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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExodusArts:
I wanted to know what would be better to invest my money into. I'm pretty sure I want the S3 but I just wanted some others opinions on it.

Looks like I'm not going to get much help here.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xywojtek:
Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kremata:
Everybody will tell you a different story. For some SGS3 is a piece of crap, for me it's my dream phone come true. The only one near as good as the SGS3 is the Note but for me it's too big.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crest+:
Galaxy note 2 screen not gorilla glass according to samsung support and...gorilla glass web.. go for s3 the best phone ever
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
No you are a bit of a dumbo .

You say better waiting for the next phone ??

A logical question is what next phone the SGS4 ??? or some other phone that is due ???

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrFhenix:
Geta the i9305 You will drool of happiness

From a galaxy s3 far far away
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiowas82:
If you can find one without defects, take a OneX, or better, a OneX+....i changed 3 OneX, all of them defective in a way or in another, and then i gave up and bought an S3, which is a great phone, but to me it doesn't have that premium feeling...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xywojtek:
I had this feeling when I bought desire HD (just when it came out) till I found out there won't be an update to ICS. Now if you look at let's say Jelly Time thread, 4.1.2 runs ok on it, but HTC won't help with the development (even in a form of a "leak" or any other). They have forgotten about this phone after about a year. Ignored the petition signed by tens of thousands. So if you think Apple is poo, think again. Buy any phone but not HTC. They are making great phones, but they have to come to their senses. I hope they will, as their sales and shares are really bad.
[HTC Desire X] Gunther24:
I installed some apps to the sd-card and linked them to a homescreen.

After rebooting the device, some of those apps disappear from the homescreen.

It looks like this Android version (or HTC Sense) deletes the links if the sd-card is not yet mounted ready.

I never had this problem with my old Froyo phone. This used to show grey symbols while booting and the icons appeared after the sd was mounted.

Is there a solution for this severe problem?
[HTC EVO 3D] newmz89:
Hey guys well I installed a custom rom the mms stopped working I can't send or receive them they just hang on sending.

I am 100% sure the apns are correct. However I can't seem to fix the problem. I have reflashed the rom many times to see if that fixed it but no luck. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

EDIT: it appears that mms works on goSMS but not the stock messaging program. Is there a way to fix that?

EDIT 2: Managed to fix it I had a custom mms.apk that I had running and obviously it wasn't right for my phone as I went back to another one in an old rom I had and it is now working
[HTC EVO 3D] dfeldt91:
Is it a JB Rom by chAnce? That's the only thing keeping me from running jb and if you found a fix I'd love to hear...
[HTC EVO 3D] newmz89:
It was with ICS the custom rom that it wasn't working. However I did try and go across to a JB rom and it didn't work. However It was weird I took the messaging app out of the JB rom zip that I tried flashing and used that mms.apk on my ICS rom where mms wasn't working and it worked. So I am totally confused. I am going to flash that JB paranoid android rom again and use the mms.apk i am using now and see what happens. Although with that JB ROM I had problems with my camera, lagging and not taking the photo. What rom were you thinking of using, and what one did you flash where mms didn't work?
[HTC EVO 3D] Graveler:
Did anyone find the sollution for mms working on jb roms?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nztechblog:
Hey, Since Windows 8 RT is out, can it be ported to the Note? I see Windows 8 RT is for "light devices".

Cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msedek:
Windows 8 its closed source so you can not get the kernel to work with any other device.. Probably some freak could manage to accomplish some kind of crazy port but without hardware acceleration video, no camera, no radios, no sensors so what would be the point..

Tapatalking on my GT-N7000
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrGuy:
Hi,

So my girlfriend just got given a used HTC Desire by a friend last monday. It was locked to Orange. Like all android based devices in this house, the first thing I did was unlock all the various bits, flash a decent rom, update the radio etc. and all was working fine all week including the battery dying totally at least once.

On friday, she had to do a 22 mile charity bike cycle for work (chump) and after she got home, she spoke on the phone for a while. Then the battery died. Now it's foobarred.

When I put it on charge, light doesn't come on straight away (hinting usb-brick)

Eventually the light comes on and goes orange.

It then goes green

When I press the power button, the green light goes off and NOTHING happens.

I can't get it to connect to the PC at all.

But since I can't boot it, I can't get into recovery, I can't get the PC to see it so can't use ADB.

I've tried all sorts of combinations of removing the battery, leaving it charging for hours, leaving it with the battery, sim and microSD removed for hours and can't seem to get any life out of it.

The phone looks fine, the water indicators are all still white. My only ideas aside from some catastrophic failure on one of the boards is maybe it's the battery that's shorted itself or something. Does the Desire turn on at all when plugged in with a fudged battery?

Anyone else had a similar problem? Any ideas on how to fix it? Phone or battery?

I'm trying to hunt down someone with a HTC Desire at work so I can test their battery with it - is there any chance this phone could make an expensive paperweight from another battery too?

Thanks in advanced.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mebius1:
Hi.

Maybe the battery, in his last breath, overcharged some circuits and burnt them. But I hope not for you. If the red light/green light works, it means at least that some of the circuit is working so continue your chase and find yourself another battery for testing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikufellow:
Try and test the battery with a multimeter just to be sure ! Also what about charger was it original htc one ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] McDope:
Did you ever sort it out?

Did you got this solved? I've got myself a new phone (giveaway :D) and gave my Desire to my wife. I could flash another hboot and back to cm7 without any issues, she configured her google acc etc and put it onto charger over night. But it didnt charged. On yesterday morning it then died cuz of empty battery and dont come back now...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] najodleglejszy:
I've got XMP on stock rooted .431 with locked BL with Xperia V Walkman app and music widget. Is it possible in any way to use this "stock" widget on custom launchers, like e.g. LauncherPro? because it won't show when opening widget list while using such launchers.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] akshay999:
i also would like to have the stock widget on a launcher but as far as i knw few of the stock widgets do not turn up on launchers... :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] scorpion 13:
You cannot use the stock music widget on other launchers. because that widget is only created for Xperia launcher.

android sdk doesn't support "length of the music" on a widget.so that widget only works with sock launcher.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] najodleglejszy:
aw crap. thanks for explaining why it won't work :/
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciurius:
On my Archos 101IT I formatted the (removable) SD card as ext3. This was required for TitaniumBackup. When UrukDroid is booted, it mounts the file system as:

/dev/block/vold/179:17 on /mnt/storage/sdcard type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,fmode=0 666,dmode=0777,errors=continue,data=ordered)

I do not want the fmode/dmode since these make it impossible to protect files on the storage (again, as required by TitaniumBackup).

Where can I change what to have this file system mounted with the right options on reboot?

ANSWER:

Urukdroid has a special script, /system/bin/mount_sdcard.sh, that mounts the SD card upon boot. This script understands (V)FAT and EXT4. Anything else is left to the vold automounter. Archos modded vold so it could do a bit more than stock A 2.1 vold, e.g., mount EXT3 file systems.

I upgraded the file system on the SD card to EXT4, and now mount_sdcard.sh mounts the SD card upon boot with the correct mount options.

Thanks to $aur0n for helping me solve this.

Upgrading an EXT2 or EXT3 file system to EXT4 is easy, see https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4 .
[Asus Transformer TF700] Joeful:
Can a moderator rename this thread to "A Few Questions"?

Sent from my HTC Rezound
[Asus Transformer TF700] Joeful:
Never mind. I now understand how to unlock, flash recovery and flash a ROM.

Now that that's out of the way...

Would one recommend doing a system wipe on stock before unlocking and flashing recovery and ROM?

Is TWRP accepted to be the best custom recovery?

After unlocking, flashing recovery, and flashing ROM, all I will have to do to root is flash the root files, correct? Since I'll be unlocked.

After flashing CleanROM, should I do a system wipe (will it work the same way it does on stock but with CleanROM instead?)

Now what I am wondering is how I use that overclocked kernel I've been reading about, with CleanROM.

Sent from my HTC Rezound
[Asus Transformer TF700] Joeful:
Bump.

Sent from my HTC Rezound
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Most ROM devs will tell you to wipe data before you install their ROM to be sure there is no old stuff left that could be incompatible.

TWRP is a good recovery, and so far I am happy with it - didn't try the current CWM though.

For (re-)gaining root, you just start your recovery and flash a superuser zip, e.g. SuperSU. If you flashed a pre-rooted ROM, you don't even need that.

If you wiped before installing CleanROM, you don't need to wipe again afterwards.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Joeful:
Is there any specific version of TWRP I should use?

Is there a pre-rooted version of CleanROM?

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
I just installed the latest TWRP over CWM recovery using GOO.

I find the touch version features of twrp easier

...and yes CleanROM 2.3 is already rooted.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Joeful:
Thank you. You've been a big help!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
Can I change my kernel while using the stock rom, or i need first to use custom rom?

I want to use this kernel - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1709686

But i cant find instructions on how to install this to my device...

And most important question - if i want to restore to stock kernel how do I do it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Yes you can and you simply flash via Odin restore is by flashing a stock rom via Odin .

But as you fail to see the instructions in the kernel post you linked read the thread before breaking your phone .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
Lets say i flash siyah kernel now... and tomorrow i want to flash Omega rom - i will lose the siyah kernel to the stock kernel?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
You get whatever kernel is in the rom you flash .

Repeat i don't advise flashing for those that fail to understand the very basics and have not even bothered to read the guides and FAQS stickied .

#Its a very very expensive brick you may end up with #

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
ok i got another question...

lets say i rooted the device then installed a few mods on my stock rom

then if i install a custom rom will all the mods be removed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Obviously..whatever mods you have installed will be overwritten by the files you will flash...

Let us say for example..you are a dude wearing very colorful clothes and are sitting on a chair..now your elder brother comes in the room and wants to have the chair..so he kicks your a** and sits on the chair...see...now replace the chair with the Phone...yourself with the MOD and your elder brother with the new ROM....

Wasn't this easy!!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
that means when i flash stock rom to my device i will also remove all mods, set the original kernel and original rom?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Yes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
installing this kernel on stock rom should improve battery life?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Now that is a question I can't answer..so try it out yourselves and enjoy if it help otherwise revert back using nandroid..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohad156:
usually people who install this kernel enjoy better battery life?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eiben_robert:
Hello,

I have since 2 weeks and Arcohs 101 G9 Turbo 1GB RAM 250 Gb. Originally it shipped with 4.0.7 and I did not notice any issues with it. I loaded it with some 100 GB media and apps, including several large games

I made the update to 4.0.25 stock after it;s release, without wipe. Unfortunately I began to have issues:

- HDD seemed to freeze after waking the tablet from sleep / deep sleep. If i launched a large game or browsed gallery the hdd icon will stay on but nothing would happen. If the tablet would go in standby during this waiting it can no longer be waken except by reset (push Power on button for 10 seconds)

- a reboot takes 5 minutes

- disk check from recovery did not find anything

In order to solve this I did a re-flash of 4.0.25 stock with full wipe. Result

- after wipe the tablet boot up quite fast (40 sec)

- after installing again the apps / games (several GB) the boot time increased again to 5 minutes

- still testing to see if the HDD freeze after reboot remains...

I also contacted Archos asking if it is possible to revert to 4.0.7. They answered very promptly... unfortunately by issuing an RMA authorisation.

Any recommendations / experience from forum members? I would like to know I tried everything before sending the tablet to France for replacement (I expect I will be at least one month without it)...

Thank you

Robert
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eiben_robert:
Short update:

I made a fresh format & reflashing of 4.0.25 from recovery and things seem to have improved: boot time is still long (2 minutes) but there were no hdd freezes in the past 24 hours. Will update again in some days.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pham818:
Going to be asked sooner or later so why not?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] florian3000:
16GB. Although this whole $50 for 8GB and $100 for 16GB upgrade in the smartphone world really bothers me. It's just expensive.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap3604:
I will probably go with 8. I always go with the cheapest version of any phone I get in order to upgrade to something down the line that much easier without losing too much, if any.

Plus I keep my phones VERY clean so I don't have a bunch of clutter with music, movies, and games. I probably have around 200 songs, 1 movie, and emulators for gaming so I won't come anywhere close to 8gb.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Wait till they discontinue the 8gb version and release the 32gb version. They have done it with the Nexus 7.

I predict 8gb version will only have around 6gb of actual storage space, in order word, it can't store nothing. Even if you don't need more space, buying the 8gb version will lose its value for resale in the future imo, especially if a 32gb version come along.

Sent from my R800x
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
I'm weak willed and can't hold out to wait for a possible 32GB version, so I'm going for the 16GB as soon as it's released. 16GB barely cuts it, but if I try hard enough I can fit all my data onto about 13GB. Hopefully the formatted space is at least that much :/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surge27:
I have 12.27gb available on mine. But I only use about 5gb including 3 ROMs backed up and about a gig worth of mods, and about 150 pics/vids. I don't game much (leave that for tablets) and I stream through Spotify/G Music.

Originally, i thought 8gb wouldnt be enough but it actually would be OK for me.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryan.huang:
Does anyone what the breakdown of 'internal storage' versus 'phone storage' will be?

Internal storage being the space where apps can be installed.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surge27:
This won't be exactly the same but to give some idea...

I have a 16gb 1X and 12.27 available. 2.34 GB internal available and 9.93 gb available on sd
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
If I remember correctly from using the Galaxy Nexus, since it doesn't have microSD, the entire space (16gb) will be available for apps installation. Though someone should confirm this.

Sent from my R800x
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frigidazzi:
You can do what ever you want with all of the remaining space. Apps, storage, whatever.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wbbigdave:
After having a Nexus7 8gb i won't be making that mistake again any time soon.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thephantom:
True this less the space used for system apps. Since ics the storage has been just one big chunk unlike the previous gb and lower where there is a dedicated partition for system apps, usb storage, etc
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scott_HKR:
I have nexus 7 8gb version and have barely filled it and I use it daily.

I have my iPod for music and stream media within the house from computer or Netflix.

Also taking advantage of Google music's 20,000 cloud storage, think the music matching service is something that is very underated!!

All I will have on phone is a few tidbit games (angry birds etc) and any important photos and stuff.

8gb will be plenty imo.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lothaen:
different with a phone IMO than a tablet.

I have a 32GB Xoom - I use 16GB if that - a large chunk is on photos/videos (around 6GB)

I have an Evo3D with a 32GB sdcard - I use 20GB of that. Again a large chunk is on photos/videos (around 7GB)

all my music is via Google Music

I worry that 16GB isn't going to be enough.

I wouldn't feel so bad if all the games available stored their save data in /sdcard/... rather than /data/data

Annoyingly it feels like you _have_ to root to get access to transfer or backup saved data.

e.g. angry birds, world of goo, sonic 4 ep 2 (oddly sonic 4 ep 1 saves on sdcard, but ep 2 doesn't)

I wish all developers of games would follow some guidelines on where to store the save files.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brodel:
I can't decide. I don't use my phone for music or films and my HTC Desire doesn't have anywhere near 8GB being used. That said, for the price and the fact that it doesn't have an SD slot, I'm still tempted by the 16gb
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gag21:
I will hands of buy even 4 GB version but with expandable storage if Google release it

Other wise it is 32 GB when it comes
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokenok:
32gb... or any gb with sd card...google hear us
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajfink:
I'm in for the 16. I keep a very clean phone, too, but I envision situations where I'd fill it up with a video (I've done this with previous phones at family holidays).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vshun:
Definitely get 16G

on 16G Nexus 7 and GN I constantly run out of space and I am a clean guy - upload and delete all photos, videos, etc and still get Out of Space warning from the system. A few games you may decide to play and boom, each taking 1.5G-2G - your space is gone. I assume next year we will see games taking more and more so we will be hitting the limit with 16G even sooner.

BTW 16G devices show around 12G space total, so 4G must be taken by system apps or for swap space or something similar.

Even if you do not play any games today and use iPod for music - what if you decide to change that tomorrow, or store a few photos/videos. 8G will not last you enough and you will be longing for a new decide quickly, so that $50 savings on extra 8G may come to haunt you.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3loaded2010:
16GB, though I'd happily pay more for 32 or even 64.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red Wolf:
getting the nexus 4 for sure but still confuse about the play store and t-mobile version. I have truly unlimited everything plan with t-mobile so the storage won't be a problem i guess.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoneofgod:
From what I've seen, Google have only ever done this once with the Nexus 7. Not once have they re-released a Nexus phone with more memory.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3loaded2010:
There's only one version of the phone. The one being offered by T-Mobile is just subsidized on contract.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctowne:
Don't do a contract! For 100 bucks more it's way better to just do prepaid
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesho Arc:
16GB of course, although 16GB is relativity small to me, but what I can do about Google's stupid marketing
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alexmessy:
I'll try to get the 16gb version just in case lol
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razorblood:
Actually its another $150 plus tax and shipping. My Dad is going to get it with his upgrade on our classic family plan. With T-Mobile its $199 with $50 rebate that he uses for gas as its basically a visa gift card. He doesn't like the idea of spending so much for a phone.

Now the value plan is a ripoff...

Me? I have a Galaxy Nexus and am waiting on reviews. But I can see myself selling my phone and covering the difference for a 16gb Nexus 4

Sent from my GT-P3113
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardoassaad:
i own the international version of sgs3

with these new games popping up from everywhere

you would kill for that extra space

it is a shame that their isn't a 32GB or more and an expandable memory
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielsf:
Just sold my old s2 and galaxy tab 10.1, I now have enough to buy the 32gb nexus 10. I think I will get that a few weeks after it is released (for faults and things to pop up, not being an early adopter like with the nexus 7 again. Took 4 replacements to get a fault free one) as 32gb is all I need without expandable memory. I have just taken my 32gb sd card out of my international galaxy s3 and I just can't fit everything I need on 16GB, let alone everything I want to have on my phone. I was going to buy the 16gb as soon as it came out, but I think I will get the nexus 10 instead and save up a for a few months for the n4, which will hopefully be a 32gb version buy then, and that will replace my s3 until the next nexus phone. It just doesn't make sense to me, google keeps heavily to trying to make things consistent, yet they release 16gb base model and 32gb premium version of all the other new nexus line apart from the nexus 4. All I want is that adreno 320 gpu, it is just amazing compared to the mali 400mp4 (440mhz) in the s3 and isn't even comparable to the tegra 3 geforce upl. Think I might have to just get the n4 for gaming only :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmtruppler:
Does anyone have an idea why memory is limited that much and why there is no sd?

A Sd-slot or 32 gb can't be that expensive.

Pushing cloud services won't work due to battery consumption.

And when I reach 500Mb download, the download speed will be reduced to 64kb by my provider. So cloud is not an option...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dnt..:
I think 16gb are good, for who use also for the music or films.