yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
Appreciate the heads up. Today is the last day of return without penalty, think i'm gonna keep it.

Right now It's just rooted, awesome quick guide here somewhere and I was able to bang it out in a few minutes while I was packing my truck to hit the road again for work.

When I get the chance, i'll pop a custom recovery in to block ota's - but right now exploring touchwiz and deciding what I do and don't like.

One thing bugging me is the device never seeming to be able to resume playing music after a call without having to mess with it... no matter what player I use.

No slight against the devs who put so much of themselves into the great works they've made for this device, but most likely I won't sample the roms available and just craft my own. I'll never get what I want unless I build it myself.

Thinking this time i'll just build from source instead of hacking apart a manufacturers version of Android.

Most likely i'll wait until i've got what I want or very near to before playing with other devs works. In large part to keep myself from being influenced by the directions they've taken.

I still haven't recovered all the files I hosted before goo went down, so getting all my works back up and available from my other device is taking up the time I can allocate to dev at the moment.

My laptop is on it's last legs, so until I can replace it ( not long now! ) can't get any real dev done anyway. Just small stuff. Can't keep it cool enough to compile a kernel even sitting on a hotel A/C vent to make it through the whole compile process of a gingerbread kernel without overheating and crashing...ICS is beyond the capabilities of my available hardware at the moment unfortunately.

Work is keeping me mad busy travelling the country ( USA) but i'm starting to have little bits of free time here and there around the constant exhaustion.

Pretty soon I should not only have the physical ability to stay awake long enough to learn something, but also the necessary hardware to do the learning on.

Meantime, it's ten or fifteen minutes of research here and there trying to familiarize myself with the device and the ICS source on my laptop for as long as I can keep it from overheating and shutting off.

It's okay, though, there's a lot to catch up on without needing to dive in and do for me at this point anyway, so the lack of acceptable hardware is more of an annoyance then a hindrance.

I figure i'll just keep adding random notes and observations to this thread to look back on later.

Comments, criticisms and suggestions most welcome from all of you out there!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Haro912:
How did you "thank" your own posts?

Sent from a strange blue box hurtling through time and space.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
I have no clue, it's showing I thanked both mine and yours, but I hadn't even seen yours yet and it already showed thanks for it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
Okay - palm swipe for screenshot is virtually impossible with the raised edges of the otterbox defender around the screen.

Might also be my not having cut out the otterbox screen protector yet, so has two on it and touches suck sometimes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
Well, just threw cwm on it, to block the ota.

...and found picture in picture video vieqing - so cool. I'm watching a movie right now while typing his on he S3. That's foward pogress and leveraging multi-tasking capabilities.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slide83:
First let me say that I'm very happy with this phone overall, but I have one small grip that keeps me from being totally satisfied - choppy frame rates in certain instances.

I'm extremely picky about smooth scrolling and animations. I realize that most people aren't bothered by an occasional stutter or choppy animation, but I am. It frustrates me to see my friend's Iphone 4 which has been out for ages it seems, have buttery smooth animation and scrolling. I really thought the S3 would be the first android phone to match the IOS smoothness but so far I haven't experienced it.

My question is, does everyone's phone have these same (small) issues?

Examples: (I realize some of these might be poor coding in the apps, but again, the iphone apps don't seem to suffer from this)

1) The Verge app has choppy scrolling.

2) Engadget app has choppy scrolling.

3) Chrome browser has choppy scrolling on some sites (ex. droid life article pages that have a large amount of comments)

4) There is just a tiny bit of stutter when I first scroll home screens. After that first stutter it smooths out (I assume once the processor ramps up)

I applaud Google for trying to address this with "Project Butter", but I tried the 8/18 release of CM10 and still had the same above "lag". I'm hopeful that further optimizations to CM10 and then the official JB release will help, but honestly I'm not holding my breath.

What is it going to take to get a consistently smooth experience across the entire OS?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
You need to post this in the appropriate section, which would be Q&A, not Android Development.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cdd543:
Mine exhibits this behavior as well. The devs will make some serious headway now that the bootloader is unlocked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slide83:
Yep, my bad. Can a mod please move?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
The verge app is always choppy, even on my gnex.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] strung:
JB is better but not as good as say iOS. Even iOS lags though if you look for it. I also I heard that there may be a hardware graphics driver module (3d driver) which is not available yet, and therefore not present in CM10, but needed for even more smoothness / JB compatibility.

Android uses garbage collection for Dalvik apps. You can see it stutter scrolling through Gallery app. This is GC occurring. You don't see this on iOS because iOS is written in Objective C which doesn't have garbage collection and therefore has no GC pauses. Engineers have improved GC over time but it still isn't perfect. Android could use more native apps, perhaps, but that would be like a new operating system.

You can see the GC by running "logcat" while scrolling through pictures in Gallery

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_CONCURRENT freed 5973K, 43% free 16473K/28803K, paused 11ms+16ms, total 47ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_CONCURRENT freed 5942K, 41% free 17254K/28803K, paused 2ms+3ms, total 24ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_CONCURRENT freed 6129K, 37% free 18378K/28803K, paused 17ms+5ms, total 45ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 5755K, 38% free 18030K/28803K, paused 18ms, total 18ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 3462K, 34% free 19175K/28803K, paused 18ms, total 18ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 2990K, 32% free 19644K/28803K, paused 18ms, total 18ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 3974K, 32% free 20270K/29763K, paused 21ms, total 21ms

D/dalvikvm( 6098): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 2990K, 31% free 20739K/29763K, paused 18ms, total 18ms

E/Sensors ( 721): accelHandler -1.070574 8.368198 5.791157

All those pauses are "felt" as slight stutter. JB helps to mitigate them with tripple buffering and other optimizaitons, but they are still there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Imatoasta:
It's nice to see some technical talk about why android lags. Thanks. I totally feel your pain OP. I used my sisters ipad once (I know it's not an iphone but still) and ios is so damn smooth. It didn't stutter at ALL. I was expecting my sg3 to be that smooth but it isn't. I love the customization and the hardware but the stutters are extremely disappointing and posts like above make you wonder why google made such a bad decision coding wise.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
My question is

WHY THE HELL IS THIS IN DEVELOPMENT?!!

READ FORUM RULES BEFORE POSTING!

Questions go in Q&A

Thread moved

NFNM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slide83:
Kenny, I'm very aware this didn't belong in development. I simply made an error by thinking I was in Q&A when I hit the new thread button. My apologies.

Back on topic: Strung, thanks for the technical explanation. My next question is can hardware eventually overcome the software problems? If so, how many more generations of SoC?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
I think it can...Im running beans 8 with leankernel 2.2 and it's 99% lagfree...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buhohitr:
My opinion, after many OS upgrade and new hardware had/has been released for Android, but seems like no one know how to fix lagginess/stuttering with Android. There are many debates between Apple IOS and Android, but to me clearly Apple is the winner for smoothness. Up until today, with dual cores, quad cores, we still unable to address this issue???what is going on??? maybe Apple is smarter? you tell me ..I don't know. This same goes with the new Asus tf700, no where near smoothness of the Ipad.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scrappy1:
It seems Google made a somewhat poor decision up front to use Java and virtual machines. Now, these would be fine for some CS major web based virtual programing. But if you want tight native hardware access and buttery smooth animations you gotta dump this abstracted CS pandering and get into native compiled code and hand tuned assembly.

I'm trying to hide my dislike of Java but its not working.

If you look at Microsoft and PC's, they have their .net stuff for easy high level abstracted programming. But at least they have the decency to use native compiled code on their own major programs like the office suit.

The virtual machine must know its limitations.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GalaxyS3IsMeh:
Well, chrome is laggy on mine as well. Very annoying, but its chromes fault. Odd considering its flawless on my PC. Regardless have you considered overclocking your CPU? Also wait for bean 9, it will likely solve most problems paired up with your 1.89 GHz CPU. Have fun :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Imatoasta:
I barely understand a little bit about programming so idk if this is a dumb question but is it possible for them to ditch this vm stuff and just use the stuff you guys are talking about?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dave_k605:
Ios displays in 2d while android displays its home screens in mostly 3d......

Also ios is really just an app drawer, go into your app drawer and try and make it lag.....I can't get mine too and its smooth as anything out there.

I understand android does much more than ios, the benefit I get with android can make me care less for a tiny bit of smoothness.

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Prob not without completely rewriting how android is coded, from what I've read back in the early days.....android wasn't meant to be touch screen, when the iPhone launched they (google) made touch screen phones with what they had and have been trying to optimize it since
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slide83:
I'm glad we're able to have a mature and honest discussion of this small shortcoming of android. As I said, I'm happy with this phone and android in general.

Also, like dave_k said, the little bit of lag is a worthy trade off to get all the other benefits android has over ios.

I'm looking forward to the Exynos 5 and S4 pro SOCs to see how much they help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] strung:
Kernel samepage merging (KSM) which is in CM9 and 10 as an optional might help with memory usage at the expense of CPU usage. Since Android runs lots of dalvik processes KSM in theory would share common memory pages among those proceses, freeing RAM.

I am pretty sure native code on Android (e.g. some games) runs on par with the same iOS apps.

Also iOS has low latency audio from day one. Android seems to be working to get there, along with smoothness improvements. I suspect their engineers will continue to work on this since we saw some improvements in ICS and huge improvements with Project Butter in JB.

One of the advantages of Dalvik is apps crash a lot less it seems than object C apps on iOS, which crash about 4x as often. (Harder to correctly code Objetive C since manual memory mangement vs. Dalivk's automatic memory management)

I don't think hardware alone would even overcome the software. It's kind of like how on Windows, even with the latest fastest PCs it takes a while to boot. (Not the best analogy, but along those lines.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bendirkss:
either nitely had higher standardother or the s3 than I should have. My gnex was a lot smoother with multitasking
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LocutusEstBorg:
I assumed the lag and stuttering was exclusive to the Exynos devices due to lack of drivers and support but if the S4 SoC lags as well then there is no hope for a smooth CM ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
There's a new app called "lagfix". Check it out. It's on here somewhere or in the market.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
Hello Friends,

Presenting my mod for Galaxy R -

Volume Step Increase​

This is not a mod for increasing the system volume. It Just modifies the steps for increasing the volume. By Default, the system has 15 steps for Media Volume. After this mod, the system will have 30 steps for Media Volume. This will help you in fine tuning the selection of volume for your music. :cool:

Installation Procedure:

Reboot to CWM recovery

Mount System

Flash the attached zip

Reboot

No Need of Wipe ;)

​
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] maslafonjr:
Thanks!

It's a really good idea
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] nvo2411:
For me the media volume is still 15. I also installed audio manager there also it shows maximum of 15. I used CWMv4 to flash the zip file and it gave the message successfully installed. Since i am using CWMv4, there is no need to mount system. Please help.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
Try mounting the system and flash it buddy though being in CWMv4. Still if doesn't work, extract the zip. You will find a file called framework.jar. Push it to /System/framework. Reboot. :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Kartik pat:
Nice;):D
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] nvo2411:
Tried both the things mate the media volume is still 15. Help.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
Can't be so. R u on deodexed ROM or Odexed ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] nvo2411:
Odexed. THE one which was provided as ics cwm backup (the sweden ics Rom)
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
I created the jar file based on deodexed version. But it shud work with odexed too. Let me check with Odexed version and get back to u on this buddy.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] chandanbs:
Hi Selva,

I was looking at your screenshot. Is that the audio settings menu that you have on your ICS rom?

I dont have that in my ICS audio settings. or are you using some ICS based app called audio manager ???:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
Thats just an app from maket buddy called Audio Manager. Its compatible for all android versions. But it gives u the feel of ICS :D
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] chandanbs:
Thanks selva..

But your mod doesnt work on odexed machram's ICS rom. Just tried it out. I dont know if i have to be on CWM 4.x for it to update properly. I'm on CWM 5.x
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
I will provide the file for odexed ROM when i reach home buddy. Try with that and let me know. CWM version may not be a problem.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] nvo2411:
Please port it for odexed version and keep up the good work.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] selva.simple:
Sure buddy. Was bit busy in some other testing. so was not able to port it. Will do for sure. :D
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] K Dotty:
How could I manually do this? I'm using a different device and rom but the procedure should still be the same shouldnt it since I'm running ics (AOKP on my note).
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] MysteryIII:
I think this is the Guide.

For me as a Galaxy S3 Stock User (Omega ROM) isn't found a way for now. I hope somebody finds out soon how to change the volume steps on Samsung Stock Devices with Jelly Bean. :(
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Redgoblin:
Why have Google made it so hard to switch network?

And you cant use 3ed party apps either...

Is there a way to have an easy to reach icon or similar to switch network?

Or is there a 2g/3g toggle in notificationbar in asop roms?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Aimara:
only shortcut app so far
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prataptetali:
hello friends ,

i am running on android 4.0.4 stock rom . i just rooted my phone using Dr.Ketans method. here is the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1329360

now i am trying to unlock my phone and i came to know that i should need custom kernel . now my questions are :

1. which kernel is safe to use along with stock ICS rom . ? and where can i get that kernal ?

2. how to back up EFS ? please help me .

any inputs will be greatly appreciated,

thanks a lot friends .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andreww88:
You can use Speedmod kernel or NoteCore.

Try searching for EFS backup in the forum, you can find it easily I'm sure.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonpaslim:
If it is sim unlock you mean here it is. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1808629
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letters_to_cleo:
I think the 'unlock' word the OP is indicating is to 'root' his phone....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prataptetali:
yes brother . thats what i was trying to do . but i got an error that error in signature verification so i learnt that i need a custom kernel ? is it true ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonpaslim:
He said before that he already rooted his phone.

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I dont know why you get error but you could try flash gingerbread rom and just use the galaxy s unlock. Of course you need custom kernel for the purpose of acquiring the CWM recovery in order to flash the zip file added by criskelo.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivg86:
for efs backup

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hellcat.droiddev.ktool&hl=en

download it, it will help you in imei and all in future.

after this make a nandroid backup by going in recovery if you want to.it is important
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prataptetali:
Thanks one and all .. i just backed up EPS and unlocked my phone with unlock galaxy S from playstore . i am now on stock ICS and with custom kernel speedmod K13 .

now my final question is . will i have have problem in future ? if i update my phone to 5.1 stock android or something ?

now as i have custom kernel can i update via KIES or OTA ?

i am once again thankful to one and all.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeetu1981:
As of now we just have 4.1 (JB) and you can update your Note by flashing one of the available JB custom roms (make sure to follow instructions properly, if you choose to flash one)

Since you are on custom Kernel so OTA and Kies is a no go.
[HTC One X] bozza1001:
Need some help just bought a new laptop n in cmd I carnt get into my c drive my environmental settings are fcked up anybody help me with changing them plz
[HTC One X] Alex240188:
Its quite common for manufacturers to split partition

You will probably be defaulting onto your d:/ drive

Just type c:

That should change drive

Then CD to directory
[HTC One X] forumhookersdotcom:
Cd c: is the command you have to use to change the drive.

And just use cd desktop or anything to navigate further .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] J7NY:
So I assume the answer is no, but is there a modification that would allow the Slingplayer app to work like the Pop-Up video function. It really would make that feature worthwhile, whereas now it is pretty pointless. It would be great to be able to watch live TV while I used my phone for other things.

Thoughts?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Stresa:
Slingmedia would need to release a new version of Slingplayer to make that possible. It would be do-able for them.

Moboplayer was recently updated to add that feature so the capability is not limited to the default media player.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TokedUp:
Slingplayer rules. Too bad I'm kinda hesitant to use as much since I lost my unlimited data :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] J7NY:
Gotcha, I guess that makes sense. I won't be holding my breath for that...

Sling is awesome and its the main reason I urgently needed to keep my unlimited data, but it would be 1,000 times better if it didn't cut off when I tried to switch to something else, or allowed me to watch it while I did other things.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dsDoan:
Anyone still on stock care to upload them, or have a link where they're already uploaded?

Some are strongly against them, but I love them. I'd much rather wake up to a soft acoustic piano, then some annoying/loud alarm.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Beemer533:
funny, the first thing I did was go and find a "real" ringtone.... :p

This place doesn't have the S3 yet, but they have quite a few others..

http://droidpirate.com/ring-tones-notifications/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sniper_5:
If no one posts by tonight I'll upload them.

Synergy-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] newuser134:
^__^ That ^^

Please do, I need them too.

+1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duxup:
I was just thinking about that when considering moving to a new rom soon. I sort of like the stock notifications, the whistle when I get an e-mail is nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mestour:
Let me guess , You installed a custom rom Right ???

LOL
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dhjean:
Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20448899/audio.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] newuser134:
Thank you.

Is it flashable through recovery, or does it need to be manually placed in a folder. If the latter, what folder(s) do the files need to go into, I'm guessing in /system somewhere?

UPDATE: NM, found where it goes, in media/audio, it doesn't look like a flashable zip.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GREGHARKINS:
Download zedge from play store and get all u can imagine
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dhjean:
No, it's not a flashable zip. I should have said that. You would need to copy these into /system/media to work. You might also need to change the permissions on them to get them to work. I copied one sound to another folder (I wanted to use it as an alarm), and I needed to change the permissions to RW to do so.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
http://db.tt/ar1GZz61

Here also is a link to a zip of the whole audio folder from a stock SGSIII on verizon.

Just got it two days ago, and had a chance to do an adb pull of the device earlier today.

I remembered seeing this thread yesterday, so made the zip of the folder in linux earlier, just got on lunch and upped it to dropbox.

I see someone else already has it up, but, figured i'd share it anyway as another copy. Also not flashable, just a zip of the folder itself.

Sent from a digital distance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jayhawkfan18:
both links are dead.... does anyone still have these to share? been looking all over for them

Edit: just copied them from system/media to the SD card using Astro
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zmedhaug:
http://db.tt/9mTGMVtu I hope this is what you wanted.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] markdexter:
Recently Purchased the Bell Motorola Razr V.

Managed to Root it using this package:- (Below Download)

I am Not Responsible For your Device, Your Choosing To Do This!!!!

Instructions

1. Make sure in settings you allow (check) Non Market Apps

2. Make sure you turn on USB debugging. (developer Options)

3. Make sure you install the Motorola Drivers (32bit, 64bit)

4. Extract the Package into a folder on your Desktop.

5. Plug in your Phone

6. First double-Click Adb.exe

7. Then double click DroidRazrRoot404.bat

8. Sit back let it do its thing!!

Should notice it rebooting a couple of times.

After the Final boot you should notice the SuperUser App!!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Sietan:
awesome thanks!

Now any idea how to install recovery?