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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xn1337:
slayvus, im with you, im gonna get my prime replaced or rma'd on thursday if i cant find exactly what your looking for!.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] lil-devil:
doing the manual update is like doing the OTA updates

you keep all your information on your prime hence you can just use the root keeper to restore root

of course we're just trying to help you but if you refuse to listen to us and want us to spend time to prove to you that something works when you can always try your self, then never mind just stay on your firmware that you're on @_@;
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
This is getting tiresome of repeating this. So I let you hear it from someone who MADE Primetime, -viperboy-.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25495366&postcount=1634

Again, lets go over this ONE more time since people can not seem to read and think EVERYONE on the internet is wrong.

THE BLOB FILES ARE NOT OTA UPDATES! THEY ARE MANUAL UPDATES AND YOU CAN NOT KEEP ROOT IF YOU USE THEM!

If someone can show a know developer saying different, THAN I will believe you. Until than, I will go with the assumption that, again, BLOB files are manual updates. I do NOT want to waste time to have to do everything over again on my Prime and risk bricking it AGAIN. I already risked it once by downgrading.

Now PLEASE, stop suggesting that I install .21 using a BLOB file off my SDCard. It's making me feel bad having to prove you wrong. All I want to know is if it is possible to intercept ASUS' OTA Updates so that people like ME can make use of them.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xn1337:
Could be a way

slayvus,

This guy managed to intercept this us one, now it would be nice if they could do it for my ww version.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1437274

im downloading this old firmware to comare it to the manual blob to see if its just a case of putting the blob in the cache folder :S

we would just need someone with a non .21 prime to download the ota for us
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
It looks promising, but it doesn't seem like anyone has contributed to that method in over a month.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xn1337:
without trying to get your hopes up im returning mine tomorrow if i dont find a solution tonight i did find this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22928122

a direct link to asus ota update for 8.6.5.21 -> 9.2.1.11 US

im going to check out whats in this zip, and see if i can find an ota link for ww, if i find one for .21 its worth you trying, you can allways downgrade again.

i went from .21 to .11 to .21 to 8.8.3.33 now im back at .15, lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] al mon:
You can download FOTAKILL.apk and install it in /system/data and it will no longer OTA.

Did it for the Xoom on 4.0.3 Team EOS 1.0. Works perfect. Will work on the Lemon TF201 as well.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
You can go to Asus.com and download the .21 updated zip file. If you unzip it you will find the blob file there. You will have to manually update but you will lose root. OTA root keeper wont work for this method.

If you want to intercept, accept the OTA download but dont install it. Go to your cache folder (I forget the sub folder maybe someone can chime in) and there you will find the dlpkxxxxx file. I assume if you copy that file into another Prime in the same directory that the tab will assume you have just downloaded an update and will install it as if it were OTA. Then you may be able to use OTA rootkeeper to restore root afterwards. I haven't tried this myself so just a theory.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xn1337:
slayvus

im going to get mine rma'd or replaced this afternoon,

when i get a working one back ill get a copy of the OTA from my cache folder, i feel this may be a way for unknown serial number units to get .21 with root!

i may be getting mine fixed but i will still strive to get a fix for this situation.

Believe me ive upgraded and downgraded to and from .21 about 10 times sofar so its still worth trying.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
Again, the updates from ASUS on their website, which are the blob files people are passing around for things like downgrades and such ARE NOT THE SAME THING AS AN OTA UPDATE.

An OTA Update is smaller than the blob files by a LOT. The OTAs are like less than 100 MB for the incremental updates. The updates on ASUS's website are over 300MB.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xn1337:
calm down, im sorry if i didnt say it right, im only human, i am going to get the ota update that downloads to the cache folder which as you say is smaller than the asus blob, i fully understand this, i spent all last night looking for the asus OTA 9.4.2.21 update, the best i could find is one to update to 9.4.2.11.

I repeat, I do not mean the one from asus.com, i am refering to the ones the units automaticly notifys you that they are availble and you then download direct to device, allowing you to use ota root keeper.

i upgraded to .21 using wolfs method last night and confirm that root is not kept if you do it that way.

when i get a working unit i will help intercept where the update downloads to and get a copy from my device, even if it means downgrading multiple times till we get it right!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
I have no problem with what you said XN, the problem is with people like aznmode.

Who said
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
Did you see my 2nd paragraph? Did that not answer your question? I try to help and you have a problem with it. Get that stick out of your ass dude.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
Did you even read my OP before I updated it? I have no problem with reading.

I can NOT receive OTA Updates. My Prime has an Unknown Serial Number. ASUS refuses to push OTA Updates to Primes that have the Unknown Serial Number.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
I understand you cant receive OTA and thats a known problem ever since the first ICS build came around and Asus is well aware of it and I've been in this ATP forums since this tablet was release so I am well aware of that issue as well. My 1st prime was in Dec of last year. Anyway I was generalizing when I said "you" and I didnt mean YOU cause obviously you cant get the OTA. My main point was how it can be done. I have intercepted an OTA before and I have some saved and I've done it with my Acer a100 as well. We're all here to help each other out so you should be thankful instead of being an ass about it. People will less likely to help you in the future. Not gonna waste anymore time..but good luck and hope you get your problem sorted out.
[HTC One S] ydizzle:
Whenever I am trying to decline a call my One S accepts the call. I then have to press the end button.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
[HTC One S] orenfl:
How do you try to decline it? It might be that you're doing it wrongly?
[HTC One S] keverline:
Are you dragging the red icon into the circle? I have not had an issue doing it this way. I will say that I tried to silence a call by pressing down on the volume, and it answered the call instead. That may be a setting somewhere though.
[HTC One S] tgtoys:
Hmm let me guess..are you dragging the ring up over the red call icon instead of dragging the red call icon DOWN into the ring?

It's ok..when I flashed a sense Rom on my HD2 a while back I kept pulling the ring up to launch shortcutsand couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work !

Ring up for regular unlock, icon down for action.
[HTC One S] OllieArmageddon:
Only thanked because I find it funny that someone who would buy a One S, and be a member of XDA wouldn't know how to decline a call, even though the phone has tutorials lol
[HTC One S] ydizzle:
Alright I feel so dumb right now lol.

I had the Sensation before this and it seemed like pulling up the ring towards the red icon always declined it. So i got accustomed of declining calls that way.

Anyways yea pulling down the red icon works fine.

Sorry for the dumb mistake >_<
[HTC One S] Megabunny:
we wont tell if you wont
[HTC One S] tgtoys:
Always ran AOSP or CyanogenMod on my HD2, only had a short stint with a Sense rom (not a fan of pre-4.0 sense, too heavy!) and never go through tutorials, I like to figure things out for myself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PC Jona:
there shouldn't be a difference right?

like if i wanted to swap it out?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] miketoasty:
There shouldn't be.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
There shouldn't be, but it certainly seems like most of the GSM versions have great screens, and the Verizon one has lots of complaints and returns.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] resynx:
No trust me, the GSM version has a lot of bad screens too hahaha
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
As in... replacing your broken screen with a GSM one? I'd look into this a little more before buying a screen and doing it yourself. I don't know if it all connects to the chassis the same. They are different inside. The phones aren't built the exact same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vicorama:
I had the Galaxy Nexus on VZN on launch day. It was made in Korea. About a month ago I had returned it due to unforeseen water damage and it was stuck in bootloop. Under the warranty and Best Buy insurance, they sent it back and 3 days later I received a refurb Nexus made in China. Now is there a difference between the two? aside from one being a refurb?

[Stock on both phones.]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DreamcastDC:
I heard that the Made in China ones are built better than the Made in Korea ones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
What difference would it be? ... if the phone works, it works.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jazzneel:
I was looking at the other forum, but didn't see that much. So thought I'd ask here. What do you think? I'm thinking of possibly switching, but not 100% sure. It all depends on the price. My epic 4g touch is amazing, minus my gps. It's decent in my Pittsburgh outdoors, but not amazing. In NYC/SF/Chicago, it's really bad for some reason.

But anyways, just wondering what ya'll think! I wanted a perspective from this forum, since I know most here love their GSII's!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I have a June 1 upgrade and I may get it. I feel your pain on the NYC part. My phone just doesn't like low signal areas. In NYC I can go one block and have 10Mbps 4g and go another and have 1 bar of 3g. When I am about to lose 3g I get random vibrations and menu pop ups. That being said, my NS4G will be the phone to go wifi only. I don't think I would sell my ET4G to get a GNex. I probably would sell it if the S3 is off of the charts amazing but fortunately I am not in the position to have to make that decision. I will be rocking my Epic Touch for a while. Development is going to take off once we have the official ICS build and kernel source. The best days are still ahead of this phone

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] t00dumb:
I just came from ET4g. The biggest difference in my opinion is the screen quality. ET4G has a superior screen but you get used to it. Processing power is still the same. Also what I like about nexus coming from root is you'll always have a recovery when switching roms especially cyanogenmod 9. It's a pain in ET4g. The only reason I got this is the LTE feature. The screen size had no influence imo.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iniz94:
Agreed, and I'm not just saying that because my upgrade is in like 1 and a half years! I feel like the Gnex and the E4GT aren't that difference, so IMO there's no need to update. I really don't see much difference in what the Nexus offers that our phones don't. Maybe I'll wait till the S3 to see if I want to trade in my phone or sell it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] phatmanxxl:
Im still debating over the GN or the EVO One.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Febby:
Good:

1.Flashing ROMs is way easier like a previous user mentioned because you always have a recovery.

2. The camera takes beautiful pictures, and fast! Also I should mention it saves the orientation of the picture, unlike the epic touch... -__-

3. Better android update support.

4. LTE support.

Bad:

1. Speaker wasn't as loud.

2. The phone seemed to get very hot for no apparently reason on custom ROMs and stock with different kernels within mins if usage.

3. On screen buttons are annoying, at least for me.

4. Phone struggled to get signal more than my e4GT.

5. By time LTE is rolled out in most common areas there will be a better LTE device or a new nexus.

6. Hardware isn't any better than ours.

7. Battery life wasn't good for my needs compared to the E4GT (With LTE disable).

The reasons above were my personal testings. Yours may be different.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
^ Exactly what I would've said. I'm coming back to the e4gt this week. The nexus also has a purple tint to it at a dark setting. (Very noticeable on the pull down bar.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crevis24:
well let me be the first to welcome you back, overstew:-) !
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akarol:
Uhhh, the camera from the GN is wayyyyy inferior to the E4GT. Everyone knows that. It is faster though, but the quality blows compared to the latest phones. That to me was enough to pass on it until the GS3.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Febby:
Well duh, that is why I mentioned it as a good thing. :-) the camera on the E4GT is good enough for my usage just I hate having to hold my phone sideways to take pictures correctly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gosueric:
I've got both

The GPS being functional is amazing on the Nexus, the screen looks nicer on the Nexus (imo)

But the Epic Touch feels smoother and is a bit more of a robust phone I think. Plus I know it better
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
To me the nexus is about the same as epic touch, but nexus gets me better a signal in lower signal areas.. Screen has higher resolution and that is only thing I missed from 3d ...I wont get evo lte , no way I give htc any money after the debacle that was the 3d . I hate sense so will not run it , if galaxy 3 doesn't wow then I will wait for next nexus....but galaxy 3 will be great so I will probably get that ...we should know something on thursday...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
I got a couple of updates on my account and thought about getting the GNex but then I said my part of the world is not getting LTE anytime soon. If I want to pull my hair out now with Sprints 3g I may want to kill myself it that's my only choice for another year..... Now that and that alone would be my reason to just wait it out...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
This has been my one and only gripe about my Epic Touch is low signal areas. My phone is almost unusable inside my office but everywhere else its fantastic. If you are saying that is OK then its still in the running for me.

Question, is all of the ET4G source code going to be available once OTA rolls out (or soon after) or do they only release bits and pieces? Also, will it be the same for S3? I assume that since it comes with ICS the kernel source should be there but what about the rest of it? Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
anyone see the other 1.2 million threads about the same thing? lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I must have missed one. I only counted 1,199,999. ;)

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
lol whatever dude
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Meh, what else are we going to talk about? More speculation about the S3 specs or when the next leak will be...lol? I am kinda curious to read what people that actually made the change think of the phone

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ilostmypistons:
I'm curious too... I've been on the fence for a week now..SGIII is the only thing stopping me from being a impulse buyer :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
i actually went and checkd it out. i honestly was not impressed at all
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ilostmypistons:
Thanks for the input.....you may have just saved me a bunch of money...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
dont take my opinion as gold, still go check it out for yourself bro, but its nowhere near as good as the epic if you ask me
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tahde:
I got it on launch to replace my Evo 3D. I'm not as phone savvy as many of you are. But speaking from your "average" user. It's a really nice phone. So far, I have not had many of the problems that others have had. I could finally be a lucky one with good phone.

I refuse to put it up against my ET4G. It's just not that serious to me. To me each phone has their advantages that makes them great phones in their own right. Which is why I like them both. How it is beneficial to me, not anyone else.

They both are great phones. You can't go wrong with either. It just depends on how YOU need to use the device.

Just my .08 cents.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
It has better signal than my epic touch in low signal areas....I was using fresh network all the time on my epic touch and have not used it at all on nexus ....but could be a loss of service bug like earlier in e4gt....It gets a little better speed on 3g for me also but that is probably just because it's getting better coverage....overall to me it's about the same phone as epic touch....I like the resolution better on nexus but colors are better on epic....it's not a upgrade but not a downgrade to me either ....overall I like it better than the epic because of the recovery not changing all the time and having to flash el26 to put another rom on it.....I have been flashing multiple times a day now..but battery is not as good as epic touch....it's a give or take...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
Plus we have official cm9 , official aokp , official crossbones, official miui ....franco kernels abby gsm vzw kernel works as do all themes etc.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hodgie26:
I have the E4GT with Sprint and have the unlocked GNex with AT&T with unlimited data. I know all of the specs of both of the phones and that they are pretty comparable with the E4GT edging the Gnex just a little bit, but with the screen and being on AT&Ts network. I haven't picked my E4GT up since I got my GNex. I have 4g in my area with Sprint, but the 3g is terrible!! Most of the time I have 4g off because of the battery drain. I have great battery life with the GNex on AT&T
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
OK, now you are just being mean..lol. i bet its nice having the recovery separate from the kernel though. I like being able to flash a GB Miui then wipe and flash an ICS CM9 on my well I guess its OG Nexus now since they look similar

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jfcooley:
I looked at one. Honestly want to try it but not willing to use an upgrade to get. Been checking market to see if one goes up, maybe trade my epic touch. Saving my upgrade for the S3.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digweed4me:
I have it both and i just got nexus from google play 3 days ago and I hardly touch my epic touch now nexus its flasholic heaven . I like nexus camera better than epic touch camera there is not much diff on quality between 8mp and 5mp but epic touch has slighty better quality but nexus camera focuses and take pics lot faster than touch.

Screen - no contest

Battery life -one hour more screen time than touch after 4.04 update

having said that i still love epic touch and soon to be on sale to pay my Etf to sprint .

I am on tmobile 4g prepaid plan unlimited data (5gb on hspa+)100 mins voice and unlimited text constinently get 10mbps down and 3mbps up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ind3lible:
I went and played with it at the sprint store. The screen is just amazing looking compared to my Epic touch! Waiting to see what the GS3 offers for sprint b4 I decide. I really am very impressed with the Exynos processor tho so might just stay with the Touch!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rob4828:
What's your monthly bill going to be?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digweed4me:
Sorry forgot to put it.

30 dollars
[Epic 4G General] mooshubob:
Forgive the silly question, but keeping the capacitive buttons offers us more real estate, correct? The GNex can get away with having on-screen buttons since the screen itself is like 4.7", not 4" like the Epic...

Beyond the aesthetic value, is there something I'm missing related to the capacitive buttons?
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
I think it'll just come down to preference. Some people just like the idea of the on-screen buttons, even if it takes up some space.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Would help me get used to the onscreen buttons when I get my gnex :p
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
I only did it bcuz the phone looks much sleaker and sexier when the buttons are off
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Both of these :)
[Epic 4G General] socos25:
This whole concept of a phone being sexy is foreign to me. I'm not judging either way, just not sure how I could think of my phone as Sexy... Maybe if I gave it a name?
[Epic 4G General] mbellot:
Or bought it some revealing lingerie... :p
[Epic 4G General] Zeinzu:
Or put a topless pic of your girl as your background?
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Lol im just saying when you set a phone down on the table whose front is so dark that you cant tell if it has a screen or even buttons people ask :P
[Epic 4G General] XxLostSoulxX:
i only get bugged about is my damn "FAT BATTERY" they say stupid things like " OMG like your phone is too huge" or "that's ugly as hell" whats funny as hell when i don't have my charger by my side 24/7 because i can along time with having to recharge it.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Lol well if the sgs 3'sbattery is the same as the epic 2 and ours then ill prolly be swiping one of those 2100 mah or the extended ones that will come i can see up to 4000 mah if the battery as big as ours will start off at 2100 mah
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
I can see this to get the task switcher button. Holding the home button only works 50/50 for me as it will think I let up and just pushed it rather than hold it. May be worth losing the screen real-estate to improve multi-tasking.
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
It really isnt that much heres what you do set ur default screen density to 320 like the gnex then reboot clear the market data press accept then change the screen density to 200 so that it feels a little higher res this will make up for the loss in real estate.
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
Wow, the video is really bad. I don't even know what to say. I appreciate you confirming the button less function, but the video is mostly of a wood table and like a phone sometimes gets in the way of the the table. LOL
[Epic 4G General] ktron2g:
I was gonna try this, needless to say my girlfriend wasnt very pleased :(
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
I thought it was good, a little shaky but easy to understand what he did.
[Epic 4G General] Zeinzu:
I do it anyway and I don't even try to hide it. I show her off every chance I get. (She doesn't know I do that)
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Like i said i did it in a rush and i cudnt find my tripod. Im not made of stone and you can only say so much in 3 minutes i was in such a rush i didnt even get tov put my phone back together after i shot the vid.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I don't think anyone meant any harm. People were joking around. But I cleaned the thread anyway. Carry on everyone. Please remember, you can't hear tone in text.

FNM
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
Thank you i just dont like when people make smirks about me or my loved ones
[Epic 4G General] matrixzone5:
I dont rlly get what ur trying to say but whatevs and the wooden table is the table top of my workstation i took it off cuz it need a new base and its not rlly wood its plastic made to look wooden bcuz i like that haha
[Epic 4G General] CrfEpic4g:
Lol sorry if I offended you its was just a joke cause you said to ignore the wallpaper ... no hard feelings?
[HTC EVO 3D] wachalookinat:
Hey everyone, just noticed there's a new xda app available on play store. Looks way awesome. Seems like they've finally listened to us... The end user. Many GUI changes. Check it out for yourself here!

Hit my thanks if ya want :) I love thanks! Lol