yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] kgorilla:
Thanks for the reply. So it seems the iGo tip is certainly still a possibility, i'm still waiting on them to get back to me.

While I am certainly not an electrician, I did find a thread here: Sorry it is on another forum and I don't have enough posts yet... It is titled Is "there a car charger for the A500" on androidtablets.net

They indicate that a 2000mA car charger from amazon works to charge the tab: Search for B0042X8XOQ on amazon.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if that 2000mA charger charges the tab, wouldn't the proposed USB corded solution (with special 2-2.1A port) also work?

Thanks again!
[HTC One S] arnold1997:
There is an annoying red square randomly popping out of no where around my screen. Im sorry if this has been asked before but is there any way i can get rid of it ?
[HTC One S] arnold1997:
Anyone....this is a screenshot
[HTC One S] invasion2:
It's something in developer options in settings. Sorry I don't know it off the top of my head

Sent from my HTC One S running ViperOneS!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
So I just compared my GF's S2 (my old phone) with my S3 and I noticed that the S2 is actually faster in loading most apps. Mostly in stock apps like messaging, play store and youtube but also in games like ruzzle or when long pressing the button so the multitasking menu comes up. Performance wise the S3 still beats the S2 (benchmarks and games) so thats why I wonder why things like I mentioned are faster on the S2.

Both phones are on the latest stock rom.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
I might make a video of it if I find my video camera.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfsmw_gr:
I actually have noticed that too..

The s2 stock sammy based roms are better/faster to me than the s3 ones...

I think the s3 ones suck big time basicaly...:( (except jelly bean of course...;) )

I use only AOSP right now and i suggest you to do the same until jelly bean is out...:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungAceAtlanta:
Maybe its the touchwiz crap..

Touchwiz 4 was pretty light.. then they added Touchwiz 5/UX and all that extra gimmick features that no one will notice or use on a daily..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiquidNarwhal:
If it's that much faster than your s3 than just use your s2 this thread is just whiny and really has no business here. Hoping a mod will quickly lock this. I mean really saying the s2 is faster than the s3 will do nothing more than incite a flame war and insults. seriously stop posting dumb stuff like this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSale:
Lighten up ;)

this thread may ascertain what causes said smoothness on the S2, unlikely but maybe :D

Regards

Jack
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
No way, I have used stock non rooted s2 side by side with my S3 and S3 always ended faster/smoother by miles.

I think the op has poorly configured his s3.

《tapatalked from galaxy s3》
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomatoes8:
Is it still GB? GB is definitely lighter than ICS and it is faster to render 800X480 than 720p.

That said, I think the GS2 was a bit of a fluke. Not very often do you have a phone released so early in the year dominate for the entire year, especially an Android one. It was a bit of the Exynos catching the cycle early while Qualcomm and OMAP were still milking their last gen chips. Either way, way ahead of its time.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kulisap:
+1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunwee:
yes i've done this test too. i put both phone side by side and launch apps simultaneously.

s2 is definitely faster in loading app most of the time. however it only happen on first launch or app that have not been launch for a while. if you repeatedly open the same app, then the difference is negligible.

my unprofessional take on this is that it is probably ram related. on s2 where there is usually ample ram, the apps launch into ram straight off, whereas on s3 (mine tends to have only about 100+mb free ram and i've frozen most of the bloats), it needs to page out unused processes before the new app can be loaded.

also bear in mind that s3 has to cope with a larger screen resolution and as you noted is quicker in raw performance.

i am curious to see this test performed on the international 1gb s3 vs the korean 2gb s3 though! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamie2002uk:
I agree my s3 on lg8 is so much smoother then a friends s2 on latest stock
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
How can I have poorly configured my phone? I did a complete whipe yesterday and I have no software on it that could slug the device.

I'm not even trying to whine here. It just seemed pretty strange to me. And if this thread is so stupid to you why did you even take time to comment on it then? Just keep your witty comments to yourself in the future, please.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
Also one thing I noticed with facebook is that if you launch it without having it opened earlier, the S2 will beat the S3 by some seconds, but then if you close it and open it again the S2 first shows the logo again for a couple of second and then shows the newsfeed while my S3 immediately drops into my newsfeed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neofral:
smooth up your Galaxy S 3

just go to SETTINGS -> DEVELOPER OPTIONS and change the WINDOW ANIMATION SCALE and TRANSITION ANIMATION SCALE to 0.5x and see the changes ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disclaimernotice:
How could it be poorly configured? Well, for one, I find that my S3 runs significantly faster when S voice is disabled. Similarly, there is a whole host of background running apps and resource hogging processes that come out of the box. After disabling all of these, my S3 performs better than any other phone.

However, if you're merely comparing the speed of opening the app drawer or opening a mere app like messages, then even a single cored phone can sometimes open these things faster, depending on what's currently in the ram. It's just like how a regular computer can calculate 1+1 as fast as a super computer, as measured using the naked eye.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
Already did that :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathanyong:
The answer to this is if you've done any benchmarks eg. Antutu you'll notice that the sd card speeds on the sgs3 are pretty average for a high end device. This is what's causing apps to load unoptimally. Custom roms and kernels can help though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
While I agree with you in most things, the ram of the phones were both almost equally full. Also loading apps is completely dependant of how fast the phone's processor is but also how fast the flash and ram memory is and really can't be compared to 1+1. So the S3 should just launch everything quicker, but it doesn't which struck me as odd. I think it has to do something with how Samsung programmed the phone. Which would seem to me as bad programming. But then again I don't know a **** about programming.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathanyong:
See benchmark comparison image. Notice how the sgs3 has slower write and database io compared to the hox and slower read compared to the Meizu.

I get > 50MB/s on my sgs3 because I'm using a wanam 2.2 + siyah 1.5.2 so if you want to squeeze out some extra performance, use custom ****.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielsf:
Hi, this screen shot is off the latest jelly been leak, and my i/o is excellent, one of the best on any device I own. I have both the s2 and s3 and the s3 is by far the fastest when they were both on stock or both on cm9.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rj3005:
My SGS3 is much smoother faster than my GF SGS2 (my old phone) both on ICS stock + nova launcher

Maybe the OP has power savings enabled?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garagedroid:
Is there anything we could switch off on S3, that will make things faster? Maybe some Samsung addons that run in the background?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KMino:
S Voice options, turn them all off and all that Share crap :D

Use Kies? If not delete /system/bin/kiesexe or rename it. Also freeze all the System apps you don't use. Titanium backup, System Tuner Pro or just use Disable under Applications. Is a good list somewhere to get what's what. :)

Also flash a custom kernel, I recommend Siyah, try a stable release. It shall also hugely improve sound quality :D but let's not go there lol..

Further tweaks you could look at Thunderbolt script by Pikachu. But not much for sgs3 yet, main script, SQL optimize works and the lmk ones. But doubt you'd need the lmk ones or main one with a good kernel like Siyah. ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skander1998:
Easy.

S2 = One year of active development and bug fixes.

S2 = Smaller screen resolution.

S3= New phone and new firmware, still not so many updates and optimizations yet.

S3= Higher screen resolution using more power, but this won't be an issue with the hardware.

So to properly compare both phones, give the S3 at least 6 more months of updates.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0semaj0:
thanks for such an educated answer Skander...please OP...the S3 isnt one of the worlds best selling handset for being slower than the S2...haha...yes, my S3 is faster/smoother than my S2 in every way possible...I still have my S2 :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dymanic:
toinste construction

Well, I just setup my Dads new S2 for him and the first thing I thought was boy this is much slower than my S3.

S3 is so much smoother in menus and everything. Saying that I dont use the Touchwiz launcher (use Apex) but from memory Touchwiz was maybe even smoother than Apex.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgebizkit:
I don't know much about the speed of the s2 but I played with my dads s2 yesterday and the overall feel of it was... Let's just say that I'd never have bought an s2 anditsno wonder I used to hate android, the s3 is the first android phone I've ever liked the feel of, the beauty of the top end ics firmware on the top end hardware made it perfect for me. Everything about the s2 from the screen to the old touchwizz skin put me off, the buttons, the menus, it was all horrible in comparison. Just saying
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
Yeah but it's still much faster than the S2 in the benchmarks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
I'm not saying it's not as smooth just some things take longer to load. I don't have power savings mode enabled and my phone is just fine etc. etc. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorator:
I have both and use them both.

The S2 is a fantastic phone but is a bit slower in every aspect (not much but still).

XWLPU vs XXBLG8 (transition animations off on both)

EOD
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
Jelly Bean resolves this problem completely. I'm on the leaked LI8 firmware and it's wicked fast.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halogen_guy:
I had an S2 and upgraded to the S3. I have to say that my S2 ran smoother in general and was more stable too. I had westcrip's Resurrection Remix ICS and never had a problem. Loved it. When I got my S3, the first thing I did was install westcrip's Resurrection Remix for the S3 but the experience wasn't the same.

On the S2, I never had homescreen redraws, wake delay or running out of ram, all of which are issues I'm experiencing with my S3. Sometimes I wish I still had my S2, only sometimes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Overall, S3 is smoother by miles. What you're talking about is that initial lag when launching stock messaging/contacts list/dialer. This is because the S3 is much more memory deficient than the S2 (uses much more memory for the stock ROM package), which results in it shutting down those apps to free up memory. In other words, you're constantly launching those brand new (instead of from cache), resulting in initial lag.

(Notice how the messaging app is constantly "redrawing" by initializing with only phone numbers and then showing the proper contact labels shortly after launch. This means it was shut down by the memory manager and needed to be restarted.)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenjen:
No I actually made sure in neither phones the apps were cached.
[EVO 4G General] hivinod:
Hello, I bought a new htc evo 4g phone, It came with 4.0.3 os, how do i downgrade the os 2.3.6. any info on this will be great help thanks
[EVO 4G General] PHE-NOM:
You bought the new EVO 4G LTE, or the a new EVO 4G?
[EVO 4G General] hivinod:
Hi,I bought the new Evo 4G Lte phone with sprint.
[EVO 4G General] Ferenczy68:
Head on over to Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE forums and ask there ;)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chillinPanda:
Hello,

I have a german keyboard dock and I use SwiftKey 3 Tablet, because I like the split keyboard layout and word prediction is good.

The problem is that the special keys on the keyboard dock like <>\/{} etc. are at the position of the US keyboards layout.

SwiftKey fortunately has an option for the hardware keyboard layout, but unfortunately changing to german still does not fit all special characters.

When I plug the tablet into the dock, this message pops up:

"Change to ASUS keyboard to keep consistency with hardware keyboard."

Do you now how to fix this without rooting? And if rooting is necessary, are there fixes?

Greetings from Germany :)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecb116:
Using tasker might help you out

Check http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081856
[HTC Sensation] alitomari:
I'm using Bruce's CM10 buid and it's incredible, only thing I don't like is the beep sound that happens when you press the volume rocker buttons. When I wake the phone with them, the phone gives that annoying beep. I know in Sense based roms you can go into the media folder and delete the .ogg audio files for the volume rocker sounds. But there are no audio files in the media folder in CM10. Does anyone know where these files are, or how to disable the beep sounds?
[HTC Sensation] desirez_pete:
bump I would like to turn off the sound also. Really annoying when using another app.
[HTC Sensation] fatguy666:
Double bump!

I've got the S3 but seeing as I'm running CM10 I imagine if there was a solution for this it would be the same.
[HTC Sensation] underlines:
Tripple bump
[HTC Sensation] webharsh:
I'm on AOKP, so maybe because of that I don't get beep while waking up with volume Rocker.

See if you have followng option in CM -

Settings > Sound > Uncheck "Volume Adjust Sound" (Scroll down to bottom to see this option).
[HTC Sensation] serio22:
I'm using the same Rom and don't get any beeps with the volume rocker wake :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tu3218:
So I like to use Rom Manager to manage my backups. I downloaded it but now it says I don't have cwm installed. I flashed it with EZ recovery. Would I be okay to flash recovery again so RM acknowledges it and I can then manage backups or would that conflict.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Eric_L_1:
Great Question - Thanks for asking it

By now you've probably plotted the solution. But, I was wondering the same question. Which App is better and why?

I will continue working on this for myself. All I have come up with so far: Some ROM's install better with one or the other and it's best to have all-hands-on-deck, so to speak

Again thanks for starting this thread!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bhags8:
I have the same question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
rom manager has cwm 6.0.1.2 touch which has issues restoring backups on some roms from what I have read. cwm 6.0.1.1 non touch from ez recovery works flawless for everything and thats what I stick with. the only issue found with it is the nandroid dates are way off, but simply renaming them fixes that issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
I thought the issue was with cwm touch 5 . something that ez recovery offers and not with the updated 6.0.1.2 through rom manager?

I'm running 6.0.1.2 without any issues, including multiple touchwiz and one aosp backup. Haven't noticed any problems other than never going back to the standard version cause touch is pure awesomeness :D

Sent from my VZW GS3 running Synergy/Trinity/Dark Horse Rises
[LG Nitro HD] AltaEgo:
On Bell P930 HONO ICS, I get "Security Error" on boot after removing pre-install apps

Hello all,

I'm running HONO's rooted Bell ICS v20e ROM on my P930. Trying to remove all the Bell preloaded junk like Kobo, Sympatico, etc but I find that when I reboot afterwards I get an LG logo with "Security Error" at the bottom.

Are there certain preloaded apps I can't remove without bricking the system?

Lucky for me, I've flashed CWM and am able to easily start over on HONO's ROM, but I'd like to be able to remove the stuff I don't want and add the stuff I want and then backup my phone.

Anyone more knowledgeable than me have any advice?

Much appreciated.
[LG Nitro HD] rani9990:
Yes, there are some apps, like Google play music, movies, books, AT&T Address book, and a couple others that cannot be removed. Search in the forums; there's a list.
[LG Nitro HD] AltaEgo:
I'm on HONO's Bell ICS ROM not AT&T.

I'll see if I can find a list for this one.
[LG Nitro HD] AltaEgo:
After reading, I'm guessing it's Google Movies. I guess Google and LG have are in cahoots on that one....

Thank you
[LG Nitro HD] -ReaL-:
Only app that causes security error is Play Movies. Stop posting this problem!
[LG Nitro HD] wflsl:
Videos.apk cannot be removed!don't update
[LG Nitro HD] lordcheeto03:
Speaking of redundancy and not using the search function, can I root my P930? :p hahahaha, j/k
[LG Nitro HD] d0cx:
This should be stickied.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdawg0024:
So I don't have any intention of Rooting my phone and I took the OTA update today that gave me Android 4.0.4 and Sense 4.1.

I can't remember if on Sense 4.0 in the App Association menu if YouTube was in there. It is in Sense 4.1 and gives 2 options for YouTube Links. Use the Browser or use the YouTube App.

The Problem I'm having is I have it set to use the YouTube App however it will only use the browser. I have sent a YouTube link to my phone via Text and Gmail and both times I click on it, it will open the browser. Also in the Facebook App YouTube links will open the browser and not the app. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cyrene:
I just checked and mine is set to you tube and videos open directly in you tube. I haven't been able to verify Facebook yet. Sorry, I'm not much of a help and I hope you can figure it out. Maybe try rebooting by holding the power button down for 10 sec. since the phone has gone through a lot of changes.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdawg0024:
I sent myself a link to my Gmail and it opened the app as normal. Facebook opens the browser. And while in the browser clicking on links still uses the browser. I had to install chrome and make it the default so this would be resolved.

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cyrene:
Facebook opens in the browser for me too, but this doesn't bother me enough to switch to chrome. But thank you for the info.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdawg0024:
I know what you mean. I can't believe HTC wouldnt make an app association work with its own browser.

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ttown:
The map association seems to have the same issue. I have the map association set to open maps, but when I click on directions from the browser it opens up the website and not the app.

This is more of a headache than the YouTube association. Anyone else having the same issue, or have a solution I can try?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdawg0024:
I can confirm that this an issue with the stock browser and map links. Seems that the stock browser overrides the app associations. I have installed Chrome and everything now opens in the appropriate app. If you install chrome you must make it the default browser
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsme1:
After owning a G1 for many years, I switched to some other androids with keyboards, but none of them compared to my good old G1. I finally tried an iphone out and I simply don't like it as much as android. Now I have a G2 and I love it so much except for the notification light. After searching around on these forums, it looks like it is possible to get the speaker LED to work as a notification light. Many of the topics and posts I found were from 2010 so I am looking for confirmation that I can still enable this. It seems crazy to root my phone for one purpose, but that is what I am going to do.

Does this method still work:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8547782&postcount=31

I am currently running 2.3.4 unrooted. If the above method is no longer an option, could you please direct me to the correct way to make this work? I will be rooting my phone shortly if you so.

Thank you for your time.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
it should, but just so you know most custom roms will incorparate something to this extent natively in the rom, I suggest you root and use one of the many amazing custom roms our developers have made, and as I've said you won't even need to do much to enable this.

the most common rom I use is elitemod cm7, this will be very similar to the os you are using now but will be faster, better battery life and loads more tweaks/options for you to play with!

good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsme1:
Thanks for the info. I am having some issues rooting my G2. I am downgrading to 2.2, and it is stuck at infosignature checking. I'm not sure what to do now? Is it safe to turn off my phone? Pull the battery?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Not sure your method of root but I'm guessing you are @ a point where you have a pc10.img being flashed via hboot, without knowing the specifics my guess is you are safe to pull the battery but I can't promise you that. Go to the xda wiki and find the vision/g2/dz root section, the only guides to use for rooting is this one, the cyanogen guide, and strawmetals PDF.

If you get stuck log on to freenode #g2root irc channel
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsme1:
Still Stuck

I tried a different method, following this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TMobile_G2:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)

Everything was going well until I get to the last step. I reboot into the bootloader on my G2. Then I push the power button to select boot loader. At that point the bootloader flashes and shows this screen. http://i.imgur.com/UXxn5.jpg It is frozen on this screen and I can not do anything. All I can do is pull my battery and restart the phone. Any thoughts?

E: I'll try #g2root again later, but right now there isn't much activity there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Snaproo:
Anyone know when this phone will come to ATT?

I think this will be the best phone to end the year and start off the year for Sammy.. Anyone think the GS 3 is still the flagship ? cause I think this is the best phone now.:good: thoughts and opinions Plss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8HxYQut8I
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kiltedthrower:
It has only just been announced and on blogs they're saying sometime in q4. But specifically for AT&T, no one knows.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] welchertc:
Mid October likely. But I could care less. I'm quite content with the performance of the current Note, we have a well established and thriving dev community, and the current screen is better than the new one. And I have a GNex arriving tomorrow. I'll be good on phones until either the next nexus, the next galaxy s, or the next note.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Snaproo:
Do you know if they will be releasing the north american version with the quad core since its compatible with Lte now?.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] SayWhat10:
not feeling the 16:9
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tarahv:
Some time next year. We usually get android devices in the U. S. a few months after the International version has been released.