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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Why would you even consider a US variant? The one for Sprint is designed for CDMA networks, and probably won't even work for any of the carriers in Brazil, and the ATT and T-mobile USA variants will both have a bunch of branding. And the T-mobile USA variant uses slightly different frequencies than the ATT one, so you would have to do your due diligence with researching which one would work with your carrier. An un-branded i9100 is your best bet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hknoener:
Mistah, you think it's not worth pay a little bit less for any of the US variants? I prefer to get the I9100, but the other are always cheaper.

Parts. Remember, I'll be outside of US, so get support for a US variant out of US could be very tricky.

ctomgee, thanks. I'm start to think that paying less now could cost me a lot more in the future.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I can't comment on that, because I don't own one of the US variants. What I do know is the I9100 is the 'most common' variant & it's easy to get help with it on places like XDA & there is plenty of custom firmware & mods for it.

We have a number of Brazilian members here on XDA who have the I9100, which suggests it works well with the networks in that country, and I'd be surprised if you didn't have repairers in the major cities at least who couldn't easily repair an I9100.

Up to you whether you want to get a cheaper US variant. Maybe ask on the specific boards on XDA devoted to those phones to get an idea from people who actually own those phones ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hknoener:
I came here just to check the general idea of I9100 owners. Sometimes there are things pretty obvious about some variants that I, as a totally new user to Android, have no idea.

I used a lot XDA during my Windows Mobile experience, tested several different ROMs and tools, but since 3-4 years ago I don't have any phone that actually requires my visit here (Blackberry, in that case). So I've dug up a bit to know more about the different versions in order to know where I was going into. But I couldn't decide without coming here and checking with the XDA community, since I'll use for sure the ROMs and Tools available here on this phone.

With the answers that I've got so far it's pretty clear that it would be a mistake to buy a variant, specially not being a US resident.

Thanks, again, for your help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atifsh:
better to ask that in att forum as we are not using the variants.....

plus i dont know where you get that impression that us variants are cheaper....!

they are not see the full price not contract price
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hknoener:
Where? eBay, Craiglist, Amazon... I'm not talking about phone with contract here, just carrier branded. A lot of times they are unlocked, but still branded.

I think I already bothered too much here, don't know if I want to annoy people there asking silly questions.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mailboy1412:
This is not a silly question at all.

From what I know, the ATT 3G one is closest to i9100 international. These phones are lightweight and have better screen (better clarity and contrast, not much though) than the 4.5 inch variants like Tmobile.

Tmobile has 4G and there are still a decent selection of roms.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hknoener:
Thanks for your info!

I've noticed, when looking for a Windows Phone for my wife, that the AT&T version could be normally used in Brazil. The frequencies are basically the same.

From what I have found out the AT&T version was the closest one, just wanted to have a confirmation. Thanks for that.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] wildwarbird:
hi, my samsung infuse has several problems, my brother installed CM9, but after that it doesnt worked because he miss install the correct bootloaders,

But then I read that one click can help me out, and finally i could run it back to gingerbread, then my brother again put the CM9 and it worked, I install fine, but now the computer does not recognize samsung infuse, that's a problem, now I try to return it to cm7 through room manager, but didnt work it , I can not get out of recovery mode, plus its looks several rainbows , after I download the latest CM9 version and try to install but nothing happened, I know I am new here and i will aprecciate all you guys can help me, do not quite understand the English very well, thank you
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mg2195:
Well...never use rommanager...that will brick your phone...

Here's what you do...

1) get heimdal

2) put phone in download mode

3) press flash on heimdal

4)let it do its thing and you should reboot with stock...

How to get in download mode?

1) pull battery

2) put battery back in

3) hold down volume up and volume down at the same time...do not let go

4)while holding volume keys plug in the USB cord...do not let go of volume keys

5) you phone should now be in download mode...continue with heimdal
[Samsung Infuse 4G] atrix4nag:
I am new to heimdal, so sorry for the silly question..

When you flash in heimdal, you need not select any stock ROM?

yesterday I selected the UCBL3 stock ROM, and clicked flash, and my phone doent turned on, after that. I am getting a replacement phone, but I want to know what I have done mistake, Once I get new phone, I want to install GB bootloaders on it, and this time, i want to do it correct.

TIA.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] grod46:
Im just wondering if anyone other then me is having Mounting issues with CM9 4.0.4.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] projektorboy:
Seems like all the ICS ROMs have USB mounting issues. It never works the first time, but if you unplug the USB cable and re-plug the phone into your computer things will start to work.
[Nook Color General] baker2gs:
I have the stock rooted Nook Color 1.4.2 and I was wondering is it normal for the web pages not to resize after zoom? I thought it was working previously, I could be wrong.

I've tried this both in the stock browser and Dolphin, auto-fit pages is on for both browsers. It's not working the same way it does for my phone.

I've scoured the boards and all I could find was info with a similar issue happening on CM7.
[Nook Color General] votinh:
If you have the "auto-fit pages" option turned on and no effect then I strongly believe what you mentioned is called "auto-text reflow". That feature is NOT on both stock browser and/or Dophins HD.

Back when I used GB, the only browser offered "auto-text reflow" is the Opera.

In ICS, there is an app called "ICS Browser+"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Ok so I'm sorry to ask this if it's been asked before. Deal is I have the Htc one x but my grace period is almost up. Really like the phone but I miss my Samsung. Thing is when is it supposed to if it does launch for AT&T. If it'll be not intil the late summer early fall then I'll just keep my one x. If it supposed to launch say in June. Then I'll wait for it and return the one x before the 30 days. I'm back to using my iPhone 4 and can't stand it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnM:
AFAIK ATT is GSM so you can just buy one, pop in a sim and you're good to go.

I may be wrong.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobp:
Yes, Samsung international phones have typically been compatible with ATT. And as for the AT&T launch, they definitely said june but who knows.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
Define defitely first. Then we will be able to answer your questions :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Thanks. Guess I'll return the one x and save my upgrade for the gs3. It's odd though if it would be a June release wouldn't AT&T have announced it yet? Don't they usually announce them a few weeks before for preorders and such?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Yes I spelled definitely wrong.

Ya saw that lol. Tried to fix it but couldn't. Going from a 4.7" screen to the iPhones 3.5" it's hard to get back used to typing ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuwayman:
If and when att gets the gs3 it will most likely be different in the hardware cause of LTE. It will be the same as the HTC one x has for att. The new s4 chip set.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
They don't always. Lets not assume June either because we don't want to get peoples hopes up. They said summer. And Samsung is having a press release in June to announce the phones in the US. So June-August.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Yeah not really thinking it'll be anytime soon. I wish I never sold my gs2. I really miss that phone :(. It's ok. I really like the one x but not as much as I did the gs2. So I think it'll be worth the wait for the gs3. I don't have lte in my area yet. Maybe later this summer. Just don't have the coin to shell out for the international version at the moment.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nativestranger:
Dont bother. The att version of the sgs3 will be severely crippled due to having only a dual core cpu and a crappy past gen gpu.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
I'm curious if the AT&T version will get rid of any other cool features like the eye tracker and stuff. So basically besides warrenty lte is the only thing lost in the international version right?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
As far as I know the eye tracker or smart stay is a feature of TW, so it will be present in the US AT&T model.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krabman:
I would be under the expectation that tethering will be gone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
You clearly don't know what the term "crippled" means nor that the S4 is benchmarking as well or better than the two quad core options. I suggest you read up before making statements like that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnichols959:
It seems HTC changed how app associations were handled for the US version of the HTC One X to avoid patent issues with apple ( http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/16/3...lte-custom-android-build-apple-patent-linkify). This caused some issues like the inability to view YouTube videos in the app when clicking on a video link in a browser web page (only open in the browser - boo). Samsung is caught up in patent disputes with Apple too so I wouldn't be surprised to see additional software differences from the international version...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
See now that's starting to make me wonder. I'm curious if I'd be better off just selling the onex like on eBay and just forking over the extra cash to get the international version. I mean I don't have lte in my area yet so I don't need that. It's very tempting. But I'm more worried about warranties when purchasing these. Never bought any international phones before :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Buy from expansys, negri, handtec, etc.. they all work with samsung for warranties. You ship to them and they take care of it. I had the same question.. like a lot of others did :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbgt2:
AT&T will rape the SGS3 like they do every good phone, they can keep their LTE and their stupid yellow pages and everything else they might think I would want. And to make things even worse of course they will get rid of the physical center button.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Would something like say squaretrade work on this? Also I'm assuming (since I'm not in a hurry) the prices may drop come a month from now right?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunercrab:
Sorry just read this article. I know it's all speculation but 2g ram on the AT&T model would be nice :)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/343357/20120521/samsung-galaxy-s3-verizon-sprint-t-mobile.htm
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Squaretrade will not work. Ensquared will.

Won't happen..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agafed:
Has anyone hear/read rumors about maybe selling a little bit "extra-powerful" version from AT&T? Like they did with the Skyrocket...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
The Skyrocket isn't an "extra powerful" version of the SGSII.. it is just an SGSII with LTE.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freakboy13:
I don't know what you're talking about.YouTube app works fine for me , I usr.it all the time, never have to use the browser. Some vids won't play on the phone but it's not because of the onex.

sent from my hoXl

got a-Dev ?

www.android-dev.us
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agafed:
Well I consider having a 1.5 GHz Cpu and a 1850 mAh it is a little bit "extra powerful". In my opinion...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
nah nah nah nah nah nah

If you were to ask me whether I want a phone with a Qualcomm S3 1.5ghz overclocked to 1.9ghz or an Exynos 4 or OMAP 4 at 1.2ghz. Ten out of ten time I'll pick the 1.2ghz. The Skyrocket is actually a weaker version of the international SII, check out the benchmarks.

*I am impressed with the Qualcomm S4 though, but we'll have to see the Exynos and OMAP 5.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnichols959:
My original comment wasn't really clear (edited it). I'm talking about opening a link to a youtube video on a web page - and having that open the youtube site in the browser, not open the YouTube app to play it. I'm talking about the AT&T version in particular.

I tried resetting app defaults for browser and youtube app but it didn't help. Others in the HOX forums are having the same problem and it seems it's related to software changes HTC made for the AT&T version. If you can get a web link to a video on youtube.com to open in the YouTube app on an AT&T HOX I'd love to know how.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinshoryuken:
This is true.

the only way to avoid this is to take all the ATT crap out.
[HTC Desire S] Basukarna.Itachi:
hi guys, i'm noob here, and i want to asking to you all about how to change (or maybe install) a keyboard on my device, a few days ago i use a custom rom with sense 4.0 on it, and one thing i realy like from sense 4 is the keyboard layout, then i thinking if could be i use this keyboard on my sense 3.0 so how the first thing i do?

my device : HTC Desire S with Saga3D v.5.1.0, Android 2.3.5, sense 3.0

i would appreciate for the answers, and sorry for my bad english:D
[HTC Desire S] prateek7791:
No sense 4 keyboards available right now..

But u can try swiftkeyX keyboard from play store.
[HTC Desire S] Basukarna.Itachi:
oh, i just flash to new rom now, but i have try the swiftkeyx you talk about.:D

patiently waiting for the release an official ics..

lol
[HTC Desire S] rain987:
i am using "Smart Keyboard", it gives me the choice between a t9 and compact keyboard, i was using n81 before switching phone and i was not used to qwer keyboard.
[HTC Desire S] rd74:
Try MultiLing keyboard. It's feature rich and has good layouts for many languages (additional symbols on long press etc.). I prefer it over any other keyboard. Tried Smart Keyboard, Perfect Keyboard etc. - MultiLing is the best.
[HTC Desire S] Haomuch:
Try Touchpal keyboard on the Play market. It is a great award earning keyboard and is very popular on many devices as pre-installed keyboard. It provides swype input, T9 input and many other great features for all languages.
[HTC Desire S] kirri_le:
I also have a problem whith the keyboard in ICS related to language changing. As I understood in CM9 I need to hold the space and then choose the lang in popup. This way is a little bit slow for me, and I downloaded the SmartKeyboard from the Play market. It's nice and very customizeble.
[HTC Desire S] Basukarna.Itachi:
ok guys, very useful tips, and i also try them out, but this time i just lil bit busy with many rom thats i have to choose...:D
[HTC Desire S] Sakuura:
Touchpal keyboard :)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] chris_m128:
I'm looking for a video player that can play in the background. Example, so while a video is playing i could go to the homescreen and bring up the browser for a minute then go back to the movie without the video stopping.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] mono feo0:
Nextvid works, i use it :)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] chris_m128:
That works great for YouTube videos but I am looking for something that will work with my .avi and .mp4 videos so I can listen to the videos while I browse the web
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Stick it is a great one but it puts the videos in front but they can be resized and moved where you like.

Edit:in the settings it has an option to play in the background aswell.(i believe just added feature today)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] edop84:
Maybe this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32841218
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] old_pocket:
Maybe Popcorn Player is something that meets your needs. It plays mp4 very well in a window that can be resized, so you can watch, listen and surf at the same time.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] muaythai619:
Mxplayer and download mxplayerncodec armv7

quad core project butter smoothnes
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] frec:
bs player is a great player with pop up video function that works very well. I use it in junction with mx player to test 10 bit video files.

google up "bs player google play"
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] bahehs:
This is fire, we don't have quad core.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] portezbie:
+1 for bsplayer, it's awesome.

With the pop out function you not only can browse the web and keep watching, but I've even ran a gba emulator while watching a video simultaneously.

It's awesome.

Plus the lan function works really well. Also bookmarking.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Guitarman:
The app "Super Video" also has the video box that can be sized and run on top of any application. Works good for .mp4s but I'm not sure about .avi's :)

Sent from an Amazon Gindle Fireoid
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] mcclanahoochie:
Also try the app “YT Mobile” for playing YouTube videos in the background

http://ytmobile.tk
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] illusion_insanity:
you tried ES File explorer? if you have/get it navigate over to movies/videos on the main screen or find your video then long press it until you can get options for the file and select open as... then select music. the use your app of choise the press the home button. OR vlc should alow it to play VIDEOS yes the actuall video in a small box in other apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Rehab4Life:
Okay so today I'm going to show you how to make your music in both your speakers, as well as your earphones really loud.

We're going to be using the app "Volume+" which is located on the marketplace for $1.99 I think.

But

in the applications description it says if you visit the developers website http://androidaudiohacks.com you can get it for free. But I'm going to save you the trouble and just give you the link it has on there http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56466503/Builds/VolumePlusv1.9.0.1-FREE.apk

So download that and do the following: (Lets start out with earphones)

-Click "Headset Settings"

-Check "Audio Modifications" this will turn on the Volume Boosting.

-You will then click "Volume Level" on there and select "+1" so this is where it gets tricky.

-After doing that you will need to put your volume all the way up then repeat the process,(click +2, volume all the way up, +3 etc...you can go all the way up to 20)

This only works for like Pandora and Google Music, but I got it to work on PowerAmp(My favorite music player) to do that follow this next small guide...

-Open up PowerAmp

-Press 'Menu' button

-Select 'More'

-Select 'Settings'

-Select 'AudioEngine'

-Select 'Advanced Tweaks'

-Disable Direct Volume Control

Thats it! It should now work for this also!

So yeah guys I just found this as a really nice tweak and thought I'd share with you guys, enjoy!:D

***ADDITIONAL DETAILS: This can/and may blow out your speakers, as said so by Kenneth.Torres: "I wouldn't suggest going about 10 for speakers, it distorts the sound. And do not go past 12 it will possibly blow up your speakers. "

---But with the earphones I have no problem at all and they sound crazy loud, and not bad at all. Using them at 20.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] occupational_hazard:
Shouldn't this be in the apps and themes thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Very nice for blowing out speakers. Nice write up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Rehab4Life:
It could, but I did it for you guys because I know it works with the Skyrocket and with the instructions I used and I don't know about the others.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kenneth.Torres:
I wouldn't suggest going about 10 for speakers, it distorts the sound. And do not go past 12 it will possibly blow up your speakers.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Rehab4Life:
Yeah I noticed that on the speakers to, I didn't even want to turn it on for that, going to edit the thread to warn people. But on the earphones it still works great
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jeffreylee:
nice.....beats by dre....gonna bump...appreciate it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Datron:
Nice, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tracerit:
I'll be coming from the SGS2 and search hasn't brought up any results.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theking_13:
Screen mode?

But anyways, no. That's almost definitely a TouchWiz feature.
[HTC EVO 3D] blas4me:
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[HTC EVO 3D] Royalfox:
Hey its 2 of us!

Sent From My Pip-Boy 3000
[HTC EVO 3D] icon69:
Thought I was the only one! Lol