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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upndwn4par:
Go to the Q&A section, in the "Search This Forum" box type "stuck on boot logo", hit enter.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upndwn4par:
Any luck?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcreego:
Hi, I just bought my Galaxy Nexus because I've never tried a real Google phone and I love it. It is blazing fast and smooth. It ha sonly two big problems.

My phone on Jelly Bean JR003R with latest Franco's Kernel nightly 283 has a very bad wifi range.

wifi speed is good but the

signal is unreliable

. In the same place sometimes shows 2 arrows on signal strenght and one second after no arrows.

Is this a Jelly Bean problem?

Phone has also a really bad

incall audio

(low and not clear).

Anyone experienced the same issues?

Is possible to improove them both?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ac3theone:
Use this to make in call volume louder http://www.sendspace.com/file/ascuxe and as for the wifi, as long as your connection is still fast never mind the signal bars, especially if your right next to your router
[General Questions and Answers] drafgnjom:
Ive seen some guides about rooting and flashing but i just cant understnd what to do first :( can somebody help me step by step? Including flashing this rom? I cant understand the guide too :( btw here's the link of the rom i want to flash. Please teach me too on how to unbrick my phone if i failed the process :( i really do want to make my phone better and i think the jellybean update for this phone is not 100% sure true or if its true it will be months i guess? Thanks in advance! :* :)) ive attached the picture of my kernel version, it might hell. Thanks!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32006977&postcount=7
[General Questions and Answers] KingAmir:
First,

I think you should read my guide on terms

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1851495

Then go here to learn how to root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660419

Hit thanks if you found this useful.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
I formatted my internal storage drive on my htc droid incredible to ntfs (comes with 8gb internal flash and 2gb external microsd)

I did this with windows However when you un-mount you will not be able to get back into it in windows or your android os afterwards leaving you with minimal storage space left on your internal flash. Now I only have roughly 600mb internal and somewhere a huge partition formatted to ntfs that cannot be assessed by windows or android. DOH! I've spend a few hours trying to find answers so I'm posting for help!

Also I am running Jellybean 4.1.1 RC2 (rooted)

I tried to mount and format with CWM and did not work (no app2sd partition)

There has got to be a way to use adb to reformat the ntfs space back to fat32 It seems way to easy to mess a phone up just by formating a storage space with windows.. Really need help here !
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Go to CWM, mounts and storage and select format emmc. Do you get any errors there? It should make it fat32 again or at least fat which should be picked up by windows.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
CWM version is 5.0.2.0

Messages:

Formatting /emmc...

Error mounting /emmc!

Thanks for a reply btw!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
You're welcome. Have you tried formatting internal storage in the ROM itself?

If that doesn't work can you run from adb shell in the ROM or recovery? Try ROM as I think it will more likely work.

umount /storage/sdcard1
mkfs.vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3

If umount fails with not mounted that's good. Any other error let me know. The mkfs.vfat command should hopefully succeed. I don't want to try as I don't want to wipe emmc but that's the internal device name of the internal storage.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
on the umount /storage/sdcard1 command in adb shell i get an error stating that there was an invalid argument
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
emmc shouldn't be mounted then. If you've confirmed that emmc (internal storage - 8gb) is ntfs then run the second command.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Shouldnt it be:

umount /mnt/emmc
mkfs.vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3

Then to remount:

mount -t vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3 /mnt/emmc

umoumt /storage/sdcard1 just says failed if i try to run it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
Tiny, I also tried the second part of the commands and got this " mkfs.vfat lseek: value too large for defined data type "
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Actually, cmlusco my umount /storage/sdcard1 worked fine as root for me. But umount /mnt/emmc should work across all ROMs.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zachf714:
Couldent you just try an ruu
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
Thanks for the reply guys!

I get an invalid argument when trying to unmount emmc
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Does this work:

su
mkfs.vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

If not check post #17 in this thread, replacing mmcblk0p14 with mmcblk0p3:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1647806&page=2

---------- Post added at 07:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:35 PM ----------

It's a bit extreme for an improperly formatted partition.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
I got the same result

" value too large for defined data type" Bolth methods

Again thank you for all your help guys!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
This might be helpful?

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\User>cd miniadb_inc

The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\User>cd C:

C:\Users\User

C:\Users\User>cd C:/

C:\>cd miniadb_inc

C:\miniadb_inc>umount /mnt/emmc

'umount' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\miniadb_inc>adb shell

root@android:/ # umount /mnt/emmc

umount /mnt/emmc

umount: can't umount /mnt/emmc: Invalid argument

1|root@android:/ # mount -t vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3 /mnt/emmc

mount -t vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3 /mnt/emmc

mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:3 on /mnt/emmc failed: Invalid argument

255|root@android:/ # su

su

root@android:/ # mkfs.vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

mkfs.vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

mkfs.vfat: lseek: Value too large for defined data type

1|root@android:/ # #cat /proc/partitions

#cat /proc/partitions

1|root@android:/ # cat /proc/partitions

cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

31 0 640 mtdblock0

31 1 4608 mtdblock1

31 2 3072 mtdblock2

31 3 253952 mtdblock3

31 4 640 mtdblock4

31 5 40960 mtdblock5

31 6 152576 mtdblock6

179 0 7757824 mmcblk0

179 1 778240 mmcblk0p1

179 2 204800 mmcblk0p2

179 3 6774776 mmcblk0p3

179 8 1931264 mmcblk1

179 9 1930240 mmcblk1p1

root@android:/ #
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Try this:

/system/bin/busybox mkfs.vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3

Or

/system/xbin/busybox mkfs.vfat /dev/block/vold/179:3

Depending on where busybox is installed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
Thank you for the suggestion cmlusco! However I still get value too large for defined data type
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok try

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/block/vold/179:3

Or try formating it to something else first like ext2:

mkfs.ext2 /dev/block/vold/179:3
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Try the post I linked, check post 17. Itt has a different busybox and you can push it to /data/local/tmp and run busybox according to the instructions there just replace /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 with /dev/block/mmcblk0p3. It may not work with your busybox version in the the ROM.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Was just reading on google about newer busyboxes having lseek issues, so that will probably solve your issue. However i cant download the linked busybox.zip file from that thread. From the xda app it says failed to connect, and from the website it just sits there trying to load forever. Any idea what version of busybox will work, cant find that info anywhere.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
I don't know the answer to that one. OP, try busybox 1.18.2 or 1.18.4. You can use stericson's busybox app to easily install an older busybox version but the free version is annoying with extra boxes that pop up. However once you install one that works you can uninstall the app. If you install busybox from there (wait for smart install to be ready but you can do normal), then you need to try the commands from the phone.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zachf714:
If you don't have s-off mine as well ta 2.2
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blown4x4:
I used the busybox version included it that post and it worked! Thanks for everyone's help and ideas! Thank you very much!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Glad to help and good to hear!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocrepmex1:
hello Tiny, I saw all your comments about this, I hope you can help me here, I have a Droid incredible verizon and my emmc is lost. When i type ls in /dev/block I only see mtdblock0 to mtdblock6 files. when sdcard is pluged on I see mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p1 abd when the sdcard is plugged off the last files both desapears. I think my internal emmc is burned. Could you help me to confirm this?? thanks a lot.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Sounds like you basically confirmed it yourself. Sdcard should show as mmcblk1p1. Last issue I saw it was present but not writeable. Try an run but I don't see much hope. You could probably format your sdcard to be like the internal storage since the sdcard basically gets recognized as the internal storage.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amitisprince:
Thanks

U saved my day bro!!!

now i am able to see my internal sdcard in my funbook infinity after struggling for after a fortnight.

Thanks a lot man!!!

:good::good::good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] seanroot:
Hey guys .... I wanted to get some help on my current situation...I'm currently flashed over to metro PCs running the goodness fh13 Rom on my E4GT phone everything works for me even mms ... Best Rom out there in my OPINION...Any ways I successfully flashed the AOKP jb Rom and cm10 the other day with no brick issues etc. In doing so I lost my 3g service ...couldn't figure out how to get to work on jelly bean ROMS. IF someone can enlighten/help me on what I did wrong ,or have a fix, or if these ROMS AREN'T COMPATIBLE WITH my kind of service I would be very thankful:D...Thanks for reading
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evo3d6:
If you search no data on cm10 I started a thread if you flash the alternative carrier fix that will take care of your data if you have any issues with MMS oak. has made a zip to flash that will take care of that for you in dev thread if you need help feel free to ask
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] seanroot:
sorry for my late reply been at work ......anyways thanks for steering me in the right direction .....im going to check that thread as soon as im done typing .....;)....thanks again will update on how it goes for me
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevintangi:
guys. for some reason i need the original build.prop file from the LRG STOCK ROM. only the build.prop file. please. i need this urgent.

if you can, please make a CWM flasable zip for me ? any swift reply will be appreciated. thank you :(:(:(:(:(:(:(

EDIT : what i need is the DPI inside the build.prop. make sure it is 320 thanks :(
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelvinator:
Hi, anyone got the best faces function in the stock camera ? Once again it was featured in the samsung video but like screen recorder went missing when launched!!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
It's there for me?

open camera and click the white rectangle/square on the left, then press best face.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] norbarb:
Don't forget you can play flash movies on net
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
I am like you; long time iPhone user. then my wife upgrade her old iPhone to Galaxy S3 (for free), but she did not like it too much, so I offered my iPhone 4S switch :p:cyclops:, I still love my iPhone, but I don't know I wanted something different, and I am glad that I did switch with my wife. What I really like about Andorid phones is abilitity to do everything you wish, not like closed guarded iPhone OS thingy to deal here. S3 is a bit laggy because of TouchWiz, but once JB hits, I am sure this Galaxy S3 will be flying....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dawheat:
Just switched a couple weeks ago (iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4S) to the S3 - rooted and loaded a lightweight ROM.

Love it so far and very happy with the switch:

- took a while to find a browser app I like that 'feels' like Safari. I use Boat browser since I like a bookmarks link to be in the bottom toolbar (instead of clicking a button, then bookmarks like Chrome).

- Love the external SD card (64GB) + ability to play pretty much any video format I have using MX Player Pro. Instead of tediously converting to MP4s, I just load my original files and they look great in HD. Space is no concern either now.

- Love the custom launchers to customize the home screens exactly the way I want (using Nova Prime)

- Like the use of widgets

- Able to re-use my iTunes playlists and organization using iSyncr. Nice I can use one program to manage all my ipods and phone.

- Speed of everything (apps, etc) is great

- Love the much larger real estate - can no longer use my wife's iPhone 5 comfortably

Negs:

- battery life is noticeably inferior to the iPhone 4s and 5. Yes it has a larger battery and I have most power features on, but over 50% of my draw is from the screen. Totally makes sense, but I have to be more aware of where the battery is in the afternoon and re-charge it to avoid running out at night.

- Related to the above, but to avoid my battery dying to quickly, I can't put brightness as high as I'd ideally like. It's fine but not my first choice.

- Also related, auto-brightness doesn't work as well as I'd like

- basic tasks sometimes take extra clicks compared to the iPhone. Making a call and such feel like I'm making a couple extra clicks all the time compared to the simplicity of the iPhone.

- Hard closing apps is annoying vs. the iPhone. I know you don't "have" to, but I like doing it (OCC) and the Android method annoys me

Overall I'm very glad I switched and will likely remain an Android guy for a while.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
Not sure if this will help..but you can put short cuts on your screen for direct contacts. I have a few set for the people I call most frequently.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
Agree with most those points.

I'm going to try out the Boat browser, thanks for mentioning that, I also do miss the quick bookmark tabs on the bottom like I had in Safari. I think the bottom loading bookmarks is better since you dont have to do two handled tapping to get to them, the little things that make you miss the smaller size of iPhone is having to reach for top loading bookmarks.

ps. highly recommend you check out "Go Power Master" for the battery issues like you mentioned. As I mentioned in my first post, If you set the settings up properly you can get more battery life out of the GS3 by having it set to shut down certain battery hog features when youd don't need em.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Vanillamarble:
Switched from a 3GS,and I love my new GS3. My Galaxy certainly feels a lot faster (I completely turned animations off in Nova and developer options, my phone is a monster now), I love the customization, and I like how it's open source.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ivizoid:
I actually returned my iPhone 5 for the S3. Mainly for the iOS still being the same as always. Nothing new, on this I could just flash roms for days.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] foboi1122:
I went from a iphone 4s to a SG3 and here's what I think

Pros:

The phone mainly allows me to express my inner nerd much better.

-Networking apps: Network scanner , nmap, wifi analyzer, mac changer, SSH, free hotspot (most of these are after root though)

-Video Playback: they don't have to be apple's nazi formats

-Customization: I love skinning my phone

-Tasker: just hands down awesome

-Google Navigation is also great

Cons:

-Iphone apps crash/freeze less

-Iphone uses less clicks to get to what I need. Example: if I want to call a number I found from yelp, I need to hit the phone number, then I need to press call on the phone app where as Iphone calls directly by pressing a number on yelp.

-Battery life is not as good on the SG3, like many have noticed.

-Texting is not as nice on the SG3: iMessage was great for group texts, esp when all my friends have iphones. Also I dislike that the two text apps I've tried both cover up my conversation when I turn my phone to landscape mode. It only shows my text typing box and they keyboard. I really liked that the ios message app shows a bit of your conversation however you type. Doe anyone know how to do this on the SG3?

-My iphone was compatible with my car's digital display, but the SG3 is not.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slicetwo:
Widgets. I love my new widgets. Why the iphone has no widgets is beyond me. Also, setting in the pull down notifications? Bloody awesome.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rob_rector:
Not having to stand in line all day to get one ... seriously though, I personally like the screen size. Is that even a feature?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] snekiam:
Screened size, haptic feedback, removable battery, upgradeable storage uses usb instead of 30 pin or lightening, rootable from the day I got it (thanks XDA!) as oppose to weeks or months for a jailbreak.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
you guys got most the pros and cons pretty much right.

I think having had an iPhone for many years and now having a top-quality Android device, you really get to see that there are many pretty advantages to each device. I dont think the Apple fanboys or the "Fandroids" have a perfect case to make for each device. With the GS3 I sacrifice a few things that I loved about iPhone but the things and possibilities I get in return with Android / GS3 kind of blow me away.

but I'm learning there are some shortcuts to some of the "too many clicks" issues:

if you go into Contact and want to call someone quickly, the common gripe is you select a name and instead of it launching a call to that name, you go into the contact details. there are Swipe Left and Swipe Right features in Contacts. Look up a contact and Swipe Right and it should launch straight into a call, Swipe Left and it will start a text to that name.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
Battery life depends greatly on the Rom you are running, I get probably 25% better life on black jelly jb than on stock. I average 16hrs up time, 3 hrs screen, 2 hrs talk and a number of other running apps with 10-20% life remaining... depends on signal strength and Wi-Fi connection of course, but that's about my average experience. No fancy mods or anything, just rooted custom debloated Rom.

Ran iPhones from the 2 until the 4, the only thing I miss is pulling out an iPhone at a table with friends and everyone having the exact same phone and feeling cool :p lol. Seriously though, I have gotten the same stability with android that I had with a jailbroken iPhone, better battery life ( was never able to get past 4pm with any iPhone) swap batteries if I need to, micro sd, features years before Apple, features, shortcuts, widgets... the list goes on... for me, android and the sgs3 all the way, and these phones are just going to get better and better, it seems to me that Apple has hit their innovative wall, where as android/Google is just getting started. I can't believe the things that Google and Samsung is working on ie Google glass and the unbreakable/flexible screens and the 100% transparent screens... things that get me pretty excited for the future of these devices.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mindracer:
Really, I either have a direct contact on my screen or in the phone book in a second, and I also activated the GS III feature/gesture/motion of when you have a contact open and put the phone to your ear, it calls them automatically! I can call someone 5x faster than someone one iphone going through their contacts :P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
Thanks..I never knew about that shortcut. Just tried it and works very well. Still learning more. Make sure to get the free sg3 users digest from play stores.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wiz4769:
I had a 3gs for a couple years and like most I liked it alot, but the battery ended up going funky and I was out of space. There really are only 2 gripes I have about Android over iphone

First is using it in the car, Iphones/Ipods just work better for this, to be able to just plug into my stereo USB and it charge and play music while showing the song info and being able to control from the radio itself is the biggest thing I miss, so much so I just leave my iPod in the car for my music and dont use the S3...sad...The other thing I miss is Apptrackr ...They have every app there is for iPhones, I have never not been able to find the app I want. The Android underground is lacking on that side of things, the options like blapk and all that is pretty ghetto. Torrents are not that much of a help either. But I suppose this is a whole other thread....I pretty much love everything else and Im glad I switched

The pros out weigh the cons for sure and I will not be going back to Iphone ever. I just hope that the whole car integration thing can be improved so I can ditch the ipod...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] markysd:
All the custom stuff on Android... I was a jailbreak junky and android out the box has way more custom.. I still have my iphone 4 jail broken.. I want emojis on my keyboard on my gs3 and iOs apps are more polished but pretty much the same on android some are nice some are crappy like wise on iphone just depends on developer.. IOS got stale for me... IOS feels like it's more for basic user /old people lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MISSBIANKA1:
I like the "auto reject" feature, especially when it comes to block calls. I like how I can have a live wallpaper :);)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Alaris:
I use a belkin blue tooth adapter for car audio. The only thing I don't like about the phone is that Google Music won't download to my sd card.

---------- Post added at 11:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 AM ----------

I was gonna wait for the note 2 to be my first Android but it's just to big. The quad core would have been nice though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
Agreed on the car integration, my iPhone would do the same on my car audio system, display all the info etc, my androids never did, but I just connect them through blue tooth, do is not a big deal, but I did wish they had the integration that iPhones do. But that fault lies with the stereo manufacturers, there are systems that do the same and more with android, but it makes sense for manufactures to go with iPhone, seeing as they only need to work with a few devices that guarantee a large compatibility... but this will change soon.