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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrissie141010:
Repair os Samsung phone via A novo LTD

My Samsung galaxy edge 7 developed a very faint pink vertical line on the screen about 10mm in from the power button side. I contacted Samsung and they arranged for a repair company called A NOVO to deal with it. A Novo LTD has had my phone now for two weeks. Ive had to ring them three times. They fobbed me off to Samsung tracking services, who then fobbed me off to Samsung customer services who then referred me back to A Novo. I haven't know this level of incompetence in all my 48 years on this planet. I have now been informed that the part required will not be in for another week. Then I may or may not receive my phone another week after this. I have been an avid purchaser of Samsung phones and all their products. This is the first time that I've had to use their after care, and care being the operative word. I can also say that "A NOVO UK LTD, based in NORWICH has to be one of the slowest and equally incompetent electronics companies that I've ever known, and that's coming from a BSI Electronics engineer.

I WILL NEVER BE BUYING ANOTHER SAMSUNG AGAIN.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cirian75:
I've stuck with Motorola and LG since the GN and not had any where near the issues, in fact bar the well know LG Nexus 5X overheating/underclocked CPU I have zero issues.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clowry2011:
I'm using CM9 on the Arc S and can some one tell me the difference between 116 and 115?

Thanks.

Currently using;

Rom: CM9

Kernel: Free Xperia Project

Supercharger at 100%

It is fast as sh*t!

Sent by the Arc S with XDA Premium!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinkster:
Check cyanogenmod.com for the full changelog. FXP basically implement those changes in their updates.

sinkster©
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mekayzer:
Here you go for the nightlies change log

http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=anzu

You can download here the nightlies :

http://get.cm/?device=anzu&type=nightly

You can either see the changes here

http://code.google.com/p/freexperia/

Beware, the nightlies builds aren't the same with the weekly build leaked on dev forum.

I explain, the nightlies build chages are not neccessary merged on the weekly leaked build.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zygzoo:
port default apps

hi, can I port some default xperia apps to FXP116? what I have to do?

I like more the conversations,phonebook,etc...from default rom.

10x for your help
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
rooting my (htc mytouch 4g slide with this software

i want to run a full stable 2.2.3 FROYO or (prefer) GINGERBREAD 2.3.4

I DONT WANT SCENE I HATE SCENE MAKES ITS SLOWER

so REMEMBER gain s-off and get one of these AOS's in and ill pay!!

HERES THE SPECS

Doubleshot PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-1.45.0013

MICROP-0353

eMMC-boot

Nov 21 2011,20:20:47

**MY BOOTLOADER IS UNLOCKED**

AOS: 2.3.4 ("GINGERBREAD")

HTC SCENE VER: 3.0

SOFTWARE NUMBER: 1.55.531.3

KERNEL VERSION:

2.6.35.13-ge4be2bc

htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 17 18:32:14 CST 2011

Baseband Version:

11.59.3504.00U_11.16.3504.20_2

Build Number:

1.55.531.3 CL210454 release-keys

Browser Version:

WebKit/533.1

please email me at: crimedave1988@comcast.net
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
well.... We have just got great news - KERNEL source was released for our GB base ROM. So now either JParker or another talented developer might be able to create fixes/ a new kernel for our CM7, thus making a AOSP GB 2.3.4 ROM available. i don't think you'll see anyone create a FroYo build ever again, so this CM7 kernel fix will be your best shot at a AOSP GB ROM unless someone else was waiting on this kernel source to create a pure AOSP base..

Bottom Line: wait a few days/weeks for our newly published kernel to be taken advantage of by our talented developers.

BTW: We're a community here on XDA so you need not pay anyone money as others will also tell you, you just need to ask us if you need help with something in particular on your phone and we can help you through any problems you have - even rooting - just by asking.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
^^^ +1

There are donate buttons for the devs that helped you get what you wanted, but there is no bounty or "I'll pay you if you do this" here. Services are not paid anywhere on XDA. Only appreciated in various ways
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
yes your right but its just people dont like giving out exact detail like this is a perfect example for giving perfect details and thers not that many people doing that anymore

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286324

thats why i give upon trying to root im risking myself on damaging the phone might as well ask someone to do it for me but thanks anyways so CoNsPiRiSiZe basically is this gonna work for my version and have a fully function stupid fast stable AOSP GINGERBREAD 2.3.4?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
The guides here are pretty direct. I don't see how you can mess it up. They even have step by step videos on how to root and S-Off the 4G Slide; just search for it.

And if you're scared of damaging your phone, you shouldn't be rooting. As always, there is a risk with modifications, and it comes with the territory.

But to be very honest, I have never bricked any of the 5 different android phones I've rooted over the past 2 years. It's very hard to mess something up if you follow along step by step. There's very little "grey area" in the world of technology. It either works, or it doesn't
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
Or use the noob program

Typed by ---- oh wait! I'm schizophrenic!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] monkor:
+1
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
like what?? gimie a noob program for starters ill learn everything
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
Use this. Works like a charm in >5 minutes http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1532809

Typed by ---- oh wait! I'm schizophrenic!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
...of the year 2015.

moderators: I'm very sorry (not really) for the sarcastic spam, but I've grown more and more unhappy with Samsung in regards to them keeping their promises. At this point, other than my P6210 tablet, I've sold every single one of my android devices that are controlled by samsung.

I still have a galaxy nexus, but thankfully the source for that is controlled by google - not samsung.

Q1 has come and gone. No ICS. Hell, they STILL won't release the source for the damn wifi driver! The same source that qualcomm (who owns atheros) released under the GPL, but samsung says that they (samsung) get to choose between GPL and BSD and they are choosing BSD. Why? What good does it do Samsung to NOT release the source? If Apple.. er.. samsung wants to treat their customers this way, I can take my future business elsewhere.

If I wanted a closed platform, I'd buy an iphone or ipad.

Gary
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] ngc2264:
I agree

And I feel that with the increasingly number of similar tablets that Samsung puts in the market, the hopes for further updates are extremely low. Maybe we will have a first revision of ICS, but better it is good, because I don't think they will fix whatever is wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Zadeis:
I will agree with Gary in terms of how closed Samsung is making their "open" device. Though that is coming from a developer. From a consumer perspective having or not having ICS makes no difference to them. Unfortunately as our world becomes more tech illiterate the more these devices will become more and more locked down and cause stagnation in innovation.

Sorry to hear you leaving though you were a great help here.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
I'm not leaving the p6210... its the only samsung device I'm keeping. However, until and unless Samsung gives me something more than incomplete and outdated source, there's nothing else for me to do. I can't fix the wifi bugs, because Apple..er..Samsung won't release the source.

If they ever get around to pushing out ICS (big "if" there) AND they release the source, I'll play with that. I might even find the time to just port AOSP (or even better - AOKP) over.

After using a galaxy nexus for a few days, I don't miss touchwiz at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Zadeis:
Well that's good to hear... It sounded as if you were leaving us there. Though supposedly someone is making headway with wifi with the cm9 ics build. You might want to check in there.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] fewt:
What's with the driver? Does the GPL driver not support our cards, is it just missing the pci id? I'm new to this slate, so I don't have much exposure to the current issues like this.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] ldloh2:
Even Huawei Springboard (my 2nd tablet) already received ICS, I also disappointed a bigger company like Samsung get update slower then Huawei
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] bdds13:
GPL is not a driver, GPL is a open source licence.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] fewt:
Yes, I know the difference between GPL & BSD (both are OSS licenses.) I was asking if the GPL version would work if it was updated with the p6210 WIFI PCI ID. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
For doing an AOSP type implementation where 100% of the source is available, yes - it might.

For trying to do a kernel that would work with the rest of the samsung firmware, no - it won't. There are 3 parts that have to work together here: the actual driver (ar6003.ko in samsung's firmware), wpa_supplicant (which, on stock p6210 implementations has a ar6003 specific interface compiled in) and the rest of the firmware (settings page, etc.)

The "rest of the firmware" calls wpa_supplicant to do the dirty work of the wifi driver, and wpa_supplicant makes calls directly into the driver.

I'm sure I typed all this before, in another thread months ago, and went into great detail. The short version is this:

I need the source for the ar6003 driver and the source for wpa_supplicant (for the ar6003 interface.) Both of these are released in "GPL/BSD" dual licenses by their authors, meaning that samsung can, in theory, choose which license model to use when they include that code. Samsung has told me that they are claiming BSD for both and therefore will refuse to release the source to any modifications that might be included.

I've tried pulling in the generic ar600x code from mainline linux, but it wasn't working for me with the rest of the samsung stuff... and I simply don't have the time to mess with that for endless hours just because samsung is trying to be apple-like and make android a closed platform.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] fewt:
wpa_supplicant is what's probably killing you if it has been forked, more so than the driver itself. Makes perfect sense why it is such a pain.

Do you know of a thread somewhere that describes how to get started building kernels for these things? I'll play around with it, I don't have much experience with Android outside of some hacking with adb but I know my way around Linux as well as most. :)

I'll start poking around more, but thanks for the short version it is appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] fcorona76:
I disagree that consumers don't care. Call me naive that I didn't scour the internet deep enough to find good, honest feedback, but the only reason I chose the more expensive Samsung 7.0 was its IR blaster and its advertised ability to control the home theater components with it. That feature is bolded and blaster all over Samsungs feature list and descriptions.

So I get me GT7+ 2 months ago and how does it work? It doesn't do what I want. Peel, the only IR app available for the tablet force closes every time, and updates have proven fruitless. I email the developers of Peel and what do they tell me? They won't fix (or can't fix) the problem until they get updated ICS drivers for the SG7+. So for now I am **** out of luck until Samsung updates. I try to get a hold of Samsung tech support and get nowhere. The best I got was from a "Live Chat" bot that said ICS will be available in the future. No more specifics could be given.

And to add insult to injury, the screen on my Tab is fritzing out and needs to be sent back for service already. On paper the SG7+ looks great but for me it's been nothing but a hassle.

I want ICS so I can have everything work as advertised. It probably never will so I'll chalk this one up to experience and sell the POS.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
Just remember that samsung never actually promised ICS for this device. There were "leaks" (completely unofficial) and "targets", but never any legally binding promises.

Why should samsung spend the money developing ICS for people who own a device when that device is ALREADY 6 months old? At the rate samsung is coming out with new devices, they need that money developing for newer devices.

In a sick kind of way, this makes sense to me. (Samsung seems to be forgetting, however, that I buy a new tablet every 6-12 months and my next one will NOT be a samsung device due to the experience I'm having with them over this one.)

What doesn't make sense to me is the way that they are withholding source code. It just doesn't profit them or even save them money. There isn't even anything proprietary in the ar6003 drivers and wpa_supplicant code. No trade secrets. It's almost as if they are deliberately chasing AWAY technical people... but that just doesn't make sense when your primary OS is an open one that depends on geeks.

The only thing I can figure out is that they are, in fact, hiding something. Perhaps they are embarassed about the programming? Perhaps they cut corners and don't want it to become public knowledge? Maybe they just have a nasty streak and are deliberately trying to prevent any repeat customers. I'm just taking wild guesses here - I honestly don't know.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Zadeis:
The flip side to that is that you are aware of the fact ICS will have an impact to functionality on a current situation. Most people won't, as you put it, scour the internet to find the solution or future solution, to a problem and actually understand that an OS update will have a great impact on their experience with their current product. I had a discussion with someone the other day on this mindset and how it has been driving me nuts. (This person also considers them self an average user and not like most of us on this forum) You know that android 3.2 is on your your Tablet. YOU know what android 4.0 ICS is and how it impacts you. Most don't. That is what I was trying to conveying.

Though I am surprised that you are having issues with it on account I have had no problems with it (even though I haven't used it much).

P.S. Sorry about the irritated tone I do not mean any harm it's just a sore subject with me :/
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] fcorona76:
The latest release od Peel finally has it working on such a basic level that's it is no more useful that the remoate that shipped with my television. It can tuen my TV on & off, it can change channels, and it can adjust the volume of the television. When I want to add another device such as a cable box or AV receiver? No go. It will power the device in setup but it will not save it to the application for future use. I blame buggy peel software. It can obviously fire the codes it needs but they're going to blame Samsung and say it's a driver issue. The only way I could believe that possible is if the radio frequencies vthe two devices used were too close together to be discerened by the GT7+. Regardless, it's a feature which does not work as it explicitly advertises and, as Gary points out multiple times, they refuse to release the source code so crafty & eager developers (which I am not) can make their own functional software.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
Peel doesn't use RF... it fires the infrared emitter on the device. I actually played with the "peel" software once. For about 10 minutes. I found it a complete joke and froze the software. I never really cared much about that aspect of the tablet. To me, its for reading ebooks, playing games, and "tinkering." Okay, more for tinkering - but don't tell my wife that. She already yells at me about how expensive my toys are. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] kzoodroid:
I bought this Tab for the exact same reasons, I was actually going to get the Kindle Fire as all I really wanted was an e-reader, but the IR Blaster changed my mind. I set up Peel for my home theater and used it once than decided my universal remote for my dish actually works better and haven't used it since. I came in knowing from reading teh threads that Samsung wasn't the greatest at support or putting out updates but all I wanted really was the ability to root it to remove bloatware. IMO HTC devices are much better and easier to customize as HTC is more open about sharing the source code and also provide their own program to unlock their devices. But they at one time were as tight fisted as Samsung and getting updates out of them is still excruciatingly slow. Hopefully Verizon will be getting a One X device soon as I'm up for an upgrade in July and right now the best HTC device they have is the Rezound.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] h2g2:
Why would Peel blame Samsung? From what you described, the hardware is working properly but the functionality to save multiple devices is missing in software.

I think this is what Zadeis is trying to get at with regards to expectations - Peel sounds like it's either broken or not designed to meet your expectations. Either way, it's not something that's going to be addressed by an ICS update.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you say that the GT7+ doesn't work as advertised. But the proper course of action here is to seek remedy with Samsung, not wait for a software update. When you get a bad meal at a restaurant, you send it back. You don't eat it, then hope dessert will be better.

Apologies if my tone comes off as harsh or unsympathetic, I do not intend to be either, but pinning too many hopes on to an OS update is just setting yourself up for more frustration down the road when it doesn't match your expectations.

---------- Post added at 06:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:13 PM ----------

I think you already answered this question in what you meant as a joke earlier... Apple.

Samsung makes Apple's SoCs. GT7+ uses Samsung's own Exynos SoC. I think chances are good that Exynos and the A5 share IP and therefore, Samsung might be withholding the source code because the modifications they've made include IP that is covered by whatever NDA exists between Apple and Samsung.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] ex-28:
so what is the latest news on ics update for the 6210 ? , guessing samsung said no ics love for us ? , or .... just wondering what latest news is ..
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
You are a bit confused, I think. The exynos isn't the problem. While samsung hasn't exactly given us full technical documents on it, they added support for it in the mainline linux kernel - publishing enough source. They pretty much HAD to do that, as CPU support in linux can't be done as a module, and therefore must be opensourced in order to run linux at all.

The issue, at least in the case of the 7+, is the wifi chip/driver. It's an atheros 6003 chip. Qualcomm (who owns atheros) released the driver for that under the GPL. Samsung has claimed to me that they (samsung) are licensing it from Atheros under terms that allow them to choose to re-release the driver under either GPL or BSD terms and that they (samsung) are choosing the BSD model (which doesn't require the release of source.) In theory, Qualcomm could FORCE samsung to release the source, but I doubt qualcomm really cares too much. In fact, the module itself as released in binary form in the 7+ firmware (at least up to LA1) actually claims GPL licensing. (Can be verified by using modinfo on ar6000.ko) However, only the copyright holder can enforce the licensing.

A nearly identical situation exists with wpa_supplicant and the intergration between ar6003 and wpa_supplicant. In that case, I know for a fact that the author allows either GPL or BSD terms so wouldn't force the issue.

Those are the only two things I, personally, care about right now. If I had the source for those two parts, I'd be able to not only FIX the wifi issues on the p6210, but also enchance the functionality. I'm also unable to make certain unrelated changes to the kernel, as doing so without being able to recompile the ar6003 driver will render the existing ar6003 non-functional.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
There is no news. There were press "leaks" saying we'd get it in the first quarter. That, obviously, didn't happen.

I haven't seen ANY firmware leaks of ICS on this device, and since the above mentioned leaks, I haven't seen any reports of samsung even acknowledging that the tablet still exists. I don't think (but I don't know) there have been any firmware updates at all since Jan 2012. (LAx series.) There is a LC (March 2012) for the Thailand 6200, but that might be only a localized version.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] yaddamean:
I was debating between Tab + and Huawei Mediapad.

Should have went mediapad. :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] h2g2:
I defer to your experience on the issue, but remember that Exynos isn't just a CPU, it's a full SoC. Building support for the CPU just means building support for the Cortex-A9 cores which, licensed from ARM, Samsung has no real proprietary interest in.

The wifi chip, though, hooks in via the PCI Express controller and, based on the datagrams I've seen, is really the only component hanging off the PCI Express controller. The PCI-E controller isn't standard issue on an ARM CPU, AFAIK, so if it's an in-house design, then Samsung does have a proprietary interest in it and would probably have some incentive to keep the source under wraps.

Again, all conjecture and it's largely a moot point. No source = no source and you've illustrated the implications of that quite well.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] sharljimhtsin:
just waiting for your great job,keep on!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] ex-28:
verry much appreciate the reply , so really samsung isnt saying a thing whether they will or wont or might release it for the 6210 then ?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] garyd9:
Officially, I haven't heard anything. They leaked (via twitter, facebook, etc) various things including the "first quarter" thing I mentioned earlier. Someone in this (or perhaps another) thread said that samsung's tech support said "in the future."

Note that "in the future" could mean quite a bit of things... it might mean that "it's absolutely coming out eventually", or it might just mean "it hasn't been released yet, and might never be released."

Honestly, though, even if the CEO of Samsung send me a signed letter saying it's coming out tomorrow, I wouldn't believe it until it was loaded on and running on my tablet.

I no longer trust Samsung.

Gary
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] yaddamean:
I do like my new Tab plus... its my first Samsung device and it will also be my last. I've always disliked their phones because it just feels cheap and overpriced. Now I have even more reason to dislike Samsung but I will admit I am impressed with the build quality of this device. But that's enough to keep me as a customer when other manucturers have much more to offer as far as support and rom development.