yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JubbaBlubba:
I'm assuming the screws mentioned are the dozen or so small shiny ones around the outside? Or am I missing something....

Also are the two pairs of gold sticks poking out of the PCB antennas or what?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
Its actually like 10 screws. The one on the back of the phone when you take the top off. And those gold sticks are used for wireless charging.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 420fan:
As crazy as I thought this was, it made a difference to me too! Just tried it, and it locked in my house within 5 seconds. Took me at least 2 minutes before tightening my screws.

Not sure why, but it worked for me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crazyon2wheels:
Wow after trying several software fixes I saw this and decided to give it a try.I took my battery cover off and checked and it didn't seem loose at all.I got out my little screwdriver and all the screws on the back were able to be tightened a decent amount.I tried it after tightening the screws and got a lock within the minute on plenty of satellites. Previously I was able to get a lock but it would take several minutes and be very inaccurate (1600 Meter radius).I would be driving on the freeway while using navigation and it would jump and put me on side streets.I tried it again today on the way home and lock was super fast and accurate and was showing accuracy of 3 meters.Maybe this is why people that are getting replacement phones are having good luck the screws haven't worked loose yet.I would recommend anyone having issues with their GS3 gps give this a try you have nothing to lose.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stupidchicken03:
I just installed both you suggested. Sitting in my house I got 18 satellites.

I know Maps just had an update, and even still it crashes for me.

I installed Waze GPS (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd) and I tried it out today. Didnt crash at all, but deff is not as accurate as Maps was.

Gunna try the new apps on my way to work tonight.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] syintiphic:
I started a thread about the GPS fix with screws since many people have tried it and have had great success.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201668

Cheers.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stupidchicken03:
Well yesterday I had a constant 18-20 satellites locked on but Maps/Nav still crashed :(

Booted up Waze and it worked fine. Not as spot on as Google's, but better than nothing I guess. Ive seriously debated putting my phone back to stock and bringing it into Vz for a replacement.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] icedroid:
Another the putting the screws to it fixed the gps for me too, thankyou all for the suggestion
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] soohyunk83:
It's important to make sure your radio/modem and rpm version are matched.

When I downloaded and flashed blk3 but not the blk3 rpm, I got significantly worse performance on GPS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] muzician:
This totally works!

This totally works. I had tried everything and had just about given up but figured "What the heck..." AND IT WORKS!! It doesn't take any expertise or special tools. Just a small phillips head. Just do it. Unbelievable. If I knew it was that easy, I would have tried it months ago...but now I'm a believer.

Thanks!

:good::good::good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] syintiphic:
Here the simple GPS fix thread. Many people have tried this method with great success. I'm glad you too have also had success with this method.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2201668
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thesourgin:
I started to notice that my GPS was going in and out if I didn't have it mounted directly under my windshield, so I decided to try this. Before attempting, I stood in the backyard and only locked 5 satellites after 2 minutes. The screws hardly turned at all, but when I powered on and started up Maps, I had a lock in two seconds. Started up GPS Test and it showed 16 satellites locked. Nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nmccready:
THANK YOU!

OMG you ROCK!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mattish13:
Update- I needed a better fitting screwdriver... barely got one screw to move, maybe less that's a quarter turn and with a good amount of force. Gps improved from one satellite in use to around twenty... thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
+1 screwdriver trick worked for me too. Almost instant lock now. I had to mess with the top three screws while I looked at the GPS test app though. This should be posted on androidcentral or Engadget to help many more people. I took the whole phone apart and some sensors just connect to the motherboard by touching pins not with actual plugs. If there's too much pressure on one side of the top piece the other side will lift, causing a poor contact of the pins.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cbrehob:
I am on the fence with this. While I'm usually flashing a ROM on average once per month, I've definitely had my ups and downs with GPS. There is no well defined answer, I've had great GPS and bad GPS on both AOSP and TW ROMs. Right now, I'm on CM10.1 Mar 31 nightly and have instant lock on GPS (in under 2 seconds).

Prior to that, I was on Liquid Smooth's rom, and had 2 second lock (awesome.)

Prior to that I was on Clean ROM R2 and couldn't get a lock for 20 seconds, then when I did it threw my GPS all over the place when navigating so much it was unusuable.

Prior to that I was on Beans ROM and had terrible GPS as well.

Prior to that I was on CM10.1 and couldn't get lock either.

I cannot explain why it comes and goes with flashing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gatorboy:
Screw fix worked for me

Tightening the screws worked for me. Many thanks to the solution poster. You have ended several months of daily frustration. The GPS had not worked properly since day 1. My SIII 32GB, purchased new on eBay, had been to Samsung for repair three times to address the erratic or complete lack of GPS performance, as well as inferior voice/data reception compared to my wife's SIII 16gb. After the third repair Samsung told me they replaced every part except the case and screen. When the issues persisted, they offered a fourth attempt at repair. Under no circumstances would they replace the phone. Since the phone was disassembled/reassembled three times, their repair techs must be regularly under-tightening. I would tell them, but the phone is still under warranty. I worry that any admission of tinkering might void it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] killerdan56:
:eek: what is this
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
To answer your question: not interesting enough for us. Lacks balls, lacks initiative, lacks specs, lacks price advantage; thus, it lacks in pretty much every department I care to think about in tech acquisition.
[Asus Transformer TF700] TheAnarchist1:
Worst thing that it lacks altogether? The metal backed on is a FULL metal backed device....like the Prime, meaning that it will also lack WiFi range.....and probably BT range as well...;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
I would liked to have thought that ASUS would have been able to steer away from the Prime's signal reception debacle. Good find, for I had overlooked that "detail". Aside from the rather modest specs, then, we possibly also have a dysfunctional device.

I must admit I *am* interested in the ViVoTab Smart -- full Windows 8 (so not the RT version).... We'll see. Even if I get my hands on that (or another similar) device, I will keep the 70 around for a long while to come. (I recently started dabbling in Android 'programming' via AppInventor, which needs a full-blown OS -- that's why I'm eyeing Win8 tablets. I detest Windows 8 RT.)
[Asus Transformer TF700] lubass:
Please we need a root for this

Please someone develop a root method. Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] huy_lonewolf:
The correct question would be: why would anyone of us be interested in this? To put it simply, going from a Full HD screen to a HD screen is just too painful.
[Asus Transformer TF700] cloverkid:
I'm sorry it doesn't seem to have enuf "balls or bell". But the price is right and it is a nifty machine.

I would love to see a root for this little devil too.

C_K
[Asus Transformer TF700] hx4700 Killer:
Bought one for my wife. Works great, runs smooth does everything she wants and best of all its a 10" for $100 over a 7 inch. It also doesnt have the IPS setting for outdoor or the Gorilla glass.

Its a fine device just a lower cost alternative to a $500 unit.

She went from nothing to the lower than TF700 resolution so she doesnt notice it at all.

Adding:

I should add that I ran quadrant on the store demo and the benchmarks panned out as one would expect:

HTC One X

TF700

TF201

"Your Device"

then the big drop to the other samsung/google etc.. products. So its just below performance of my 201 but as I said, for my wife she loves it and can't quit playing angry birds and surfing the web! She hasnt opened her laptop once in 2 days and she couldnt stay off the thing.
[Asus Transformer TF700] bishop793:
I have this tablet and see no issues with it. so the screen resolution is not "retina-like". and its only has 1gb of ram.. who cares..the human eye can only pick up so many colors..anything more is just overkill. I wanted a good mid range tablet to surf the net and watch videos. This works perfectly. If i need something more powerful i will go to my desktop. If i need to watch "full hd" i will go to my 50inch tv...how much hd do u need on a 10" screen?
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Sharp text is state of the art. Being able to see pixels is not.
[Asus Transformer TF700] bishop793:
maybe, but the averagae consumer doesnt have 400.00-800.00 every 8 months to spend on the "next new thing". its guts may be "last gen" but whatever is out there right now will be old news come xmas...the human eye can only pick up so many colors..anything else is just overkill
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
You appear to believe pixels and colours are the same thing.... They're not. Colour depth is given in bits, not pixels.
[Asus Transformer TF700] bishop793:
Well im typing on it right now and im having no problem with the "pixel density" if i want full hd i will watch my tv not my tablet. which also has hdmi out
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
If it suits you that way don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

But if you truly believe you can't see the difference between 1280x800 and 1920x1200, put a Tab 2 and a TF700 besides eachother on the same image. I'm working on my mum's tab 2 atm, there are blurs on all the letters! The anti aliacing is horrendous!
[Asus Transformer TF700] E15i:
I'm searching to buy the original OTG, if someone have one.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
I just stole all the asus apps from one for the next CROMI :D There are 6 additional asus apps. Altough they are fairly simple. Artist, Studio, PinPal, Sticky Memo, Story and To Do List ;)

Looks like a good budget device to me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] E15i:
Hey guys, I'm still searching for the original OTG adapter, does anyone mind ti sell his, to me?
[Asus Transformer TF700] paolocorpo:
Have you tried for a no branded one ?
[Asus Transformer TF700] bishop793:
Im sure there is a noticeable difference but i guess that its not a strong selling point for me. and its no reason to trash the tablet. :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] jgcaap:
can someone use sdtools and check internal memory benchmark speed?
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
It is budget but does have some new apps. The best new app that Asus released with the memo pad series came with the 7 in version, a windowed video player that works pretty well called floating widget video player. Only shows when trying to play a video, can't see it in the programs list.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
You've made it abundantly clear that these are not good enough reasons for you to trash this tablet. We can all read in here, you see. Although I'd agree that this is a nice budget device, I already have this ''premium device'', so the reasons put forward here are enough for me to trash it (or, rather, disregard it completely).
[Asus Transformer TF700] bishop793:
to each his own. just know as with everything, in 6 months your "premium tablet" will be obosolete compared to the next big shiny thing they roll out.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
And for every budget device that timeframe is when you walk out of the shop. :rolleyes:

So far it's been 9 months, and the TF700 is still the only one with these high specs. (The Nexus 10 has no MicroSD and no Dock, thus no expandable storage, no USB and half the battery.).

The new Galaxy Tab 3, which is supposed to be the new 'next big thing', is rumoured/semi-confirmed to feature a dualcore and 1280x800...

This budget tab, however, was outdated before it was announced. By the time ours becomes outdated, that thing will be an antique.:rolleyes:
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
...And worth a lot of money? <rushes to shop> ;)

OT: excellent reply, as usual.
[Asus Transformer TF700] PolishPoet:
The human eye can distinguish between 2,400,000 -10,000,000 colors. "When discussing the number of colors perceptible to the human eye, I tend to refer to the 2.4 million colors of the CIE 1931 XYZ color space. It is a fairly solid, scientifically founded number, although I do admit it may be limited in context. I think it may be possible for the human eye to be sensitive to 10-100 million distinct "colors" when referring to both chromaticity and luminosity."
[Asus Transformer TF700] adamski88:
is anyone having any audio playback issues with their memo pad?

when streaming HD video from iPlayer or youtube etc, the audio is out of sync for me, which is really annoying!
[Asus Transformer TF700] cokefd:
I own one and I am pretty happy with it.

The downside is that there is not that much develovment for it.

I guess when asus no longer updates it, we might see more development
[Asus Transformer TF700] 135Shadowsoul:
Wrong time on ME301T

Hi @ all,

i hope this is the correct thread for my question

since some weeks i have an Asus MemoPad Smart (ME301T) and it shows the wrong time. After booting, it shows the real time, but after some time, the clock "freezes" and does not show the time it should...

is there any1 how has an idea what i can do to solve this? would be nice and ty if there is any help for me :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pp_prathap:
what is bravia engine can we get in any phones through custom roms?:rolleyes:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolsandie:
Bravia Engine is Sony proprietory. More Info: Click Here

To get it in other phones, maybe you need to port it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harshgpt816:
I need help in portin i have lg p500
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
Not worth it with a 320x480 screen.
[Transformer TF300T General] Mythbuster74:
Alright so I bricked my dads tablet to some extent, and am trying to fix it. Unlike most bricks i'm not able to enter APX or anything. Just the stock device is unlocked splash screen. I bought a new cord to rule that out and it's still not working, when i push vol + and power it just restarts. Any ideas? after i get to apx i should be fine to get it back.
[Transformer TF300T General] Hazard17:
You should push Pwr & Vol- but not vol+. What have you done, that you bricked your tablet? You mustn't wipe data in Asus bootloader menu. You can wipe data only in Custom Recovery.
[Transformer TF300T General] Mythbuster74:
Well I had put twrp on and had flashed a rooted stock image. It worked for a couple days and then it got restarted somehow and now wouldn't boot. From what I've heard it's almost impossible to delete the apx partition.
[Transformer TF300T General] poorbil:
help

I think I have somewhat the same problem. A time ago I unlocked the bootloader of my transformer. Yesterday I wanted to upgrade my tablet with the official firmware of the asus website. I used a manual from theandroidsoul that used cwm and fastboot ( I can'tpost the link here because I am new to this forum sorry). But I completed every step of the manual whit out any problems.

The only different is that I used this firmware WW_epaduser_10_4_2_18UpdateLauncher and not the firmware used in that manual.

It started to upgrade and it automaticly restarted, after that it got stuck on the first sceen whit left in the top bootloader unlocked and asus in the midle of the screen. I can't turn if of, when I press and hold the power button eventually the screen turns black and it turns on again on the same screen. Pressing vol - button doesn't help. I just need to let the battery run out of power and when it is charged again the same problem. can anyone please help me?
[Transformer TF300T General] Mythbuster74:
yep same thing here
[Transformer TF300T General] Mythbuster74:
Bumpppppp
[Transformer TF300T General] okrasitna:
In this step

Now, extract the zip file downloaded in step 2 to obtain another .zip file, which is the update file we need to use to update the tablet.*Copy this .zip file to the root of sdcard of internal memory on the tablet.

Do you exact the zip to obtain another .zip ?

Or

Ares you flash directly the zip fromages Asus website ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
Simple2ext working on any android version.

Including

Android 4.0

Android 4.1

Android 4.2

Android 4.3

Android 4.4

Here is the file itself

If you share this file, please give a link to an original thread
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ItachiSama:
Can you tell me how did you do?

I'm one of the translators of S2E and I'm not good in Android App Dev (know nothing LOL) but if you want we can mod it from scratch. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] shiftyHungary:
Why would you build from scrach once it's done?

Other question: do you have Hungarian translator? If you don't, then PM me, I'd do it happily.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
See here
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] G0B1IN5486:
Ah yes, I did this once when Jelly Bean 4.1 first came to our Gio. Thanks OP for 4.2 support! ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Dark Passenger:
Hi am on android 4.2.1 cm10.1 galaxy fit and using your s2e (using it for first time ever) and whenever I try restoring an app via titanium backup or install any other way phone reboots any solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
Can you give me logcat?

BTW, are you using my version of s2e?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Dark Passenger:
yes and am on phone only so no PC cab you tell me a way of how to do a logcat now.

PS so it's just my phone I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
In terminal: logcat > /sdcard/log

/sdcard/log is what you need
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] FlashTec80:
Would be nice with some kind of installation instructions or something, when trying to download the s2e.apk file i end up with a zip file, doesnt feel right, or is it?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
I haven't really understood you.

If I download it I have s2e.apk and I just install it like an usual app.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] FlemishDroid:
I click on download and then on open and then I can install the app. With xda premium app. Maybe you can replace .zip with .apk

Verstuurd van mijn GT-S5660
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
I can provide another link, but if I download using my PC, I get .apk file, not a .zip file
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] FlashTec80:
It worked better with google chrome, for some reason Internet explorer downloaded it as a zip file, so now i will give it a try. sorry for taking up your time :)

Ok installed it, really newbie question now, what does it do? I thought it would make use of the sdcard as an internal space but no numbers points at this. I'm completely new to the gio scene so have never used a similar app, please someone explain?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] vennarbank:
Thanks a lot. My appreciation for all the great work you are doing.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] 1N4148:
Great work, but one bug: Setting a read ahead buffer from S2E doesn't work. S2E creates an empty file without any value at /data/local/s2e_config/.read_ahead.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] monaliza142003:
:good::good::good:

---------- Post added at 12:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 PM ----------

For Galaxy Gio works:)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Krteq:
THX, working great on Wayland's 4.2.1 BETA6 for ACE with ext4 sd-ext partition :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Prizic:
Great!
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Jlaeo:
work on ROM CM 10.1 of olddroid ??
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] funktaztic:
Oke i'll try it.. thank :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] -BRK-:
can you explain how s2e works? I mean does it move system app data and dalvik cache to ext?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] lukas12153:
You can choose by yourself whether you want to move apps, app data or dalvik cache to the external partition on your sd card
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Zephyr!:
Re: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

Who is the original developer to make s2e work???

One more dev who pretends he made it possible http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2098841

Press the thanks button :)

Sent from my Nexus⁴
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Aeonxul:
what's the easiest way to create ext4 partitions for cm 10.1?

i heard s2e wont function properly on cm 10.1...... and thatt link2sd is better?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Whhoesj:
The easiest way is to do it in recovery. For me s2e is working fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Aeonxul:
well i have cwm 5.0.2.7 and i think it only creates ext2 not ext4?? and also i dunno a thing about partiotioning my sd card, any softwares or apps to do this? do i need a ram reader or sth?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
Me, cause,as you can see, I have released it on the 4th of January, and that guy did it 10 days later

And BTW I'm in his credits:)

You can use my TWRP or CWM 6 or MiniTool Partition Wizard for PC
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Zephyr!:
Re: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

Yeah bro sorry I forgot to see that :)!!

Press the thanks button :)

Sent from my Nexus⁴
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Whhoesj:
Re: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

I've a bug when using s2e. I can't install apps anymore because the Play Store says I don't have enough space.

But there acually is free space.

EDIT: problem solved when I moved app data back to internal momory.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] dnastew:
great job !
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Astorcamon:
Not for me, when i install any app from play or other ways, my phone reboots :( what method did you use?

Edit: Finally it works!!! :victory: (Around 1354658 tries)

Clean ROM installation

Format sd Ext 4 with Mini Tool Partition Wizard (I think i did it around 8465 times)

Install s2e and make it system app (it would be the solution, but i dont know. Did it more stable?¿)

Check mount Ext4 on s2e

Reboot

Check the options you like

Reboot

But i have this issue now. checking move data apps, i cant install to internal due to not enough space. (Same with other scripts i tried)

Its better than nothing but i need more :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] junnickbefore14:
Re: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

I have a problem..

actually I have a 500MB sd-ext partition, I moved app and dalvik cache to that partition.

When the installed apps is around 30, sd-ext partition is full, but when i check it with root explorer, all files in sd-ext just take around 200MB..

So the question is, where is another 300MB ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Kapricornus:
First, check size of every folder in /sd-ext

If it's ok, you may not have enough space in /data
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] z0mbi@:
Re: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

It work nice.. thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ItachiSama:
R: Working Simple2Ext for Android 4.2

Before moving anything, remove lost+found folder. It uses lots of space on sd-ext (fixes every sector for better performance with tune2fs -_-) but only on first boot.

Remove with terminal or root explorer and you'll have missing space.