yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] michoscopic:
Remember to flash Google Apps first, in case you don't already have it (i.e. if you've just flashed a new ROM without GA)
[Android Apps and Games] Jurolino:
Thanks for waking up the dead

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akhilez:
hey guys, i need a recommendation for a rom, one that is stable and good with battery life, i'm running phantom rom but sucks in battery, stock had more battery life than this and also tried cm9 but i changed cuz of a problem i don't remember :(, i'm asking this cuz i don't have much free time so i hope to find useful answers here, and tell me why you you think is the best rom, thank you in advance.

PS. this is for my wife's phone and she loves purple, i have an EVO 4G 2010 running swag & cm7 v2.5. :good:

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] g_ding84:
there are many. its all personal preference. I don't know about purple roms but there is Blu Kuban, stable, good battery life from what I've seen.

M'ICS is stable more of a teal color rom. sleshepic's new kernel is very battery friendly. and HoOliGaN RoM is stable as well. Its a red color rom. Agat63 kernel is good on battery as well. you could run FF18 stock rooted with sleshepic's or agat's kernel with like Go Launcher and use a purple theme. I know they have one, search the market (go launcher themes). so its all up to you. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rovar:
Someone just released a girly themed ICS not 3 days ago, aaaand found it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1790616
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] g_ding84:
Nice. Didn't know about that and I'm on here everyday. Lol thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] willjr0k5:
I would recommend calkulins 4.0.4 rom. I get almost a full days battery life. Also run his battery saver script after applying the rom. I don't recall if its automatically applied.

Here's the rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1527041
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akhilez:
COOL

few replies, i'll try them out as soon as i have the time, i hope those kernels do the charm too, that girly rom seems nice, i'm sure my wife will love it, i hope i can get more replies too, thanks guys.

edit:

i checked blu kuban and didn't convince me, then hoOligan and there is not enough info on the OP, i couldn't find m'ics.

the girly rom is not convincing me either, i'll try the kernels with some rom later.

hey very nice OP, a lot of info there, pretty old rom but people respond well to it even after so long, i will try this rom for sure :)

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THANK YOU FOR THE HELP :)

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any1 else want to contribute to the post?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] g_ding84:
here's the link to M'ICS. I know Sleshepic has up a lot of work into his rom. lately with he's new kernels.

link M'ICS: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740101
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
I was going to recommend a rom, but then my eyes started to bleed from your all caps title.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akhilez:
Yeh, i was at work and i use CAPs here so didn't noticed, my bad for that :crying: non of those but the girly one is good for my girl, i'm still looking for something a lil more efficient.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
I like how well emoji work with iOS devices and would like to not have to rely on the spotty Handcent add on to see them in texts. Any ideas as to how I could build them in to the phone's /system/font (probably here) partition so that they're native? I'd like them to work across the phone, not just sometimes in Handcent. Support for Twitter and the like would be a great addition.

Sure, some/most of you will think it's stupid/useless/dumb etc., but when how many friends have iPhones, I'd like it to "just work". Haha!

Thanks for advice! I plan on tackling this myself or with the help of others who may be interested, I just don't know where to get the images and encoding info to build into a font, or how to build a font.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
Ok, just by decompiling the Handcent Plugin, I now seem to have all of the drawable and drawable-hdpi emoji images... Now, how does encoding work?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Im running AOKP and it has native emoji support. I had to enable it in the settings. I don't know if that helps you any but, just saying.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
D3 ICS AOKP or on the GNex? (Weren't you one who got a GNex?) I could download that and dig through it to see where it might be contained.

I'm downloading M6 from AOKP now to look around. Your specific build would be nice as well. Is it just text support or device wide (Twitter etc.)?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
D3(xt860) i wish i had a gnex. It's the 20120713 nightly. It's only the mms.apk. Whatsapp also has it if you want another app to poke through.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
I feel like there needs to be something in the system of the phone that whenever the coding is encountered for an emoji, it's pointed directly to the corresponding image. Does anyone know how they're encoded/decoded? Isn't it Unicode?

This should help a lot...

http://punchdrunker.github.com/iOSEmoji/table_html/
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
I don't know if it helps but in /system/lib there is a file called libemoji.so (note I've changed roms again, this is in liberty I found this.) Not sure if other roms have it, or if it's even relevant, but with a name like that...
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
I'm trying to talk to the guys in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1522437&page=2 because they've got black/white emoji to appear with the font being edited. Now, can we just point the font to colored emoji...? Time to spend some more time researching and trying. Ideally, I'd want to make it a flashable add-on so that it works universally.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
The greatest bit of advice I can give is to start here - Nexus 7 - and read read read!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
There's no backup and restoring the entire system without root. When you do you can install a custom recovery. Note there is always a stock recovery that is far limited compared to recoveries such as CWM.

Android really doesn't have problems with viruses. Seriously. The only reason why it appears so is because idiots sideload apps from shady sites that contain viruses, but on iOS there is no sideloading without jailbreak.

For a file managing app, you can use Explorer (my preferance), ES File Explorer, or Astro.

Widgets are really personal preferance, I keep a music widget to quickly play music, a calendar widget, weather widget. You might want a news widget like Flipboard.

Rooting gives you full access to your device. It allows performance gains like overclocking, battery saving with underclocking. Like I said before, it opens to ability to backup/restore entire systems and individual apps with Titanium Backup. You can install customs ROMs, delete system apps (usually bloatware), remap the physical keys, use Tasker for automated tasking (pretty awesome btw). You can also edit system files, such as notification tones, ringtones, bootanimation, etc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rashed97:
Welcome to Android!

I think you'll enjoy it

Ok on to your questions:

These are gonna be out of order :P

Reliable anti-virus: Trend Micro Mobile Security (worth the $10 :P )

Benefits of CWM: Backups, restores, custom ROM flashing

Benefits of rooting: custom ROMs, access to system files

Some apps to get started: Angry birds :P , Rom Manager, BatteryCalibration, ES File Manager, imo

Android's alternative to iTunes' restore is CWM. It's not official but its tons better then iTunes. You do it from the device and its a full, complete restore.

Ask again if I didn't answer something ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
Very long post :p BUT a few things to think about.

I have never used a antivirus software and really they are pointless just look at the apps before you download them read the comments and look at the permissions the app uses and think "does that fart noise app need to be able to send texts" of cause the answer is no so don't install it.

Other fractures can be useful like phone tracking but there are better apps that are free for this like prey.

If you root you will have full control of your filesystem much like su on Linux if you have ever used this. You could for example with root use my project to run Linux distros like Ubuntu. The nexus 7 due to being under googles power is very easy to unlock and root and if you mess something up easy to restore a backup. There are other great apps to like being able to back up apps and there data.

Just a few points and if you have more questions feel free to pm me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oscar-Mark:
AVG or Avast antivirus are the best.

Solid Explorer is the best file explorer.

UCCW is the most customizable widget.

Taptu or Pulse are the best news readers.

Pocket.

Tapatalk forum.

MX player is the best video player.

Dropbox is by far the best cloud storage.

Photoshop.

PowerAMP is the best Music Player.

I would say that you don't need to root a Nexus Device. You got the latest OS and will always have.

The only reason you would wanna root is for some root apps.

Like Titanium Backup, AdBlocker and ROM Toolbox.

CWM is only necessary if you want to flash a custom ROM and you don't need to because you already have AOSP Jelly BEAN.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konflict1471:
Thanks for all of the responses! And apologies for the long post! xD

I'll look through the Nexus 7 forums as XperienceD mentioned.

And by ClockWordMod - is that actually ROM Manager? I'm confused, and this is probably the most noobish question you'll get. xD

Since I don't really want to root my Nexus 7 (currently, that is) - then I would not really need to back up the data, since, there will be no risk. I'm not really concerned about overclocking my device - it's quite fast as it is. However, battery saving is quite tempting. Although, I don't see it as a reason alone to root my Nexus. And, as it is stock Google - there is no unnecessary bloat ware attached to the device.

And I can't get viruses while browsing through the internet?

I always thought that was the case, which is why I was looking for an anti-virus application.

Also, for UCCW - do I need to install a custom launcher of some sort? Is it really possible to add a widget, that appears complicated, simply through the Google Play market? o_O

And finally, while installing ES File Explorer - I noticed that it had permission to remove shortcuts without user intervention. Is this the sort of permission I should be checking for on other applications? Since people on this forum recommended the app, I didn't really have any doubts of whether it was legit.3.

Also, how you I get toggles back on the notification bar? On iOS (sorry for the repeated mentioning of the scum :P) - I had SBSettings, which was similar to the notifications available on Android. How would I add the toggles back?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
It is a custom recovery which lets you backup your ROM, flash new ROMs and make other changes to your device (so in a way use it is a ROM manager)

This is true if you have a nexus device the need for root is far less, and the fact that alot of apps that used to need root have become features in new versions of android, back in the days of 1.5/6 you needed root to pretty much do anything good

Sure you might get windows viruses but in no way will they beable to run on your device let aloan harm it. The only way anything evil can be done is if you install the app (and in alot of cases give it root) so check those permissions!

anti-virus apps are the biggest scam (well paid one anyway) all they can really do is check a database of known bad apps and check it its there, other than that they do nothing. They are a trick from all the Windows users coming to android after having it hammered into them that you need anti-virus

Nope just add the widget to your home creen, in the app launcher press the widget button and then long press on the widget you want and drag it to the home screen you want, many apps include widgets so will be installed with the app as part of it (e.g twitter) while other 'apps' are just widgets

There is likely a good reason for this (And with alot of apps if there is a odd permissions it will say in the apps description why its needed) but yes its the kind of thing you have to stop and think about

to add toggles you would either need to use a custom ROM, or download a app that will do it like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.notificationToggle&hl=en
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konflict1471:
Thanks very much for your detailed and extremely helpful reply! :D

I'll just do what you recommended! The Notification Toggle is an extremely impressive app, I must admit.

Since there is no point downloading a paid antivirus, should I download Avast Anti-virus (since it's free), just for precautionary measures?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
Well its not going to hurt and would at least prevent an app thats bad be installed if you missed it. And like I said some do have some nice other features just the "anit-virus" side of it is rather pointless
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oscar-Mark:
There is a huge thread with skins for UCCW.

And Power Widgets or Notification Toggles are the best Notification Drawer toggle apps.

NT has customizable icons.

If you want weather too there's some new app called Deluxe Notification Bar which shows weather and toggles.

Look in the Nexus 7 forums for no-root battery saving advice.

And if you do not want battery drain don't use Anti-virus.

I've never had any virus problems.

If you're unrooted they can't really mess with your phone.

Just stay away from creepy apps, Chinese apps (no racist), piracied apps and apps from other than Play Store and XDA.

And never play ad-supported games.

Buy ad-free versions or play offline if you don't want battery drain.

Also SwiftKey is a MUST, if you're not happy with Jelly Bean keyboard.
[General Questions and Answers] jfmessier:
On my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, I installed the main new CM10 ROM, as recently announced, and although I had some problems, it now works fine. However, as I was trying to transfer a ZIP file that I did not properly transfer the first time, I discovered that the card reader does not seem to be detected at all when I connect it to the tablet. Also, the tablet, which uses the same port seems to be only partially working. For example, the Home and Back keys do not seem to work at all, although the equivalent buttons on the display seem to be OK.

Are there other things I should do once I have the new ROM installed ? I was trying to get the Google Apps ZIP file tr-transferred to the internal /sdcard partition so I can install all those goodies.
[General Questions and Answers] devcon69:
Try to ask the developer of the rom, he/she has the answers. Or maybe revert to stock rom if you really need to those functions.
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Hi,

I've brought a desire cheap as a temporary phone while my sensations off being repaired (Smashed screen!) It came with a CM7 ROM installed which i'm not keen on, so i'm attempting to flash the RUU_Bravo_O2_UK_1.20.207.1_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_124865 from the RUU thread on here. However, it gets about 3 minutes in, then on my laptop says "ERROR [110]: FILE OPEN ERROR. The Rom Update Utility cannot open the requested files or the files are damaged.

The phone stays a black screen with a white warning symbol in each corner, rebooting into recovery has the following information:

AlphaRev CM7 r2

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-4.06.00.02_2

[1]SPLASH 1 - OK

[2]USERDATA - OK

[3]SYSTEM - FAIL-PU

[4]RECOVERY - OK

[5]RADIO_CUST - OK

[6]RADIO_V2 - OK

[7]BOOTLOADER - Bypassed

[8]BOOT - OK

Partition update fail!

Update fail!

I've tried downloading the RUU 3 times, and get the same trouble each time. Can anyone help? (I can't post this in development as i'm a n00b still...)
[Desire General] nlooooo:
You have cm7r2 hboot which gives you only 145MB for system partition and RUU requires stock partition table (250MB for system).

Flash alpharev stock hboot via fastboot, it can be obtained here:

alpharev.nl

After that run RUU, it should work perfectly.

Plus:

Reconsider using some other RUU the one you used is history old. Try with 2.3 RUU.
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Thanks for that, i'm used to my sensation for flashing ROMs etc, i've just read up on this phone as I didn't realise there is different hboots to make different file tables! :)
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
OK, i've tried to use both alpharev and revolutionary, when I downloaded the img file for alpharev I can't get it to load, when I mount it, it just loads a folder with no executables, and revolutionary just sits on waiting for device?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
have u got the drivers installed on ur computer for ur phone for Revolutionay ?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] colin_404:
What r u trying to mount it on, a virtual drive on ur pc??
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Hi,

Yeah, i've tried installing them but nothing seemed to happen, i've gone in to device manager and changed drivers so instead of "My HTC" it now shows as "Android Bootloader Interface" but it still sits on "Waiting for device." Are there any ROMS that use the CM7 r2 available as a RUU package?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
lol i just read the first post, sorry my bad. u r s-off and have CM7r2 hboot. if u dont like CM rom why not just flash another instead of going completely stock and s-on?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
I was going to just install the RUU for now but that might have been a better idea before starting lol... Unless I can get either revolution to work so I can reflash a recovery or a RUU..
[Desire General] jmcclue:
http://4ext.net/

ur s-off so ur good to go.

go here, download the updater app and install it then flash recovery from within the app. go to Desire Android Development and pick a rom that u like and il help u flash it if u need help :)

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
The link above is for a .apk file, as I said in the first post the phones stuck on a black screen with HTC in the middle and white warning icons in each corner...
[Desire General] jmcclue:
lol my bad again. ul have to flash stock hboot from alpharev via fastboot commands then run the 2.3 ruu like nloooo says. instructions r on the alpharev site, also u could use "Android Flasher" to flash hboot

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] jmcclue:
http://alpharev.nl/

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Thanks for that, downloaded android flasher - which partition do I flash the hboot file to?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
with android flasher ur phone has to be in fastboot mode, plug in ur phone so it says fastboot usb, then with android flasher pick bootloader and find the alphrev stock hboot (img) file u downloaded and flash

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Problem is when I plug the USB in, even doing the vol down + power press brings me this...
[Desire General] jmcclue:
rite so ur stuck in ruu mode. android flasher should still work coz u can still use fastboot commands. try flash the stock hboot img with android flasher. turn off phone then hold back button + power, that brings u to fastboot

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
I've tried that, and got the following:

C:\Users\Phil\Desktop\Android_AIO_Flasher\tools>fastboot flash boot "C:\Users\Phil\Downloads\bravo_alphaspl.img"

sending 'boot' (512 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.098s]

writing 'boot'...

C:\Users\Phil\Desktop\Android_AIO_Flasher\tools>

FAILED (remote: image error! (BootMagic check fail))

finished. total time: 0.099s
[Desire General] jmcclue:
ul have to try with fastboot commands instead, here r the commands - fastboot flash hboot C:\bravo_alphaspl.img

put the bravo_alphaspl.img directly into ur C drive then run command

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Thanks for that - took me a second to realise I needed a cmd prompt but its sorted now :D
[Desire General] jmcclue:
sorted as in ur problem is solved?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] philcrumpler:
Yeah, its sorted now thanks :)
[Desire General] jmcclue:
cool

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] h4xor1911:
Can anybody give me a recommendation for a gio rom which has got good battery life (sorry for bad english)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] warface123:
xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1683638 this is a good rom with good battery and speed
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] wojtek267:
Stock based roms have pretty good battery life
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] racer321:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1659450

I found this ROM to have pretty good battery life, it also depends on the setting you use for your CPU

I use the one Provided by Matz69
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] profitseak:
maclaw rom has good battery life
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] fsynee:
Light Orange? good battery life? i don't think so, i've tried it before, battery drains fast. I recommend you this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1708383
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] bdasmith:
try the latest ROM from squadzone - cyanmobile eXperience.

I am seeing great results with it :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] galaxyskaram:
Hi guys .. at first im new here so how are you all .. 2nd sorry for my bad english ! ..

how can i enter download mood my phone is fully bricked it wont turn on .. i cant enter download mood by pressing the 3 buttons ..

i'll try the usb JIG as my last hope (also i'm sure its not gonna work) if u guys couldn't help me .. THNX
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ibaz:
hi buddy.

first download mode is accessed by <down volume + home button + Power button>.

if you don't mind, can you elaborate how you ended up having bricked your phone so as to give as an idea and other options for the solution of your problem? also, there is another thread which can help you, just refer to the solutions posted by other members here. here you go:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1796152

cheers, :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] galaxyskaram:
thanks man :) i'll get my usb JIG today .. hope it works
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
So, let me guess.. You flashed a firmware from i9000, right?

If so, try the USB Jig, if it doesn't work, search for anybody offering JTAG services in your area, or take it to the samsung service center, no other options really.. you messed the bootloader up.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bscraze:
A usb JIG shouldn't help, maybe a JTAG will.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tchindalia:
Hey

I have a X8 with CM7 installed(2.3.5)

I am unable to upgrade it to 2.3.7..as im unable to flash the required kernel..

I really would like to have ics on my phone

Cheers
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
Yes, but...what's the problem? You can't unlock the bootloader? Or Flashtool throws error?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obaidshera:
u must unlock ur bootloader in order to get the custom kernel but 1st be sure that ur x8 unlock-able there is an issue of watt.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidx8:
What kind of cm7 do you use?

Did you unlock your bootloader?

Did you install the latest Flashtool?

Do you have the latest nAa ics kernel in /flashtool/firmwares?

If you didn't unlock your bootloader, then you have to check the manufacturing date. If it's 11w29>, you can unlock the bootloader. Once you unlocked using Flashtool you have to download latest nAa ics kernel and move the .ftf into /flashtool/firmwares. Then you have to download the latest MiniCM or ISDX or ParanoidAndroid zip with latest gapps-ics. Copy the 2 zips to the root of your SD and flash latest nAa kernel with Flashtool. Then go to recovery, full wipe, flash the ROM that you downloaded and latest gapps-ics. Reboot. Done!

Hit Thanks if I helped!