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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el56:
I have both, a 16GB N7 and an AT&T model GN2 used with Rogers in Canada.

I use the N7 mainly for

maps and travel (GMaps, Tripit, FlightTracker)

news/book reading (Aldiko, Acrobat, Economist, Currents, FlipBoard)

video (YouTube, media player)

document creation using Google Docs/Drive

games

I use the GN2 for most other things, including communications (skype, GTalk, GVoice, SMS), audio (music, podcasts), and social media.

Having said that, there's a lot of overlap (apps on both devices). Sometimes I use one while the other is charging.

What is also good about having both (besides being able to tether the N7 to the GN2's portable hotspot) is how I treat updates. My N7 is unlocked, rooted, and running the Paranoid Android ROM with many mods and Apex Launcher. My GN2 I am keeping stock, though I have carrier-unlocked it. One is bleeding edge featuring the best and newest from Google and the community, the other is slower to update and has proprietary stuff. I don't even run a third party launcher because I like some of the TouchWiz support for hardware-specific features (ie, the stylus)

Well, that's how I feel now. If Rogers is too slow to give my GN2 multi-window, my mileage may vary ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liam44:
Waiting to take photo and camera shuts down, no reason,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BaconStep:
Any more details? Rooted, which rom etc etc
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liam44:
Jelly bean stock, camera, then 10 sec later back to home screen, wtf
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liam44:
At x mas party, camera shuts down, wtf, of all times for this to happen, really
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liam44:
Video works fine
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rani9990:
try clearing camera data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Devhux:
Last night a friend's Galaxy S III was doing the same thing (though usually it was every second photo that would crash the camera). I had thought it was maybe a defective SD card, but it did the same thing when storing photos to the main memory. Rebooting didn't help either. As a temporary measure we installed CameraMX on it which worked in a pinch.

They were on 4.0.4 though, and after running the update to 4.1.1 today they said the default camera app was working again. Of course, I didn't think of clearing data for the camera app before running the update, so maybe that would have fixed it too.

My Galaxy S III was working fine though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inf4nticide:
(Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium)

So I've been playing around with LibGDX, and it's been really nice...so I go to export my app to android for the first time just to make sure everything's running smoothly so far...and I get an error at compile time:

Unknown error: Unable to build: the file dx.jar was not loaded from the SDK folder!

So I Googled, and every solution to the problem I can find involves using the Android SDK Manager, or copying some files from one directory to another that I don't have in the first place. So I decide to go the SDK Manager route, except my SDK manager shows a command-line box for a second (no console output), then crashes.

So I Googled this, and I get nothing but people telling me to both mess with Android.bat and make sure I have the right environment variables set. So here I am, about an hour later, and I've got all my environment variables set that I could possibly need: JAVA_HOME points to my java sdk folder

Path points to both my JRE and my JDK binary folder, as well as C:\Windows\System32

ANDROID_SDK_HOME points to my Android SDK folder

ANDROID_SWT points to my android folder's tools\lib\x86-64 folder, which clearly has the swt.jar, but whenever I try running android.bat I still get:

'xcopy' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file (which should have been fixed when I added system32 to the path variable)

ERROR: SWT folder <my swt path> does not exist (even though it does)

Please set ANDROID_SWT to point to the folder containing swt.jar for your platform (it does!)

edit: just completely uninstalled then redownloaded the sdk, same errors... :crying:
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] xobro200:
Just recently I tried to root my device and whilst doing so I seemed to have bricked my device. The screen will flash, connect to my computer, and then disconnect. It will do so whether it's connected to an outlet charger or to my computer. I've tried countless numbers of things such as downloading the ruu and trying to reinstall it. Can anybody help me? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mcord11758:
What did you try to do? Are you putting your flyer into fastboot mode?

Flyer
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] xobro200:
I am trying to get it to stay in fastboot mode so I can try to fix it, I think I corrupted the recovery image or something this is very frustrating! If it would stay in fastboot I would be able to fix it but I need to figure out how to do that. I don't know if this helps but this is what keeps flashing up every few seconds when it's connected to my computer!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mcord11758:
Why did you relock your bootloader?

Have you tried loading the ruu image on your external SD and have the system detect on boot?

Flyer
[Acer Iconia A500] mankiee:
need downgrade for only one reason: 4.0.3 doesn't support desktop sync anymore and there is no way to sync contact with the MS outlook.

searched everywhere and couldn't find one, tired various method and almost bricked my A500, if anybody know how, or actually suggest a good app that will do so, that will be great.

thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] gears177:
you have to flash the hc bootloader then flash whatever honeycomb rom you want
[Acer Iconia A500] mankiee:
Thank you, found an OK app doing the job, stay with ics for now.
[General Questions and Answers] Smeghead_:
I'm currently trying to choose my first smartphone, and am having real trouble narrowing it down. At the moment it's between an S3, One X+ or a Nexus 4. However this isn't a versus thread, I'm asking about the development communities for Samsung and HTC devices.

1. Which company (HTC and Samsung) is more supportive to developers, and which flagship phone has the best support from developers themselves?

I'm guessing since the S3 is more popular, it has better developer support, but I also hear that Samsung refuse to release an Exonys source code or something, whereas HTC allows bootloaders to be unlocked, but that doesn't mean it's particularly easy to install custom kernals or roms to HTC devices. Do either of those issues affect the S3 or One X?

2. Which device out of the S3 and One X currently has stable roms that have most original features working (like fully functioning GPS, wifi, camera and all that)?

If I were to get a non-Nexus device, ideally I'd like to flash it back to stock Android to have them as close as a Nexus device as possible, or with a custom rom based on stock android.

3. If you had to order all the manufacturers in terms of the quality and quantity of bug-free custom roms available, and ease of installing them, how would you order it?

For example, Nexus > Samsung > Motorola > HTC > Asus, or whatever.

Also for those asking why I don't simply go for the Nexus 4, it's because the build quality issues frighten me a bit.
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
I'm gonna km this now before it turns into what we both know will happen.

I will put it to you this way. No ROM is bug free and never will be. To many personal options for the dev the test out. XDA is not about ROMs. It is about development. While you may think they are the same, they are not. Development is all about trying new things and making new stuff up as you go along. Not how stable you can make a ROM.

Each device has its followers and its fans. You will find most of the OG developers prefer HTC ad this is where we all started. Then enter the android devs they tend to lean to the nexus as it was built to use the open source drivers. Unlike the rest. Samsung makes good screens but the refusal to release the code or anything to help is an end game for most.

People will always jump to the newest thing. This is how they are programmed to be. Get a device that does what you need and the rest will follow

Thread closed

Batcom2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algui91:
Hi, I'm interested in learn how to contribute to the Android code, I know there are mailing lists. I'm interested in android-building , android-porting, android-contrib and android-kernel but the problem is that I don't know where to start, ¿Where could I find resources (books, webs etc) that let me acquire enough knowledge to start to colaborate?

Thank you very much in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shimp208:
If you want to contribute to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a useful place to start is looking at the Get Involved section on the official Android developers website.

For learning about building android from source take a look at these two guides:

Google's official guide to building AOSP

How to Compile Jelly Bean on Ubuntu

For a porting guide take a look at this guide:

How to Port ROM's

For kernel building take a look at this guide:

Google's official guide for building kernels

Let me know if you still have questions :).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algui91:
Thank you, I already had downloaded and compiled the code. Would you mind write again the link for How to Port ROM''s, you wrote twice the link for How to Compile Jelly Bean on Ubuntu.

Thanks again for your help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shimp208:
Here you are my friend:

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957219

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1908008

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32905313#post32905313

Sorry for posting the compiling Jelly Bean link twice.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tcat007:
I have a couple questions about GV. Installed the GV app on my grand daughters tablet (wifi only, no phone). Used her mothers cell# to get her GV number. I unchecked the cell number, so all calls go to Google Chat.

1. I can text, no problem. Question here, is there a way to empty trash from the GV app? I know I can on a PC, but can I only open trash in the app, is there no way to delete, not even one at a time?

2. I assumed if I called her new GV#, set to "Do not Disturb", the call would go to her Google Voicemail. Well, it rang 6 times and went to the mother's cell voicemail (with that box not checked). Is there a way to use the GV number for just leaving a voicemail (to be transcribed to gmail)? I don't want to mess with the mother's cell or that voicemail.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] hellocali626:
Sadly there is no way to delete/empty trash from the app, but creating a shortcut to her (request desktop site) Gvoice trash from a browser is the easiest way to go about it. Just delete her moms number so that Google Chat is the only option under "forward calls to"
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevchaps:
Actually, for deleting the conversations, 1 by 1,get to the main screen in voice, that lists all your conversations, long press what one you want to delete, it'll give a list, delete being in there. Also, from each conversation, there's a trash button on top left. At least, this is how it works on mine. Lemme know if I can help any other way
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tcat007:
No problem deleting one at a time, question is "emptying the trash". Seems you need to do that on a PC (and it's not that easy to find there). You can get to trash, but all you can do is "undelete it" from android, no "empty".
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevchaps:
Ah, I gotcha. Hmm, never looked into it
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jimmycrackcorn1:
Same here, wondering if there is a way to delete whats in the trash from mobile device with out manipulating a clumsy desktop version on a touch screen!

Seems like this one would be a no brainer for the developer to have built in as a must have.... Really, who wants to delete things 2 or three times. Im sure it has caught many ppl off guard, thinking their communications were gone when their really just sitting right there under another label.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] r00t4rd3d:
You know if you install Sipdroid along with GV you can make and recieve free wifi calls on the N7?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tcat007:
Sure, I bought Groove IP for 2 bucks a while back and works great on my N7. I didn't want my grand daughter making calls (unless her parents wanted her to). Just want texting to work, and it does.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud_face:
I searched but cannot find a specific topic talking about just having random data drops.

I have T-Mobile USA and every say 30 minutes my data leaves and signals o to grey and after about 20 seconds turn back blue and data symbol reappears.

In those 20 seconds I have no data. Idk why this is happening. I have the normal epc.tmobile.com apn I have always used as default with every phone I have ever owned.

Any ideas?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alewis2k12:
it may be your rom....try to check into that...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud_face:
I had it on stock ROM.

Then I rooted etc and am running pa beta 7 and have exact same drops.

I hope this is just something with network settings and not an actual defect. I doubt it is but idk what yo do. Usually I find a solution by searching...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeamHackura:
same

Same problem here. Very spotty reception on Tmobile in south Florida and also on WiFi
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alewis2k12:
Im running the exact same rom...PA 7 with Franco Kernel...I have had any drops its been running perfectly for me...maybe its something with Tmobile...you may want to give them a call and see wats wat...and btw I use straight Talk....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Same issue here. I've had the problem with all my phones on T-Mobile dating back to the G1.

I'll also have periods where my data will slow to .10Mbps with full bars. Then a few minutes later I'll be back to 18Mbps. Its weird.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wolfy9247:
I've also encountered this issue. I'll have data and cell reception, and sometimes one and/or the other will drop and then return back to normal at random times. I do believe it did with the stock ROM, but I'm currently using a custom one.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud_face:
I don't think its T-Mobile because on my galaxy nexus I never had it and the second I switched it started happening.

Ive always had the random slow down to .1 and all of a sudden it speeds up but this is complete data gone where the signal icon leaves too.

Its very odd and annoying. The slow downs the .1 is also frustrating but I learned to deal with it even though that's another topic of why that happens when on att and Verizon it does not for others.

Granted Verizon is CDMA and completely different.

Ugh I wanna ignore it but when it wasn't happening with galaxy I feel something's gotta be set up wrong. I doubt its a defect.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
It happened with my Gnex too...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparta507:
I'm have exactly the same problem as you guys, specially on the highway. Data comes and goes pretty fast. One second 3g the next no data but I still have reception at all time. Hope there is a fix!

I'm on Straight Talk tmobile in South Florida
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud_face:
I think I'll look into the apn settings and see if I figure something out. Or match them to my galaxy which I still have and make sure they're the same.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alewis2k12:
Yea straight talk has been better than I thought.... I never have any issues.... They seem close to perfect which I wasn't expecting especially at 45 a month unlimited everything.... You can't beat it.....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3c:
Same issue here, I'm in Cambodia on smart network. I've tried switching the SIM into a Galaxy S3 and the Nexus 4. Works perfect in GS3, data drops in N4. Checked APN config, same on both devices. Though the N4 seems to get hot when data drops out of the blue. When driving down-town it seems to get worth and drop very frequently sometimes without possibility to recover except with reboot!

I'm on stock ROM, have tried stock, Franco and faux kernel. Same data drops in all of them. For me it looks like a defect!

Bought the N4 on eBay from a US seller. Nevertheless I love the phone and the feeling it provides having it in my hand ;) But I don't see a fix coming anytime soon as not that many devices seems affected so far?

EDIT: From another thread I ran 'logcat -b radio' and found this:

01-28 23:02:43.254 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmSST] Poll ServiceState done: oldSS=[0 home Smart Smart 45606 HSPAP CSS not supported -1 -1 RoamInd=-1 DefRoamInd=-1 EmergOnly=false] newSS=[0 home Smart Smart 45606 HSPAP CSS not supported -1 -1 RoamInd=-1 DefRoamInd=-1 EmergOnly=false] oldGprs=0 newData=0 oldMaxDataCalls=20 mNewMaxDataCalls=20 oldReasonDataDenied=-1 mNewReasonDataDenied=-1 oldType=HSPAP newType=HSPAP
...
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/RILJ ( 1693): [25189]< SETUP_DATA_CALL DataCallState: {version=7 status=111 retry=-1 cid=0 active=0 type=' ifname='' addresses=[] dnses=[] gateways=[]}
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDC-2] DcActivatingState msg.what=EVENT_SETUP_DATA_CONNECTION_DONE
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDC-2] DcActivatingState onSetupConnectionCompleted result=ERR_RilError SetupResult.mFailCause=PROTOCOL_ERRORS
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDC-2] notifyConnectionCompleted at 1359388964414 cause=PROTOCOL_ERRORS
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDC-2] clearSettings
01-28 23:02:44.395 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDC-2] DcInactiveState msg.what=EVENT_CONNECT.RefCount = 0
01-28 23:02:44.405 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDCT] handleMessage msg={ what=270336 when=-2ms arg1=-1 obj=android.os.AsyncResult@4286c018 }
01-28 23:02:44.405 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDCT] isDataSetupCompleteOk return false, ar.result=PROTOCOL_ERRORS
01-28 23:02:44.405 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDCT] onDataSetupComplete: error apn=smart cause=PROTOCOL_ERRORS
01-28 23:02:44.405 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDCT] onDataSetupComplete: WaitingApns.size=0 WaitingApnsPermFailureCountDown=0
01-28 23:02:44.405 D/GSM ( 1693): [GsmDCT] onDataSetupComplete: All APN's had permanent failures, stop retrying

So it looks like a... protocol errors... a defect? or bad APN setup? Incompatible provider and device? Anyway, it's annoying
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] calanizzle:
try franco kernel latest test version
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astron1985:
my phone turns itself off periodically why?

i tried put a new rom(stocklite v8)but this problem still consist.

(sorry for my english)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackWolf:
Try clearing dalvik cache, cache and factory reset it...

And still the problem exists, switch to stock and rush to service center.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperAce609:
Are you using A2SD?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ugm6hr:
Does your phone turn off, or does it just fail to respond?

The stock ROM would sometimes prevent the screen from waking if it went into sleep mode (power-save) if you walked out of range of a wifi connection you were on while in power-save mode. I used Wakelock to prevent the device from sleeping initially.

CM7 doesn't appear to have this problem (using for about 1 week).
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] modolheula:
SOD ??

go to setting > wifi > advance > wifi sleep policy - tick never > save

GT-S5830
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terminator2012:
i have the saym problem:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Narwhal73:
I had that same issue using the stocked Samsung touchwiz on the S5830D. Ever since I rooted and began running custom ROMs though this issue has disappeared.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artychoke:
Hi guys!

I've bought an Alwinner A13 Tablet as a Christmas present for my daughter who is 3yrs old. She has been using mine and my husbands HTC Sensations for watching BabyTV and playing various counting and alphabet games, but we twitch every time she drops them...hence the cheap tablet. It is running 4.0.4 has 512 MB RAM and 8GB internal storage. We bought a 16GB SD card to increase the storage.

I want to customise it for her in time for Christmas and was wondering if you guys mind my asking some questions on here in the hope 1 or more of you has done something similar or can point me in the right direction at least.

What I want to do:

Hide, disable and lock out the internet browser, app store and anything else that I may need to do stuff (like install apps for her) but don't want her to see or use.

Disable the system icons / buttons (battery, clock, app home etc)

Make desktop / homescreen icons bigger (approx twice their current size).

Prevent her moving and deleting icons

Create folders on the home screen with custom folder icons (different picture for each folder) that will hold apps and shortcuts to movies on the SD card.

Give App and shortcut icons custom icon images (I have graphics files for these that I can resize)

Play movies directly from shortcut

Minimalistic movie player that just plays the file and then EXITS back to the home screen when the movie is done.

If any of the above requires changing ROM from the installed 4.0.4 to something else or requires the tablet to be Rooted then I've learnt how to do that already.

Any help or advice on how to achieve the above list would be greatly appreciated.

p.s I already looked at the "big icon" app in google market, but it sticks a setup icon next to the icon which you cant lock out..which means my daughter could easily modify the icons.

Thanks

Lyndsey
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngoralph:
most of your requirements can be found on go launcher or adw launcher as for movie shprtcuts i dont know if its possoble
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyhax:
Kids Place + ES file manager

most of this could probably be handled by the Kids Place - Parental Control app on Google Play, you can make shortcuts to basically anything (including movie files) using ES File Explorer by tapping and holding on the video and selecting make shortcut and also has a pretty simple video player built in.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artychoke:
Thank you for your help!

Do you know if there is a movie player around that I can configure so that it closes down and returns to the home screen after it's finished playing a movie? This functionality is pretty important as I don't think she'll be able to exit the movie player herself.

I looked at go launcher but I couldn't see it supporting setting folder and shortcut icons. This is pretty important as well, because her reading level is still quite low and therefore she will have to navigate by "familiar" icons (BabyTV Icon to take her to the BabyTV player etc).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artychoke:
Okay, I installed Kids place. That wouldn't let me add movie shortcuts or folders to the desktop, only apps. I want to have folders on the desktop with shortcuts inside each folder to movies. Each folder to have an icon depicting the cartoon character of the movies that the shortcuts inside point to.

Having folders with custom icons is something that computers have been capable of for 20 years and yet android can't do this. It's extremely frustrating that there are so many other types of customisations and wazzy effects (launchers seem to prioritise a hundred different ways of scrolling over desktop customisation!!) and yet something so basic is absent or poorly implemented.....

Sorry....had to get that rant off my chest!

I'll keep looking but thanks for the help http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif