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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] papul:
OK. After I install a custom kernel what do I have to do? Install busy and superuser? How can I go back to stock kernel? IF I go back to stock kernel, will I lose my root?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Someguyfromhell:
Superuser is installed automatically, busybox not, you need to install it from Play Store by yourself.

You can install stock kernel with Flashtool, just pick regular .ftf file, but only choose kernel to be installed. You will keep root.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katochwap:
i have downloaded Samsung GS3 ToolKit v3.0.. and install it ... but when i click on short to samsung kit on my desktop .. i get dis msg " missing shortcut" window is searching for toolkit.exe, to locate the file yourself, click browse..

plzz help

thanks

p.s.- new user 2 android
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegeta1:
remove that from control panel > programes

and install again :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
some times it just happen so,while shifting from wifi to data u can always ensure to turn of the same before doing so to avoid the issue;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animor:
Hi,

I've read some threads here about charging the S3, but not all is clear to me. I would appreciate some explanation:

1) I've read that the stock chargers output 1A. However, on the charger I got with my S3 it's written "output: 5V 0.7A". So do you think I somehow got a wrong charger?

2) I want to buy a car charger for the S3. There are many generic car chargers in ebay, some of then output 2A current. What is the maximum current allowed for the S3? I couldn't find this number in my S3 manual or on the phone itself. Will a charger of 2A cause harm to my phone? or to the battery? or to both?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animor:
bump... does anyone know?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andr0id Noob:
My charger output states .05v=1.0a.

As for what aftermarket charger to buy, I would stay away from chargers with more output than the official for 'peace of mind that my charger's specifications are the same as the official charger that came with the phone' reasons.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Generally wall chargers output 1000mA (1A) and USB ports 500mA (0.5A)

You do not want to purchase anything that goes above 1000mA
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animor:
I attach a picture of the adapter I got with my S3.

It says 0.7A on it, while it appears that other have one with 1A.

Did they con me with this adapter?

And regarding the maximum current allowed: do you think an adapter of 1.2A might harm the S3?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
Do not know where your S3 come from but this charger is not made For S3 but for S2!

I just checked the model number:

S3 charger: ETAOU81EBE

S2 charger: ETAOU10EBE (like yours)

And there is no cable on the S3 charger, it use the USB cable
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animor:
Thank you for this!

I don't get it. The charger was inside the S3 box and looked original. Damn!

I think the store I bought from import their S3 from Germany, since it came with Vodafone German stock ROM. Is it possible that this is the charger they sell on German vodafon? Or perhaps the store switched it for some reason?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
Mine also come from my carrier: french vodafone

Was your S3 box sealed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] priyana:
Those words, "teg listrik" and "frekuensi" is written in Indonesian
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burmo:
Hi,

Background - I am an electronic engineer and have designed power supplies.

The Amp rating on a power supply is it's maximum capability to deliver power. The Voltage is the 'force' that it can push electrons through the device, this is the important one to have correct. So a 5V 300A Power supply will not charge your S3 any quicker than a 5V 1A power supply.

Get yourself a 1A car charger and you'll be fine. Depending on how the data pins on that charger are configured it'll be recognised as either a fast or slow charger but it will be fine in any case.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Animor:
So, according to what you say, there should be not problem to use a 5V 2A charger on the S3?

The charger cannot accidentally push too much current to the device?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
No. The phone limits the Amp the battery can get.

It simply won't go above 0.5 or 1Amp depending on what resistor is coded between the data pins (the 2 middle pins on the normal USB-plug)

(Note that this does not extend to all devices. E.g. cheap chinese toys and their batteries may not have any current limter, connecting them to "too powerful" chargers will result in damages or potential blow-up of the battery. The same applies to batteries without any electronic such as car batteries which can overheat and "cook")
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kedo99:
I bought S3 in Germany 1.0A, there is a date on the charger:18.05.2012
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golan2:
Matching charger to phone

Hi burmo,

An interesting concept. I have no clue in these things but what you say is not clear to me "all the way".

Charging my i93100 phone with 5.0V 3.1A will do no harm because it won't "push" more than 1A anyway?

And who is "responsible" for controlling this "push" the charger/battery/phone?

Does it work the same for Car chargers?

Thanks a lot,

Izik
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TrollTollKarl:
multimeter check on .7amp charger

so i have been wondering about this as well because i am currently building a custom charger for my s3 that charges the battery without having to plug into the charging port. i have redirected wires from the wireless charging port to metal tabs i have place on the back of my phone. it is a "drop in charger".

Anyway i have tested the charger that came with my phone. I also have the samsung stock charger that say the output is .7amp but after testing it with mutimeter, i have found that the output is actually 1.2 amps. As for max charging amps, I am not sure. I have tested several chargers. The new S4 charger puts out 2.34amps and i have not found any problem charging my s3 with it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsdandandan:
As far as I know the phone limits it so as you've found yes you will be fine
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E.Vogel:
My original S3 charger is 5v 1.0amp

My original S3 charger is 5v 1.0amp. It was bought in Thailand with the phone.

I agree with burmo an advanced phone will have a current limiter as part of its circuit, however I prefer not to rely on it and not to exceed the manufacturer volt/amp recommendation.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BenjaminX2:
The phone controls the current. In custom kernels (Boeffla and so on) you can change the target current. The phone has a protection built in, if the voltage is unstable (drops to much) it lowers the current untill the voltage is stable.

A HTC One charger I sometimes use (0,7A rated) only delivers 0,8A. A aftermarket charger I own (1,0A rated) is fine delivering 1,2A (modified target current, not stock). These charging currents can be read by various apps.

Get yourself a 1,0A rated charger and speed up your charging time.

Benjamin
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ackzsel:
Seconded the post above being an electronic engineer as wel.

Voltage should be exactly the same as you need, but this will always be the case for a USB charger.

Current should just be enough or more.

The charging current is dictated my your phone and not - and I repeat - NOT by your charger!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mik.russell:
mine rates at 1A
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro2:
Thats b.s i bought the s3 from australia and the stats are EXACTLY the same
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slocko:
Hi guys. I am outside the US and like an idiot reset the tmobile g1 back to factory settings not knowing it would ask for it to be activated again.

I've installed the Android SDK, but I can't get past activation to mount the USB drive on the phone so I can get ADB running so I can manually activate the wifi connection on the phone so I can activate it via wifi.

Any ideas?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.pnutt:
When u first turn on ur phone doesn't tell u touch the "Android to start" if so go ahead and touch it then the next screen should give u the option to sign in or connect via wifi. Touch the wifi choice and type in the password for ur wifi connection and that should do it:cool:

Sent from the Redlight District.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
my guess is you don't have a sim with you that's why your asking? if so depending on what version you are running you can tap the four corners of the screen and it will bypass the sign in steps and then you can turn on wifi

if this dosent work go to the cyanogen wiki and you will find a link on how to use adb to turn on wifi from "no sim" screen
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.pnutt:
My bad man I posted this response in the wrong thread. I appollogize sir so PLS DISREGARD.:beer:

Sent from the Redlight District.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] diesel828:
Chrome browser is great, and I love it over the Sense-layered Internet browser on the HTC One X. The problem is that it drains the battery pretty quickly. An even bigger problem is that it has drained my battery completely overnight on three separate occasions!

From my understanding, if there is an element on a web page on Chrome that constantly refreshes and needs to ping the network often, it will drain a lot of power even when the phone is asleep or on standby. I'm not so sure about this.

Either way, I've woken up to my phone--AT&T One X, not global--completely dead (on the nights I didn't leave it plugged into the charger), and when I plugged it in and powered it up in the morning, the Power settings show me that Chrome is responsible for anywhere between 40-65% of the battery usage.

Is it just me, or is anyone else affected by this? Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] EvoKnvl:
I read somewhere someone mention the same problem. They said they solved it by disabling the Enable Tilt Scrolling. It's under Settings -> Developer Tools. I disabled mine as well, and I don't have any problems.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] diesel828:
I'll give this a try. Thanks for the heads-up.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phxblue:
Same here. Also heard turning off tilt does the trick.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mcmb03:
Never had any issues with it, and I'm pretty sure I'm on (almost) all of the default settings
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] thedauntlessone:
Chrome is terrible now. It froze my phone when I left it screen when I turned screen off. I had to hard reboot it (hold power for 10 seconds).

I uninstalled chrome after I rebooted my phone.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] freakboy13:
+1 chrome blows
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
Yesterday I had chrome lock up my phone for several seconds. It got hot as hell and when it finally unstuck it had killed about 10% of battery.

My main gripe with the Stock sense browser is the tab open limit. What doesn't suck? Dolphin?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Silellak:
I came here to post this same thing. That's what worked for me.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] techlogik:
Dolphin HD Browser?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Crookedsoul:
I had Dolphin for my S2 and it was ok, but nothing over the top. I have liked the chrome browser and have not had any issues, but I had heard to disable the tilt scrolling, so I did that right after installing it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] rquinn19:
Try Boat browser I used it till I got the GNex then the stock ICS was the best to me. Maybe try ICS Browser+ or something like that...that should give you the stock ICS browser experience.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sharp2G:
strange, i have no problems using chrome and don't see any significant battery drain with "tilt to scroll" on.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Silellak:
It seems to be hit or miss. Some days for me it was fine, other days it was the second highest battery drain besides Screen. Haven't had any issues since disabling "tilt to scroll", and I never used it anyway.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] oppy:
Haven't tried Chrome as yet, pretty much because of the battery issue. Have you tried Firefox beta?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] diesel828:
I tried Firefox very briefly. It's nice.

It's too bad that Chrome has all these mixed reviews. It did just get out of beta, so I'm sure bugs need to be worked out. I hope it happens sooner than later because I'm going to have to switch to something else, and I really don't want to since I have Chrome on my One X synced to my desktop browser.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mcmb03:
what were you guys trying to do that made chrome freeze? i've been a happy user of it on multiple devices since it was first released on the play store and have never had any of the aforementioned issues
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
A Google search.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ThePhoneGeek:
I use chrome on the computer but don't like it for the phone/tablet. Doesn't allow you to control much...

I just loaded Dolphin and hope for better...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mcmb03:
did you try clearing chrome's data or reinstalling it?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] lilhyper:
Oh wow thanks for this thread. I, too, have had my phone die overnight for after using it lightly before I goto sleep. I could never figure out what exactly killed my phone until this thread. Thanks guys. Tilt scrolling disabled!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Andrews0508:
Chrome regularly locks up my One X(L), but I can't give it up, because the tab syncing is so helpful when flashing ROMs. I leave the XDA page open on my PC, and pick it up on my phone and download the ROM from there.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dylando808:
I also experience the Chrome battery drain like the others, but disabling tilt scrolling didn't seem to fix it for me I even disabled all sync options but the problem was still there, but at that point what's the point of using Chrome if I have to disable its killer feature?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ebhathiya:
Is there any way to go back to normal HBOOT ??

i just missed a one step while doing rooting and Update the HBOOT (Juopunutbear)

to that .. is that harm for ICS update ?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] l0000l:
yes, search the forum for 'PH39IMG' hotboot. it's default hotboot
[Motorola Droid 4] Master Melab:
When the OMAP boots up it hashes a public key and compares it with a series of blown fuses. If they match then it uses the public key to verify the first stage bootloader. A novel idea idea is to swap out the OMAP 4430 from a development board with the chip inside the phone.

Forget that handsoldering BGA is difficult because I have heard of it being done. What differences are there between the a development board chip and the processor in the Droid 4?
[Motorola Droid 4] Master Melab:
Bumped.

Does anyone know of any instances where someone was capable of hand soldering a BGA chip like an OMAP?
[Motorola Droid 4] zPacKRat:
Really, hand solder something that small?
[Motorola Droid 4] niai_mack:
hot air rework would do it, wouldn't it?

i did something simpler to replace the nand chip on my ps3 bluray drive, cant imagine this chip being to much smaller.
[Motorola Droid 4] Rick#2:
It could be done; I've done quite a bit of soldering with ultra-tiny contact points such as those you'd find on SMD-components. You'd definitely want to use a loupe (one of those monocle-style magnifying lenses that you always see the bad guy in cheesy movies analyzing diamonds with... hehe).

I'd be really interested to see if anyone could pull this off.
[Motorola Droid 4] Master Melab:
Really kind of a novel plan of mine for bypassing signature checks. Only problem is getting my hands on a chip without being being an OEM.
[Motorola Droid 4] Nardholio:
You're looking for the Pandaboard, available for $174 here http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/UEVM4430G-01-00-00/UEVM4430F-01-00-00-ND/2349866?cur=USD and http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=ySz5i1dyTooQYPawsE8fWA==

Would be a very expensive mod, even without the difficulties of installation
[Other TouchPad Development] raven_5x:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

Any idea whether it would be possible to run this version of Windows 8 RT on the TP?

They say this is an ARM-based release, so If you could get ahold of a legit copy- you should technically be able to port it over to the TP.
[Other TouchPad Development] MassStash:
It's all over bro, locked bootloader, blah blah blah

~Freshly acquired LTEvo; ViperRom'ed in under 2hrs...
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
What about all the driver stuff? Its not that easy as just to get some Windows from anywhere and flash it on the Tablet.
[Other TouchPad Development] x000x:
drivers are probably not such a big issue. there is a creative method windows is using for driver implementation. plus about 6-ish months ago, i saw a demo of windows for arm running on hardware nearly identical to what touchpad has. so i think if not for it being locked, it would technically be possible.

here is the link to where i read it http://www.anandtech.com/show/4811/windows-8-tablets-running-on-ti-qualcomm-nvidia-amd-intel-silicon go down to qualcom, i think those specs are pretty much in line with what a touchpad has

here is some info about how they are handling drivers. scroll down to driver section and look for "class drivers" http://www.anandtech.com/show/5527/microsoft-provides-windows-on-arm-details

unless i'm mistaken, and i could very well be, seems like the driver implementation is going to be very flexible in what will be supported.
[Other TouchPad Development] Ventus_zx:
I hope windows 8 come to touchpad
[Other TouchPad Development] x000x:
if it ever does, it wont be officially and i doubt someone would be posted on this forum how to install it :P
[Other TouchPad Development] spunker88:
It depends how strict the ARM version is on drivers. If you think about it the x86 edition will install and boot with hardly any drivers required but I think this is due to a large library of included generic drivers. You can also instal drivers in Windows after you boot into it pretty easily.

The restrictions on doing this are going to be legal concerns since Windows RT will not be sold so files will likely not be allowed here. It also depends on if this is even possible to do since there will be no disc/ISO image out there and it depends how similar RT is to its x86 counterpart. They are both NT so I'm thinking that they may operate similarly, except RT won't have all the legacy system files that x86/64 has.
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
if you see the trouble the devs from cyanogenmod or the other linux ports are running into with the drivers, i dont think there will ever be a working windows port here.
[Other TouchPad Development] Fabian1985:
The windows 8 RT version is made for tablets running a arm processor. So It is comming. I wonder how Windows 8 Proffessional response, when I jack a windows Phone 7 into my usb port :P Wonder If I still need those drivers wich is 2,3 gig or so :P

I have the Proffessional version of 8 wich is fully activated by Microsoft hehe, suckersszzz :P:P
[Other TouchPad Development] oliverweidel:
And where are the information? Its no problem to obtain W8Pro and get this activated!?
[Other TouchPad Development] k1l:
Im still waiting for the guys who said it would be that easy to show some proof :)
[Other TouchPad Development] Nabobalis:
We won't get Windows RT. Microsoft will not be releasing an iso with the files. It will be only given to OEMs.
[Other TouchPad Development] FrostyF7:
This would be simply amazing.
[Other TouchPad Development] Ventus_zx:
I want this
[Other TouchPad Development] tm21fourt3:
Any (positive) updates?
[Other TouchPad Development] x000x:
RT will only be on officially approved devices by microsoft. so you realize that it would involve using pirated software and even if someone could figure out how to get past the security measures it would never be posted here?
[Other TouchPad Development] Unrealwolf:
Hmph, and what about WP7 for HD2? Was it posted on XDA?

By the way, Microsoft made a huge mistake by locking W8 RT so tight, it would have bigger chances of adoption if devs were able to legally port the OS to other devices.
[Other TouchPad Development] x000x:
i dont know about what was or was not allowed with wp7 so i cant comment on that. but getting rt on other non-sanctioned devices will take some hacking and distribution of their software... i'm thinking thats too close to piracy. i'm no mod but i dont see how they would allow that kind of information on here.

but i agree with you, they should have been more open with the devices. maybe down the road microsoft will allow it, but who knows.
[Other TouchPad Development] tm21fourt3:
Windows 8 on the Touched?!
[Other TouchPad Development] hummer010:
I can't quite figure out why people want this?!?

What is Windows RT going to give you that android and/or webos doesn't?
[Other TouchPad Development] lewmur:
When are people going to learn that there is no such thing as a UEFI bootloader for ARM devices? ARM devices don't have a BIOS and RT doesn't use UEFI. That is why there will never be an RT port for the TP. It is physically impossible to modify the SoC blob that controls RT booting. Either the SoC is manufactured to boot RT or it isn't and the SoC in the TP isn't. Period. End of story.
[Other TouchPad Development] pojir:
Not true: http://www.arm.com/community/software-enablement/uefi.php

If that is true, how come that Windows RT can run on HTC HD2, whose SoC was released in the late 2008, four years before Windows RT? http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/htc-hd2-refuses-to-die-now-runs-windows-rt/
[Other TouchPad Development] lewmur:
Your first link does NOT apply to SoCs. There is a big difference between a MB with a ARM cpu and a SoC device. There is no UEFI BIOS in the TP or any other SoC device. In fact, there is no BIOS at all in the convential sense.

As to the load of BS in your second link, it is just that. BS. Somebody post a bunch of so called "screenshots" purporting to show RT on a HTC device and people go all gooey inside. If it was legitimate, how come nothing what-so-ever has ever come of it? Ever hear of the term "Urban Myth"? Reminds me of the TV ad where the woman believes that she "read it on the Internet, it must be true".
[Other TouchPad Development] BigJeff:
Cotulla, the man that achieved this, is the biggest name in Windows Phone modding. I'm shocked that you'd be so ignorant and rude to him and his achievements by calling him fake...
[Other TouchPad Development] Remolten:
No need to be a hater. I wouldn't disrespect people that have REAL success getting it to work. This guy is respected developer. And even so, IF there isn't a UEFI bootloader for ARM it could still be done. Do you think anyone would dream that Android would get on the Touchpad? But it was still done. Don't underestimate the power of the open source community and developers.
[Other TouchPad Development] pojir:
So you say, that all the devices utilising an SoC (i.e. nearly all the consumer devices available) violate the official microsoft requirement for windows RT devices to have UEFI bootloader with secureboot support (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj128256.aspx)?

And about Cotullas screenshots being fake - jeffreygtab already wrote what needed to be written. If you don't trust Cotulla, I think you might call the MS requirements on an MSDN site fake too.