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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] housry23:
First of all, this is my 5th Nexus 7. First was bought on the Play Store and RMA'd due to screen lift and flicker. The RMA also had screen lift but no flicker, so I RMA'd it and in the process of waiting for Google to send me the new purchase link, I walked into Office Max and walked out with a brand new Nexus 7 with zero issues. Yeah!!!

Well a week later there was an ad on my local Craigslist wanting to trade a white AT&T GS3 for a Nexus 7 straight up. I couldn't pass up the opportunity and made the trade. The next day I sold the GS3 for $380 and then drove over to Office Max and ordered another Nexus 7(they didn't have any in stock this time). It was delivered on Tuesday and had screen lift badly. I took it back to Office Max yesterday and luckily they had one in stock this time and I swapped it out. The Office Max rep opened the box right in front of me so I could assess whether or not it had the screen lift and it didn't. Problem is, when I get it home and turn it on, I see 1 dead pixel in the very bottom left hand corner of the screen. Just one. No screen lift and no flicker(so far). Office Max offers a 2 year replacement warranty for $49.99 that covers pretty much everything no questions asked which I did pay for.

Since this one is flawless except for that one tiny little pixel, in a place that I don't notice unless I am looking for it, I am thinking about keeping this one and keep an eye out for other issues or more dead pixels. My question to the community here is, would you keep it or return it? More than likely they won't have any in stock and I would have to wait for another to be delivered.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_tris:
Try using a pixel tester app first, sometimes you can wake them up again.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.chris.blackspotdetect
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] housry23:
Tried them all. Problem is it's the very corner bottom left pixel which is covered by the nav bar or status bar no matter what way I have it turned. I've tried hiding the status bar and turning it 180° and still didn't work.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Switchbitch:
On the subject of dodgy pixels, the Australia/NZ specific warranty contains this little gem...

3. TFT LCD defect policy

Despite the highest possible standards, the intricate manufacturing of thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) screens may still produce slight visual imperfections. These visual imperfections do not impair the performance of Your Product.

However, ASUS will provide the warranty service for Your ASUS Product's TFT LCD screen only if there are at least:

3 bright dots or 5 dark dots or 8 bright and/or dark dots in total; or

2 adjacent bright dots or 2 adjacent dark dots; or

3 bright and/or dark dots within an area 15 mm in diameter.

(Please note: A bright dot is a white or sub-pixel that is always on under BLACK pattern. A dark dot is a black or sub-pixel that is always off under patterns excluding black.)

Not less than 30cm distance, in a straight line, between TFT screen and inspector

Room temperature between 20-40° C

Lighting is between 300 and 500 lux

The above is a get-out clause for Asus if your device has any screen defects less than what is specified. Meaning Asus do not have to replace or fix a device with 2 hot pixels or as much as 4 dead pixels! It's as if they know their product is sh*t so they've included an exemption from being responsible for faulty LCDs. What a joke.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] housry23:
I had already looked into that. If I were to replace it, it would be through Office Max. Like I said, I paid $49.99 for their service protection which does warranty the screen and any defects.

I should have asked, if you had 1 stuck pixel that you barely notice unless you are looking for it and had coverage against it, would you replace it?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Priamo:
If it's covered, replace it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mechanio:
The N7 has 1024000 pixels... one pixel is a 0.00009765625% failure rate for that specific device. The idea that they can even reach that level is, when taken in perspective, pretty amazing.

If it were me, the hassle of returning the device and either not having one or having a loaner that doesn't have my apps and isn't set up how I like it far outweighs the hassle of one weird pixel that, as you said, isn't even noticeable unless you look for it. The pixel is a non-issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] suifengershi:
could you tell me wheather smdk4210 is I777 motherboard model？
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Tenseiga:
you could have just googled this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
XDA is the new google
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dandrumheller:
Actually, I think XDA is the new lmgtfy... :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
He went through the process of creating an account just to ask this question instead of using Google. Now that's commitment to fail. But at least he's committed to it!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bigsmitty64:
Plus anyone who DOES search google, now has the pleasure of finding THIS useless post as the third answer! Yay! ;)

Shot straight outta my Taskatooned SGH-I777 Rocketship
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kontinuity:
Actually the very first! Dang! Mods should remove this post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eep2378:
Partly sunny ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] WiFivomFranMan:
I want the whispr.apk (Auto joins attwifi) from the stock rom to install on my CM10 rom'ed phone. thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
Take whatever ROM.zip that has the apk you want and extract it. Then navigate to system/app and find the apk you want. Then you can drop it on the the sdcard of you device and with root explorer put the apk into system/app and then set the permissions to rw-r-r. Hope this helps you out dude. :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gravian:
Im trying to mod a little swype keyboard, the reason is because i'd like to make something like local support for sms messages. I think the easiest way is to edit dictionary and eliminate the special characters from it. I found that the dictionary file is stored in asstets/file/ folder and its extension is zdb.le but i dont know how to open that file to edit it properly. So the main question is how to edit ZDB.LE file ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
well the time has come. ill be getting a new phone friday, can't make up my mind between s3 and the q, I like both but can't decide, so I figure open a thread get some opinions from my buddies on here.....I'm on the fence big, please drop a line or two with your opinion, links, whatever advice you might have to offer.....figure this might help others who can't decide as well....thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
I plan on getting a new phone in about 2 weeks also and the Q is not even a thought. I don't really like Samsung but I'll be getting the S3.
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
I recommend you stay with the Photon and not get a new one. My reasons are selfish though, because I don't want you to leave us as a dev! :P

Honestly though, my girlfriend has the S3 and it's amazing. I don't like how fragile it feels in comparison to the Photon, but I watched her drop it on concrete yesterday and it surprised me. It landed in the top left corner and the screen didn't shatter. It just has a couple dings and scrapes on the sides.
[Motorola Photon 4G] AaronEmoBoi:
I'm thinking about the S3 but I'm going to wait till the Photon Q's development starts going

So im waiting

Sent from my Jelly CNA MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] tetrabyt:
First, let me say, I loved your work on the photon 4g. Now that's out of the way. ***k the s3. I have a Q. In my opinion samsung needs some originality. Go to the store and play with them both, bigger isn't always better.
[Motorola Photon 4G] XxReApErxX:
IMO, get the S3:

1- As far as I know is the fastest phone out there

2- Samsung has added some nice software features

3- It's about to get official JB

4- The development community is growing up day by day

5- You will support Samsung in some way after the crappy outcome of the Samsung vs Apple trial D:
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Thanks for all your work spleef..we've really enjoyed having you as one of our amazing devs!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
Wait for the lg eclipse quad core, 2 gigs of ram, 13 megapixel camera, and a display that rivals the retina display from apple oh and 2100mah battery stock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] snodrog742:
S3... only because US Celullar doesn't have the Q
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
The Q has kernel source thanks to moto and root thanks to shabby I want you to get one of those that way I know I have at least one ROM to trust lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
S3 all the way. My mother in-laws has one.got to play with it for awhile.It's a sick phone. Hopefully my next one. No more Motorola for me
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
kind of feel the same way wanting to get away from motorola, but damn they make good phones....lol that lg sounds sick but I've never been much of a lg fan....usually I've only bought htc until this photon being my first motorola, but several of my friends have motorola and they are beastly.....leaning towards the q I like the keyboard phones, and the fact it is unlockable by motorola seems promising...idk...still on the fence got a few more days still
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
stop lying about me! people will get the idea i know what im doing :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
That lg is the lg eclipse 4g lteit is a god of phone spec.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Or you can hope that the rumors about sprint getting the galaxy note 2 are true ;) they just released the specs and omg! But anyway.. if it does come out for sprint it will be in October.. if I had an upgrade I would wait 2 months for it
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
kinda like them getting the samsung galaxy journal back when that image leaked? :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Lol yea. I'm ready for a quad core device! And call me crazy but I want to dual boot jellybean and wp8. I'm obviously a android fan but the new windows phone 8 looks promising
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
the note 2 will face the same changes the sgs3 did, there is no current quad core chipsets that support LTE, the newest and greatest one to do so is the MSM8960 aka the qualcomm snapdragon S4 tahts inside the one x lineup, sgs3 lineup, and many many other phones this year
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Come to the light. ;)

S3 so far has been a great phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] putergod:
Samsung's radios are garbage. I had the Epic, have since given it to my ex-wife, and after a year, the single sucked, on all fronts. the cell signal sucked, the wifi signal sucked, and even the bluetooth was flakey. The Photon (and I got mine used, so it's probably a year old now) is 10 times better in those respects. The only thing the Sammy has that bests Moto is the Super AMOLED screen.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ronnienyc:
Samsung radios are no longer garbage. I have a Photon, an S2 and an S3. Have not been using the S3 for that long but the radios are strong and data speeds are super fast. The S2 works in my parents house on Cape Cod where the Photon drops calls due to weak signal...

So while Samsung used to have crap radios, they are now at least as good as htc and Moto in my first hand experience.

(yes the older Nexus S did have a crap radio...)

By the way I also have an EVO LTE, which has good radios and a better screen than the rest.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
The eclipse 4g has the snapdragon s4 pro I am adding a line so I can get it at the end of October probably the same day as assassin's creed 3.
[Motorola Photon 4G] LexLuger82:
What was wrong with your photon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] kurtcocaine:
I'd say wait for either the Note 2 or HTC's 5 inch phone..

I'm not sure what carrier limitations you face in the US, but if you had to go for one now, try and get the HTC one X.. Both the GSIII and OneX trade their international quad core socs for Dual core Kraits in the US, so their performance is pretty much the same but the hardware of the oneX trumps the GSIII beyond measure. Its simple beautiful to hold and use. GSIII feels and looks like crap compared to it

If you were getting the international variants, then even I would understand chosing the more powerful quad core exynos in GSIII vs Tegra 3 in OneX, but since SOCs are same in the US, try and get a OneX if possible.

Edit: I just realised that pretty much all the high end phones in the US are running Krait rright now, so you can stop thinking about which performs better, and since youre a dev, i'm assuming the 1st thing you'll do is root and probably get rid of the stock rom.. which means you dont have worry much about software either.

Which means the things you should be relly looking at is the hardware.. ie the looks, feel, screen and camera quality.

Between the 2 that you mentioned (if those are the only 2 you have to chose from), then unless the slide out keyboard is of great importance, I suppose the GS3 wins over the Photon Q in atleast 3 of those 4 fields..
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Nothing wrong with it. Photon was the best phone I ever had until moving to the S3. Our company gets upgrades every year so it was time otherwise would have stuck with it. Once a device is out for a year or so in this industry it is hard to compete with the newest top of the line devices and that is about all it boils down to. The S3 IMO is an extremely capable device and will be hard for any new phone (in it's catagory) to beat it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
I don't want to argue about which one will be better. But I will rather have two newest Cortex A-15 cores (28nm) than four Cortex A-9 cores (32nm) (similar cores I have now in Photon, only smaller). And 2500 or 3300 mAh battery in kevlar, water resistant body. That will be a step forward! :)

Edit: I am sorry to say that, but it looks like LG will have the best one soon. :)

LG Optimus G - Qualcomm APQ8064 (4× Krait, 1500 MHz, 28nm), Adreno 320, user memory 32000 MB, RAM 2048 MB, battery 2100 mAh

But I still believe Moto hardware more (speaker sound, display, body, ...)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Modo-mopho:
Will u still have the photon for development purposes?

Or will you be leaving us completely?
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
The Q is nice but for a lot of things it seems like a move down. less internal storage, integrated batter and international SIM, No Webtop. None of are really a huge deal breaker, what is however is that I am in a very strong WiMax saturated area. 4G flies on my photon, LTE on the other hand is not scheduled for roll out until at least December. With 3G service being unacceptably slow I find it in my best interest to wait it out. I've also heard there is a true replacement for the photon with much better specs still in the works. I've decided to ride it out a little longer and see what comes on the market by the time LTE rolls out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
I will not change the phone in upcoming 4 months yet. These new devices will be too expensive in the beginning. But I am starting to choose which one will be next.

But it was probably question for spleef. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Modo-mopho:
It was a question for spleef

but as your a photon Dev too its good t know how on you'll be here for
[Motorola Photon 4G] kurtcocaine:
Well Spleef, today is Friday.. so what did you choose.. ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
yeah keeping the photon for deving and games for my kids.....decided to get a q though will have it some time next thursday our friday got a 70hr check coming so ill go buy it then irregardless of price or place
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Like the others I hate to see a developer leave the Photon/Electrify (Sunfire?) community. That said, I would recommend the Q. I think Motorola makes the best hardware. Motorola is also the oldest phone manufacturer currently producing smartphones. They know what they're doing. They are also owned by Google, and FWIW, they're an American company. I believe in supporting American companies, but only when they're worth supporting. Motorola has made some decisions we don't agree with, but nobody's disputing the quality of the hardware.

Samsung puts out some good tech, but I don't think they do anything great, they just kinda do everything mediocre. I have heard that the radio in the S3 is about as good as the one in the Electrify, from someone at US Cellular who tested them both showing the signal in dB (dBa?), the Motorola still won but it was by an insignificant amount. The S3's screen is exciting, but don't disregard the value of a hardware keyboard. I think the S3 supports USB OTG though, and you can get an OTG cable from Amazon for about a buck and a mini keyboard from Newegg for $15, if you want to type a lot. I'm wishing my Electrify supported it.

In short they are both good phones, you don't have a bad choice, but if it were me I'd take the Q if I were on Sprint. (USCC isn't getting the Q; the Electrify successor is a re-branded Atrix HD. I might take the S3 over the Electrify 2, though in that case I'd just stick with my Electrify.)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] spife:
Came across this torn apart of xperia ion on a chinese forum. I haven't got time to translate chinese into english yet. I will do that when I have time later today.

http://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/mobile/15611201.html

** credits: pconline.com.cn **

battery

vibrator, side key and camera module
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jeriku:
Excellent! I'll be looking forward to seeing a translation.

Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zackspeed:
Just use Google translate. I will say after seeing this I will for sure not be tearing one of these apart to replace a digitizer. I have had allot of devices apart but this thing looks very complicated.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jeriku:
A real translation would be better than a translator any day.

Looks complicated, but you never know when necessity will strike.

Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zedonetx:
mic replacement

Hi,

How difficult to replace the mic of Xperia ion. My mic has problems. It gives low sound to other end during calls as if I am speaking from far side.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item27d73c2f83

Is it easy to replace it?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Midomad:
hi

how can i enable sattelite view in last google maps version 6.10.0?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Pitkeno:
yes, of course u can do this by press the menu button then selecting layers and then satellite ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quera:
I've been using JJ's hybrid + ArcKnight Kernel, but now I want to test a GB firmware.

I downloaded this from XDA: "LT18i_4.0.2.A.0.62_Generic World UK.ftf", which I think is the latest stock GB.

I've made a nandroid backup via ClockWorkMod, however, looking into backup folder I see there are only 4 files inside, which are

data.yaffs2.img (370 MB);

system.yaffs2.img (190 MB);

cache.yaffs2.img (37 KB);

nandroid.md5 (some bytes);

My questions:

1. When I flash the above .ftf file with Flashtool which folders/partitions will be overwritten?

2. How about the other folders such as /etc, /sys, /dev and so on?

3. After flashing the above .ftf file, will I be able to restore my current ROM only by restoring those 4 files with ClockWorkMod?

Thanks guys!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popthosegaskets:
Answers to your questions:

1. When you flash a ftf file, everything on your phone will be flashed unless you have chosen not to flash certain contents of the ftf like the simlock.ta since it will lock your phone to the UK network. The options are under Flashtool which you can select prior to the flashing operation.

2. As I said earlier, everything on your phone will be flashed. These files will be overwritten. Only the memory card is not affected.

3. Yes, you can, but you have to flash a CWM kernel after flashing the ftf file as the ftf file also flashes a new kernel.

Hope this helps :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rok3109:
Alright so I started the process of rooting, unlocking, and flashing the Bean ROM on my VZW GS3. I backed up using Nandroid and Titanium backup, rooted and unlocked the bootloader using EX Unlock yesterday. Then, without flashing a ROM, I rebooted my phone. And then I got drunk. Today, I flashed recovery, booted into recovery mode, deleted the user data (again) and installed then installed the Bean ROM. I figured my bootloader was still unlocked but I guess it wasn't. Now I'm getting the "This System Software not authorized by Verizon Wireless..." message.

Anybody have any clue what to do now?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tpike:
Restock the Rom via odin flash of stock files from Adams thread

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tu3218:
You say you made a nandroid yesterday but today you just flashed recovery. I'm confused.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
If you use ez unlock I'd say unlock and lock twice. Recovery told me I wasn't unlocked at first.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rok3109:
Hey guys, so I have been trying to work at this and here is where I'm at...

I'm following section 6 of this post [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762709]. Everything works as listed except for when I select the ROM from the three in that post and try and run it through Odin. It always fails. I tried all three ROMs with the same result and since I don't know what exactly is keeping this from working, I can't troubleshoot it in any way. If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] twingle:
I get this problem in y htc evo 3d when i open recovery it shows yellow exclamation mark i proceed with pressing volume up+power buttons. Then in bottom of the commands it says Can't open /cache/recovery/command. After i press begin update from external storage it says invalid operation. Success rebooting by reason oem_00. Help me please I tried to install other rom. It is unlocked S-ON non-rooted hboot 1.53.007 latest android 4.0.3

Help please! Need to install Custom ROM!
[General Questions and Answers] thebeastglasser:
In other words, you haven't installed a custom Recovery yet. Don't worry, at least you haven't bricked it like I did with my Old Epic 4G.

Here's what you have to do.

Download SDK-Tools. http://goo.gl/zmFNr

Move it to your C:\ directory (assuming that's you're on Windows otherwise I can't help), afterwards... unzip there.

Then, download TWRP, (this is from my own personal stash please don't go around distributing it) http://goo.gl/oeA2b

And take the "recovery.img" and put in your now unzipped SDK-Tools folder.

From here on out you're going to be using the command prompt to control your phone. Pray that you have Android Debugging checked on your phone, otherwise this probably won't work.

Go to the Windows flag on the bottom left corner, and type in "cmd" and hit enter.

Command prompt open. Time to get into SDK-Tools. From here on out I'll be using code to explain, it there's an extra space between a line, that means you have to hit enter.

cd c:\sdk-tools

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

And there you have it, you've now flashed your recovery. You now have two options, you can reboot into the System (GUI, ROM, whatever you want to call it.)

fastboot reboot

(if that doesn't work, try "adb reboot" but I believe the first is correct)

Or you can now go to the recovery...

fastboot boot recovery recovery.img

That's it! Enjoy!

And when you eventually get the courage to obtain S-Off, check my signature. Make sure to thank Globatron when you're done!
[General Questions and Answers] twingle:
Thank you very much for your tutorial, everything was very clear and I made everything easily. Now there's another, even funnier problem. When I am trying to access Recovery, it just reboots my phone? How can be this?