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[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
Mail app is trash for gmail (kind of like hotmail and yahoo for android - they suck). Same with people and messenger for facebook. It's better to use the desktop sites for these. Calendar is nice for viewing google calendar, it puts reminders on your lock screen and live tiles. Though if you want to change anything I would suggest using the website again.
[Windows 8 General] the1dynasty:
thanks... i guess what i was referring to was the whole integration part... pictures, mail, im, etc... but i guess its not that big of a deal really... chrome installed fine and i just use that anyways... still some getting used to... but it's nice and i love the smoothness and speed of this!
[Windows 8 General] lumpaywk:
Gaming and web browsing see a big improvement. That said I would wait till you get the final build drivers out for your graphics card as with any new system.

Games boot times and load times are massively improved, cutting some load times in half already (will get faster as drivers and updates come). Not only that most comparisons also see a reasonable diff in fps and that is on beta graphics drivers. On top of that you get some cool features like cross platform live integration and xp points. You get live chat without needing some clunky background software eating your resources. Also if you set up the backup features right if say you accidently over save a game you can roll back to any date the save file (there was a really good write up on how this is useful http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/08/03/how-windows-8-file-history-saved-my-career/ ). Don't listen to Gabe he is just kicking off because he sees the MS store as competition to his own and so is trying to manipulate the market into running an OS that again forces users into his store, nothing more than that!

Also browsing is improved though not as much as I would of like but even a small improvement is better than non. most notably is that test is now rendered with hardware acceleration as well as everything else. You deffo wont see a decrease here and its worth a note that its much more secure esp in metro browser (but then you lose plugin support but will ask if you want to flip to desktop so you don't lose anything really as it will just flip when you ask it to).
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
Nvidia drivers (at least for Lenovo computers) came out of beta a couple days ago.
[Windows 8 General] Leonick:
His issue is just that developers might just start selling their games through the Windows Store, since it comes with Windows 8 that might eat some marketshare from Steam (competition will be good, maybe we'll finally see some work to speed up the slow and bloated app that Steam is?), of course, unless MS change the rules to allow PEGI 18 games that might be a problem in Europe... Either way all your games will install and run just the same way as they did in Windows 7.

As long as it's not a laptop relying on OEM updating drivers there should be no problems, for AMD cards the Windows 8 driver download is now the same as for Vista and Win 7 and NVIDIA seem to be doing the same thing so they are both ready.
[Windows 8 General] lumpaywk:
My point was that they are not yet fully optimized. You are correct though you can get the drivers and they run well but you still get a few niggles, like some cards fans run at full speed all the time etc. TBH you will be really unlucky to get an issue at this stage - I have been gaming on windows 8 since rtm but if you want to see any real improvement you should give it a couple more months and you will get much much better performance and stability.
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
I've been doing it since consumer preview and got equal or higher performance on windows 8.
[Windows 8 General] nathantaylor:
The main differences are:

Faster boot time

New Metro UI
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
And a host of w7 and long time windows niggles that got fixed in the desktop environment
[Windows 8 General] lumpaywk:
irs not just faster boot times and instant wake, the whole os is sizeably faster with hardware acceleration throughout nativaly. Theis is esp true in rendering text that has seen its ties cut amost in half - I will dig out article on this and post link later.

Also a huge improvment is in security, if you rub the metro browser for instance it sits in a sandbox envirenment same as any modurn app. This means no nastyness from the web. That's just one example but the whole os has been on a security run.

Tbh though using ot day in day out it still feels and looks the same, same file layout same control panel same tools desktop is much the same etc. It jst feels like my pc has been tuned up a lot and made more efficiant. I am getting about 10% more work done in a day :) so windows 8 makes me look good
[Windows 8 General] Rolandh:
I downloaded the x64 Release Preview the other day but I'm reluctant to commit to try it out for the fear of it not working on my Toshiba Satellite C660-15R Notebook that I've had for aprox 2 years as I've got a large amount of media on my HDD that needs to be burnt to DVD. I want to try the Release Preview before I commit to the rather attractive £49.99 price that it's available for from PC World.

Roland
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
How big is your HDD? I split mine into 2 partitions so I can keep 7.
[Windows 8 General] Rolandh:
It's 250GB with 222GB User Partition + 9.87GB Data Partition Factory created by Toshiba & 400MB Hidden Recovery Partition. I'm considering upgrading to a 500GB HDD with no OEM Partitions at some point.

Roland
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
Yeah I have a 500gb hard drive that is formatted to 465.76gb (for some unknown reason). There is a 1.17gb partition called SYSTEM_DRV, a 10.25gb lenovo recovery partition (which I believe contains a full install of windows 7), my 225gb windows 7 partition and my 229gb windows 8 partition.
[Windows 8 General] Rolandh:
Would it be worth installing the Release Preview or should I just Pre-Order the Final Version from PC World for £49.99GBP?

Roland
[Windows 8 General] shreshth89:
Jihad i would rather suggest u to buy a portable hard drive as u may loose the internal licensced software which u may find at later stages unrevertable and might regret on formatting

And one more thing higher the amount of internal drive, larger the amount of data u loose on a harddisk or os crash

If it helps u don't forget to thank

sent from Samsung Galaxy Note using XDA Premium
[Windows 8 General] hazard99:
Lots of people are throwing hate around because of the new Start front end. As a person who found 101 reasons not to like windows 8, The hate has all but gone away. Its been the fastest lightest Os I could ever possibly use.

I pin what whatever icons I want to the desktop and maybe a few to the metro ui. I spend most of my time in the regular desktop mode. My biggest complaint is that you cant customize the start wallpaper. Getting use to the shortcuts will help a lot of people.

At the end of it all the Ui is still pretty much the same.
[Windows 8 General] shreshth89:
It would muh better if u pre-order beacause u cannot upgrade from release preview version u would be again formatting the system since it will automatically expire with in 90 days time period
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
What do you mean lose internal licenced software? My windows 7 is OEM copy that came with the computer so the serial is on the bottom of the computer. I got windows 8 through dreamspark premium so I can just look up that serial and type it in if I need to. I don't buy any other software, but I like to keep legit copes of windows because if they go bad then I have serious problems.

Also I use free online backup to backup my data.
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
I suspect there is a slight case of missunderstanding due to language barriers on this one.

if I may, this is my interpretation.

don't just blindly format your computer unless your happy you can restore everything you need and remember that a full single large HDD increases the risk to significant data loss should it fail
[Windows 8 General] shreshth89:
thanks for further explaining

i would also like to add i was working for hp and i had handled many issues due to harddisk upgradations since if u do it manually by ur own u wouldn't be able to again create the recovery partition in ur harddrive which is a failsafe in case ur os gets corrupt.(as it can be only created by OEM disk)

I would try to explain u much more complicated thing

all mother boards have a particular capacity to support hardware like in phone we have a limit of maximum supported external memory. Similarly, these laptops and PC's mother board also have. However when we do custom upgradations we don't feel any changes in the performance of system neither any issues but after a prolong time (say weeks or couple of months) ur system will enter boot thawed stage finally becoming laggy and reduction in perfomance

so before doing any custom upgradations please check with ur vendors specifications what would be the maximum supportable......

Since harddisk is always connected on serial port enternally therefore it has a max. effect on board

that's if ur laptop is nt having factory made dual layer writer u can't just buy and upgrade it
[Windows 8 General] fatclue:
Dude, relax before you pop a blood vessel. You're complaining about people who don't like W8 for aesthetic reasons and yet you're trying to ram your own opinion down others' throats because you feel so strongly about your position. BTW, I agree with your position but I'm not going have another heart attack for the sake of evangelizing.
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
I never said I deleted the recovery partition. Also, this is my second hard drive, as the one that came with the computer was defective. Lenovo sent me a new one and OEM recovery disks which made that partition. Also if I wanted another HDD I would need to remove my dvd drive, which I need.
[Windows 8 General] shreshth89:
If u have so then that's great but do check the max supporting capacity from oem once before from the manufacturer

And u can purchase same dvd rom without any issues or if u have only defective lens then change lens only it would be much cheaper

if it helped you don't forget to press thanks, it isn't that much hard to do u sent from Samsung Galaxy Note using XDA Premium
[Windows 8 General] Rolandh:
Ok, thanks. I've now just got to deide if I should Pre-Order or Upgrade the HDD first then purchase Windows 8.

Roland
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] serenity302:
i had flashed cm10 onto my captivate and it worked fine for a while but then a couple of days later i woke up to my phone saying cant mount internal sd card error, but i got around that i flashed my captivate back to stock 2.2 and then i tried to flash some compatible kernels i but then my phone booted with a white screen and then kept turning on and off even when i plugged in the charger it did the same thing i cant even get into download mode or recovery mode because the phone wont stay on, oh and the phone starts to get hot whenever i plug in the charger is there anyway i can fix this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uhm:
Try to force download mode. Remove battery, connect your phone to your computer via usb cable and then press volume up and down keys together and then insert the bettery with those keys pressed. That should put the phone in download screen. If that is successful, flash stock rom uckk4 from the one click master collection thread. Flash corn kernel after that via odin.

If you see a white screen then it could be a display(LCD) problem. If your LCD screen is faulty then obviously the steps described above won't help you. If things have gone wrong due to incompatible kernel then you might be able to restore your phone to normalcy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] serenity302:
ok thanks i'll give it a try and get back to you
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] 74M3NUMB3RS:
can someone tell me what are the meaning of some stuff in updater scripts

like ui_print

show_progress

package_extract_dir

run_program

copy_dir

and others....
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] anasdcool71:
First one is for printing anything on the screen.

2nd is for that bar getting filled with blue colour that you see at the bottom.

3rd is to extract a certain file from a folder in your program and paste it into the respective one.

4th is to run a program from busybox. Like mount system to paste an apk in /system/app.

5th is to obviously copy files as it says.

I suppose kurotsugi has explained all this in his guide for updater-script in the general section. Please check there.

**Men have become the tools of their tools**
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] 74M3NUMB3RS:
thanks for this dude
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tacosbuenos:
Here's the situation.

I had bionix 1.3 on my phone > tried to install stock froyo 2.2 > bricked phone > did a factory reset using odin> re rooted phone and installed rom manager > rom manager gives me the error message "an error occurred while downloading your recovery" when I try to install bionix-v
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast6977:
After you Odin to stock, are you rooting with the update.zip from here at XDA?

You'll put it on your internal storage (not Micro SD) and not in a folder. Just drop it on the base level of the internal storage. Then go to stock recovery, click reinstall packages. You'll probably have to click reinstall packages a 2nd time.

Then it should boot into Clockwork Mod Recovery.

You really don't need ROM Manager. I guess some people like it, though.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketrocketrocket:
Where can I get the xda update zip? My version of the vibrant doesn't allow you to physically get into recovery up with the buttons. What else can I use to install roms? I tried using rom toolbox lite ( i think that's the name) but it still didn't work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
refer to my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32180600&postcount=3
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsgun357:
What do you mean "your version of the vibrant"???

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketrocketrocket:
As I understand it you could get into recovery mode on the original vibrants by holding down the buttons in a specific way but they removed the feature on later vibrants. I have one of the vibrants where the feature was removed. I can only get to recovery mode through software I think.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsgun357:
They didn't remove that feature from vibrants. Go to settings> about phone>model and type that in here letter for letter please.

Try this, turn phone off. Hold volume up/down and power until you see screen come on then release.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast6977:
Shut your phone off. Hold volume up + volume down and power all at the same time. As soon as you see the Vibrant black/white text let go.

You may have to try this multiple times to get it to work. This will be stock recovery.

The later ones were getting shipped with updated Android version and installing signed packages bug was fixed.

Nowadays, you get around that by entering Download mode and using Odin to revert back to stock, which allows flashing of custom recovery and rooting, and then voila... you're on your way.

I guess I've been wrong before, but I've never heard anything about them disabling the button combos altogether.

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Do you have an SGH-T959? Not to be confused with a T959v, that's different. Do you have a front facing camera? The errors you describe typically take place when you erroneously flash a ROM that isn't for your device.

Have a looksy in Settings>About phone and make sure it says SGH-T959.

Good luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketrocketrocket:
At this point I'm just trying to re install bionix 1.3 with a non working rom manager on my rooted, stock vibrant.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsgun357:
Good luck.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast6977:
In my opinion, forget about ROM Manager and get Clockwork Mod Recovery installed. Search the forums, find the update.zip file. You'll need to be on stock Eclair to flash it in recovery.

Check the stickies for guides on how to get back to stock, how to flash Update.zip and the ROM threads have instructions in the 1st post how to install the ROM via Clockwork Mod Recovery.

Good Luck!

Hint: look in stickies for Woodrubes Repository. He put together a great collection of files. Don't forget to hit his thanks button.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
I've posted the instruction and link from my previous post on first page.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alok1663:
I m planning to buy a new gt i9000t model from my friend. And i m confused between above said models. Is gt i9000t will be abble to support custom rom or not pls help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alok1663:
Please help me is dere no one to help.. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
i9000t was released for Latin America, so the modem is country specific for that region , other than that it is similar to i9000, so yes you can use custom ROMS
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
What's the largest capacity USB HDD not externally powered anyone has successfully used with his/her SG S3 using an OTG USB cable?

Please, please be specific in terms of the

capacity

, format (NTFS, Fat32, etc.), brand, model, and the OTG cable used (preferably include where you bought it from) any other info you can provide. There are just so many different threads pertaining to S3 and I really can't tell under which one this topic should fit. I did search most forums but no one has yet provided this specific info. Just quite a few people reporting successes and failures without much details.

Again, I know lots and lots of people have successfully connected hard drives as large as 1 or 2 TB but they were externally powered . I want to see how large we can go by just directly connecting a hard drive (again, no flash drives, etc.).

Thank you all!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Kangburra:
2.5" Western Digital. :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Funny! :) But seriously, what is the capacity of the drive your connected?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Anyone?!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] fabioschmidt:
1TB

Samsung 2,5" S2 portable 1TB

USB only (no external supply)

1TB @ compressed NTFS

Single 1TB partition

HDD Works and recognize normally using "Paragon NTFS&HFS+", available free at PlayStore.

You dont need to open this software everytime, just let it installed. It mount the external drives automatically.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
THANK YOU for responding! :) Is this your drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152298
[Galaxy S III Accessories] fabioschmidt:
Yes, it is, but mine is USB2.0. Strange because I think that S2 portable was USB2.0 and M3 portable is USB3.0.

Mine has a mini-usb connector, so it is only USB2.0.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SUNUN:
19,061 ahonese

wd 1tb usb 3.0
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sp3llv3xit:
Portable HDD

I tried my 500 gb Samsung external HDD with my S3. It couldn't read it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] penkeerthi:
USB Powered Drive

External 2.5 HDD - 500 GB to 1TB exfat format. Somehow , after one successful mount , it say hard disk corrupted the second time i connect it..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Well sad to report that this one did not work. Now so far I've only tried it in NTFS using Paragon which did not recognize it, but I don't think formatting it in Fat32 will make any difference ..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Strange... I've tried it with my WD USB 3.0 500GB in NTFS & Fat32 with no luck...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Try installing Paragon NTFS (free on Play Store). What brand/model is your drive?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mflow:
2,5 500GB USB 3.0 Toshiba Canvio .

this one : http://us.toshiba.com/computers/storage/portable/canvio-3/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XenomorphXx121:
I tried a 1tb Portable seagrave hard drive into a wired hub and my s3 said it's blank
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XooLoo:
Is this the model number for the one you have? HDTC605XK3A1 (http://us.toshiba.com/computers/storage/portable/canvio-3/HDTC605XK3A1)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] fabioschmidt:
Some hard disks do not start with Galaxy S3 5V supply, because all of them are rated to 1A, but my Samsung S2 portable may have a soft start that do not drain more current than Galaxy S3 can provide.

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You need PARAGON software installed to read NTFS and compressed volumes. My first try, even with paragon installed, said that the disk is blank, but i think when I restarted phone it started working.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] fabioschmidt:
For your information, I acquired a SanDisk 64GB Micro SD card. I put it on Windows, formatted it in NTFS, and put in my Galaxy S3. First it said that the volume whas blank, but some seconds paragon NTFS/HFS+ recognize it and let me browse the files.

The interest thing is that the phone's camera, and every function in the phone recognize the card with ntfs normally.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Duckvdm:
Samsung g2

I have a Samsung G2 Portable 500GB. It works fine without any software. I just plugged it in and out worked. Played A Full HD movie from the it without hassle.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dbenney:
I downloaded the toolkit for rooting my sgs3 and its been about a 2 weeks. all of a sudden today my antivirus (AVG free) said that file was infected with a trojan horse. is this a legitimate issue or is it jsut a problem with my AV program? i know the free AVs sometimes detect programs as malicious when they actually arent. has this happened to anyone else?

BTW this is the toolkit i used and where i got it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
you called it, it is an issue with AV...disregard the message.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DowntownRDB:
Here is what I posted on Mskip's thread:

I have used this toolkit on 4 SGS3 and worked great on each one. No problems on my PC except AV will pick it up as a thread as RegnierD states above.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ihavenewnike:
I currently have the galaxy s3. I am supposed to get the note 2 as alternate replacement and it might sound like a no brainer. But I have invented almost 100 dollars into accessories fir the s3. Is the note 2 really worth it to lose all my stuff. This thread is NOT meant to "rub it in" or anything like that. I just really want your input.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Honestly it's personal preference. I don't need or want a 5.5 inch screen on my phone because 4.8 is enough for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] deymayor:
The Note has some limitations that can't be overlooked like the enormous size that makes one hand operation almost impossible but when you're browsing, it yields the best experience that rivals any android tablet. The new s pen looks like a huge bonus with enhanced functionalities but since it is very new, you cant expect new roms.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Stolly08:
Keep what you have and deck it out! I plan to do the same im loving my S3.... came from the Thunderbolt.... the S3 will undoubtably have well already has also sooooo much stuff developing in the rom world
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
If you can sell your $100 worth of accessories for anything more than $50 go for the Note 2, you wont be able to peel your eyes away from that big beautiful screen. If you can't sell it and it'll collect dust in your house, keep the S3.