Upgrade your Nexus S with latest Gingerbread 2.3.4

If you are a lucky latest Nexus S owner with 2.3.3 firmware and you experience a bad update or you simply can't wait the OTA upgrade to 2.3.4 as announced by Google Mobile Team. You can follow this instructions to get your device up to date.

Although I have tested the following procedure with my own device (and it worked!), this procedure is at your own risks.


The delivery package provided here is only appliable for the specific category 
Baseband: I9023XXKB3
Build number: GRI54

English instructions:

1. Download the following file: http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespo/da8206299fe6.signed-soju-ota-121341.da820629.zip
2. Upload it on your device's SDCARD (automaticaly mounted).
3. rename it into update.zip
4. shutdown the device
5. boot it up via pressing at the same time <volume up> + <power>
6. select "rescue menu"
7. Wait for the triangle pictogram sign
8. Do <volume down>, then <volume up> while keeping pressed <power>
9. select your "/sdcard", then indicate the file : "update.zip"
10. Validate with <power>
11. Chose reboot.

After the patch applied, the first reboot is going to take a lot of time. This is normal.

French instructions: 

Valable uniquement pour les Nexus S de ce type : Baseband: I9023XXKB3
Build number: GRI54
Je l'ai appliqué moi-même, mais cette opération reste à vos risques et périls.

Procédure à suivre

1. Récupérer le fichier suivant : http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespo/da8206299fe6.signed-soju-ota-121341.da820629.zip
2. l'uploader sur la SDCARD (montée automatiquement dans votre ordi
3. la renommer en update.zip
4. éteindre le mobile
5. l'allumer en faisant <volumeup>+ <power>
6. aller dans le menu "rescue"
7. attendre le petit pictogram triangulaire
8. Faire après <volumeup>, puis <volumeup> en maintenant <power>
9. sélectionner "/sdcard", puis "update.zip"
10. <power> pour valider
11. choisir rebooter.

Ça prendra un peu de temps. C'est normal.

Happy Gtalk video ! :)

--
 Éole

Flickr Tsunami

As we all know, Japan is in a very bad shape. But is not our topic here today.
Few days ago, when I connected to my flickr page after receiving the bad news. I had this suprise:

I realized that one of my photos has been posted on a japanese net-zine. I never have such a traffic in short time.
Between 1500 and 2000 people reached my Flickr photo page and then visited photos surrounding this one in my photostream.
The pike is huge!


As far as I understood, the blog quotes the Anime series Evangelion where blackouts occur in Tokyo. http://gigazine.net/news/20110314_rolling_blackouts_list/

The only relation would the display of streetlights.



Anyway, thank you gigazine for picking up my photo.





I join all my positives thoughts to Japan.




Image by Rolito (Patapons' dad).

London was calling!

Hey folks, I'm not really active those last few days.
Last month I visited good friends in London. For a autumn beginning we had a great weather. Was good to see Alvaro & Nico. I put some pictures on my wandering in London are merged with the previous galerie

End of Summer

August

I usually have several weeks late in my photos treatments.
This is mainly due to the fact I shoot in RAW mode (This is direct output from the captor; not processed by the camera's processor, like compact cam would do).
This allows me to have more data in the file ; more than our eyes can see. In the end, I can tweak the coldness and the warmth of the photo (so called White Balance). Making the dark zones darker and enlighten the rest (contrast and tones tuning). These are the basics of a bunch of way much more modications I can do.

During a photo session I usually shoot more than hundred pics. And it's easy to get lazy afterward. But this result definitely worth waiting the treatments. The pictures care a really added value. People don't realize that shooting is only fifty percent of the work :)

Back to our initial talks. I had some events during this summer I have just finished post-treated.

Here is a little digest of my different galeries:

Some photos take from my bedroom window other the street. Reminds me of the end of august.

Then I went to one of my very good friends wedding in Brittany (west of France, 500km from Paris

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September

During our Monthly parisien Flickr meeting, we met some girls in the street while we were jumping together. I gave my contact and offered to do photo session shoot.

My old friend Rico, I hadn't seen for 4 years visited me. We add little visitin Paris center and also tried a Tilt Shift lens. This is a 1200€ lens (ouch!) that allows you to play with the depth of field. I'm not really interested to buy one, but I wanted to try. This so rare (also because of the price), that it's not easy to find one to try.

Ariba riba

A friendly mexican coworker brought me into the Parisien's mexican national day party. This was a low light, really hard photo conditions...

Last warm rays

This last 2008 summer weekend was warm and sunny. I had my friend Pat's visit. In France was "Les journées du patrimoine". All administrative and public installations are opened. We visited the "St. Pierre de Montrouge Church" near Place d'Alésia which is opened all year though. But after we visited a bus depot. This was really interesting to se this huge place and be able to talk with the drivers.

Link to the galerie.

We also had fun with my wide angle in the metro. Cool effects

On sunday, I could wear a tshirt and shorts. This was a great day. My friend same, a great skater did a photosession with me, desguised as clown.

Here is the whole sets

• Photoshoot with Carolash
• Walk with Rico
• Mexican independant party
• Journée du patrimoine
• Metro effects
• Techno Parade
• Clowny day