yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aagha:
I did a couple of things: Killed LauncherPro and ran the stock TouchWiz. Also made sure I killed all apps. The score is significantly lower now. See attached.

The reason for running the benchmark was because I was complaining about the (1 day) battery life on my phone, and my wife says she goes two to three days without charging. So I was going to show her how much better my phone was. Imagine my dissapointment when not only did I demonstrate to her that my phone is much slower, but that her battery life is much much better.

The reality is, the phone is feeling sluggish, and I can't figure out why. Her screen seems to be better, battery life better, service (w/ Sprint vs. my AT&T) better, and performance better.

@gunnyman: Since you have both phones, I'd love to hear how you compare the two. At this point, I'm thinking of ditching my SGS3 and just getting the same phone she has.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aagha:
Added attachment referenced in previous post.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gunnyman:
That score tells me there's probably something wrong with your phone, or some app has a rogue process that is killing both performance and battery life.

Comparing the One X to the SGS III is very difficult. both have their plusses and minuses.

The screen on the One X is hands down the nicest one available today.

However, AT&T/HTC have locked it down to the point where even an iPhone is easier to hack. :(

Also the lack of removable storage was a dealbreaker for me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aagha:
How is the battery life on your two phones?

Also, any suggestions on how to track down the issue re something being wrong or a rogue process?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gunnyman:
Well I sold the One X last week but Battery life is only SLIGHTLY better on it than on the sgs III I get through the day and have about 20-30% battery left before I put it on the charger. I'm a very heavy user. I see about 4 hrs of screen time.

When comparing battery life that's what matters. On your wife's phone how much screen on time does she have before she has to charge it up?

My wife has an HTC inspire which she has to charge every two days. However she uses her phone much less than I use mine.

As for tracking down what's happening with the phone, get better battery stats from the play store. It will track wake locks, which prevent the phone from going into deep sleep.

Install the program and check it at the end of the day and you'll get a very good idea about what is using the battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aagha:
I'll give Better Battery Stats a shot. Thank you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gunnyman:
No problem. Good luck.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crash822:
General consensus is that quadrant scores and benchmark scores mean nothing. If you want to compare try launching apps on both phones or just switching phones for a few days.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aagha:
Understood. But I am curious as to why my own Quadrant scores are going from the mid-4000's to 3200...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
I wouldn't worry, there's little things you can change that wouldn't effect real world performance but would buff quadrant by 1000 points... If your going to test try Antutu, it is the most accurate Imo but I still wouldn't worry to much what it says. I've seen my gsiii score anywhere from 4000 to 9500 in Antutu depending on apps open, current rom/kernel, run time, battery temp etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hai Karate:
Out of curiosity, I just installed and ran Quadrant on my i747M (Telus) running the leaked Bell Jelly Bean firmware. Before running the benchmark, I went into the Task Manager and killed all running apps and freed memory. My score was 5906.

If you're running Samsung firmware, make sure you don't have the Power Saving toggle turned on.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 05GT:
One my One X I generally get way better battery life than with my S3. Never bothered to run any quadrant scores, but I'm sure the general consensus is that the One X has a little better battery life.

I also play with the S3 more than the One X so that may explain my battery difference.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jmatt78:
Well one major thing I seen is that your lte isn't there which means your going to be considerably slow reboot that's what I had to do last night as I was getting spoty lte service last night. Can also boot into stock recovery and clear your cache out also

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nexii:
I got this. But I didn't close any apps. Had the music player going too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] js2021:
I had the one x its lags ibplaces the s3 doesnt. I loved the build quality but yeah no ways its faster than a s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] deathdread:
The HOX has worse battery life. I just took mine back for an S3 and the S3 is getting two-thirds longer life with identical usage. I also had a locked One X, so I couldn't even try some of the tweaks resulting in better life. I'm running auto-brightness and wifi is always on now with my S3, and previously with the One X I had wifi off whenever the screen was off and the screen was turned down to 30% brightness.

The difference was more than I expected, and considering the spare batteries I've got in the mail - an option the One X doesn't have - I'm very pleased with my switch. I'm sure the extra playing on your S3 is the difference.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] krips2003:
Seems like you tried too many things to make an already perfect phone into too perfect and somewhere in the path something really got weird and that could be one of the reason you are seeing those differences between HOX and Galaxy S3. Also, you said your wife's HOX lasts almost 2 days on single charge. Now the question is, did you try to mimic your wife usage of HOX on your GS3? That way at least you'll get a better idea, what she's doing with her phone that it lasts for 2 days or vice-versa. Please don't take my opinion in any other way. If you are talking about quadrant score, I have attached mine below. It's running stock UCALH9 with stock launcher and most of the bloatware disabled. The only thing different is that I'm rooted. Other than that it's bone stock.

Edit: Forgot to mention that my phone lasts all day with 4 hours of screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nexii:
CM10 seems to produce lower scores than Touchwiz roms.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nathan96:
Is it worth it ? How much better are the costume ROMS ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pulak861:
At this moment Custom roms are not that stable or great than official roms.. but once ICS comes out the thread will be blooming with great roms... if u unock BL the ur one step ahead of flashin custom roms......
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nathan96:
Thanks :) I'll wait for ICS.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] fikvalkrie:
in my opinion root is worthed to optimize stock ROM, delete some bloatware and get more free RAM :D

but custom rom is not stabilize yet, I prefer using stock ROM with some customization :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Has anyone got the S3 working properly with the S3? Mine connects no bother but won't transfer any files.

It works no problem my win 7 system.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrous19:
Make sure you have correct drivers and media player 11 installed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
It's probably a driver problem alright cause itdidnt install automatically when i connected first time.

But then again..i already have kies installed on my pc so they must be installed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Ok... For anyone still wondering about this, i got it working.

There was an update for Kies so I let it install and it connected fine then. It obviously updated the drivers too.

Strange because when I got my S3 first in June, I updated Kies and it still didn't work.

So now I can connect via Kies or MTP and the transfer of files works fine.
[General Questions and Answers] hgmichna:
I have a very general question. Where is the GPS firmware located?

My first guess is that it is within the radio firmware, but other possibilities are that it, or at least some of its functionality, is actually in Android. Or perhaps there is no GPS firmware at all?

The background of my question is that the GPS in my Galaxy Nexus has a bug (fails in high and fast flight), and I'd like to know where to begin when trying to locate and fix it (if that is ever possible).
[Galaxy S III Accessories] geech72:
Those of you looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous suction cup, check this mount out. I've only had it about three days, but so far I'm impressed. It's well made and holds my device securely with no rattling or shaking. The grips don't bother the power or volume buttons, and the opening at the bottom allows for the data cable to be connected. So far this mount has been exactly what I was hoping it would be.

http://www.mountek.com/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] biggins1870:
I'm also using this mount. I like it so far.

It can be in the way depending on your radio, but luckily I hate flipping channels so I leave it alone most of the time.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kl25:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=mountek

edit

actually, free ship to US on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mountek-iPh...622135?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2571f43e77
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Eric021:
+1
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Hey guys,

My gps isn't working accurate.

First off it worked pretty good but when I changed to a custom rom (android revolution Hd) it didn't anymore.

When i use google maps, it takes a damn long time to get a fix on my position and when it does it stays accurate for about 5 seconds and then it starts to change to a street next to me then to another side... etc. . Also when i am standing still it jumps for my location to 50meters ahead of me and behind me, changing my speed to 20km/h ... I think you get the problem. Also the same problem on navigon (navigation software) it is constanly rerouting me because of the inaccurate position. So its not an application issue.

I flashed the rom as it should be, with boot.img through fastboot and zip file in cwm. Except for the gps there are no other issues.

Then i flashed the original rom in cwm with boot.img in fastboot, still the same problem.

I then tried CM10 and it became even worse... every 20 seconds it gave me a position update in maps and with navigon there wasn't even a update because it couldn't get a fix.

And i also used fasterfix on every rom except the original one (not rooted) to set my gps to europe.pool.ntp.org or something like that...

Now i am trying to revert to android revolution HD but first my battery has to be charged above 10% and it goes damn slow because of the bricked boot (made a mistake while changing form CM10 to And rev HD) Can't flash the and rev HD yet but does somebody in the meantime know a solution ?
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Somebody ?? :)

Could it be a problem with the kernel ? because i didn't flash one separatly
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Does somebody has a solution ?
[HTC One X] ippoglosso:
Unfortunately, I also have the same problem with rom coredroid and igo primo aid to some expert please

thanks
[HTC One X] sidsat20:
I had the same issue when I moved from Stock to the Modaco Ir5 Vanilla ROM, my GPS didn't even go as far as finding my location inaccurately, it didn't work at all. Hence I couldn't use my maps/navigation.

I am now running the Slim Bean ROM and everything is working great. I am no expert, but have you always done the usual 'full wipe data > clear cache partition > clear Dalvik cache' while flashing new ROMs?

For your charging issue, maybe try this? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646135
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
My phone is now allright but you i'll try the rom you are speaking about and see if the gps works better.

and... Also tried another kernel (eternity) but it still didn't work
[HTC One X] waterscent:
I had this issue and had it fixed after sending my phone to service 3 times.

The first time they only did a reset, didn't help.

Second time they changed the wifi, GPS module, didn't help.

I sent them a recording of the problem on the third time. This time they changed the motherboard and it finally got fixed.

Remember to tell them that the issue is specially visible when GPS and WiFi are both on.
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
There isn't any diffrence when wifi is enabled and like i said, with stock rom everything was fine.
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Just for now i can't flash another rom but other solutions are welcome...
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Tried the agps patch (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1595800) still no solution
[HTC One X] kefjeuh93:
Tried some other roms and still nothing...

I will try to go back to stock with RUU but which one do i need to choose ? Based on what info ?

i know i have to choose HTC_E11 (dutch)
[HTC One X] Kermagod:
This may help - GPS Fix.

It worked for me, but not for the faint hearted.
[General Questions and Answers] ducehlmg:
Hi Im looking to get a phone from China but dont know where to start since this would be my first phone from there..

my question is simple, just wondering if there is, and if someone has recommendations, a phone that can work on sprint?

the bigger the screen the better :)
[General Questions and Answers] gagdude:
China phones typically are GSM phones, since only the United States uses CDMA. The only place you can get Sprint phones are from Sprint and are branded Sprint.

Now if you were on AT&T or T-Mobile, then China phones would work
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wesley.neary:
Have been an HTC user for a while but have made the jump to Samsung. I have a new SGS3, i last night routed using odin but have now realized that the device is till on ICS not JB, obviously as rooted the OTA will Not work, i have read on other posts about the possibility of updating via KIES, does any one know how to do this and if so could someone send a quick guide.

I am guessing the other option would be to unroot OTA update and reroot would this work? also if i went down this method would i have to re install all apps etc.

As always thanks in advance guys.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devid801:
Kies and the suite journal of Samsung.

Among the many features it offers, the most important is precisely the one that allows you to update the firmware in the Galaxy.

The update can take place exclusively through USB connection.

The update procedure with kies may not be used if the phone has been modded (e.g. Presence of rom cooked or root).

With the firmware of large dimensions, the update times may vary considerably depending on the speed of adsl connection

if the procedure fails, you may need to restart from the beginning

is not possible to install firmware versions other than those laid down for the phone or go back ...

UPDATE via OTA As well as Kies, if the phone has been moddato (e.g. , presence of rom cooked or root) may not work.

UPDATE via ODIN

It is a update tool created by Samsung for internal use only and not intended for the general public.

On the web, you can still find some copies of the program.

Unlike Kies the updating procedure is completely manual, with the firmware that must be found.

Odin is a tool at a low level, precisely for this can be used in qualcunque condition, even in the presence of rom cooked or root.

guide flash with odin http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671969

UPDATE via HEIMDALL

Heimdall, compared with those already submitted, and the only tool not created by Samsung.

The author and Benjamin Dobell, independent developer.

Unlike the other, can also be used on Linux, as well as Windows and OS X.

As Odin, and Heimdall is a tool that acts at a low level and then able to update the Galaxy regardless of the presence of rom cooked or root permissions enabled.

guide flashing with heimdall http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878686
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
jb is not officially it yet. Only way you can go it is to flash the beta jb Rom from Sammobile.com via Odin

rumors are that the official jb will come next month so you may want to hold on for it instead :D

Dude what are you talking about?! :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devid801:
I'm talking about the various methods of software update...dude
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
There is no official jb update, you should have at least communicated that first.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ilay47:
Hello Friends

My friend asked me to "fix" her S1 that is very slow .... No wonder no room was chenged and has Android 2.2 XD

I wanted to ask what the most stable room & kerenel to S1 with Android 2.3 and above ...

And guide it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] O-T:
Y.A.L.T.S

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20057736

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28092822
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Noumen:
flash stock Samsung 2.3.6 jw4 (latest Samsung firmware for s1)

and then optionally ( i highly recommend ) flash Semaphore 2.7.4 sc kernel .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlueFlame4:
Use Mackay ROM 1.2.5, works out of the box and is stable like hell.

Sent from my Gameboy Color
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LEGOracer69:
Does Nexus 7 have any rivals? I mean rivals with close performance?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanthesolo:
In the same price range? Frankly, no. For the sub-$200 market, the nexus destroys anything else out there. The only competitor that comes close is the KF HD, but it mainly focuses on build quality, not raw performance.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmatthew:
Acer iconia a110

4.1 Jelly bean,tegra3,HDMI,SD SLOT
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ncvikingx97:
That? If the screen was good, I would sell it
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-Keith:
Samsung makes a few 7 models, not directly comparable. The galaxy tab 2 has an sd card, rear camera, but not as nice of screen or processor. The 7.7 has an amoled screen but a higher price.
[General Questions and Answers] ayouh2o:
My Samsung galaxy s3 GT-I9300 firmware version is I9300XXLE8 ... can i update I9300XXDLI8 jelly bean update firmware.... :rolleyes:
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
Firstly - always put decent information in the title or people start ignoring you

secondly - you would be better off asking this in the S3 forum instead
[General Questions and Answers] power96:
Yes you can, there are a lot of guides!
[HTC Wildfire S] Mazer.one:
THE SHINING

BOOTANIMATION

Install with Rom Manager or into Recovery

DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD

Thanks to Despotovski01 for his tool BootAnimation Factory .

( You must enable gif animations in web browser to preview ...)

-= Mazer.one tsh 2012 =-
​
[HTC Wildfire S] Mazer.one:
Boot Animation Updated ...
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Can you make 1 with cyan circle to match the cyense theme.And a lockscreen like that to have full set :)
[HTC Wildfire S] Mazer.one:
Et voila ! :laugh:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
aosp icons for ics working on .431 and.587...

apps included .

phone

contacts

calender

camera

browser

conversation

settings

clock

download.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lpq4ml4momzbwcp
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
tom ill get my phone from service...ill make more icons ..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Stable2012:
nice job, but when i install the browser it stops working ? i also clear and stopt the browser but doesn't work eihter
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
give me ur browser app
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Stable2012:
you mean my original app ?

edit : i found him somewhere else, thnx anyway :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] PrithviChibber:
How to install icons?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
flash via cwm
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] benjpopfilter:
Hi sandy! I have flashed this icons and I have lost the following:

Overclock option

Back to kill

I'm using ultimate hd 2.0.2

Is there any fix or work around?

Thanks! ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
Bcz u flashed the settings.apk also....

Simple replace the settings.apk from ultimate hd Rom..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] benjpopfilter:
Thanks, i'll try it! ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Abhinav1997:
As you can see that the size of messaging app is too small.....i even tried using other icon(even from nexus) but still same...other apps are fine...do u think it is the problem of my launcher(apex)...if yes how can I fix this?

Thanx in advanced...

Best Regards,

AJ
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
Just resize the PNG in drawables-mdpi

Change it 48*48
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Abhinav1997:
Lol....there's no such folder as drawable mdpi but drawables-xhdpi :eek:

Regards

AJ
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
Try there...bcz I done this long time ago..

Better change it 72*72
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Abhinav1997:
I tried hdpi size but it was still not upto the mark but then I tried 96*96 and it now is great....:D

Thanx a lot... :D

Regards,

AJ
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] eldgrim:
Hello XDA, I followed that guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1726088 to root my Videotron S3. Worked like a charm and have no problems. I got an OTA update Friday and the update failed. I figure it might be because i have CWM. I would like to update to Jelly Bean very much...How do i proceed? Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] psykhotic:
Jelly bean isn't out. But flash stock recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28175575
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] janitorjohnson:
The OTA update is not for JB yet. The update is probably just a new radio or modem or base of another ICS build.
[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
Very nice and clear guide!

Also check out my Anyway thread on more details about JIG resistances etc. Soon I hope there will be more added to that about building your own Samsung Test Jig...
[Hardware Hacking General] AdamOutler:
Setenv switch sel 1234567

Phone debug on 1

This gives you some kernel debugging.
[Hardware Hacking General] bhundven:
Yup. I've got that in there. ;)

It's interesting to note that not all bootloaders are created equal. My results are on SGH-T959V.
[Hardware Hacking General] dragonnn:
Any chance that it will work witch Galaxy Ace too?
[Hardware Hacking General] bhundven:
I'm not sure. The GT-i9001 and the SGH-i717 (at&t galaxy note) also both have the FSA9480 chip, but use Qualcomm chips. I can only get some bootloader output from the SGH-i717:

Android Bootloader - UART_DM Initialized!!!
[VIBETONZ] ENABLE
[VIBETONZ] DISABLE
HW_REV = 12
mipi_init : status = 1
HW_REV = 12
start init_charger
smb328a_init_charger : is_reboot_mode = 0, vcell = 3975
check valid dcin (0x33) = 0x0
no dcin, skip init_charger
fuelguage : soc = 80%, vcell = 3975mV
fuelguage : rcomp(0xd01f) ==?? 0xd0d0
HW_REV = 12
VReset : 0x8c
Hibernation mode : 0x0
8340 = ( 397500 - 334350 ) * 13207 / 100000
HW_REV = 12
reboot_mode = 0xb6cef249
do key check
enter normal booting mode
AST_POWERON
usable ddi data.
HW_REV = 12
HW_REV = 12

E.V.A. said that it might be some debugging setting in the kernel that might have disabled the kernel log output.

It would be helpful to get some MSM developers here to help us out with that!
[Hardware Hacking General] dragonnn:
I looked in the kernel source and it have ./drivers/i2c/chips/fsa9280.c and the driver is included in the build kernel:good:. As far I understand we can using this method recovery the phone from hard brick? That will be really nice, my friend bricked his Ace, maybe he can use this method.