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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caliban2:
No joke, the igniter fix in the video above works. :confused:

I just fixed a vertical dead stripe in the right third of a N4-screen using this method (most notably the "i" on the keyboard didn't work). Dunno how long it will last, but it definitely did "something". :fingers-crossed:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] radeon_x:
... of apps ignoring the menu key.

I've always preferred the menu - home - back layout Samsung has stuck with. It just feels more natural to me... Now though I'm starting to think the new Android design guidelines are going to pose a big usability problem.

Especially on big phones like the GS3, having to reach to the top of the phone to get at common options is an annoyance at best. Mint is one of the latest apps to implement the new design guidelines that renders the menu button useless.

I hope the development community can come up with a workaround - if they haven't already. Anyone know of efforts to remap or otherwise keep the menu button useful?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pngface:
Its not really the dev community that controls the design guidelines.. as you know google updates them with each iteration of Android. The problem here is, starting from the Galaxy Nexus, none of Google's phones have come with a menu button. Google believes this is better (for some reason) and so all the design guidelines are trending towards making the menu button obsolete.

Samsung on the other hand is slowly becoming the only manufacturer to persist with the menu button.

From a development perspective, its easy enough to support devices with/without a menu button, with the same piece of code. I feel the main reason big Android apps are moving to the Holo bar menu button is for uniformity like in iOS (which is what Google wants in the first place)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blk_jack:
There are roms that let you easily re-assign the menu button. For example, I have menu bound to recent apps (android standard is back, home, recent apps) with long press recent apps as menu for those few cases where apps still use the menu button.

As much as you may like the menu button it is more than on its way out at this point. Despite what samsung has been building their phones with.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] themadproducer:
50% of the reason I like a physical home button is because for me, it's easier to power up the phone...and more natural, less effort etc. I also go into standby by an upward gesture on my homescreen so on/off is very quick and handy.

The other half is that I have more screen real estate.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] asb123:
Uniformity is huge, have you seen that picture with the buttons of around 10 android popular phones in which none of them have the same buttons/order.

Also, as an ex-galaxy nexus user, I must say that on-screen buttons are FAR better than what we have. The only down side is lost screen space in most apps (some stuff does go full screen). But the customizability of the software buttons is SO NICE. you can change the size of the bar, the colour, what buttons are there, what the icons are. The slide for google now is much more intuitive that long pressing menu. XDA devs have even added the ability to add what ever you want to the google now slide up gesture. (including widgets).

The software bar is simply a modder's wet dream
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MdX MaxX:
Sure uniformity is cool, but what's more uniform than a menu key that's just there all the time? I don't even have to think about it; I want settings/options, I press the menu key. This has honestly been one of my favorite design elements of Android. I hate that this is being phased out.

Ah well, nothing I can do about it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] yamahakid:
How do you have it set up to sleep with a screen gesture?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] themadproducer:
It's 2 parts...but super simple and turbo quick!

I use Go Launcher EX. Many of the custom launchers have Gesture ability. (unlike stock TouchWiz) There are 2 types of gestures in GLex. The one I use is an upward gesture anywhere on any home screen. (you could choose an icon in the dock as well) and it's not the Gesture Pad feature. For me, this works well as I never find myself swiping upwards on the home screen except to initiate SCREEN OFF....although I have requested them to add a 2 finger swipe for extra control.

The 2nd part is an app called "screen off and lock" which I have been using for years. I tell GLex to execute SOAL with an upward gesture on the home screen. Works flawlessly. (GLex has it's own plugin for screen off...but it is laggy)

SOAL also has CRT similar fx and other options. But I just use the clean screen off effect and it's INSTANT. I literally can turn on my S3 with my physical home button, swipe to unlock. then swipe up to lock/screen off in under a second...and keep repeating...no lag. (that's not what I use it for per-say...but just to show that it is fast...all with my thumb in a close proximity area.)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] yamahakid:
Just got it all set up and I'm loving it so far. Thanks a lot
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] themadproducer:
Right on, glad you tried it out.

To me, little things like this make the experience so much better.

Are you using GLex?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] yamahakid:
No I have an s3, but I flashed a fix that changed my build.prop to gnex so I can run Google wallet.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] themadproducer:
Ha Ha...no...actually I meant Go Launcher EX? (GLex)

What launcher do you use to perform the swipe?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] yamahakid:
Haha oh I thought you made a typo. I'm using apex launcher.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jacklie434:
Video about some of my likes and dislikes about the GS3 overall its the best smartphone I have ever owned .
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rizzodg:
That's one thing that annoys me about the Android OS not being unified... some apps will ignore the menu, some wont.
[HTC One V] rebelx:
Can the One V be flashed to Sprint? If so, would Sprint still have the ESNs blacklisted even though VM is owned by Sprint?
[HTC One V] whoshotjr2006:
Probably not without an illegal method. While virgin has meids that look like sprint ones, they are flagged as prepaid meids and sprint probably won't accept them. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you try let us know what happens.
[HTC One V] rebelx:
You're right: there's an actual list of all meids that Sprint can approve and if it's not specifically inputted into the list, a phone won't activate. Lame sauce.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthur_1:
As does the battery of xperia x10 rom with ICS
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MindFckD:
battery

very much draining
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NuriJ:
Depending on your battery.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmegaRED^:
That's not a viable answer for what is supposed to work normally.

This kind of misdirection angers me deeply.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AOD_Corwin:
I try not to ask too many dumb questions without researching it myself, and while i found many people mentioning this problem, i never found a solution. At some point CWM 6.0.12 stopped making working back ups for me. if i try to restore anything i make with it, i get an md5 error. the only error i see when i make the back up is error finding an appropriate backup handler. I don't use nandorid back ups too often cause I love clean installations, but it makes my head bleed when something is not working right on my beloved phone.

I'm open to suggestions
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] austin420:
Try repairing the check sum with your computer. i use this...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/MD5-Checker.shtml
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AOD_Corwin:
Found a respone that mentions this

"Had the same problem. Delete the. .android secure folder in /sdcard, worked for me after that"

but i can not find this entry on either storage card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AOD_Corwin:
so it looks like deleting the .android secure folder was the solution, was a pain to get to though. its a hidden folder that es wouldn't show me, switched to solid bowerser an was able to get it to show hidden folders and it appears to have worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
ES will show hidden files if you turn on that option (settings>file settings>show hidden files)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mart1an:
My wife has a E4GT and she complained of bad battery life on stock so I rooted and threw a rom on her phone. She says the battery life is still bad. Which rom/kernel would everyone suggest to give her the best (ish) battery performance? Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aghasi24:
This thread should help show you all the ROMs and their battery life

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1499184
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
Calk 3.0 in before the lock...

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MiguelHogue:
Sleshepic rom

I'm in as well :)

-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss

-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
Let me rephrase. Calk 3.0 for gb. M'ics 1.7a for ics.

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] milky1112:
OP, Best thing is to try some.. with different kernels.. Do a quick search for ways to extend battery life.. You'll find several post with tips. YMMV compared to other users. Also, Check the battery!!!! Spin test it. Could be a bad battery causing all your issues.

IN BEFORE LOCK!!!!:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ankurcshah:
in beforeeeeeee d lock! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SASQUATCH:
Since people r doing it let me do it i need some excitement in my day.

IN BEFORE THE LOCK

YEAH I DID IT I FEEL BETTER:cool:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] romgnascher:
I've had very good battery life with Re-calked, Blu Kuban, and currently I'm on Sleshpic's M'ICS, and it looks quite promising as well.

All three are fantastic ROM's in their own right, so give 'em a shot.

It should be pointed out that I haven't found a single ROM that was "great" an an area with a weak cellular signal ... that can really cream your battery in a hurry. I have a weak signal in my office, so I'll burn through 50% in 8 hours on most ROMs. But when I'm in a strong service area (like at my house), I can get a 24hr cycle with 2-3 hrs screen time fairly regularly.

If you want to get into tweaking even further, people have claimed results even better than this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smartguy10:
I will second recaulked rom great battery life and stable
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orphamiel:
Hello, I recently bought a nexus 7 and in general I'm pretty pleased with it. However, just today which is about 4days after purchase I realized that my screen has little diamonds that were visible at a certain angle and most obvious when the screen is off. My question is whether this behavior is normal and whether I should take it for repair since it's still under warranty. It's not rooted and there isn't a screen protector for more information. Thanks.

Edit : diamonds are 5mm each
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kearkan:
are you able to provide a photo? im not sure i understand.

Do you mean as in its like theres marks on the glass?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orphamiel:
Under certain light conditions there appears to be marks in the glass and it's all diamonds tesselated together. A photo doesn't show anything but ill be uploading one in a while
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezas:
I've never noticed anything like that.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orphamiel:
Doesn't show any of the diamond-ing I saw but here it is. I could only see it when there were many lights around and only when viewing at an certain angle.

Edit : Forgot attachment
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chismay:
i dont think images will allow us to see the problem, maybe even point them out with a stylus ,you could use a phone to make a video panning around views, to clearly display the problem and youtube it here :good: :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakeellis01:
yes this is normal..... no worries.. new screens usually have this

you only get to see them under certain life conditions and I'm pretty sure these will fade away with wear & tear.. I used to see them when I bought my N7.... not anymore today... enjoy them
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orphamiel:
Alright. Thanks for the info.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regalpimpin:
I think you're just seeing the digitizer.. Pretty normal to see it under certain conditions. Mainly with the screen off though. You shouldnt really see anything with the screen on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dalmus:
Does anybody else have horrible reception problems in week signal areas?

I know how that sounds... but, what I mean is in the city, with the corporate PRL (56xxx) and the LJ7 radio, I get better signals then I ever have with my Moment or S2, roaming or native.

However, when I go out of town into a Cellcom area, I drop to no signal unless I am practically on top of a tower.

My Sprint tablet and S2 get decent roaming signals ( 2-3 bars) while my S3 gets no service, despite multiple combinations of radios and PRL's.

Any ideas? Bad antenna connection? Bad phone?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xTMFxOffshore:
I've noticed the signal roams and just flat out drops in certsin areas. Maybe it's just the antenna? I'm in So Cal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dalmus:
I'm in Wisconsin.

I have also noticed that my phone roams more often than any other Sprint device that I have.

The S2 and S3 should be identical as far which cellular frequencies they listen to... so there shouldn't be any reason that the S2 gets service in 90 percent of the places the S3 doesn't even get roaming service.

I wonder how likely it is that the antenna write somehow got disconnected when I dropped the phone at some point in the past?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lauski:
I live in an area that is rated as "Good / Best" for Voice, with solid 3G coverage (per their site map & past phone experience) but do not have LTE available here yet.

I've had the GS3 for < a day and was able to test side by side just moments apart from deactivating my old HTC phone.

I immediately went from a 3 year old phone getting -80dBm to -92dBm on the GS3. I have used the 3G on my HTC phone day in and out here for the entire 3 years of the phone, when suddenly, the GS3 was timing out while trying to download Google Chrome from the Play Store. Web page loads are bursty... hot/cold/hot/cold and SpeedTest.Net App seems to confirm the story...

I could not complete SpeedTest.Net due to "communication issues" nor download anything until I forced the phone to CDMA only. Unfortunately, even though I can now USE the phone, the speeds are still kinda rough:

Pings are ranging 800ms - 1300ms consistently ( I was used to 200ms or less )

Downloads are 30-80kbps, I was used to 350-500k.

Brief Real-world testing of moving through web pages, loading videos and browsing the playstore also lean towards the numbers I'm seeing.

Not sure about what to do. Maybe the HTC EVO 4G LTE would have better signal. It's hard to determine without personally testing, there's a LOT of complaints both ways, on both forums. I'll continue to evaluate and give it a chance to improve. Maybe it was a bad night last night.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dalmus:
The word thing is that I get better speeds and reception on Sprint's network in Milwaukee than I do with my S2.

As soon as I leave the city, or even leave Sprint's network, the S3 becomes prone to LOS while the S2 chugs along happily.

And, as I said before, this is with the same PRL.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xTMFxOffshore:
I've been noticing a lot more random LOS, and other signal issues in areas I've had signal before, and good signal at that on both my Photon and iphone. Is there a better PRL or Profile to use that will improve this or is it just something on Samsung's end that is gonna be what it is?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nicasoft:
I check my phone today and I saw that there was a new update to 4.2... so I updated... phone reboot, and after reboot I saw the CWM screen (yes, I'm rooted+ CWM which I installed using toolkit) and I saw the screen on CWM that said: this zip that we are installing is not trusted, do we proceed with the installation... yes or no... so I press yes... then error message appear that cannot be install and phone rebooted again.... was on my home screen.. look over about and same old version 4.1.2... and when I check for update it say that my phone is up to date.... my phone is yakju any idea what happened? any way to OTA the new version? or I will have to flash it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Herman76:
I believe you need the stock recovery top install the OTA.

Swype'ed on my CM10 Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nicasoft:
I just reflash the stock rom from google 4.1.2... no changes, no root (yet), just the bl unlocked. and when I push to get the update says that is up to date. :silly: I have to wait for a couple days or I'm doing something wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Castro27:
Go to setting-apps and look for Google Services Framework

Force close it and clear the data. Then check for the update again (it will say you're on the 60s). Keep doing this until the OTA shows up.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthur_1:
as will the development of stable jelly bean for galaxy ace
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] side_effect:
Such threads are popping out of nowhere nowadays.And btw,I cant understand a word u are trying to say:confused:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahul93:
IF u mean WHEN will the development of stable jelly bean

then the answer is not know to anyone as of now :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Venomous Viper 119:
It seems that our dear arthur is from robinhood's times...:p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eagleeyetom:
This thread has no valid point to remain opened.

You can't ask about stability of something, which wasn't meant to be stable. Ever. As armv6 was dropped ages ago.
[HTC One X] amirage:
Hi all, I just updated my phone to JB. it seems that wifi has stopped working. Although It shows connected to the modem, I can't browse using the wifi. There are no issues with the data connection. I tried restarting the modem, restarting the phone etc yet the problem is still there. The moment I connect to the wifi it works for a while but then it dies off. I even did a factory reset on the phone yet no respite.

The hboot version is 1.36 and everything is stock. Can someone please help me out here?
[HTC One X] zeyarwynntun:
I'd been using the whole night via WiFi

CID__044
[HTC One X] alikhater3000:
Same here nothing bad with my wifi .. CID HTC_044
[HTC One X] Sauronow:
Posting this on wifi. No problems at all.
[HTC One X] amirage:
Let me check again..no matter what I do...the wifi never works
[HTC One X] A-HWH:
Try forgetting the network or change password for your wifi network? Sometimes that will solve the problem. Have you also tried using your wifi on other devices? If it is still a One X problem only, send it for service.
[HTC One X] demarton:
If you are on N.

Try setting router to G only, see how that works.

While I dont have this issue on one x, got this same issue on china tablet connecting to certain Wifi access point.

Generally I say it's compatibility issue, between newer wifi driver on JB update and particular Wifi AP. And enabling G mode only increase compatibility.
[HTC One X] Freddy1X:
What ROM you're using?
[HTC One X] gharris040604:
No issues here
[HTC One X] amirage:
Actually this modem was working well when I was on ICS. This problem only started after updating to JB.
[HTC One X] amirage:
Will see that what's funny is that the modem worked well when I was on ICS. I don't understand how it started having issues with JB...
[HTC One X] sam-man:
I had the same problem when I updated the wife's rhyme to ICS, I had to do a full reset on my router and then it worked but every time I flash a new rom on my HOX the rhymes wifi goes down again so have to keep resetting my router, which is a pain

Haven't found a solution yet, I have tried everything but only resetting the router works for the rhyme.
[HTC One X] pradeepvizz:
This is the best thing you should try.., set the Wifi to G only or B/G only and then try connecting your devices. i had a tablet with this problem and it was so simple to sort it out with this router setting change.
[HTC One X] wes3284:
what is your router's brand or manufacturer?

try disabling the WMS (or WMM on other brand) in wireless settings

I had this problem since ICS and this trick worked for me.
[HTC One X] mickfitz:
My WiFi has only improved.

Hardware fault maybe?
[HTC One X] amirage:
Ok I confirm. Setting the WiFi to g solves the issue. I really don't understnd why is n mode not working...there was no issue when I was on ICS. Strange.
[HTC One X] pappas99:
i was having the exact same wifi issues with my phone back when i had ICS, however it seems the JB update has gotten rid of them for me

You shouldn't have to downgrade your wifi band to G.it's definately a software issue. Try going to wifi settings and change the wifi frequency band from auto to an actual value (eg 2.4)
[HTC One X] dragonesdenano:
Cid 044, no wiffi problems. Since day 1 late april. Wifi is great. Using lastest linksys Cisco router.

SkyDragon Sense, Dsensed, SeMistock & Stock Roms. Next Targe ~ ~ ~ > JB or Kelly Bean
[HTC One X] vinfdz:
here no issues too..

connected to netgear 802.11n

stock jb

cid 044. hb 1.36
[HTC One X] amirage:
I will look into this.
[HTC Wildfire S] devanshbaghel:
Hi,

I have HTC wildfire S 510c from virgin mobiles USA and now I am back in India. I was wondering if there is any way to make it work on a different cdma provider in India. I am a total noob and if any link which just details all the steps to be taken would be helpful.

Thanks,

Devansh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] az18zz:
Im of course a android lover always will be never owned a iphone..but I have not really mod but a plug in that allows you to have the clean look emoji like they have on iphone then the Android emoji looms more clean.. would anyone want to try it out I can do a video 2marow showing how or I can list the method here in this post...?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] KB112:
Please explain how.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] az18zz:
So what im basically saying is iphone user has dedicated emojis for their ecosystem which is the full blown detailed and color emoji you can see on twitter and etc... jellybean has it for us android user but its andriod emojis so same but its andriod faces it looks kind of hard to tell witch emoji it is at times.. so I have a method that allows you to have the same looking emjoi as iphone users throughout the phone without fully detailed with color as well, but looks way cleaner as you can see in the pic. . It gives emoji experience with android more better to me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] az18zz:
Shows in the messages as well . . Makes emoji look more detailed and clean then appose to the android stock emojis
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AirBruce:
Where'd you get the icons on the status bar? Wifi, battery level?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] az18zz:
A ROM .. Makentosh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] KB112:
Do we have emoji built into the samsung keyboard?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] az18zz:
No their is a emiji keyboard in the play store