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Anyway for some technical information. Assuming the wavelength of the signal to be 'L' where L=c/F, with c being the speed of light (say in centimeters) and F is the frequency (2.4GHz for Wireless b/g/n), then the Parabolic reflector should be kept at either L/4, L/2 or L distance from the antenna for maximum reflectivity. L/4 in this case works out to slightly over 3cms (more accurately 3.122838104cms). I had been using this technique since 2008 for EvDO. If you did not get any hints from this post for other frequencies, you can read http://anand.tch.in/2008/09/improving-signal-strength-of-evdocdma.html.

You can still use pepsi cans

Simplest solution is to get a Wifi router with a print server. For example the Asus RT-N13U. Other options include setting up a PC as a file/print server. With a Linux system, you should even be able to setup a scan server using SANE.

This has to do with the network rather than the SIM. The first SIM/RUIM I received from Tata Indicom when I took a CDMA connection way back in 2008 supported both CDMA and GSM networks. Except it would not work in India on GSM but would work abroad. I believe they used to call it the T-SIM.

I had GPS issues with the unofficial CSL GB ROM, so when the official Spice GB ROM came out I tried it out. It was decent for more than a week. Then I suddenly started suffering from a 5s wakeup lag problem on the official Spice ROM. Even reflashing the same ROM did not fix the problem. I could not flash any other ROM. Even CWM's recovery image would not work. But I was able to dump the recovery.img from the froyo ROM and flash back to the Cherry Magnum version. Happy for now. Inspite of the wakeup lag with the Spice ROM, I was getting over 2days of battery with 2G data on.

I know this is more than a year late, but shouldn't this thread be posted under Other CDMA providers rather than Other GSM Providers.

Spice Mi-410 Official Gingerbread update can be downloaded from http://www.spiceglobal.com/download/628d4ad7-4c46-45d7-8eb0-4dde07ad066c.rar

Funny, I never faced wakeup lag with either the Cherry Magnum GB Rom or the CSL GB ROM floating around. Have no problem with Wifi or GPS either. I am currently using a stripped down CSL GB ROM. I easily get over a 1.5days of usage with the phone with data in 2G mode. This includes around 1hr of Fruit Ninja.

Can someone post to an official link to TRAI's website rather than a newspaper's.

HTC Desire uses a first generation Snapdragon CPU with Adreno 200. The graphics performance is significantly improved with the second generation CPU with Adreno 205. Furthermore it also has HDMI out, and makes an excellent low cost development device. The quality of the gyro and rear camera is not upto the mark however. And to add some browny points to it, it is manufactured by Foxconn (the iPhone manufacturer). Its a 1GHz cpu. The list of devices it is sold internationally are: 1. Huawei Ideos X6(Australia)/U9000/Ascend X(USA) 2. CSL Blueberry Mi-410 (Malaysia/Indonesia) 3. Cherry Magnum HD (Philippines) 4. Welcomm A99 (Thailand)

ext4 is a filesystem used primarily by the Linux OS. It follows ext3 which by itself followed ext2. ext2 is the preferred choice on Android phones for the OS. Your sdcard uses fat32/vfat and hence is accessible on windows machines. From my experience with Linux filesystems on desktops, all I can say is that there are no significant benefits on a single core mobile phone or tablets with shifting to ext4 if your phone already uses ext2 and you are using flash memory for the OS. In fact both read and write performance is likely to be slower and the life of the flash memory device could come down if you shift to ext4. The primary benefit is reduced chance of data corruption if processes hang/become irresponsive and if you have a habit of removing the battery without powering off the phone. The use of journaling on ext3/4 improves reliability. However on desktops which use Harddisks as the storage medium, an ext4 is better suited due to better reliability and lower disk fragmentation and improved read performance but at the cost of write performance.

Spice MI-410 itself comes with 2.2 build with CSL ROM. Any ROM from Spice will likely be the CSL version. I also heard that CSL was bought over by Spice.

Also the stock 2.2 CSL/Spice ROM failed to detect automatically internet settings for Airtel. Flashing to the MagnumHD 2.3.4 Rom solved the problem.

I managed to get the MI-410 up and running with Gingerbread ROM from the Cherry Magnum HD. Once you do this you can try the modified skype for video calls. The modified skype for video calls is available on xda-developer forums and works well with the Spice Mi-410 with the Cherry Magnum HD ROM. Also manually rooted it to enable proxy support for WiFi networks.

A more complete video review at iGyaan