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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wonshikee:
Note is a niche product for those that want a big screen. I would of gotten this if it had pentaband so I can import it on tmo, but after using Nexus for a while - I've come to the conclusion I wouldn't really be happy with the size of the phone.

The nexus is actually pretty big for a 4.3" screen phone as well, due to the massive bezel above and below the phone. But the fact that it's really a 4.65" screen and with custom roms, will likely be able to utilize the full screen for everything means it's a bigger bang for buck than any other 4.3" phone with soft keys. Try watching an HD video on it, you'll feel that the full screen size is actually really nice as is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sramie:
Now i have galaxy note and i now can refund and buy Gnexus.. But i like stylus but it is inaccurate. So not usable for drawing pictures.. Also have many MANY problems with screen (horuzontal lines,dead pixel etc... And also.. Can be Gnexus kept in warranty with locking bootloaders back? i am happy flasher and need warranty :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chakra:
I had the note, while very nice I just couldnt use it as my daily driver. Having that thing in my shorts pocket at the gym or out on a bike ride or a rollerblade was the reason. While it will fit in the pocket in an accident I just cant see it not getting busted. So I now have the GNex and love it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Q.Entity:
I did not get the Note because it was not pentaband and therefore it would not work on TMoUS.

However, I am very happy with the Nexus...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sramie:
very big thanks to all reports ! but something more.. what about graphic chipset Note vs Nexus ? is it same ? i heard Nexus have older graphic
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sramie:
somebody ? :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] josteink:
If your hands are above average big, the Note might just be for you. For me, the Galaxy Nexus is just about big enough and anything bigger would be severely impractical.

The Note has a bigger screen, but the Nexus has roughly the same resolution and can render an equal amount of content in the browser and other places with equal detail.

The Nexus has a super-fast camera. Maybe not the best on true colours etc, but it's super-fast. None of your shots will be blurred, like typical pictures taken with a cheap digital camera is.

Right now Note comes with some extra stuff and a styles and runs a Touchwiz'ed Android build. The Nexus is a nexus, 100% open and running ICS fresh of the Google source.

For me the Nexus is the only choice. Two of my colleagues opted for the Note instead. We're all happy.

Non-external SD can be solved by USB OTG and memory-sticks. Or 1TB external harddrives. Really. I think the camera is amazing. Megapixels doesn't really matter that much once they go high enough.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sramie:
Ok so i will try nexus :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BoostedSR20:
Downloaded this collection: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15024-wallpapers-191-black-bright-colors-wallpapers/

I downloaded this pack, then upped it to my dropbox account. Using the dropbox app on my phone, all the wallpapers have dead black backgrounds. When I download them and look at them in the gallery (or set them as wallpaper) I get pretty obvious pixelated noise in the black of *some* of them.

Ok, here is a good example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50315473/wallpaper-341151.jpg

That photo, looking it with dropbox app, looks perfect. When I download and view it in my gallery, apply it as wallpaper, or even view it in my browser, its got a plainly obvious bluish pixel noise in the black.

If I view it on my PC, its solid black. (as black as my samsung LCD can be) Also I sent it to a friend with a SGSI, and another friend with my old SGSII, BOTH say it looks dead black.

So, if I try this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50315473/wallpaper-1346499.jpg It DOES appear dead black. Viewing it in the gallery, set as wallpaper, or in the browser. All dead black.

So whats going on with that other image? (its a few of them, some do it, some don't) Its almost like its being sharpened somehow, and its picking up something in the black and blowing it out.

My friend's with the SGSI and SGSII, all of these images appear dead black in all situations.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hawkalugie:
A very racist title if I ever heard one
[Xoom General] oldblue910:
I'll start by saying here that I fully understand that what I'm saying may not apply to the international (non-GED) Xoom devices.

Maybe someone can shed some light on this. Why is it that every rooting method I see here seems to involve flashing some ZIP file that has a modified kernel or boot image? Seems pointless considering that, as with any other Google Experience Device, you can simply unlock your bootloader, flash Clockwork, and then flash the official Superuser.zip from androidsu.com and you're done. There's no unsecuring of the boot image, or anything. It just installs Superuser.apk, the su binary and changes the permissions on the binary.

Am I missing something here? Is there some advantage I'm not thinking of to using a custom boot image to obtain root on a Xoom?
[Xoom General] Tiger62651:
No. Before when I first bought my xoom I just rooted it, no custom kernel or rom. Now I've used both and benefits alot. As for example some games people complain laggs, with custom kernel ya can over clock and fix some of this. Then custom roms allow ya to use features not enabled by Google on default. For example the wifi xoom can not connect ad-hoc networks like mobile hotspots. Roms include this unless you wanna do it the hard way. Another nifty feature is the USB OTG to attach hard drives which Google allows ya to do like mice and keyboards but not external drives.
[Xoom General] sodaboy581:
I think you ARE missing something. The process you outlined with other GED devices is identical to the Motorola XOOM root process as well.

1. You use "fastboot oem unlock" to unlock the bootloader. (This only unlocks the bootloader so you can flash custom ones, recoveries, etc. but does NOT modify the current bootloader in any way.)

2. Flash clockwork with fastboot as well.

3. Install the Universal XOOM rooting ZIP through clockwork.

4. Done.

How is this any different?

The Universal XOOM root ZIP can be found @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1242241 and does NOT contain any sort of modified Kernel or Boot image.

I don't know where you got your information from.
[Xoom General] oldblue910:
Sure it does. Take a look at the zip file (all those files in the kernel folder). Plus once it's done, stock recovery no longer auto flashes because something was changed in the boot image and the checksums don't match anymore.
[Xoom General] sodaboy581:
Well, I stand corrected! Yeah, I don't know why it modifies the boot image either then. I'd have just thought flashing clockwork and installing the binary should be fine.

I guess you need to talk to solarnz or one of the other more experienced XOOM devs...
[Xoom General] oldblue910:
And that's the thing...flashing just the binaries DOES work fine, at least on my Xoom. I wonder if it has something to do with the international non-GED Xooms...
[Xoom General] unrandomsam:
You do need a modified initramfs to root properly.

an insecure boot.img is the most useful part of being rooted.

And with one of those you don't even need clockworkmod.

flash it with fastboot / reboot / adb remount and then just push su and superuser set suid on su (10 seconds total - far less hassle than messing with clockworkmod).
[Xoom General] mobileweasel:
I am a little surprised no one figured out how to root before unlocking. Would sure be handy to do a titanium backup before unlocking ( which wipes everything !! ) That said, it is just a minor inconvenience. Copy some stuff to the PC and I am good to go.
[Xoom General] ydaraishy:
You don't _need_ to flash an insecure kernel image; there's multiple paths to root. If you don't have a version of CWM for the device, then running the system insecure may be the only way to do it. Running the system in insecure mode does give you the ability to run adb as root amongst other things, however (so you can do things like adb remount).
[Xoom General] oldblue910:
Yeah I can see needing the insecure image in the case of not having ClockworkMod or if you need those extra commands in ADB. I was more just curious if running an insecure image was somehow a better practice than just flashing the androidsu.com zip. I guess it's 6 of one or a half dozen of the other in the end.

Thanks for the explanation!
[Xoom General] oldblue910:
I suppose that depends on what you use root for, really. For instance, the ability to run adb as root means nothing to me really. I can count the number of times I've used adb on one hand. I more use root so I can take screenshots without hooking up to USB, and I also like having root access to the filesystem.

Plus, it seems that the insecure image is the reason why everyone says not to accept OTAs if you're running a rooted stock ROM. I've read horror stories of people accepting OTAs on a rooted stock ROM and ending up with bootloops and all kinds of other craptastic stuff. If you root with the boot image secure, you can accept OTAs and just re-root when it's done flashing.

Different strokes for different folks, right? :D
[Xoom General] theoner1:
This.

Most devices have temp root so you're able to run rooted app to fully backup before unlocking it. I've been holding off rooting on my wife's xoom because I don't want to wipe her saved data, but im really itching to mess with it, hehe. I heard with ICS you can do a full backup with adb, I believe you use the " adb backup" method.
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
The insecure boot image is need for two reasons.

1) without it you would not be able to adb mount the partitions while inside the Android os.

2) every time you boot into Android, a script it's ran to check for stock recovery and overwrite it, insecure boot images disable this (you can also disable by deleting the script files)

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dream.xda:
I got a Galaxy Note (LTE with Snapdragon ) sold by SK Telecom in Korea. Back in States, voice is working fine but ONLY 44kbps internet speed on my ATT account with a new sim card.

I tried many APN setting suggested to use 3Gbut no luck. SK tech support insists that the Note carry no carrier lock. In engineering mode it won't allow to change band selection set by the original carrier.

Other Notes imported from other countries don't seem to have this problem. I wonder if my problem comes from hardware limitation (radio) or lock set by SKT.

Pease help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rquinn19:
You might want to ask around in the Vivid forum. Iirc there were differences in their Holiday and the Att Vivid. Maybe its just the radio though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwboston:
Someone else here had an issue with the same thing. The Korean Note doesn't have the 3G bands enabled. There was a link to a blog posting about the Korean Note where a lot of Korean purchasers were unhappy because Samsung and the carriers in Korea were using it to launch LTE there and the users were unable to unlock and use it on 3G.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zorachus:
Was wondering if I need to exchange my Galaxy Nexus to Verizon, I must have a defective phone, because when I miss phone calls, the LED/Pulse notification light never blinks.

Anyone else have this issue ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hilfey:
I had some notification light issues, but after setting up the app Light Flow, all my notification issues are gone. Try to play with that app a little. If notifications still don't work, then you definitely have a bad phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zorachus:
Thanks, will try that app. I do get notifications for missed texts or voicemails, just not missed calls.
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
I have HTC Sensation Z710e. It is S-Off and rooted. It contains stock rom (2.3.4). My device is bought in Dubai and three days ago I received an official update (Asia_India update 1.50 and I was told that there is another update after that 1.52) and I tried to update through CWM and I got error (status 7).

After that, I went and made my sensation SuperCID (everything went smoothy and got CID 11111111). When I tried to update again through CWM, same error appeared.

I was told that I should remove CID assert from update or something like that, I opened the update package on my computer but found nothing.

Need help, thanks.
[HTC Sensation] nonione:
u mean u tried to update an OTA thru CWM?
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
Yes, what did I do wrong? I know basically nothing about Linux and I come from Windows mobile.

I also tried to direct (not through CWM) update, It failed also :)
[HTC Sensation] geoffcorey:
you can't apply the ota with cwm installed. It won't work.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
Now what? Should I remove CWM, if yes, how? Or is there something else I am missing?
[HTC Sensation] krazy_about_technology:
Hey buddy, although the assert statement removal method i told u works for updates that change a few files on filesystem, it wont work for this update as It makes changes to wifi drivers etc, and possibly the kernel itself which needs original recovery to update.

What u can do is, open the zip file of last update you applied, inside you will find a firmware.zip file. Inside this file is another file called recovery.img. Extract it. Take the CWM zip file, open it and delete the recovery.img file and add the newly extracted one. Basically, after doing this, you will have a flashable zip of original recovery.

Put it in /sdcard (root of sdcard) and reboot into bootloader (Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button and press the power button). It will detect the file and ask you to press volume up button to update. Do so and reboot phone. Now you will have the original recovery and you can install the update.

After installation, you can again flash CWM to get back to it.
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
Solved

Thanks a lot friend, I have now 1.52 version installed.

A new lesson learned today :)
[HTC Sensation] krazy_about_technology:
My pleasure man! :) Enjoy!
[HTC Sensation] srauls:
Thanks for the information I added that bit to my things i need to know about android and root
[HTC Sensation] Chewy Fudge:
Can someone help me finding the CWM zip file?
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
http://www.multiupload.com/ECVA5V4ED3
[HTC Sensation] Chewy Fudge:
Thx :-)
[HTC Sensation] raghavmax:
File has been removed it says
[HTC Sensation] ibeqa:
Here :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
I am looking for an app that shows me which app/process used the network by what amount. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
This or this
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
The best one by far is 3g watchdog.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
Yes but I need to know more precise than 3g watchdog can tell :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3311:
Why?

Don't have the exact figures to hand, but according to 3G watchdog there was a tiny, tiny difference from the data use on my last bill. I assume this will differ between different carriers, but..

How accurate do you need to be? And why?l
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
They want per app usage for some reason.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
I have tried over 10 different apps 3g watchdog included and not one of them showed the exact usage, some were worse than others, 3g watchdog didn't fare particularly well to be honest, the best one as in calculated the closest to what i had used was a data usage app part of the ZD Box app but again this didn't calculate what the exact usuage was, the only way i can calculate is when i send a text to my provider and they respond via text tells me exactly how much ive used, im hoping the ICS data usage does the job but i wont hold my breath, from the end of this month ill be getting 1GB data per month so not too bad i should be able to track, better than paying for data on a daily basis.

BTW Highly recommended just in general

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zdworks.android.toolbox&hl=en
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
I dont really get how a data usage app could not be correct, its a basic thing to count the amount of data going though an interface in linux based OS's.

Just weird.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zincsnow:
In ics there is an app in the settings for that
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
You are right. But some telcos count data in "blocks" and part of rounded up. Where (for example) 3g watchdog count every single bit with no rounding.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] max621:
try " ONAVO "

that solve ur problem
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pfeffernuss:
I use Traffic Counter. No idea how accurate it is, it's good enough for me though ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NTOP:
I use app traffic free at the moment

But which one is better

Traffic Counter Extended or Onavo | Monitor Data Usage

Can someone please advise

Thank You
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Best bet is to try them all, won't take long.
[Android General] Quinny899:
Basically post some epic taker profile screenshots in this thread. To show off really
[Android General] Quinny899:
View attachment 858246

Quite obvious what it does

Just place a shortcut labeled "don't tap!" on your home screen and give your phone to someone with it on the home screen :)

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tyronnster:
Hi got an issue with a fine line under my dock controls on my galaxy Nexus.

Also when I press the home or back button it kinda highlights it.

Running stock software so not sure what it is. Will see if can get screen shot
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carquote:
I noticed that when I close the streaming media player, if I look at the notification bar it will show it the streaming media player and clicking on it resumes the last played media. This happens despite the browser's history being cleared. I see no potion in the player to clear the history or prevent it from being remembered in the first place. Does anyone know how the player's history can be cleared? Nothing short of a reboot seems to do so. Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carquote:
Bump :(

Almost 200 views and not a singe response?:confused: I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice this. Is no one aware of a fix ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
Which player are you talking about? Many players move to the background and stay in the notification bar when you just hit the back button; to actually close them you need to hit their exit button which is sometimes Menu>Exit and not on the actual players screen.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carquote:
Thank for the reply Gabriel. I'm running virtuous sense v2.0.0 and this is with the stock streaming media player. I've tried killing the task and while it appears to be closed it still appears in the notification men as a recently opened app. Clicking on it resumes the last played media. I tried looking in the media players menu and there is no option to clear history or to exit.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OriginalGabriel:
Are you saying it shows in the notification bar on the top as if it were still running (that would be a bug) or that its showing in your list of recently used apps (that would be normal)?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carquote:
It appears in the recently used apps list at the top of my notification bar. While this may be normal I find it strange that the player resumes playing the last played media despite being closed by a task killer and gives no option to clear the history. I suppose I would have to get a 3rd party streaming media player to to have this behavior? Can anyone recommend one? Thanks again.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainreynolds:
As this is sort of an unusual option, I doubt you'll be able to find a player that has it.

Force stopping a music player should have no effect on recently played music, as that is data stored by the application on the phone, not data held in ram by the application while it is running.

As to removing this information from within the app: Go to Settings - Applications - to your app. Then click "Clear Data."

You will lose all other settings you have changed, and when you next open the app it will like take a short time to rescan your SD card for any music, but the recently played playlist will now be cleared.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carquote:
For some reason clearing the app data doesn't prevent the app from opening the last played file when I click on the app in the recently opened section of the notification bar. Not sure if this is an HTC issue or one with the virtuous sense v2.0.0 ROM. To be clear, this is not a media player I don't think, it appears to only handle streaming media, as there is no "Streaming Media Player" app listed in the apps section, but there is a "Connected Media" player that will play media stored on the device. As I mentioned, going into the application management section, the player is listed but clearing the data does nothing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runarorn:
Might be a stupid question.

Well here's the deal i partitioned my sd card to ext4 (i think i'm not sure how i can find it out if it is ext3 or ext4). I was reading that ext2 was faster and quite better than ext3 or ext4 so i was thinking is there any easy way to deconvert from ext4 to ext2. What is the best way to do this preferably without loosing any data from sd card or the partition?

And how can i find out easily what partition my sdcard is ext3 or ext4?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Im not sure where you get that information but devs wouldn't recommend EXT4 partition if its gonna slowdown the performance of their roms.

I bet gparted can tell what type of ext partition you have and I bet there are other ways to find out... You can flash 4Ext Recovery and that will show you those information as well.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spierbal:
4ext recovery converts partitions but only between ext3 and ext4 without data loss. Al though I am scratching my head, where did you read that ext2 is faster than others?

Ext4 has more features than Ext3 and Ext2, main advantage is journaling which gives improved performance and reliability. The only downside with ext4(also ext3) is that the SD Card wears out faster since it can perform more read/write activities. If I was you I would keep things the way they are.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
I know but I believe it would be able to tell what type of Ext partition the sd card has :p

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runarorn:
I saw something about it on androidforums.com and somewhere else i can't remember where.

There few people said that after going from ext2 to ext3-4 the rom that they had became a little laggy and it said also that some kernel dev said to use ext2 rather than ext3-4.

Also said the same thing you deadlyboss01 said about the sd card wearing out sooner.

Is it maybe silly to use ext2 if i already have ext4?

And if i set up 4ext recovery can i restore nand backups from cwm?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
I believe it can since 4ext recovery is based on cwm but better post the question on the 4ext thread to get an accurate answer. Sorry im not that sure.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spierbal:
It seem that you are quite adamant. Have you personally experienced these lags?Also, I had the impression that kernel devs focused more on ext3/ext4. Nevermind, CWM is indeed compatible with 4ext recovery as Stankyou said.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runarorn:
No i personally have not had these lags but it seems that i'm just going to stick to 4ext and try to flash the 4ext recovery and check that out