yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ring_GT:
Hi.

I just bought an unlocked but Vofadone branded S3 yesterday. Now I want to flash a stock firmware to unbrand my phone without rooting it first. Is it possibke? Can somebody point me to the instructions?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IamIrene:
yes why not

just use pc odin
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
You do not need root to flash a stock firmware.. if you want to unlock your phone from your carrier, i suggest you root your phone AFTER you flashed a stock firmware.. there are applications here in XDA that does the job neatly.

I hope this helps ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ring_GT:
Thanks!! My phone is already unlocked so i do not need root
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zetsui:
is there an alternative to this program for backing up all my settings ktweaker values etc? I just get a generic "unfortunately x program has stopped working" when i launch it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
You can backup you ktweaker setting directly in ktweaker for you other settings I know nova launcher has a backup option but I don't know about romcontrol settings sorry :/
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Backup the app and data in titanium backup, delete the app next. Then reflash the kernel and restore data for ktweaker in titanium
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
Backing up and restoring ROM Control is a big no. It will cause issues 99% of the time considering ROM Control changes on almost every release.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Your op said ktweaker, I assumed that was all you were backing up. You mean all rom control settings? If so you could do a back up in your recovery and restore just the data partition later, but I don't think would fix your issue. Might though, might make things a lot worse too
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
Yeah. His title says aokp backup. But he states settings, ktweaker, ect... so he's not very clear with what he needs. Ktweaker has its own backup (he should know this if he's using that kernel) and Aokp backup only backs up some of the options for now. It still needs some work. So I'm really not sure what the OP is trying to accomplish. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] s2556:
AOKP Backup worked for me when I went 9/22 -> 9/24. It didn't before those builds though.It misses some settings but gets majority of them.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] flex360:
Check this out

View attachment 1357512

Do you see the carrier iq in HTC setup wizzard apk. This needs to be disabled. I'll give it a shot once I have some free time. I hate these spying crap. Why can't they just leave us alone
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NaterTots:
Thanks for finding it!

A bold move on their part after last time.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] flex360:
its easily removed

just delete the permission from the manifest file of the apk
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
possibly somin left over from long long ago in that thing that never got fully wiped out.... otherwise we likely would of found out much more of it by now...

neat find though!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cuppeerr:
Oh hell no
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Doomstang:
This was my first thought too.

Hopefully there's nothin fishy going on here and that they've learned their lesson....that's likely just inactive leftovers.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
Yeah the thing was so dang deep on the OS I wouldn't be the least surprised if bits and pieces are other places... Nothing causing actual harm but still there to an extent..

Sent from my Wolfpack EVO
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultimawar:
I shattered my digitizer a few months ago and I finally scraped up enough money to buy a replacement.

I've read a few horror stories on Amazon about people buying crappy parts that wigged out.

Could anyone recommend a place that's reliable and ships to Canada?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upndwn4par:
Try eBay.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djluis48:
In ebay there is only one seller. Costs US$40. I would like to know where to buy it too. Got a dead stripe on my phone like a week ago. Going nuts with it. After fixing, im thinking in selling the phone, while it still holds some value.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upndwn4par:
There are many sellers. Search for "Atrix 4G". Don't include digitizer, screen, etc.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pre4speed:
I found 43 different auctions when doing a search for "atrix 4g digitizers" so theres more than one. Here is a link to what would be the easiest option as from experience just replacing the digitizer is really hard.

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=251157089339&index=2&nav=SEARCH&nid=84283479181
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultimawar:
Thanks for quick responses everyone.

I was hoping you guys could weigh in on what criteria should I buy the digitizer (with frame)?

I've seen a lot options and it's kind of overwhelming. Some are used, some are third party and some are straight from the factory OEM.

Has anyone worked with third party parts and found a drop in performance?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravilov:
Experienced people recommend not bothering with 3rd party c**p (not worth the trouble) and only ever getting pure OEM.
[Motorola Droid X2] LinkedKube:
Hi,

I'm using the latest stable version of eclipse. I'm wondering what wifi tether app I should be using. All of them that I try aren't working correctly.

Much thanks,
[Motorola Droid X2] Mickyyy:
Barnacle WiFi tether works for me.
[Motorola Droid X2] LinkedKube:
Working, thanks a ton.
[HTC One X] shadehh:
I just want to know what the problem is here. I cross my fingers and hope that the battery won't deplete as quickly on the official JB rom.

I've had my fair share of test of various jelly bean roms, now i did not only return back to ARHD or Maximus or whatever other rom because of speed differences in particular, but also because sense's widgets can be so useful, and in my opinion are. Saves a lot of time searching and downloading widgets off the play store

Just thought i would ask if there are any actual or maybe even obvious reasons that someone can explain as to why the JB roms are draining battery quite fast that i am not aware of?

The only things i can think of are

1..Deep sleep? although, on second thought it appears to be working perfectly

2. Now the only thing that comes to mind is could it possibly be the power saver core not being used well, if at all?

I've got the feeling there's more to this.. anyone care to shed some light?
[HTC One X] Baldilocks:
Not sure, but it would be nice to have a stock JB ROM that had great battery life. :) I'm with ya on this one.
[HTC One X] Mattix724:
I do not own a One X but I also have the same trouble with battery drain on JB ROMs for my Sprint Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch.

It has to be something to do with the OS itself not being fully optimized for the device it's being built for. I would imagine once the manufacturer releases official JB it will be optimized and not drain the battery so fast.
[HTC One X] BenPope:
I always assumed it was because the stock Sense kernel always had the latest update from HTC, with JB kernels being custom and based on older source. But since 2.17 kernel source has been released, custom kernels should have "caught up".

Maybe sense and sense apps are written specifically to take advantage of the low power core, but I highly doubt it.
[HTC One X] shadehh:
Would be cool if a dev comes in and gives us a lecture :P

Either way, i'll have a look at this thread tomorrow, good night!
[HTC One X] madik_:
Yeah battery life sucks on aosp based roms. It was the reason why I moved back to Venom rom after 2 months of struggle with cm9 and cm10. And it was so refreshing since the sense 4.1 feels much faster than 4.0. Anyway I hope the aosp based roms will get there and even improve the overall user experience over sense.
[HTC One X] Michealtbh:
I consistently get more than 4hrs screen on time with CM10 and NCX kernel, I'm more than happy with that.
[HTC One X] Zlotin:
Flash latest ICJ with its stock kernel (neo's v7,5) and feel the powa. Near-sense battery life for me (0,5hr screen on time difference)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
These were originally made to use with AJs Semi ucle5 ROM. I recently got a request for them after a long period of time. So I thought I might as well post a link to all of them here. I do NOT plan on making them for other ROM bases but let me know if you do try them on others let me know how it goes and I will update the thread with whatever ROMs they work on. I will also update with pics later so you can SEE the look of them and compare them to the names.

LINK to ALL battery mods:

http://db.tt/e5P9qYlH

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running Red Reaper Rom

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running UCLE5 SANGRE AZUL 2 Rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
PLEASE DISREGARD THE RED THEME. JUST CHECK OUT THE BATTERY MOD ASSOCIATED.

STILL MORE TO COME...

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running UCLE5 SANGRE AZUL 2 Rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
One more for good measure. I still have a few more to upload/working on.

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running UCLE5 SANGRE AZUL 2 Rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bdpyo:
Nice man, just actually flashed this ROM. Lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
@bdpyo Glad your liking it.

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running Red Reaper Rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Kameirus:
hey RockRatt would it be ok if i ported the 2 skull battery mods to work on hd2 android roms

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
No problem. Have at it. I didn't make the png's. I just made them work for the I777.

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running Spiderman Themed AOKP or Spiderman Themed CM10
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Kameirus:
cool thanks

and ill thank ya in my thread and put a link to this thread
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Just got my galaxy s3 today. Been messing with it sense. Unfortunately i've had issues with some launchers and I don't know why. Apex/Nova/Holo have all been giving issues in the terms of putting down Widgets at the home screen. All three will tell me that there isnt enough room on the page for the widget when that same page is completely blank.

Another issue i had was super lagginess. I haven't rooted yet because im still kinda noobish and i dont want to do anything derpy to the phone. And i wanted to give touchwiz at least a little bit of time. Aside from that though ive been installing and un-installing launchers like mad and im still getting a bit of lag from switching between pages for an example. Ive got scroll effects turned off and speed nearly all the way up (or low in Apex i think) and its still feeling sluggish.:confused:

Was wondering what recomendations you guys could give. Like i said i want to stay stock for a bit...at least until cm comes out :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
When you reboot the phone, do you get the prompt that asks you what program you want to use (for the launcher)? Select your desired launcher, and press Always.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Yea I get that option and ive placed it for my holo launcher but for whatever reason apex and nova were giving me issues like lag and starting to fc things. Was just curious if any one knewbl what was up. Any good launches you would recommend?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Exel:
Don't quote me on this but I believe you have to make launchers a system app if you want widgets to work correctly.

At least, that's what I heard. I could be wrong.

Its worth a try?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bfranklin1986:
I use nova on my phone and tab and have no issues. Might want to try and do a full wipe and start from scratch
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ingenious247:
Yep, full wipe is my suggestion as well.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Going to ask something slightly noobish but how do I make one of the launchers a system app? Im still stock at the moment so im trying to figure out whats going on.

I did a full wipe just now and its sill giving me issues that there isnt enough room on the page for the upload of the widget. All im trying to do is upload a stock digital clock widget and its giving me issues in both apex and holo. Is it because they might be touchwiz widgets and the launchers aren't recognizing them? I dont know if that could be the issue but like I said im still stock. Now that i look at it though I may have to root my phone sooner than I wanted. Been on battery for three hours and im already discharged at 51% grr..:eek::crying:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Exel:
Read this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dark_polok:
Is it possible to downgrade the cam firmware version on my SGS3?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jma9454:
Hi. So I consider myself somewhat of an amateur now at ROMing and messing with the Kindle Fire ecosystem, but lately I have been having trouble. I have the latest TWRP (I think) installed. I am using twa_priv's latest builds of Jellybean on a weekly basis, but am switching a bit back and forth between that and the stock 2.3 KF system because that supports a few things that Jellybean hasn't covered yet. My problem is that when I create a backup...it seems to create one just fine. BUT when I try to restore the backup, it "runs" the backup in about 10 seconds, and when I go to reboot the system, it warns me that no OS i installed.

What is my problem?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jma9454:
Thanks for the advice. However, I have made sure to do that every time. I have messed with all the settings I can think of. Including the md5 file properties. Hopefully this picture of the files from one of my more recent backups helps?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinfauns:
Run the restore as you have been. Pull the recovery log...

adb pull /cache/recovery/last_log recovery_log.txt

Put it up on pastebin and post the URL here.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jma9454:
OK. so here is the link. I don't understand it one bit, so hopefully you can make something out of it.

http://pastebin.com/TBVU1Lhu
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinfauns:
Well, I thought TWRP would write to the log file with some details on its restore operations, but it apparently does not. My bad for making you jump through those hoops needlessly.

I would try deleting or renaming the TWRP folder in /sdcard, rebooting back into TWRP, and trying the backup/restore process again. If that doesn't help, try reflashing TWRP and repating the process with different ROMs, I don't believe this is a known problem with TWRP, so you have to try narrowing down the variables and seeing what helps.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jma9454:
OK, thanks. I am going to try reinstalling TWRP. I have tried most of the helpful hints that you have given me already, so I figure that maybe my TWRP is bad? I forgot to mention that I came from CWM because I originally had TWRP, switched to CWM, hated it, and reinstalled TWRP through the KFU.

I got a flashable TWRP from this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30780737

The only problem is that I don't know the adb command to flash TWRP onto the kindle. Any help?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinfauns:
That zip archive needs to be installed with TWRP like you would a ROM. I suggest you set that aside and install it the old fashioned way and use fastboot...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
[General Questions and Answers] MrCamping:
Hi guys,

I had heard of it, but never really experienced it. The main feature I could annoy Apple fans with is now gone. Flash is not availaible for Android anymore. :(

I just switched to ICS and realised it's not avalaible to my chrome browser.

I searched the web to try to find something to replace it, but haven't anything yet.

I understand that HTML5 will eventually replace flash, but what about existing flash application? There's no way to run them anymore except switching to an older browser? There must be another workaround. what you guys use to run existing flash application?

Can't believe i'm at the same level then apple fans now ;)

P.S. If there was already some threads about that, sorry to repost. This forum is so huge, can't see everything.
[General Questions and Answers] gagdude:
Chrome will NOT and ever support flash. However other browsers (dolphin or FireFox) still do and getting flash is as easy as downloading an apk and installing it
[General Questions and Answers] ginzo:
I confirm it, after installing the apk of flash there's no troubles, excpet for Chrome as it is not supporting flash. I personally use Firefox for example.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Marco Lomas:
Hi guys :)

This time i wanna introduce my rom.

Its called

Beater-Ics

....

Why? Cause i see an anime called SAO and the beaters are the persons with more knowledge :D

So, this is the important:

ITS BASED ON MACLAWS CM9 RC2, but i add few things of RC1 to make it work! :)

Whats its working?

Features!

Bugs!

i Change the trebuchet launcher for apex ;)

Soo i dont have so much time for edit the Op but theres its the link.

Proved and give me the feedback :D

Ty

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Download Link

Credits:

Maclaw for his builds

Cyanogen Team for suorces

Google for Android

Samsung for the Galaxy Gio

(this are not all the credits but i not have so much time ;)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CHANGELOG!

V1

Initial Release, not so much change of cm9 (yet)

Plans for v2

Incorporing a lot of tweaks and new mods like jelly statusbar and more :D

So i am receiving ideas for themed the rom, i dont know of making it like xperia, touchwiz, lg or sense :P
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Warren87:
reserved for later...!
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Alireza1212:
Video recording worked??
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] EvilKing009:
no.it does not.neither panorama.

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:05 PM ----------

the rom is good but it has some bugs,like SU bug,laggy rom and somewhat its launcher is not smooth.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] LordJeremy:
yeah, I watch SAO too! It's good isn't it?

For the rom, can you post some screenshots (or actually retry it)? I'm willing to try it
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Marco Lomas:
For the SU bug, download normal superuser from market and do the permision whit this to update binaries of SuperSU :D, then rempve the normal superuser ;)

For videocam, its a bug of cm9 istn?

:D

Enviado desde mi GT-S5660 usando Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] MerynGoesAndroid:
Please edit.

No hardware acceleration (every cm9/10)

No video-recording

No Native Wifi Tethering

No Native USB Thethering

prolly some more..

other than that, what actually new?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Marco Lomas:
Re-opening the project and change the op for more details :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] MatZ69:
It have something related to SAO? :P

Post some screenshots ^^

I must see it x)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] m.ali.ozkaya:
Why maclaw custom rom code base?

Mobil cihazdan gönderildi..

aOS 2.3.6 BNC-GIO-R2

MMB-Tweaks_0.9
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Marco Lomas:
jaja yes i call it in honor of SAO xD

but for now it isnt theme it, i wanna make it stable first then im gonna theme it :D

Cause for me is more stable and it has few bugs, and i prove the other builds but they not convince me :P
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game_guy:
I've been sitting on stock GB 2.3.3 for awhile. Mostly for gaming support. But due to the recent discoveries and fixes with the touchpad, I really wanna hop back onto the ICS train. However, I'd rather not have to factory reset everything if I don't have to. Which I'm well aware that I'll probably have to. I just have far too many things installed + save data for games & apps. It'd be a pain to back it all up in Titanium and that's if there's enough room on my SD card. Any insight or advice is appreciated, thanks in advance.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chery2k:
You have to wipe bud no other way around it. Fire up titanium backup and start backing up your game saves.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] game_guy:
*sighs* Yup. That's what I figured. Thank you!~
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
Hello,

This is my first post here so go easy ;)

I am trying to install [ROM][ICS 4.0.4]Genesis - Stable Build1 - CM9/AOKP Hybrid on LG P999 with no success. I rooted using super one click and made a backup. I flashed 5.0.2.0 to the device and tried loading Mr. Apocalypse's build following every instruction to the letter. The install appears to work fine allowing me to choose options and I get to the reboot prompt fine. I answered the baseband question and opted for the harsh kernel.

After reboot I get the white LG logo then the display dims and there are light leaks of varying degree but nothing after that. I waited about 45 minutes the first time and have waited up to an hour with nothing. I have tried [ROM][CM9][JUL13-Build80] Domination with similar results. I get to the reaper kernel image after reboot and that's as far as it goes. I followed all the instructions to the letter and I have no idea what is wrong.

Anyone that has a suggestion, other than buying a better phone, please let me know. Is there another method I can try?

Thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
With Genesis, install it with the stock kernel, then after the first boot load harsh separately. Some phones get a boot loop with harsh in Aroma
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
Thanks

I will give that a go, thank you very much for the advice. I will check in to let you know how it turned out.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
Also, how did you flash CWM? If the answer is anything other than "NVflash" stop what you're doing and search in the dev section for NVflash
[T-Mobile LG G2x] noahk423:
+1 on this!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
Yes Real Flash

Yes, I used the command prompt on my PC to load the NVFlash image. From what I have learned reading that is the only way it will work correctly.

It is currently loading after the initial reboot and at the LG logo with the blue streak, which is encouraging.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] noahk423:
Ok, that is good that you used nvflash to get CWM on your phone, that definitely wasn't the problem. Like he said earlier, could've been the kernel.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
Still on the LG splash with blue, I am now considering dancing around the device wearing a tinfoil hat and a chickenfoot necklace... It would be incredibly cool if there was a way to pull a logfile after install or see one while the install is happening.

How long should this normally take? Almost 1 hr now..
[T-Mobile LG G2x] noahk423:
Hahahaha, I almost laughed out loud at that. Umm, have you tried just a basic rom, like CM7? Just to compare if it works or something to see if it'll flash correctly and not your phone, and it might be a bad download for genesis. Just to be sure, it is indeed a P999?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
I have a GB 2.3.3 on it now that loaded no problem. I tried that two days ago after several failed attempts. I am thinking its something here though because I couldn't get the ICS Domination ROM to work on it either. The GB ROM worked great after I flashed a new baseband to it. I had the static problem before that. It just doesn't want to cooperate with ICS. And the SD card is empty as well, I wanted to make sure there was enough room for a swap file.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mclark.usa:
I pulled the battery and it boots to the second LG logo and that's where it stays. I suppose both of the ROMs I tried could have been bad downloads, but idk., this has me flummoxed beyond belief. - and yes, it is a P999 (G2x) I bought about a year ago at a t-mobile store. I think it's time for a burial at sea for this thing!