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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simplyrafa8:
I'll be the first to say I prefer chrome. It's much smoother ever since it got out of beta, I love how opened tabs and all your bookmarks are synced from phone to laptop and visa versa, I love the way tabs are handled the same way as tasks are. Swipe them left or right and they disappear. And also awesome is that you can switch between tabs by sliding from the left or right edges of your screen and into the middle. I guess you can say I'm a huge fan of tab management on chrome :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SachinShekhar:
Open tabs sync between phone and laptop is really a nice feature of Chrome which Dolphin users are jealous of. :)

When it comes to tab switching, I can use volume keys in Dolphin. But yes, managing a large number of tabs is a pain in Dolphin.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leonvictor2012:
Dolphin Browser HD is the best browser with lots of features like multiple tab & Add-ons option like desktop Firefox browser. Dolphin Browser is the world's first Gesture, Sonar & Add-on enabled mobile web browser on Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nanosp:
Dolphin HD is good but with recent versions [on ICS] having more than 5 tabs open leads to a force close each and every time. Earlier versions didn't have that problem but I'd rather deal with that than Chrome. The add-ons support tho >>>
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Dolphin HD has flash support, allows custom user agents and doesn't require ICS. On my GB Droid 3 its my default browser and I've been satisfied with it. If you have ICS or JB the default browser is much improved, I believe it uses a Chrome/webkit derived rendering engine anyways. It has flash and allows a desktop user agent.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drraptor:
What about the current versions on ics
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vicious Von:
No flash sets Chrome back for me even tho I use it as my main browser.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wakahuula:
The standard ICS browser is, in my opinion, faster than any browser out there..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agirardello:
I use Dolphin HD on my tablet, but chrome on my phone... I personally like more Chrome, but on the tablet the Dolphin experience is a bit better.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drraptor:
I think stock ics browser is best out there.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Habarug:
I use Dolphin because it smoother, Chrome lags surprisingly much. Also Dolphin changes the layout of text when I zoom so I don't have to scroll sideways all the time :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drraptor:
In dolphin you can't easily switch between tabs nor you can close tab easily.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BleedsOrangeandBlue:
I just hate the way it handles zooming. Chrome seems much better at that but more clunky with other things.

I keep going back and forth...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Habarug:
What? You click the open tab to close it. Is that hard? Switching is done by clicking it. That's one click, It's two clicks in chrome or the swipe thingy ( that one is actually really nice, I miss it a bit, but you can't say It's hard in dolphin). You can also assign gestures to switching tabs, but I haven't really found gestures that convenient.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbeddoesdesign:
I still use Dolphin, Chrome lags but also won't let me push that URL bar off the top for full screen browsing. Seriously, these devices all use 16:9/10 ratios, and the bottom of the screen on a tablet is already taken up by the taskbar, so Chrome has you almost "peering through a letterbox" at websites.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marquavious:
Chrome is awful. It lags like crazy, it's slow, and it loads pages like ****. But what really disappoints is that it's faster on the iPhone 4!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cusa:
Dolphin is the best browser on android.

Enough said.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krysten17:
The new dolphin beta with the new engine is insanely fast. It has a bug that doesn't allow me to dl files within the browser so back to xScope until it's fixed. Speed blows chrome out of the water worth checking out. It's on xda/web not play store

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voyager_s:
Dolphin browser HD is excellent I think. Possibly the best browser I've used on Android. Its my current default browser and has been for about a month or so. Its very similar to stock Samsung browser in its fluidity and speed but it has more features with the add on etc.

Chrome is good also. Quite fast but it still feels like a beta to me. There's quite a bit that feels missing. It feels just sluggish at times.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SachinShekhar:
In Dolphin, you can use volume keys to switch between tabs. Plus, closing tabs are one tap away.

Worth mentioning that you can assign gestures for both tasks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbeddoesdesign:
Even on iPhone 4 Chrome is laggy as hell though. It's got nothing on mobile Safari.

Dolphin seems more in the spirit of Android too, because it's so customisable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tshot:
Google Chrome....Only because of the sync features.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ljordan2:
I can only use Chrome when my phone's overclocked to 1.1Ghz. If it's on 1.0Ghz, it is slow as hell.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namelessname:
I haven't used Chrome so I say Dolphin (by default). But one thing that I really like about Dolphin that keeps me from using other browsers is the gesture feature.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spartoi:
100mhz makes a difference? lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 007Arc:
Best browser is 'ics browser+'. It's like stock ics browser, but with more features.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.

I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.

Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Flashing with ODIN did not good either. I tried to revert back to stock. It uploaded with no issues apparently, and then when it rebooted I was back in ICS with everything as it was... argh.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] welchertc:
Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Clark Joseph Kent:
I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Greatly appreciated! Thanks for posting the link. I will try it tonight and let you know how it works out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] simbill:
I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Well I was impatient and tried 2 different roms right away. Neither worked. Odin showed "pass", no errors. Then it does its auto-restart and bam, back where I was. Not having the best of luck with this right now.

Any other ideas would be appreciated!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
LOL I actually waited a few days before posting here too. I was hoping that maybe uninstalling and reinstalling some, or updated, or clearing cache and all that would help. As you can see, it did nothing. Heck, after I restart my updates didnt even stick and Google Play is trying to download them again!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Well... still no luck.

Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.

And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Mad383Max:
Try taking out your sd card and running it for a while. First note i got was acting that way from the get go. Took it back and got a new one. It started doing the same thing. Finally took out sd card and ran great. Card was going bad. I had replaced the 8 gb stock card with the 16 gb one i had in another phone and apparently the mote didn't like it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
Did you, by any chance, install a custom kernal? IIRC, one of them messed with the mount points. By far, the only way to fix your issue immediately will involve restoring to stock through ODIN, then rerooting and reflashing CWM. This will 100% mark your Note as either defective, or prove that it's a problem in another area. However, I don't believe your problem is with your SD Card, unless you've been using an app like apps2sd.

If you're weary about doing this, try to reflash CWM, or TWRP to figure out if it's something going on with the recovery partition and/or settings. I'm no expert, but the only thing I'm aware of that sticks around through a wipe, and multiple flashes are our recovery, our internal SD files (possible), and sometimes the modem. Also, the one click leaks include a not loader, which could prevent you from restoring a GB Nandroid.

By flashing CWM, then TWRP, then CWM again, or sticking with TWRP, you at least knock out one variable...and by reformatting your internal SD, you ensure no resources are sticking around.

Edit:are you using TiBu to backup and restore/migrate after a flash? Verify your backups under the batch lost.

What could be happening, is you're restoring data in CWM, or TiBu, or w/e ap you're using, and then the Google account sync restore is restoring your settings, and replacing the desired ones, or vice versa.

Edit again: Which launcher are you using? Which utilities do you use? What are your main root apps?

The backup verify is a must...but some launchers will scoot icons out of the way. If you're having a touch screen issue, or an S Pen issue, you could be draggn items around when you're not aware of it.

I'll see this through. You've caught my interest.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.

In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.

How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
I had installed a custom kernel on Gingerbread before, but obviously that was replaced with the one I used with FJmod. It had been operating fine for over a month.

Also, I removed my SD Card, and tried everything without it. I have tried restoring gingerbread stock and ICS stock through both ODIN and CWM. Even formatting through CWM does nothing as when I restart I am back to normal.

As for root, I only had 2-3 programs with access. ES File Manager/Task manager, and I tried one called Lucky Patcher (I will verify this evening). All of these had been on for at least a week prior to all this beginning.

I havent been using TiBu for anything at all actually.

The launcher I am using at the moment is Nova.

Other than that, I am going to try a few of your suggestions once I am done work. I will post my results tonight!

Thanks for the suggestions and info, greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Just to be clear. I am formatting then restarting and all my apps, icon placements and wallpaper return. Even my call history is stuck up to the 13th and erases recent calls. I am also trying to revert to stock ICS and Gingerbread through both ODIN and CWM. After it is done installing through ODIN and reboots, I return to the way my phone was before. Same with CWM. After flashing through CWM I return right back to the way it was. I am not doing any restoring or anything. I have done this plenty of times in the past before. The only thing I can possibly imagine at this point is that my SD is somehow stuck on read only. Yet it is weird because again, I can delete files and apps (and even windows shows them as gone), but after a restart they are all back! I can remove apps, but they are still in the app menu too.... I can even run them lol (even after deleting their folder). The phone is stuck in stasis.

All of this just happened one day out of the blue. No new apps (for at least a week) too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Black6spdZ:
I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Black6spdZ:
No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.

Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.

Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Well its currently stuck on FJ Mod (which I think is a great rom), and then it just started acting up. I cannot restore Gingerbread stock, or ICS stock, or anything else. ODIN and CWM both show completed on my attempts, but upon reboot my device is back exactly where it left off on the 13th.

I picked up the S3 and I like it, but I miss my note badly :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Black6spdZ:
as a last resort try formatting the flash using adb in recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
That's because you have to Odin the stock recovery, and do a factory reset. There are threads on how to do this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Ok I am not sure what I am missing here... I have flashed recovery through odin, I have then shut down and booted into CWM and done a reset (lol). I've also gone from odin to booted up and then doing a factory reset from within ICS. No matter what I do, CWM is there, the same bootup is there, the same ICS boots up, nothing changes. Nothing I flash sticks. Nothing I delete stays deleted.

Is there another form/method of factory reset you are referring too? If so please pass me a link. I would love to get this running. In the meantime going to try a couple ADB options as mentioned above. Though I don't have high hopes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Clark Joseph Kent:
I have been reading thru your posts, you say you have odin to stock and yet your icons and call logs still remain?

Are you putting your phone into download mode while your using Odin?

The last leak ics kills all, wipes everything on the phone....it is a one click Odin type.

Did you try using the official ics update via kies, thru your pc...putting your phone into download mode?

Then formatting your internal sd via the phone setting ...storage?

Btw i have all the listed threads in "my links" in red in my signature, for GNote page.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnnyb82:
Yeah! I used odin, and yes I was in download mode (press up to continue and so on). ODIN shows connected properly on screen as well, and goes the uploading process and states it was successful at the end as well.

I tried the recent ICS leak, as well as original stock roms. I also tried the rogers return to stock thread. I've also tried doing all this through CWM.

The only thing I have not done yet is use KIES. I will do that tonight.

Thanks for another idea!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] opus705:
I have exactly the same problem with you Johnnyb82. Regardless what ROM I flash, it does not stick and it boots with my old ROM. I tried KIES and emergency recovery completed successfully per KIES but when I reboot, I still see the old ROM boot up and continuous of app crashes. I tried this:

1. mount /data partition from CWM (in recovery mode)

2. adb shell into the device and cd /data

3. rm -rf * to erase everything in /data partition and confirm everything is erased and exit

4. go back to CWM and unmount /data and then mount /data again

5. adb shell into the device again and cd /data

6. you find all the files you have erased in step #3 are all still there.

The same thing happen for all partitions /cache, /data, /system. Does this mean that somehow flash memory (emmc?) is not writing anything any more?

Does anybody have clue for this issue? Anyone have solved the similar problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jay19x:
Nand chip problem, nothing u can do , replace nand chip
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gramrock:
I startet the update one min ago, rebooted and cwm then canceld it saying that the signature was incorrect so it abortet the update..

what to do now ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
What update by what method what file .

Strange to update via CWM .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiaxe66:
Did u flash the cwm and what file are u trying to flash(zip, tar, rom or kernel)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gramrock:
I did not do anything via cwm...

I went down to my phone and checked if theres and update avaliable,

it found one and downloaded it and rebooted in order to install it and after the phone was off it opened the packet and startet installing and all of a sudden i landed in cwm saying the packets signature was invalid...

thats what happened
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
OTA does not work with CWM. There are work-arounds but it's recommended to stay with Kies or Odin to flash new versions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gramrock:
lol thats a minus for cwm imo... meh... does anybody have a link to a thread providing the latest release ?

whisch one is it btw ? 4.1 jelly bean ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Here are most of the available firmwares:

http://www.samfirmware.com/

Jellybean isn't out for a couple of months, so it's a bugfix/enhancement release of ICS.

CWM is not designed for Samsung but for Android phones in general. So it cannot support all of the quirks and specialitys of all devices.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Latest CWM and root from dev section is supposed to allow updates OTA.but of course you need to reroot .

Simpler to join XDA and flash stock roms rather than try to mix and match .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gramrock:
yeah, i did so before with my sgs + i already have odin and stuff required for flashing did all before, i would rather flash entire roms than mixng stuff...

so i think i will just wait then till the entire rom gets released.. :>
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiaxe66:
Yeah, wait for full(rom) update. lfb is latest firmware.lg1 is the the same rom just different modem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gramrock:
yo d4f,

are there any version avaliable with the current patch or the patch itself as a single package ? ti flash via cwm or odin ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
I don't know what you mean by 'patch'. If you mean ROM version, then yes... flash the one you like. OTA partial updates are not available.

Samfirmware is Odin-only since they are full-Stock firmwares.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] painter_:
I do not have mine Nexus 7 yet but I am wondering has anyone investigated the bluetooth chip can be used for FM radio?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] India85g:
I just updated to 2.7.13 and themes don't apply. (That's the only bug so far). Does anyone have a fix for this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] India85g:
Nevermind I fixed it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slypher25aussie:
How did you fix it? I'm having the same issue as well... lock screen won't apply, along with any boot animations I try to apply.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 2momo123:
Theme Folder

I am not on miui anymore, but if I remember correctly, you must create a folder named theme in the data/system folder and then reboot, and then re apply the themes. Although, I find you still must set up the custom boot animations yourself
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] India85g:
You can also flash an older version of miui, apply theme, then w/o wiping anything, flash the newer version on top. That's how I fixed it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chasmanz28:
I have a stock ROM and my LED notification light deosnt work, what can i do to make it work again thanks.