... Keyboard seems good in landscape mode, though as the edge of the screen is a bit unresponsive i miss the space bar sometimes, but not often. Only had it for about 4 hours, so will get used to it no doubt! Can type quite quickly though with my two thumbs in landscape mode!

So far i'm finding the phone awesome ;)

Get Dolphin browser from the marketplace and use that instead, has a nice quick access system for zooming and gestures.

[Guest Seth Cold]

do you have now your thoughts about the liquid vs the milestone?

[Guest Paul]

I like them both in different ways I think! ;)

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[Guest WVGA]

There's no Social Network integration on the phone out of the box.

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I'm sorry Paul, I know I am a newbie and you are the master here, but I have my own Liquid, and I can see, in the contact apps I can hit the Menu button and find the SNS (social networking) link and integrate my Facebook & Twitter contacts (only if name of contact & facebook are perfectly matching, else I have to link profile & contact manually) after sincing my Liquid w/ my Facebook account...

Let us know how it performs for you please !

Thanks !

[Guest Paul]

From here...

Oops, there is social network integration!

;)

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[Guest WVGA]

From here...

;)

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Sorry ;)

I have to take more time to read the whole thread next time ;)

Won't happen again =)

[Guest Seth Cold]

ok mine is on its way ;)

i hope we can get other interfaces... rachael... sense... idk, something in the future...

[Guest three_pineapples]

Get Dolphin browser from the marketplace and use that instead, has a nice quick access system for zooming and gestures.

I tried that. It didn't seem to have a gesture for zooming. Seemed slower than the stock browser too. So i uninstalled it ;)

[Guest Seth Cold]

paul, could you tell the difference in size between an iphone 3g/3gs and the liquid?

[Guest chunga]

I ordered mine, today. ;)

About zoom I think 1 finger zooming is more appropriate, since the device is fast.

[Guest JackTheMan18]

Question:

I installed the drivers that are pinned, no problem.

(under devices, in windows 7 64bit, I now show a Acer HSUSB device).

I installed SDK 1.6 (r4) from google.

However, I seem to be unable add the ADB driver, so that the SDK will work.

When I add the driver, windows 7 says that the device is not functioning. Is there something else required?

(In other words it shows the adb drivers with a yellow mark on it).

Any suggestions?

[Guest llecaroz]

first, force removing of all already installed previous versions of the driver & inf files ( by using tools like USBDeview on your PC ) you will see some acer bla bla bla line,

next just add this in your [google."your os version"] section of your android_winusb.inf file

;

;Acer Liquid

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0502&PID_3201

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0502&PID_3202&MI_00

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0502&PID_3202&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0502&PID_3202&MI_02

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0502&PID_3202&MI_03

(don't forget to replace "your os version" by the corresponding os)...

& when it asks for the driver, set your android sdk usb driver dir & It should work successfully.

It works successfully on mine.

You can also verify that it works by going in the tools dir, & run adb devices

you should see one line with your device... & also adb shell should work ;)

Personnaly, I really apprecaite it comparing to my wife iphone. it is really quicker, multi tasks, but plastics a little bit to cheap ;) (but if you compare the price & specs to iphone, it is really a good deal)

Anyway, I really like it, my xperia is going to the drawer of my desk (broken everywhere, on the keyboard, ect...) !

and and and ! you can write android apps on eclipse... comparing to iphone on which you have to use a mac os & pay for their toolkit...

Really, enjoyded... going to start small devs....

Edited December 18, 2009 by llecaroz

[Guest Hypock1]

sup paul

hows it comparing to other android devices you've tried? a worthy competitor?

[Guest blakski]

just got my acer liquid..great apart from...can not get data connection (o2 ireland).. SIM is ok,, any ideas????thanks

[Guest sml12]

just got my acer liquid..great apart from...can not get data connection (o2 ireland).. SIM is ok,, any ideas????thanks

Have you set up your APN settings? You'll find it in the settings menu.