yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stud beefpile:
Greetings everyone!

The other day my wife's bag fell out of the car while she was exiting without either of us noticing. Inside that bag was her Nexus 7, which I promptly ran over with my car.

Much to my surprise, everything is perfectly functional as far as I can tell. Bluetooth, WiFi, Brightness settings, OTG, charging, etc... all great. The only thing I ruined was the screen of the thing.

Knowing the cost of a screen replacement, I think I'll forgo getting a new one. (I gave her one of my other N7s so this one is now a hack-device!)

My question for the fine folks of XDA is a two parter:

a) How can I safely remove the shattered screen bits without causing further damage?

b) What would be a good material to place over it once I have it removed? Glass? Some special plastic?

My idea is basically to end up with a non-touchscreen device and use OTG and ADB to maneuver around in it.

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbop:
I take it only the touchscreen glass is cracked and the LCD is OK?

If the surface of the glass is cracked but intact, just cover it with a screen protector. If the glass has shattered, you will have to carefully cut the LCD from the digitizer as the two are bonded together. Since the LCD is very thin, you might crack it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterk-1:
I've experimented with a cracked screen. The lcd assembly is bonded over its whole area to the glass. The glue is softened by temperature (too hot to handle) but I was unable to separate a small piece. It's possible that heat + solvent could work but as bigbop says there is there is a massive risk in further damage
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbop:
LCDs typically use a metal frame to hold everything in place. I have removed the guts of the LCD from a frame in order to make it easier to remove the frame from a digitizer on an old PDA. It may be possible to do the same with the Nexus display but you will have to remove the tape around the edges of the display away and bend the small clips holding the guts in place.

I think the frame is only bonded around the outside edge.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stud beefpile:
Great tips guys, thanks a lot. I'll post some pictures of how it goes if it works out.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilmrt:
So what happened?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingcarlo12:
Does anybody know how to get the full size of a picture set as a lock screen wallpaper. It seems like everyone I choose ends up needing the sides cut off
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] JaguarXT:
Unfortunately this has to do with the aspect ratio and the lock screen being portrait. Most pictures are not shot in 16x9 portrait aspect ratio. So your landscape pictures will always be cropped for the lock screen.

Summary of Devices

Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (SGH-T889)

Android Version: 4.1.1 Jelly Bean

Build: JRO03C.T889UVALK8 (Rooted)

Device: Motorola DROID X

Android Version: 2.3.3 Gingerbread

Build: 4.5.605.Accurate_Battery (Rooted)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] crl95:
Finally understand Rooting, unlocking, and Roms but I am now trying to understand kernels and safe values and what things do in STweaks. If anyone could guid me to a tutorial or explain what changing different values does along with safe and good values to use in each section that would be awesome. Thanks everyone for all your help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tgyberg:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2079311
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hari1250:
This will surely be helpfull

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2079311
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canihavendroid:
Hi there,

i´ve got some problems with my flashed (Jelly Bean Cannon V 6.2.1 Defy) Defy+.

The first few days everything works nearly perfect. After i came home on Friday, my Defy+ seemed to be dead.

Now here a short description of what is obviously wrong:

-Defy+ is stuck on Bootloop (animated, flashing "X")

-i can pull out the battery, reboot while connected to charger and put in battery on boot animation. then my defy+ starts correctly but crashes after a few minutes. (Turns off or restarts in Bootloop)

-Launcher shows "battery loaded 100%"

-When its off and i push "power + Volume up" it shows "battery low - cannot program" and turns off immediately

i am not sure what to do now and looking forward for your help.

thanks in advance.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peter077:
First try to boot the rom, than switch off and charge the phone to 100%. Flash the rom again, or flash a different one.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danko843:
Need to charge the battery with the "frog" and perform a wipe with Motorola recovery
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bioinfoboy:
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything that happens to you phone and the usual yada yada yada.....

Requirements:

Rooted Device

ICS+

Stock/Custom ROM

File Manager able to access system files

Steps:

Copy the 'fallback_fonts.xml' to a local directory

Change 'fallback_fonts.xml' with the text editor. (See list of changes)

Push 'fallback_fonts.xml' to /system/etc

Push 'Lohit-Gujarati.ttf' to /system/fonts

Change permissions of 'fallback_fonts.xml' to -rw-r--r--

Change permissions of 'Lohit-Gujarati.ttf' to -rw-r--r--

Reboot

List of Changes:

fallback_fonts.xml

Add these lines after any </family> tag but in between the <familyset> tags

<family>

<fileset>

<file>Lohit-Gujarati.ttf</file>

</fileset>

</family>

Sources:

Gujarati Fonts attached. You can also download it from fedorahosted website if you want the original source

Solid Explorer. I know it is not free but it is really good. You can try ES File Manager also.

PS:

Just change 'Lohit-Gujarati.ttf' to whatever fonts you like and keep the same fonts in /system/fonts folder
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lead3r1:
thnx bruv works like a charm appreciate it :highfive:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vdtrivedi:
Hi bioinfoboy

Novice question.

How to push files in to the folder??

How to modify permissions of the files??

Thnx in advance.

P.S. find it after googling.

But still some texts showing weird symboles instead of Guajrati.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ketan_naik:
Just use esfile explorer (Setting -> Root -> read / write permission) and follow the instruction in post 1
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] souler456:
What's this? Is this some kind of those "Unique" fonts? Can I see some screenshots? :eek:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Hi all, I'm hoping for discussion so I chose here instead of simple Q&A.

Like a lot of people here I'm looking ahead to my next phone purchase and I'm trying to see what went wrong with ICS on the Sola. The forum is filled with theads on problems, I won't list them.

Here's the crux of the issue; I read here: http://androidtechguru.blogspot.ie/2012/02/minimum-system-requirements-for-ice.html

that the head Mod of CyanogenMod says that the ICS mimimum spec is 256mb of RAM with a decent GPU, and seperately, other people say that 1ghz dual core, 512 RAM is recommended. The Sola has this precisely. Why is ICS so bad on it? You can Google many, many reviews of even high-end Sony phones on ICS and they still lag like a pensioner going down a motorway. Why?

Is it true that the Sola reserves some RAM related to the extra sensors in the screen? I read more people saying 1GB or RAM is needed for ICS to run smoothly. I noticed that reviewers on Techradar say Jelly Bean runs much better that ICS on the same specs. So, is 1GB of RAM the standard needed for ICS? How about CPU and GPU?

p.s. I should say that a Sony rep on their official forum recommended me to download a task manager to manage the RAM on the Sola...how revealing!

NOTE - Timescape now retired: http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/01/14/rip-timescape-long-live-socialife/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
Liked that motorway part ;)

Btw

512mb is sufficient for ics (nexus s)

Its runs ics so smoothly

What sony does is that it adds an extra layer of Timescape launcher

Along wid that loads of bloatware

And regarding using task manager

Its worse one could do make phone unstable

Task manager kills app

Apps then reopen by themselves

Task manager again kills app

And the process continues till the battery is drained

Edit - I have same prblm on my xu ;) sola n xu are twins
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Thanks, I'm really trying to learn about how this works.

So, 512MB RAM for ICS, but perhaps more after a manufacturer has added their skin and apps?

Is there any other big problem with the specs for the Sola or U?

Battery drain, has anyone else noticed many of Sony's late 2012 medium-high end phones have 1900mha batteries, but reviews on GSMArena and TechRadar say their actual performance is about 1400/1500? (Check out the Ion, Acro S and others) The opposite can also be true but is rare from what I see - the iPhone5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini have small batteries 1400/1500 but their battery performance is more like 1800-2000. I don't know what Apple and Samsung did to make it that good, but the stats tell me Sony is really messing something up to reduce the battery performance that badly despite 1900. Maybe that is the Timescape UI eating the battery?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
I wont say that about Samsung bt for apple

I have used an iphone 3gs and a galaxy note (my dad's)

Note's battery backup is even worse than my xu (probably coz it has always swtiched on 3g n gmail)

I have never seen an android wid good battery (except my brothers htc desire v)

The best battery I got in 3gs

---------- Post added at 10:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:17 PM ----------

My phone gives me a descent battery wid brains rom about 20hrs wid 4hrs of wifi, alot of messaging and hardly any calls

What about sola?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Have a look at this: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_i_xt890-4998.php

And the battery performance: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_i_xt890-review-828p2.php (bottom of this page)

I hope you wet yourself when you see this. I did. :laugh: :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
64hrs?? Wtf??

I guess its due to intel chipset

I will collect money to buy this now ;) I even beats my Nokia n86 :p

Novathor also has an image of being power efficient

Bt I guess its the sony **** that pulls it down
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Jonathan_M:
A normal task manager doesn't do this you're talking about an automated task killer.

It is a feature some of task managers out there have.

If you have a task manager with an auto kill feature you can, in most cases, disable it.

A task manager can help save battery juice, as long as you don't use any auto kill "features".
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Silver-7:
Its really confusing about Sola, I think the headline of this thread summarize everything.. It just failed.

Well sure thing for me now its not a ram issue, I'm using my Sola lately without task manager, and just by limiting background process to 3, it runs with 30-40 free ram even better and more stable than 120 by a task manager, Android has its own ram management unlike Windows mobile for example where free ram is something important.

I'm using "Watchdog" task manager where it kills only apps that eat CPU not Ram.

Slow performance always start after few days of using, like now I'm in third day without restarting device started to face random lags.

And I think JB could maybe run faster than ICS even with same specs, imo best os is the one able to run good on minimum or normal required specs, like Vista - Win7 thing on laptops , vista was older but crap comparing to win7 even on same specs.

And btw even Sony devices with 1G ram like P, has issues with performance.. So it's either a CPU issue, or Sony customization.

Sent from my MT27i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] srprashant91:
i did notice that the facebook app sucks a lot of battery and resources from sola. On medium usage my phone goes well past a day, that is after i upgraded to .154 and uninstalling the facebook app
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Check out the other Motorola phones released just before Christmas, they ALL have batteries above 2000mha! I have checked many reviews and they all seem to perform up to a very high standard. I have even chatted on here with guys who own these phones and they post battery stats lasting 2-3 days!! That's what I'm talking about...Motorola is apparently using a giant advertisment in the US saying 'A smartphone is not so smart if you have to leave it plugged into the wall all the time'.

I didn't notice the Xperia P had 1GB of RAM, and it's still slow??? I really think that's Sony's skin then. I've been reading many phones with 1GB of RAM that are really fast on ICS/JB.

By the way, that Motorola RAZR i...single core 2ghz, the GSMArena tests say that it performs better than most quad-core phones...shocking huh? Intel says the single core saves power.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] diegonnc:
Well i own a xu and i cant agree with you, ics here works fine and i have lots of apps installed too, ram usage is high but system is smooth overall and i havent had a single crash or reboot yet (been almost 3 weeks with ics).Cant be happier with my phone.

Edit: Btw it is not rooted and its bootloader locked, runing ics stock.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Sephirothrx7:
Even my very low end LG p500 with 512MB ram and a arm v6 600Mhz cpu can run ics just fine, even with old kernel, lack of sources, hacks, etc. I was using oxygen ics at the time.

In my opinion it only require a proper rom building, where most of the companies are failing.

Enviado de meu LT22i usando o Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Silver-7:
My friend's XU also working great on ICS, it's also stock, not rooted, locked BL..

Sent from my MT27i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] zakk87:
I also have LG P500 and with lastest Jelly bean 4.1.2 build from XDA masters works super fast and smooth. Ram free is about 200MB, apps loads instantly. Battery last for 3 days...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] The_0bserver:
Well guess u folks lucky, coz i had some major issues running ICS on my U. Was practically forced to first root (so as to use some root tools to get stuff done,) then Unlock BL for Custom ROM. (Very Happy with CM9.1 - Was pretty happy just using TheBrainROM also, but I did get a Lag once in a while -Not very common, just once in a while. Using CM fxp 202 atm, and it hasn't lagged even once. O_O )

NOTE:- I did have a LOT of apps (over 100 user apps i believe), stilll I have most of them on CM but, no problems at all. (battery seems a bit worse though i could be wrong as TheBrainROM had some really good battery times, - I would get upto 1 and half days with charge. -Phone never on extended standby.)

Also @Silver If u think Windows 7 was good, check the performance on Windows 8. Heck even games are running smoother and faster. :/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Sony ends Timescape for future phones, converts everything into one option user app called Sociallife: http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/01/14/rip-timescape-long-live-socialife/

Maybe the 2013 phones will see a performance boost?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Silver-7:
Well I'm using stock .54 without task managers for 5 days now without restart, device is running great, even with receiving calls while I'm using many apps.

For me using task managers with "Kill All" was the problem.

Sent from my MT27i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Before the Sola, I had the 2011 Xperia Mini (ST15i). It came on 2.3 with upgrade to 4.0. I gave it to my brother when I got the Sola. Tonight, I played with that phone again on ICS. It is *SO* fast and smooth it really puts the Sola phone to shame.

Comparisson of these two phones?

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4408&idPhone2=3947

This is another thing about buying new phones: dual-core does not necessarily mean better performance from what I've seen. A more powerful processor, yes.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ilgreco112:
but your sola has so much more pixels to play with, it's normal that the mini is smoother
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
I was thinking about keeping the Sola's resolution in the next phone, particularly to take it easy on the battery. Would you recommend that to keep the CPU relaxed too? I really don't know a lot about how this works but I'm keen to learn.

By the way, for anyone else interested on Android skins and updates, I spotted more hints on Sony's 2013 phone skins, Sony mentions it will be 'very light and easily updated':

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-z-1119637/review
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Patrol619:
I agree with you. ICS is much smoother than GB on my sola, UI and scrolling is smoother, web browsing kicks ass compared to GB. I know what I'm talking about. I had Live with Walkman with ICS, so I know what a true lagging is ;) Overall I am happy with ICS from Sony.

Xperia sola@Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
So with everything in mind the drag on Sony phones seems to be:

1. Timescape

2. Other added bloatware

And that a dual-core 1ghz with 512mb ram is normally fine for ICS... Well that's really bad, that's stuff that Sony adds to their phones which drags the UI really badly. I thought it would be most a specs issue, but if it's all Sony 2012 phones...Also, I still can't figure out the Sony battery issue. Many of their last few phones have 1900mha batteries but die within one day according to GSMArena and TechRadar. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini has a 1500 battery and lasts over one day. Very bad performance from Sony.

Only 2 weeks until Mobile World Congress 2013 and we will see lots of hot new phones. I may give that Motorola RAZR i a shot though.

Link - Here is TechRadar's list of the top 20 phones in the world today. They update it at least once per quarter. Unlike most stupid sites, they don't compare a Ford Fiesta with a Ferrari - they take each phone with it's own merits.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...-best-mobile-phones-in-the-world-today-645440
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CrazyXperiaA:
Haha. I remember when I first bought my xperia u. I was joking around with my sister who had a NexusS that my dual core would be sweeping her phone in smoothness.

Let's just say, it didn't happen. Nexus S is incredibly, incredibly smooth with 512mb. I guess, that's one of the reasons to go for google-offered phones.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XperianPro:
I'm talking the same its shame that my older Live with Walkman is "smoother" a lot than my Xperia U.

Without any mods on GB stock rom or CM9 but with linaro kernel and JB device gives even better score in graphic tests than U and with 1.4 ghz clock it works faster to,but screen is to awful.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bazilio_lg:
Please stop thinking that Sola has 512MB RAM *available*.

In fact, ONLY 384MB is available for Android and apps, because 128MB of the RAM chip is permanently taken by graphics accelerator.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XqepX:
AW: (Sola) Meets ICS Specs but Fails? *Timescape Retired*

But is it possible to "underclock" our Mali400? That it don't use so much Resources?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bazilio_lg:
I wish I knew.

This question should go to someone really knowing this hardware.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Do you know how much RAM is used by the Xperia U, P and J? Did you read that on the homepage of ST-Ericsson?

Also, pal, I took that from GSM Arena, blame them.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Jonathan_M:
On my xperia p it states 801Mb, 1024-801=223Mb used by kernel, gpu, etc...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChongWiz:
I had an xperia ray before my sola. Everyone said, that sola is better faster etc., but now, I could compare the 2, and honestly, ray was a better phone than sola. But I think sola still has some potential inside, which can be reached by more aggressive overclocking in my opinion. Somebody should build a kernel, with OC support up to 1.4 ghz at least, because munjeni and krabappel showed that it's possible, but the extra 0.15 Ghz didn't really make any change.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
Yes! :victory: I have overclocked previous phones and that's always what I thought about the Sola, push it further with 1.3ghz or so and see how it does. That bettery is still tiny however. I've seen some new threads saying that they've overclocked it, but this must be new, last I read that it wasn't yet possible, things were missing.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sky0165:
The RAZR i aparently runs at 1.6 ghz and turbo boots itself to 2 ghz. What GSMArena says about be better than quad-core phones it's because Android has to split the processes in a lot of parts to be able to use the 4 or 2 cores of the processor. Android it's not all optimised to 2 or 4 cores, so, it takes a little more time to process data than a single-core one. Diferently from iOS or Mac OS which Apple optimise their OS to the iWharever processor, Android have the issue to run in all kind of processor and arquitetures (ARM, x86), just like Windows. The Atom Medfield processor was early used for netbooks of low power usage and intel choose to change the arquitecture to an even ultra low power usage. Due to the Screen, the Battery of 2000 mAh and the processor, Motorola has made a very battery-friendly ecosystem.

Today i'm in my 4th day of usage and still as 13% of battery ! :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SharpnShiny:
I just got mine today! I doubt mine will make it 4 days just yet, I keep testing things lol. :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leo_ace:
Hey Guys

I have the Galaxy Nexus (GSM, maguro, yakju) and I am running Android 4.2.1 (JOP40D)

and it is as slow as hell.

I already tried factory Reset and reflash of ROM.

It is rooted and i use apps like Ram Manager, Rom Manager, Rom Toolbox, SDMaid, ES Task Manager for disabling Apps from boot and some other.

I habe this problem since yesterday.

Please help me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samersh72:
try to wipe cache and dalvik
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leo_ace:
when i try wo wipe dalvik it says that it's not possible because there is no sd-ext
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samersh72:
it gives u E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]

dalvik cache wiped

no problem for that dalvic is wiped.

and wipe cache partition
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leo_ace:
than i already did that but lag is not fixed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samersh72:
i suggest to flash stock image and root again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
Stop interfering with how your phone operates also. RAM manager is completely unnecessary and likely is ruining Android's multitasking.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leo_ace:
antutu says that my database i/o is very slow.

Whats that and what can I do to improve this speed?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Esteway.619:
Un install all thoese usless task apps. Android has its own way of managing apps. I think those apps u have are making your phone slow.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lord Yurij:
You could try another mod and/or kernel.

Also watchdog is a good app for monitoring apps cpu usage.

lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hhwong:
yup, uninstall every so called speed improvement apps like ram/task managers etc. They are nothing buy trouble.

If all you need is the ability to turn some apps off you can always long press the app to turn it off.

Also if nothing is helping, make a backup and flash the official image from google, can be found here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jaszfalvi.tamas:
Hey guys,

I just bought a Galaxy S3, which I update to the latest soft, the android 4.1.2, and now it says:

Android: 4.1.2

Baseband: I9300BUELK1

Kernel: 3.0.31-672976

Build: JZO54K.I9300XXELL5

So, the question is, can I root it? And how?

Thank you!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] coolhof:
Yes you can root it.

Here's a link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33305767

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