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[Windows 8 General] tehh4ck3r:
IMO it's not worth upgrading if you have Windows 7 already (especially if you don't have touch) but if you're going to buy a new PC you should just get Windows 8
[Windows 8 General] NeuroXT:
For 40 bux that's a steal! Touch screen or not at least having a legit copy for future use is totally worth it. I remember almost getting a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium for 299... 2 effing 99!! for a crappy version of Windows, and this! Windows 8 for 40 bux! Officially! Not to mention it works either way, touch screen or not.
[Windows 8 General] aegixnova:
Here's a summary I posted elsewhere:

Multimonitor support overhaul

File Explorer improvements with ribbon

Shorter boot times

Security enhancements

Faster file copying that can be paused and maintains a single window

Redesigned task manager

Integrated social and calendar applications

Native .iso mounting

Better battery usage

Cloud synchronization

File History continuous sequential backups

Backups to network drives

chkdsk that will take 10 secs each and every time rather than hours

Storage spaces for multiple hard drives (Like an OS-based RAID 0 or 1)

50% less RAM usage

Tighter CPU control

3G data monitoring

Vastly superior conflict resolution when copying files so you know exactly which files will be replaced and the exact differences

Copy/delete jobs that never stop halfway with an "are you sure?" message while you're AFK

Easy refresh and reset options in case of operating system failure

Windows Update which is now COMPLETELY automated and will never show a single popup ever again

UEFI motherboard support

Native USB 3.0 support

With the other, miscellaneous stuff like HYPER-V and other things that don't affect me- but may be of great use to others.

It's all the little changes that are everywhere that make the update worthwhile.
[Windows 8 General] yohojones:
I have to agree. Make sure you try storage spaces. I have a bunch of drive installed now with all my media and I can add and swap drives as my media library grows.

We'll see how much I like once the first drive fails though.
[Windows 8 General] hazard99:
Thanks for putting it down in a way that people could truly understand. I kinda think people just look at the surface (no pun intended) and don't take into consideration the overhauled system. The day to day performance gain is noticeable.
[Windows 8 General] wtfhax:
IMO best feature ever for Windows. Never thought i'll see this in windows.
[Windows 8 General] JihadSquad:
Reportedly it doesn't work too well...
[Windows 8 General] junialum:
This review is on Windows 8 w/o touch on a multi monitor setup.

http://www.davejunia.com/2012/10/windows-8-a-detailed-review/

Broken down to traditional desktop, modern ui and windows store.
[Windows 8 General] hazard99:
That was a good review. It made high lights of the good without sounding like a cry baby afraid of change
[Windows 8 General] sanaell:
installed and adopted at office and home

- many people at office installed it on their laptop, and desktop and no complain/

Totally worth it,

and YES we can play STEAM game (for those who would like to know)

But my advice... installing windows 8 should be done on SSD.... a huge difference from office and home startup and program starting...

Home : Intel 520 - 240GB SSD

Office : poor old HDD sata 2 160GB

Enjoy
[Windows 8 General] junialum:
Thanks. The main idea was to give a direct non biased objective view.
[Windows 8 General] goldflame09:
There are instructions during the last few steps of installation.

Sent from my YP-G1 running Nebula with linaro.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] beast534:
Girlfriend missed my delivery tonight. Called the 1-800-463-3339 number, went through the automated options to find out I can't have it held for pick up at the location. Called again, pressed 0, and said "pick up delivery".. it let me talk to an actual person. Was able to get it held for tomorrow. So it's possible if you talk to an actual person. I was about to B-slap someone, if i had to wait til Monday at 7pm.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] RMXO:
Hate to say this but your GF deserves all the blame. Tell her if she slacks off again, she's going to get replaced. I kid. :laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] barry99705:
She is getting replaced, :cool: tomorrow!! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ekerbuddyeker:
Definitely a reason to break up. Make her do the walk if shame to FedEx.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Just a little advice if you ever call the FedEx number always press zero and say agent.

Tell them what you want. It can be done. Have them call the station if they have to.

I speak from experience being a FedEx manager lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] nascar24usa:
Yes he is.....................
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gtalum:
They left mine at the door.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sand1303:
Well folks i have been a long time fanboy of HTC. All the way back to the HTC vouge. I got my hands on a very good condition epic touch and i got to say, i think i might switch to the dark side. The screen on this thing is amazing. I went from vogue, mogul, touch pro, touch pro 2, evo, evo3d. Think I'm changing my cycle to epic touch, note2 and so on. Got this bad boy in the mail yesterday and rooted last night. Gonna be trying to put on a galaxy s3 rom this weekend.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
Aosp is pretty damn awesome right now. So is M'ics rom and blu kuban. Just make sure you read the how to not brick your phone thread in the general section. Welcome to the dark side man :)

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DEF3NDER:
The screen may not be ultra super high rez but it is still glorious. I've done side by sides with many new phones and it still holds its own as far as beauty and brilliance goes. Glad you like it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sand1303:
Never been a fan of aosp. Think thats why ive stuck with sense so long. I kinda dig the new touchwiz. The old touchwiz sucked from what i can remember with playing around with friends phones
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
I'd recommend CM10 Beta 2 with JusTunBean inverted apps and JellyBlue_X theme.

Black and blue never looked this good!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Crystal2 is also very nice. It has many themed icons.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ind3lible:
Where are these themes you guys talk of!? in the theme choose inside the ROM? Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Play Store.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
The theme I was mentioning is included in the aroma installer for JusTunBean.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sand1303:
Is there a good rom that runs the new touch wiz
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
Not yet... that is still in development by Samsung.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] SysAdmNj:
Is there a way to disable this? I can see this draining the battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Scythe024:
theres already another thread on this and no there wasnt a way to turn it off from what people have said.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1982348&highlight=screen+text
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ltilt2:
Im sure it will come
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SalmanYousaf:
i dont want to use smartass using Brains latest v6....how to proper uninstall smartass and its governance bcoz my xperia u lags sometime and i dont want laggy phone..using brains Rom..Nice Work Mate...me using ur roms frm past 3 months..:):D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chewdaniel:
umm.... choose a different governor?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] babu.rajiv2007:
Use ES file explore, or titanium backup to uninstall.. :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ruliindrapraja:
you choose smartass via cwm or apk installer?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SalmanYousaf:
i install cwm and apk both......smartass v5......i want completely remove of smartass..a lill guide will be well appreciated
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nabilimran:
XDA Developers is a great place for people who want to put their phone to the max a.k.a HACKING! :D

I'm pretty sure a lot of people have hacked their phone before; rooting, download scripts, kernels, roms etc. So the purpose of this thread made is to share your hacking experience; how you started it, how did it go, what was the first thing you hacked inside your phone, did it work,did you screw up your phone etc. You should also state why you hacked and was it worth the hack. Also, another purpose of this thread is to encourage people to not be scared of hacking and try hacking their phones. (although is really up to you!)

So I shall start mine, right now!

So, after getting good results in my exam, my parents gifted me a Samsung Galaxy S Plus I9001 last year. It was one of the best smartphones I ever had(only had one....:p). So, the place where I bought the phone, the salesman said the phone had 1+3 years warranty. So, at that point I said to myself; I'm not going to modify,hack or install unnecessary stuff in my phone (to preserve my warranty).

Boy, was I WRONG! After I had 6 months with the phone, had a lot of apps installed and my phone began to slow down. I deleted apps by apps and still my phone was super slow. I realised, 4 years is too damn long to preserve. So, the first hack I did was rooting my phone. The reason I did that because there's this app called Screencast required me to root the phone in order to use my phone.

Of course, I was scared to hack my phone. So, I did a thorough research and go on with rooting. With enough balls and courage, I tried it. After following all the correct procedure. So, all goes down to my phone. Will it reboot or not? That's the question. So, I waited. And wait. And wait. THEN SUDDENLY, BAM! PHONE WORKS! I was so happy, there are a lot of apps that required root.

A few months later, I was a bit daring and tried to install a ROM this time (cause my friend using ICS on his S2, felt totally jealous :p. Also GB sucks, no offense). Opened Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Dev page. BAM! Roms, and roms and a hell load of roms! I tried the most safest ICS ROM, Acro86's ICS CM9 ROM. Again, was scared to tried, but then again my warranty is a done deal. So I went for it. BOY IT WAS FREAKING WORTH IT. Didn't really know my phone could run ICS/JB. Phone really smooth, lots of apps I used before now is smooth. It was really worth the shot.

Long story short, You SHOULD try hacking, because you can get all the awesome stuff in your phone. I say you should try hacking because it is a load of fun!

Now, I'm currently using hypnos17's BioHazard V5 with TWRP recovery. Really nice and smooth.

So, now. What is your first hacking experience? Please share it to everyone! This thread may help a lot of people people out there! :D :victory: :fingers-crossed:

Acro86 CM9 ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1650615

Hypnos17 Biohazard ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1917906

TWRP Recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1694617

Credits to the guys who made these roms! :D :highfive:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Technetium37:
Nice story! Mine-

When I first got the SGS it was already a bit old, the SIII was already on the market. I heard about people upgrading their Android to something better than what the cellular company gives you, and I knew I wanted to do it. I knew nothing about it, so I went to my brother in law who also has an SGS.

He rooted my phone and installed the latest nightly version of CM9 at the time. After a while my friend also learned how to do it, so I tried CM10, CM9 again (a stable version), switched to Slim Bean, etc. One time my phone didn't boot after a flash and I thought it died, but in the end I managed to get back into CWM.

I don't think I'm going to try anymore roms (just update my Slim), because it's way too much work every time and I don't have the energy for that... So unless I find what I'm looking for in a rom (a good and fast rom, that looks like Samsung's, and one that syncs the Facebook friends with the contacts without having to use a third-party app)., I'm not going to change it again.
[Epic 4G General] BloatedDuck404:
I know this is unfixable but I want to see if you guys could know why this happened. A few months ago in winter 2012 my sister epic 4G got rained on and her battery is now pink. But nothing happened .now yesterday while she was charging her phone the charger blew and her micro USB port was broke. Just when you think it couldn't get worse when I let her use my battery I turn her phone on and it was bootlooping like crazy. When it finally booted It was stuck in safe mode and when you unlocked the phone it would reboot. I then went into recovery to wipe and it was frozen in recovery. Then when I reboot it (Battery Pull) kept rebooting into recovery. Then I kicked it out of recovery with the home button but the volume keys weren't working in recovery so I couldn't wipe. I think she has major bad luck. I never experienced something like this EVER. She in contract until July 2013 so she can't easily switch. She still in college so she needs her phone. Why do you think all this happened? She is also stock FC09 not rooted.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Water damage doesn't immediately "show itself" sometimes... probably a delayed reaction to the water damage...
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
It is also possible the USB port is shorting which caused the charger to blow and the strange behavior. Try with the battery out, clean the phone port with 91% alcohol using a toothbrush. Let it dry for a half hour. Then see if you can get it into download mode and reflash stock FC09 through odin.
[Epic 4G General] BloatedDuck404:
Ahh its done no responce with USB At all . Its officially Dead. When I wiggled the USB after cleaning the port like you said to get Odin to see it. No responce. I don't know what to tell her. She's gonna have to find an old sprint phone 1 Less Epic 4G .
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
It's sad when an Epic goes down.

Moment of silence.
[Epic 4G General] czechpunk:
If I wasn't still on contract with mine I'd be willing to send it; maybe someone will be more generous than me...
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Actually, I have successfully unbricked my other epic, so now I have two.... I have 2 peoplee who have dibs right now,, but if they don't contact me by Monday, it yours (or your sisters, lol)... the only thing I ask is you cover the shipping... let me know...
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Still available... doesn't look like the other 2 will be contacting me... pm me if interested...
[Epic 4G General] RealParadox:
If your epic 4g is sprint and you aren't sending it in for a replacement, I'm still looking to get my hands on a dead 4g for shipping costs. Let me know if you are interested.
[Epic 4G General] BubZX:
I still have my old epic in mint condition with Clean GB still on it sittin in my night stand.
[Epic 4G General] BloatedDuck404:
Im sorry for not repling as i havent been on the forum much. She was told by a sprint rep to buy insurance and pay a deductable to get it replaced she did that.
[Epic 4G General] BloatedDuck404:
I'll go more in dept. She said the guy at sprint looked at her phone. Didn't even check the battery and said it looks like the phone has water damage. And to get it replace she has to buy insurance then file a claim.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] abdielol:
There are many cases I've been wanting to buy, but all of them only specify the international version. Physically comparing it to the AT&T version I see that they're exactly the same, but I'm still asking just to be 100% sure and I've only compared through pictures...

For example, would theses cases fit my Note?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/luxury-Leath...ies&hash=item43b544637e&_uhb=1#ht_2347wt_1163

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SAMSUNG-GALA...pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2577307472&_uhb=1

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Grey-Aluminu...ies&hash=item51a3ae5717&_uhb=1#ht_2315wt_1397
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
Having held both side by side at the same time, I can tell you that they are outwardly identical in all respect except for the logo art on the back of the battery cover.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] abdielol:
Thanks. I'll go ahead and buy the cases. Will update when I receive them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] envision:
I can confirm they do
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] RMXO:
I second this since I bought a N7100 case from ebay & it works on my Note 2.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Darkthefox:
Does anyone have a flashable copy of the stock ics kernel? I have been searching this forum for a while now and I haven't been able to find it. I am running stock with kozmikkernel and I would like to drop back to stock temporarily without having to reinstall all of my stuff.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
if you run the ruu and go open "run" and type %appdata% i believe it is in the roaming or temp folder somewhere
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ImagioX1:
Howdy guys!!!:) Just thought I'd share a little project of mine with you. I have always coveted the cuisine et ochs one x so I made one myself. I bought a white case at radioshack and taped it off and painted half of it black. Let it dry for a few days and then I took a screen protector and covered the back so that it wont scratch. Then I made my own black and white background to match. Came out pretty. Anyway here's some pics for you guys.

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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nielp96:
Nice... lol like the beat logo
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ImagioX1:
Thanks! It was all hand done with a paint marker and some good ol masking tape:D . I came out much better than I expected. Maybe I ought to start making custom cases lol.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Mister J:
I like that, looks different and real clean.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] filthyfnj24:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-One-X-S...1134191920?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item3ccccf8d30

Unicorns do exist...but they're expensive.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pdubzzle:
nice
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] undergrad:
I have considered painting my otterbox case on a few occasions but I'm concerned the paint will just chip off.

Cool stuff dude!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ImagioX1:
That why I covered the back with a screen protector. Keeps it looking freshly painted for a long time.

Sent from my Venom 1
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nielp96:
What case are you using ??? Just curious
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ImagioX1:
Tell you the truth I don't remember the name of it.Through the package away. But I bought it at Radioshack.......for about 20 bucks.

Sent from my Venom 1
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] EagleTG:
This case is from PointMobi. It's not a half-bad case. I've used it for a bit now and am pleased. RadioShack had a discontinued price tag on it, I bought it for $8.97 or so and they aren't listing it on their site any longer. I also haven't had any luck finding it in a quick Google search.

I've attached a pic of the packaging showing all of the relevant details.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastaofdacat:
Does anyone have problems with their 4g network in Houston,TX ?I been with T Mobile for 2 weeks and it was great then past 2 days my phone stuck on edge ! Does anyone know if they're fixing the network or updating it .Anyone having problems like this ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] DGarmon:
I live in Alvin but Work in Houston (59 @ the beltway), I have too say the service is fast, usually get about 8 meg or 9 download speed, maybe you're being throttled.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastaofdacat:
Being throttled using 3 gigs so far ? I also have unlimited data no throttled
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] DGarmon:
Not sure then, what part in Houston? Maybe a bad tower were you're at.

sent from my big a@@ note 2..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastaofdacat:
By beltway 8 and 35 area ,by pearland
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] BRKotucs:
All good here by 610 and I-45...

I work by the Museum District and all is good there as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] paul2834:
How much are you paying for data every month? The $20 package will net you all the data you want, but only the first 2GB will be faster than Edge.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] baymon:
Mine's been pretty much the same, although they did announce that they have completed the 1900 refarm for Houston. So it might've been during that period when they're tinkering with the towers.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] eurohomie:
I live in houston too. What I did was set network mode to WCDMA mode only instead of automatic selection because for some reason it favors Edge in some areas. But since we're in houston, we're covered by HSPA+ so no worries

and i'm by 288/bw8 and the towers here suck since theres nothing around but still pretty good if i'm not on the first floor of my house
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] simplelife:
You can check network coverage here

http://t-mobile-coverage.t-mobile.com/Map.aspx
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mgioia2:
The last few days the service has been kind of hit and miss for me but overall its great.

Sent from my SGH-T889
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] skater4690:
me too and phone calls got crappy today all of a sudden must be because of all the tower work they are doing here for the new signal
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] gqkevyn:
The Sugarland and Missouri City areas have been fine for me. I haven't noticed any difference.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brehon1104:
As the title suggests: I cannot select any options in CWM because my power button is broken. When cycling the battery CWM still appears. How can I just make it boot up without going into CWM?

Thank you so much for your help, in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brehon1104:
I fixed this issue by taking out the battery, plugging up the phone, then replacing the battery. This got it booted. I still am unable to unlock my screen. I need to remap my volumeup+volume down button to power or "unlock screen". Does anyone know how to do this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brehon1104:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1983137

thread continued here. I dont know how to delete this post.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techie2012:
I am wondering if hardware companies will have less incentive of making 10" Android tablets now that Google is making their own? Does that mean we won't see an Asus Transformer v4 in the future, for example?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EniGmA1987:
Arent there already 4 models of the Transformer out now?

If anything Id expect 3rd party people to step up their game and not make anymore ****ty spec'ed tablets. Its time to move to the newest hardware.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeBuck:
Yeah I agree, we may not see alot of tablets comign out with the screen res that the n10 has i'd expect alot of tablet with the 1920x1080 screen in the transformer infinity. I think most makers will wait for the tegra 4 processor to come out before we see anything substantial being released, I'd say the N10 will be the master of the domain for at least 6 months.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonmasterx:
well i beleive we will see new processors ,the tegra 3 is obvious a medium choice for tablets cpu.

i believe we will see tablets with s4 pro ,exynos cpu and 2gb ram as untill now 1 gb is standard ,for resolution i believe may devs will own a nexus 10 so many apps will go up to nexus 10 resolution in the near future and so new tablets will have the same as nexus 10.

the only thing that i find a little disturbing on nexus is the missing sd slot so new tabs may have a future over nexus 10 ...
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTabJosh:
This will definitely put some serious price pressure on the 10-inchers. It's pretty well known that the BOM on the Samsung Note 10.1 is $260, and they have been selling it for $200 over cost. So now the N10 comes out, and the 16gb model has to be sold pretty near cost -- you can compare features and prices with the iPad BOM, and the total has to be pretty close to the msrp. My point is that, as with the N7, Google is shaving margins pretty thin, and competitors will have to follow suit -- even mighty Apple :D

Josh