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[Galaxy S III General] Kiahnlliya:
You have the Droid Razr Maxx.

Tinkering is the reason why I'm switching back to Android.

I took a year off tinkering and had an iPhone. It was a good year, but now iOS bores me to death. The games are SO much better than Android games, but the OS just bores me, and the screen is starting to feel too small.

The great thing is, you can choose whether you want a phone to tinker with or a "set it and forget it" type of experience.

Also, my wife does not tinker. Ever. She has had an HTC Legend for two years now and she's quite satisfied with it, she even brags about the great battery life sometimes. I'm giving her my iPhone once I get my SGS3 because I think she will love iOS more than Android.

It's good to have options. Options are yummy.

My point is, if you don't want to tinker, choose an OS that has the default UI that you like the most. Whining about hackability and modability (that's probably not a word) is kinda weird IMO.
[Galaxy S III General] Chicken Nugget(s):
This is pretty nice :)
[Galaxy S III General] Gnarfsan:
If the battery life of the iPhone is really that great, they must have improved it a lot. Because my 3GS had poor battery life.
[Galaxy S III General] Agent5150:
All iam saying is that i shouldn't have to tinker to get most out of myphone...smart phones are following pc route of bumping up processor speeds and adding cores...keep the cpu at dual core, improve on design and efficiency and deliver a smartphone that is truely better than the previous model.

you need quad cores to do facebook, email, video, blogging, tweeting..or anyother business apps.???.. Arrghh.
[Galaxy S III General] g4rvd4:
Smartphones are becoming the ONE device to carry.

I can imagine the 4 cores being used for gaming by one intensive game, but more importantly they can be used for doing 4 things at the same time. We are using our smartphones more than our PCs these days, so it makes sense to keep upgrading while at the same time improving on architecture and efficiency. And this is what Samsung has done with the S3.

By your logic we should have stayed at single core at around 600 MHz and never improved.. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
This is an impossibility. Tinkering will always get you some more power/features (excepting only cases where the OS is so locked down that doing anything will fry it, for example) and so you'll always have to tinker to "get the most out of yourphone".
[Galaxy S III General] zigson:
Each to their own. Personally if I had a Ferrari I'd be constantly tuning it.
[Galaxy S III General] saffant:
lol the S4 is better than the quadcore exynos.

PS: "Tinkering" should be an option... not a need. Most android phones NEED to be tinkered with in order to get a somewhat reasonably satisfying experience.
[Galaxy S III General] HKboy92:
So, why did I order a second battery? No need =d
[Galaxy S III General] snotyak:
I agree and I believe that it's essential for Android's future success to allow for a near perfect user experience without tweaking. But, that being said, looking at the other mobile OSes, you'll see that you're very restricted in customization which is an advantage and a disadvantage. But I guess as time goes on, both batteries and processors will get better (not linearly) and it won't really be an issue.
[Galaxy S III General] PersonOfKnownOrigin:
People tinker with the chips in their BMWs to get optimal performance.Do you think THEY suck...?
[Galaxy S III General] camspy:
With Juice Defender or similar apps, the battery operation time could be extended by up to 20-30% if not more + Custom Roms/Kernels with battery saving settings and voila, we can have our batteries working at 150% of what plain Touchwhiz offers
[Galaxy S III General] NCRoadster:
Hmm airplane mode is on quite a bit in these screenshots.
[Galaxy S III General] pewpewbangbang:
Good luck with that. You'd be surprised. I'm gonna say it will be hard to squeeze any more battery life out of it. Nothing noticeable or really dramatic. Stock is already highly optimized, on my s2 I always found going back to stock Rom etc...achieved much better battery life.

Disabling cores won't do much either. The phone will run only on 2 cores unless your playing a highly demanding game.

That is why I've always said a new architecture like krait is better because you will be running only 2 cores for 98% of the time and krait is much much faster core for core and saves a boat load more battery.

Also juice defender and apps suck. It's been stated by several well known devs its worse for battery life and hinders android function. Unless you have a draining background app, it will make things worse.
[Galaxy S III General] Obliterator:
I understand what you mean. But what is the point of buying a 'quad core' phone if you can't use the quad cores? ;)
[Galaxy S III General] SirCanealot:
The thing is the phone will only use the extra cores if they are needed. Otherwise they will be shut off and not draining power.

Forcing the phone to dual core mode may effect battery as it may force the phone to ramp up 2 cores higher than run 4 cores at lower speeds.

I'm sure there will be plenty of awesome tweaking going around, but I don't see disabling cores as one of the best ones!

Having said that, I've run my S2 in single core mode lots of times, and the phone still flies! :D
[Galaxy S III General] ph00ny:
Only tinkering i had to do with s2 and Note was set the background picture to dark color based to reduce the screen power usage.

If that's all the "tinkering" i have to do, i would gladly do it over and over it again.

---------- Post added at 08:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:45 PM ----------

Exynos dual doesn't use aSMP. Frequencies are locked to both cores

---------- Post added at 08:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:46 PM ----------

It would be interesting to see how S4 fares against the Exynos Quad

Samsung seems to have done some home work to get the Exynos Quad's power consumption under control.

aSMP, Individual cores powergated, 32nm HKMG, etc
[Galaxy S III General] barondebxl:
Yep, juice defender is useless in my opinion, I think it's better to just have a battery life optimized kernel. Krait is amazing, core for core I think it's faster than exynos. Nonetheless exynos is a beast.

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You actually can. I'm sure features like pop up play use the quad core. Plus jelly bean will probably use more cores as I'm assuming the next nexus should be quadcore. So very soon we shall see what we can do with it.
[General Questions and Answers] Astgar:
I have a big problem with NSS program, when finish flashing process. Install Qualcomm but tells me that Qcmm lack cdma sms, returning to Dload tells me you really have Qualcomm? and it does nothing. Do I do I am lost? I have bootloader or Qcmm no Dload I need help please I am sorry my English is very bad
[General Questions and Answers] Astgar:
Help please!!!

Somebody can help me?:confused::(

I need one backup for Lumia 710 or maybe nand for trying to restore my DLOAD bootloader with NSS or maybe NCS.

Plz im very new on WinPhon i need help .
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
reading through a recent post in phone arena, it looks like the rear cover on the phone is polycarbonate, and not plastic. it is glossy rather than matte, so that is the only difference with the HOX.

no more arguing about the quality of product that samsung is putting out there then, right?
[Galaxy S III General] NIK516:
Google what poly carbonate is.

Then close this thread.
[Galaxy S III General] Gnarfsan:
Polycarbonate is a durable plastic used for aeroplane windows, bullit proof glass and power tools. It is highly impact resistant but not very scratch resistant. It looks and feels like most other kinds of solid plastic.
[Galaxy S III General] Tweak90:
And it is used for CDs and DVDs and everything else needed a bit more resistance against scratches :D bur bulletproof smartphone sounds better than - cd-plastic smartphone xD

(i'm not a samsung hater xD will buy s3 when it is released :P, just wondering why all are using this examples for polycarbonate xD)

And y - Polycarbonate is plastic, same material like the back of htc one x, they just used a different finisch to give it a more resistant feeling, but all at all it was clear that it will polycarbonate, but HTC knows most users are stupid and will think that its something very special to the htc one series that the back is "SO STRONG" xD....
[Galaxy S III General] Gnarfsan:
No, the polycarbonate is not there because of scratch resistance. It has two layers to protect it from scratches.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate#Properties_and_processing

This is probably also a reason why Samsung has coated it on the S3 apart from making it more shiny..
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
The purpose of this thread is to clarify the TYPE of plastic used, and to confront those people who keep on repeating that its made out of plastic to downgrade the quality of material, whilst at the same time praising HTC One X for it's build quality.

Funny how HTC One X IS made out of the same material, polycarbonate, yes a form of plastic but THE SAME in the 2 phones, therefore no reason to say one is bad cause its 'plastic' and other isnt, cause both are made from the same.

However, its the matte appearance of the One X that makes it stand out and all of the reviewers fell for that at first instance, critising the S3 as having less quality materials for it's build.

Overgeneralising in your post, is not healthy!
[Galaxy S III General] veyka:
Dupe of this thread.

Please search before posting, thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] VisualOddity:
:eek:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
My infuse when turned on goes to a screen that looks like phone ! pc with the message "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". So this happens even when I try and go to download mode or recovery mode. Basically as soon as I hit the power button. I'm really freaking out. It was rooted and I was doing following this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1613523

Then the problems started when my computer didn't recognize the phone in download mode. and then it was recognized so I started the Odin flash. Then it froze at cache.rts (I believe that's what Odin said, I can't get to it anymore)...So I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and did it again and it got to factoryfs.rfs before it froze there for a really long time. So I unplugged it and tried to do GTG Ultimate Unbrick...but I can't get the .zip file to open. My computer keeps telling me "Can Not Open ____ as archive". I re-downloaded it and same result. Is there anything I can do to save my phone? I'm a real idiot and this kind of stuff always happens to me no matter how much I read up on something and make sure I'm doing it right. I would really appreciate a little help though, thanks!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
I actually got it downloaded and followed Rammstein874's video on youtube on how to do it and I am once again stuck on factoryfs.rfs :-(

What can I do at this point? It is still stuck at the Phone-!-PC screen when I try to go to download mode. Please help, I'm starting to get pretty worried about this...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] wilsonhuang:
When your screen is phone!computer, that's an alternative version of download mode. You can either use ODIN or heimdall back to stock. Just plug it in via usb, allow odin/heimdall to recognize it and start flashing.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
This is correct....if you see those pic on your phone that is a form of download...i would run the one click method...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jscott30:
Can you PM me the link to Rammstein874's video? I didn't realize he still had this, and I've since updated my packages and how-to.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Lemma know if that's the one..pm sent...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Sorry I was at work all day.

This is the video link I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1HgcZrYR_4

I am also looking at the following one-click method posts:

- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1331381

- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524081

* I used the above link (or tried) and it didn't seem to work either. I downloaded Heimdall Suite for Windows 64bit and then installed the drivers and plugged in my phone in download mode. But then I was unable to get it started...I used the "Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar" file I found on mediafire (because all of these posts link to mediaupload which is no longer working). Anyway, so I tried to run Heimdall-frontend.exe on windows and once it opened up I connected my phone (nothing turns green like the post says) and hit browse. I chose the jar file aforementioned and it said "tar header contained invalid file size."

So if someone could point me toward a more up to date thread if I'm using the wrong one and kind of explain to me how to get around the other problem I'm having with the jar file then I would be forever appreciative :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Not sure what you did...not saying you did something wrong but here is what I do, below are how i perform using qkster's method...

The USB + Volume Down + Volume Up Method: Download mode (Noticeable by an Android robot digging with a shovel) is reached by taking everything out (Battery, SIM, MicroSD). plug in the USB cable to your computer and phone then putting in battery at the same time Holding the volume buttons both up and down, (Don't press the power button at all in this method).

How to INSTALL:

1. Put your phone into Download Mode.

2. If you have not used Heimdall, you will need to set up the driver for device recognition.

3. Once your device is connected, the DEVICE STATUS should show: CONNECTED. The long FLASH bar will also turn on for flashing.

4. Click on the FLASH button. (In my opinion: I recommend that you do this in a safe environment. Do not disturb your phone will flashing this firmware. Turn off Antivirus. Do not run any other programs, upload/download/youtube/burning DVD etc)

5. Once it has completed, your phone will reboot. You will hopefully see the ATT logo and reboot into STOCK UCLB3.

6. If it did not work, you will have to put it back into DOWNLOAD mode and reflash a second time, with the FLASH BOOTLOADER box checked. This is more likely if you never had proper Gingerbread bootloaders on your phone, if you are coming from FROYO or if you never had Odin a Gingerbread leak to get your bootloaders.

download this file for your one click to stock...and using above directions...

once that is done and you want to put CWM mod on for flashing a custom ROM, same directions to get in to download mod...

download this file to use the one click to put CWM mod on your phone

here is the link where i took all this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Right, I did those things from that link itself. I think the problem is actually with how I'm using Heimdall. I downloaded the suite version from here: http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/

I also downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio C++. So I feel like it should be working...but the problem comes when I hit browse to attach the jar file you linked to. It says the "tar header file size was incorrect"...so am I doing something wrong in the way that I'm attaching the jar file to go back to stock? Could you or someone else please confirm that process and/or check the jar file for me to make sure it's still up-to-date? Sorry for the trouble, I'm just not sure what I can do at this point if I can't get Heimdall working. I can't flash after I attach the jar file with the error message either, it doesn't recognize my phone when it is attached in download mode (which is coming up just fine now without the phone!pc thing for some reason).
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
why are you using these other programs...idk,

I just click on the one click file it an executable design to open and run itself...you say attach the jar file...why the suite version of heimdall...?

did you download the links i provided and just use those...?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Is your phone still stuck on the phone-!-pc ?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
did you read the last post he had regarding the actual heimdall program suite...

not sure what he had going on...I believe he has download mode capability...

thx ''Goshujin-sama'' qkster
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Yeah..that's where I wasn't sure what sf was doing.

the jar file is self executable. When you click on the jar file, there is a load up delay.

Then should be be ready.

You then hook up the phone.

I've not seen in tar header file size error.

Sf should not be trying to stick the 1-click file into heimdall front-end.

It's a single self executable jar file..the is no other dependencies...the only other situation I can think of is maybe putting the 1-click jar file onto a different PC and try running it there.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
that's when I started to question him on these other programs...due to the one clicker is self sustained as a exe...idk...but believe he log off...i will monitor and holler at you if required thank you...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Oh man I had no idea...I was so mixed up by trying to educate myself with so many posts about using Heimdall. I thought I had to download Heimdall separately and attach the jar file or something. But okay so I ran the one-click. It failed the first time (expected) and then I checked the flash bootloaders box and hit flash again. Then it stopped at installing drivers and prompted me to install the drivers on the following prompt. So I did that and then it said installed drivers successfully and I hit close. Then nothing happens. So what do I do at this point? I'm probably being an idiot again but I really appreciate you guys trying to help me out. And I hope you realize I'm trying my best to not waste anyone's time.

The device status was a green Connected before I started by the way. At this point what I do? It seems to just break at the installing drivers part...?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
It should of rebooted it self the phone...

Btw you are not wasting my time...wife is watching cup cake wars...so ....rather help you...lol:p
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Once the connected bar is on, you click flash. It should complete it's routine. the phone reboots. you should click on the boot loader box. you disconnect. let it finish. set it back into donwload mode and flash again.

you can try different usb port or data cord or different pc
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Plus you have my master...qkster here...cuz you lost me on the programs you were using...so i called in the jedia master!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] wilsonhuang:
As long as your screen has that Phone! Computer sign, it's not bricked yet. I recommend you to search some how to videos online so you can see the exact instructions on how to use heimdall because it's that easy. If possible maybe one of our awesome contributors can make a how to video for heimdall.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
I believe he is tracking now qkster is providing....thx
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
:) you're too kind, bro.

I think sf threw you off because he wasn't even on the field yet. :)

Once he's with the program, his arse is yours. :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Yes sir...;):);)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Hm...so this is what I'm doing: I double click the file. It opens up to Heimdall. I connect my phone in download mode and it says connected in green. Then I hit flash initially when flash bootloaders is still unselectable. Before I had dinner (left after my last post), it was finishing that and failing the first time through. Then I would check the flash bootloaders box and hit flash again. Then it would start up and prompt me to format the USB drivers for the phone. So then after I did that and the driver was winUSB, it just stopped doing anything.

Now after dinner and disconnecting it and restarting without flash bootloaders, it just gets to the driver formatting for the USB slots. So after I format it again just does nothing. And the bottom says "done." Not sure why it's stuck there. I'm so lost :( Still really appreciating the feedback haha. I can't try a different computer as this is the only Windows machine in my house. This is actually the only USB port that connects even. So what should I do? Something else? Thanks!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
I'm stuck ...you say driver formating USB?

Does the zidig open to ask for drivers...and you select options/all usb devices...then you click the install button...?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing. And then it just stops running and says "done" at the bottom. I clicked details and this is what was in there:

Device not connected.Ready for flash.FLASH ROUTINE INITIATED!!!!<SUPER LONG LINE HERE>

###executing: C:\Users\devinb\AppData\Local\Temp\devinbHeimdallOneClick1A7A2564\\Elevate.exe###Response from command "C:\Users\devinb\AppData\Local\Temp\devinbHeimdallOneClick1A7A2564\\Elevate.exe":nullnullHeimdall v1.3.1, Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna

http://www.glassechidna.com.au

This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is

encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future

development please consider donating:

http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12

Device not connected.

So it looks like it disconnects or something after the drivers? Not sure what's supposed to be happening though so I don't know if that helps. Anything else I can try?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
I would uninstall that heimdall suite and any thing else you installed for heimdall learning...reboot your PC...and run just the one click...i have never seem that what you posted...i believe the program is not jive with the one click...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Okay, I just uninstalled the extra crap I had t ried. Give me a few minutes, about to reboot and try again. I'll post on here after how it goes. Thanks again!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Okay so I rebooted and clicked on the one-click again. This time, very different process. First it had me install MSVC+ and then the USB formatting drivers. Then when I was done with that and closed the driver window, the heimdall client itself opened up I hit flash. The first one failed like all the guides said it should have. Then I went ahead and checked the flash bootloaders box and flashed one more time. It got to "Initialising protocol" and has stalled I think. The bottom right corner says "done" and nothing is happening. My phone is still in download mode, showing the yellow triangle with an android sweeping up and it says "Downloading". I'm trying my best to provide you guys with as many details as possible. What would you recommend I do now? :O

EDIT: This is what the details part of it said near the bottom:

Checking if protocol is initialised...

Protocol is not initialised.

Initialising protocol...

ERROR: Failed to initialise protocol!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sfgiants2010:
Also, my phone in download mode says the following in the top left corner in white font:

Custom binary download: no

Current binary: Samsung official

Don't know if that makes a difference...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xDa.Fun:
Some extra tips:

1. Try to reinstall Java Run time with the latest one.

2. Turn off Anti Virus and Firewalls.

3. Try on different PC and also use different USB cable.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Did you do a fresh download of the one click?

Sometimes that helps....i provided you with some links the one click to stock and then the one click to cwm.

You should be using the one click to stock only right now...

The binary info is ok, that what it should say...

Also updating you java program...that link is in the op of qkster...to updated your windows java program...do that also...k