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[Xperia Arc General] Devoct:
i agree on nothing beats GB at performance, but on battery life no,

on ICS battery life is great too(maybe better).

you should try CM7 too, smoothest experience i've ever had with my Arc. :highfive:
[Xperia Arc General] monstercable:
I've never bothered with CM7..I just guessed that stock firmware would be most compatible with hardware?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sgt. Pepper:
First post, hopefully someone will be able to answer some questions I've got.

I've previously had an HTC Desire and held off rooting it as I didn't feel I needed it. Towards the end of my contract I found I was running out of space but still held off rooting it incase I messed it up and rendered it bricked.

I've got a S3 16gb coming on Tuesday from UK Network Vodafone.

I've done a fair bit of researching in the last few days on this forum but just want a few things cleared up.

I'm aware I have to make sure I root using a guide for my version of phone. How would I find that out exactly? Is it going to be a network specific version or will 'International' cover it?

Once rooted I'm going to put Omega Mod on as it seems to be the one to go for. Will I still be able able to use all the features of the phone as standard (I'm thinking more along the lines of the play store and other things that require a sign in)

If I ever get bored of it or want an 'unrooted' phone again (if I were to sell it, or claim on warrenty for example), would I be able to flash back to my standard rom?

What are the main benefits/disadvantages to rooting and installing this particular rom?

Is there anything that will no longer work after rooting/flashing Omega?

Finally, is there ANYTHING else I need to take into consideration before beginning?

Thanks alot :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671969

[Guide+ROMS]Odin Flash+Root Guide & Stock Firmwares LE4/6/8/9/F/D, LF1/2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhendy91:
I will try and answer all your questions in the order you posted them.

1. Your device will be an international model so this guide will work and all the info you need to root and unroot is there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

2. I am presuming here you mean Omega ROM and not Omega Aosp, if so Omega ROM is a stock Samsung ROM so all features that work on stock will work on omega. To find out the differences between different types of ROMs I suggest going to this thread and looking at the different ROM descriptions under different settings.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674286

3.See the link in point 1. I smashed the screen of my first S3 and had to claim on insurance and this worked for me

4. This is a question that I cannot really answer as I feel it is specific to each person, however their are plenty of threads on XDA that answer this just use google or the seach bar.

5.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1663656 It looks stable and there are no bug reports in the OP (original post) so yes everything should be working but just in case before you flash any ROM always make a nandroid backup in recovery. (if unsure on nandroid backups seach XDA and google)

I think that answers all your questions but the best advice I can give you is to read and re-read every thing you can find on rooting and such. Like you I also had a desire before my S3 and before I rooted that I spent atleast a week reading around on various different forums about what to do. You need to be confident in what you are doing before you do it and know what is going on.

That way if something goes wrong you can provide as much info as possible and and get more help!

Hope this helped
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
Ok i got a white screen with Windows Mobile 6.5 after few days (with android/W7 imidiently).

The problem occured when i was cooking almost 40 celsius.

Maybe the solution can be to put some cooling paste on the radio or similar thing
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] miskownik:
Hi, can u say which old WM version u used ? I dont have bricked hd2 but instead of this my lcd doesnt show anything in first stages of boot, i mean i cant see tricolor screen (but can get into this with buttons), cant see magldr or clk, cant see cwm or anything until android (hyperdroid) boots up. Then it works perfect. Of course even if I cant see anything it works fine in background, even more, i can go into cwm and by pressing buttons do everything but... cant see the menus (luckily got help on xda and i know menu structure). Anyway, I spoke to guy in mobile service point, who said that some time ago he had the same situation, his hd2 got exactly the same weird problem and he solved it my installing some old WM roms. Unfortunately it was long time ago and he didnt remembered versions. But he said it happened to him after playing with some 3rd party camera software and for him it was like lcd locked itself in specific resolution. I'm more than happy to try your solution if u can provide WM version u used, as i already tried few and... nothing. Thx
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
I used the newest version of WM 6.5 3.14 / 2.15.50.14 it worked for days(i have not used the phone but it was on without simcard). Afther few days i inserted the SIM card inside the phone and then after few minutes maybe half an hour the white screen appeard again :(

Now i will try the 1.66.405.2 version with 2.06.51.7 radio hope it works with the sim card :( or i will have a bad MP3 player
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
Problem still open :(

The phone works for days when i leave it in my room and don't use it (need to test it with a sim card).

But when i take it out in my pocket it just turns of and can't be turned on. I take the battery out and put it in and the famouse white screen appears and i can't flash it anymore (i can eneter the bootloader - voldown+power) but when i try to update the rom it hangs and restarts.

Had the same problem few times and the white screen disapears after a while(few days), the HTC logo appears and i can flash the phone again.

I have a feeling the phone is "more alive" when i use WM 6.5 old version (on android and WP7 the white screen appears after few minutes but i am not sure).

Next time(when the white screen goes away) i will try to flash WM6.5 and leave it with the simcard for a few days. If it does't go into white screen then it's a contact problem on the hardware (and it's triggered when i walk)

i tried to put it into the fridge but it did not work
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] miskownik:
i tried latest wm rom but it doesnt work, i can hear sound when its loaded but nothing on screen, pressing power off it just keeps black and then lights up display .... thats it. Weird but with android on board i works fine after boot sequence, just have to press power off 4times. Tried to load WM from SD card but for some reason I cant do it properly (heard thats only way to get rid of HSPL and have clean install), phone just hangs, maybe some error but my display is not showing anything at this point :) Starting installer from PC gives loads up WM rom succesfully, but as I mentioned before, screen just lights up, music is playing and ..... nothing. Maybe You can try this way ?

If not, you could try following :

using mtty do some task 2a and task29 then reinstall

or

try find someone who could plug JTAG into it and wipe everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroEPU4qyuM

Mine is proably hardware, but why its fine on android and not with WM ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
It's definitely a hardware problem. When the whitescreen appears it can't be removed with flashing. i leave the phone for a few days off and than again the mobile phone boots without problems !

The phone works for days when i leave and don't touch it, but as soon as i put it in my pocket and wear it with me for about half an hour the screen gets white againt and the phone does't boot anymore(for days or more).

so definitely it's a circuit or component problem, I will try to fix it with hot air(to refresh the definitely or to break the pohone :( but i'ts my last solution)

Would a motherboard change help ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mihaif78:
Please help me, I have the same problem with my hd2 (white screen). I can not install anything on it. Tell me please, you solved the problem? Remove the battery when you leave a few days?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
It just unfreezes at random. I found out that when installing windows mobile 6.5 and when it's winter that it works longer :|

For now it works when i install android it freezes after a day or two (in winter and almost imedietly in sommer)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
I haven't read your previous posts, but from your last post it seems that your motherboard is failing. A common issue with the HD2.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cruonit:
i try to live with it :) Could "hot air" hack for short circuit help ? I will try it as soon as i find some one that has the "hot air" thing
[General Questions and Answers] vlt96:
This is not phone related, but I am lost...(question 2 is also below)

Does anyone know a command on c++ that makes like the python "def...():#sequence here" ?

I need to make that sequence start whenever I put "..()" (hope you got me)

I need this because I am doing a mini rpg and I have problems with variables on python... if I assign them a value and then I use them in the "sequence", they are somehow forgotten, same if I make them global inside that sequence...

So here comes question 2:

How do I make ALL variables shared in all classes and all def stuff in one program?(python)
[General Topics] che7425:
I apologize in advance, since I know people have asked questions similar to this already. But I am desperate for help, as I have been trying to fix my phone for 3 days now, and have not gotten anywhere!!! so here is my story/problem.

I was trying to do an update on my samsung showcase (cspire) using kies, and during the download it was interrupted somehow. The phone was bricked. (i think) so then I found something called one-click unbrick. after that i'm able to put the phone in download or recovery mode.

So i have been trying to get factory rom back on my phone. I downloaded odin3 v1.70 and v1.82 (i have tried both of these) and i have downloaded atlas 2.2 for pit and I have tried both EH09_modem_CS.TAR.MD5 and EI20.tar.md5\EI20.tar.md5. Everytime I do this odin freezes on factoryyfs.rfs.... I have tried all the tricks I can find, different usb port, diff cable, running as admin, i even download sandboxie ( someone suggested that)... I dont know if i am doing something wrong, or if it is odin... Also, i'm not rly sure about the software i'm using... I have very little experience with this kind of stuff, but i am really determined to fix this! please forgive my ignorance! TIA!!
[General Topics] AshtonTS:
Try flashing a custom rom and boot.img first then Odin back to stock
[General Topics] che7425:
I've been trying to find one, you don't happen to have a link to where I can find one do you?? Also can i do this using odin, the same way I have been trying to get the stock on there?? Thanks for you help!!
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Burninh2o:
I am updating HP Touchpad from more than a month old nightly to the LATEST.

I would like to know what else besides the latest nightly should I install in addition? :confused:

Thank you
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colin_404:
Just the latest nightly . Dont get addons or fixes for nightlys.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] zziggy:
Here's a free idea for someone.

I remember seeing this somewhere in the old days for some device. A little mini periscope - 2 mirrors, snaps onto the top of the Nexus 7 allowing you to use the front camera as a backside camera.

Anyone know what device someone made that for a few years ago?

Oh I remember now. It was the opposite. Brought the back camera to the front for skype.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] ExploreMN:
Sure wouldn't be difficult to modify this DIY deal...

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157603981196939/

Shows it for a OLPC setup, but it's pretty generic.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] akarol:
Please tell me you guys are kidding. This is beyond dumb. Are you really going to go through all of this for a 1.3MP camera? Wow.

Sent from my amazing Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] upstandingcitizen:
Calm down, don't harsh their mellow.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] bkmaracas:
I made one, before I got the device in fact! though my idea was to use one little mirror to make the cam "up-facing" so when held flat it was forward facing and you could review and frame up the view.

Not obtrusive and when I get a non scratched little mirror it'll go in the accessory bag. It flips the image horizontally so left is right etc but not a prob ,

For many folk an option like that that is small and slots on top could be handy for video calls where you need to show folk what's going on in front of you or the odd pic. Not a matter for mockery!

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Accessories] californiarailroader:
Do you mean burn their Marshmallows? :D I've never heard "Harsh their mallow". Speaking of Marshmallows, YUMM!-

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/Smores/Smores.htm
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Rock-&-Roll-Hedgehog:
I think it is a good idea.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Nxxx:
I don't have a need for a front facing camera, but it would definitely be nice to have.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Landara:
Why can't you just turn the device around? Jesus.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] clockcycle:
I have such a mod/device on my Nexus 7, some call it a cell phone camera. :silly:

I wonder if you can plug in a usb webcam and get it to work.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] ExploreMN:
You are so no fun...
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Cl8rs:
I don't, think that will work....

But I'm going to try it...

EDIT: Yeah, it didn't even light up...
[Nexus 7 Accessories] zziggy:
Can't see what you are doing. Might want to scan a bar code or something. Plus we're only talking about a $2 accessory.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] frigidazzi:
There was a company doing this for the Nexus One. I remember being very interested in it, but then realized no one I knew at the time had phones with a FFC to video chat anyways; so I didn't buy it.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] californiarailroader:
Most do now, and I still don't do video chat :D Heck, it's been around since the 1960's, but so far it's still having a hard time getting off the ground.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] sadoway:
the case.

build it into a usb case
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord_Xovon:
Just randomally goes to lock screen? Even when using the device I have my screen timeout for two mins but this random ally happens sometime twice less then a minute.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord_Xovon:
I believe I found out what's causing it.. lol I am wearing a magnetic ring and when I touch near the bottom left on the back it turns the display off weird?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord_Xovon:
So apparently its supossed to do that with magnets like in a case but works with my ring kinda cool.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billy_buroo:
Had the same problem. Used to fold the front of my case behind the tablet to use Kindle app for example then realised the magnets were causing the screen to lock. Was driving me nuts for a while and I was all ready to return the tablet to the store. All's well now though :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alexmason:
Battery Life

Description:

What kind of battery life are you getting? Do you enjoy your battery life, or is your battery life killing you?

What is the longest time you have had your battery on without charge? Answer all these question for the

XDA community to see! Whether your a POWER user, or your a conservative user, we want to hear from you

and what your thoughts are! Let us know whether you are rooted or not and let us know if you have heavy

unusual drain. We want to know it all!

Rules:

Please refrain from posting about the "Cell Standby" issue unless it relates to actual battery drain.

Follow all forum rules!​
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
I'm def a heavy user so I usually get between 12-14hrs out of my battery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stevessvt:
Maybe the better pole would be screen time? I get at least 4 hours of on screen time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
I am on the stock ROM. Most of the time i can manage 1 - 3 hours of screen time and 8-12 hours of battery life. Its not terrible but my 2 year old iPhone 3GS seemed to manage better when playing music. I use my phone at work and listen to music for about 6 hours a day with power amp. I also live in a heavy LTE area so most of the time I am on LTE and no wifi which just kills the battery. No power saving either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dwibbles33:
I get about 4 hours of screen on time. I feel like that's not a lot though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
Finally broke the 5hr screen time plateau!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LIGHTSOUT225:
I'm a pretty HEAVY user. I typically use is in WiFi, but I'm browsing and messaging a LOT and still constantly messing around with customizations since its brand new for me, and I can get about 20 hours out of it.

Not rooted. Apex Launcher Pro. No data-grubbing widgets.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] llfloyd79:
I can't complain about this battery at all. This is some light to moderate use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] leo876:
Light to moderate use yielded this!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] superhtchd2:
im running the blazer rom v1.6 , im getting 14-16hrs of heavy use and usually have about 20% left at the end of the day before putting back on the charger and going to bed. wifi and bluetooth on all day also.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trafalger888:
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This was with moderate use for me...even with heavy use I get well over 14 hours and that's in an area with pair signal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duxup:
Moderate use 14 to 16 hours. I usually kill it while in bed playing with it.

Having said that I find heavy camera usage will kill it quite fast and I will have to recharge mid day. It feels abnormally fast but hard to say for sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aiguofer:
Wow... how are some of the moderate users getting more than 14 hrs? When I don't use it much I get 24 hrs easy, using JuiceDefender and FreeGS ROM.. If I use it moderately it gets ~12, if I stream music from Pandora for around 4 hours it lasts <10
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mkropf:
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I got 6 hours and 21 minutes screen on time by 1%.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dmx0rz:
Guys, I saw this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1777226

And yes, I take the subway (to get to work) everyday and notice my battery drains quite rapidely afterwards (7h am to 16h pm without any usage, mainly standby). On weekends, my battery seems to do much better (15-20h moderate usage).

Today I was at 60% at 12h32pm and then 46% at 13h42 without any usage (lte and wifi on, stand by). I rebooted my SG3 at 13h55 while I was at 43%, since then much better, I'm at 40% at 15h12pm.

Anybody experiencing something similar ??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] radiohead14:
?? i assume you have some extended battery of some sort? i find this hard to believe that's it from one charge, unless you barely use your phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnM:
One time I got 7 hours 30 min of screen on time on stock battery. I was mostly using an app to browse Reddit and it had a black background. Plus, my brightness was 1%. I would post it but I don't have a screenshot of it.

Sent from my Sprint SGS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xstayxposix:
Best battery life on any of my Samsung phones.

Light use, been out with friends. But did a bit of navagation with maps, some forum browsing and quite a bit of texting. But I have to say, much better battery life than the SGS2.:thumbup:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DCRocks:
Best battery life of all my Samsung phones so far.

Lasts all day, even with leaving data and WiFi on.

Have to say I am pretty impressed, given battery life of the SGS2 and SGS1.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dmurray074:
I am very impressed with the battery life on the phone! I work in an area with little to no service so my phone searches for signal all day. I usually spend about 10 hours at work a day and with moderate use I have enough battery to last all day. If I turn WiFi on phone stops searching and get even better battery life. This is the best phone I have had for battery life. I'm on t-mobile.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tarphoun:
I usually do 2 days in power saving mode. Depending on usage off course.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] k0t0g:
I usually get about 18 hours of heavy usage out of my i535. I was pretty stoked about it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Cicatrize:
14-16 hours here. I usually get just over 3 hours of screen on time, but I play a lot of games and keep wifi and bluetooth on all day. It's not bad, but I'd really like a custom kernel to help out a bit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aiguofer:
Do you guys all run the screen at the lowest level? I get maybe 2 hrs screen time..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Desterly:
I've been averaging about 60-75% after almost 20+ hrs.

Last weekend my wife had unplugged the charger from the wall and I didn't notice.. scared the hell out of me about 6hrs into th enext day when it was at 50% but once I figured out what was going on i was better.

In the end after 2 days off the charger I still had around 28% life.

Granted this was pretty mild use on the device outside of some casual web browsing but still good IMHO
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jaymattt:
I'm on SynergyROM v1 (not v1.1) and my battery life isn't as good as it was when I was stock rooted. The most I've gone without charging on light to moderate use is about 26 hours. With heavy usage my battery lasts about 10-14 hours. Coming from a DX with a horrible battery, especially towards the end, this is pretty sweet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tcb4:
If I get 16 hours on battery ill usually get about 3 hours of screen time. I watch a lot of YouTube and listen to pandora so that's definitely not bad. I don't use power saving mode and 4G and wifi are always on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
My battery life is ****.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Pagaldesi4life:
I get about 9-10 hrs on a single charge with average use. I always use wifi, bluetooth off, screen 40%, mostly surf web, text and some phone calls 1-1.5hrs. Screen takes up the most at around 35%. Nothing else stands out that seems to be draining the battery. I wonder what it could be.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Morocotopo0301:
I get close to 24 hours with mild use, not bad coming from a nexus and barely getting 12 with almost no use
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] majixx11:
I usually get at least 14 hours on a full charge. My longest so far was about 26 hours. I usually always have power save mode on since I don't notice much of a performance drop. Besides the screen, most of my drain comes from pandora/iheartradio or a random game like zenovia. I recently applied a script to moderate both the CPUs so we will see how that affects it. Did a full 0-100% charge last night and I'm going to watch my usage and see how long it will last today. The battery life on this thing is amazing as it is!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Josolanes:
About 6.5hr here. Lots of Pandora, surfing the Web, screen on almost constantly, no power saving mode just auto brightness, stock battery, and overclocked to 1.9 with setcpu profiles to throttle the cpu to 384 screen off and limit it when in call. Screen on or charging the phone is 384/1900 low/high with msm-dcvs and sio

I'm very happy with the battery life on this phone