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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Rudjgaard:
I have an active myself. If you want to keep it down to it's basic functions (which is basically already set as an outdoors device) i would suggest that you don't upgrade to ics and keep the original gingerbread software which has far less battery draining than any ics based rom. About the GPS, i used it severalk times for travbelling and never for tracking so don't know how it works in deep thick woods, but always had speedy lock on and precise navigation. Unlike above user stated most navigation (one with offline maps would probably be best) apps are for trekking and offraod activities, what you can do is modify your gps.conf file to make it specific to your region or area so satellite lock time will be much improved. Just search the forum for gps speed fixes, there's also a patch for agps to help increase satellite locking time.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pos_ei_don:
I own this phone and wanted to do the same as you.

All setups i tried were not stable. sometimes the external power cable got disconnected, sometimes just the app closed.

after months of testing, i reverted to gamin products as they offer a much more rugged and robust hardware. I never managed to track > 20 hours on my active-phone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] HemRoyd:
Thanks for all of your input folks.

I did receive the phone on Friday and had a chance to check it out over the weekend. My first impression is that it has a comfortable size and mass to it and I do not mind the screen size at all. It seems quite speedy and the (Gingerbread) OS operates like butter. I did have difficulty getting the GPS function to lock at first. After prolonged attempts, it wasn't until I installed an app called GPS Test did it finally lock - not quite sure what the difference was, perhaps AGPS may have been responsible. Since then however, I have been attempting to maintain GPS-only locating as I am certain that data would not be available in the majority of my usage areas. I looked at most of the GPS Mapping/Tracking apps and settled on the paid version of AlpineQuest - excellent app. I got my waypoints from my Garmin loaded onto my SD card and was quickly navigating the trails in the woods behind my house. Great stuff!

I got just over 8hrs of solid use out of the first charge on the stock battery, so the phone should keep up with a full day on the trails. I have also ordered a couple of spare batteries and standalone charger for backup. Since this first day of use, I have been using the GPS Test app exclusively to verify my satellite lock prior to using AlpineQuest. I did notice that after prolonged non-usage or following a charge cycle I did have some difficulty locking on to the satellites, however each time it was solved with a phone reboot - after which the GPS Test app would lock on within seconds (even inside the house). Each time I was in airplane mode with WiFi off. I will have to monitor the satellite locking for consistency before I am all in with this device but so far I am quite please with its (stock) performance.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MXR2:
the phone & the user may be active, but the battery is certainly not. the display is not that bright under bright sunlight situations :X
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rullean:
hi, i have the active as well and so far i am pretty satisfied.. not VERY satisfied due to Battery life.. but without that issue, I am satisfied...

I have dropped this baby 4 times already on concrete (2 waist level 2 chest level) and the phone just bounced without any cracked screen (it does have some dents on the silver lining around the screen though), but i can guarantee that this phone is shock proof because on those 4 times, the phone did not even turn-off or restart or even battery breaking out from its case...

I do not do trails but so far, the NavFree app has been very good to me with my driving direction needs... easy locking with GPS and pretty good directions...

Try also searching for build.prop tweaks in the development area of this forum because i think it can help in the phone's performance and a little bit of battery life.. i can do intermittent non-heavy image/flash website surfing and the battery could last more than 8 hours and if I just have my phone on stand by (just waiting for messages and calls and reply to them) battery could last more than 24 hours...

I have to ask you though, were those 1800 batteries better than the 1200 ? I was also thinking of buying spares...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] HemRoyd:
I haven't got them yet, but these are the one's I ordered.

I'm on the .62 build so looks like I have to flash an earlier firmware just to get root. I'd really like to get rid of some of this extra crap and get link2sd going. If you are rooted, what firmware are you running? I just hope the GPS performs just as well on an earlier build.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rullean:
you have to tell me if you notice some increase in battery life with those 1800's...

regarding rooting, i followed this procedure with no problem: http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/241059

just follow it step by step.. also, if you are not aware, you have to flash the kernel using the flashtool before you can flash the rom through CWM.... in anyway, you should not be afraid of bricking your phone because I was able to always restore my phone through that link's procedure..

however, pls do not take my word on it because what works for me might not work for you even if we have the same phone... we still might have a different stock.. so rooting your phone is always at your own risk (my disclaimer, hehehe)

...

regarding rom, i find the free experia rom's quite good... after initial loading of the rom, i got more than 400mb free internal space.. so they did remove a lot of bloated apps that you dont really use...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pos_ei_don:
just as side note: i installed cm10 fxp138 on my active and the battery lasts for 36hours and more. i really like 4.1 jb.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] HemRoyd:
Update

OK, so I am rooted and remain locked. I ended up flashing stock 4.0.2.A.0.42 and then this ROM:

ROM][GB][ALL MDPI] HASA v5 [2.3.7][27/9/12]

My prayers have been answered! This ROM is fast and lean! Thanks very much to sandy7 for his work on this! I followed his instructions exactly as in his first post, however did not need to install the revised camera lib as I had no issues with the camera. I've had absolutely zero issues and love the speed.

Now for the battery life. I finally got the spare batteries I mentioned in the previous post (shipped from China). My initial observation is that these batteries smoke the stock one by a large margin. I still need to spend a little more time on this ROM to be certain. As mentioned before, my goal is to replace my standalone GPS unit with this phone. I am not using phone or data, so I am in airplane mode all the time. I am using wifi a bit. With the stock battery I got about 1 day and 12 hours of standby and light use on wifi and gps with 10% remaining. On the replacement battery I got 3 days and 16 hours with 35% remaining before I decided to try the stock battery again. The stock battery began to drain as soon as I put it in and was down to 85% within the first hour. I don't know, perhaps these stock batteries are junk? I am open to suggestions on how to properly do a test and comparison.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rullean:
omg.. really? so those china batteries work for you? damn.. I want those.. i will buy those..
[Nexus 7 Accessories] bigbuda:
I use my Nexus 7 with a digitalizer table, watch the video how:

bigbuda.blog.com
[Nexus 7 Accessories] jonnyg1097:
While this was pretty cool to see, when you said digitizer table I was expecting it to be like a coffee table surface that you could connect to and then it displays it onto like a huge touch screen surface.

I believe the proper name for what you used though is just tablet drawing surface.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] veeman:
I have the same Digitizer tablet. Which note taking app is that?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] veeman:
Also, when I use it the mouse shows up. But when I take the pen away from the graphics tablet, the cursor on the Nexus 7 disappears and wont come back.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] player911:
Interesting. Would be cool if they had a transparent digitizer that could overlay overtop the Nexus screen to use the pen with a 1 for 1 touch input.

As it is, I can see having this in a flip case with both. Although by the time you invested in a N7 and a Wacom, you could just buy the damn Galaxy Note.
[Asus Transformer TF700] gguy1:
Does anyone know how to fix my dock from randomly not responding... typically what I currently do to get it working again is to un dock the keyboard from the tablet, is there another solution, or is my keyboard just defective.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexkcsia:
hello everyone,

I recently find that my s3 which is on LH1 4.0.4 is charging very slow,

so I decided to upgrade it to the latest firmware, hope for some fix.

I upgraded it to LI5 4.1.1 few days ago, but the problem got worse

now I can't even charge my phone! Both usb and the original ac charger.

Anyone experience the same problem with me?

Or can anyone help me to solve this annoying problem?

thanks a lot, and sorry for my bad english :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaskaran498:
Try charging with phone switched off.

That worked for me once.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
Some resource intensive task is draining your battery simultaneously it seems.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexkcsia:
yeah it seems work but still very slow charging,

and turn off everytime is very annoying:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexkcsia:
huhh.. can i find that out which of the tasks?

and would it be the kernel version problem? thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Jamal Ahmed:
Hi, is there a way to enable hand rejection on SketchBook Mobile?

I just bought the app but its not of much use without hand rejection.

Ive seen hand rejection in S Memo and S Note and alot of other duplicate apps.

Can any modders pleaaseee tell me the way to mod my SBM and enable it?

Help would be highly appreciated!!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] dario.grijalba:
sorry dude, i had search the same thing but there is no way, i have seen if you first put the spen and start to draw then put your hand it works normally like a paper or just learn to draw with you hand flyover
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] chaosdefinesorder:
Cyanogenmod 10 for the Note has palm rejection implemented at the base level; if the screen detects the pen, the capacitive layer is disabled so fingers/hands have no effect.:good:

It might also be in CM9, but I can't remember and am running CM10 atm...

of course this doesn't help for stock, but it's yet another case where Samsung is actually holding us back in terms of the devices potential!;)
[HTC One V] spiritfire:
Hi, everyone.

I have a question to ask you guys. Is it possible to come back to "locked" status after I unlock it? I really need to get this status to be "locked" because I need to go to HTC care to claim my phone and they said that I need to do "locked" before claiming it. What should I do? Help me please. Thanks!

PS. They said status "relocked" can't claim too. Just only "locked" can claim.
[HTC One V] JoePi:
you just can lock again With fastboot OEM lock ,but i recomment to save the unlock_code.bin

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[HTC One V] Cr3sc3nt:
Once you "unlock" your phone, you can never have it "lock" as the original. Only "relocked" is the best you can do.
[HTC One V] spiritfire:
Arr, that's really bad news for me. Therefore, I can't claim because it never goes back to "locked", right? How do I do? Arr, really stress!!!
[HTC One V] spiritfire:
I have tried this way, but it shows "relocked" not "locked".
[HTC One V] Cr3sc3nt:
yup never can be locked again only relocked via fastboot type: fastboot oem lock
[HTC One V] spiritfire:
Arr!! That's too bad for me T^T
[HTC One V] ryanlow134:
Can only be relocked.. never lock
[HTC One V] sbkjuggalo:
I have heard and I don't believed everything I hear but as long as phone is exactly back to stock minuse the relock on screen it is not a total void.... since HTC gives out the unlock code them self's it is a loop but if it can be proven that it has been altered it is..... now I'm sure I am wrong and I will try to research this more and post either my verification or my d

Failure on this subject so for all u reaching for the replay bottom already just snap that finger back.... one again THIS IS NOT FACT THIS IS RUMOR!!!!!!!!
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
I haven't used FPSE in a while and i wanted to play ff7 and ff8. But FPSE has updated a few times. Now I'm getting slow speeds and all cutscenes are just grey screens.

So can someone help me fix this or tell me where i can download an older version until this problem is fixed?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ridder215215:
If you have made a Titanium backup you can restore it from there, and if you haven't got one you can always try the .apk way. Since you've already bought it, it should be okay.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
I have it to auto backup and it doesnt keep that many backups.

I tried finding an apk online, but none of the websites I try are working. Dam warez sites, never work when ya really need them!
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
Try emailing the developer, and provide your order number. Maybe he'll provide you with a previous version
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Jorkki:
Can someone explain me how to get back to stock rom from aurora ics?

I have nandroid backups but my recovery doesnt boot.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tonttunator:
Download a stock ROM from our backup here: http://qrac.zapto.org/Stock_ROMs/

"U8800 V100R001C00B138SP04%28Normal%29.rar" is Android 2.2 Froyo

"U8800V100R001C00B518G001 (Beta1.0)(Overseas Normal)(Gingerbread).zip" is Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread beta.

You will find the installation instructions inside the .zip or .rar file.

(I'm guessing you have made those Nandroid backups using an old CWM version.)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Jorkki:
Thank you for your answer! I have to try that when i get home.

Thanks!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yoyo97:
Toweeka sky's

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eaglesfan398:
Since Verizon is going to release a new update soon is there anyway we can keep root on update or should I just flash the stock image to prevent any problems?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
dont flash any update till the devs approve as the update may bork our unlocked bootloader method.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
Agreed, you may have difficulty rooting after the update. There will be an active version of the OTA jb released here. Stock one and modified ones. Plus you could be waiting a long time for vzw to release it. We'll probably have it well before everyone else.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zalithian:
He means the NO SIM update/fix. It will be out within a few days, most likely.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
Oh, sorry. What's this update for? First I'm hearing about this

---------- Post added at 12:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ----------

Never mind, just saw it. Sorry guys for useless post
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eaglesfan398:
How do I prevent my phone from updating?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Bin4ry:
See here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

Regards
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sky016:
Great! Now I'm just waiting ICS for Xperia U! :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] felipevsw:
You and I! Thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hnl_dk:
Nice one Andreas :good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] newdon07:
U mean to say: root any Xperia NXT with ICS and locked bootloader???

SONY Xperia S with IceCream Sandwich! (Bad Taste.... )
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] gnashville:
ICS

Highly disagree...

ICS on the XPS is great imo, and there's many ROMs that you can now flash even with a locked bootloader. Very useful script for any new users. :good:

Thanks Bin4ry!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Pandemic:
Nice, now can i root my Xperia P :D

Yes i have to devices Xperia Neo V for mods and Xperia P :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XperianPro:
Bin4ry couldnt you waited for about one more week untill U gets ICS,now I think it will be impossible to root it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] newdon07:
last line is just a signature when i post something from my phone and from the time when sony released first ICS for XS!!! BTW latest XS ICS firmware still got some bugs, thats why ITS STILL THERE!!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] darth5zaft:
Thanks. A very painless method
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] jperkovic:
will this work on Xperia U when we get ICS update?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] robimarko:
It should work
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XperianPro:
Im sure sony pathed hole.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] robimarko:
I dont think so.They will already fix that in P and S updates if they know how.

Exploit is API function inside ICS,and app that comes with ICS and which is necessary
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x5starguerillaa:
Hi there fellow time bomb owners!

Let me start out........... Ive had my note for many months now. Ive flashed many GB and ICS roms, both TW and AOSP.

Ive always been very careful with the brick bug issue and always flashed every rom via the OP's method to the letter.

I finally settled with Kingdroid. After running it for nearly 2 months without ever having a random reboot/FC or any issues at all it started to misbehave, crashing, freezing and somtimes making me resort to battery pulls!

This all culminated last night, when after installing an app, I tried to open the said app and the phone froze on me. I long pressed the power button to reboot and then got stuck in a bootloop. In all my months with my Note ive never had a bootloop. I could still get into recovery and download so I thought no big deal.

I tried to wipe the cache and davlik cache to see if there was any nasties in that causing the bootloop. They both wiped fine but when I rebooted the loop was still there. Still Not a problem I thought, I will just have to reflash. Pain in the ass I know, but at least Im not bricked. So I placed abyss kernel and kingdroid onto my SD booted into recovery and went to flash Abyss. All went well so went to reboot recovery and........Boom in some kind of elongated (graphically) version on the same recovery I had before? Not abyss? Ok, it must not have taken properly, flash it again, as soon as I went to move through the recovery menus the recovery restarted, not rebooted, just restarted? It did this everytime I tried to move in the menus? I though thats very odd indeed? then all on its own it started to restart? Then I worried, could this be damage to my partitions or emmc in general? Never done any wiping on unsafe kernels, surely it cant be?

So I resorted to Odin and the factory firmware I keep for warranty purposes. Plugged everything in and set it running. The phone was recognized, Md5 checked then.................Couldnt open COM port to device? S**T, F**K. I must be bricked now I thought. So as all good software people do, I unplugged everything rebooted my computer and tried again. It worked this time around!? I was a little nervous going through the FACTORYFS bit but it took, pass! Yes! Booted into stock recovery did the full wipe and now all is well with my note, all be it on stock nastiness.

I apologize for the lengthy post but I think its important to share potentially dangerous behaviour in depth with the note community. Many people may have had a panic and jumped straight on the Brickbug bandwagon (as I nearly did).

So after all that I would like to know if someone far more intelligent than me could give a possible cause? Not only out of curiosity but so that people (and me!) could avoid this worrying behaviour. And also how or if you can check your EMMC for bad blocks without Root and the emmc checker app?

If you read all this, well done! and thankyou for looking,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Mate, feel for the brown pants time you've ordealed, glad you got out of it. I'm fairly certain, although no dev, that there is an incremental damage obtained via certain kernels, be it wipes or even large file transfers. There's an app that can judge if any sectors are past repair...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check

So at least you know if it's an emmc issue. Let me know.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x5starguerillaa:
Cheers for the link.

Do you know of a way that I can check for bad sectors without that app? It needs root and I dont really want to flash/root anything until I can (if possible) determin whether or not Im damaged.

The only reason I ask is that now is the phone is primed ready to go back to samsung if so.

No counter or triangle or reminants of root.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letters_to_cleo:
accessing the internal NAND flash memory of your phone requires root privileges. Without Root, The System would simply deny you poking and probing on the internal storage of your phone.

That is why it is important to Root.

On the lighter side. You can actually Root your phone.. use that app to know if your phone has bad sectors and once you've done knowing it... you can simply UNROOT your device.

In that way, Samsung would never know the how's and wherefore's if you have tinkered your device or not.

Simple as that.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x5starguerillaa:
Ok. I rooted with a older version of GB.

Checked the NAND and everything says its ok. So I put it back to the latest GB uk firmware, updated via KIES to latest ICS and then rooted with the super su.zip and the full root busybox.zip from Dr Keatens post.

So im now running the latest stock firmware with full root. Can I install a rom from where Im at now? With stock recovery with full root? Or do I need to flash a kernel like abyss first to get the red pill recovery?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Things may have changed but I think general guidance is to flash from rooted gb kernel like abyss or stock. Certainly for AOSP roms like cm9 variants or cm10 that's the case.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffteo:
I have not been able to turn on my wifi after using ICS for few months and tired to fix the issue by reflashing the ROM. Tried many different version including customized one but did not help. Sent it in to Samsung for servicing and told them that re-flashing the ROM does not help hoping to get a HW replacement. Was told that the way they do it is different and they can wipe everything clean before re-loading the ROM. Btw using customized ROM did not void the warranty.

I suspect they did a low level format of the device. Now the wifi is dead again. Clearing data and cache using CWM does not help. Does anyone know what other way can I try to wipe the device storage?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unclebob_2000:
EMP?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kranti2064:
The SC people use Odin too. I saw it in a SC. They simply format your phone memory, do a factory wipe, and flash the correct firmware keeping the Auto reboot option unchecked.

AFAIK I don't think there is a low level format for S2..
[General Questions and Answers] Nate2:
Why are there so many variations of my phone and tablet (registered as separate devices) in my account at the Amazon Appstore?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/your-account/myapps/yourdevices