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[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
Goodluck with that. Literally took me 10 minutes to get my first one the way I wanted. Surprised after 10 mins it was still usable because usually after 10 mins there's so much dust on it I just give up and start over on a new one.

After a few days I definitely love the case and it made it worth it to put a screen protector on the phone finally to give it fully protection. I had a couple people comment that they thought the matte red finish was nice. The nice look goes with the phone.
[HTC Rezound] mxair2001:
Another former X2 owner myself :) Also bought this case and absolutely love it. Its easy to get the phone out and I'm a Texas Tech fan so the Red/Black colors are perfect!

-mxair2001
[HTC Rezound] alphabets:
received mine in the mail yesterday....what a beautiful case! everything about it is top notch. it does add a slight amount of bulk to the back, but not much more than a normal hard case. if you want the thinnest cases available for the rezound you will have to go with a gel style case. This really is the nicest case i have had on any phone, ever.
[HTC Rezound] 06stang:
Switched back to the VZW case. The Body Glove is dead :-(

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[HTC Rezound] dg4prez:
dropped?
[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
Dropped mine once so far. 3 feet on hardwod floor, no damage. Still looking nice.
[HTC Rezound] Abu-7abash:
Just bought one from ebay, already have the gel s-shaped one and its fine but I just couldn't resist this one xD
[HTC Rezound] 06stang:
Yeah dropped it while running with my dog. Phone is perfect so the case did its thing but its scratched and chipped all along one side and the back.
[HTC Rezound] dg4prez:
nice. sounds like that's exactly the outcome you want. they're easily replaced, unlike your expensive pocket computer.
[HTC Rezound] SirSigma:
I'm somewhat tempted to get this case even though I already have a Trident Kraken.

The Kraken probably gives me the best possible protection I can get, but adds quite a bit of bulk to the phone. That, and I ordered a blue one, which in retrospect, made me wish I had gotten a red one instead.

How good is the fit of the case internally? And is the back rough enough to grip easily? The Kraken even feels a little slippery with its hardcase exterior every now and then, which makes me more likely to drop it than when I had the Kraken on the HTC Evo (had a rubberized exterior).
[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
It's got decent grip. It feels like a smooth matte aluminum finish to the hand because of the paint. Even though it's plastic. This doesn't have a rubberized outer shell. The Kraken will definitely protect better, but I love the look and feel of this in my hand. When it slides onto the phone in two pieces it fits very snugly and tight.
[HTC Rezound] Abu-7abash:
My favorite case. Its both good looking and feels reliable to take a hit while protecting the phone. Very recommended.
[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
Agreed. I usually don't like odd colored cases, but the red goes perfect with this. It'd be cool if they made a black version that had the red chrome line on the back towards the bottom versus the black chrome finish.
[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
Still loving this thing so far.
[HTC Rezound] alphabets:
agreed. it' not the thinnest case going, but is beautiful.
[HTC Rezound] Meticode:
Totally agree with you. When I first bought the phone it was thicker slightly than some other phones on the market. So i was looking for a case that was very minimal and thin. I found one, but didn't like the feel of it. Even those this case adds bulk, it just feels really good in my hand. While I still like holding the phone without a case, this Red Body Glove Case is my second favorite way I like to hold my phone. Plus the red makes it look different too.
[HTC Rezound] platinumrims:
What thin case? How thin was it? I want something that's basically like a sleeve. This phone feels sooo good in the hand without a case on it
[Nexus S General] erikiksaz:
I discovered haxsync, which to my dismay, worked only until google decided to resync the ****ty quality pictures. I would have crisp pictures, then soon after the pictures would return to the 96x96 blurfest.

So this is how I downloaded and managed to keep my high quality images. In essence we are clearing the image cache from google and restarting.

Before starting I would clear the data +FC both facebook and haxsync if they're installed.

*at your own risk, I'm not at fault if you lose all your ****.

1- log into your gmail account and into the contacts list

2- export the contacts list in whatever format it defaults to

3- double check that the contacts list was exported somewhere

4 - if you're cautious, you may want to make a fake gmail account to load up the exported contacts list just to make sure it's really all there

5 - select all your contacts in the gmail contacts page and delete them all.

6- turn on sync on your phone, and let your contacts sync (you should have none at this point)

7-go back to the contacts list from gmail and import the exported contact list from step 2

8 - Sync this again on your phone. You will now have contacts sans the pictures.

9- open up haxsync, set up the parameters to however you want, and get it to sync

10 - open up facebook and make sure it does not sync your contacts

11 - if you have any contacts without pictures, open up their profile, hit the menu key to bring up "join" and find any other instances of them, and join them.

The point of exporting the contacts list is that the exported data does not include the low quality pictures. When you import the list, you import them sans those low quality pictures.

I haven't tried signing into a different nexus S or galaxy nexus, but hopefully signing up to an ICS capable phone should automatically download the high quality pictures.
[Nexus S General] the7thson:
Whoa! Going to have to try this, seems like it should work. Thanks OP!
[Nexus S General] Pir4t3:
ooh , nice

i will try it later dear

thank u <3
[Nexus S General] llavalle:
Looking forward to trying this out. My GF was freaked out when she realized all of her contact picture were all low-res and insisted I flash GB back...
[Nexus S General] ghaf85:
it look nice..tq..
[Nexus S General] sikita:
Thank you for good instructions
[Nexus S General] erikiksaz:
np.

Just repeated this process on my gf's Nexus S and it worked great. Worst part is having to look through your contacts to join profiles that didn't link.
[Nexus S General] jaker.the.skater:
Does this actually work? Once Google syncs the contacts again wouldn't it reduce the image quality again? Or am I missing something?
[Nexus S General] boidian:
Thanks, will surely try this.
[Bada Software and Hacking General] brhvitor6:
Hey guys i need some light.. Today i was looking for tutorials and other questions to understand the bada way of programming.. and i got the idea to change my lockscreen and my boot "movie" anyone can give me some help.. how to act.. i am a advanced programmer on php and delphi (and median on c# & c++). can you guys give me a help? :) thx

Obs: Bada version 1.1
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PurpleMelbourne:
There are many stories here on XDA Note about wierd problems. They appear and disappear without much sense how.

On Nexus One, if you do a wipe and install a ROM on 5 different phones with different use then each will be identical after wipe/install.

Galaxy Note seems to be different. How do you do a true wipe so 5 phones with same hardware but wierdly defective firmware will be the same after?

The Note is awesome but these wierd problems really let it down for many of us.

Wifi overheat, GPS wakelocks, USB charging failing, hot screen, etc. When a problem comes but then just goes away you know it was never a hardware problem. It was a software problem. The software at the very bottom is the firmware. Its probably the culprit of wierdness.

Can we "true wipe" and get a defective unit into the as new condition that was intended?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
What?

GALAXY NOTE
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NoRmAlY_CrAzY:
^^^+1 to WHAT???..lol
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
I think the OP wants to know on how to properly wipe a galaxy note as based on his observation some users fix issues by performing a wipe before installing a firmware while others can never get to fix it with just 1 wipe.

@OP

I know what you mean but I mostly blame the custom firmware used especially when I got back to full stock and I dont see the same rubbish issue. When I perform a wipe I always do it 3 times. Thats out of habit from the Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 days.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PurpleMelbourne:
I may not have wrote clearly ;)

There are a lot of threads about a lot of different types of problems which a lot of different people have also had. Problems like overheating coming from the wifi. Problems with wakelocks coming from the GPS. And many others.

For some people the phone is fine, and then a problem comes from no where. They wipe and wipe and it doesn't go away after wiping and flashing many different roms. Then one time for no known reason flashing something does make the problem go away. but why not earlier?

Personally I had the same problem when I flashed CM9 alpha. Upon booting it came up with some kind of error that it couldn't open wssyncmlps. I wiped and flashed another ROM but the error didn't go away. Flashed a couple more different ROMs and still the error. Eventually I did a recovery and that got rid of the error.

I would have thought a factory wipe would fix that. But it didn't. That proved a factory wipe DIDN'T REALLY wipe everything.

My housemate just got back from the Android DevCon today in Melbourne. Maybe I should have got him to ask one of the Google engineers about it LOL
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PurpleMelbourne:
I may not have wrote clearly ;)

There are a lot of threads about a lot of different types of problems which a lot of different people have also had. Problems like overheating coming from the wifi. Problems with wakelocks coming from the GPS. And many other common and uncommon problems.

For some people the phone is fine, and then a problem comes from no where. They wipe and wipe and it doesn't go away after wiping and flashing many different roms. Then one time for no known reason flashing something does make the problem go away. but why not earlier?

Personally I had the same problem when I flashed CM9 alpha. Upon booting it came up with some kind of error that it couldn't open wssyncmlps. I wiped and flashed another ROM but the error didn't go away. Flashed a couple more different ROMs and still the error. Eventually I did a recovery and that got rid of the error.

I would have thought a factory wipe would fix that. But it didn't. That proved a factory wipe DIDN'T REALLY wipe everything. Maybe its a fault with the recovery software? Maybe this new RedPill recovery software that Angelom has put into Abyss 3.5 will help? I wonder. I'm flashing Rocket V21 now to see what happens...

My housemate just got back from the Android DevCon today in Melbourne. Maybe I should have got him to ask one of the Google engineers about it LOL
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Braxos:
Erase = removing the entry that leads to that data on the storage medium.

The data are there till the get overwrite by something. Even you format/wipe/clear you may get the data on your next install/reboot when the OS scans your medium.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] daraj:
Maybe under CWM you need to format system then format data would help ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] avetny:
What!!!??!!!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
so a format command in android is equal to a quick format in windows only removing the file index? where did you get this info?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
If you want to erase all personal information or personal usage history on a desktop or laptop then you need specialist software which overwrites everything.

So it is unreasonable to be disappointed if the Note does not do it and I suspect no other Palmtop does it either.

As far as weird defects goes, Samsung only guarantees the Note will work providing it has only ever used the official ROM for the region.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
your talking about recovering lost files that's not the issue for instance a laptop never accidentally sees deleted files as not deleted

you mean a Phone right? ;-)

but THIS place is mostly about custom stuff i guess that's why its posted her and not emailed to Samsung support :-)

/Jeriz
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
THIS place is the sub-forum for general chat and is NOT mostly about custom stuff. :)

/Jeriz[/QUOTE]
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
got me there :)

/Jeriz
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
but does anyone know if a cwm wipe actually does format or just deletes?

/Jeriz
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
What a gracious light-hearted response and much appreciated :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
Well im not actually an ass im just posing as one to blend in :-)

/Jeriz
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] trumpetboy101:
I think wiping the phone is a very common problem/conundrum for users.

I am in the process of wiping and installing rocketrom 21, and I find that not everything specific to me has been wiped -after a "factory data reset", and a CWM "wipe data/factory reset" and a "wipe cache partition". E.g. right now I'm going into the sd card, using cwm, and finding a long list of folders from apps that I've long since uninstalled. These "wipe/reset" options don't seem to touch them.

Can somebody who knows how these things really work shed some light on... what specifically wipes what?

One last thing, optional: If I find an option to wipe every single partition on the device, how do I then get a ROM on there afterwards? Do I put it in download mode and plug it into my computer and use ODIN? Again only an expert would know.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] afrosamurai123:
maybe it is a defective unit....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] foxmeister:
The internal SD is never wiped as part of a factory reset or wipe - this is by design, as it is considered to be 100% user data, just as if it were a real user replaceable SD card.

In order to clear the internal SD, you can reformat from the storage menu, or flash another ROM via Odin with a PIT file.

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rilazi:
Dial this number and you will Full Wipe**2767*3855#

Regards
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jager13:
all formats and wipes in cwm do not remove the recovery from phone, so after formating (wiping) everything, either remove your sd card, plug to pc, copy rom on it, plug it back in note, boot in recovery then flash, or go to mounts and storage menu in cwm, mount usb while note is plugged (usb to pc) copy your rom (zip file) there, unplugg usb safely, unmount usb from menu and flash :)

this does not need an "expert", what it needs is trial and error and reporting feedback to help out others here ;) After all, if everyone kept to himself, we (not devs :) ) would be stuck with stock ROMS while our fellow devs enjoy their custom roms... :)

PS: everything i said here is from my personal experiences (my trials and errors) so if anything does go wrong and you find urslef without a recovery menu (highly unlikely), i'd be the one to blame :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] trumpetboy101:
Thank you two very very much, I feel much wiser. I shall endeavour to be a good XDA citizen and spread the knowledge I have gained :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PurpleMelbourne:
OK I've sought some advice from a Google trained developer on this and he's confirmed that things are not exactly how we thought they worked.

Like my title says, an Android "wipe" is not really a wipe. Its just a partial wipe. Much of the Linux files are still there, they are not deleted and the partition is not formatted.

The USR space is formatted and that stuff is gone. But Linux OS is still there. When you install a custom ROM then it relies upon doing an overwrite. The files are not deleted.

There is a manual way of doing it which I'm going to try doing later tonight.

The trick is to mount the phone onto another computer using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) as a dumb storage device. You give yourself full read/write access and then use that access to delete all files and directories.

The directories :

/mnt

/dev

cannot be wiped. But they will be empty. All files can be removed and most directories deleted. So the only thing you are left with is the bootloader and a filing system which is almost completely empty.

If you don't do that then you end up with "digital droppings" left by previous installations and apps. This should not normally cause a problem, just files sitting there unused wasting space. But it can cause a problem with paths when extra things are unexpectedly in a path and something along the line is hard coded to for example get file number 4 in list and the list is no longer as it was expected to be.

Theoretically once this manual delete has been performed, the firmware is gone and several phones with problems which looks like a hardware fault but isn't, should all end up identically empty and install identically without any "digital droppings" messing things up somewhere.

If anyone is interested then I'll keep you posted. And perhaps some other people with some of those strange problems like for example the thread full of people with GPS wakelock battery drain might also like to see if this fixes there problems. That would prove the theory to be correct. I don't have those problems but want a solution for them.

Posted with Chromium on my Debian Mint Linux desktop
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeriz:
sounds dangerous..

please keep us posted :)

/Jeriz
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] R4Ck:
Hi everybody, i'm having problems with languages of the last Custom Roms based on stock, the problem is, I want them in Brazilian Portuguese, searching on google i found a tutorial who tells to modify framework-res.apk and translate then reflash the rom, but i did this, and bootloop, so anyone knows how add a language to a custom rom?

Srry for my bad english :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ace_viknesh:
Search under Android development or Android Themes and Apps in this forum.
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
just got a text from virgin mobile stating that the next new month will cut down to 2.5 gb of data, just wondering if anybody else got this message? I do use alot of data of maybe its just me :p
[General Questions and Answers] Tessius:
A lot of carriers have either killed or are killing their unlimited data plans these days. I believe the only Carrier that still has unlimited data plans is T-Mobile. I guess each company underestimated how much data each user would use and decided to phase out all their unlimited data plans because they could not make a profit.
[General Questions and Answers] naripsta:
Still got Unlimited right here on Sprint. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
Maybe its just me, I teather a lot on my ps3 and pc so maybe they noticed it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GR36:
Not seen it posted yet but thoughts?

http://androidcommunity.com/new-galaxy-nexus-spotted-in-benchmark-tests-20120130/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kcm117:
I just bought this last week. If there is already a nexus refresh I will be pissed as a customer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cordell507:
It would be really stupid for google to do that because it would completely ruin the nexus name as being the bar setter for that OS which is what google has always referred the nexus devices to be, also sprint confirmed (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) that it will ship with a 1.2 Ghz processor
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
This just isn't Google's way. They release a Nexus 1 time per year. They wouldn't trump their Nexus with a tiny spec bump 4 months later.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mustbepbs:
Whoever made up that photo has pissed off a lot of people. This has got to be fake. Google is not this stupid.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Award Tour:
Its not a fake photo. It may however be a spoofed. The Sprint GN will probably be released around June, a half year+ after the original release. I think its more stupid of Google to release a half year old phone to such a supportive carrier (only carrier with GV integration and official Google Wallet) than to refresh the specs and piss off some users. You would have had it for months, and it will likely be unavailable on other carriers anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NardVa:
It could be the first Galaxy Nexus was rushed prior to the newer version of the OMAP chip being ready. Now that the chip is ready I could see Samsung using the newer chip with future production.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mohitrocks:
Haven't looked at the photo, but if this is true (which I doubt it is), it's probably for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] claud_face:
Frustrating indeed . After paying this much I figured its all good because its the only nexus that'll be out for a full year.

I still think it will be but we ll see
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChazzMichaelMichaels:
Good lord, the intarwebs are ablaze with this story already:

http://www.google.com/search?q=galaxy nexus sgx544

I don't know what to think about this one. On one hand, it seems like plenty of sites and people have been complaining that the hardware specs should have been buffed a little bit, so I could see it happening. On the other hand, this seems like an incredibly unpopular thing for Google to do.

I was about to pull the trigger on buying one tomorrow, now I think I'll hold off until the dust settles on this story.

Additionally, it would be pretty f'd up for them to release a clearly superior model on Sprint and give the finger to the Verizon and GSM unlocked versions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Valynor:
My opinion: Not going to happen.

Galaxy Nexus is fast enough (and will get faster with Android 4.1, 4.2, 4.5 ...) and there's no reason for Google to do this at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Well I think it'd be pretty crazy for them to do this. And they didn't do it with the Nexus S on Sprint...

But if this is the Sprint version, we won't be seeing it for months from now, so I don't think it should keep anyone from buying one now...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChazzMichaelMichaels:
I'd be surprised if they did, but then again MWC 2012 is right around the corner...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
But given their launch of the Nexus 1, Nexus S, and now Galaxy Nexus. They've no reason to release another till December 2012 lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HRodMusic:
its been a little over a month since the gnex was release this is a stupid move, if they did that, i would be seriously pissed =/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chad_Petree:
Everyone nows google ****ed it up with the camera on the galaxy nexus, they should have used the SAME camera module found on the galaxy s ii (which is great) , a fgaster cpu/gpu would be nice too, 1280x720 are a lot of pixels to push , i think there's a 50/50 % of this happening, i kinda would like it , if there's a galaxy nexus s coming , they're gonna show it in the mwc at the end of this month.

Why is everyone saying the galaxy nexus on sprint will be out in June? :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I see no reason why they would refresh specs. They didn't for the Nexus S 4G, and it released half a year later than the Nexus S.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EggoEspada:
Same goes for the Nexus S on AT&T. There's no reason for Google to fragment their Nexus line, and piss off their loyal customers. Google really has no real gain in doing a refresh, so why would they. They chose these specs to offer a specific experience with their devices, not be apart of some spec war. The most Sprint customers would get differently is a slightly bigger battery; I don't expect anymore than that.

Everyone is saying June because that's right about the time Sprint's LTE network goes live. It could happen in May, but June is the more likely target date for Sprint's first LTE device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmedandDangerous:
Let's please stop with the multiple threads omg!