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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] L1qu1d:
I did a test for both, and they both start off lagging at the beginning, but the mali handles the rest of the level better. The frames also don't dip, while the adreno did dip, although not too noticeable you could see where the frame rates would dip. The Adreno did amazingly I agree, but it also lagged when getting certain kills, and by lag I mean 1 second freezes! Let's just say the Adreno is a little prone to hiccups once in a blue!

The International also loads into levels faster, but I did find A LOT of bugs when doing the stupid free Gold crap on international....I still haven't gotten my netflix Gold or some the games wouldn't boot properly on the international. One of the Gambing games took 5 tries before it loaded, while on the US it loaded after 2 tries.

Also I do also notice a slightly longer time it takes from going to PLay store back to Dead Trigger, the Krait seemed to handle this better, or it might be the extra Ram headroom.

Lte isn't a big sell for me because @ 1 GB max bandwidth I'm in no hurry to use it all the time and I'm mostly at school which has wifi :P. 2 GB of ram is a major Loss, but I can't feel it yet. Most likely when we see more development for the phones, we might see some emulation that the US phone can do that this can't, or Virtual machine or w.e.

The other thing I really like is the menu fluidness. It's noticeable on international, it just feels smoother after the phone has been on for a while it's still kept its fluidness, when I remember my friend's Girlfriend tested out my phone (US at the time) because she liked it, she asked why the transitions were so laggy (at the time I had less Widgets running which really shocked me).

As of right now, I'm really pissed the international wasn't available as the base model so users can see the difference for themselves.

-Another thing, the International if your using it while it's plugged into your computer, it will not charge! LOL even if it says it's charging the percentage will either stay the same or go down if your doing intense stuff. The US version just raised up slower:P

Will report any more changes I see.

P.S the international version I'm using still has it's bloatware! :S I'll see what happens to ram when that is killed off!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezle:
Yesterday I cracked my phone screen when I dropped it. Not massively bothered given it's barely visible, and I'm not that impressed with the s3 generally anyway, BUT - do you think the screen is now MORE fragile with the crack if I were to drop it again, or LESS as with a crack there is now less tension on the glass?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matttye:
I don't know but I wouldn't recommend you find out.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
Another cracked screen thread? Couldn't you have posted in one of the many other threads discussing cracked screens instead of creating a new one? Or are you just so special that your cracked screen warrants it's own thread? :silly:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezle:
Yep spot on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiveFaster:
I would say more fragile. Its like a plastic bag, once you start a rip its very easy to continue it without sizzors and it rips clean, just get a good case or try your best not to be clumsy
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASHLEY117:
get a different phone if your not that impressed with it. good idea to insure a phone like this in the first place.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezle:
Yeah it's insured. Not worth paying the excess to get it fixed though. Maybe when I sell it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scaredofgirls:
It IS worth the excess. :banghead:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msgnyc:
What's the point if paying monthly insurance charges if you don't use you insurance when you damage your phone o_O?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuzr:
need help here...:(

i try to unlock bootloader my w8, but i even ask this forum.. (my bad)

im using flashtool 0.2.9.1,s1tool my w8-code is 12w12,

so confuse.. after read this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1481630.

oh my God,

i just doing wrong,bad

after doing unlock,my phone just like dead,cant turn on,can respon even tryn with back button..

please help me how to fix this..

regrats,

(sorry for my bad english)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cascabel:
Why did you even try? You read the warnings. Try to plug the charger and wait a few minutes and cross your fingers.

If that doesn't work, i hope your warranty is still in effect because you need to send it to sony.

No warranty anymore? Hopefully you're good with electronics. Find a guide here on xda and try to unbrick it with ressurection cables.

That's it. I hope you have warranty though.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fotak-x:
you cant fix it you must go in place where you buy it and mut have warranty
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuzr:
that's my fool,event i dont read before..

i've still warranty,but isnt that not include warranti if i doing this?

what kind reason so this is claim as warranty?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cascabel:
That's tricky. Hmm.. i've no experience in hard bricking my phone. No idea.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuzr:
btw,thanks for reply my thread
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScatteredHell:
Send it to a se
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fotak-x:
i had hardbrick an se fix it for free :good: :good:
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fifo171:
Just send it to Sony. If they ask you what have you done, just say that you were updating the software with PC Companion and when it finished, you couldn't turn it on. :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuzr:
thanks for suggestion

i'll try first :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazerphoenix:
Congrats ur screwed. Try sending it to Sony. Next time follow warnings
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuzr:
i've sent to sony, and it takes 3 weeks to repair my phone..

so long..
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ronald Rosanes:
thanks bro you save my w8:)

my W8 in 12W12 too..:D

"softbrick pertains to software brick and hardbrick pertains to hardwarebrick "

if this is true you can fix ur w8

goodluck:victory:
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .:QueNNch:.:
Oh bro.....this situation is currently with me too...my W8 is also hard bricked and I'll send it to se soon.....you do the same bro

No chance to do that yourself.. :\ mine was 11W44...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creative_md:
FYI there is fix for hard brick using setool which is completly free. But setool requires setoolbox to run on pc but some good guys( actually only one I know- alejandrissimo) do it for free.i wish I could help but I don't have that box it costs some $.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fotak-x:
yeah send it to SE
[Nook Touch General] jago25_98:
I think a major advantage of the Nook is being able to go for 2 or 3 weeks on a single charge, if correctly setup after rooting. That however, relies on being offline as WiFi drains the battery so fast. I tend to keep the Nook for offline things because of this and use a phone for online things.

Most of the apps I have are related to reading and reference. However, I've found a few that don't need connectivity that often and so makes most sense on the nook rather than a phone.

Here's my list of apps in order of unusualness:

- Google Authenticator; doesn't need connectivity and without QRcodes you can configure it manually. Bit of a pain to do but it works.

- "Simply Do"; simpler to use than evernote. lighter and won't screw the battery

- Opera Mobile; can browse local files offline. Just use "/" as the address to get started. I save webpages in myfiles, bookmarl my files and then read it later. I find this simpler than "Read it later" or whatever the latest thing is

- Photos for reference; can be useful to be able to see your photos this way; battery lasts longer than on the mobile phone. Can have photos of reference docs this way. You can save a QRcode of a Bitcoin address or private key. Probably scope here for more possibilities

- KeePassDroid; keep your passwords here

- AGP encryption; it can actually encrypt local files with your PGP key or use a passphrase so this too can

- NewsRob, gReader, Instafetch and even syncing things like email only need intermittent connectivity so you can get your articles and then carry them elsewhere when offline. Need a better offline article sync app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1811873

- Maps. I use MapDroyd with about 4gb of maps but it's a bit basic and only there in case my phone battery runs out. I wonder if there's a better alternative? Of course it's a bummer without GPS but that's how maps were in the old days right? edit: see Orux Maps

- "Calculations"; this app has a calulator but also remembers your unit conversion rates for you

Things I haven't yet tried:

- Dictionaries; which do you recommend?

- offline translation; I only know of dictionaries to look up individual words, nothing that works offline but can do sentances

Semi offline things:

- connect to a laptop VNC via USB networking to save screen power

edit:

Generally my focus here was offline apps or apps that don't need much syncing and so can save the battery the most. I figured games aren't essential so won't include. See rest of thread of these things.

Notes from replies ->

Reading & notes:

-Goodreads

-Mantano

-Instafetch

-Speed Reader

-Evernote (screws the battery but you can put a freeze & refreeze widget on your desktop with Titanium backup or App Quarantine)

-gReader

-Documents to Go (paid office docs app)

Syncing:

-DropSync

-k9mail

Photos:

-Quickpic

Maps:

-Orux Maps

Reference:

-Colordict (does translation and thesaurus)
[Nook Touch General] domi.nos:
Try colordict, it really is useful and simple. And is compatible with many of 3rd party readers.
[Nook Touch General] Rafsen:
Yep, ColorDict is awesome.

I'm currently trying to optimize my rooted Nook (MinimalTouch) by disabling features that I don't use:

- I've started with a Barnes&Noble services. I've frozen them all (like ~10 of them). STR works perfect.

- Then I've frozen few Google apps - Talk, Calendar and Gmail. It happend that without them I can't use Search Market (downloading files not starting). Does anyone know which Google services I can remove in order to keep Market working?
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
It's really hard to keep track of what causes what in battery drain problems.

Some of the problems can be intermittent.

I seen to have less (no?) problems since disabling most of the B&N stuff and never installing any Google stuff.

I also disabled all the unnecessary receivers in the stock Reader.

I had seen problems in the past where the touch panel did not turn off in sleep mode.
[Nook Touch General] domi.nos:
In android 2.1 it is required to have google talk working in order to make market work.

NookSimpleTouch/Tapatalk 2
[Nook Touch General] Rafsen:
Thanks! Indeed problem was with GTalk.

BTW: Does your Tapatalk2 works correctly on Nook? I can browse catalog of recommended forums (post, login etc. works) but I can't find my own forums (which I'm sure they support tapatalk). Is this normal?
[Nook Touch General] jago25_98:
thanks for the colordict tip but its only a dictionary. can't do multiple words a t a time and have to click search on each word.

agreed that its best to avoid gapps if possible and find an alternative way to getting the .apks off market.

I didnt have much trouble with b and n apps? I disabled a few things but can't remember now. certainly phone.apk helped removing.
[Nook Touch General] roustabout:
I'm with Renate here, I find that rooting and then sideloading the apps I want rather than having the market running seems to do my battery a lot of good.

Unlike Renate, I'm not able to simply write my own apps :)

I'm surprised that Amazon's appstore doesn't seem to be equally as much work for the battery as google's is, but it doesn't seem to be, even though many of the Amazon appstore-linked apps do check to be sure the appstore is available.
[Nook Touch General] yeubacgiang:
thank you guys alot. any recommendations for game :D
[Nook Touch General] domi.nos:
No, as a standard NST issue, it cannot search using default method. But I did it by setting Tapatalk on my phone, making a backup using titanium backup, or go backup, then just restore it on Nook. Searching is still a problem but it takes 3 minutes.

GT-I5700/Tapatalk 2
[Nook Touch General] dxcore35:
my apps

Evernote

Dropbox

Instafetch

K9 mail

Opera

Remote for iTunes

QuickPic

Mantano reader

Speed Reader

ezPDF Reader

IM+

Seesmic

DropSynch

Orux maps

Real Calc

Root explorer

mSecure

Goodreads

gReader Pro
[Nook Touch General] yeubacgiang:
airdroid

colordict

document to go

chess free
[Nook Touch General] jago25_98:
On my to do list for the Nook at the mo:

- finding lineart wallpapers that fit the screen... what is the screen res?

- finding a less animated launcher

- finding a way to share files without dismounting the sd card (checking out SwiFTP)

- an alterative to astro with working filenames (checking out estrong)

- wondering how to link a vncserver on windows to a separate desktop rather than simply sharing what is seen
[Nook Touch General] bobstro:
600x800. Some grayscale images work very well (Ansel Adams photos, for example). Between Google image search and Deviant Art, you should find plenty of line art!

I use ADW EX with the animations turned down, but I rarely see my launcher, so it doesn't bother me much.

SSH Droid works very well for both command line and SFTP access. I use it with WinSCP in SFTP mode.

ES File Explorer allows both root access, and direct access to networked (e.g. Dropbox) folders in the same interface, which is very handy. It suffers the "too colorful" experience on the NST that a lot of apps do, but it's definitely usable.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lakaspalay:
Hello S3ians,

Could you please recommend what types of check to be performed in buying a second hand SG3?

Any response is highly appreciated.

--lakaspalay
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skem:
Check the handset to see if there is any scratches (especially on the camera len), press the home button a couple of times and verify that the home button doesn't have any issues. Try to download the "Dead Pixel Detect and Fix" app from Play store and play with different colours setting to see whether the display has any issues.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lakaspalay:
many thanks skem.

is there any code to check how many hours the unit was used? Or I mean the usage counters?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] one028:
On my Galaxy s3 I use Jorte for the month calendar widget and it fills the whole screen....but it doesnt on my Nexus 7....is there a month view calendar widget like jorte that fills the entire screen?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] DJLamontagneIII:
Can't you just resize the widget?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] one028:
Jorte doesnt allow me to resize the widget....
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Compusmurf:
I use "business calendar" and used Jellybean OS to force resize their largest widget.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tcat007:
I just use the clock on my home screen to launch my calendar app. It's just as fast as swyping to a widget screen. Go launcher lets you resize any widgets.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] shakuyi:
I use pure grid calendar widget. Its the beat calendar widget hands down! So many options to choose from and themes
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Dave*228:
Another vote for the Pure calendar and/or the pure grid calendar widgets.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] liamR:
I have the pure calendar widget, but it doesn't have full screen calendar for the N7 (Tablet UI), even if I try to reside it.

Sent from outta space
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thunder9111:
pure calendar works full screen for me, i am using Nova launcher though, it allows me to resize.

But currently I am using Android Pro Widgets. It has the size- all resizable, and looks very good. It also has themes like pure calendar.

You should try it, the free version has no themes. I eventually bought the pro version. The facebook widget is also the best one I've seen.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] GchildT:
Wizz Widgets ftw. I swear by it!.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snowbee.colorize.hd&feature
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] one028:
i did use pure grid calendar and used the free size widget and set the pixels to 1000 x 1200 and it looks great....
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Cor-master:
Android pro widgets, love it. Especially if your a former htc sense user, has widgets for just about everything
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] allen2oo3:
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know there was a free size option.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ronnyhawks:
I use Android Pro Widgets. Free in the play store
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] emmabellachristian:
thank you so freaking much didnt know about this option ! you solved one of my biggest headaches!!!! :victory:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] one028:
now if I could only figure out how to get rid of the timeline bars....
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceDragon59:
Coming from the original Incredible, both when resetting the phone or mounting it as a disk drive on your computer would automatically make the gallery and music apps recheck and delete old files/folders and display the new ones, rather than displaying the triangle with a question mark in it that you would come across when deleting a file via Root Explorer or through other methods. However, this doesn't work on the Inc 4G. Resetting the phone deletes nothing, clearing data and cache for the App does nothing, and mounting and dismounting it via USB only removes links to pictures/videos on the internal SD card (which shouldn't be the only place available for saving everything in the majority of apps, nor should it be called 'sdcard' and the real SD card called 'sdcard2', but we'll address that later.)

Barring going through all folders and picking and choosing which triangle-question mark links to delete in the app itself, is there a way to prevent or rectify this annoyance?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
ive come across this.

open the gallery app, then i are able to delete those from within the gallery app, just delete all the ! ones.

worked for me.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceDragon59:
I appreciate the thought. Yeah, I know that works, I was wondering if there was any way besides doing it manually.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
-- sorry bro totally skipped over this part. :o
[Bada Software and Hacking General] spitfire2425:
I'm not exactly sure where to put this so here it is. Lol, what is bada? I seen the bada thing on the forums and it sparked my interest, especially sense I love Samsung phones and don't plan on going to a different brand. Also does any of it have anything to deal with skyrocket? Thanks.
[Bada Software and Hacking General] adfree:
What is skyrocket?

Can you give please model number like this...

If Wave is GT-S8500 with bada...

Then your Skyrocket is what?

I am too lazy like you to use Google. ;)

Best Regards
[Bada Software and Hacking General] spitfire2425:
I727
[Bada Software and Hacking General] shaiws:
your phone is kind of SGS 2 running Android, Why you interested in Bada?

In shirt, Bada it is sucks OS
[Bada Software and Hacking General] spitfire2425:
Love Samsung and just wanna know what it is.
[Bada Software and Hacking General] spitfire2425:
I knew it was running android, I love android but this just kinda sparked my interest.
[Bada Software and Hacking General] nbates66:
bada is a Samsung owned OS that is somewhat abandoned and not really that interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada
[Blade General] oranek:
So, my problem is that... Let's start from the begining - I installed swedish snow rls7 yesterday, I got this phone from auction, and it has warranty to 05.2014, coz it was bought on 05.2012, so it's kinda new.

BUT I installed it, everything was going fantastic, rom is great etc. I Overclocked cpu to 691 (if i remember correctly) and installed couple of programs like app2sd, games (angry birds, fruit ninja), everything except z4root and rom manager was from market.

Now, I was driving my car, and had phone in my back pocket, i put it out and it looked like phone is dead, nothing was on it, but I used my sherlock holmes powers, and deducted that the screen lights (you know the "bulbs" around the screen, i dont know how to call it, im not native speaker as you probably noticed already :D) wont work, and I swiped throug to unlock, it vibrated so I was WTF? Whats happening?

Now i see that those "bulbs" around screen work, but the screen itself have almost zero brightness it is like 0.000001% I can see barely a thing in a dark room, without a single ray of light.

Its like I can only see the negative like you know, when you look on a ****y LCD screen from a 180 degree angle. I managed to install some apps for changing brightness and even a flashlight, and whats funny? the OFF BUTTON on those app which is red is brighter then flashlight itself, the white screen is almost invisible. What can I do? I dont want to go back and make it phone 2.2 android on stock rom. (which I had installed)

Strange thing: I installed that swedish snow but still I have the RBMobile logo on start, which I surelly should not have there, but some droid or something like this if I am correct.

Phone is working, sendin texts, I can make a call etc.
[Blade General] Faiz Malkani:
Try wiping data and reflashing the Rom, it should reset all brightness settings. This will solve any possible SOFTWARE faults.

If it's a hardware fault, you're going down an unpleasant road here on out.
[Blade General] oranek:
I forgot to mention that CMRECOVERY has the same issue with brightness. So its probably not roms fault :(

or is it?
[Blade General] Faiz Malkani:
No probably not. It seems to be a hardware fault
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaneel1491:
Hello All

I have a few problems with my GS3, as the silver on the side seems to be peeling and I have a minor scratch on the screen (I don't know how it happened as I have a Samsung flip case)...

Will Samsung repair these defects I have mentioned under warranty??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skem:
Normal wear & tear are not covered by the warranty.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Peeling possible if its a defect scratch no that's self induced .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dfMails:
I do not think that it falls under the warranty, because it is not a hardware failure or software error.

The scratches caused by own use
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] modgadgets:
I would like to know what is gaming kernel what I have read at many places that it is required for particular games. I am on cm10 jelly bean how can I put it Help:o:confused:

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahilarora2003:
To my knowledge there are no specific kernels for the same. But you can use Notecore (Over Clock Version) on ICS roms only(Not on cm10 or AOSP/AOKP) and BBRQ3 or Ani kernals on cm9/AOKP/AOSP that supports overclocking. (Warning :- Overclocking may harm your hardware. It is a dangerous operation. Use it At Your Own Risk.)

SINCE YOU ARE ON CM10 YOU CAN'T USE THESE KERNELS I SUPPOSE. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akilesh:
Any kernel that can be overclocked for performance with suitable voltage settings that can support the cpu and gpu can give you a great gaming experience. Notecore kernel is an excellent kernel for stock ics. But jellybean cm 10 is just under development so you will have to wait for a performance kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tzviki:
hello.

I would like to play full movies 1080p & 720p on my Gnex.

I'm using mx player. before I play the video I'm shutting down all other apps via Advanced task killer.

still, the video is lagging, even with 720P movies.

what can I do to make it run smoothly ?

Thank you !