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[Off-topic] Archer:
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[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galace3:
Hello XDAdevelopers community,

first of all, thank you for these very useful Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 forums! Before starting this thread, I have extensively searched the forums for an answer, but could not found a relevant solution. I could only find a guide with rooting options for Ace on the Mac here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1550854 but this is only a small part of the solution for my problem.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 mobile phone, running Android Version 2.2.1, Build number FROYO.XWKA9. I would very much like to update to the latest officially available firmware, then root my phone and afterwards be able to install a Custom ROM. I would like to install preferably a CyanogenMod7-based ROM, because I have read that there are problems with the Camera of Galaxy Ace phones in connection with CyanogenMod9-based ROMs. I found a Custom ROM (Miui Style CM7.2 RC0) that I would like to try: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1413400

My problem: I have a Macintosh computer only, running Mac OS X Version 10.5.8. I have installed Samsung Kies version 1.3.0.12072_17 for Mac, but it cannot recognize the Galaxy Ace - there are several websites mentioning that Samsung Kies for Mac does not have driver support for Samsung Galaxy Ace...

My questions:

1) Is there a way to update Samsung Galaxy Ace from 2.2 to stock 2.3 on the MAC (Samsung Kies for Mac obviously does not recognize a connected Galaxy Ace)?

2) Is it true, that CyanogenMod7-based custom ROMs can be installed ONLY on a rooted Android version 2.3.x (but not on a rooted 2.2.x)?

3) Could you please recommend a MIUI style custom ROM for Ace, based on cm-7.2.0-cooper STABLE release?

Thank you very much in advance for any useful reply!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shaaan:
1. Try to reinstall the drivers for the phone. KIES should work.

2. Yes. You need to be rooted.

3. Why don't you try MIUI4 or MIUI GB by TeamCooper?

Its an original port..

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galace3:
Hello Shaaan, thank you very much for your reply!

According to 1) Could you please give a link where I can download and reinstall the KIES drivers for Samsung Galaxy Ace? Have you managed to connect successfully a Samsung Galaxy Ace with Kies on a Macintosh computer? On my Mac, Kies constantly shows "Notification: This device is not supported by Kies.", I have enabled USB debugging on my mobile. Should I try a previous version of Kies, I have Kies 1.3.0.12072_17 so far.

According to 2) I plan to install the stock 2.3 first, then root, then install a Cyanogen7.2-based Custom ROM.

According to 3) Please post a link to the latest MIUI4 and MIUI GB by TeamCooper. Are these the latest releases of

* MIUI GB http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1586773

* MIUI 4 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674079

or there are newer versions? I suppose that MIUI4 is CyanogenMod9-based, is the camera bug fixed?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you still can't update on kies for Mac, go to any Samsung shop and ask them to update it.

MIUI4 does have the camera bug.

CM9 now has a working camera with preview but the camera app has no options other than to take a pic. No video recording yet.

Sent from the cracked screen of my GALAXY Ace.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unosison:
Hi, I'm new to android, so a little help would go a long way!

Anyway, I have a rooted GS3 running CriskeloRom v5.3 and DarkKnightS3 v1.0 kernel.

I have noticed that everytime that I try to flash a new rom or a different kernel (like Omega and let's say Siyah), my phone won't seem to connect to my mac via Android file transfer.

Is this app or the connection kernel or rom specific? For the only kernels that I have used that allows my computer to connect are the DarkKnight kernel and the Phenomenal 1.0 kernels.

Am I doing anything wrong in flashing these kernels?

is anyone else having this problem?

Looking forward to you help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] joshindc:
I've posted this before, but it got buried and other people have asked about it so I figured I'd put it in its own thread. I find the notification light very annoying at night, but the only way I could find to shut off the notifications was buggy at best. This way will allow you to pick whatever triggers you have access too in tasker to control whether the light is allowed to turn on or not.

Some background: when a notification comes in, the system sets the file led_pattern in /sys/devices/virtual/sec/led to something non-zero. 3 is a slow blinking blue light, 1 is solid red, I forget what the others are now. When the screen is turned on, this is reset to zero, and when the screen is turned off, if the notification bar hasn't been opened (and the program with the notification hasn't been opened) the value is reset to something non-zero. So, I created a simple task to change the value back to zero:

Create a new task, then select Script>Shell. Enter the following command:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/sec/led/led_pattern

Check the 'Use Root' box

Then your task is done. Try it once to make sure you have accepted whatever superuser popups (you'll need to always allow this for it to work on its own).

Now create a profile, and for the context select Event>UI>Notification. You may need to check tasker on the accessibility menu if you haven't already (it will prompt you if necessary). Add whatever other contexts you want (I have a variable that's set when I turn on my nighttime menu that I check for so the light will blink during the day but not at night). You could easily just pick a block of time to turn it off instead. If you don't add other contexts this will always block your light, so make sure you've done some check to block it only at night. Add the task you created to this profile.

Next create another profile with the context State>Display>Display State set to Off, and add in the other secondary (ie night time) contexts. Call the same task you created above. This will prevent the light coming back on if you turn the display on and off at night after receiving a notification.

The only quirk I've found so far is that if you receive a google voice text, the light instantly turns purplish/pink normally. On my phone it will come on for a split second before tasker can kill it.

If you have any issues with this please let me know and I'll see what I can figure out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
I turn my phone over so the light and screen are face down. Case has a lip on it so screen doesn't touch the table. Problem solved.

-Hai guise don't feel like looking at 5 pages but I haz problems on the pre-alpha release and I don't know why.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
Tasker is a confusing app to me. I've tried to enter this in a few times but can't seem to get it to work. Is there any chance you could help me out and let me know more of a step by step? This guide seems to jump around a bit (it could be my extreme lack of experience with Tasker). This sounds like it is exactly what I am looking for though. The led on the GS3 is so freaking bright it lights up my whole room when it is charging at night. I *could* turn it over as suggested above but I have two problems with that:

A) We are better than our phones, aren't we? We should be able to get them to bend however we want! Why compromise? :D

B) I use my phone as my alarm clock and I don't want to fumble around to flip it over before I can silence it while I'm still mostly asleep.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ADC_112358132134:
Thanks for the guide. I will have to give this a try. I tried something else but it didn't seem to have any effect. Any idea where to find the other codes to make the LED turn on differently when you want?

---------- Post added at 06:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:24 PM ----------

Don't know if you are aware or not, but you can turn off the LED while charging using the build in settings. Go to Settings -> LED indicator and uncheck Charging. It shouldn't light up at all until you get some kind of notification.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
Yea I know. The thing is that I would like it to light up while charging (and change color when charged) just not between 11PM and 7AM :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] joshindc:
Just try different numbers. You can test it out and actually make the lights come on with the screen on from terminal emulator/adb or play with the tasker shell options. Try the following commands after getting superuser rights (by typing 'su' in the terminal emulator):

echo 7 > /sys/devices/virtual/sec/led/led_pattern

You get a slightly pulsing blue led. Substitute other numbers for the 7 and play around. You can turn off the LED by setting it to 0. You can also try echoing a value to led_b, led_g, or led_r, which will turn on the blue, green, and red leds (probably 255 is the maximum value). From what I've seen, whatever you set last overwrites whatever else you've done. So, if you set pattern to 7, then led_b to 255, the led will switch to solid blue from the pulsing light. If you then set led_r to 100, it will switch to dim red, but it won't maintain the led_b setting. I don't really have any interest in further customizing the led so I haven't played around with it much more. I haven't really figured out how to use led_blink either. If you find out more post here!

Josh
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
Beautiful! I'll punch this in tomorrow at work. Thank you so much for helping me out!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nxmehta:
Thank you so much for this post. Your method works perfectly. This is exactly something that I was trying to do but couldn't figure out. Great job! :good:

Just FYI, when Tasker updates from the market, it appears that sometimes the update disables the tasker accessibility service. If that happens this technique will no longer work. So, make sure to check that the accessibility service is still enabled after a Tasker update.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] victorbrca:
Thought I add a mapping of the colors to save some time to the next person...

0 = Disabled
1 = Static Red
2 = Blinking red (fast)
3 = Blinking blue (slow)
4 = Blinking red (slow)
5 = Green
6 = Static blue
7 = Static pulsing blue
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Weioo:
Awesome, informative thread! Giving it a bump for those who want more, better information. Could anybody post the XML code in color-coded format? It helps me understand how to set it up exactly. Thanks to you for the hard work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bort76:
This is a bit off topic, but since you went there I'll share some of my findings on led_blink. It turns out you can use it to create any color, but I haven't figured out how to make it... uh... blink.

At first, since led_blink usually contains 0 0 0, I thought it was simply the rgb colors with values up to 255 (just like with led_r, led_g, led_b). But, after a lot of trial-and-error, I found that it's actually hex. But that's not all. You also have to send led_blink additional information. Let me try to explain.

If you echo a string of numbers to led_blink, it seems to ignore the first two. The next two are red, then green, then blue (spaces are interpreted as zero, it seems). So, if you sent:

echo 00ff0000 > /sys/devices/virtual/sec/led/led_blink

you'd get a solid bright red light. But, here's the thing... led_blink would only contain "ff 0 0", since the first two numbers don't seem to stick. If you tried to send green the way you would intuitively think ("0 255 0"), you'd get led_blink set to "25 50 0" - which, to be fair, is still mostly green. Using the hex values plus the leading two digits, you can make the led any solid color you want.

So, what's left to figure out is:

What do the first two numbers mean, if anything? It doesn't seem to matter what they are.

How do you make it blink?

I swear, at one point when I was messing around with numbers (I wrote a Tasker task to make it easier to write to and read from led_blink) that I saw it rapidly blinking, but I don't know how I got there.

If someone can figure out how to get it blinking, Tasker would become a serious Light Flow alternative.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Lock-N-Load:
LightFlow can handle this and all notification aspects so much easier and with 1 button click (versus Tasker).

I use the hell out of Tasker, but I use LightFlow for ALL notifications - lights, sounds, vibrations, pop-up windows, etc. And you can set it to kill any notifications of any type you set by time of day. At 10:30pm all my lights stop flashing and come back on at 6:30am for example.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hotsync100:
Does it work on any device? Or it is only for Galaxy S3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] x714x:
iirc led control from the play store has "night time" setting that will disable the led during times you specify
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hotsync100:
I'm using this command to turn off the led for specific Whatsapp groups, using specific contexts.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bink.bobby:
I have à Sony xperia Z with jelly bean.

Do you know where i can find the folder there?

In the folder sys/devices/virtual there is no folder sec....

I can't find where i can turn off the charging led at night.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] syintiphic:
Thanks [MENTION=3337539]joshindc[/MENTION]! You are the man. I've been looking for something like this forever. This LED Profile works great! Thanks again. :highfive:

Cheers.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gpcatch06:
Seems cool. Will try out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bort76:
I stumbled upon a Tasker plugin from BlackDino that lets you change the Galaxy S3 LED settings. It might be a bit easier to use and gives some extra functionality.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2117829
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] anakara:
Thank you so much. works perfectly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elarion:
This also works for my Xperia V with some modifications:

The path for the xperia is: /sys/class/leds/pwr-green/max_brightness

and pwr-red and pwr-blue (depends on which colors you want to block (echo 0) or enable (echo 255).

Since we change max_brightness, by setting all three colors to 0 the notification light goes off when I apply the task.

If I apply the one which sets the values to 255 and replug the chargers, the led works again.

With this approach I also do not need to define a status using notification. I just use power any (=charging) and time between 23 and 8.

This way the led is off during night and working during work :)

Thanks :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JerseyFF:
Or you could just use Blocking Mode that is included on all S3s and set the hours and check the box to disable notification LED. A lot simpler than setting everything else up previously mentioned, get to know your phone!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antilys:
It´s possible to increase brightness ?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
I'm just wondering what everyone's opinion on 3rd party email apps is.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdrury88:
To be honest I've never even thought about using a third party email app. Gmail does everything I need it to
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prboy1969:
Not a fan, but that's just me.

TEAM MiK

MikROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
Well the reason I ask is as I switch between ASOP and Sense ROMs I find that the Sense email apps are easier to use but I like the simplicity of ASOP. I've looked around for a 3rd party email app that can say, send bulk messages easily to groups but haven't found anything. It would be cool if I could take the Sense app and put it in CM7.

Edit: I've found the mail apk in the zip for newSENSE and was wondering what it might take to extract it from there and put it into MoKee. newSENSE is sense of course and MoKee is asop. Is it possible or am I crazy for wanting to try?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] golizza:
I've just make the live wallpaper for the dandelion of galaxy s3, and already public it to Slide Me and Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.golizza.freedandelion

market://details?id=net.golizza.freedandelion

Or search: golizza dandelion

[YOUTUBE]E7ENH3Tc_o0[/YOUTUBE]

f you like it, you can buy the full version via SlideMe market place. Full version will support some awsome features and no ad.

Full version is only sells in S;ideMe market place until Google Play supports my country.

http://slideme.org/application/dandelion-live-wallpaper-1

Which is support in full version:

1. Quivering when you touch it

2. Floret will fly far away because the wind from your finger.

3. Change the background to your own pictures.

4. Make the background look like 3D with lost focus blur effect.

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaysee11:
Hey guys.. Anyone know how to upgrade K-touch w806 to 2.3.4 or 2.3.6?

:angel:Thanks in advance :angel:

Firmware Version

1.6.1.10-RT-20120413.214533

Kernel Version

2.6.36.3
[General Topics] SoulExertz:
The top Asia mobile network provider is up with 4G LTE!!! Check this out!!!
[General Topics] Pwnzor7:
Since last month. It also support HTC One XL.
[General Topics] barani kumar:
grrrrrrrr :( malaysia 4G only in 2013
[General Topics] alpha-niner64:
Ohh....can we please stop referring it to "4G LTE". We're all educated here. :eek:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
Can anyone I mean devs and experts help me get Max speed with edge/gprs and how to stabilize data rate/ speed.

Max speed I got: down 10-14 kilobytes per sec

Up 13-15 kilobytes per sec.

Edit:

Try this app called Connection Stabilizer Booster helped me to stabilize my connection.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.connectionstabilizerbooster
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leecorp:
I also HAVE THE SAME ISSUE..THERE IS SO MUCH UNSTABILITY IN MY EDGE CONNECTION AFTER I ROOTED PHONE AND INSTAL GINGERDX AS CUSTOM ROM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] de.rach29:
*#*#4636#*#* dial..phone information ..set preferred network type..choose network u want...(wcdma for speed network)..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
I applied build.prop tweaks but still have speed and stability same as I stated in 1st post...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
Post some tweaks here which worked for u. Thanks in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
ok... I'm curious... try my 3G TurboCharger... there's 6 different configurations so one of them should work.

It's on the download page in the supercharger thread. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18703418&postcount=5021

Run the script as root with script manager.

Usage instructions are in the OP anyway http://goo.gl/qM6yR
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
Its just increase the bandwidth, I want to stabilize the network...so I get stable signals of data.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
Assume what you want.

Even though you haven't tried it, you obviously still know everything.

Enjoy your crappy ass connection.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
This is the speed I am getting through Wi-Fi Hotspot using Aircel Edge Connection from my bro's mobile.....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
Believe it or not....but i got such a great speed on edge....without any tweak....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms.goofy:
An app called Connection Stabilizer Booster helped me to stabilize my connection.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.connectionstabilizerbooster
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinghacker:
Thanks Man...it does da trick...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms.goofy:
Ya, it really does the trick. I think it can help more people like us.

Why don't you update the first post to include this information so that others can also benefit form it.
[Android Apps and Games] l-w-c:
Other than "Docs Archiver" which lacks OAuth in favor of actually demanding one's Google's user/password. It also connects every X minutes instead of only upon detecting new SMS.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
why not sync with Gmail? lots of apps do that and makes a lot more sense than docs imho
[Android Apps and Games] l-w-c:
What makes you feel it makes more sense? I see no reason why SMS should turn to e-mail. Spreadsheets can easily be searched and imported back to the phone. Plus there's no need to click on a given SMS to see it. You have all of them open all the time.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
sms like mail is conversations, so having sms as mail makes sense to me.

gmail can easily be searched and thanks to imap you can have a local client on your pc if you don't like the way gmail displays messages
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pleace:
Hello I have gingerbread, but I bought it used and the guy had it rooted. So now the phone is always trying to update to ics but it can't because its rooted. All these popup messages are getting really annoying. So I just want to either update to ics or get a custom rom. Idk which one is better and I have no idea how to do either. Please help, thanks.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p.pavljasevic:
You should get rommanager and flash cwm recovery. Then donwload a ota that can be flashed with cwm and flash it. After that download the superuser zip to gain root again, flash it and you are set.

Good luck.

Predrag
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1785672
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pleace:
how do i know if it is a worldwide version or the 850Mhz one. im in canada and i am using Bell mobility
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
Check under your battery and it will say, I but if you in Canada with bell then I bet it's i9020A sojua.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey_malik:
If you're happy with stock and dont need root, why not try to flash the stock JellyBean ROM?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pleace:
if i do this, will it wipe everything off of my phone?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
Yes it will wipe everything (apps, data) but NOT your sd card. If you have titanium Backup use that, I but I'm guessing you don't. The OP does say that it will wipe your phone also.
[Sony Tablet S] yrref:
Hi guys. I recently bought a Sony Tablet, and along with it I bought a USB>microusb adapter, as shown in the picture.

Problem is.. I can't get my XboX controller to work with it. It worked once yesterday, I just inserted it and it worked. No more after that though. It just doesn't pick it up. How would I go about making this work?

If I have to root, np. I'm currently on the latest stock firmware.

thanks.
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
Try using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.usbhostdiagnostics
[Sony Tablet S] yrref:
Whatever it was supposed to do, it didn't work, unfortunately
[Sony Tablet S] ross231:
It would be best if you bought a PS3 controller, as the tablet gives more support to this controller.

I myself play xbox, although im buying a PS3 controller as it has better support.
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
I don't think your suppose to use a XBOX controller, It seems a PlayStation controller is suppose to support the tablet
[Sony Tablet S] normie666:
I can understand the reasoning behind using an xbox controller;better to hold and you might already have an xbox; but as stated above, using a PS3 controller will be most beneficial to you considering it is a sony device and even says on the box that it is supported
[HTC Incredible S] himesh_reddy2:
guys !! i have a problem with the chainfire 3d.. it installs fine but the nvidia plugin doesn;t work .. i mean i still cant download tegra games from the tegra zone !! does anyone use chanfire 3d !! pls help me out!!! thanx in advance!!
[HTC Incredible S] zukri90:
It's because our cpu is snapdragon and not tegra?