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[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dexter_prog:
Hey, I'm being offered a used defy for a good price and I'm wondering if I should buy this phone now or save some money for my next option, which is Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V (which is supposed to be updated to ICS). I'm asking this because the defy's last official update was 2.2 and, even though I know about the fantastic scene behind this phone and the hundreds of custom roms, I'm wondering if in 6 months or a year this phone will be as useless as my SE X8
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajychau:
Go for it.

Hey If it is cheap (compare to ebay used defy prices) go for it! It's a sweet little phone, and it does survive a lot of abuse. It is starting to show it's age though, but if you update it with a custom ROM from one of the awesome devs here (i'm on jelly bean with paranoid android - cheers to skeevy420 and brajesh.sharma87) it'll be like a new phone!

Main reason I have one is for it's outdoorsman type qualities...and it's small...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dexter_prog:
It is cheap considering I don't have a lot of money, companies here force you to "upgrade" to more expensive data/minutes plans to get new phones and that the company I'm in has the most expensive prices in the market (can't change companies now).

What do you mean by "it's starting to show its age"? I mean, I know it won't ever be officially updated past 2.2, but, does it get slow or buggy with newer roms? I'm asking because of my experience with my ****ty SE X8, which is awfully slow since 2.2 (last update it got was 2.1) and new roms are all buggy (BIG bugs like sd-ext being screwed up every now and then, and having to restore a NANDROID backup)
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel_loft:
This was already talked around here, not recently, but I remember seeing a similar thread some half a year ago.

Defy is almost 2 years old, with all the goods and bads. Officially it's on 2.2, nothing extra. CM7.2 works like a charm so you could get it to 2.3.7. CM10 is pretty alright, but I gave up on it after a few days of slowness and more battery usage. Maybe in a few weeks it will reach the official stable status.

Most probably nowdays you'll only find the Defy+, which has 2.3.4/2.3.6 (not sure about this) from Motorola. With this one things might be a little tricky with alternative ROMs (especially CM), but I cannot talk from my own experience.

If you're not into modding and changing every piece of your phone's software, you're good to go with Defy+. If not... I, myself, wouldn't buy it again.

On another side... depending on your pre-pay options and how much you use (minutes, MB, etc), maybe you should do some math and see if it's worth signing a contract.

Here in Romania, for example, buying a phone with a 2 years contract is a bad investment overall. But you don't have to pay those few hundred euros at once.

So think about it from every point of view...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dexter_prog:
Same **** here in Argentina, I would sign a new contract, the problem is that my dad pays for it and he doesn't want to pay a more expensive plan :/

I'm kind of leaning towards buying it, the only thing that worries me is that the person selling it told me that there's one button whose light is darker than the others. Could that mean the screen is malfunctioning or that the button may eventually stop working?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saje2_main2:
may i know the advantage and disadvantage of jelly bean for this phone...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dolmas:
wtf u mad bro? :what:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Advantage: Having it.

Disadvantage: Not having it.

Has that clarified it for you? :D

"It's all in the game yo, all in the game..." - Omar Little
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arsaw:
:D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Closed, there a sticky thread for all your JB needs.
[Asus Transformer TF700] scott.m:
I started off purchacing a TF300.

First one had a deformed case. Returned.

Second had defective gyro/accelerometer. Returned.

Third had extremely slow wifi that couldnt even use all of my slow DSL connection. Returned.

Fourth had a dead pixel. Returned.

I decided to try my chances with the TF700

First one had broken VolUp and defective WiFi. Returned

Current one has bad light leaks, and came out-of-the-box with the latest firmware?

Is this right? TF700's are now shipping with the latest firmware preinstalled? Or did this store give me a 'refurbished' one? It came in its plastic wrapper on the box, but it was looser/thinner then the previous boxes i opened. The tablet itself was packaged properly with the plastic film all over everything, however it is indeed updated to 9.4.5.26 out of the box, and it says no updates available. The first TF700 updated the moment i connected to the internet, just like all the 300's did.

I might deal with the light leaks. Im tired of driving back and forth to the store to return these things, its going to cost me more in gas returning these then the tablet itself. If this isnt supposed to be updated already, i WILL return it. I have no tolerance for being tosssed a refurb after paying 500 dollars for a brand new device

This is my 6th attempt, and still havent gotten a decent device. Im starting to wonder if i should just give up and get a laptop instead... or maybe wait for a tegra4 from another company.

I've had an asus P5Q Pro motherboard runing 24/7 for about 6 or 7 years now and its solid hardware. Ive only ever had to RMA a single piece of memory, in the 20 years ive been building my own computers. 6 tablets in one month is absurd.
[Asus Transformer TF700] archonur:
i am not 100% sure but i think they are coming with the newest firmware.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
.26 has been out a while. I wouldn't be surprised if they all ship with it now.

personally i'd be more concerned if it didn't come with the latest firmware.
[Asus Transformer TF700] scott.m:
But, the tf300's i was going through are even older devices that have had firmware updates out much longer. They never shipped with the latest firmware.

The tf700's here in canada have been sold out for about a month. They JUST got them in stock, i ordered the first one online (it needed to be updated) but the second one i got at the store, and it was updated already. Its the first time it came updated out of the box. Its also the first time the guy photocopied my reciept (could be due to online purchace though) and first time ive seen cheap shrinkwrap on the box.

I really wish asus would get their **** together. I really want to love this thing. My mom thinks im crazy, every time she sees me i tell her how awesome it is, but im also tellling her it needs to be exchanged for the 6th time... She thinks i should give up on them. She's eyeing an Ipad, and i doubt i can talk her out of that mistake knowing how many transformers ive gone through so far.
[Asus Transformer TF700] the_game_master:
Did you keep track of those serial numbers of those TF300s.

You could have been buying the ones produced in the same month.

We know C8 starting serials of TF700s come with .26 firmware. This firmware was out since July when C7 models were new, but they didn't include that firmware.

My C7 TF700 came with .21 firmware, which I manually updated to .26.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hack777:
My 1st TF700 started with the C70 serial number and it came with the 9.4.5.22 firmware. I had to send it back due a variety of hardware and software issues like stuck power and volume buttons, weak GPS, and performance issues even after upgrading to the new firmware and doing a factory reset.

My 2nd TF700 started with the C80 serial number and I don't know what firmware it came with because as soon as I opened the box and held the tablet I noticed the screen on the bottom part of the tablet (where the connectors are) flexed badly when I held it and screen lift in the bottom left hand corner.

My 3rd TF700 started with the C80 serial number and it came with the latest firmware, but I suspect the unit I received was used. I went to install BusyBox and I noticed there was already an older version of BusyBox installed on it. I'm sending it back because the headphone jack gives a static like noise when playing anything with audio.

My 4th TF700 started with the C80 serial number and it came with the latest firmware and it's been fine so far after about a day of use. I haven't noticed any defects with the screen or in other areas. Hopefully it stays that way and this is the "perfect" TF700 that I've been waiting to get.

Having read some of the threads here of people having to go through multiple units and having gone through 3 TF700's myself to get a good unit, I can relate to your frustration and pain. I agree, you shouldn't settle when you paid $500 for a tablet that's supposed to be a premium and a flagship product. Continue to exchange it until you get a good unit.

All in all, I will say that the TF700 is a pretty good tablet if you continue to have the patience to try to get a good unit. It's a shame Asus has some quality control issues. My faith in the TF700 wavered after getting a 3rd defective one and started to consider other options like the Galaxy Note 10.1, but the docking station with the additional capabilities, additional ports, and additional battery life that you get and the news that 2 developers were going to bring Cyanogenmod 10 support to the TF700 reaffirmed my faith to the TF700. I took the plunge to get a 4th TF700 and in the end, I'm pretty happy with the TF700 that I received even though the path to get to this point wasn't easy and was at times frustrating. I wish you the best of luck if you wish to continue to get a defect free TF700. I hope this helps.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nooktablet:
where did you buy your tablet? were they nice when you return many times?
[Asus Transformer TF700] hack777:
I bought my tablet from Newegg. They haven't given me problems for returning it multiple times, but I can't imagine that they wouldn't say anything if I kept having to return tablet after tablet. After my 2nd defective tablet, I called them up to ensure they would approve my RMA before ordering another one because that was the only to quickly get another tablet. Through the normal RMA process they don't send another until they received your tablet and process it and they don't send out advanced replacements (at least for tablets from what I was told by the agent). I would have gotten the TF700 from Best Buy because it would have been faster to exchange a defective unit, but they charge tax.
[HTC Desire S] puit:
Hi!

I'm trying to get the Skip Tracks Mod from Project X (by nikhil) to work with PowerAMP. I already activated ICS lockscreen in PA settings and also Headset Control Buttons, however when I long press the Volume Rockers, PowerAMP is paused and the default MusicPlayer is started (HtcMusic.apk). Skip Tracks works fine with that, but i want to use it with PowerAmp...

( I'm running on Fallout 5, with S-off by rev, hboot 6.98... and old radio )

Thanks in advance!

Edit:

tested other music players -> same behavior

tried to remove HtcMusic.apk -> Skip Tracks wont work at all ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Scroto_Tee:
I have scoured the earth and multiple forums for my answer.

My Device: VZW-toro-GNEX

Current State:

FASTBOOT MODE - OK

ODIN MODE - OK

ANDROID RECOVERY - OK

ADB - OK

RECOVERY MODE - accessible only with fastboot boot foo.img

NORMAL BOOT - 'Unlocked Google Splash' screen freeze

Symptoms:

1) fastboot flash recovery foo_recovery.img returns OKAY [ 0.493s]; finished. ... so far so good...

However, when I select 'Recovery mode' and press power, it boots me back into PRIMELA03 except this time with heading FASTBOOT MODE - NO BOOT OR RECOVERY IMG

2) NORMAL BOOT - After a minute or so, the 'Google Splash' screen begins tearing and fading to gray. I have waited for up to an hour for it to resolve, but always ending up pulling the batt. An image of the screen tearing is attached.

3) fastboot -w update foo_stock_image_from_google.zip reports OKAY, however fixes nothing

4) attempts to access /sdcard/ from within recovery results in E:Can't mount /sdcard/

What I've already tried:

1) flashing a stock image using recovery E:Can't mount /sdcard/

2) flashing a stock image using flashboot - Screen tearing upon boot splash

3) flashing a stock image using Odin3 - Screen tearing upon boot splash

4) using a couple different popular toolkits (wtf, why not) - LOL

5) adb install foo_image.zip - does not contain manifest.xml... Surely I'm not using this command correctly

Any ideas where to go next?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kyokeun1234:
Mind if I ask what is foo? And why are you using this over CWM or TWRP?

Also sdcard can't be mounted, because Gnex has no sdcard to be mounted. It only has internal storage and that's it. You can always use adb when on recovery when you need to transfer files

I would love to help you, but I've never heard of foo.img :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Scroto_Tee:
Yes, I know that there is no physical sd card. I'm not trying to mount an sd card. CWM is trying to *mount* /sdcard. (aka /data/media)

I can transfer files all I want using adb, but even when I do, there is still the issue that CWM can't flash anything because it fails to *mount* /sdcard/ in order to access whatever_image_I_might_be_using_however_it_doesnt_really_matter_in_this_context_hence_I_call_it_foo.zip

This suggests a problem with the partition table, possibly. Also, other posts of users seeing the same error are typically resolved with

keep in mind that's ultimately what I'm trying to do here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
try to erase all partitions (except bl) from fastboot and reflash with flash-all.sh. run it with root privileges.

the other option could be omapflash, your call.

Sent from my i9250
[HTC Rezound] JUs92jal:
I searched and didn't find a direct and clear message on the topic so I figured i'd formally ask rather than accidentally doing something i'll regret.

For the wonderful ASOP builds that the awesome community has provided, is there a need to update radios? I ask as my baseband is currently 1.22.10.0310r/1.22.10.0308r and I see that "2.22.10.0801r/2.22.10.0803r"" is the newest.

So the question becomes, should I even be concerned with updating radios? If It's suggest to update, what is the recommend most stable radios to run.

Thank you all for the amazing work & help!

ps: running GrayTheWolf 9/12/2012
[HTC Rezound] shrike1978:
Either one seems to work fine to me. The only difference is that the newer ones seem like they may run slightly cooler and use slightly less battery, but it may be total placebo.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryanscool:
Alright this is more of the questions for the AT&T network not really the Samsung Infuse. Anyway, I want to upgrade my phone later on I will get the Galaxy Note 2 . Now, I'd like to upgrade but my parents do not want to allow it. I do however, have a store near me. Couldn't I just go to the store with my phone number or do I need any other information to help me upgrade ? Any advice is helpful thank you. I should probably also say that I don't have an upgrade available both my parents do, but i think i could use one of theirs. Im under 18, would that stop me either? (I got my tablet from walmart lol, i was fine on that.)

Sent either from my p113 (gtab 2 7.0) or i997 (Infuse)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] andros11:
I believe they will require authorization from the one in charge of the account (one of your parents I suppose).

And not so sure about the upgrades, but I believe each one is specific to a phone line.

Sent from my sweet & buttery Infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dparrothead1:
Is your present phone a 4g? If it is, you can go on line with ATT and upgrade one of your parents phones. When the phone arrives, all you have to do is switch out your sim card.....all your number info and all that stuff is on the sim card.

If you go into the store and you are not the account holder, they won't even talk to you.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryanscool:
Thanks, i know a friend who i could ship it to if i did that.

Sent either from my p113 (gtab 2 7.0) or i997 (Infuse)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
:)

I'm thinking this is a great way to get yourself into hot water pretty quick.

A better idea would be to work out something with your parents.

Try this link :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] lukas_s:
Upgrading will extend your parent's contract another 2 years.

I'm sure they'll definitely notice that.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryanscool:
To qkster, I'll try again lol when the time comes. I've got a lot of money that I've earned/gotten, and they won't let me use any of it! It sits there (in a safe place, easily access able to me), finally gave up and spent some of it on my tab 2. I love that, and my phone but the gnote 2 could make things a lot easier, use less devices.

I'm sure they would not know, my mom lost a 7 year old flip phone with no plan to get her another soon, and my dad has a 5 year old flip phone too. They do not care about tech. At all, I'm lucky to have a decent laptop to do heavy hw, I use my tab and phone for the quick typing/notes. It seems for me to work well, and no matter what I do they think its terrible (because they can't figure it out! Haha)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hollywood528:
You'll need your parents information. Most important is the last four of the social security number for the account holder
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryanscool:
Definitely. Idk if I'm going to do it now, I think I'll just keep on asking lol.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hollywood528:
That is definitely your best bet
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Swizzle:
Likely that since your parents are not tech savvy you can log into the att online portal using a username and password combo that they would normally use. From there you can add yourself as an authorized user and go into a store and wreak havoc. But honesty is the best policy.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] csandman1977:
And just think, if something were to happen and they had to switch off of at&t or wanted to go somewhere else for service it would require them to pay roughly 800 bucks to terminate the contract. Not to mention the mandatory data charge for upgrading to a smart phone. They'd probably notice the extra 15 to 30 bucks a month.

As a parent myself who until this question thought I was still 'cool' (I'm slowly turning into a grumpy old man and its pissing me off) I'd most likely kill my kids of they tried what you are asking.

(I'm old now!!!!!!)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] adfurgerson:
I am already seeing the S3 on Craiglist for under $400.00, the Note will probably be more. But you wouldn't have to screw with your parents account.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pin0y23:
I understand these questions may have been asked before, and I cannot post in the Android development section due to not having many posts. I have been fiddling with phones long enough to understand the basic concepts of how to root your phone, install and flash custom ROMs, kernels, etc. I'm not quite familiar with what all of the terms mean in laymens terms, but I get the jist fo it all in a simple manner of understanding what to do. I currently own a galaxy s3 and have installed a few roms on my rooted phone, synergy, paranoidandroid, cleanROM, and twiz Jellybean. CleanROM definitely caught my eyes as it gave me a quad score of over 6000 at a point, which impressed me quite a bit. I love paranandroids overall look and phablet ui and functioning. I recently tried flashing twiz jellybean, and thought I understand it is still in it's beta state, I was wondering if the problem of receiving a *modified* phone status is one on only my part, or if anyone else was experiencing the issue as well? I've since reverted back to stock, as the ROM does not seem stable enough as of right now for me to contine using it, although it is a great rom, and I expect to be using it in the future when most of the bugs are tweaked out( ie Vibrate on touch functions in texting don't work even when turned on, slight blue screen flickering when changing volume, Self reboot during idle state, etc)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
It is normal to see "Modified" under device status, we have an unlocked bootloader and root access! Haha feels good to say that. I am sure that "modified" status will be removed once you lock the bootloader and flash back to stock. Was there another question? You only asked one unless you needed a better grasp of what roms and kernels are.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pin0y23:
I guess I would just like to have a better grasp as to what flashing actually means and does, and I'm also curious as to what a kernel actually does for a phone in laymens terms. I understand pretty much the basicality of everything and how to root, unbrick, flash custom ROMs, but I guess I'm just more curious as to the more indepth understanding of it all and what each... thing actually does?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Ahh, not a problem. Here are two articles that detail info about Android relating to your post:

1) http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=ROM-VS-Kernel

2) http://androidforums.com/sony-erics...om-kernel-cwm-firmware-flashing-adb-root.html

How do these work as a starting point?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pakee001:
Thanks, I had read that page once before, but forgotten about it. For those of us who don't do any programming or coding, it's helpful information.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pin0y23:
Wow. these are the perfect pieces of info I had in mind, thank you so much!
[General Questions and Answers] rickpercy87:
Hello, i'm new to flashing roms. I have downloaded cyanogen 9 for sgs2. I had alot of trouble flashing my device as I kept getting md5 mismatch. Eventually I got it to work by using clockworkmod and flashing from the device (not in recovery mode). However I reverted back to my original rom which came with my sgs2. I attempted once again to flash cyanogenmod 9 and still get the md5 mismatch. I cannot flash it from the clockworkmod application either, when my phone boots up I get an error:

E: cant open /sdcard/external_sd/cm-9.1.0-galaxys2.zip

(no such file or directory)

Installation aborted

I really like the look of this mod, but i'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Elsewhere on the internet it seems people who have problems with the md5 mismatch have made a mistake backing up a previous flash. But I'm using a fresh untouched cyanogenmod 9.

Hope i've been clear enough.

[sgs2 i9100]

[ics]
[General Questions and Answers] rickpercy87:
Well, its all sorted now. It seems I was going about the flash all WRONG! I was initially using the 'restore' function to flash a clean new rom (so ovcourse the restore process would not find an md5 because one had not been generated!)

If anybody has difficulty and is noobish like me you need to boot into CWM and then browse to 'install zip from sd' or wherever your rom is, and just install it. Kinda obvious now :o
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hackymanintense:
Trying to mount my lg g2x on a ps3 controller. Any ideas?

Proudly Sent from a g2x I stole from mit...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Core Memory:
The G2X can't be used as USB host, it isn't enabled.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] buru898:
As in connect it through bluetooth? That is possible for our phones, I used to play many different emulators with it. Just go on the play store and type in something like "ps3 bluetooth" and you should get something that let's you pair it via a program you run on your computer to get the controller's MAC address and you enter it into the app and you're done!

But that's only if that's what you meant lol.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] redmonke255:
The app is called sixaxis, works on my tablet and should on g2x.

Sent from my paranoid Nexus 7.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sbcdave:
This is the second time in the past week I have seen someone say the G2X can't be used as a USB host in response to a question that has a legitimate answer. There should be an anti-thanks button.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Kamikazebot:
From my understanding you want to physically mount it? You would probably have to make a custom mount.... Could start with a car mount as your base though