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[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onemeila:
A factory cable is not going to do anything at this point. You have written over the uboot which is needed to even get to fastboot. The only thing you can do at this point(which is a method used for original kindle fire but I would imagine the new ones have similiar components, and try this at your own risk cause I'm not 100% it will work) is remove the back, short the usbboot pad to get the device to power on through usb only, then load the original uboot with linux using usbboot commands. That should get you into fastboot where you can then flash original bootloader and recovery.img's depending on how far the process got.

This is not an easy fix especially if you thought using KFU was a smart thing to do. There is a lot more to it than the simple explanation above.

Just out of curiosity what would possess you, because I've seen more people than I would have thought do it, to even try using a utility that was meant for the original kindle fire. There has been so much talk about these new devices having locked bootloaders. The main use for KFU was/is to load a new bootloader.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballsnxs:
gen 2 kindle fire won't turn on.

My 2nd generation Kindle Fire will not turn on. Bought for my daughter for Christmas. She turned it off one night and the next day it won't turn on. No attempts have been made to alter it. Went I connect it to my computer it is not recognized and my computer says the device drivers are not present.

Can anyone help? When I connect my Kindle Fire it is recognized. Thanks.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
That is typical of trying to modify the device incorrectly. Considering the nature of the device, I would say it's impossible for that to just happen on it's own.

What age is your daughter? How sure are you that no attempts have been made to modify the device?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthur.:
got similar issues now too. after stucked in a bootloop, i read, that the u-boot.bin from the original Kindle Update should fix the bootloader. afterwards the reboot didn't worked and the device shut down. now i cant start it anymore. and the fastboot cable wont wake it up neither.

is it now definitly broken for ever?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mode_ss:
HELP!

Hi dear friend, can you lend me a hand on this?? is there any guide I should follow to achieve what you just described before?? please... can you tell me?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alagga:
Hello,

I'm running Jbsourcery 4.1 and tried played games with Trinity & Franco Kernel (both overclocked).

When i e.g. play GTA Vice City the Game gets lags about every 10 seconds. (Changing the resolution or the draw distance doesn't remove this lags).

Could it be possible that another app runnin in the background causes this lags?

Any app i could use to check this?

Thanks in advance ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
Well, please consider the following three points in order to help you bettER:

1) Mention the CPU and GPU clock speeds of the kernel you are using

2) Keep the game running in the background, then check the "running" apps in settings so you can either spot something or share here the running apps to help you

3) What about any other "heavy" game? Same issue or running fine?

Waiting to hear from you :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alagga:
1) With Trinity: 1689-512 With Franco: 1536 and the standard Franco GPU (don't know which it's)

2)In Settings/Apps:

Settings (1 process/62 MB), Music Timer widget (1 process 1 service/3 MB), Facebook (1process 3 services/ 23 MB), Apex Launcher (1 process 1service/ 73MB), DSPManager(1 process 1 service/ 2,5 MB), Google-Services (2 process 1 service/ 13MB), Android -keyboard (1 process 1 service/25MB) RAM: 521MB in use, 172MB free)

3) Tried Modern Combat 4 + Gta Vice City and both lag
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
Good information :)

1) Have you tried any other ROM?

2) Try removing Apex Launcher then see how the game performs. Just a guess because other processes are mostly regular ones except Apex. And maybe it worths to try closing Facebook as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cee-ach:
Is anyone here actually able to run GTA VC smoothly? I've tried everything. I'm starting to think this phone just can't handle this game.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 95Z28:
I haven't tried vice city, but GTA III was the one game my g'nex just couldn't do smoothly. Fortunately the 7 takes care of that problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alagga:
The Problem occures again and again after a while.. But when i wipe cache + dalvik cache +battery stats and reflash Rom+kernel the Problem disappeares for a time -.-

I think i try another rom the next days ..

Vice City runs normally (without this 10 second lag) rather smooth .. lags some times a bit but mostly not ;)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
I have an HTC Explorer and have installed CM 9 easily. Unlock bootloader through HTC , install custom CWM recovery using fastboot, then install CM 9 zip from sd card using CWM recovery. I have tried to do the same with my daughter's Wildfire. I get as far as installing a CWM recovery but it hangs at a "hat" icon when I try to use it. I have tried several CWM img files, including the one in the "cm49?" zip. None work. Is there a way for me to get a CWM recovery working? I don't want to go through all the s-off process, I don't think it is needed. My Explorer works great with s-on. I hope someone can help. I promised my daughter I would get ICS on her phone as her Christmas present.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
If I'm not mistaken you have to flash the boot.img manually with S-ON so I think a S-Off'd device is much better and it isn't that hard to S-Off it. I don't know if the S-Off methods still work if you unlocked it before but they should.

Besides you haven't taken the CWM from Pico/Explorer and tried to install it on the Wildfire, have you?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
Thanks for your reply. All the cwm img files I have used have come from this forum. I had high hopes for the one I extracted from "pc49img.zip" as it seemed to say it might work on another post. It installed like the other but doesn't work.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
I got a question are you just unlocked or already rooted on the WF? I think you can't install CWM if you're not rooted. That would be nice to know. Otherwise you can may follow this guide
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
Just unlocked after following the procedure on "htcdev.com". With my Explorer you can root the phone with the aid of the CWM recovery you install after unlocking it. Maybe the CWM recoveries for Wildfire assume your phone is already rooted, but I don't know how to root it without having a working CWM recovery first.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
Yeah you're right. I think the progress on S-ON should be like this:

-flash CWM

-flash superuser rights (thats how it worked on the HTC One X)

I found this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1484124&highlight=recovery

Let me know if it worked.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
Thanks for all your help miniAndroidian (the Nexus 4 should be awesome, (I am saving up, but they are not available in Australia at the moment. I told my daughter she should get one too, but she hasn't got the money either, so that's why I am working on the Wildfire)

Unfortunately the post you directed me to says you have to flash the CWM recovery from the stock recovery but I don't have that anymore as I have replaced it with the CWM recovery which just hangs. There must be a way round it, but I am no expert at all.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
Same in Germany with the Nexus 4 but it should be avalible in the middle of january :)

Back to the topic:

You have to put the "update.zip" to the root of your SD-Card and boot into the bootloader menu (the white screen with 3 android's on the bottom) and then it should recognize the new CWM.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
Terrific. I didn't understand it. My daughter lives 100km from me so I will have to visit her this weekend. She left after Christmas saying "Dad, admit it you are a failure" after I had spent hours on it, so this might show her I am not as useless as she thinks. I am intending to flash the "mini" CM 9 rom. I hope this is the best one.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
I really hope it works (i'm out of solutions :p) otherwise you should really think about S-Off'ing it.

miniCM 9 is the fastest one but the sensor buttons don't give a vibration feedback it's a kinda annoying.

Good luck
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
I have had a very very frustrating day. I tried "update.zip", didn't do anything. I even renamed it "pc49img.zip" nothing. I finally found a windows program called "unlock root". I used the free version. You just connect up the phone via usb and press root. It gets you to confirm it is a wildfire and then after a bit says successfully rooted. I then installed Superuser, Rom Manager and ES File Explorer to check it.

I backed up the present rom successfully with Rom Manager. It even has an option for flashing Clockworkmod recovery and one for rebooting into recovery for manual management. It downloads CWM recovery 5.0.2.0 but it doesn't work either (looking at the files on the SD card I think it is just the same as the "update.zip"). There is also an option for installing a rom from sd card but when I went to this it asked if there was any addon, and of course I need tiny gapps. It then said I need the paid version for this. Seeing the recovery didn't work I didn't want to risk it.

My conclusion is all the present CWM recoveries require S-Off. I have read some people like the Aroma installer. I know nothing about it, but I wonder if it might be possible to install the CM 9 rom with it.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
I have worked out what my problem has been. I have fallen for the old Trackball trick. I must be the only person not to know you use the Trackball in CWM recovery not the power button. I sent my daughter an email and she has confirmed the recovery in Rom Manager actually works when you use the Trackball. I will have to visit her again now to install CM 9.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobharding:
MiniCM9 installed. Working great. I will put a how to in "General"
[Motorola Atrix HD] ayo234:
Does canyon have a working method of putting the app data on the external SD card ? Gl to SD is not supported and the memory swap mod in the dev forum was closed an there is no downloads for it. So an anyone help me out here?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] George939393:
I am planning to buy Note 2 in close future, and i wanted то ask Note 2 users, that read books on it.

Is it comfortable?

Is the Amoled screen is better or worse for reading than ips?

What is the overall feeling of Note 2 as reader?

I want to use Note 2 heavily for reading, that why i need that info.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dmwitz:
I do a lot of reading on my Note II. Not so much books but news! The display dpi lends itself well to reading as does the smart stay feature. I have my screen of set to 15 seconds yet have never had the screen switch off whilst viewing. It was a feature I first thought was a gimmick but it really is very very good. The only problem is if you read at night with no ambient lighting. Then it cannot see that you are reading and may turn off.

-Go to bed with a good book. Or someone that's read one :D
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] George939393:
Comfortable reading оf news and books is essential for me! And can’t wait, to try the smart stay myself. Thank you for quick responce.

About bed - sure will do that :cool: .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Souai:
normally i'd say an LCD display is better for book reading.

when an amoled screen is forced to display white, it consumes more than twice the amount of power compared to an LCD screen rendering white, simply due to the way amoled works. so amoled will drain the battery faster if youre reading black text on white backgrounds.

but if you invert it to white text on black backgrounds, you'll get much better battery life.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] George939393:
I know that Amoled consumes more power on white, but Note 2 has a monster battery - so that isn’t a problem. I am taking about reading quality in 4 variants:

Reading news in browser,

Reading books in daylight -black on white,

Reading books at night - green on black,

Reading pdf and djvu books with lot of diagrams and pictures.

(I know that for pdf tablet is better, but i want something compact.)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexter10478:
I bought note ii for the same reasons and I am not regretting.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sengork:
I read news/forums a lot on GN2 and it's been fine, no eye strain even with black text on white background. I do recommend Screen Filter app and set auto brightness with auto tone turned on. You can even turn on negative screen colour rendering in accessibility options.

The screen size of this phone is a big plus for reading, however I do make the text larger than the default for easier viewing at distance. Remember don't read too close to the screen...

Sent from my GT-N7105T
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HypoDest:
I use my note2 daily for reading daily. I switched from the fairly large screen s3 but its a huge difference. s3 was fine for occasional reading but note 2 can totally replace an eBook reader or tablet.

I would say that the Note2 is He best phone for reading simply due to its sheer size. Its only slight smaller than a standard book, so you can display text at standard book font size (publishers tend to use very similar sizes across the board) but not have to keep scrolling excessively like on smaller phones.

Using a reader which properly renders white text on TrueBlack (like Pocket), lets you use a lower the brightness than you normally would, due to the high contrast. I find this greatly reduces eyestrain compared to an lcd.

Black text on white background is pretty good as well, in part due to a setting called Auto Adjust Screen Tone (AAST) . This saves power by reducing the tones of brighter colours and has the side effect of reducing eye strain.

Also don't want to under estimate the battery life.

On a full charge, I get about 7 hours of screen time for purely reading Black text on white back. However white text on black lasts a whopping 13 hours. Video playback is usually between 7-9 hours.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] George939393:
Thank you all for your reply. Finally bought the Note 2. For now, I am very pleased by the screen quality. Overall impression is just incredible. There are so many things in that device! I am feeling "little" overwhelmed by that pho... tab... phab.... thing. About reading - feeling very good after 30 minutes reading. No comparison with my LG P500 LCD screen. Screen is not as bright as LCD, but with much better readability. Feeling it little like e-ink display... Will see how it will feel after more reading.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kylec:
My brother just upgraded from an iPhone 4 to a note 2 purely for reading. He was always saying the iPhone is fine for ebooks but once he used the note he could never go back haha.

Tl;Dr note 2 is great for reading :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boodies:
I was reading fine even on my Zoolander phone called Vibrant, this phone is much easier on the eyes. You'll love it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
You can use an app called screen filter to bring down the brightness even more to make it more comfortable especially in a dark room

scribbled from my note 2 (N7100)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artorelis:
I bought Samsung Galaxy Note 2 just a few weeks ago, and because I'm an avid reader I'm immediately downloaded from Google Play store all major readers in the market such as Kindle, Kobo, Aldiko Premium, and UB Reader. I was reading e-books when I have Nokia E71 with just 2.4 inch screen! And by the way, I do not remember when was the last time I read a printed version of book. It's the past. So, you can imagine what the reading is when you have Note 2 with 5.5 inch screen. It's just an awesome experience. However, I went to Settings + Display +Screen mode + and chose 'Natural' instead of 'Standart' and I'm thinking about switching to Sepia in my reader instead of those white-black or vice versa. It looks like it is easier for your eyes but I'm not sure about that. Maybe others will tell me if reading on Sepia is healthier for your eyes than on sheer white?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
Use night mode. ..white words on black background. ..is less Stressful and also saves battery on amoled screens

scribbled from my note 2 (N7100)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmsmiranda:
Which of those readers do you recommend?
[General Questions and Answers] Roflwat:
Hey everyone, I need some information on local.prop and build.prop.

First of all, are these two files loaded on every boot or just once after you flash them?

Also, what is the difference between the two? I have gone through several ROMs/mods, and I have seen that some people use local.prop for the same values that some other people use build.prop.

What is the difference? If I am cooking my own rom, can I just add any line I have on local.prop to build.prop and delete it?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] gravitysheep:
Hello xda!

I would like to present you a physic puzzle game i have developed with Unity3D engine. It has been uploaded 2 days ago on playstore.

The concept is kind of similar to Space Physics, Crayon Physic ( iphone ), and Touch Physics but i haven't seen something similar in ages

To complete a level, you can fling the sheep (a little bit, otherwise it would be too easy!) and draw physic lines interacting with the gravity in order to help the cute little sheep to reach all the mushrooms. They are lot of different ways to complete a level.

There is also an embedded leader-board (home-made one) letting you compare your score with others players at the end of each successful levels

Some feedbacks about the game would be really nice and helpful.

You can find the game on playstore here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overflowstudio.gravitysheep.free

Thank you so much

Florent
[Android Apps and Games] gravitysheep:
Did someone try it so far and have a feedback to share ?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] gravitysheep:
Any feedbacks guys ?
[Android Apps and Games] gravitysheep:
Some of you downloaded the game ?
[Android Apps and Games] jeksenly:
I wanna try to play this game :) Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] NomadCF:
I like it. But I find the line drawing to be more on the difficult side. That is to say when I'm trying to draw under something. I always "hit" the object under it.

Or most times when I'm trying to give my sheep a extra boost. I instead end up drawing a small line. Which stops my sheep.
[Android Apps and Games] russian392:
very interesting game. i like the concept and the idea, keep on working to make it smoother on low end devices.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] NomadCF:
So after a good play through. I feel that this game really needs to be played with a stylist. It's either that or I got fat figures...

Maybe a zoom feature might help ?
[Android Apps and Games] gravitysheep:
Thanks you guys for your comment :

- Yes, I agree this it a bit annoying that when you hit an object, it stops drawing. I need to find a way that it does not block but draw along the object. This one is tough to develop but in my todo list.

- NomadCF, I dont know if you have noticed, but there is kind of a magnifier at the bottom left of the screen, so you can see 'under' your finger.

- Yes , it would be definitely better to play to the game with a Pen. For the moment, the game is not compliant with S Pen ( Galaxy Note ). I am trying to implement the Samsung Galaxy API event with Unity3D but having hard time as i don't have a galaxy note in my hand. I might borrow one from a shop for my tests though :)
[Android Apps and Games] NomadCF:
Yea I had seen/tired the magnifier. But I meant more of a full screen zoom in to were your drawing.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfka1:
nice game:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mosfet356:
What is the best app to us to make calls over wifi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
Depends on what you want be easy for you just to go in the market search Wi-Fi calling...but here ya go

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gogii.textplus

Clean Romed&themed the f!@#out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Stealth111:
I use "Groove IP" every single day, and I love it! I have not had any issues with it at all... It is on the Play Store.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] musclehead84:
Same here. Love it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mosfet356:
I tried grooveip but after a few mins talking the person cant hear me. Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] redwings8888:
I also use this daily, great, great app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zetsui:
I have an AT&T galaxy s3, not sure how it is different from the verizon model as far as grooveip goes (ie different mic/speaker volume), but what settings do you guys use in groove ip? I noticed my best setting after a couple horus of experimienting was that most of the feedback echo can be reduced by playing with mic gain (2) and speaker volume (-6).

Im curious as to what settings you guys use?

Please post!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KjK89:
Viber works excellent for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] insight3fl:
i already have a paid for Magic Jack on home pc so i use the Magic Jack android app. worked perfect while in south america last week. forwarded my cell and landline to that local phone number. Voice mail worked good as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zetsui:
Isn't that expensive? You are paying for a forwarded call from US to Latin America and all the usage from that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] insight3fl:
No not at all. The magic jack phone number is a local USA number you pay $19 per year. only cost of forwarded call is the verizon minutes used.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcurley:
Exactly, and it uses voip, so unless you are paying for the wifi, you are good.

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albysajan:
guys which do you think is better stock rom or custom rom? I think custom roms like cyanogenmod performs better than stock and have much more features!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmatthew:
Stock=4.1 very good.4.2=Networks error,random reboots.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bby144:
Don't forget lag
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albysajan:
on which,stock or custom!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fallon9111:
Csto custom RMS are everything great about stock, customized to your own needs and tastes :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel1699:
Frankly, its totally subjective. Some swear by stock, and some by custom roms. Then, others by only specific custom roms. The only real right answer is the one you decide for yourself after experimentation. So, start the journey, and enjoy. Youll know what you prefer in no time! Have fun!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smo1970:
I totally agree with this.

Personally I'm a fan of Cyanogenmod. Just straight Cyanogenmod for me but others swear by CM derivatives like Parandoid Android.

I say try some different roms out and see how they work for you. I did this and found myself going back to Cyanogenmod. Now I actually purchase android devices based on whether or not they can run it.

I like CM10.1 so much that I've learned to build it myself and make my own nightlies :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esema1o:
Stock for me :D
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhford:
Why do you prefer CM?