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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] darkinners:
A turd really a bit too much but I do agree with OP, gingerbread Note left many things to be desired and I am on ICS stunner now, only thing I missed is full function S-pen.

I do hate touchwiz in guts. It does nothing but crap out our beautiful Note

If I had to choose , HTC has best software development for proprietary software user experience. While Samsung has the best specced hardware.

Note with pure aosp/aokp ICS is the best phone available today

Just my opinion.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
I love ics but if gb could get tablet mode I could care less about ics.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p51d007:
You think the Note is a turd on GB?

Try coming from over a year with a Dell Streak stuck at 2.2.2

THAT was painful!

The note with GB 2.3.6, and Go Launcher EX, FLIES...at least it does for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Koguchi9:
Haha yep I had a Streak over the year and it was developer Dj_Steve that saved it for as long as it did. Even though the Note is better in most regards if got a soft spot for it as it was my first real awesome device. Why? Because it was 5 inches :) Never selling that, great memories.

There was only one reason that prevented me from getting the Note on release and that was touchwiz. But a couple of months ago I got one and enjoying it. Waiting patiently for ics but most likely once the spen apps work on osap ill move to that. I just love the experience of vanilla android that I had on my Streak.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] GallardosEggrollShop:
Well stock GB left much to be desired but after the Devs did their magic it was great. Going to ICS and Stunner made my Note just the way I wanted it. But overall the phone was always a winner to me just for screen size alone lol but I do miss the S-pen apps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smalmagal:
100% agreed. I didn't buy the Note because of Touchwiz or the S-Pen really...I bought it for its awesome screen. As an Android fanatic, knowing that I could change the firmware to whatever I wanted, made it an easy buy. Most "normal" people couldn't tell you what phone they have let alone what version of Android they have, if they even know it's an Android phone to begin with. But I feel even to people like this, Touchwiz is something of a joke. It's butt-assed ugly, laggy, and just a UI disaster in general. If I was stuck with what Samsung offered me, I wouldn't have ever bought the Note in the first place.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shure2:
I spent half the day using apps I would normally use (xda, opera, youtube, bbc app etc) and every single one was faster on my desire z with a custom rom (no games however). For me it doesn't take days to work out how good a rom is, I've been a serial flasher for years, and I'm sure lots of others can work out how good a rom is in a few hours. Maybe the desire z is an unfair comparison because it's so good when modded? But this has twice the ram, probably nearly twice the cpu performance so I was expecting a great performance out of the box.

Maybe I got a dud stock rom? (la6) If I'd have heard the headset quality in the store I wouldn't have brought it, but it's massively improved in ICS which I haven't seen said here. Obviously this is all down to personal preference, but the distortion and lifeless high ends were very noticeable before.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brooon:
The Mighty TouchWiz

This is slightly OT now, but I just want to leave a comment on that (of course, this is not going against your opinion smalgal ;)): I´m not really into TW as well, just because of the one fact that Ißm using my note on smaller DPI settings, where TW really doesn´t make sense anymore.

But beside that I want to get the facts straight (at least imao): TW is far from being laggy or a UI disaster. Quite the opposite: It seems like TouchWiz is by far

the most stable launcher

I ever came across. I have used a tons of devices now, including the mighty SGSII (which was the fastest till today). And even though Go Launcher Ex, Apex Launcher (on ICS) and a bunch of other good launchers are fast as well, none of them gives me the same stability and reliability like TouchWiz does.

Fastest wakeup from standby, absolutely NO launcher crash, absolutely NO launcher reload, nothing...just working.

Of course, there are some things they really should FINALLY include like compatibility with lower DPI settings, personalized sort order in the drawer etc.

But laggy?

Absolutely not.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
I myself like the TW,here is what I am gonna do:Wait for the official ICS to be released,and after that will get the best custom ROM based on it with least bloatware,and flash.,of course will make sure that I test all of them first and get whatever suits me the best.

Thats what I did with my HD2,and PDA2K long time ago,and was very happy,on my HD2 I have chosen one of the least known ROMs but very light CleaNex STD,and couldnt be happier.

And plaease dont come out and advice me that that kind of ICS ROM already exists for the Note,this is a personal approach and I am willing to wait.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] emuX:
And yet you bought one! ;)

So maybe a lot of us are expecting great things from devs and the ICS stock build when it eventually arrives!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] clandestino123:
"but I do miss the s-pen apps". :)

Well why not just flash a rom that supports them, try it out, see how you go! If you don't like it, just go back to stunner.

I'm using midnote1.0. I believe you can use alba aswell. S-pen apps are working very well. For me, ICS is a massive improvement on GB. Everything is working instantly, and properly too. It really makes a difference.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] drachers:
GAH. Comparing stock anything to an XDA custom Rom isn't fair for a start. Put the latest RocketROM GB v23 up against Stunner and we'll see a contest.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
TW is not that ugly , and it's definitely not laggy at all ,like you mentioned it's actually the smoothest launcher of them all.

But to be honest ,TW on the note is not as smooth as TW on the SGS2 ,actually the whole stock experience is a lot less refined than the SGS2 ,the launcher tends to reload on the note when a heavy app is loaded ,and that never ever faced me on the SGS2 before.

and since the note's hardware is on par with the S2 ,I'm actually very excited to what improvements ICS will bring along , in comparision I wasn't excited at all for the S2 ICS update cause it was perfect as it is.

but That's not to say the note is a turd to begin with ,far from it actually.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brunte:
No, you don´t mess with the bootloader by installing ICS stunner. If you mess up your Note, you can allways flash a stock rom through PC Odin and start over.

This was a reply to post #4
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smalmagal:
Touchwiz is more than just a "launcher." It's a complete UI overlay...and it's ugly, and it's laggy. Maybe I didn't get the same phone everyone else did, no? Touchwiz launcher itself is clumsy and slow, and I personally think it's terrible. I don't know where you people getting off saying it's the best launcher you've ever used. Have you tried them all?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
Thanks for the clear up +1

Well let's see ,on the SGS2 I've tried go launcher ,launcher pro ,ADW launcher ,7 Launcher ,SPB shell ,TSF shell ,Zeam launcher ,and a few others I can't remember at the moment.

And yes Touchwiz4 was by far the fastest launcher of them all (especially on the SGS2) ,maybe SPB and TSF came close in terms of smoothness but I didn't like them.

As for looks and functionality ,it's not that ugly but can become boring after a while ,on the S2 I had go launcher ex as my primary launcher, but on the note I'm actually still on touchwiz.

I don't know why your experience differs from ours , but what I just told you is from personal experience with two different devices , SGS2 (6 months till I sold it :( ) and SG-note (3 weeks now :) ) .
[HTC Rezound] 1454:
Is it going to allow us cdma-ers to one day be able to get the same development as the gsm devices do? Since it seems it is a gsm technology. Or is it just wishful thinking? And by that I mean quicker updates because we are using the same hardware as the rest of the world, the major purchaser of these Devices. Which, in my mind, would allow us to get radio drivers sooner. Or am I just reading way to much into the gsm similarity of LTE?
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
Isn't cdma and gsm and lte all different??
[HTC Rezound] Sleek69:
Lte is a gsm technology.
[HTC Rezound] ksizzle9:
I think I understand what you are trying to ask... My version of the answer is this: yes LTE is going to help us. The Rezound is great example why. It supports Vzw CDMA, LTe(Sum based), plus all other GSM bands. Mostly.

The unlocked international versions always get new FW updates first, and since our hardware is now essentially the sme, can we get the updates as well? Yes and no, it would be similar FW, English, and written for cdma, so there will b some differences, but it still is mostly carrier dependent. US has a system where the carriers are the boss, like the "big brother" selling a whole exoerience. So to answer your Q, only time will tell. I wish android OEM's would follow apples lead on how to drop an update.
[HTC Rezound] I Am Marino:
Our carriers are what slow our updates up.
[HTC Rezound] 1454:
I don't necessarily mean the official updates, but more the ability to use things like asop. As, in my experience/understanding , it has always been closed cdma drivers that held things up.
[HTC Rezound] 1454:
I don't really mean the official updates, but I think you did pretty well answer my question. I remember with the TB, and the TB still isn't able to work with ics and the Ril, that it seemed as if the support was lacking due to the cdma drivers being closed. Or that is my novice understanding. I'm just wondering if 3-4 years down the road we will be able to get nexus type support due to having more compatible radio hardware.
[HTC Rezound] 1454:
No, from my understanding, LTe is just an evolved version of gsm. CDMA and gsm are different, but LTE is an offshoot of gsm.
[HTC Rezound] I Am Marino:
Well with each generation of phone, it's getting harder to completely unlock the phone for different reason.

Look at the Rezound, we still don't have data for any AOSP ROMs we may/may not have, it gets harder and harder and I think it's a lot more than just CDMA drivers.
[HTC Rezound] 1454:
So I guess it lts going to get to the point that you can't change anything at all, if I understand what you're are saying correctly.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven.smith:
So I've just installed CM9 ICS on my Samsung Epic 4G. The problem is, I want to add WAKE to the Camera button, however it is not listed in the "cypress-touchkey.kl" keylayout file. I figured I would change it in the Generic.kl file, but that doesn't seem to work.

In 2.3, the camera button was in keylayout, but this is not the case for CM9. I tried added the Camera entry with 212 on the cypress.touchkey.kl but no luck. What should I do?

Thanks in advance for any and all help.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonehunter59:
I believe I saw that option in the settings somewhere
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven.smith:
While I do appreciate the response, this in no way shape or form actually helps me. Let's say for instance that there is an option in Settings, saying "somewhere" doesn't really help. Second, I asked about the keylayout files. So even if there is a way to do this in the Settings page (which I don't think there is), I was still talking about keylayout files for a reason.

Sorry for sounding rude, but your response does not help me whatsoever. It's like saying that the answer is on the Internet... that's great and all and I'm sure it's on the Internet somewhere, but if I don't know where, then the answer is pretty pointless.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonehunter59:
I apologize for my post and I was wrong anyway, there is no option. Sorry for taking your time
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven.smith:
Solution

So after messing around with a few things, I finally found the solution which I will list below:

- To change Camera Button you need to edit s3c-keypad.kl

- To change Power Button, Vol+, Vol- you need to edit victory-keypad.kl

- To change soft keys (i.e. home button, menu, back, search) edit cypress-touchkey.kl

So to conclude, it is actually a combination of keylayout files. Please note that there are other listings for the buttons in various keylayout files such as Generic.kl, however do not edit these because they are not what the phone uses. I have tried almost all of the above keys and they have remapped successfully so long as you edit the key values in the .kl files listed above.

I hope this helps someone else who had the same problem.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
DO you or any one Know how to make the camera key launch a different camera app? i want it to start the MIUI camera but if i have both installed the cm9 camera starts with the camera hardware key.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movielover76:
Quick question, I achieved s-off the old fashion way by downgrading the bootloader, not revolutionary and I now have to flash the phone to unrooted stock and make sure it can receive OTA's.

I don't really care if the old s-off bootloader stays I'm on the 1.48.2000 bootloader with S-OFF

It seems to me that since the whole point of S-OFF is that it will now flash anything I can simply flash a stock RUU and be done with it, or will it cause issues.

I read in this thread that you could

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1310014

But it's in the section for if you achieved s-off the revolutionary way.

Any thoughts? thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Does anyone have a copy of the bootloader (Odin flashable) for XWLP7? I just flashed the old bootloader to use my USB jig, but I'd like to flash the bootloader back to the new one for XWLP7 via Odin.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atifsh:
http://skywanker.net/Download/download.aspx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Thanks!

What's the difference between the

NEW BOOTLOADER

and the ICS BOOTLOADER file?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atifsh:
old / new are for GB ROMs

ICS is for ICS
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] redandwhitearmy:
which adreno gpu will be competitive with PowerVR SGX540 GPU clocked at 400mhz?

is it adreno 205 or adreno 220 or adreno 225
[T-Mobile LG G2x] johnlicoski1204:
What i did before this problem

1.used the lg support tool to go from froyo to gingerbead (worked great)

2. attempted to use clockwork rom to install icecream sandwhich based rom (it failed)

What i get now

1.If i turn my phone on like i always would i would get the lg logo, and it would stay like that forever

2. if i try to boot into recovery i get "s/w upgrading"

I contacted lg and they said to send it in and wait

2 WEEKS

to get it back and there may be an additional charge

Can someone please help me fix this without going to lg. I just want to be able to use my phone again :'(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bj83gc:
run this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1590523

I did the exact same thing to my phone the other day. Then install the new rom via clockworld after its done.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
But if you installed the 2.3.4 then don't update to any rom besides the kwes 2.3.4 because anything else you won't have audio or anything while in call there is no fix for it yet besides using kdz to downgrade.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] johnlicoski1204:
I tried it and it didnt help.

if i do a normal boot i get the lg logo wiht a loading bar that eventual stops and does nothing

if i boot into recovery i get "s/w upgrading" again
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JHaste:
you have to use nvflash to snap it out of that... I remember i had it stuck on that for awhile until i flashed the stock recovery/bootloader stuff and then reflashed cwm and then it finally came to
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Волк:
NVflash CWM from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1566681

if you're unsure of the APX drivers set-up you have a more basic guide here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
[T-Mobile LG G2x] johnlicoski1204:
No change, thanks for trying :'(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JHaste:
just keep dicking around with NVflash... its the only way you can wake it up from a soft brick of that form
[T-Mobile LG G2x] johnlicoski1204:
like what, what do i do. i am a total noob.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] buru898:
I don't think you're booting the phone up into cwm the right way.

Lol do this:

Make sure phone is off. While the phone is off hold down the volume down button.

While still holding volume down, hold the power button.

Continue to hold BOTH the volume down and power buttons. When the SECOND LG logo appears, let go of both of the buttons.

And no offense, but if you're not comfortable with modding your phone... you really shouldn't do it or ask someone else who knows what they're doing to do it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] LostInNorth805:
Agree modification to a cellphone can be risky.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dot64:
From my personal experiance with the G2x (i thought i had bricked my phone), i have discovered that it is nearly impossible to brick this phone. I had ran the g2x nullifier and fully wiped my phone clean. When I power up the phone, all i get is the initial white LG logo. Luckely, i discovered the following thread that got my phone functional again:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1248644

Try the above thread and see if your phone gets recovered to a functional state.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] d12unk13astard:
That script is perfectly fine and didn't hurt your phone at all. It states that it will wipe everything out even the rom you were previously on. So when the phone rebooted it stayed on that LG logo because it didn't have a rom to bootup.

At that point a quick battery pull and reboot into recovery was all you needed to do. :D
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bj83gc:
Try flashing the stock recovery thru the one click nvflash utility and leave it off for a few min. Then run the g2x batch cleanup tool and see if it then let's u boot into the recovery. (By holding down volume - when hitting power on)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jaywillsoul:
Ok, so then its safe to assume that you rooted your phone first? Then you set up your phone by using nvflash so you can use ClockWorkMod (CWM)? Then booted your phone into recovery and tried to install ICS? If not done in this order then thats your fault. If you did it in this order then you missed something.

A common mistake is trying to install a ROM via CWM while the phone is running. When you do this the phone restarts and gives you the error triangle with android underneath it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1039985 Tells you how to do as well as provides links to everything it doesn't.

As for recovery they provisded the right link. Follow it to the "T" and you'll be ok.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bolih:
Try the link below

Hope fully this fix your issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TozZKt7_JD8
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dot64:
But the key issue was that CWM recovery was destroyed as well after nullifing thus leaving me in a stand still to do something. nvflash was the only thing left to recover the phone at that point which worked very well.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] thehumble1:
There is pretty much no way that after running either the One-Click or Cleanup Batch that he can't get the phone into CWM unless there is a hardware problem. This most likely means that the problem isn't with the scripts or phone, but with the procedure he is attempting.

Even if nullifier (which I don't think is of much use here) had wiped all partitions, the NVFlash will still pop you out of it and leave you with a working CWM.

So keep reading and keep watching videos of how to do it and make sure your drivers are correct. READ a bunch first.

And remember that he got here due to an LG software problem or issue with operation, not from trying to flash as a noob, so he knows he's in over his head right now.

Remember, we all had to start swimming somewhere and it usually wasn't pretty at first. Mine was a corrupted Motorola RAZR.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Apolymoxic:
It appears that this is an older post, but if you are still having this issue, then maybe I can help. If anyone else finds this later, hopefully it helps them as well. I just did something similar and I thought I was screwed. I rooted my phone, installed a ROM (Hellfire... nice ROM BTW), then I got the nullifier. I installed the ROM before I ran the nullifier because I wanted to make sure the ROM worked. However, after running the nullifier, the ROM didn't work.

The only thing that I could get to show was the LG logo at the startup... no second logo (Blue LG), no SW upgrade... NOTHING. The phone wouldn't do anything else. Luckily, I wasn't the first to have this issue and they found the solution...

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1566681

Since you have already done other steps, I am assuming that you already have the drivers installed. So, the only thing you should need to do is download the ROM then install it by clicking flash.bat. The instructions on the page are pretty easy to follow.

No need to deal with the NvFlash until AFTER you do the above procedure. You will need to run it again after the above procedure because it puts it back in the original state (pretty much). The NvFlash will give you the superuser and Clockmod back. You should be good to go after that.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vipaman:
There is no way u can brick the g2x......even if u wanted to.........keep messing around
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Apolymoxic:
Really? No way? Well, I guess that's reassuring.

After making my last post, I ran across a couple other ways to "unbrick" the phone. Maybe it is impossible to brick...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] NoctMonster:
Since I live right next to Mexico I always get their signal and overall Sprints signal and plan sucks for mu situation so I decided to change to Verizon. Recently my phone or battery stopped working and whenever the phone slightly overheats, the phone turns off and whrn i turn it on it has lowered over 50%, from one minute to the other. Im using the latest calk if that matters. So Im planning to exchange the phone first but the question is if I have to unroot it first... theres a local dealer that contacts sprint warranty and they check ur phone right there. you keep your phone until the replacement arrives and there is no cost.

Now, when I get the replacement and get a phone from Verizon(galaxy nexus seems like the one) can I sell this phone without any problems? Do I need to contact sprint or verizon to transfer my number? I plan to pay the cancellation fee for the 2 year contract on sprint with the money I get from selling the phone. And yes It is worth all the hassle, my last bill was of 400 dlrs for 1 smartphone and 2 basic phones which dont have roaming guard.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sinxjae:
you should have no problem selling your phone to someone else once it is disconnected. Basically - once you terminate your contract and release the phone from your account the ESN (serial number) is released. All the buyer has to do is give Sprint the ESN and possibly the IMIE and they will be good to go.
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[Off-topic] Atomix86:
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[Off-topic] SoraX64:
What's wrong with referring people to a game with a referral link?

That's what they're for.