Updating Note 10.1 2014 edition to Android Kit Kat

This is just a short post because I recently bought a Note 10.1 2014 edition. I booted it up and selected update, nothing showed up. Where's Kit Kat? I shouted to myself. Turns out it either rarely gets distributed to machines in the UK or not at all. I can verify that nexus 7 2013 and Note 2 updated on their own no problemo. So, I traipsed around the net looking for instructions. I found loads on how to update it to stock android but then I found this.

http://www.teamandroid.com/2014/05/20/install-galaxy-note-101-p600-xxucnd3-android-442-firmware/

They have a link to easily download the Samsung official firmware 4.4.2 and a link to download odin. Make sure you read both pages.

Back up your files just in case. In my case they were still there after "phew"

Also, in the download file it only has the one firmware file so install it in the AP box as they tell you and ignore the other boxes, they will only confuse you and there's no files for them. The box will also turn blue, not yellow when connected.

If you need to turn developer rights on to select usb debugging mode go down to about device and poke build number 7 times. The options will reappear, apparently the developer rights confused normal people so they hid it. (As an example, a person from work bough an s3 mini and had a heart attack when he saw the machine using RAM. He reformatted the phone because he didn't know what it was doing. I promptly told him to stop looking at it)

The file is safe and I just tested my wifi, it's now picking up a 100% signal. Before it showed 10meg to less. Now it's 99mbps. Now I can screen cast and everything's perfect. So, if you're still waiting or bought a new one, take the leap, it's a small one.

Exergaming Yourself to a New You!

I apologise I have issues smiling for cameras. Just ask my dad.

So, this is me. I started exercising properly, again, about one month ago. I'm still considerably overweight for my 5 foot frame, sitting at 14st5 right now, but since starting my routine I've gained some muscle and my clothes are fitting much better which is good for 4 weeks work and I've lost around 4lbs. I've recently realised that 2.2lbs is 1kg and therefore 1 bag of potatoes so every time you get sad about losing a pound you should go to your local supermarket and hold 1kg of potatoes and feel really good about yourself. Failing that, lose 10kg and pick up the larger bag and realise just how much you've been weighing yourself down.
 The only way I ever lose weight is through games. I did it once before, long ago before college, using Wii Fit. This involved 1 hour of exercise a day that boiled down to 3 sessions of 5 minute step aerobics, 1 10 minute hula hooping session, maybe the boxing if I felt like it and 20-30 minutes of free running. Over a 2 month period this knocked off 1.5 stone.

For those of us who have experienced UK college or university workloads will understand how much weight you can pile on through a semester, let alone the full year. So the 13st whatever weight I got down to came back with aplomb and now I have to start again. This time I thought I would document it so I can keep up momentum as well as covering the games I'm using to do it.

There are 3 right now.

Wii Fit U.      Ubisoft Your Shape Fitness Evolved (UYSFE)   and   Zumba (Wii U)

Hopefully what I  tell you about each game now (including routines) will help myself and anyone else struggling to pick a programme or put routines together.

I will start with Zumba World Party since it's probably the most straightforward.
Do you see that image above? Do you see how pretty it is? Zumba uses a blend of beautiful backgrounds from around the world with attractive people exercising in front of them. These are people dancing at a variety of levels, if you can't copy the person in the center then by all means look at the back ones once they have appeared (By doing well you get more people on screen)
Zumba World party is the easiest, not because of the level of exercise, but because of how the workouts are divided up. You can choose between 20/40/60 dependent on what time you have available and you can choose between easy, medium and hard routines. I would say that the hard routines are only marginally harder but the sole reason I don't use this game as my main source of exercise is because at 14st it could possibly finish you off. If you have good leg muscles and a decent level of stamina dive straight in and get this. It comes with a hip strap but I really do wish they had it on the UK eshop, like the american one, because most people have their hip caddy from the original version.
There isn't much to say about  the workouts themselves. It uses lively music and involves a lot of dance integrated exercises that keep your body moving. If you like zumba in the class you'll love it at home too.

Beware of Russia:  This doesn't happen to everyone but I have found ever time I hit the russian dance level something goes wrong and it crashes. It either does it at the end of his routine, which is disheartening, or the other day when I accidentally paused the game from my hip. Do not touch anything if this track appears in the routine. It could well be my wii U or it could well be Ubisoft (as a lot of us already know).

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a game called Personal fitness trainer by Ubisoft that you could run on PC. Then it became My Fitness Coach on the wii. You can tell they are the same by the main instructor Maya (which I have to admit I quite like and it's nice to see they haven't abandoned her) and now it has been absorbed into the Your Shape Fitness evolved mould. 

There are a range of exercises: 

Yoga

Fighting

Dance

Zen (relaxation)

Cardio

The most interesting thing about these is that they are all doable. Even the sit ups. Unlike the predecessors to this game it will never ask you to do press ups in the main routine. I've never come across them. All exercises are achievable and more importantly all the exercises work different body parts and you will sweat and feel it even if you only do 15 minutes. My personal preference is to set the game to 2 days a week programme of weight loss and then for the rest of the week you can choose random workouts. I heavily suggest that if you buy this game (which can be picked up for £3-7 here) you unlock all the harder workouts from the shop. This way you can select longer routines that work all the different body parts and get you sweating in no time. My only problem is that I ran out of things to unlock.

I heavily suggest you use the yoga as none of it is impossible like some of the wii u options.
Stamina building will try and kill you but it does work and is very good for you.
Dance I'd say pass on, they aren't fun enough nor feel like they are working enough areas to be beneficial.
Fighting is also useful as well as the range of warm up routines.

If you really hate choosing to begin with, try the program option for 4 days a week and you'll get an idea of which exercises you like. I have gained enough stamina from this game to be able to perform zumba again.

Your shape fitness evolved is not a perfect game, it never will be unless ubisoft put the effort in to make longer workouts that are beneficial because after the 15-30 minutes are up you'll probably find yourself so tired you want to turn off for the day. Like Zumba they should give you time choices. Nobody has realised yet that consumers hate choice regarding actual exercises, especially if something in the routine looks hard but may help them so take the choice away and they may actually try to do the exercise.

Wii Fit U is the latest incarnation of the Wii Fit brand. It's added a few games on top of the original, such as the traditional Japanese sport of water cannons you can see above. They've also added harder modes to the step aerobics that you should seriously avoid like the plague. Why they thought blocking out the moves to make you think about it would be better, I have no idea. In my case it almost killed me as I constantly went to fall off the wii balance board because I was hesitant. 

I can promise that I have lost weight with the original wii U before and I managed to lose 1.5 stone. 9kg? (2.2lb per kg) and I did it using this workout:

3x step aerobics plus basic (this is the harder mode from wii plus)

10 minute hula hoops (normal, not plus, this adds arm twirling)

10 minutes of boxing.

20 minutes or more of free running.

If you do that for one hour per day the weight really comes off you and so far I've found it really hard to go back to wanting to. Wii fit doesn't make it easier to create routines I would actually like and some of the routines it offers make me wonder why it matched the exercises together. It's especially annoying when it says "that's a lot, don't hurt yourself" I wish that it was fun and challenging but if you get into a rhythm it really does work. 

Other people have suggested: 

Wii fit plus:

Sun Salutation

Downward facing dog

Cobra chair

Spine extension

Rowing squats

Grounded V 

Jack knives

Lunge

Rowing Squat

Rowing Squat

Arm and leg lift

Parralel stretch

Rowing Squat

Workout Arms and Core-

Basic Run- Long

Super hula hoop- 3 min

Single arm stand

Push up and side plank

Torso twist

Rowing squat

Plank, or plank challenge

Downward facing dog

Half moon

Advanced step

Tricep extension

Sun Salutation

Workout: Legs

Basic run- Island lap

Standing knee

Lunge

Single leg extensions

Sideways leg lift

Dance

Chair

Triangle

Sideways leg lift

Sun Salutation

Workout: Core body

Basic run
Super hula hoop 6 minutes
Sun salutation
Plank Challenge
Torso Twists
Jackknife
Arm and Leg Lift
Bridge
Spinal Twist
Shoulder stand
Half moon
Finish with crunches.

Routine-

10 Minutes of rhythmic boxing
5-10 cycling
5-10 flying chicken
5-10 basic run plus
5-10 step routine
5 min super hula
and 5 of obstacle course.

The biggest addition to the game is the wii fit pedometre which you don't really need but at £20 it's useful and you can get it in the wii fit bundle too.

It measures how many steps you take and also your altitude and lets you input them into the game. It's not completely accurate but it's nice to know when you are doing a little bit more. 

The routines, aside from my own, have been gathered from:

Here , here and here

If you like their routines, please let them know. Also some information regarding weights is on the sites too so it's worth a look.
Hopefully in a few months I'll come back having lost weight and talk about them all in more depth, but I don't want to keep you all day.

Beast Master and Prince Lines 88-140

So yes, I can take photos and collect the text way quicker than I can translate. I just wish I'd reached a decision point. It's going to be decades away.

88. ごれはお父さんの特別製だから、 普通の笛とはちよつと違うのJ

kore wa otosan no tokubetsu seidakara, futsu no fue to hachiyo tsuto chigau no

Because it is made of special "Gorewa father, and J differs from Hachiyotsu and whistle ordinary

89. 「 私も、 鳴らせるようになるまてすごく時間がかかって……
Watashi mo, naraseru yo ni naru mate sugoku jjikan ga kakatte...
"I also ... to take time to really be until it is you can play

90. 「 ふふ、 そうだったわね。 小さな頃から、 すいぶん長い間練習してたのを覚えてるわ」

Fufu, sodatta wa ne. chisana korokara sui bun nagaiai renshu shiteta no o oboe teru wa.

"Hehe, you're right. Since I was little, I remember had been practicing for a long time moisture"

91. 「 お母さんみたいな、 立派な猛獣使いになる！ つて」

Okaasan mitaina, rippana mojudzukai ni naru! tsute

"The Tsute! Mom made such like, in a splendid wild animal trainer"

92. 「 …… いつになつたらなれるのかなあ」

..itsu ni natsutara nareru no kana

"I wonder can become the Tara summer in time ......"

93. え？
E?
What?

94. お母さんに言われた通りずっと練習を続けてるけど」

Okasan ni iwa reta tori zutto renshu o tsudzuke terukedo

"And I have continued to practice much as it was said to mom"

95. 「 本当にこのままでちゃんと猛獣使いになれるのかちょっと心配で……

Honto ni kono mama de chanto mojudzukai ni nareru noka chotto shinpai de...

In a little worried ...... do you become a wild animal trainer properly in this state really "

96. 「 ど、 どうして？ 今日だってちゃんとでぎてたじやない。

do, doushite? kyo datte chi yanto degiteta jiyanai

Etc. ", why? Even today not Ya same had a perfectly righteous.

97. 「 お母さんならきっと、 最初に吹いた1回で終わらせてた」

okaasan nara kitto, saisho ni fuita 1kai de o warase teta

The "I'm sure if the mother, had to end once blew first"

98. 「 それに、 ずっと探してるのに、 全然見つからないの」

Sore ni, zutto sagashi teru no, zenzen mitsukaranai no

"And, even though looking much, it's not found at all"

99. 探してる……

Sagashiteru?

You're looking for?

100. 「 猛獣よ。 猛獣を従えていない画猛獣使いなんて、 聞いたことがないでしょ？

Moju yo. Moju o shitagaete inai ga mojudzukai nante, kiita koto ga naidesho?

"I beast. Nantes picture wild animal trainer that is not followed by a wild animal, probably never heard?"

101. 「 それは…… そうだけど」

Sore was... sounds dakedo

That is...likely

102. 「 どこかにいないかなあさっきみたいな卜ラとかライオンとか…… 」

Doko ka ni inai kana sakki mitaina tora to raion to ka...

"...... Such as Lion such as us such a little while ago like I wish or not somewhere"

103. 「 み、 見つけたら連絡するわ」

Mi, mitsuketara renraku suru wa

The "I'll contact only, if you find" /i'll contact you if i hear anything

104. 「 ふふ、 ありがとう」

Fufu, arigato

Hehe, thank you

105. 「 あ、 ところで、 最近クラウス兄さんに会った？

A, tokoro de saikin kurausu nisan ni atta?

"Oh, by the way, I met Klaus brother lately? have you met?

106. クラウス？ 会ってないけど…… 」

Kraus? ??? ttenaikedo...

Klaus? I have not seen, but ...... "

107. 「 そう…… 。 最近忙しいみたいで、 中々店に顔を出してくれないから、 元気て' やってるかどうかちよつと心配なの」

So... saikin isogashi mitai de, chuchuten ni kao o dashite kurenaikara, genkite yatsu teruka doka chiyo tsuto shinpaina no

"With busy ... like. Recently so, since not me out a face in the middle we shop, what worry bracts Chiyo not healthy 'to see if it is doing"

108. 「 クラウスが忙しそうなのはいつものことだけど

Kurausu ga isogashi  souna no wa, itsumono koto dakedo...

"Klaus is that so busy, but it would be usual

109. 「 そうなんだけど、 実は最近。 お隣のファザ一ンで、 国王陛下が急逝したらしいのよ」

Sounan dakedo, jitsuwa saikin. Otonari no fasaan de, kokuo heika ga kyusei shitarashi no yo

"That's right, but in reality in Faza Ichin of. Neighbor recently, His Majesty the King is No seems to have sudden death" /recently a neighboring king died

110. え！ ？ ホン卜に…… ？

E? Honto ni?

What? Really?

111. 「 近々公式発表があると思うわ。 兄さんが忙しいのは、 きっとそのせいね」

Chikadjika koshiki happyo ga aru to omou wa, Niisan ga isogashi no wa, kitto sono sei ne

"I'll bet that there is official announcement soon. Brother's busy, I'm sure because of that"

112. ロッテの母 (mother of Lotte- rotte no haha)

「 ロッテ！ 悪いんだけどこっちを手伝ってちょうだい！

Rotte! Waruin dakedo kocchi o tetsudatte choudai!

"I'm bad Lotte! But give me to help me here!"

113. 「 は〜 い！ すぐ行くわ

Hai, sugu iku wa

Yes, I'll go immediately

114. 「 ごめんね、 ティアナ。wrong kanji 今曰はいつも手伝ってくれる人が怪我でお休みしてるから、 忙しくて」

Gomen ne tiana. Ima .... Was it sumo tetsudatte kureru hito ga mega we o yasumi shi terukara, isogashikute

"People who help me always because I take a rest in the injury. Ima曰 I'm sorry, Teana, Busy"

115. 首を伸ばして厨房を視き込むとロッテの両親が額に汗をにじませながら動き回つているのが見えた。

kubi o nobashite chubo o miki komuto rotte no ryoushin ga gaku ni ase o nijima senagara ugoki kaitsute iru no ga mieta

I saw it's Tsu Ugokimawa parents of Lotte while blurring the sweat on the forehead when crowded can seeing the kitchen by extending the neck.

116. あ、 そつだ。 もし良かったら、 明日だけても、 お店を手伝ってもらえないかな」

A, souda. Moshi yokkattara, ashita dakete mo, o mise o tetsudatte moraenai ka na

Oh ', it's graduation. If thats ok, even if only tomorrow, wonder not help me shop "

117. 「 いいわよ、 明曰は何も用事ないし」

Ii wa yo, mei...wall nani mo yoji naishi

"I'll say, no errands to nothing Akira曰"

118. 「 ホン卜？ ありがとう、 ティアナ。 じゃあ明日、 よろしくね！ 」

Honto? Arigato, tiana. Ja ashita, yoroshiku ne.

Really? Thanks tiana. See you tomorrow.

119. 私はもう一度受け取ったジャムのお礼を又; 言って、 ロッテのパン屋を後にした。

Watashi wa moichido uketotta jamu no orei o mate, i tsu te, Rotte no pan-ya o-go ni shita.

Also to thank the jam that has received once again I; say, left the bakery of Lotte.

Back to market

120. 「 ええと、 買い足さなきやいけない食材は、 確かじゃがいもと、 卜マ卜と…… 」

ee to, kai tasanakiya ikenai shokuzai wa, tashika jagaimo to, boku ma boku to (kanji right, translation wrong)

"Well, sure and potatoes, foods that should not be added together Ya appearance without buying, and Bokumaboku ..."

121.??? 「 ちょっと、 そこのお嬢さん

Chotto sokono ojousan

Hey, young lady

122. え

E.....?

Huh?

123. 行きつけのお店で野菜を物色していた私は、 誰かに呼び掛けられて振り向く

Ikutsuke no o mise de yasai o busshoku shite ita watashi wa, dareka ni yobikate rarete furimuku

I had been hunting the vegetables in a shop of resorting to, turn around by being called to someone.

124. 私…… ですか？(Missing photo but fortunately easily translated)

watashi ... desu ka?

Me...?

125. そうそう、 あなたですよ。 どうです？ 今日の夕食に

soso, anata desu yo. dodesu? kyo no yushokuni

Oh yeah ",'m you. So what? For dinner foray

126. 計算機を手にした商人が指差したのは、 頑丈な鉄格子の檻だった。

keisanki o te ni shita shounin ga shisa shita no wa, ganjouna tetsugoushi no oridatta

Merchants in hand computer's pointed to, it was sturdy cage of iron bars.

127. 何気なく中を親き込んでみると

Nanigenaku naka o shin ki konde miruto

If we can parent crowded mid casually

128. ....!?

129. 「 な、 なんて" すか、 これは

Na, nan desuka, kore wa

What is this?

130. 「 何って、 見ての通りライオンとォォカミとァヒルとゥサギです

Nanitte, mitenotori raion to okami to ahiru to usagi desu

What is "What is the ~Usagi and ~Ahiru and ~O~okami Lion and as you can see

131. 「 そうじゃなくて、 今曰の夕食.....!?

Soujanakute, ima...no yushoku

, Rather than 's "So, dinner 曰 now

132. 「 ああ、 確かにライオンとォォカミはあまり食材としては聞きませんね」

Aa, tashikani raion to okami wa amari shokuzai to shite wa kikimasen ne

"Oh, I do not hear as much food ~O~okami Lion and certainly"

133. 「 ですが、 ァヒルとゥサギは調理方法によっては非常に美味かと」

Desuga, ahiru to usagi wa chori hoho ni yotte wa hijo ni bimi ka to

It "is, but ~Usagi and ~Ahiru is whether very delicious by cooking method"

134. あ、 あの

A, ano

"Oh, that

135. おや、 まだ何かご不明な点が？ 」

Oya, mada naniga go fumeina tenga

Oh, any questions yet? "

136. 「 ライオンって肉食獣てすよね？ ごんなふうに一緒の檻に入れて大艾夫なんですか？ 」

Raion tte nikushoku ju desu yo ne? konna fuu ni  issho  no ori ni irete dai Ai otto nandesu ka?

Do you do a large moxa husband and i put it in the cage  together? i'm gonna be canivores lion.

137. 「 ああ、 そのことならご心配なく。 ごの匹は非常に大人しく、 こうやって押し込めてもケンカひとつしません」

Aa,  sono kotonara goshipainaku. kono 4 biki wa hijo ni otonashiku, ko ya tsu te oshikomete mo kenka hitotsu shimasen

"Oh, of animals. You are very quiet Do not worry, you fight one even pushed doing this and for that matter"

138. 商人の言う通り、 檻の中の匹は特に争う様子もなく、 とても大人しかった。

Shonin no iu tori, ori no naka no 4 biki wa tokuni arasou yousu mo naku, totemo otonashikatta

As merchants say, without a state in which the contest, especially animals in a cage, it was very Otonashika~tsu.

139. （ というか、 大人しいを通り越して元気がないような…… ）

toiuka, otonashi o torikoshite genki ga nai youna...

(Or rather, ... such that there is no energy past the quiet)

140. 「 あの、 よく見るとなんだか匹とも弱ってるような気力《 するんですけど」

Ano, yokumiruto nanda ka biki tomo yowatteru you na kiryoku surondesukedo

"That, I also happen to energy", such as those with weakened animals somehow If you look closely "