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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romiltherock:
Pros: The best designed phone out there. No manufacturer (not even Sony) can come up with such a beauty ever again.

Music is great, Sound output is terrific and in-call sound is audible even in noisy environments.

OS look and feel is terrific and it offers plenty of features (DLNA, HDMI, built in panaroma) that many phones lack.

Cons: Hardware. The OS is painfully slow. Even gingerbread is not upto the mark. many on this forum have completely forgotten that the contact/messaging hangups occured in 2.3 as well. After ICS update, the phone became terribly laggy that we started believing that GB worked well. Trust me, once you fill up your phone memory with apps, the phone will die from inside! Ever wonder why people run after custom ROMS even though Sony's official UI offers more features?

Camera: Still camera is decent but the phone is just not made to shoot HD videos. Give it a pass. With ICS update, camera performance has degraded.

Final words. Go get yourself a phone with latest hardware. Sony Xperia S/P may not look as pretty from outside but they do exceptionally well from inside. The UI is new and phone supports many other features (All 3.5mm headphones are supported/NFC etc etc).

If your budget allows, try HTC One X, Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy S3.

Or wait for the 2012-13 series of Xperia phones with S4 processor.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuggy:
Any Idea will there be 2012-13 Arc S? Cuz i really love the design :D Really hope
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jejeh:
Keep the nexus
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romiltherock:
Looks like Sony have answered your/our prayers! the new Xperia line has arc design and better build quality and the benchmarks are now showing them as better performers than most flagships out there. The Dual Core S4 has an upper hand over Quad Cores. Go get yourself an Xperia T/TX. Xperia V is overpriced.

No one can beat Sony in design!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeBouse:
+1 , Xperia TX has the same design as Arc S (well at least it is curved as the Arc S) and its processor looks to be promising !!

Will be my next phone by the way, just waiting for it to reach the market ^^
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] H20fluid:
I agree totally with everything you said,it might not be the newest phone but it's so customizable!!, keeping it up to date.

Sent from my LT18i
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roy56120:
do you usually play high requirement game such as blood&glory?

if so, arc s does not suit you
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuggy:
i don't really play much :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_torture:
Then go for Arc S. Problem solved... ;)

You won't find prettier phone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumpelst:
I have a newest Ics update and i's not slow or laggy. Camera quality compared to gb is better ( sony resolved over compression problem ), video is the same, only audio is worse cause mono but i's not a big difference. I'm not a game player so for me it's a decent upgrade after htc desire...

Wysyłane z mojego LT18i za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Neo1607:
Ok so i've tried to calibrate my battery,

I let the phone run down to 0%, then i charged it to 100%, loaded up CWM and reset the battery stats in advanced menu, I then let the phone run down to 0% and charged again (done this twice). Yet my battery still seems to be draining a lot quicker than i thought it would, does this seem normal from the battery stats:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
check ur network loss on that graph, its huge.. atleast 2 or 3 hours.. that consumes A LOT of battery..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DrKrFfXx:
That's correct, that big red no signal graph means a lot of battery being drained.

Have you been underground, like in a basement or metro station, or in a rural area, or did you leave the phone under your pillow while sleeping? You know, that kind of stuff.If not, then consider reflashing, that much of no signal bar it's not normal in my book.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Neo1607:
That 2 - 3 hours loss would probably be when i was at work, it's inside a building that doesn't get a lot of signal but it was sitting right beside a network booster.

Probably also due to the fact that the network is Three and signal isn't too good around this area for it but im waiting on my unlock code coming from Three so i can move back to giffgaff
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gothic-4-Schiffer:
Off topic : You answered my thread yesterday stating that your bootloader unlock allowed status was no. May I ask how you've managed to install CWM recovery?

Sorry for going off topic

Kind Regards..
[HTC Sensation] Jon.W:
Hello. I had my HTC Sensation rooted, S-OFF and a custom ROM installed but the phone started playing up so I sent it back to HTC. They wiped the ROM and got rid of the recovery and changed the HBOOT to 1.27.0000 but my phone is still S-OFF! :laugh:

I am puzzled however, how to get a custom recovery? There is no need for juopunutbear is there if my device is already S-OFF?

I want to have a custom recovery to install SuperSU and a custom ROM (Mike1887 Revolution Hd)

Any help? :confused:
[HTC Sensation] Jon.W:
My BootLoader is locked, too
[HTC Sensation] asad510:
your bootloader is not locked you just need to flah a new one and wrong section

look on the S-OFF jup thread
[HTC Sensation] Jon.W:
Sorry, I'm a newb to this! And I'm just very annoyed about what they've done!

It says 'Locked' at the top, is it just saying that when it is unlocked? And how do you flash a new recovery? I've done it numerous times before but I'm clueless? :confused:
[HTC Sensation] Harbir:
i have the same problem could someone please help me
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Both of you do this

Get the control bear folder.. From my soff guide.. Link in my signature (don't worry you are not going to do soff procedure again..)

Extract the zip file and keep it somewhere

Connect the phone from bootloader/fast boot to pc

Open command prompt from the control bear folder.. (if windows hold shift + right click - open command windows here)

And type this

controlbear -i

That's all. You will have juop bootloader aka unlocked bootloader
[HTC Sensation] Harbir:
i dint work

any more methord
[HTC Sensation] dramen555:
Htc sensation xe

How can i back to Stock? i mean if i dont want root or s-off or hboot. i want to know the way back home :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Parth.:
Hello everyone, I am new to this community so please try to understand. I just rooted and installed the Paranoid Android Hybrid Rom for my Bell S3 variant. Everyone went fine and I understood everything; considering it was my first flash, but now I cannot see most of the apps in the google play store because they are not "compatible" anymore. I was just wondering, is this a problem with just my install or evidence of the incomplete Rom and is there any way around this problem since the current app compatibility seems pretty limited. I would assume this a problem with the model name the google play store sees after my flash install in contrast to the stock model which let me download all apps. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you for reading.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheFiveDots:
Did you alter your Build.prop for Google Wallet, per chance?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Parth.:
No I didn't. I didn't touch any files, just rooted and then flashed the rom then the gapps.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] stevemoffler:
Do we have the ability to sync wirelessly like say all my music on my computer to sync wirelessly like I did on my Ip4 or how the bionic does?

Sent from my LTEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] michael.stollaire:
Check out Titanium Media Sync in the Google Play Store.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] joeykrim:
i'm not familar with how the ip4/bionic performs wifi music sync. the method i've been using, which has worked very well, is to use google music. there is a music manager application for windows/mac/linux which allows you to upload all your mp3/music files to the "cloud" and linked with your google account. once they're uploaded, you can download from any device with a web browser/internet connection or thru google music app/internet connection.

hope that helps!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] stevemoffler:
Well with the ip4 when you charge at night it would sync with your Itunes via WiFi that your pc or mac is connected to stop if I bought music apps etc on my phone it would put them on my pc and of I got them on my pc or mac it would put them on my phone it was realy convenient . Stop I figured ics would have that feature out of the box

Sent from my LTEVO
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerL:
I'm new to using a rooted device and installing custom ROMS, and I love it!

I've loaded the latest Blackout ICS version 3.0.0, and am really impressed by how well it works. I immediately noticed that battery life is better than anything I've used previously, always different versions of Gingerbread. So that's a big improvement straight away. As others have highlighted, it's a bit laggy at times, but I overclocked the CPU and it runs much more smoothly. Even just 1.2 GHZ produced a noticeable improvement, and I'm now on just under 1.5 GHz, which I gather is a safe setting. I was worried about this affecting battery life, but if it has it's barely noticeable. I suppose it only runs at the fastest speed when it needs to.

The only problem with the ROM is the auto-brightness, which jumps up and down even in fixed light conditions. Not sure if the developers pick these threads up, but that is really the only issue I've found.

As the DHD seems to be the only device not to be getting an official port of ICS, I'd definitely recommend giving this ROM a try.

With all these other devices getting updates, is it likely that more fully working ICS ports for the DHD will be on the horizon?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dbugger:
Really? You get better battery? I suspect i get a little less battery time...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerL:
Yes its noticeably better. Is this just me or have others found the same?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gizmoe:
I must say I'm getting good battery as well.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Largamelion:
You should also try AOSPX and Nik Project X. The first one is stock ICS and the second one is ICS with Sense 4.0. I tried both of em and they work flawlessly on my DHD.

Haven't tried Blackout yet because I saw in the thread that there were still quite a few issues to be solved.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roberto_Lim:
I was getting excellent battery life as well, but I suspect it might be killing my data connection when the phone is asleep.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerL:
I like the look of Nik Project X, though the final post on the forum raises an issue with not being able to get HSDPA data speed. I'll keep tabs on that forum and maybe give it a try.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Largamelion:
Hmm, haven't really paid attention to that (I 'm mostly on WIFI). I 'll do a speedtest when I get the chance.

Edit: Did a quick test and I 'm getting 3,6Mb down / 1,6Mb up (inside a server room right now so not the best connection). Seems quite normal for my network (7,2Mb is max speed I can get from my provider). Of course the max HSDPA speed is alot higher but that 's something I cannot test.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trixo:
Hi,

I've just installed, and recovered my apps, as i've wiped battery calibration i cannot talk about it, but OC is excellent. Even in default frequency the desktop turns without any lags, but as you mentionned, sometime there are some lags (typing on keyboard for instance) but i guess it's linked to the OC profile changing , try in performance instead of on demand, this should solve that.

Regarding the brightness i agree , it seems it change on "i don't know which parameter" from bright to low brightness.. so i've installed Bright day app to set the brightness along the day at low value and i've set on the main desktop the brightness widget to up from system parameters to push it up when i need, then bright day will recover the setting after a while..

Br

Trixo
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trixo:
So after few days of testing here are my feelings :

Takeing account of deamon set to 1,2Ghz, i can still reach 1d and half near 2days without charging , with a light use :

Allways connected to network though HSDPA (as i take train it often check the network to change the connected cell)

Playing 20-30min 3times a days to Pirates of carabean (3D game multiplayer so connecting to the network)

Surfing a bit

no music

no video

With an harder use i reached 1d wake up to sleep:

still same network condition

playing double time at least (1 to 1,5h 3times a days)

Surfing more (1h)

no music an no video

using battery eater apps (windguru) a bit

to resume my feeling on battery is excelent, i've noticed a light improvement on idle battery drop, a bit accelerated over time (due certainly to used app remaining processes.

Let's go now to the issue i've noticed :

-Back tactil button doesn't work on phone screen while it works everywhere else

-Using smoth rosie to supersmooth show a light display trouble when reducing the app drawer windows (doubling the reducing animation)

-Light keyboard trouble doubling the A letter some time (like if the touchscreen has been typed twice when its not the case)

-blackout tweak shortcut from top task bar doesn't linked (need to go through the app drawer to access it)

-Folder creation missing from widget/app shortcut addition screen (or i didn't found it) , i use the moving app on another icon to create it (i don't know if it's the ICS new way of creating folder on desktop)

The plus i've found (don't know if it's an ICS feature) : create a folder in the lower task bar : can jump from 4 shortcut to full app contained in your phone :) accessible from the locked screen : I loved that !

The overall impression is really great and for an old phone that "doesn't give a good experience of ICS" following HTC, i feel this ROM fullfill my expectation from ICS on my Desire HD !

Many thanks to the Blackout team !

Br

Trixo
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GLADS:
Sabsa Prime 4.1 works good too.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trixo:
Haha.. very funny pub..

Btw, testing further again, i've found the sms issue (from my point of view it was linked to transferring sms not to content,) I'll give a try to the 3.1 to chek this out

I confirm the keyboard double "a" in certain text box, particularly in sms typing or web address typing

Lags linked to overclocking

Br

Trixo
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAhlefeld:
For the life of me I cannot find whre to over/underclock or even set govonors
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trixo:
check for the "deamon" app in your app drawer;)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imonol:
Are there any known bugs with mms? I can not send or recieve mms with this Rom..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gizmoe:
Yes. Some can't send at all. Some have data drop in and out while sending and some have no issues. Seems weird to me since the hardware is supposed to be the same for the most part. I think apn and radio combo has the most to do with it.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wicks:
Love this ROM...

This ROM would be my daily driver if the Wifi hot-spot worked. Has anyone found a work-around or fix? Wifi Tether didn't work either btw. I know it's WIP by the devs but they said it wasn't a major priority for them (Boooooo lol) Fingers crossed for v3.2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trixo:
As noticed recently in the official thread, i've also noticed the magical battery jumps, i first guessed it was linked to the battery calibration wipe i've done before to flash the Blackout3.0 rom, but i can sometime still see this trouble also.

It happen even phone is in use but every time inbetween 30 and 5 percent of battery left. it goes down to low then readjust it to an higher value without any reason.

The phenomen come back lately less often, but maybe devs can check this out. I'm running on a SFR Desire HD recognized as an incredible S on the 3.0 rom.

BR

Trixo
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
For those of you out there looking to remove the update notification either because you have a custom rom or you don't like fixing what isn't broken, here's a step by step guide on how to remove update notifications and prevent them from returning:

Solution:

Step 1. Delete the update located in /cache/fota/ (may be /data/fota) and then click the update notification prompt to install it, it will instantly fail and the notification will disappear.

Step 2. Disable Otacerts.zip located in /etc/security by renaming it to otacerts.zip.bak

Step 3. Disable FotaClient.apk and FWUpgrade.apk by renaming with .bak extensions located in /system/app/

Step 4. Reboot

FWUpgrade.apk may be the only file you need to disable to prevent future notifications, but I disable all just in case.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
In app management Disable Software Update.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Thanks for the quick response, still isn't working. After disable, notification remains, restarted, notification remains. >.<. Any other ideas?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cybrnook:
Delete the update from /cache/ and then click the prompt to install it, it will instantly fail and then not bother you anymore.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aklyrical:
Download an APP called Titanium Backup from playstore..

it gives you an option to "FREEZE" an application..

Go into the application and "FREEZE" software update. :) It should do the trick!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Holy crap, it worked, thank you so much!!!

I couldn't find this information anywhere after hours of searching, so for anyone else looking into this, the update.zip to delete is located in /cache/fota and requires root access.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Good call dude! That didn't even cross my mind!

Question though, if you do this without disabling the app will it eventually notify you again? Or is disabling the app not even necessary?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
After implementing this fix, I noticed a new file created In the /cache/fota/ directory titled fota.status. This may be some kind of deactivation placeholder to prevent the system from re-downloading the update after installation failure.

In trying to figure this out, I dug up a ton of information on preventing the download. This may help in the event the notification returns:

One post said to disable otacerts.zip located in /etc/security by renaming it otacerts.zip.bak

Another said to delete (though renaming with .bak extension should disable) FotaClient.apk and FWUpgrade.apk located in /system/app/

Note: These methods did not stop the notification, they appear to only effect checking for updates and downloading.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Good to know. Thanks!

Did the fota.status file have anything in it? In root explorer if you long press the file you can open in text viewer.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
It contains the word FOTA, lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Lol! Thanks for checking!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cybrnook:
you will still need to disable the software update process. (Will have two arrows as an icon in titanium backup, freeze it)

Once that's disabled, then you delete the update and mock install it. When it fails it should not bother you anymore.

You can verify it by going into settings>about> then check for update, it will do nothing.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Not a problem, glad to help out. :)

If you rename /system/app/FWUpgrade.apk with .bak extension and restart, it effectively disables software update without the need for Titanium Backup. Unfortunately only the Pro version of Titanium Backup can freeze running programs.

UPDATE:

My friend just told me that the notification came back for him. I've disabled the 3 aforementioned files on my phone and he will re-implement the fix and do the same. I will report back if the notification returns but I'm confident that they won't.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] eldon71:
i followed the steps TB and didn't work for me either
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
I've added clear instructions in the OP so there's no more need to sift through the thread.

This fix is confirmed working on my device and 2 of my friends devices.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Cool. Good job on that!

Not totally necessary but you could also edit the thread tiitle and put [SOLVED] in front of the original.

Can make it a little easier for some people who come across a long list of results from a search.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Excellent idea, just changed it, thanks for the info!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] boardrfolif3:
Thanks so much! Only method to work, been working on this for an hour. The key is the failed update, I had already done everything else to no avail. Seriously thanks so much this was the only downside to a ROM I absolutely love. I can also keep my local search *middle finger to crapple*
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] conansarkar:
Disable software update notification in Galaxy Tab 2 ICS

I am using samsung galaxy tab 2 3100 on ICS. Thers a software update automatically downloaded and ready for upgrading it to JB. But i dont want to update.

How do i disable/cancel the update notification?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ekaro:
simple way of disabling OTA update message

[root access is not needed]

Just go to applications find Software update and clear all data then stop Auto_Updates from setting/about phone/software update

My phone is Galaxy S2. :good: :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rogeriomiguel:
OTA update for samsung galaxy S jop40d for rc2

Hello,

My phone galaxy s, is always telling me i have a update OTA, update rom jop40d for RC2. I do the update and the phone still in the same, and again that message UPDATE OTA.

How can i fix this? I dont know if i did the update or not
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Have you gone through the instructions in the original post?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rogeriomiguel:
Instal the OTA update

Hello, but i want to install the update, and i do the installation but how can i confirm it was installeted (jop40d for rc2) because is always asking me?

---------- Post added at 07:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:48 PM ----------

Ive tryed but dont have that files in that place. I want to know first if i did the installation.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lordazoroth:
Oh I see, this thread is actually for disabling update notifications, not for installing updates. If you have a custom ROM you'll have to revert to your stock ROM to enable stock ROM carrier updates OTA. Custom ROMs are generally flashed unless they use a 3rd party ROM updater like goomanager. In which case you'll probably want a goomanager thread.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] smlysk8rboy9:
Disabled Success

The way that worked for me on the SPH-l710 (Sprint Variant of GS3) was using titanium backup to just completely delete my software update .apk worked like a charm only thing is that if you do PRL (Radio) or Profile (Data Profile) updates they no longer work you can still update radios manually with cwm......

This method worked for me on the Sprint Variant hope it helps some desperate people in need of getting rid of this annoying notification...

Screens of the app that needs to be unistalled are below, it is in grey and is crossed out. name is com.samsung.sdm

Happy Rooting :good:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] JBabey:
Nothing in this thread stops it, it keeps popping back up after a reboot. fustrating ><