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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
I guess you can quote Chainfire as being wrong as well then, because he says pretty much the same thing. OTA's are usually incremental updates, which means they patch existing files rather than replace them. IF you've just rooted and not done ANYthing else, you can probably get away with flashing an OTA. But if you've patched anything, expect trouble.

If you use ODIN to flash the OTA, you're probably safe as it has coding to fix such problems (as far as I can discern anyway), but flashing the OTA without is just asking for it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geovas77:
OTA Updates are overrated, why wait for an OTA when you can download from sammobile at your leisure.:D
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SndChsr:
Does anyone know if stock Rogers for i317m is available anywhere online yet?

And secondly, does this phone get OTA updates or is it via Kies? My SGS2 were via Kies only and carrier specific.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laynee1:
Coud i flash different Country rom via ODIN? Will i have Some problems with it?

Handwritten from my Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gandalf21502:
My recovery is stock, and is say's modified. The only thing I did was root the phone, stock rom/recovery.

I have a Jig from my S2 days...how will inserting the jig reset it? Anything else need done other than insert it? Did not know the Jig would work with the N2...did not work with my S3.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seifer1975:
With the phone off, insert the jig. It should boot into download mode. Then I reboot. That's all I did. I am not saying it will work, just that this was the only thing I did differently from others. Otherwise cannot explain why my status shows normal even though I am rooted and did not factory reset or wipe data after that.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fishingfon:
Hi,

I have a galaxy S2, and i have ordered note 2.

I was running a stock rom, with root, cwm, lots of mods, and many themes applied, and i was still able to get ota updates. So if you can do that on the s2, i would think you could it on a n2 too.

Corey
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] springer.music:
Hope this helps:

As I mentioned in this thread, I now have rooted stock 4.1.2 and "Device status: Normal".

The OTA software update process doesn't hang anymore now :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dericwan76:
I have the jig...tried what you did..but my status is still modified :(
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
Any Nexus 10 owners happen to have any stuttering or dropped frames with general tasks? Was just watching some review video, and this person mentions "dropped frames" a lot, without gaming even:

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If anything, I feel it'll probably get better in time with updates, but for now, it doesn't seem "amazing" with certain apps, in terms of performance. However, it could also be that the apps aren't tablet optimized, or maybe even the force GPU acceleration would help a lot with this.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-Bus:
Except for him, all the other reviews I have seen of the N10 seem to say otherwise. I might be that he's got one with buggy software/update...
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Komodo Rogue:
I didn't watch the whole video, but I saw that he restored from his Google account? That takes a long, long time to fully finish, because it includes apps, music, photos, settings, etc. And did he do the OTA update? Out of the box, it ships with old software, or at least, mine did. After his tablet is done restoring and he updates, he may notice a big. My experience AFTER restoring &updating has been silky smooth, except Google earth, which lags a lot with the huge screen resolution. Strangely, games have also been very smooth.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slide83:
Chrome lags as usual and poorly coded apps. Everything else is very smooth.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Croak:
Plus Chris Prillo isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. :)

Calling any sort of hesitation "dropped frames" should be your first clue. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] markranges:
I have a samsung galaxy s2 and my carrier is rogers, If I install any boot/custom rom that is for AT&T carrier would it harm my phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
You don't pick a rom based on what carrier, you base it on the phone model. For example this section of xda is for the skyrocket (USA name) or the sghi727r (Canadian name). It's the sim card that denotes the carrier.
[Nexus 7 General] elias4444:
I'm a Java developer who'd like to start fiddling around with making Android apps (finally). I've had an iPad 2 for a long while, but think I'm ready to make the switch. A smaller device than the iPad is attractive to me for portability, but I also need one large enough for my stubby fingers to still type on, so the 7" form factor seems like a sweet spot. I'm also an avid GMail, Chrome, and Google Calendar user, and I need to be able to read graphic intensive PDFs regularly.

I chose to come here and ask about the device since I know I'll end up fiddling with it quite a bit and have a tendency to be a "power user." There's been a few complaints I've seen, and was wondering if they actually merit concern or not.

First, does the lack of Corning Gorilla Glass leave the N7 susceptible to scratching?

I've heard that the latest Android update (4.2) left out some functions for the N7 that the other Nexus devices received. True? Do they impact anything, or are they just cosmetic?

I've read a few complaints about Chrome not working well on the N7. Any truth to that?

Can the N7 play AAC files from my iTunes music collection?

Finally, from the information I've provided, would you recommend the N7 to someone like me?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
[Nexus 7 General] blackhand1001:
Yes, its a great device, especially for the price point.
[Nexus 7 General] Bogdan-xd:
Mine hasn't scratched yet after about two and a half months and it still has a "scratch resistant corning glass", but it's supposedly less resistant than Gorilla Glass.

The one feature it's missing from 4.2 is Miracast, but the Nexus 4 is pretty much the only device getting it.

Rendering is good, but it lags when scrolling on some heavier websites. The stock android browser is much faster, but not included on the Nexus 7.

It does as far as I know, but most likely only those without DRM.
[Nexus 7 General] jb0ne:
Best $200 I ever spent. And happened to buy it the day they lowered prices so scored a 16gigger.

My screen protector and case haven't arrived yet, and I've been throwing it in my bag with my keys and e-cig. Not a scratch to be seen yet.

4.2 didn't really change all that much to be honest except multi user, which I won't use, and broke some apps which I imagine will be fixed soon.

Chrome is fine IMO it just doensn't support Flash. The newest beta of Firefox runs fine on 4.2 and does support flash (which you have to sideload). Never tried AAC files but if it doesn't natively play them (and I bet it does) then you can find an app to play them. Doubletwist is what I use for all my media and I moved a bunch of my DRM free itunes music on.
[Nexus 7 General] ExploreMN:
I'm pretty happy with mine and use it frequently for media (movies, music, Netflix), e-mail, browsing, stock market stuff, some shopping, working on PC's (using Teamviewer full commercial version), and some other tasks. I use it both at home and at work because I can access my Drobo-FS at home and the servers at work.

I rarely use my actual computer anymore unless I'm doing case notes for work, working on my book, or anything that requires a lot of typing.

I also have an iPad 2 in the house and try and try as I might to like it and use it for my tasks...it just...seems lacking. It's too big, awkward, and the way it handles media and files in general just pisses me off to no end and accessing servers/file shares is a complete and utter joke in iOS (sorry...soap boxing a bit here).

So anyway, yeah...I would recommend it to certain people...most people in fact. Yet, there are those few where you just know that the best thing for them would be a different, non-Android tablet...but that's more about that person than the device itself. ;)
[Nexus 7 General] I Am Marino:
I definitely would recommend it.

-Brought to you by Marino's Nexus 7-
[Nexus 7 General] Hellscythe:
very nice device for the price point. especially with the 32gb HSPA+ version.
[Nexus 7 General] ÜBER™:
Some PDF readers lag some don't I'm not entirely sure which ones as I don't use em very often but the typical think free suite that is built in works quite nice. Chrome has recently started running surprisingly smooth so that is a must. At least on the N7 still laggy on my Gnex.

Not really but if you're that concerned get a screen protector I used my shirts quite often to clean the bare screen not one scratch yet.

Just miracast as its been noted. Which may or may not get added later. I would think so as its been advertised on tegra platform.

It used to be very choppy its since been updated and seems to work tons better. If anything switch to the stock android browser or boat browser or any other third party browser.

Convert them :) and NEVER look back to iTunes. Its a monopoly. :p

Absolutely!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 7 General] davegermiquet:
If you want play apple formats use power amp. I use apple lossless with that music player

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[Nexus 7 General] dr.m0x:
I've owned several android tablets over the last couple of years and I can safely say this is one of, if not the best. Previously I'd have made the complaint that 16gb of storage is inadequate, although recently Google have fixed that problem of course.

Currently I also have a Note 10.1 and the Nexus is noticeably faster than that tablet (although the Note is no slouch either). I know on paper the exynos quad is faster than Tegra 3, but Touch Wiz slows it down a bit. While the s-pen is awesome, the overall experience on the Note is inferior anytime you are doing something other than drawing or writing with the pen.

7 inches is the sweet spot for a tablet. I can hold it comfortably while also typing on the screen quickly. I have to put the Note on a surface if I want to type comfortably on it. Any smaller and Web pages and the like are a pain to navigate.

This is also easily the best Nexus device. The Galaxy Nexus is dated, Nexus 10 is too big, and the Nexus 4 is made by LG (who suck at making phones).

Certainly there have been some issues but the percentage of defective units out there in the wild is actually quite low. You never hear from people saying how they got a perfect unit, and only those who receive defective units tend to be vocal.

The one thing I'd be wary of is a screen lift. If at all possible, buy your N7 from a physical store and check the left side of the screen for separation before you buy it, or at least before you leave.

Never had a problem with screen scratching, but I do have a screen protector and use the official flip front case. Even if it was gorilla glass I'd still use a screen protector as scratches are a pita and hard to repair.
[Nexus 7 General] elias4444:
Thanks

Big thanks for all the advice! Looks like I'm ordering one in the next couple of days here.

Any ideas where the best place to buy one is? I was considering Walmart with their added protection plan, but it sounds like a lot of people consider it a ripoff.
[Nexus 7 General] T-Keith:
Play store is a good bet, depending on how sales tax works in your state.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rookiegenius:
I know I'm paranoid, but since many ppl complain about the light bleed I started to think it is a common issue. However, I paid almost 450 for it so I have to be happy with it. My unit also has light bleed and I already requested a replacement. The customer service is great with no question asked. But how many times can we request a replacement? Once in the nexus 7 sub forum, a guy said he did it 6 times. I don't want to return it to get money back, I just want to be happy with it.

Sent from my beloved home phone.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
I think I recall someone being cut off either around 10, or they just gave up (with the Nexus 7 anyway), I'm not entirely sure though. In any case, I would probably either suggest waiting as long as you can before requesting a replacement (unless the issue is severe-enough to hinder daily use) and waiting to see if any hardware changes are made/newer models available.

Although I don't really know what's Google's return policy. I think the Nexus 7 from Play Store had either 15 or 30 days to be RMA'd via Google, and then afterwards, you had to deal with ASUS directly (other retailers having similar policies). Not sure what the case is for the Nexus 10 and Samsung though.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vertron:
As many as you want till your satisfied. Eventually you'll give up and either accept one with light bleed or get a refund.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rookiegenius:
in their policy they stated that they may give you a new one or a refurbished one as the replacement. So if you exchange it later, they might send you a refurbished. a refurbished one with fixed issue and a new one with issue.. not sure which one I want lol.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drcujo:
And you are saying that based on experience with multiple nexus 10 devices? Yeah....
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod1980:
Based on my experiences with the N7... infinite! Seems like I returned that many. They were supposed to be all new, but I swear they were just giving me returns because every one of them had bad screen lift or dead pixels. Now that was with Asus as the manufacturer, so Samsung may be different. I have a touch of bleed in the common area of the lower right corner, but otherwise it's an flawless device as far as I can tell. With a widespread minor issue like that though... you may get worn out trying to get a perfect one. You will probably end up with a device with no bleed and a big fat yellow spot, or dead pixels, or reboots. This has happened to me in the past. I returned a few Nexus S and the "perfect" device I got ended up having a pretty screen but a really low thermal threshold... it wouldn't take much to get the thing to reboot. Most custom kernels were unusable. The Nexus 7 was an awesome device, but I could not get one without light bleed, or screen lift (biggest problem), or dead pixels (like 8 dead pixels!). This Nexus 10 has amazing build quality compared to those devices. I'm blown away, and unless I go to the boot screen with full brightness, I absolutely don't see the bleed so I'm just going to hold fast.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mi7chy:
After two you should seek a refund instead of wasting everyone's time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yossharel:
Hi,

I formatted the system files, and i wanted to install zip file of 4.2 that i found. I used the ClockWorkMode to install it but it check for system files and aborted after not found them. I tried fastboot but I won't be able to get it communicate my phone.

Can I use Odin to flash any version ?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 3rdstring:
You need to have separate Fastboot drivers installed (on a Windows PC)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Hmbuilder:
My god I've been at this for hours and decided to finally give in and ask what's wrong here. I've followed the instructions perfectly but I always get stuck at the part that says "SD card is either not mounted or doesn't work." Now I've done just about everything you can do with Android on my captivate so I'm not new to this but on my captivate the SD card in most guides is usually the internal one. So my question: To use Ace Hack Kit do you need an EXTERNAL SD card? If so won't removing it make the phone not work?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gizmoe:
You need an SD card. There is no internal card on these phones. Just the emmc chip which houses your partitions. It needs the card for the root process. Also its good to just have one for storage. They are real cheap at best buy for the class 10. The phone will work without one, but for rooting its required. Also for installing custom roms you will need one.
[HTC EVO 3D] elheat77:
I somehow borked my front facing camera. I flashed the latest firmware and the ffc is now the rear facing cam but flipped. I tried to flash back to an older firmware but the problem persists. I read through old posts and tried flashing older roms even stock but the issue still hasn't been fixed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
The only thing I've seen in the past from others that fixed this was to get it repaired since it was a hardware issue.

I'm not saying that necessarily is the issue, just what I've seen in the past.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dannyboyni:
I just installed NFS Most Wanted on my Nexus 4. The graphics are amazing but the game lags quite badly. Surely the phone should have a good enough graphics processor to cope with this game.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeti101:
is the phone warm? maybe its the thermal throttling
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milkisgood123:
No problems with lag on my friends Nexus 4 and NFS most wanted. Plays flawlessly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agtitan:
It lags on my nexus 7 too
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theguitarman94:
maybe it's not optimized for 4.2 or the s4 pro :S who knows
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SerkSerk:
It should not lag : look at this test at 12:12, the game run perfectly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ksE6RZcI8
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarni84:
Yes dude it runs actually very good on my n4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pedro Peguero Jr.:
SHUT

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pospower:
On a unroofed phone?I'm on Verizon I have unlimited data and tether my s3 all the time. My fear is with this phone with a locked boot. And no root. Will apps like foxfi work? I know this is tmobile but Verizon is not out yet anybody test this I would love to know if you can wifi tether your tmobile phone without root. Thank you in advance for testing...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] JaguarXT:
I have a couple of USB versions of tethering apps (ClockworkMod Tether and PdaNet) that I tested out on this device with 100% success. And I am not on the hot spot data plan. I personally only use it for times that I really need it (rarely). But I wanted to find out if it can be done through my current plan.

But SGH-T889, T-Mobile version of Samsung Galaxy Note 2, doesn't have its bootloader locked. Only the SIM usage on the device to be used other carriers is locked. But once we paid for the device outright, completing the contract, or cancel service & pay for the cancellation fee, T-Mobile will unlock the SIM usage on your device to use with other carriers. So yes, you can root SGH-T889, T-Mobile version of Samsung Galaxy Note 2, at anytime with no problem (as long as you follow instructions). Just that when there is an OTA update or Samsung Kies flash update we need to unroot it, stock ROM it, then take the OTA update or flash with Samsung Kies. Also if we need to get it repaired we need to reset the flash numbering too.

Bootloader locked is a different thing altogether. Despite that the bootloader is/will be locked in Verizion version of Note 2 I still believe that you can at least use the USB for tethering with ClockworkMod Tether that doesn't need a rooted device.

I do believe the community will find way/s around the bootloader being locked on Verizon's Note 2. But when is really the question.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pospower:
I need the wifi tether without USB as I want to teher with iPad. Can you try this on your phone for me. App is called foxfi it's free
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] JaguarXT:
The WiFi tethering part I can't do that with this plan I have. Only through USB. If I went to their Hot Spot plan ($5 more) then yes I can. This is due to an app that they have running "Mobile HotSpot" (T-Mobile's own app). I believe if you freeze that app then, yes you can. I would also check with other ROMs for SGH-T889 (T-Mobile) Note 2 to see if the developer taken out or freeze that app. But this is due to that app and not because it is locked or unlocked. I really can't blame T-Mobile on this one. Unlimited data and WiFi tethering would easily get out of hand and cause the network to not function. Completely different from Verizon's tier system, where you paid for certain amount of data and you should, but don't, have whatever access to that data that you pay for.

Verizon has this fail safe with tethering usage on their end of LTE network. This is why people get warnings and kicked off from Verizon Wireless. Now Verizon has the tier system and charge per device on their network that both help in curving this issue. Again this due to the fail safe that Verizon put into their LTE network.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] iamstuffed:
FoxFi doesn't support Jelly Bean.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] usmcdvldg:
On T-Mobile, if you freeze/uninstall the app Tethering Provision, you can use the wifi-hotspot with some caveats. 1, You can't start the app directly(It will crash). You can download a wifi widget from the market that will start the app no problems. 2, T-mobile current scans Http traffic for user agents. So if you use a desktop browser you'll get your traffic blocked. There are a couple of ways around this. Https works fine because it's encrypted. You can change your User agent to any non destop browser and it works fine. I found that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or similar garbage works best because it doesn't cause sites to show up as mobile and T-Mobile wont block it. Or you can use Tor or anything else that will encrypt your traffic.

But seeing as you want to tether to your Ipad, It should work perfectly with no issues as of **NOW**
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mdt73:
My foxfi works. I cant explain why. I am stock with root, and unlocked. My hotspot app comes up asking me to configure it, I simply ignore it and continue using foxfi.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] New Daddy:
Is your foxfi still working? What's your android version? Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mowgie:
I have the tmobile note 2, unlocked, Android 4.1.1, it can hotspot using foxfi if I am using a Straight Talk at&t sim, but not with my tmobile sim.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] New Daddy:
That make me wonder: does anyone know of a carrier that sells "prepaid" or "metered" SIM with data plan? I will remove Verizon's SIM and stick it in instead only when I need wifi hospot. It should be cheaper than paying $30/month for the service or switching to Verizon's "Share Everything" from my current unlimited.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2ruen0:
I treid foxfi on my rooted sgh-t889 with stock OS. It appears to work (tried using other tether apps like wifi tether, turns on but didn't broadcast SSID) but to be quite honest i cant verify because i haven't enabled data on my plan yet!

Im prepaid so I'm waiting for then ext cycle before i can really be sure, but like i said and others apparently too, foxfi seems to be functional for what its worth on sgh-t889
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] joogle:
I tried Foxfi today on my tzones plan using a AT&T Note 2 with T-mobile Service (unlocked the aws band), it seems to work fine.

Anyone use this app longterm on T-mobile and with T-zones?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] milkshake21april:
can someone tell me what theme from go launcher is this?

thanks before :)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Porobu:
Go launcher ex 2.x default theme with a changed wallpaper and themed widget, probably go weather