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[About XDA developers] seraos:
Animal ads are killing me

I guys is just me or this ad about animals are getting anoing, we cant come to xda listening a music on the computer, and sometimes are multiples animals doing difrent sounds realy anoing :(
[About XDA developers] farang4u:
It's not really intrusive, but I'm getting tired at looking at it. It's kinda gross. At least the lady with bright red skin and the face lift one are not showing up lately.
[About XDA developers] copitlory:
Adblock

The solution is to install adblock and use Firefox obviously.
[About XDA developers] uszu:
That's true, but I don't think website owners can do anything about it. Ads are probably randomly chosen.

Adblock may be a solution.
[About XDA developers] adarshan1:
Adblock

yeah thats true even i faced the same problem . i have installed adblock & used firefox it worked even you can try

Thanks
[About XDA developers] andrewilley:
The banner, inline, and square-box ads on this site have all turned into blocks of Chinese-looking text for me. It doesn't alter on page refreshes either. I threw some of it into Google Translate and it just looks to be a series of random words and phrases (rather like those spam posts which are used to hide referencing links in forums). Anyone else seeing it too? Only happening on XDA, other sites show me the usual Google ads, AdChoices, etc.

Andre
[About XDA developers] svetius:
Testing something :) :D
[About XDA developers] Aresmar:
I have been getting these "hot girls" ads for a few days now that it is really annoying. Especially when I am at work trying to browse XDA forums.

Here is the screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/2nXNTtW.jpg

I dont wanna use adblocker. You can do something about it hopefully? :)
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Lmao, that is sick.

Does clearing your cache stop those ads?
[About XDA developers] Aresmar:
These ads are targetted at country IP I guess casue I get those in every pc I browse. At home or work doesnt matter lol.

I dont mind some boobs and boots but you know they are annoying when at work.

Or at home when missus peeks at my screen. :angel:
[About XDA developers] microcris:
Same here with the same add.

I don't know if the sound in the add is considered intrusive but I know that is very annoying to get adds with the sound on by default.

At least make the sound off by default, please.
[About XDA developers] faku1810:
I'm not sure this is the right place I should post this, so I'm sorry if I'm wrong..

Lately, for some reason, from time to time I get redirected to random spam pages, which i would usually associate to a virus of those that go around.. However, these websites include the xda-developers name for some reason. And coincidentally i've only seen these random websites at times I had opened a tab from the forum.

I'm aware this could be just a coincidence, but if there's something weird going on, it's better to know about it, I attach a couple of screenshots from the websites that popped up while I was posting this.

Edit: The attachments are too small, so I uploaded them to my Google Drive account: Screenshot 1 - Screenshot 2
[About XDA developers] sloanster:
proof?
[About XDA developers] nolinuxnoparty:
*Extreme Kids stay away*

This is damn, awful!
[About XDA developers] :
IMO, that's not even that bad.

Sent through the Time Vortex!
[About XDA developers] faku1810:
Honestly I don't see that as wrong, it's not even close to being as sexual or annoying as other ads.. Personally I'm happy to say I no longer experience those annoying "pop-ups" I mentioned in my previous post, THOSE were a real pain because they came to the front as soon as they opened, interrupting the user experience, and even replacing whatever content I actually tried to open.
[About XDA developers] Seraz007:
ha yes pop-ups are worse

but i'd rather have pop-ups than that type of pics showing up when my family's around ;) :p :D
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
I don't know if this is ad-related but my browser (Firefox) keeps locking up and spitting out this message when I refresh the XDA site every so often. Sometimes my browser locks up for 5+ minutes.

Image attached
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Any response to this, XDA?
[About XDA developers] :
Annoying YouTube video comes up like 5 mins after having the tab open.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Are XDA admins not watching this thread or something?
[About XDA developers] [TSON]:
Not gonna screenshot it for obvious reasons, but I was redirected to a pornographic advertisement for a pornographic-centered mobile app when I was in the Nexus 7 section using my Nexus 7 + Chrome.

Bad.

Looking at my history, the progression of redirects was an automatically launched promo.strtracker.com/redirect-promo.h t m l page, followed by a redirect to mobile.plugrush.com, and then directly to the pornographic app's website.

...don't type that into your mobile browser, obviously.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
I dunno if XDA reads this thread guys. Seems like a lost cause posting here.
[About XDA developers] :
Yeah, the above guy's post is rather serious.

Sent from my Sonic
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Yeah I know. But no admins have replied here in days.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Quoting my post from last Sunday. XDA doesn't seem to be watching this.

XDA, your ads are still locking up my browser. Pay attention to your complaint thread. Come on.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Yet another spammy ad. Come on XDA. Get your crap together.

Do you guys even read this thread?
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
We do read the thread, but currently lots of people are over at XDA:DevCon. I'll get it seen to.
[About XDA developers] percy_g2:
did you check your browser extensions ?
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
All default settings.

Lucky.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
I just upgraded my SGS2 to ICS, since that the battery of my phone draining hell lot quicker than earlier. Earlier it use to go down by 1-2 % in the night (when m sleeping) but after update it go down by 11-12%

actually the battery performance should be better, right?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] momyc:
Hi,

I have same feeling. After a week on Slim Ics I can say that with GB my battery life was better. By 10pm everyday I was having left about 40-45% with GB , but with ICS the best I can get is :confuse 30% , mostly about 25% left and I'm having same kind of usage. It's true that with ICS it seems smoother and more responsive . :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanDroidian:
A fair price to pay.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gottagetalife:
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.

I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.

Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits :-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanDroidian:
Throw us a friggin bone here...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
Can u plz post a link here of that thread?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gottagetalife:
There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.

The sad thing is the best piece of advice I found was that no two people will have exactly the same solution. You need to identify what is eating your battery using a tool like "Better Battery Stats" or "Go Power Manager". You then need to decide how important the culprits are and remove them or look for updates.

Titanium Backup is useful as it allows you to freeze apps so you can see if they make a difference. It helps if you are rooted as I found several stock apps at the core of my issues. You can't freeze them unless you are rooted.

Siyah Kernel is also very useful, it seems to manage power better than stock. I also found that a factory reset, clearing user data and clearing all of my caches (including Dalvik) helped enormously. It is time consuming to re-install all of your apps from scratch but it does seem to make a huge difference. It looks like some apps retain data from GB that caused issues in ICS.

I found that exchange services were using a huge amount of juice before I cleared all data and caches. That seems to stop completely after the big clear out!

The main thing is no two people seem to have exactly the same problem. It is important therefore that you take a problem solving approach, change one thing at a time and wait long enough to see if it works.

There's your bone, go chew!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanDroidian:
Same old, same old.... These are the same tricks that work with EVERY ROM upgrade.... If u get a better battery life outta ICS than u did with GB, u really screwed up installing GB...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burninghouse:
i usually get 2 days of battery life on ics 4.0.3....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morespama2k:
First of all, you need to be clear whether you upgraded from stock GB to Stock ICS, or a Custom GB ROM to a Custom ICS ROM, since the Custom ROMs do offer better battery life over the stock version.

People here are giving great advice regarding the use of Titanium to freeze any apps that you are not using, e.g. Google+, Samsung bloatware, etc... - this will save the average RAM, hence the battery life. Also, do use Task Manager often (especially before going to sleep) to kill all the background apps.

I installed many Custom ROMs and now running Resurrection v2.1 and very happy with battery life. You must be realistic with expectations - read this http://blog.gsmarena.com/our-samsun...e-test-is-complete-check-out-how-it-did-test/

Overall, if you will do a clean install (format everything - internal/external/MMC and clear cache/Dalvik/battery stats) of Resurrection ICS v2.1 or Litening v3.2, then you should see even an increase in battery life!

Hope it helps and happy flashing ;]]
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Why don't you root your device?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
I don't want to, Coz it will void my guarantee. May b I'll do it after July after the guarantee period finishes

But till then suggest me something
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
All you would have to do is flash a stock firmware through odin and it's factory reset.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
Sorry my knowledge about these things are zero. I am not getting what u want to say
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
All you would have to do to put your phone back to factory settings is to download a stock firmware from www.sammobile.com and flash it through odin. I believe the site has flash steps. There's many guides on how to use odin on Google.

Hope it helps
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
But will it make my guarantee void?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Your warranty would still be good :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
Ok thanks. I'll do that
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shantanuparadkar:
Had a prob with phone, service centre done the hard formatting and reinstalling of the software, now the battery performance is way to better
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TempeDuck:
Simple question is the Stock ROM Odex or Deodex?

Thanks
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] njfoses:
Odex
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kapiljhajhria:
rooting?

does rooting, busy box installation and cwm make it from odex to deodex???? how to check whether your rom is odex or deodex???
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dased14:
No it doesn't the rom dev decides if it will be odex or deodex. You can unzip the rom and look it see if it has odex files or you can read op of the rom you wish to flash(dev's usually say what it is) :D

Sent From My Sweet Ass EVO LTE :P
[General Questions and Answers] ClipTy:
So here's my issue: I have an HTC Sensation 4g (brilliant phone) which is rooted, and custom rom'd with CyanogenMod 9, the Nightly build. I have the latest version installed, and I love everything about it. I have one small issue though. I really miss the old camera from the Sense Rom. Is there any way to get the old camera back? Or is there a camera I can download that will basically replace it?

I loved taking 1080p photos with my phone, but now I feel like the quality and size of the pictures I take have dropped when I switched to ICS CM9. I read up on some mods to get the old camera back but they claim you need Sense installed on your phone. (Which I believe is a memory waster) I got rid of it to move on, but I wish I brought the camera with me.

Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] ClipTy:
Hello? Anyone ever try getting the old APK back? Would it work?
[General Questions and Answers] max_2ooo:
Hi,

i use the ROM

RCMix

an you can finde a RAM hack in this thread. So there you'll have the camera as you like und much RAM as you can get :)

hope this helps ...
[General Questions and Answers] ClipTy:
This doesn't solve the problem. I want to keep my ROM. Its an amazing one and don't plan on abandoning it.
[General Questions and Answers] max_2ooo:
okay ...

may this helps?

grrr cant post external link so try this:

w w w .youtube.com/watch?v=thdbK-nm8Yo

(no blank)
[General Questions and Answers] ClipTy:
That IS a better solution, but not the one I want. I want to keep the Rom that I have but get the old camera or the equivalent of it back.

I like Camera360, but it doesn't take video. It takes the same size photos, but it can't record video. Know any apps like C360 that DO record video?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leomuricy:
Hi,

I was trying to update the Android Revolution HD ROM (I had it already installed).

I did the super wipe first, but when I tried to install the rom file, the recovery says it is bad (verification failed).

So right now I have no rom installed so I need access to the memory so I can send the new rom file to the tablet.

My recovery version in roach-tf101-r2 v5.5.0.4 and I could not find an option to access the files on my pc.

Can anyone help me right now? Thank you
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrevankyle:
you need to connect via ADB then push the rom file to your sdcard
[General Topics] elninoloco7:
So a few hours ago i stopped receiving any kind of sound when getting SMS and Emails. It will only vibrate. I have done a reset and double checked all audio notification settings under Personalize and i am still having this issue. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
[General Topics] jhn__:
reboot your phone and try again. Can you hear something with your headphones?

maybe it's your phone.
[General Topics] TJBunch1228:
Every once in a while my phone randomly changes my notification ringtone to "silent". Did you actually check your notification ringtone to verify an actual tone is assigned?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ubersoft:
The question sounds stupid, but the problem is I'm never sure where the "stock" image ends and the "extra stuff" begins, and in the past when I've put ROMs on other phones (Evo, Atrix 2) I wind up missing features.

I got my new Note this morning, immediately rooted it before I went to work (Had ODIN all set up and ready to go) and spent the day downloading apps. When I get the 64gb SD card I read about on these very forums (should arrive tomorrow or Friday) I'll then flash the nifty recovery stuff and use Titanium Backup to save all my application settings. Fine and dandy. Meanwhile I've been playing around with the phone (of course) and I've found there are things that I don't think are part of stock gingerbread that I want to keep.

I think the things I like are specifically Samsung customizations rather than AT&T add-ons. For example, the ability to swipe left on a name in your contacts list to send a text and swipe right on a name to call them is brilliant, and I don't remember that being a part of CM7 when I had it on my Evo. I also like that you can hang up, mute, or put on speakerphone a call from the task list--don't remember that one either.

There are a few apps I like. The Samsung music app (though it has a tendency to skip when the screen is off--anyone know why?) the voice recording app. I even kind of like the About Movies app, if only because the Note is the first phone where I thought it would be worthwhile trying something like that out (seriously, the screen is almost as big as the screens on some portable DVD players these days).

Some of these apps I figure I can back up on Titanium and then restore, and they'll probably work. Some apps might not work in ICS, and I'd really like to try a few of the ICS ROMS. Some features I like, like the phone functionality, probably get overwritten altogether. And of course I want to keep all the stylus apps and functionality.

Some of the functionality (like the stylus stuff) may have been duplicated in some of the custom roms. Some of the apps may be compatible with some roms and not others.

All of that leads up to my question: is there any information on what custom features in the stock Note were duplicated or re-implemented in various ROMs, and any information on what ROMs are compatible with some of the app add-ins? When I go through the lists in the dev section I usually see "debloated" which to me reads "we stripped out everything that isn't stock" but other than a few comments about stylus functionality I don't see a lot of information on what was carried over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
Those features you mention are features of the touch wiz interface that is Samsung firmware.

You lost those on cm rooms before because it's aosp based, which is what Samsung gets, and then throws touch wiz on top of it.

htc has an overlay they put on Android called sense.

Motorola's is called motoblur

If you want to keep those features on a custom ROM, just make sure it's based on a stock firmware and not from aosp
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] elninoloco7:
So a few hours ago i stopped receiving any kind of sound when getting SMS and Emails when the phone LOCKED. It will only vibrate. I have done a reset and double checked all audio notification settings under Personalize and i am still having this issue. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
[HTC Sensation] Mohanned85:
Has this stopped working with aosp roms. Thx
[HTC Sensation] Mr-YC:
used it with AOKPCB R2 last week and was working fine
[HTC Sensation] Mohanned85:
Ya last week was OK now it not: (
[HTC Sensation] JRJ442:
I just used it. Still works fine for me
[HTC Sensation] Mohanned85:
what rom u use
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goofy317:
Anyone know how to best set up SetCPU profiles for more battery life?? Also it'd be nice if people shared there configurations and what situations they are for e.g better battery life, performance, etc...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] alphadog32:
On ICS: Try to keep turning off data and AutoSync. Also try to minimize the brightness.

On CM9: Go to Performance and put this settings "Conservative @ 198-1000" and do the same steps as above.

On GB: Do ALL the steps above.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goofy317:
Maybe it's just my phone but it seems to take a long time to summon the extra power when it's need. It stays at around 800 for a good 10 minutes causing insane lag
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Sizzlincok:
After I install custom roms i notice that my phonr no longer vibrates for incoming calls and texts.

the vibrate works for notifications and such but just calls and texts it wont work.

Ive enabled it in the settings but still no luck

is it just me or do other people get this as well?

this happened to my Raider/vivid as well but no one ever responded to my question..

thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pside15:
Make sure it's set to vibrate in each individual app and not just the general settings. I've had certain apps do this before but it was because vibrate was turned off in the settings for the app.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Sizzlincok:
how would i go about doing that?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pside15:
Just go into which ever app you aren't getting the notification results you are looking for. Go into the settings for that app. Most apps will have their own settings for notifications in there. You can select custom sounds that will be specific for that app, as well as the option for vibration for received notifications.
[Xperia Arc General] Zerosuit Connor:
I'm Working on porting ICS from the arc to the play, I was wondering if a very kind arc user could upload a cwm or nandroid backup for me.

Many thanks if someone could do it :) (you'd be credited)
[Xperia Arc General] BluechipJ:
Unfortunately, I don't have an unlocked bootloader on this arc so I can't install recovery without rooting but I've sent you a PM with my rooted LT15a, v4.0.4, 4.1.B.0.431 Nandroid Backup.
[Xperia Arc General] Zerosuit Connor:
What's the difference between a and i?
[Xperia Arc General] zygzoo:
It is just a matter of frequencies. The LT15a made to be used in North and South America, and the LT15i in Europe.
[Xperia Arc General] Zerosuit Connor:
There isn't a firmware version that would work in all countries? I.e the GSM?

R800i Is my xperia Play in australia, does that mean the R800a is the NA version.
[Xperia Arc General] BluechipJ:
All firmwares work in all countries.

After 2.x, all firmwares contain both software radios. It's what allows users to flash firmwares that haven't been released in their region. Or if they want customizations from another region. e.g. an HK person living in North America can flash an HK "i" firmware onto an "a" phone in North America and still have full 3G support in an "a" zone.

Hardware radios (i versus a) are fixed and cannot be changed.

Are you sure you should be porting firmwares if you don't know something as basic as that. :p

From my APN Pastebin:

NOTE:
Flashing an "i" firmware onto an "a" phone will NOT give you "i" (e.g. UK, HK, T-Mobile USA) 3G
support on your "a" phone.
Vice versa: Flashing an "a" firmware onto your "i" phone will NOT give you "a" 3G support (e.g. AT&T USA, Rogers Canada) on your "i" phone.
All firmwares after v2.x contain BOTH SOFTWARE portions for "a" and "i" radios. Therefore, you can flash ANY v2.x firmware onto ANY phone and have 3G support in your zone. This is useful if you want HK customizations on a North American phone or UK customizations on an HK phone.
However, the HARDWARE radios are FIXED. You cannot add 3G support for another zone.
Check beneath your battery for your phone's version ("a" or "i"), if you don't know.

"a" phone:
"i" firmware in an "i" zone = No 3G.
"i" firmware in an "a" zone = 3G.
"a" firmware in an "i" zone = No 3G.
"a" firmware in an "a" zone = 3G.

"i" phone:
"i" firmware in an "i" zone = 3G.
"i" firmware in an "a" zone = No 3G.
"a" firmware in an "i" zone = 3G.
"a" firmware in an "a" zone = No 3G.
[Xperia Arc General] Zerosuit Connor:
Unfortunatly this is the first time I've ever owned such a complicated mobile device, I'm a bit of a whiz with linux but android I've not done anything for. I decided to take a look at it after I bought my xperia play so hopefully all goes well :D Everyone starts somewhere huh? ;)
[Xperia Arc General] BluechipJ:
I humbly retract my comment as I am terrible at *nix. I can barely use PuTTY to manage my webspace. :p