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[Galaxy S III Accessories] zaisaroni:
I had a commuter for about 24hrs... Now on a silicryllic and couldn't be happier. I have no kids, no real damage to any device but an iPhone that fell completely face flat onto hardwood @ 4ft and shattered into 100 pieces in an incase slider.

Otterbox Commuter

Pros

- Tough as hell! It seems overkill for my everyday use. People with defenders must play baseball with their devices.

- Dust covers will keep things cleaner.

- Flash, Camera, speaker are seperate cutouts and deep.

Cons

- Added way too much thickness IMO. I don't remember my iPhone 3GS in a case being this thick...

- Plastic is SLIPPERY. You need such a tough case because you'll be dropping it more than naked.

- Plastic came down the sides further than I would like, so you're holding onto it's slippery face, and not the rubber near the screen face.

- Buttons are terrible to press, way to hard.

- Damn near impossible to remove. I like to remove mine for cleaning once a week or two, and switch out with a thin hard shell depending on my day.

Incipio Silicryllic (Should note I've had this on two other phones now, but been happy with it's durability on them)

Pros

- Slips into pocket very easy.

- Isn't too thick

- Adds side grip over stock

- Looks much better, frankly more grown-up too.

- Slightly easier to hit the home button

- Around $10 cheaper than Commuter

Cons

- Probably not as protective as the Commuter on big drops(Based on a GNex and Titan, It's still very good, better than a TPU, hard shell, etc)

- Flash, Camera, Speaker opening is one large hole, easier to get the lens if it's lands on a protrusion.

- no port coverings

- Silicone can catch dust, but a quick wipe takes care of anything visible with it's clean lines.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] znc62511:
This thread was about the Incipio Faxion guys not other incipio cases

Got my faxion case.. And I like it... It is thinner and lighter than the sycrillic and has good drop protection. It is in between a two piece case like sycrillic and a tpu case.. The polycarbonate back does scratch up fairly easy. I have the blue and Grey case. The white might not show up as much. I will post pics if I get the time.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mossolb:
Oh dang I never noticed this was a TPU/Polycarb case . How sturdy is the TPU core around the top and the bottom of the phone? I recently got the Silicryllic case and I don't like how loose the top and especially the bottom where the USB mini port is. It feels like that area might tear sooner or later.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] zmore:
While silicone does tend to be a little more flexible, I've never had even a pure silicone case tear on me yet, and I've had versions for years on a phone and a 7" tablet (switched to a folio for the tablet, though - better screen protection)

IMO, I'd always prefer silicone over TPU in a hybrid case, since it both provides better grip (if exposed by the polycarb shell) and better shock absorption. I don't think I'd ever want a pure silicone case for a phone ever again, though, since while the extreme grippiness is great, it's a lint magnet and a pain to pull out of your pocket sometimes. Also, it's too easy for toddlers to rip it off.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mossolb:
A friend had a simple silicone case on his phone and had those exact problems as you mentioned with it being a lint magnet and how troublesome to put it in and pull it out of the pocket.

My family recently upgraded their phones to the Epic 4G Touch and I ordered some simple TPU cases for them and I found even though the grip is less compared to the silicone hybrid, just adding some bulk helps with gripping the phones. I like how the TPU cases are just a tighter fit around the phones.

We all have come from phones that were maybe 4+ years old so they were thicker and we didn't have to worry much about damaging the phone from a drop. I myself came from the HTC Mogul so it was a huge change in the thickness of the phone.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Zor Omega:
What about the body glove drop suit? Anyone seen this, or have any opinions on it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] twoashj:
great comparison! thanks for sharing!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] traskers:
I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to setup a mirror for the latest Paranoid Android release for our phone?

I have attempted to download it about for times now and it keeps falling and I have to start over..

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aradlein:
Hey guys,

I'm running the galaxy nexus yakju IMM76I, with the stock google image, no root and unlocked bootloader. All of a sudden today, the phone restarted, and hangs on the loading animation and restarts continuously. I've tried 2 things that have both failed and I'm not sure what other route to take.

1) Bootloader - fastboot

I tried flashing the stock images, erase data , stock radio's etc, but every command from fastboot ends with:

"FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))"

as a reuslt, the bootloader screen goes blurry and hangs, requiring a battery pull to restart.

The device is recognized, and I'm following a similar procedure to when I moved to Yakju in the first place, and no commands will work. After this failed I tried booting into CWM and booting into it, it gives errors listing the following:

"E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command"

BUT, still allows me to navigate clockwork recovery. Any commands that I try to run through cause the phone to crash and reboot.

2) Odin

I tried flashing the recovery images through Odin , and every time, the download mode screen gets blurry and I have to pull the battery to reboot the phone.

So in summary, the phone continously reboots if I try a straight startup, fastboot flashing causes the screen to go blurry, as does Odin flashing from download mode. Not sure what else I can do to get this back to stock. Also, I don't care if my data is wiped, any help would be much appreciated!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giant22000:
I've read throughout most of the call recording threads regarding the Gnex, but I've yet to see someone comment on it succesfully working 100% of the time on the CDMA (Toro) version of the phone. It appears that most of the success stories I'm reading are on the GSM version. It does work on my CDMA (Toro) version of the phone, but just not reliably every time. It does not always record the other side of the conversation. Here is my experience with the app:

My setup:

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Toro)

Rom - CM9 (Latest Nightly)

Steps I've done for Callrecorder:

1. Installed Busybox under the xbin location.

2. Installed AlsaMixer.

3. Installed Callrecorder. Set to Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Toro). And set it to record via Alsa.

It seems that it's about 50% chance it will record both sides and about 50% chance that it won't. I've cleared cache, data, uninstalled, rebooted phone and reinstalled and this did not help either.

Any comments regarding this app working successfully or not on Toro would be appreciated.

Other than the radio's, are there any differences between the Gnex variants that might cause this behavior?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giant22000:
Anyone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alexj714:
It worked fine for me on Toro on an ICS rom. It didn't work on a JB rom. Just for laughs, I tried it anyway even though Skvalex says in the app description (caps in the original): THIS APP IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH JELLY BEAN.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giant22000:
Which rom/kernel combo were you using (although I know with the alsa method it shouldn't matter)? It slays me how this app just sometimes records both sides. I'm not using juice defender, app killer's or battery saver's. I'm wondering if something is interfering though. Any thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] billhilt:
Bump

Any new news on this . It seems to work depemding on who im calling or which kernal I use just never both
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giant22000:
I eventually gave up on Toro and got away from VZW altogether. Sorry but I never found a reliable recording solution on Toro.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PorkMoon587:
Hi was wondering if anyone could help me. I rooted my friends phone awhile back and it was all fine and hunky dorry until he fudged up. I guess he got a new phone so he tried to give the Optimus V to his son but he did a factory reset from the settings menu you. No the phone won't do anything. Try to power it on but it just shows the first LG logo then off again. If I plug the phone in CWM comes up but I've tried installing a new rom but it winds up doing the same thing. Also I can't get it to show up in adb or fastboot.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitsk:
Flash the stock rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1324105
[Android Apps and Games] leroy_coco:
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Page names removed because warez

HIT THANKS IF I HELPED YOU,

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BY LEROY
[Xperia Play General] Potato13:
To install roms on an r800a install an r800i ftf otherwise you will get boot loops. Many r800a users have this problem and post on threads about it, hopefully this can be stickied to reduce the amount of those posts/threads.

Click here for r800i 4.0.2.A.0.62

I also recommend this but if you are flashing to ICS or JB, flash 64 baseband first from the above ftf by excluding everything except baseband.

This is done because 67 baseband results in no signal on ICS/JB roms.

Note: When flashing a new baseband, do not wipe data or cache...unless you want to.
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Thank you for your diligence, but it belongs in the General sub-forum (moved)

I've also stuck it, and I suggest adding a link to this in your signature,

Pax

FSM Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
[Xperia Play General] Potato13:
Sorry about that, I was unsure about which section to post in. I have taken your advice and added it to my signature. Thank you.
[Xperia Play General] philsner99:
I would suggest offering a link to the r800i FTF file in your main post too. Searching the forums can be done but if you want to draw attention to your thread, make it as simple as possible.
[Xperia Play General] Potato13:
Okay, I added links to ftfs. Thanks for the suggestion
[Xperia Play General] elalexluna83:
thanks

thanks for the tft file.
[Xperia Play General] drewski83:
I think this is the right thread to ask this question. My brother in law has one of the newer plays from Alltel. It is of course CDMA n locked bootloader. I have scoured the forums n google for best way to unlock the bootloader on his phone, so I can flash Roms on it. The only site/info I find is this guys paid site where he remotes in and helps u unlock the bootloader. I figured I could do this myself, as I am pretty good at doing funky stuff to unlock/mod phones. But my attempts failed. It involved using a paperclip n running some programmer app to flash custom bootloader on it. So my question is; is it possible at all to unlock his bootloader on his Play from Alltel and be able to flash any roms at all on it? So far, all I have done is obtained root on it.. is this all that can be done with his phone? He complains constantly about it running out of space and memory, cause he plays so many damn games on it. I told him, if it were possible to flash a custom ROM on it however, it would possibly help it with those problems he hated about the phone.. can anyone chime in and direct me to right forum/site? He said he will be willing to pay for that guys services but if there is a way for me to do it, id like to try.. thanks for any info anyone can provide. Btw he bought this phone earlier this year. So it is a newer model of the Plays CDMA..

-Drew
[Xperia Play General] Potato13:
Try getting it unlocked from Alejandrissimo. He's unlocked many play's on this forum and he charges $25 USD. I'm pretty sure that works with CDMA too. The link doesn't seem to be working but check out Xperia Unlock Service on Facebook or something. And rooting alone should allow him to delete some system apps to save space. Tell him to move stuff to SD too if possible. For the memory thing, I would just use a task manager (Gingerbread only) and maybe supercharge once he roots. DO NOT TRY TO UNLOCK IT YOURSELF. Unless the model # is r800i in that case, you can unlock yourself from the sony website.
[Xperia Play General] sunc0331:
help me a lot

I just forgot back up my system. so thank you so much.
[Xperia Play General] Xperia_Play:
Thanks, very useful.
[Xperia Play General] 216Monster:
R800a and 4g

Does the R800a work with 4g networks at all? As in 4g speeds?

Thanks in advance!
[Xperia Play General] Edwin78987:
the link does not work anymore

The link for the baseband does not work anymore. please update.

thanks in advance :)
[Xperia Play General] Maskself:
file not found :(

anyone else could give us another link?

TY

---------- Post added at 02:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:03 AM ----------

I'm 2.3.4, and trying to get this rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1631144

but I have .42, this way is usefull for me in order to get that ROM?, or don't need take this? i'm a bit confused, sorry.
[Xperia Play General] XperiaPlayEC:
have you tried this one?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1689450
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alexnaoumi:
I have 2 problems and I'm hoping that you guys can help me out here.

My friend has an att gs2 and whenever he calls me it goes straight to voicemail and I don't receive his text messages. He's not on my auto reject list so I don't know what the problem is.

Also, sometimes when I call people it won't even dial the number, I'll receive a tone that just beeps (as if the line is busy) and the call will hang up on its own, but the beeping continues.
[Nook Color General] itesla:
I installed the latest 20120608 CM9 from samiam here : http://android.sphsolutions.net/Encore/Nightlies/CM9/

Everything seems to be working except the default internet browser seems to crash/lockup on just about any website I go to. I end up having to reboot the Nook. Anyone else seeing this? Will a different build fix this?

I also tried Chrome and it does not seem to work at all for me. Chrome application starts but no web pages will load. Doesn't crash/lockup Nook. I think I had tried Chrome the day it was released (using a March 2012 samiam CM9 build) and had same issue.

Thanks!!!
[Nook Color General] Deleted member 4272875:
I'm running the latest AOKP and see it as well. Saw it on the CM9 builds too. Frustrating.
[Droid X General] mojorisin7178:
Hi My boss has a droid x and it stopped booting. He already got his replacement but he did not back his info up to google so he lost everything. The phone is completely stock. He said that first it gave him the black screen with the yellow triangle and the android then it would not boot. I know the software is partially working because when I plugged it in to the charger the battery animation comes up. When I plugged it into the pc I tried different button combos because I do not know how to get into recovery mode. So I think when I hit vol up and power I got a screen that said bootloader and power low and cannot configure software or something like that. Oh the screen was black and the letters were white. I am not familiar with this phone or motorolla in general I have and lg and a Samsung and both have unlocked bootloaders. So is there a way to get his info off this phone? The only thing I can think of is to some how install CWM and then mount the internal sdcard but I don't know how to do that with a locked bootloader. So if anyone knows anything please let me know.

Thank you,

Charlie
[Droid X General] Yogo123:
The black screen with the yellow triangle just means your in recovery mode. If it still goes to that when you turn it on just press both volume buttons and it will give you options. There's an option to reboot and you can factory reset. But I don't know if you can get the data.

Also to get into recovery just press home and power and when you see the m for Motorola release power and keep home held.
[Android General] leroy_coco:
Moderation Edit...

Linking to warez is strictly against Xda rules and will not be tolerated.
[Android General] boyob32:
Policenauts on fpse... Long time coming and worth it!

LT15i ICS with root
[Android General] eRadicant:
Blood Roar 2 and Tekken 3 are two good fighting games for FPSe. However, some combos can be a little difficult on the touchscreen.

BTW, was capslock really necessary?
[Android General] leroy_coco:
Nope, but I will edit all later cuz this list of games is really usefull
[Android General] DD-Ripper:
These are the games which I play mostly....! :D :D

This is the only game which I play 8 Hours daily !! :

1. Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation Multiplayer (on 3G network not WiFi)

Reached Rank 83 in less than 2months of multiplayer !:eek:

Have a look at my Killstreak :D :D :

2. N.O.V.A 3 (Could not play multiplayer due to no WiFi connection :( :( )

Sent from my GT-i9100 equipped with Grenade Launcher and ZN6 Prototype :D :D
[Android General] colossus:
THREAD CLOSED.
[XPERIA X10 General] chemistiano101:
i tried to upgrade my xperia x10 to ice cream sandwich and after installing zip from sd card step..i reboot my device and logo of oodie miui appear and stop here for a very long time and i can not and device stop here and i can not switch on it...please help me to complete upgrade or return to previous version of xperia or loading other versions
[XPERIA X10 General] i2nice:
did you flash the kernel and are u running on unlock bootloader? most of the ICS for x10 is only for unlock bootloader. and you need to get back to gingerbread to get to work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] XDA_Diomedes:
I remember some hubbub about not formatting in ICS UI becuase of the potential for bricking, was that just an issue in CWM? Is it safe to format in recovery mode?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kishke:
You can just remember sd card= external emmc= internal
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Prysewhert:
Hello!

CM9 offers the ability to create and switch between profiles.

I have to go to Settings -> Profiles though to change them.

Is there a quicker way of doing that? Maybe a widget?

Thanks for reading!
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] voetbalremco:
Hold power button for 3 seconds ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Prysewhert:
oooooooh nice! well that works! thanks!

:victory:
[General Questions and Answers] caponer:
How to set up a vpn on android. does it hide my ip address? I want to access a site that is blocking my ip. should I set up a vpn or any technique to hide my ip? I tried droidvpn but it just reboots the phone. I have root, busybox, tun.ko and openvpn binary but no openvpn config file < whatever that means
[General Questions and Answers] mansoordk:
Try proxydroid its only need root and work perfect on my phone
[General Questions and Answers] caponer:
cant change ip?

I downloaded proxydroid and set it up to use first htttps then socks4/5 proxy bug it still shows my original ipaddress at whatismyip.com :( how to use this app?
[General Questions and Answers] aussie2sweden:
Go to proxpn.com for $10 USD a month you can download their android app. No need for root. They have several vpn server locations such as x2 Usa, Uk Singapore and included is PC usage as well. Apparently it is no problems watching geolocation locked online tv
[General Questions and Answers] unrandomsam:
Don't bother with the Android app if you just need it temporary (Certainly don't bother with the windows client).

If you download the Windows Client exe you can open it with 7zip and get the openvpn config files (Attached to this post).

Which you can then use with :

https://proxpn.org/createaccount.php

And then just fill in the required items.

It says allot about the company that they don't even use a different certificate and key for each user.

(Or provide L2TP)

For 7$ a month you can get a really good VPS in the US.

(See lowendbox.com)

Then just set it up yourself. (Anything you want L2TP/IPSEC / Openvpn or PPTP).

You can find a tutorial to set this up for pretty much any Linux distro. (In a better manner than the god awful way they configure this).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athhar:
can i flash custom roms to my nexus I9023 using odin?

if i lost the recovery what should i do?

please help.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rougesheep:
You can't use Odin with a Nexus S. Reflash your recovery using fastboot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android-Junky:
Fastboot is much better then ODIN - If you loose access to recovery, you'd still be able to access fastboot/adb and then you can easily flash custom recovery using adb.If you have lost recovery then install pdanet on your computer.(It will also install Nexus S USB Drivers) then put your phone into fastboot mode by holding down both Volume Up and Power buttons together. When you are in fastboot mode connect your phone to your PC using USB cable.Download ADB and recovery you want to flash put it in your C:/recovery (Put adb and recovery image in this folder)

Then open cmd and type

1)CD C:/recovery

2)fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img (replace recoveryname with actual file name of the recovery image).

2nd command will flash recovery to your phone and then you'd be able to access recovery.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rougesheep:
Wow, you learn something every day. Never heard of anyone doing that before.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athhar:
Thanks

thanks
[Focus General] statusone:
Clock keeps running fast.

Any ideas what might be wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerSilva:
Hi all, How are you?

please, Does somebody know how to manually flash an update on Galaxy Nexus "maguro"/GSM device without installing CWM recovery?

Is there any procedure like "update.zip" for Nexus One?

(described here: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-nexus-one )

I appreciate any help you can give me,

Roger
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerSilva:
I have just find out that on recovery mode, there is an options to "apply update from /cache".

This link show how to do it without CWM:http://blog.talawah.net/2012/07/how-to-manually-ota-update-your-galaxy.html

However, It seems that I need to root my phone to move the update file into /cache folder.

Please, Does someone know how to write the "update.zip" on /cache folder on the phone without rooting it?

thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Resix:
There is of course a method: You can flash factory images via Fastboot mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerSilva:
There are no factory images for Jelly Bean so far =/

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Is it possible to write on "/cache" folder without root?How?

thanks in advance