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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] joe75:
IMHO OSX is the only reason to buy a mac.. but keep in mind you dont need a mac to run OSX :p

P5Q-EM CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz @ 3.2GHz L2 Cache: 6144K FSB: 1596MHz RAM: 3.3GB/8.0GB [❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙❙] Speed: 800 MHz Disk: 2.48TB/3.52TB Display: ATI Radeon HD 5750 (PCIe) [1024 MB] 1920x1080@60Hz and 1920x1080@60Hz Audio: VoodooHDA OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) Uptime: 1 day 19:43

You have many options for connecting the S3 to a mac and it shouldn't be anything to keep you from getting what you want.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] monkeypaws:
Yeah I don't have a problem running my macbook pro with my sgs3. For transferring files I use kies. Air droid was too slow. Took me a while of searxhi ng to find out how you can. Also there are plenty ofac options in terms of deving and being able to root your phone. If you need a Mac for nob phone reasons I'd get it. I needed it for web development as my team all uses macs and it was a paid. Having to use all macs and one PC.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xenin:
yeah if i get a mac it'll be definitely be an air.. no question about it.

why would i want to make windows look like OSX for? thats not the reason why i wanted a mac.

and ubuntu?? are you serious??? ubuntu is the WORST o/s.. i had it for 5 months and was the WORST experience i ever had. ubuntu is the reason why i moved back to XP.. thank god!! ubuntu sucks!!!!!!!!

yeah and like i said before i wouldnt want to use anything else to transfer files but thru USB.. anything else is bs.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pennycake:
Why do you want a mac, then? You hadn't put forth any real reasons, so people can only guess.

I switched from Win7 to Ubuntu and there's really nothing I miss, especially since Steam is coming. Yeah, you need to know more hand the average user in some cases, but they also have the Software Center for super n00bs - I mean, even my grandparents use it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xenin:
hey pennycake.. the reason i wanted a mac was cuz my pc laptop had probs.. 1st, a virus hit me very hard. then in trying to fix my motherboard i messed it up and couldnt add ram to it. this is when i was considering a mac cuz its so cool and i never had one. but cuz trying to customize it like xp sounded difficult, i just replaced my laptop's motherboard and its all good. but i came close to buying a mac tho. and if it wasnt for that virus that cascaded into the other probs mentioned above, i wouldnt have given a mac a thought.

ugluntu really pissed me off. most of my time spent with ugluntu wasnt enjoying it.. it was getting it up to date and making it compatible. word and excel didnt work well in that enviroment and i needed these for my career and job. so in the end, i said f*** this and went back to xp. xp is an old system but its still great. it beats ubuntu anytime. i dont know when i'll get a mac. but the next comp i'll get will most likely be a mac.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] demize!:
Get a copy of Windows 7 it runs pretty well on Mac. I am not happy with Mountain Lion at all it consumes to much RAM for my machine which has four gig Im going back to 10.6 but I will install windows for Odin. I still have not heard anyone offer an alternative to root a Jellybean SIII on a MAC so far. Just one vague allusion to "there are methods". Well wtf are they then?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xenin:
hey demzel. ur not the 1st to complain about lion. ive read several bad reviews on it. well all i can say is i'm staying with xp. beleive it or not its taken me a while to customize it the way i want it. so getting a mac now and trying to customize it the same way as xp would be an arduous task.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Classick206:
MBP runs Windows better than PC's made for it. Parallels or Boot Camp will do anything you need from a Windows PC. And if you're on these boards then you probably already know Windows won't cost you anything if you're resourceful. Running Airdroid to transfer files over wifi is really easy and doesn't take long at all. I actually prefer it to transferring via USB.

Anyone who says Macbook are overpriced has never owned one.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pennycake:
I actually managed to get a virus on my Macbook. It was right around the time that Apple was really rebounding and becoming popular again and I hadn't decided yet if I actually needed to bother with some kind of anti-virus software. It was a few years back, but it was some kind of trojan off a link in a Google Images search. There's less risk due to the smaller market, but make sure you still have some kind of anti-virus protection because they're out there.

I already used OpenOffice on Windows, so it wasn't much to me to lose MSOffice - funny thing is, I started using it when I got a Macbook (NeoOffice, I think) because I didn't want to pay for Office (but I understand if it's work-related and you absolutely cannot do without it, although my step-dad uses OpenOffice for work, so depends on what you have to do, I guess). Mac is lucky to have the Office Suite supported officially - but there are still many programs they don't have so for me the relative lack of support was something I got used to and found work-arounds for that pretty much all work on Linux.

I used both Boot Camp and a few VMs while I had the Macbook. I found dual-booting to be a pain since I didn't shut it down all the time and it was annoying to wait for it to re-boot just to use one particular program. I ended up ditching Boot Camp for that reason. Hmmm... I should really go pry the HDD out of that thing, now that I think about it, I could do something with it.

Repairs are also more expensive for Apple products, at least in my experience. Little brother broke the Macbook's optical drive and I think the part was something like $150. I upgraded the RAM in my Macbook, but used a generic, not Apple RAM. Although the Air doesn't have an optical drive to break, I'd guess the parts are still as expensive and likely difficult to service.

If you get the Air or something like it, definitely make sure to have a backup HDD or two. Since your current machine has lasted you so long, I wouldn't find it impossible if you used the Air so long that you started to see issues with say, the SSD storage. Apple uses quality technology, but there have been failures - just like with anything (mechanical can fail too, of course - although when considering a backup look into data degradation if not used for so long) and backups are always good. :) I'm not sure if a 3rd party drive would fit in there, but it's a costly repair through Apple, certainly - but can be the kind of price you pay for a laptop (I prefer a desktop for storage since it's easy to swap components - but you need what you need).

Also, for what it's worth, I think 7 is a great improvement to XP. XP was amazing when I first had it - I remember upgrading to it on a PC that had started its life with Win95 on it. I skipped Vista - and 7 was pretty great - it was like how good XP was compared to 95/98 for my user experience. I just prefer Ubuntu right now since it has the features I liked from OSX integrated (Dexpot is really great for Windows, though) and I like learning how to do neat things with Linux.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] d4rkchocolate:
You can actually install windows via a USB harddisk/ pen drive
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xenin:
i'd still prefer USB. i'd consider wifi but its not as reliable as USB. i can say that macs are overpriced. but thats cuz theyre considered the ferraris of the industry.

i agree that shutting down mac to reboot into xp or win7 thru bootcamp is a big pain. when i had ugluntu i had xp on it but were running side-by-side. so i didnt have that issue. but i know wat u mean.

i never tried win7. all this time its been xp for me. i'm so used to it now. other than the occasion viruses, its a good system. i just might look into win7 also, but not now. i've already customized xp the way i want it and i dont want to go thru the bs again on making win7 look the same. but i might consider running win7 virtualized just to give it a shot.

is it possible to boot win 7 via a USB on xp? if so can u give details?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dodgebizkit:
Don't get a Mac, you will regret it. Buy a Surface Pro 128gb in January when they get released... Trust me it will be the Brest decision of the decade

Sent from a phone shaped vagina. Or maybe that's what my live wallpaper wants me to think.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] monkeypaws:
Whomever said air droid is better than usb is kidding themselves or hasn't tried to transfer large files. I found it more efficient using the USB method via kies method on my mac than air droid. Any lag in WiFi will kill the transfer. Air droid has its benefits for browsing quickly without downloading additional software.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] osmosizzz:
I use airdroid for only quick small file transfers. Transferring files larger than 700mb takes longer than USB. The only time transferring files though WiFi will be faster than USB is when phones have wireless AC speeds and wireless AC routers since they have 1.2gbps transfer speeds if I'm correct and of course, a memory card or internal memory module that can keep up in the write speeds.

Sent from my Rooted Gameboy

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Also, can anyone who has a Mac try out the software @ android.com/filetransfers

Please. It works with the nexus 4 but I don't know if it works with any mtp android device.

If you are having problems with android transfer, try this:

If you have installed Android File Transfer app on your Mac and you get the message “No Android device found”, follow the steps below (adapted from www.gmtdev.com) to connect to your device:

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1. Make sure you have connected your Android device to your Mac with your USB cable (I found a "Samsung 2.5 feet Micro USB Data Cable for the Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 Black" for my phone on Amazon for about $5.00 including postage.) The USB symbol should have appeared in the top left of the task bar.

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2. Open the Task Manager (swipe down with your finger from top to bottom on your Android's screen). You will see the item “Connected as a media device”; tap this item to open the settings page “USB PC connection”.

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3.* In ”USB PC connection” you will see the “Media device (MTP)” option is ticked and a second un-ticked item “Camera (PTP)”; tick the “Camera (PTP)” option.

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That’s it; the Android File Transfer should now open and you can see the contents of your Android Device memory and SD card (if you have an SD card in it too). You can now copy files to and from your phone like MP3 music to the Music folder.

Thanks to whomever wrote that on the Apple discussion board

Sent from my Rooted Gameboy
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] demize!:
**** I must learn this. If it works dont f with it. I had auto update checked on FF by mistake new version didnt support critical addons like roboform wtf, uninstall,reinstall good version,didnt save profile,lost all bookmarks and settings and customizations krey: .( lol good thing I had cloud backup of at least some bookmarks.

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I will reiterate that you must uninstall any and all remnants of Kies for this to function. Use the uninstaller

Than re dl Android FT than its all drag n drop. I just did multiple gig transfers of all the Trojan compilations and it was a breeze. Kies was very unweildy
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xenin:
a surface pro?? tell me ur kidding! ive tried win 8 and its horrible.. i'd NEVER touch it.

i agree with u 1000%. to this day i dont know why there are ppl kidding themselves that think that air droid is somehow better than USB. i get the feeling that theyre fanboys.

are u saying that this is a fix for the mac to get it to recognize the S3?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] demize!:
For it to recognize it via Android FT. Otherwise you'll continue to get the "no android device recognized" error.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neiljain:
Hi,

I own a Next G Motorola Defy Plus and am looking for the original Telstra (Australia) SBF for Defy Plus ONLY to restore for warrantee purposes.

If someone out there has the original file, could they please post the file or PM me.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekguy:
These are not usually checked from my experience, any Australian sbf with a version that is closest to your initial rom will do
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhomero:
Hi everybody,

I'm looking for the same original SBF for the Telstra Defy+ BL7. If anyone could please share it, you'd be of huge help.

The nandroid backup I made before flashing other ROMs seems to be corrupted and I cannot go back to the original firmware in order to take my Defy+ to the shop with the warranty.

I started flashing it because whenever I turned on the data network it would reboot, thinking it could be a software issue caused by getting it unlocked. And after trying several ROMs and settings with different SIM cards I'm positive it's a hardware issue.

Again, this original firmware will be most appreciated.

Thanks!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pgreed:
Try THIS http://tinyurl.com/3gtzs4j
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhomero:
I tried flashing that with RSDlite and it bricked the phone.

Where did you find it? Must be a Defy (and not a defy plus) firwmare or maybe it's not BL7. My specs:

android 2.3.6

kernel 2.6.32.9-ge281b6e

build 4.5.1-134_DFP-231

Anyone can get a hold of the Telstra firmware we're looking for? Thanks y'all!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z3ro-grav1ty:
sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/list.php

(paste into url bar)

Search for ones with the 'File' name:

DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231

This should be followed by and underscore and your country

e.g. DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_AU

for Australian sbf

If you can't find your country look in the column named 'Carrier' to the left of the 'File' names.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhomero:
I tried flashing the only one on the sbf.droid-developers list that matched that criteria, turns out that, although it's marked as "Unknown Carrier", on the phone specs it says "Retail.en.AU". And it seems to work alright.

I'm guessing this might be enough to send it to warranty..? What do you reckon? It doesn't have all the Telstra starting animation or anything like that, but I'll give it a shot and hope for the best with the repairing service.

Thanks!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pgreed:
Hmm... those tiny link contain the only wild available Tesltra Defy+BL7 ROM. SRY if is not working. I have M525 and cannot test it.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev0xteam:
Boot-to-Gecko OS

Is it possible to PORT B2G from Gio?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankyDoodle:
It isn't even booting yet, WHY would you even expect someone to even try porting....?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Henka85:
Hi, i recently bought an optimus 4x hd and i was shocked about the battery life of it the first week. with the same usage pattern it lasts half as long as my old desire hd, tho it has double the battery-capacity. then i tried some power tweaks from the dev section, lg gearbox app, removing lg stock apps and so on. now the phone idle takes 30 % of the power, and android system takes 40 %. i am using the 10h european firmware and now the hole phone is almost unusable.

is there any way to remove all added apps and scripts to get to the real stock state ?

i mean factory wipe in recovery doesnt delete everything, the 4.2 system clock i installed is still present after wipe for example.

right now this phone really freaks me out, nice hardware with a *poop* of a firmware on it. if i would´ve known theres no android development for it after all before buying it, i never would have made this mistake.

if anyone is feeling the same of having solutions, please help.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Dop3KinG:
i would also like to do the same as my o4x keeps rebooting by itself and going back to home screen when using apps when on google play and web browser.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] laufersteppenwolf:
there are (as far as i know) three ways to do it:

1) (my favorite) restore a cwm backup you made before you've flashed the tweaks

2) flashing the kdz files

3) emergency restore (or sth. similar) by the lg software

so, good luck ;) :good:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] RuedasLocas:
My advice is, downgrade to v10a, factory reset, upgrade to the desired version (probably after downgrade the software update will ask you for upgrade).
[LG Optimus 4X HD] amuu407:
Guys this worked for me. Connect mobile in software download mode by connecting your Mobile to PC by pressing volume down button without battery and launch lg software tool, go to recover mobile option enter imei number and when your mobile model is confirmed replace your battery and then update. Done you will have official version and Updated version.:D
[LG Optimus 4X HD] amuu407:
Leave it to your support tool. It does everything for you.

Sent from my LG-P880
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twaha:
how do i s-off

Bravo PVT1 ship s-on

hboot- 0.80.0000

touch panel synt0101

radio 5.17.05.23

someone help me plase?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
click the Desire All Things Root Guide in my sig

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twaha:
i have tried alphaRev and i get stuck on the 3rd step, something about the usb ........
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
Install drivers.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twaha:
i have installed them all,with the guide from unrevoked, isnt there another way to do this?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
You need stock rom or cm7 without any a2sd, otherwise it wont work.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twaha:
it worked with cm7 thank you :D, finally s-off
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mavasilisk:
2 days ago I noticed that my phone's I/O performance in benchmarks has stopped twice. I used to get like 1800-2000 before and now I get around 700-720. Does it mean that my SD card is dieing or what is causing it?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viki1296:
Try changing the read ahead value of your SD card boost to 2048.. you can do this in rom manager :)

Also, what is your io scheduler? and try benchmarking again with another SD card
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mavasilisk:
I downloaded another benchmark that I've tested before and now it scored 3100+ (before it was 3000) so I think Quadrant Benchmark is not very accurate and easy to be fooled. Anyway, the device feels smooth and snappy (no transition effect lag, no game lag, no lag at all). My advice is not to rely on benchmarks. Test it yourself like I usually download GTA III to benchmark my devices.
[General Questions and Answers] FrostySummer:
So I've bought an LG Optimus L3 couple of days ago and have updated it to ICS. However, it recognizes only 157 mb of memory when it has a total of 1 GB. The other 800-900ish show on the very bottom of settings>storage. It's not used and it keeps giving me the "low on space" notification. What should I do? I've tried transferring all apps to SD card using App2SD and Link2SD... Can I swap external and internal memories, and can I merge "both" internal memories into one?
[HTC Droid DNA] Ndaoud360:
My laptop runs the same 1.5gh quad core like the DNA but its AMD vs Qualcomm. What makes the amd much more powerful?

I mean I can run ps2 and Wii emulators on the amd and can't on the Qualcomm (well basically cause there is no ps2 or Wii android emulator and couldn't test.)
[HTC Droid DNA] sn1p3r6992:
X86 or 64 bit platform vs arm architecture for mobile which is what we use. Our processor is significantly smaller than a pc processor also. The die is probably about 1/4 of the size.
[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
To put it simply, clock speed and # of cores are far from the only things that affect performance.
[HTC Droid DNA] latebeat:
Exactly, remember we had 3.0+ GHz pentium 4s almost 10 years ago! So there are lot of other things that affect the performance apart from the speed. 1.5Ghz doesn't mean much by itself. That's one reason why apple doesn't advertise processor speeds with iphones and ipads but processor models/families.
[HTC Droid DNA] tbot:
I think mainly it has to do with the architecture of the cpu, in which they are totally different. Another thing to consider is the software, most pc apps are compiled to run natively, where as android in a sense has an emulator where it is compiling the code on the fly (the dalvik engine, which is Google's way of getting around licensing to oracle) so that is going to take "longer" to process when running apps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dsmas:
I have read 2 threads in N7100 - general section about Note 3 with 6.3" to be out in 2013.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/bi...ly-slap-a-6-3-display-on-the-galaxy-note-iii/

http://www.slashgear.com/6-3-inch-samsung-galaxy-note-3-tipped-for-2013-13260736/

Edit : my preferred size is 5.7 or 5.8".

6.3" is little too big for note as a phone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Nicko80:
Haha... Funny.. Is that pocket sized? Haha:eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] babsmatter:
It might be pocketable with flexible display :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tyrael64:
if is true i will buy one!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Spo0f:
If you google "6.3 inch" all results are about the note 3. If this turns out to be truth - they are keeping the aspec ratio of 16:9. ..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] azzledazzle:
Damn !! 6.3 inch is bigger than my...............................................................................................................................hand

Still, If it has a flexible display then that would be awesome, Although im intregued as to how a flexy display works, Surely it wouldnt be as clear and colourful as the amoled ?

i cant keep up with technology anymore.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tw15tr:
I hope they make, i would buy it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] teraxul:
I will buy this :D

N7000 with 4.2.1 CM
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zylor:
I will buy one :D

I even consider the Note 1 and the Note II small :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
This its the real device for man.. Got nothing left to ask for.. 6.3" sounds godlike

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dilpas:
+1
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CorruptedSanity:
Hope it's true. I'll buy one immediately.

Whether by Samsung , HTC or google.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shure2:
Even if it's a flexible screen, are the internals going to be flexible too?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Well we are going back to vintage ...

Madness '80 - baggy trousers and phones to fill them :
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] steveblue:
I went to the store and compared my note 1 to a note 2 - nothing great about the note 2 at all. Really no more real estate just slightly taller - so worthless to me - than even lesser resolution. So I will wait. Glad they announced this because bigger really does help me - as a prof / researcher / grad chair on a multi campus university - I can do so much with the Note. A little bigger is even better. Best thing about announcing the Note 3 - vaporware or not - is I do not have to keep thinking about getting the Note 2. I have a reason to be happy with my Note 1 and wait. Peace of mine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NutZInTheHead:
for me it really depends.

if it's nearly as large as the nexus 7, then no. I won't buy it. if it's only a little larger than the current note 1/2 and the bezel is tiny. then I might consider it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
I'll buy it if it has edge to edge screen - all the way around.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mac231us:
With an edge to edge on the Note 2 chassis they might just get to 6.3"

that is the only way otherwise this will be too big for even a phablet

edge to edge would be awesome that way even the 5 inch phones can get smaller