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[Asus Transformer TF700] lovekeiiy:
I didn't get the dock because I had blue tooth keyboard I got to use with my smartphone. I had already paid $100 for it. Thus paying another $100 to $150 for something I could already use didn't seem to make good sense. Plus, I knew I only use it here and there. And when you connect a blue tooth keyboard, the virtual keyboard doesn't pop up, at least one that uses HID protocol.

Instead, I got the Astro battery, which I could use with multiple devices and a folding portable tablet stand for $10.

And frankly, I have a laptop. I wanted something to consumer media and easier to drag around the house and work, that was powerful, good display, and not iOS.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtenniswood:
Completely with you, the onscreen keyboard is enough for me, love the lightness that not having the keyboard brings.
[LG Optimus 2x] danydani90:
This is XXMrHyde`s UNOFFICIAL Build RC2-18 with icons from o4x so don't get too excited ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] LarsPT:
Cool pictures :)
[LG Optimus 2x] Skyfall007:
where did you get lg icons?
[LG Optimus 2x] danydani90:
I found system files on o4x formus
[LG Optimus 2x] Skyfall007:
can you post it please?
[LG Optimus 2x] ghadap:
Nice!!!

Sent from my thoughts using telepathy :banghead:
[LG Optimus 2x] korgndm:
Me gusta!
[LG Optimus 2x] danydani90:
These are the icons that i've used
[LG Optimus 2x] draugurio:
Really nice job.
[Galaxy S III General] For_itembine:
Is this real life? Can't Samsung allocate some ram for it and cache it so I doesn't lag on start up everytime?
[Galaxy S III General] watsa:
Isn't JB still unofficial?
[Galaxy S III General] JSale:
Yes jellybean is still unofficial, but I still get this On ics :(
[Galaxy S III General] For_itembine:
I just find it weird that I can play nova 3 flawlessly yet lag in the widgets menu. :D Samsung need to fix this.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
Wait for official Jellybean.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Aye. The widgets menu always lags. It's pretty annoying that a quad-core phone with 1GB of RAM can't handle such a simple task.
[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
I think samsung forgot to include "Project Butter" for jelly bean s3 :D
[Galaxy S III General] mwatson:
Seriously... What's wrong with this phone? It's really is a huge disappointment isn't it. My old s2 way out performs this thing. I bet even the huawei accend performs better. Prob worth replacing this with it! Doesn't it have 2gb of ram too?
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Don't think smoothness is their highest priority right now, but to work out all of the bugs. They'll work on smoothing it out after it has been released. :) That's at least how they've always done it, not that their original firmwares haven't always been smooth, but they are almost always a lot better when they mature. The original firmwares for the SGS2 were really slow, but Samsung managed to improve the performance by a lot in later firmwares and the same goes for the SGS3. :)

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Please buy a huawei and don't let the door hit you on the way out!
[Galaxy S III General] mwatson:
You must be a school child judging by your reply. It's like you've taken my comment as a personal remark about yourself bless you. Remember.. This is just a phone. No tribal allegiances required.
[Galaxy S III General] JanusMagus:
Oh my god...Seriously?
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
If you are dissapointed then you don't use your phone as it is ment to... sad to say!

For me SG3 is WAY better than SG2, it runs well, it's smooth as hell, impresive battery, great gaming and screen... OH! But it lags when entring Widgets menu, a menu I hardly touch on the first day I configure my phone or maybe if I install some new app!

But hey, it's worth throwing it to the bin because of it, who wants a laggy widget menú?

Omfg I'm hardly impressed some times in here...

No need on personal attacks anyway, he just comented what we all think about your comment...
[Galaxy S III General] Ausboy 2011:
Lol how is the gs2 better than gs3 haha :D
[Galaxy S III General] yamensaleh:
This is why sometimes I hate xda -no offince-
[Galaxy S III General] ruk212:
I agree wtf is the widget draw lagging for ' you'd think they'd alacate a touch of ram for some kind of stay in memory script like apex launcher does for launcher its simple really but Samsung devs suck ar@e at common sense' hopefully they'll pull there finger out on official jb and nullify the (error) before a custom rom Dev writes a script to fix the issue and maybe they'll fix the grey cloud issue on lock screen with there much hyped ripple effect using black wallpapers ' this phone should not lagg, jerk,stutter or redraw period, p.s I luv my nearly perfect s3 rant over :D

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[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
I can compromise on smoothness because I know custom kernals and custom roms will handle that job pretty fine. All I want now is the bugs to be fixed, esp fc bugs.
[Galaxy S III General] mwatson:
Zero lag. Brighter screen. More available ram. Better audio in video recorder app.
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
S3 has a better quality screen, mine has zero lag and as of right now this is how my ram looks.

Audio is fixed in the JB leaks.

You just don't know how to set yours up right is all. :rolleyes:

"You come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar Little.
[Galaxy S III General] zaid10:
I don't think the way you do about your comment. I do agree with him about what he said that the s2 runs better because I actually compared them both and the s2 runs faster and smoother. Also it is useless when you say "it runs well, its smooth as hell..." when you are trying to justify a comparison.. The s3 does run well, and it is smooth (well not really) but comparing it to the s2 we get the s2 as a winner. Try looking at the ram usage for the s3 and the s2, the s3 is almost always locked at 470+ and maximum is 780, the s2 with recently cleared memory has 200 mbs of ram used, and can reach up to 800.

So don't attack him just because you are too self righteous about your opinion. He has a point.
[Galaxy S III General] OriginsOfLewis:
Android isn't really optimised for muli-core, only one can be used at any time. The SII runs better as it's lighter with less bloatware, don't buy a phone purely for the fact it has great specs because until Android can fully utilise all 4 cores you're no better off than someone who has 2.
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
Wrong.

My S3 hovers around 470mb when I have lots of apps open, when I clear it (just for this comparison, clearing ram is an idiotic thing to do, wanting free ram is a noob thing.) I have 293mb used.

Secondly the maximum is not 780, now it is 833mb, which is MORE than the S2.

Get your facts straight before you start stating stuff so matter of factly.

"You come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar Little.
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
"You come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar Little.
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
You came to a developer forum to rant about how you are disappointed in your phone, yet fail to see how unbecoming that is. The only school child here is you. If you don't like the phone, then sell it and buy a new one, it does not interest those of us who come here seeking to modify and better our devices. So once again, buy a Huawei and please don't come back. Your rants do not help anyone.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
WIll answer both in here, android system has a memory management that... saying it easy, "free RAM means wated RAM".

I agree if you have more RAM free you won't have redraw, but this won't happen anyway as when you overload the RAM it will kill launcher anyway...

On S2 I can't play as smooth as on S3 for example, and why do you bother about RAM actually? Having more free RAM is not the key to having a better phone omfg... You could take some reading on memory management for android and so on...

For example this article wrote some time ago helped me much:

http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care

If you still say "ok maybe it's not RAM but S2 runs better than S3" I can't debate there, but for me it isn't and I have both devices fully wiped just in front of me right now.

Have you considered the option to try Apex or Nova launchers? Maybe the "issue" is due to different behaviour between TW on S2 than S3? You could give that a try!
[Galaxy S III General] raf2k:
Is it forbidden to criticise this phone? you sound like a fanboy.

I'm also disappointed with s3 performance. This will be my last non Google pure phone and maybe the last Android phone, depends on wp8 popularity.

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[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
Not to disrespect you or anything, but 'free ram is wasted ram' sounds like complete bs to me. I mean, why don't we go back to 512 MB of RAM then? Or maybe even 256?

Free ram is there for you to use it, it is by no means 'useless', and I hate to see my apps crap out from multitasking after the 5th one or so opens up.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
You should at least read before... nvm, not worth discusing with people who is not willing to learn, enjoy your new... Huawei, iPhone, or whatever you like most :)

And ofc, we should stick to 512 then, but when you NEED the 1Gb RAM it's good to have it there ;) You don't need 1 Gb RAM to use Whatsapp, but you need it to play games or multitask heavily, so better having it there even if some times it's "wasted".

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Agree on the point of non-google phones, but still you have a big bunch of Sam's based AOSP ROM's that can bring you nearly that sensation but on this pretty device (check Romow for example, still leaks and betas ofc, but looks sooo promising to me at least, no sammy crap at all).

Let's see how it goes with WP8, it looks so ugly to me, but quite helpful, so personal choice is no, but productivity may say yes to WP8? Who knows, let time be :)
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Of course it is, but not in the way he did it. It was clearly nothing but a flamebait. If you want to improve the performance, then just read a couple of things on these forums and learn to do it yourself, or wait for Samsung to fix it. Complaining gets you nowhere.

Now, if we instead of complaining about the issue, could figure out how to solve it, everyone would win.
[Galaxy S III General] ABC_Universal:
Good for you. I have both and l loved S2, but S3 is way better.
[Galaxy S III General] giftedgiggsy11:
It lags on ICS too, it's just does it whilst it loads all the pages of widgets. If you wait 5 or so seconds after you've opened your widgets then try and scroll through them it doesn't lag.
[Galaxy S III General] tomboymad:
Only people who can not afford an S3 are daring enough to say that S2 is better. I said.

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[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
totally wrong, i used galaxy s2 for 8 months, now using s3 for 2 months, i have to say that ram management in s2 was much much better than s3, i never ever faced a lag even for 1 sec on s2 but i am facing lag on s3 almost everytime

sent from: designed for humans :)
[Galaxy S III General] dave6018:
Android from ics and above is designed for multicore cpus, I have been disappointed with the jb leaks but I'm not worried as the first official ics roms for the s2 where awful!! I'm currently running a stock Nordic country lh3 Rom and have zero complaints, no lag, excellent battery life 4 hours screen on time with heavyish use, everybody just needs to be patient as Samsung will sort it, if anybody doesn't think there making progress just flash the first Rom your phone came with then run antutu and make note of the score then flash again with latest and repeat the test and compare
[Galaxy S III General] tomboymad:
I had a S2 too and the difference between them is so noticeable. S3 wins (but S2 is a great phone too. The best of 2011)

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[Galaxy S III General] Jay Ssj:
What do you expect of Samsung tochwiz!
[Galaxy S III General] veyka:
Closed, there is constructive discussion, and then there is just plain trolling eachother, this thread has gone over the line into the latter.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpalman75:
Hello all,

Yesterday evening my Nexus S started to continually reboot, sometimes getting as far as the Launcher, sometimes not. I've tried removing the SIM, it doesn't help. I'm not sure what recovery mode is supposed to do, but it reboots out of that too. I never rooted it or anything; is there something I can try before I go for the factory reset?

Best,

Danny.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MRsf27:
simple answer : factory reset ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Billchen0014:
try reboot into safe mode, by long pressing power off in the power menu. if this doesn't work, then factory reset. DO NOT PIRATE APPS! because this is what happens when you try to save a few cents by pirating.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpalman75:
Safe mode survives for about a second before it reboots again.

I've never pirated apps.

I think it's time to do a factory reset while I ponder the stupidity of doing an sms backup and leaving the backup file on the phone.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojoost:
I'm afraid you will have to do a factory reset, but I would advise you to just root your phone! It's very easy nowadays, and it only gives you a win-win situation. Of course only if you use your phone normally.

Greetzz, Jojoost
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpalman75:
Yes, I was thinking about rooting if I have to do a factory reset anyway. Actually I spent yesterday trying to figure out if there was a way to access the internal "sd card" from recovery mode using adb, but I wasn't getting anywhere with that, and now the phone looks like it needs the attentions of http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397393 (does anyone know if that works under gentoo rather than ubuntu?)

The phone's halfway through a two year contract so there's a small chance that someone might fix it for me for free on Monday morning, whatever I just need it to be in a usable state on Tuesday morning because I have to go and do a scientific experiment at a synchrotron.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwibis:
My advice would be: try backing up whatever you need, there are some free backup apps out there. Then if you don't want to void warranty, root your phone and install titanium backup. The paid version allows you to set schedules that it will backup your phone. In case something like this happens again, you will not have the same problem.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostman.it:
we finally have evidence that pirated files causes hardware defects! :confused:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpalman75:
The UnBrickable thing didn't detect it, so I took it to get fixed under guarantee. It's now Somebody Else's Problem. Thanks for the suggestions.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Don't be stupid now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpalman75:
I finally got it back today...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
So, I got my first glimps at the A789. So to speak. My colleague was holding it while we were audio-skype, so I did not actually see it.

His A789 came with a Etotalk ROM by Dean, which I now suspect is a reworked Smileyvvv ROM with Sony Experia interface. Not bad, but as you know, I am a 'factory ROM' guy. My colleague may also be, because he had already replaced the the SE launcher with GO Launcher, which is the default Lenovo one. Also my colleague said it jammed a few times, which it still has not done on my factory A750 ROM.

Most of the phone worked, but a few tips for others out there:

- The phone still has the Called-ID bug. Even though it is newer 4.0,4. I know some of you claim this is solved on ICS Mediatek, but I still claim it is solved in *some* of the cases, not all, it also depends on how your provider sends the caller ID info. Anyway, you can work around it with the prefixer app as reported before.

- It did not come with the MobileUncle tool, but with the Etotalk tool. Which was not updated for the new MT6577 chip, so it had no Engineer Mode. Install the latest MU tool (version 20120813v2.2.0 its in my Dev-Host), so you get one with MT6577 Engineer mode.

- Recovery Mode was hard to get into. Like the newest A750 preloader, you have to press the power putton *just before* you press both volume buttons. But it did came with the CWMR Touch, though its Touch function was broken, so buttons only. They probably simply tried recovery images of other models, and did not properly build one with the A789 kernel, but it does not matter, it works well enough.

- Location services did not work. Update the phone with the ICS_locationfix_v1.3 update using recovery mode. While you are in recovery, also wipe cache. And finally, go into MobileUncle tool, the MTK Engineer mode, and in location settings, change the NetLoc from MEDIATEK to GOOGLE. Now your location services should work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Lenovo A789 Recovery

I created a recovery image for the Lenovo A789 based on ClockWorkMod Touch 5.5.0.4. However, I do not own a A789, so until I have reports of it working, consider it untested. You can download it from my Dev-Host: File A789_S22x_recovery_cybermaus.rar

NOTE: It has come to my attention this recovery works well, except the nandroid backup function, which is broken. If you value nandroid backup, install the APKHOT one below.

While doing this, I also found a full APKHOT distro which had what seems to be a CLockWorkMod (non-Touch) recovery in it, so I extracted that and also uploaded it. That too you can download from my Dev-Host: File A789_S22x_recovery_apkhot.rar

Both of them you will have to flash using the flash tool, using bgcngm's excellent manual, and the V3.1222 of the flash utilities and drivers, also in my Dev-Host. If you flashed my V2 ROM, you do not need to do this, as the recovery is already part of that.

Once you have the recovery installed, you can enter it by pressing both VolumeUp/Down while booting the phone. Due to an issue with the preloader, it may be needed to press the power button slightly before both volume buttons. If the phone seems stuck, it means the preloader messed up, remove battery and try again.

Inside the recovery (the Touch variant) you can navigate not only by its physical buttons, but also by screen buttons, and by gestures: swipe up/down for up/down, left for back and right for enter.

The first few people using this, please report your findings, good or bad.

PS: As alwasy, thanks to bgcngm for his unpack utilities, which I used to modify the recovery.img
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Lenovo A789 Root; GAPPS, Location DIY

Its been mentioned before, but if you have a working recovery (like above, hopefully), you can always yourself root your phone. Simply install (from inside the recovery) chainfire's "CMW installable ZIP"

Link to his post: (ignore his big red requires root warning)

The file you need is labeled "CWM installable ZIP" at the bottom.

Direct link to the file you need to install via recovery update.zip

And while you are at it: You probably also want to install the latest Google Mobile Services (better known as GAPPS) from CyanogenMod V9:

Explaining wiki from CyanogenMod

The file you need is called gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip and can be found here

You probably also want to wipe your cache partition after doing this.

To complete this DIY of fixing factory ROM: On Chine phone typically the location services do not work. Update the phone with my A750 V1.3 update using recovery mode. (

it works on the A789 because it is a minor update, but *DO NOT* any of the other A750 updates on the A789. I repeat, do *NOT* flash A750 on A789)

. While you are in recovery, also wipe cache. And finally, go into MobileUncle tool, the MTK Engineer mode, and in location settings, change the NetLoc from MEDIATEK to GOOGLE. Now your location services should work.

Good luck

PS: If either update.zip refuses to install, remember to turn off the checksum and assert checks in the recovery.

And thanks to Chainfire for his work, and the team at CyanogenMod for theirs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Yes, a recovery is on the todo.

But for now, you did not answer my questions yet:

- Can you tell me what ROM you have? Or had. Original Lenovo Factory, Etotalk-Dean, some other?

- Which flash tools did you use to root? Or rather, which files did you flash using that tool to deal with root. Actually, the fact that you had to root it yourself probably means you had factory ROM, but please confirm.

As stated, I am uploading S221 original to my Dev-Host. Flash that with the flash tool. On short notice, that is all I can do. On longer notice, I will help you, but give me some time.

Edit: In fact: You you already have messed up your recovery, and I do not have a A789 to play with myself, you may be my guinea pig for the recovery build. So I will work on that today. (as today is not a working day for me anyway). If you do not mind being a tester. After all, the damage is already done, and you apparently already know how to flash using the utility.

EDIT: @ hwonggc : Please test recovery in post#3. Just update your post below with results, or PM me. I would like to avoid too many new posts on this while we are testing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hwonggc:
Yes yes. I had the factory rom. I got the phone just yesterday evening and this afternoon it's half dead already. I use smart phone flash tool to root using a file i got from http://www.fight.org.ua/publications...novo_A789.html. Everything was fine until I deleted the original home UI and the apex launcher also. So there isn't anything I can do. I'm downloading the S223 from some russian site and try, hopefully I can find some luck there. Downloading slowly~ sighhhh.

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BTW~ i'm willing to test out your rom too! I wouldn't want to sound too demanding, put please please put in the play store will ya?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
I posted the custom build, see first post. It may take a while before I can get it uploaded, I am on a bad link.

Also, there have been 20 downloads on the recovery image. Come on guys, someone must be able to provide feedback about it working or not!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] basell:
A789_S227_cybermaus_V2 ROM is working

Hello

Thanks for Your work.

Your A789_S227_cybermaus_V2 ROM is working.

Simple Flashing and start without problems. Now I must check some functions.

Thx again

basell

Edit:

The 3g connections don't work at first run. After restore they start but in My opinion with less sensitivity (compare to stock rom). It's look like A789 loose some frequency on witch can work.

Edit2:

And they have some strange behavior - After couple min of data connection (on 3G) they disconnect with information - "Restricted access changed" and the same is when I try to choose network manually. After that sometimes they login to 3G sometimes they change to EDGE.

In Stock version (S221) was not this kind of problems.

Edit3:

In place with good 3G signal I have no problem with data transfer.

How Can I check on witch frequency (2100,900,850) I have connected My data transfer?