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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dirtydave76:
ICS Battery life.

I haven't tried factory reseting or wiping cache, but I know personally my battery life went to $hit when I tried any and all ICS leaks. I get far superior battery life out of el29 gingerbread with MIUI on my S2. Only way I think I'll update to ICS is if Jellybean comes out to put over top of it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lambohoos:
For what it's worth, when I first rooted my E4GT back in May I had terrible battery life as well. It has come a long way. There are lots of ROM's to choose from but the Blu Kuban (you have to enjoy the theme) has been excellent with battery life. I had 24 hrs yesterday with email, voice, some messaging and web. Attached is a screen shot showing what I have as of now. Of course there are apps that drain the phone but they did that on GB as well. I have not regretted ICS at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] worn_chaos789:
I'm not calling you a liar by any means, but I've done it twice now with no ill effects. It is completely possible though and if so I am lucky to have not bricked my phone. All I know is after I did it the hang ups and such from ff18 lessened significantly. Thank you for the warning though.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mjs2011:
There are random cases here and there where phone haven't bricked using the factory reset method. But I would consider yourself extremely lucky!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linandre:
i just recently moving to singapore, and they said to me to be careful in usig internet here, because internet in singapore is watched by the goverment

if you downloaded too many illegal songs, they will arrest you, download movie, they will arrest you, download application they will arrest you

so, my xperia is not that fun because i cant download the latest firmware to flash, so how you singaporean avoid that law

can you help me giving the link to that law?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popthosegaskets:
You can download firmware to flash. It's not illegal.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnrangoo:
Isn't posting to xda illegal too? Friend got floged.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrModMan:
Damn

---------- Post added at 03:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:55 PM ----------

Downloading illegal stuff like movies, songs etc. is illegal... but you can download firmwares, basebands, kernels, ROMS, android stuff etc. because there mostly made by other people and you can basically download a stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM and flash on your phone with out doing an OTA update.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pandaball:
Are you sure you meant Singapore and not North Korea? Do just a tiny bit of Googling and you would know instantly that what you said is not necessarily true. Life wouldn't be any fun without any downloads because HTML wouldn't load either and so I shouldn't be here :( Time to go let myself get arrested now...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yenter:
Hahah no! I don't think it would be illegal... Cos anyway many phone companies kind of support like cyanogenmod and stuff right? So shouldn't be a problem. Welcome to Singapore! :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtacy!:
I think he wants to know how to bypass those restrictions and not get flagged by his ISP.

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panicc.co:
Proxy. That's all I will say
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningembers:
Is there any way to make the overflow menu button show up in applications that support it?

The best I've found is a method called hasPermanentMenuKey() which I think I could force to "return false;". Problem? I don't know where to dive in to the android.view library.

It shows on my Nexus 7, Galaxy Nexus, and even HTC One X - but not on my SGS3. I assume because the system detects it has a hardware menu key.

Is there a way to trick/tell/force the showing of the overflow menu button in supported applications?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielEGVi:
I don't have a SGS3, but from what I've seen from pics on the interwebs, didn't the SGS3 have a capacitative menu button? AFAIK menu button always triggers overflow menu, or does it?

(sorry for off-topic)

Sony Xperia Play - Tapatalk 2​
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningembers:
Yeah, it does, I should probably explain my use case...

Half of the reason is because I want some UI consistency between all my devices, my SGS3 is the only one where almost all apps I use on a regular basis behave differently (and sometimes even look differently) because of this lack of overflow menu button.

The other half is because I hate physical buttons and I remapped my sometimes-less-used Menu key to the physical button on the SGS3, and would like it if I could avoid the physical button *most* of the time by just using in-app menu buttons (if I ever figure out how to force them on).

If someone can figure this out and/or help me figure it out I will gladly donate to them. I want this feature badly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielEGVi:
Oh now I get it, I guess I would also do the same in my apps for the sake of consistency. I don't know much about it, so I can't help much :o

Anyway, good luck on finding an answer ;)

Sony Xperia Play - Tapatalk 2​
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningembers:
*bump*

Donating money to someone who can give me a solid lead on how to accomplish this, bigger donation for getting it done.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkrangr:
brand new nexus 7 16gb, i rooted and the plugged it in to an external battery and it refuses to charge. I've used 3 different cables, 2 different external batteries and it wont charge but my nook and galaxy nexus charge just fine. I plugged it in using hte same cable to the wall or a pc and it charges, anyone know whats going on?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redmonke255:
What's the amperage output on it? Honestly 2 is just barely enough, 1 amp out is REALLY slow and any less just won't work.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkrangr:
5v 2amp on the external the battery was the designed to charge tablets
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vapor:
Same issue here, whether I'm using the New Trent 9900 or XPAL 8000. These packs work with other ones and tablets just fine though.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiersten_Kress:
I have 3 USB external batteries with 2A 5V output

that work perfectly for my iPad 2, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0,

as well as my HP Touchpad.

For some strange reason, my Nexus 7 will not allow

it to be charged from any of them.... probably just

how Google designed it? :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Q.Entity:
I think it is an ASUS thing... My transformer has the same issue.. by the way , not all 2A chargers

Work...

Skickat från min Galaxy Nexuss
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike Fitz:
I have a New Trent IMP1000, 1A output and it won't charge either. Goes from "Discharging" to "Not Charging" on the battery screen. :(
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inZillaWeTrust:
I checked the official CM9 thread and the link for the 5113 is broken. I also checked get.cm and they don't have a file for the 5113. I'm perfectly okay using an older build but I can't seem to find anywhere to get old files. Can anyone help me out?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottx .:
Check cm thread. Links for nightlys are working now.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Endoroid:
Just checked, 5113 is not up yet, although I thought I saw (a puddy tat :p) 2 versions of the 5110 at get.cm, one 3mb bigger than the other. Typo maybe
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inZillaWeTrust:
It's for 5110 and 5100. I guess I'll just keep checking to see if the 5113 finally goes up.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Endoroid:
My bad I misread it
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrA1l3:
You can find CM9 for P5113 here --> http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=p5113
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jayman16:
So this is my first Android device (coming from iOS) and after looking through different launchers (Go, Apex, and Nova) I think I still like the stock 4.1.1 one the best.

But I want so features from them in the stock launcher, is that possible? Specifically I would like the pages to loop ie,. When I get to the fifth page I want it to go back around to the first page, also I want cool page flipping animations , and lastly I'd like the launcher to work in landscape. Apparently this was the default behavior in 4.0 but they removed it 4.1... weird.

Anyways sorry I'm such a noob just looking for a few answers.

From My Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Funkybooyea:
Unfortunately you can not make the stock launch go into landscape without rooting your device and making some changes. I do like the loop feature as well. Nova was the closest to original but I did not like the landscape view it provided, chopped some widgets and just did not "look right" for me. I installed Nemus launcher and so far this has been my favorite. Everything just seems to look crisper and the landscape view is perfect. The one thing I did not like about is that it did not give you a separate tab for widgets in the launcher, but that is ok because you can just long press on a spot on the page and pull up Widgets. Hope that helps some.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] digweed4me:
Use nova laucher it will let u do landscape mode infinite scroll and all that. ITs just as fast as stock launcher
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] auto_art:
folks

i have a problem with my galaxy s2.

if i change brightness manually or automatic maytimes it does not get to its full value.(remain dim although it shows 100% on gui). i need to go into lcd test and select front camera only den it get to its full values. pl suggest me some fix for thi asap.

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] harlenm:
Very rapid vibration, 2 quick ones, every 30 seconds or so. Can't figure out what is causing it. Think it might be unread SMS, but I can't find anyoption to turn it off, so I'm not positive that's it.

Any ideas???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] harlenm:
Just made a call, no unread text, no vibrations.

Sent myself a text, then made a call, vibrations at 12 and 32 seconds.

Made another call, no vibrations in 45 seconds.

Made another call, vibrated at 22 and 37 seconds.

I really have no idea what is causing this and its really annoying.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] harlenm:
One more update, it spears to be smart alert in motion causing it. Was able to make it happen as often as I wanted by moving the phone from flat to vertical.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] aramos87:
+1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] bamaredwingsfan:
While browsing through the back up files in titanium backup, I came across a file called fwupgrade. Would freezing this file keep you from accidentally excepting an update an loosing root?

This is on Verizon BTW

Sent from my rOot3d Samsung Galaxy S3
[General Questions and Answers] pham87:
Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what I can possibly do??

The card came as EXFAT, but most roms only support FAT32.

I formatted the card to FAT32 which was fine .. but after copying a few files the card now refuses to write or delete files. I can still open and view media that's on it but that's about it. I can't even re-format it, it will say the disk can not be formated or write error. The card isn't corrupt though, I copied around 30gbs of video on it when it was in EXFAT partition before. J

I'm using an SD adaptor into my card reader, but yes I have ensured the lock switch is off.

edit - oh also, when you place the card into the phone it'll say that the card is damaged/blank.

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers,
[General Questions and Answers] ruscan.calin:
Make sure you format it in the phone
[General Questions and Answers] pham87:
Every time I place the card in, it will say the card is damaged or blank

Then it tries to format it but then goes through the same loop of saying it's damaged/blank
[General Questions and Answers] ruscan.calin:
unmount SD card before format SD card
[General Questions and Answers] pham87:
alright i'll give it a go soon

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] NEXUSBOY:
i had experienced the same problem i tried my best using several fomat tools. think almost all the tools in the world....failed and bought a new one.....think its better go for new card:(
[General Questions and Answers] tsironakos:
Did you try to format it on Linux? I've experienced some problems with SD cards formated on Windows (assuming that you run Windows :) )
[General Questions and Answers] pham87:
pretty much - there's nothing you can do. I decided to email Sandisk and here's their response:

I understand that the error that appear after format is “write protected”. First we would like to apologize for the inconvenience.

I understand that you are getting write protection error while accessing the flash drive. The flash drive has detected a potential fault and become “write protected” to prevent data loss. There is no method to fix this. You will need to back-up your data and replace the flash drive.

So you have to RMA it. I'm abit confused because others on XDA have successfully covnerted their 64gb cards to FAT32 without any issues.

Could it be a faulty batch of sd cards?.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerseykat1:
Is there any way that i can get Media stored on my phone such as .mkv movies to play on a TV. I am running CM9, i tried the dual boot option using siyah kernal and a stock secondary rom but, siyah kernal screws up the autobrightness on CM9.

Is there any other options for me, other than just run a stock rom? trying to put some movies on my phone to watch at a friends house.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3_:
I haven't tried other players, but using mx player on cm9 works fine with an mhl adapter to my tv.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerseykat1:
which version of CM9 are you using, because that doesnt work for me. which nightly?

i am using a universal mhl adapter that i picked up at tmobile, it works on stock rom but not on the CM9 nightly that i last tried.
[General Questions and Answers] Neo-Vortex:
First up, I tried to post this in "Android Software Development" but unfortunately don't have the minimum 10 posts required to do so and didn't really feel like spamming the forums to make the count. If a moderator could move this post for me it would be greatly appreciated.

On an Android 4.0+ device (ie, contains the USB Host APIs), you can write applications that interface with USB devices that don't require root. Unfortunately I'm working with a codebase that is in C using libusb and while I've gotten a prototype working in a terminal emulator, at this stage it seems to require root to actually talk to the devices (enumerating devices seems ok though).

I had a look at the Android NDK API list but didn't see any reference to USB Host APIs leading me to believe that the only ones that exist are the underlying Linux APIs. Is there a way (without bouncing all calls to the USB Host APIs through JNI, or rewriting the entire thing in Java) to access USB devices when in USB OTG mode without root from Android NDK code?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkim3691:
I'm completely new to Android and received my unlocked GSM Nexus today. So some details on what I did once I got the phone cause you guys will more than likely know better than me:

I rooted and then tried to OTA update to jellybean. Didn't work. Got the Android with the red exclamation mark. Downloaded a Jellybean ROM and flashed that. My friend tried to MMS me a pic from his T-Mobile SGS2. Just shows up as a blank white square. Played with the APN and added a few. Asked my sister (iPhone) to send me a pic and it works, but still can't receive my friends. Haven't asked anyone else yet to send me a pic. Could anyone please help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WiredPirate:
You should tell us the ROM that way if someone else is on it they might know if that's a bug. Also, most of these JB ROMs are still in early to moderate developmental stages and may have bugs. I know with Jelly Belly that I am running there is a new build every other day almost so check the thread for your ROM to see if there is a newer build available. I am not having a MMS problem that I know of, I recieved one today and one yesterday.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Emo113:
I have noticed the same thing as jkim3691. It only happens with only 2 of my friends so far (both on android, one with a Samsung galaxy S III and the other and older android). I have attached an image of what is happening. Just like jkim3691 said, you get a white square, and there's no options if you hold it or anything. I have also attached a screenshot of my system. The thing is I don't remember if it started happening after my JB update or it was also on ICS.

My phone is completely stock, no rooting, nothing, just straight outta Google Play store and all my updates have been OTA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reclaimercube:
stock too

Stock jellybean. GSM Unlocked Galaxy Nexus on ATT.

There has to be a solution to this crap.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iGoogleNexus:
Yeah I get those as well on some pics... meh

-Google
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrpbulk:
I have auto rotate on, I am

Typing in landscape now. But I notice when am looking at my main screen it only stays in portrait . Am I missing something? While using tapatalk Rican rotate between portrait and landscape nor issue
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kattara:
Do you mean the home screen? If yes, you would need to put it in tablet ui to have it landscape.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redmonke255:
Stock launcher doesn't rotate at this time.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
Yes, you are missing the hundred or so other threads about this.

The home screen does not rotate unless you use a different launcher or an app like rotation locker.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrpbulk:
Thanks for the civil response
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beano311:
This is probably a simple question, but how do you run fix permissions on the Fascinate? I can't seem to get it to work through recovery (Voodoo, CWM, or Devil) or ROM Manager.

Thanks
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidstyle:
boot into cwm recovery via power menu/advanced/fix permissions...
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beano311:
That doesn't work though. I've tried pretty much every recovery, cwm, voodoo kernel, devil kernel, all of them take 1 second to fix permissions and the fix permission log is empty, so they're not really doing anything. Fix permissions through rom manager just hangs. I know all the usual ways to run fix permissions, but none of them work...
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidstyle:
flash a different kernel version of devil or try the 6/27 skunkworks kernel HERE
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beano311:
Late response, but yeah, you're right. Latest Devils work great, thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] arthuritus:
Hi all,

Lots of threads on calendars out there but none address what I'm after.

Very specifically, I want an app/widget that allows me to show the next 7 days of my calendar graphically (note, next seven days not current week like some do) on my homescreen. I want it to be large enough that I can easily read the events on each day without having to click anything. It must not have any creepy permissions like some calendars I've looked at.

It seems so simple to me but none of the calendar things I've looked at so far let me do this!

The aCalendar widget comes close but the writing within each day is too small to read and it does current week not next seven days (ie if you are at the end of the week it shows the six previous days which is not useful!). The default calendar widget is pretty slick but it only shows the agenda as text, I can't just look and instantly see that a certain event is x amount of days from now. I've tried lots of others too but either they can't do what I want or I just haven't figured out how.

Yep so let me know if there is anything you might think will suit me. I don't mind paying if its reeeally good.

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akarol:
What is the procedure for doing so. Just got mine this afternoon and the audio is ridiculously low. I maxed it out, made sure not to block it, and I'm still having a hard time hearing videos from YouTube and other apps. Sigh.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiithepeng:
Like how low? My Nexus 7's sound is way lower than my SGS II. I think thats just how the speaker sounds.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoppySan:
The sound on mine is fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] asifrf:
Please help, I search tirelessly and could not find anything. I got the OTA update for JB yesterday on my GN. I was able to yesterday ask google voice search for "what is the weather tomorrow/do i need an umbrella..." and it worked gave me the weather card. However today when I do the same search it pulls up results from the web. This also happens when i try to set appointments "set an appointment for tomorrow at 8pm..." Has anyone come across this issue, if so let me know how I can resolve this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Maybe you changed a setting or something?. If nothing else try clearing data for VS and set it up again, hopefully that will solve your problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] asifrf:
Thanks, I found a setting in the GN General section (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740542&highlight=google+voice+search&page=2).

However, I am still unable to generate appointments. Could me having 2 google accounts be part of the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chuck1000rr:
You cannot set appoinments with google search

You cannot set appoinments with google search.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] woodspoon:
I'm currently running Calk's 2.9.1 GB ROM, and I'm interested in making the jump to ICS. Get-a-robot vpnc is a must for my work vpn. Anyone have any luck with running that on an ICS ROM? My attempts on earlier "leaked" ics TW ROMs didn't work out and was forced to jump back to Calk's GB. Thanks for any tips.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] amplatfus:
Get-a-robot vpnc

Hello woodspoon,

Please post if you have find the answer.

Have a nice day on.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] woodspoon:
Nice Timing

I just got something going last night as a matter of fact. In a nutshell, I was able to get a working VPN connection using the built-in VPN client with ParanoidAndroid 2.15 (based on CM10). Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1867283

I was also able to get connected using the VPNC app with a couple of other ROMs (re-calked 0.2.1, CM9 Beta 1) by creating my own /dev/net directory and giving it 777 permissions prior to starting VPNC (it was force closing every time prior to that change). However, I always got booted out soon after the connection was made in those instances due to an "INVALID_PAYLOAD" error.

I received a lot of help by trying suggestions in a Google Code page requesting an ipsec VPN client in stock android. The link to that is below, as well as three highlights from the page. Ultimately I used Option #1.

Good luck!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] amplatfus:
Thank you for updated reply.

But do you know if using stock 4.0.4 ICS on XT910 RAZR MAXX built in VPN client it this possible?

All the best.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] woodspoon:
No clue. According to Google's response, it should work. But in my experience it is a bit of a crapshoot. I'd suggest starting with the code feature request link I included above to set if anyone else has posted regarding that device. Or head to a store and just try it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] invisiblefire101:
I've bn wanting to buy an anker battery but is or will 200 mah+ make a big difference ?
[HTC Amaze 4G] ndp_singe:
Yes! But be careful cause many fake anker battery...
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
There's like 10% increase according to users who got it, so yeah it will, just not a majorly noticeable difference.
[HTC Amaze 4G] invisiblefire101:
Yeah I figured so then I'm not gonna buy one then I rather buy this attachable battery n case combo at tmobile for like 30+ $