yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akash akya:
It will be written at flash time... goto /dev/ folder copy logo file.... to edit there are lots of guides follow....

Note : there are 3 stages at boot

* logo.bin (manufacturer logo)

* boot_logo (another image in system/media/images)

* bootanimation in system/media...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xylu:
thanks man, used it for creating my rom.. :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] upndwn4par:
Attached are three recovery flashable wiping tools I use when doing my work.

I find them to be incredibly useful tools that save some power button & volume rocker mashing, and time.

Wipe Cache and Dalvik - Wipes Cache and Dalvik (duh!)

Useful for:

-Flashing GApps

-Resolving app issues

Wipe Full - Wipes Cache, Dalvik, Data, and System

-Wipes just about all data except internal sd card

-Stops just short of a factory reset (does not wipe media)

-Useful for flashing ROMs within a type (e.g. going from one CM ROM to another CM ROM)

Wipe Full Factory Reset - Wipes Cache, Dalvik, Data, System, and internal sd card

-Useful when going from one ROM type to another (e.g. going from CM to TW)

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This is the part of the updater-script that selectively wipes /data in case anyone wants to add this to their ROM:

delete_recursive("/data/dalvik-cache");
delete_recursive("/data/app");
delete_recursive("/data/app-asec");
delete_recursive("/data/app-private");
delete_recursive("/data/backup");
delete_recursive("/data/data");
delete_recursive("/data/drm");
delete_recursive("/data/log");
delete_recursive("/data/misc");
delete_recursive("/data/property");
delete_recursive("/data/system");
delete_recursive("/data/time");
delete_recursive("/data/user");

Changing the code above to the code below effectively performs a factory reset

(look at /data/media and you will see your internal sd card)

delete_recursive("/data");

As Always - Flash at your own risk!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisa887:
Could you add the factory reset in the full wipe? Tuffet would be awesome and o one less step to do also.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
^^^ +1
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] upndwn4par:
Yes. I will make another zip for a full wipe with factory reset.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] upndwn4par:
I added a full wipe with factory reset zip to the OP and updated the post to reflect the changes.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] upndwn4par:
To help improve the quality of both the development and general sections, I decided to have this thread moved to the general section.

Just giving you a heads up in case you need to find it.

kennyglass123 will be moving this thread soon.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Hi guys

My gf has an x8 that i rooted for her

Here are my problems with x8 that i want to solve

1.thethering wifi hotspot (it is android 2.1 i think)

2.installing to sd becaus of low internal(she loves angrybirds but she cannot play)

3.a good ics or gb even rom that may solve the 2 problems mentioned before too

And also plzzz give links to useful threads

Love you all
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
1.get a good title:banghead:

2.no Rom is best try yourself

3.to increase internal memory see this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2085116

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Just suggest some roms for me to read and thanks in advance my friend

No offense intended by title :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
I Don't know about ics & jb

Sorry

Gingerbread: ginger dx

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Thanks a lot

I will read about it
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
What about tethering?any advice?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Any links for a ginger dx thread?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Titan9119:
There's A LOT of Roms that you can use such as GingerDx for GB,MiniCM9/10 for ICS,JellySony for JB.Remember that you would need to flash the kernel for the rom. :D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
& use search button too type 'ginger dx' there:mad:

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D

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For WiFi hotspot use barnacle WiFi tether from play store

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
I did.it did not find.sry

But i found it later.is it best stable rom???!!!it has dozens of bugs!i think i should try sth else.can i port a pure cm?

And bytheway which kernels do you suggest?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cascabel:
i use nobodyatall's jb rom + kernel combo. i have no use for tethering so i can't give you any feedbacks about it. as for memory, you can use a2sd or xdata for playing games, but as i've experienced, class 6 isn't enough (just an opinion). biggest problem with our x8 is ram and hardware.. we can't do much about that.

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[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay-z-s:
Sony devices are different, must unlock bootloader to flash a kernel (depending on manufacturing date it might be possible or not)

My manufacturing date is 11w19 (written on the back of phone's motherboard.

If it's written 11w25,11w26 ,11w27 .... 12w01 .....etc... you can't unlock.

Best stable gingerbread rom is GingerDX v029(as my friend said)

{{For better performance freeze some unnecessary system apps with "system tuner"or "titanium backup"}}

Simply Google it to find

sent using" ultimate - ics - standard"
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Tnx.i know how to freeze.im on a costume rom too.the problem is she is not so much of a tech nerd.ill deal with that

If i get her kernel version and baseband would it be of any help?

I already rooted the phone with superoneclick do i need to unlock bootloader too?

And what are the ways to go to recovery?can i just use romtoolbox for that?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cascabel:
what date is on the back of the phone (after taking out the battery)? if it's 11w29+ then i suggest to not unlock bootloader. if you can unlock the bootloader, it's best to flash a custom kernel for the rom you want to use.

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[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
I will make sure to answer you.thank you all for now.you did a great job.can i flash a rom from recovery of the phone?without pc?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
Yes you can flash without pc

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CnC-ROCK:
feels good seeing gogeta and cascabel helping out here......OP is lucky not to get a thread spammed with "proper title" thing....:D:D:D

@OP...ever need help...even some other time...feel free to drop me PM
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
See my first post it's already spammed:D:D:D

sent from my W8 using armv7 processor:D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sepehrthegreat-iran:
Haha tnx again for the help
[HTC One X] liav12:
Hey

i was looking for something special for my HOX and the google found me some really nice cases from ZZCASE

http://www.zzcase.com/133-xgrip-for-htc-one-x-xl-zzcase.html

http://www.zzcase.com/134-vine-zn-xgrip-for-htc-one-x-xl-zzcase.html

does anyone tried them before?? they look awesome!
[HTC One X] Wilks3y:
They also look completely useless.
[HTC One X] graham535i:
I would agree they won't protect the case fully.

This is mine

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leica-Camer...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1358432187&sr=1-23
[HTC One X] mugglesquop:
they look awful, will scratch quickly and offer bugger all protection.
[HTC One X] liav12:
Hey

sorry for the long time posting :)

they just look cool, im one of those who doesn't like always to use a case , only pouch, i love holding the device + not using SP - you buy a big phone to enjoy the screen and touch not to hide it with a piece of plastic, you just need to be careful with it (unless your job is dirty that means you have to use cases and covers)

i guess those covers are for people who thinks like me :P they are more for the looks not for the protection, but cool :)

BTW im using now the ROCK Quicksand series - they are also great!
[HTC One X] FCDHBubbles:
ROCK Rocks!! great case!!
[HTC One X] liav12:
Yes they are, this blue one specific is IMAK, but i have the Rock ones too, the only bad thing about those is that sometimes they get color out of the Jeans - i had the purple one - it became a bit grey/blue

btw im gonna buy the ZZcase one, ill post pictures when ill get it
[HTC One X] liav12:
Hey, it took me some time but i got them and they are pretty cook, more for beauty, less for protection.

I've uploaded some picsView attachment 1856303
[HTC One X] maxilick:
You buy a case to offer some level of protection, this case offers around 5% protection. Put simply.........useless eye candy.
[HTC One X] LaneyEFC:
This does offer as little as 5% protection! but as mentioned, some people don't like cases, maybe they would like these as they look pretty cool? so maybe these cases are more beauty than protection?
[HTC One X] liav12:
Well i guess im one of them...

i buy myself a phone to use it for a 1-2 years - mine has almost 9 months and looks like new, not even a scratch - depend on how much you protect it. my job isnt dirty so i dont care, but for protection i have few more cases from ROCK series
[HTC Wildfire S] Mazer.one:
BOOT ANIMATION

Install with :

Rom Manager (install ROM from sdcard)

or into Recovery (install zip from sdcard)

DOWNLOAD

2001 A SPACE ODISSEY

BOOT ANIMATION

DOWNLOAD

2001 A SPACE ODISSEY

BOOT ANIMATION part2

-= Mazer.one tsh 2013 =-
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[HTC Wildfire S] egr2lrn:
great work, sent thanks
[HTC Wildfire S] Kevinjoa:
AW: [BOOT ANIMATION] 2001 A Space Odissey Sense2.1

Great Boot animation! :D

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jab74101:
Has anyone figured out a way to get their Samsung galaxy s3 working with a car stereos' USB? ( I have a jvc)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ruben1221:
With your USB connection, it doesn't automatically connect? Does your stereo have Bluetooth? I use Bluetooth with my car and it works great. Give that a try if you have that capability. But with USB it should work, not sure why yours wouldn't. Rom/kernel? Maybe some more info on your phone specs...

Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3 From Far Far Away...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jab74101:
Yes Bluetooth but I have to buy a third party thing don't want to And no because we don't have mass storage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DLM2583:
im still tring to figure out why my phone won`t work in my car i have a acura csx or in the us a fully loaded honda civic with leather lol except i dont have a navigation no need when i got a gs3.............but none the less i cant listen to any music on my phone it says on my stereo UNSUPPORTED DATA.........;( i really dont know what to do my wife bugs me with her dame iphone 5...see mine works errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dhunt4949:
maybe you have tried this

Have you tried settings--accessory? Make sure all of those settings are correct if you already haven't.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mjben:
I've tried this before and it generally isn't something that works.

The receiver cannot determine what is music and what is not. So it ends up playing everything from music to ringtones to navigational directions. Basically any compatible format file on your external storage.

Receivers and phones are not set up to work together like this.

sent from a secret underground bunker
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dhunt4949:
What about...

What about using a third party media player such as MX player? Just brainstorming...
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
I'm using my Xperia T since 3 weeks ago, and overall I'm satisfied.

However, since I got back again to using Chrome instead of the stock browser, an unwelcome thought that creeped in my mind well before buying the XT came back full force: 1gb of ram is just not enough anymore.

Yeah, I know all too well that Chrome's memory consumption is absurd (I seriously think my full Win7 pc would probably run better given the same ram amount).

But it's very distressing when you open the 4th tab in chrome, and suddenly every other app gets terminated by Android, including the music player (which I was joyfully listening to), the home screen, emails, messages, etc.

Problem is, that the situation is still the same after many Chrome updates. It looks as if Chrome raised the bar for device memory, setting it to a 2gb minimum for "pro" devices. This is ridiculous, and it's gonna look worse, given that in JB and onwards there's no stock browser anymore.

I think the XT is not even a bit future proof. If this Chrome annoyance becomes real and everyday's, I may sell it well before than I expected.

Any thoughts?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] _delice_doluca_:
Since music app is "making processes and producing sound" actively then it must be considered as a foreground app. Or at least a part of it (services) is active on the foreground. A fore ground app can not be closed by the system unless the available memory is really critical (less than 4 Mb i guess). Sometingh else must be forcing your devices memory. Galaxy S3 has the same amount of RAM but i have never seen it stopping the music or radio with neither stock music app or poweramp. Which music app is that?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
the app is Sony's walkman app (Sony's stock music player).

tell me, have you ever used chrome with more than 2-3 tabs open? try it. it can bring your device down to its knees, sucking away the last remaining byte of ram from the system. it did so with my last year's Motorola atrix 2, it does now with my XT. same ram amount.

other than that, I've got facebook and whatsapp, and the least number of automatic syncs active.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] crazymister:
I never experienced something like this. Usually have about 8 to 10 tabs open for sites I check regularly. Phone is always fast and smooth

Did I help? please press thanks button
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Razor1990:
Same here. No prob with chrome on stock rom.

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] baz@gmx.co.uk:
Also no problems here, 6 tabs, while playing walkman via Bluetooth to a headset, auto sync on, WiFi on, could you try resetting both apps, force stop, clear cache and try again, see if it helps!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] _delice_doluca_:
I sometimes even exceed 12 tabs. Nothing so for. Because Chrome also has RAM management. If it notices that the free RAM is decreasing rapidly it saves one -or more- of the background tabs into a temp memory and closes it. Once you click on a closes tab it shows it in grey and takes 1-2 secs to relaod. It does not try to force keep every tab in the RAM.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
In this thread I'm making different hypotheses.

1) Chrome sucks. It's dog slow, and becomes slower day after day (cache size growing indefinitely). It's pig fat.

2) Xperia T can't handle Chrome because 1 gig of ram is not enough for it.

The first one is a fact. I tended to just blame Chrome, but now I'm considering the second view too.

I'm happy if you don't have any problems with 6 or 12 tabs, but for me the issue strikes at as few as 4 tabs. Music stopping, home reloading, and everything. By the way, I wonder what are your average tabs' content in Chrome.

I am now testing Firefox and it seems it's much lighter on the system while displaying the same tabs. Now I wish they would strip out that useless extensions support... no one needs them, at least on mobile...

P.S.: When I say "four tabs" I mean tabs you're actively browsing in, not dormant/unloaded tabs!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] wednesday13:
How about the other way around? Does your browser keep refreshing if u open like 5 apps or more and go back to browser?

My s3 is getting an issue like this and I'm annoyed. Would like to switch or wait for 2gb ram Xperia Z
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
Usual apps get reloaded pretty quickly on my Xperia, it almost goes unnoticed to me. Other than that, I think it's down to the individual app's weight.

Judging from the running apps list, most apps weigh well below Chrome.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] wednesday13:
How come there is only 643 mb total available ram?

And is there a way to lock apps in memory? I want to lock browser, it keeps reloading if I opened 2 apps and go back to browser.

Or can we modify how android is killing the apps?

Thanks

Edit: I searched and found out that the gpu eats the remaining ram
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] xiaoxi.meng:
modem os will need some RAM... maybe try 3rd party browsers? like dolphin...
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
R: [Q] 1gb ram not enough?

The memory not shown is used by the video card (probably 128 mb), the linux kernel and drivers and maybe some core android libraries.

The scandal is that 300~400 megs used by android apps just to idle around.

Even an easy app like whatsapp eats 8 mb just to sit there and wait for incoming messages.

This really boils down to bad os design.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Torres77an:
I use the stock browser mostly cause it plays flash and chrome doesn't and before I update to JB I'm going to back it up with Titanium Backup I've also read that Jelly Bean can play flash too even if it's not as stable
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] scythekain:
I don't think it's quite that bad, as other commentors have noted your mileage will vary.

Trust me it handles it just fine... Try it on a Samsung Captivate (or Nexus S which is equivalent) with 512 MB of RAM.

I haven't tried the latest Firefox on my Xperia TL, but on my Captivate running CM 10.1, it was even more bloated than Chrome.

Try any of these:

Full versions;

Boat Mobile

Opera

Xscope

Dolphin

All of them are WAY faster than chrome, (especially boat and opera) and easily handle a heavy tab load.

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Uh.. No.. Android has _WAY_ better memory management than most OS' including Windows. Try running Chrome on a Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz (MIPS equivalent???) with only 768 MB of system memory available.

Most versions of windows would choke and die on that.

the way Android handles memory is brilliant and allows for seamless multi-tasking. I would suggest a couple of things:

1) Root your phone and remove the bloated apps.

2) If you don't want to root your phone, disable apps you are not using. Like instead of leaving the stock messaging app enabled while using What's app, disable it. It will reduce your messaging requirements.

And really, don't you want your messaging app running all the time? Do you want to miss a message?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
I don't have any 512mb phone anymore, but I've tried Explorer on a WP7.8 phone with that amount of ram and it ran faster, leaner, lag-less, and it didn't shut down tabs or other system apps with 6 tabs open.

I am already trying Opera (but like Firefox more for its smoothness, and Opera's UI is outdated after many years), and have used Dolphin some time. Second hand browsers are all more or less clones built around major engines. I prefer first hand.

MIPS? ARM you mean? Either way if there's only 768mb available out of 1gb, it's still android's/google's fault. Specifically in my Xperia T there's only ~650mb available, making it a combined Google-Sony fault.

Besides, I'm not talking of bad memory management, but of Google's bad design choices. Without going too deep, Google could have chosen to use native code like ios, to improve speed and memory consumption. Java code (turned into native code at run-time) can not be shared between apps, so if 2 apps use the same java library, basically the same native code will be generated and stored twice. I don't know if android core libraries are native or java, but the minimum 3-4mb memory usage per process, even the lightest one, points to the worse option, at least for part of the libs.

Besides memory consumption, android's java runtime (dalvik) is not nearly as fast as it should be; it eats dust from .net (Windows phone) and oracle's desktop java. But Google is not interested in gettings these things better, unless we're talking of in app purchases, ads, or other sources of their revenue....

Also keep in mind programmers will do as much as you allow them in terms of bloat. Google's Android team should be slapping Facebook's all the time for consuming up more memory than a browser instance of facebook on my full-featured Windows box (66mb on android

for the service alone

vs 60mb on internet Explorer 10), but with their class-leading memory-whore Chrome, they come first in the blame list.

Ultimately, I think it's all Google's fault, be it for bad design decisions or for not keeping the environment controlled enough.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dodgebizkit:
1gb of ram is easily enough for a top end device (though 2gb is optimal) but as has been mentioned, its due to 'bad' design, android was built for blackberry style devices and quickly edited to run on touchscreens to compete with the iPhone so at its core its not really a touch OS. If you were to buy an ancient castle and try upgrade it to a modern 5star hotel or build a 5 star hotel from scratch you will see what I mean - this is why we have launcher being killed from memory on the s3 with 1g ram, bad handling with the browser etc...

The problem is, while Google do eventually get around to fixing fundamental flaws (project butter for example) its always too late and after just trying to throw better hardware at it. An iPhone 3gs was smoother than the s3 quad core on ICS, that was embarrassing for them and they realised it was time to fix it in the software because hardware only improved it so much... Next year when our phones have 4gb ram and browsers lose the data and need to reload while iPhone 4s retain all 8 tabs on 512 mb ram will force them to implement a project ram type change to the os. I wish it wasn't necessary though because jelly bean on 2012/13 flagships should be perfect, not almost there.

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] peetr_:
But still, why do we have only 643MB, while other devices have 800MB and more. Something is not much well done here. ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ruwsoft:
I have had this happen to me. Listening to the Sony Walkman App through bluetooth headset...and browsing on stock browser.. after around 20 mins or so..the walkman app stops and has lost the playlist etc and on opening shows the tracks as if they have just been loaded from new. Posted this on sony forum's but they cannot say anything on this behaviour.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] thenext1:
R: [Q] 1gb ram not enough?

Let's hope it gets better on jelly bean !