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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] welchertc:
I definitely suggest TPU cases. You can get them every bit as cheap, provide similar protection, and will slide in and out of your pocket when you want it to, and will stay there when you don't. Also, due to the snug fit, I have found they allow much less dirt to get inside the case compared to silicone cases, stuf keeping your device scratch free.

I remember that I had a silicone case for my first iPod, a 30gb video, and I was highly disappointed when dust and dirt had scratched the back of my device. Silicone cases don't do much except make your phone grippy. they may defend well against drops, but TPU is just as good and doesn't allow your device to get nearly as dirty/scratched.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] EvoXOhio:
Ignore this post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] EvoXOhio:
I just bought this one too, thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Mortem Tuam:
I too bought a BoxWave Case....here are some pics
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Pandemoniumone:
Just Ordered the Blackout case from Boxwave, looks like it will suffice for now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ukic:
Is it thinner than a speck case? I got the Spigen Spg that I like very much but it doesn't protect the front :( I want a lightweight case.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
Hi, I need urgent help!!

I have buy a new Xperia Neo (for about 300 euro) , the phone perfectly works, but wen I try to update it with Pc companion and SEUS, it says me that the phone have a modified SW.

I'm sure I haven't do nothing like flash, root,..

I go to the shop were I buy it and they send my phone at the Sony assistence.

The assistance find a problem: that the software was bad modified, and says me that for repair it I have to change the all motherboard, because it's damaged and they can't repair it.

But they want 180 euro, the shop says me after a looooong talk that they haven't do nothing at the phone and maybe is a virus, and can help me paying an half,so i have to pay "only" 90 euro.

The question is it's possible damage the motherbord with a SW or a virus??

And what I have to do??

Pay 90 euro also if I haven't damaged it or use the phone like it is(it says me that is damaged and don't know for how much time it works)??

Thanks for help!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madfysh:
Well looks like someone used that phone before, and looks like unlocked bootloader via official way(hence PC Companion or SEUS wont work), I can't think of another reason.

I wouldn't pay anything. I heard stories that people bought "brand new" phone from store, which have images on it from vacations..

Not sure how you will prove that you didn't do it.

They (Sony Ericsson) should have your IMEI, mail, name if someone unlocked BL official way: http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/instructions

If they say that you unlocked BL tell them to prove you, to show you info from above.

If they can't prove you, demand free fix, as you bought it new.

If they show you that, ether accept that device and go back here on XDA to relock your BL and use SEUS or PC Companion. Or ask/talk to shop to get you new device, which I doubt they will do :) As you can't prove that you didn't unlocked it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vimjam:
few software modifications can do damage to the hardware in rare cases like extreme overclocking , extreme overvolting ....

first check if your phone is bootloader locked or not , try using flashtool software (of XDA) to flash latest firmware of your device & see if it changes anything ...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
Before sending the phone to assistance I controlled and the bootloader was Unlooked,

but today the shop call me and they say that the assistance have tryied the phone and don't know the date of unlooking, and it's not for the official way.

After I tell that I'm sure, I'haven't do nothing.. they tell me that probably I have a virus, but have a virus apears to me a very very difficult probability, also for the use I have done with the phone. And I don't know if a virus can unlook the bootloader.

The problem is that I don't know how to prove the unlooking was before.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
Yes.. but I think it's hard my phone is damaged for this reasons, I don't know..

It's possible that the motherboard is ok, but the assistance doesn't wont repair it and says me I have to change it??

The phone is unlooked I've seen it before sending to assistance, I haven't the phone now to try, it's in assistance, I have to decide if pay half for a reparacion (90 euro instead 180) or not..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] chefnoob:
If phone was just bought, just demand for a new unit. Maybe someone bought it from the store, unlocked it, then sent it back. When I got my neo new, my son stepped on it so LCD was busted. I had to return it aftr only 10 days of use. At first they refused to replace it but after some discussions, they did.

And honestly... Thats the first time I heard of a virus destroying a hardware -instantly I mean... But im no tech guru so how do I know.

Sent from my MT11i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mpiekp:
Urban legend, software does not kill hardware instantly, it can shorten the life by straining it using it in a way it wasn't designed for but cannot cause instant death. Most of these myths come from old propriety software users, where a virus has damaged a driver or key library then the hardware stops working, stoopid then takes hardware to practitioner of dark arts (monkey who knows a little) who when asked states problem was a virus, stoopid then thinks virus broke hardware, monkey doesn't explain to perpetuate the myth that he can do magic, so that stoopid takes back to monkey when it next breaks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ThilinaC:
Your phone is a used one probably,if pc companion says it got modified fw(due to bootloader being unlocked on official method I guess) and you haven't done anything to it big chance its earlier used one.Demand a new unit from the shop.

>>The question is it's possible damage the motherbord with a SW or a virus??

very rare,but sometimesyes I guess.I remember reading in Neo forums about some battery sensor getting killed when updating android to 2.2 to 2.3.4
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mpiekp:
Wasn't that downgrading, not upgrading. More a case of missing drivers than physical damage, the battery still worked....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] skyboyextreme:
there is nothing called 'damaged by a virus' specially on 'android' , so yea basically any talk about virus damage is just the guys at the store which sold this phone to you are bullshitting !!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madfysh:
Yup, it is when downgrading. From 2.3.4 to 2.3.2. And it was for all Xperias2011, which started before 2.3.4.

Yup battery still working, but phone is not detecting juice from it :)

Still, until today noone(of course appart SE guys) knows what exactly killed it. And they(SE) replace entire mbo when you give them phone with that problem.

Don't be so sure. Yes they can. Regardless if this is the case or not with his phone.

@pioloo: did you bought that phone in some locale phone store, or at some tele operator shop?

Anw, we can all guess now and tell you what we would do. It's up to you. If you are 100% sure you didn't do anything to it, demand new phone, or repairing on THEIR cost, or money return. Don't know how are laws in your country.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
I bought it in a big chain fisical shop, in Italy.

Yes, I'm sure I haven't do nothing, and a virus, in the few days i had it, appears to me very very difficult.

But the problem is that I have no proof..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
The shop tolds me that the motherboard is broken, and it's possible that a virus can have canged some registers...

But I can't understand how a virus can broke a moderboard like this... How it's possible????

Also because the phone works perfectly when I send in assistance!

And why, with a flashing you can't have the originals registers??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] chefnoob:
You just answered your question.

Flashing new fw can restore old registry...unless you have unlocked bootloader. Search the forums here how to repair damaged bootloader. Maybe it can fix your problem.

Honestly, I have no faith in the skills of SE repair techs. The fact that they could not tell if my phone was previously rooted when I sent it for.repairs was proof enough for me.

Sent from my MT11i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ssimmmo:
Right OK lets help this guy here. Can you please tell me where you got it from? So shop name also where and what country? Did you buy it NEW? Or Second Hand? Have you got proof of purchase? Eg invoice or sales note?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
After a looong looong talk with the shop finally I solved it!

They said, they change me the all motherboard of the phone for free!

But I had to insist a lot that I don't wanna pay ANYTHING! The offers me to pay only an half, after only 50 euros. But I refuse all! Because I know what I have done with the phone and a virus appears to me something almost impossible, knowning how a virus can work and how I used the phone!

I said I don't wanna pay if they don't have any proof the phone was modified after my buying date, and I asked to have the phone back as it was.

After this calls they call me and say me they pay for the reparation!

I bought it new with the receipt! In Italy in a big shop chain.

It was the last model in the shop and it was not sealed because they said me it was in exposition, but no one used it, and when I open it there was the full battery and the first android configuration, so I belive it and I buy it however.

A suspicion that someone had modified the software I would never have thought.

I don't know if this had happened to someone else who believed in the history of the virus or did not want to waste time discussing would pay a lot of money by no means.

Yes, also my think is the assistance don't want to loose time repairing it, they prefer change the all motherboard in this cases, and say it's impossible to repair.

Thanks to all for the precious help!! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Pät:
Hey,

If you bought it with unlocked bootloader why dont you try to flash Stock rom via CWM ?

Jozinek created an Update zip of stock rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1518151

So basically you could try to flash a Kernel with CWM and then flash via CWM stock rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
Yes, I thougth about flashing, but before trying everything I tried to have the phone perfectly new, that I paid for! :)

Because I don't know how was used from who flashed it, and also I don't wanna pay a modified phone like a new one..

Fortunely I solved it! And now I think I wanna save the guarantee at least to the exit of ICS and usefull mods for ICS! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ThilinaC:
Good to see finally they repaired it for free.I think your phone was used one with fw flashed again before selling to you,you should've demanded a new phone or threatening them you will go to police or sue the shop,glad to say here we have laws that can make shop owner go to jail for like 6-12 months if he cheats the customer :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] df011:
I am using cm 7.1.0 and I have a MTS phone but on the screen it shows as sprint is there a way to change it?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajrty33:
You need to add eri.xml to /data.

http://db.tt/F5qqpVKk

Also, if you look at your shipped build.prop you can get info out of there to change in your new build.prop.

The latest cm builds have a setting to change it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Torrential91:
http://m.brookstone.com/mt/www.broo...iid=SearchResults|CategoryProductList|711937p

This was originally made for the BB Playbook, but it's been reported to fit the NT. I can't speak to that personally but if there's a Brookstone in your area it might be worth looking into. It's a steal at $20, marked down from $80.

If anyone decides to get it, feel free to share how it works for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] kfirbep:
i got into bootloop after i did this guide:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1435617

now i want to backup all the apps and data but not the data that i change in the guide.

how i do that?

thanks for all the helpers
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Crucia1:
I know there are applications that allow videos when a call comes in. Is it possible to get the ICS boot animation when a call comes in? I think this would be pretty neat. Most likely battery draining but I just like the thought. Is it possible? Share some insight.:rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mstrk242:
I'm assuming you mean something like this?

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.taiga.avesha.videocallid&feature=search_result
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Crucia1:
thank you sir! that earns you a thank you! +1!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RotaryXperiment7:
i just got it, seems pretty cool.
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Just finished setting this up. Nothing special. Using Gingervolt 1.3 with the Ice Cream Krangwhich theme and the ICS ADW theme. I like the 360 launcher theme better except for the google search widget. It doesn't give you the ICS transperant one. Just the plain ol gray one. If anyone knows how I can fix that. It would be much appreciated if you could tell me how. Anyways here's my main homescreen

Sent using my rooted LG Revolution
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
OK for some reason its not posting my pic. Wtf mate. Fixed it lol

Sent using my rooted LG Revolution
[LG Revolution] KaneOfMars:
GingerVolt 2.0 w/ ICK Theme using ADW ex w/ ICS Theme and a few icons from the Honeycomb Theme

LCD Density: 200
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Why are my pics so blurry when they upload. They don't look like that when I view them from my gallery. Tried PNG and JPEG and png turned out worse for some reason

Sent using my rooted LG Revolution
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
GingerVolt 2.0 ? I thought the latest was 1.3

Sent using my rooted LG Revolution
[LG Revolution] KaneOfMars:
Mt posted it this morning :]
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Yea I just finished installing it. Tho my dumbass forgot (which I dont kno how, this is my 3rd Android phone, and I've installed and updated countless roms lol) that I dont have to revert back to stock/rooted before installing the new version, i could just install it right over 1.3 lol so i just spent the last 30min doing that instead of the like 5-10min it woulda taken me if i woulda been thinkin straight.

Anyways, I dig your homescreen bro. What app do you use for screenshots ?
[LG Revolution] KaneOfMars:
I use screencast or screenshot, not sure which I like better
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Added some new stuff. Hopefully this pic isn't blurry.

Why is it always blurry when I upload it on here. I've had it turn out nice before and so have others. Wtf is wrong dammit lol

Sent using my rooted LG Revolution
[LG Revolution] KaneOfMars:
I've never had success when uploading from my phone, always have to do it from my computer
[LG Revolution] S.Meezy:
Kinda cheated... and yes, holy menu buttons, Batman...

ADW EX 9X10 home screen with icons @ 50 & status bar hidden, AOKP 25, and One More Clock Widget Free.
[LG Revolution] jimmyhawk:
Love it!
[LG Revolution] S.Meezy:
So clean, awesome!
[LG Revolution] elreydotcom:
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[LG Revolution] kcarden:
Widget locker?
[LG Revolution] elreydotcom:
Using milocker now
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luciferii:
everytime i download an app if theres room it says "there is no more room on desktop" - i love nova launchr, but am sick of that message.. is there to get rid of that message for good? im using nova 15... thank you!,

neXus•S•4G°Cødename•Ændroid°1.4.0
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demo23019:
Its was like this on 14 also Its a Bug it only happens when u install an app and puts shortcut on desktop...minor inconvenience
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boidian:
I'm also encountering that message always even if I have room in homescreen. To disable the message go to market app>settings>turn off Auto-add widgets.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Aganar:
Probably a noob question, but I see this wallpaper all the time (I assume it's a live wallpaper?), to the point where I assumed it was stock, but can't seem to find it. Would anyone care to enlighten me what it is and where it can be found?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Search nexus live wallpaper in market. There's a free one in there highly rated but I can't vouch for it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Aganar:
Found it. Thanks!

Although now I've got to do some major minimalizing of my home screen to be able to appreciate it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
It is stock on cyanogen mod
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] *GalaxyDev*:
Its stock in stock jajaja lolol just long press home screen and its located in live wallpapers as nexus
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Aganar:
I'm on an Epic 4G Touch, on which it is certainly not stock, as I did go looking.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] *GalaxyDev*:
If youre on stock stock is right there, if youre in cm7 or cm9 is there in some touchwiz roms of gb is there and in the ics roms leaks is there ive found only like 4 roms without it like unnamed

Sent from the SuperPowerfulHero D710
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmagritte:
I copied a couple of 720p videos to my Galaxy Tab 10.1. The native video player says it can't play them. I tried a couple of other video players that generally do a good job and were able to play them using software decoding, but one had a really poor frame rate, the other ran in super slow motion.

Seems like the hardware isn't up to software decoding HD video and hardware decoding is finicky about formats?

These movies were both mpeg4 video, aac audio in a mp4 container.

When I copied them over it offered to convert them for me, but if I let it do so it seems to be very slow and would take over 9 hours. I'm sure I could do better using handbrake or something similar to recode as necessary.

But can someone summarize the requirements to get hardware accelerated decoding (or sufficiently fast software decoding) of 720p/1080p video?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmarebadger:
Did you try Diceplayer and BS Player? Both are available from the Market for free (ad supported) and played all my 720p videos (most were .mkv).

I'd suggest giving them a try (you also have to download the tegra2 plugins for both players).

As for 1080p its a far cry - depending on the specific encoding options it might work fine or be really crappy. Best bet would be to re-encode the 1080p videos you want to watch on your tab, but 720p is usually manageable (and more then enough for our tab, since it's basically the resolution of our screen)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
I like how they say the tab can handle 1080p video's, But forgot to mention "it would lag like ****" Youtube apparently get's played in 720p HD whereas getting a 1080p video to play is far from possible, perhaps ICS would make it possible, for now the stock decoders are horrible, HORRIBLE. Use the stock Movie Player/Video and it's like watching Lego or Minecraft graphics. Dice Player Ad is the best out there, and the only video player I use.

Just don't forget to download the Tegra2 plugin with it (Free ofcourse).
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmagritte:
Thanks guys. I'll give Dice Player a try and see if it does a better job. I don't usually use 1080p so as long as it can decode 720p smoothly I'd be happy.

From what I've read, it seems that Tegra 2 can't decode Mpeg4 High Profile, which probably explains why the videos I tried don't work well. I'll also try recoding them with standard profile and see if those work. But apparently, most HD video (including commercially downloaded video) is high profile encoded so the fact that the Tegra 2 can't decode those is rather pathetic. I don't want to have to code/recode everything specifically for the tablet so that's rather disappointing...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmagritte:
OK, gave those a try:

BS Player: Slow Motion...

Dice Player: BRILLIANT! Works perfectly!

Thanks for the tip!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Hence the name, BS player' It's BS cause they wanna market their stuff and make people pay, Their software acceleration is horrible. Dice player uses HW Accelerator which is why the video's are intensely smooth.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmarebadger:
BS player also uses HW acceleration. In my experience it worked fine with most video - it has some problems in the first few seconds which Dice doesn't (since it doesn't start the video until it's loaded) but after it "warms up" it seems to work just fine for most of the stuff.

BS Player has some nice extra features like LAN mode, automatic subtitle downloading etc. But yeah, Dice player is usually better for playing movies "locally" (I'm using CIFSmanager to mount my media folder over wi-fi).

Every now and then you come across videos that Dice has problems with however, and then BS usually works (once I had a video that played at like double speed in Dice player, while the audio was normal speed. Changing the 1.0x 1.5x etc. speed settings on the right had no effect. BS player helped then :) ), so I keep both on my device.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
I would love to know how to get CIFSManager to work, Would be epic to sync music folders via Wifi without having to copy/update it often
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmarebadger:
A simple search: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1468498&highlight=cifs ;).

Basically, you have to push the cifs.ko module and then insmod it. Some ROMs (like the 3G ICS KANG) have the module included in the appropriate folder, so you can easily just modprobe it (open terminal: write "su" and then "modprobe cifs").

Then you just install CIFSmanager and set it to the appropriate IP/folder (for instance something like 192.168.1.42/Media - this would go to the comp at 192.168.1.42 and try to load up the shared folder with the name "Media").

You'll probably want to set up your router so it always gives the same IP to your media computer, as you don't want to check it's IP and change the settings every time ;)

PS: Using cifsmanager is not without it's downsides though. I've noticed that if I turn off the wi-fi without first unmounting through the manager, the tab freezes (for about half a minute or so) when you try to show the folder containing the networked files. Mind you, I say show, not open - even just trying to see how many files are inside can lock it.

I worked around that by creating a CIFS folder on the root of the "sdcard", then extra folders inside CIFS for each mount. So I have /sdcard/CIFS/XBMC and /sdcard/CIFS/Music. Now I can safely look at my /sdcard folder without my tab freezing up (if I forget to unmount) - but if I try to open the CIFS folder it'll freeze up for a bit, then it'll give me the option to kill my file manager.

So basically, don't put the folder into which you'll mount directly on the root of your sdcard, or it'll become unusable if you forget to unmount
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] colonels:
on LTE atlanta network

stock mail app checks every 30min

weatherbug checks every 1hour

is it normal to lose 1.5% every hour on standby?

after 8 hours sleep phone is just at 90% from fully charged
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Scythe024:
Was reading a review yesterday and it is one of the least battery drain phones overnight out there. 1.5% is actually pretty good on lte
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] modmyphone:
Damn skippy.

1.5 is nothing to shake a stick at.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Nicarsu:
I'd be extremely happy with that low amount of drain. Despite my best efforts at conservation I haven't made it through a night with less than 50% drain.

Galaxy Note: what are you doing while I sleep?!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nymviper1126:
Sounds about right to me, though I sat it on wifi as well same drain.