yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Misterjunky:
What do you mean by AOSP roms "have a more pure Android experience"?

If a more PURE Android experience means that I cannot have the very best

Camera app and Gallery and I cannot have Wifi Calling and other stuff then

why would I or anyone besides perhaps a developer want to downgrade their

phones by flashing a rom which is inferior in so many ways?

As far as launcher's go, I am no big fan of Touchwiz launcher since it hardly has

any user definable options like most other launchers have.

We can use virtually ANY launcher we like. I happen to like Go Launcher very much and

it does not degrade the phone's appearance, performance or capabilities but enhances it.

(just like any aosp/aokp/cm10 roms should do)

I just don't think that a using a rom which may be a bit "smoother" or "faster" is

worth the trade-off of not being able to have the best Camera, Gallery, Video Player

app plus No Wifi Calling capabilities.

I could list many other things here but I don't want to write a story. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Danvdh:
bah just use a rom like mine that looks and feels like AOSP if you really enjoy the camera, none of that extra fancy stuff.

People need to realize that Samsung TW is closed source and it isn't worth the time and effort for dev's to be porting a camera to AOSP when they could be spending the time working on fixing more important issues on 4.2.1 AOSP roms.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] LGIQEXPO:
He makes a good point. Not to insult you at all or be mean but it seems that when something is tricky or hard to explain, people on these forums often times just look for not-so-easy, not-as-good alternatives, or ask the person why they want to do said thing.

The fact he can send minute long MMS messages on stock is a great feature I have used and honestly, their should be ROMs that support, and or emulate these little features. Otherwise what is the point of buying a Galaxy S3?

I bought it for the speed, its amazing camera, and the small additions like smart stay and smart rotate. When I want to root my phone, I lose all of that except for the speed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sidthekid28:
thank you so much dude, like it makes no sense.... Why should i have to "pick one and move on" i should be able to have both, if the stock roms do something so simple as record minute long videos and send them via mms, then aosp should 100% at the very least be able to do the same thing if not more... Makes absolutely zero sense.

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Thank you... I am not even saying that I am right and anyone else is wrong, It just makes NO sense.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zelendel:
Well you can look at it this way. You buy a new PC with all the built in apps and programs from said OEM. Then load Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. You can't use all the OEM apps. Same thing here.

As stated above the TW apps are closed sourced so not gonna happen on aosp based ROMs.

You could always learn to develope and then make it your self

Wayne Tech S-III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Misterjunky:
re: Touchwiz

Well what about the modified OEM Touchwiz launcher itself?

It's been modified in many ways and has been available here

on xda for ages even though its not open source.

One of the modified Touchwiz launchers works on CM10/AOKP roms.

Here is the link incase anyone is interested: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2014269

If the Touchwiz launcher can be and is being modified or ported to work with

CM10/AOKP/AOSP roms then why not the Camera, Gallery, Video Recorder,

MMS and other OEM apps?

Also why "NO Wifi Calling" in the Tmobile AOSP/AOKP/CM10 roms?

(Wifi Calling I doubt has anything to do with Touchwiz)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zelendel:
OK let me try to break it down for you. OEM change the android code a lot to make their apps work. AOSP builds work with only open source code.

The launcher is a simple thing. The camera on the other hand is not. Look at how many older and not so older devices having trouble getting the camera to even to work at all on some of the new builds due to closed sourced drivers, libs, and kernel files. You see this as just an app when it is soo much deeper. The camera effects a whole lot more other hardware in the device. GPS, flash, different sensors.... The drivers to make it all work as Samsung made it are not open source as stated. Without them it is a dead project.

As for WIfi calling. We hit closed source again. No files to make it work.

Wayne Tech S-III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
It would make perfect sense to you if you just look at what's open source and what isn't open source dude. Its not as easy as you think. Please just take a look and it will answer all your doubts. You will actually be amazed at how some of these features actually came to life for us in AOSP for this device. Which by the way isn't even an OS that should be running on this device for your information.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Misterjunky:
re: Camera

Yes I remember the CM7 and older CM aosp roms and the fact that the devs had so much problems

to even get the camera working and once they got it working there were so many problems with

not being able to playback downloaded video files at 29.xx frame rates and many different video

formats not being able to playback at all and only achieved 29.xx frame rates on recordings which

were recorded on the phone itself.

Some of the devs at that time also blamed it on "Touchwiz" not being open source.

BUT eventually the devs fixed the camera to work more or less properly.

(but still no where near as good as the OEM camera and associated apps).

For the above reasons I still cannot believe that the oem camera will NEVER work with aosp roms.

It might take a lot more time and work on the devs part but I cannot believe that it cannot be done.

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You don't loose anything at all if all you do is root your phone.

If you only flash stock based Jellybean 4.1.1 customized roms you will actually gain features,

options, capabilities and speed.

The only way you will loose any benefits or features is if you flash AOSP/AOKP/CM10 roms.

Your best bet is to make sure you only flash Jellybean 4.1.1 based customized stock roms.

If you want to try one of the finest customized stock based Jellybean 4.1.1 roms here is the

link to Darthstalker's rom: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2087164 .

With this rom you will not loose any capabilities, features, options or speed .
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
CM7 is nothing to compare to what we are working with today. The android 4.2 code base is so much more complex to that of the days of cm7. So the comparison to it is pretty much irrelevant. Seems that these days samsung has made there proprietaries much more complex. With that said, even harder to try and mess with them. I don't think it's a matter of "cannot be done" but more so a matter of keeping to AOSP and making it better. Not taking Samsung stuff and making it better. These OSs are brand new. In the baby stages. A lot of people here (mostly the people that don't even bother to look into the source) don't even take that simple fact into consideration. They just jump the gun and say "this OS sucks" or "why aren't the devs doing this" and so on. Things get better with time. But peoples instant gratification just get in the way of that. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zelendel:
This is a matter of opinion as I have always found the open source ROMs to improve speed, stability and added features that I use.

As stated above Android is a new OS and will develop over time. If stock is your cup of the then cool. If not then you have options. So debating one is better then the other is pointless.

Now I used to be all for the OEM roms over aosp roms till I got tired of bloated launchers and pointless apps that I never use.

Wayne Tech S-III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Franky_V:
Not to insult you either, but that's being stubborn. You can find other ways to do it. I get that it's a simple thing that even I am surprised doesn't work. But there are other ways. Try something different, it's not like it'll kill you or anything.

You can get as indignant as you want, but you're the one missing what aosp is truly about. We get it, you love the touchwiz features and couldn't function on an aosp phone, but that's a personal opinion. I personally find my phone MUCH more useable on aosp than touchwiz. But I go back to touchwiz sometimes to make myself get used to doing things differently. It gives you a better perspective on life :p

Ps: you can root your phone without losing any of those features. I'm going to guess you've never rooted or flashed roms successfully. So I suggest trying it out, you can even just stick to tw roms. You'll keep smart stay and other stuff. Idk why you think you'll lose them

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This thread has derailed so hard, lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Misterjunky:
It's all my fault :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sidthekid28:
Bottom line = IF TOUCHWIZ CAN FRIGGIN RECORD SIMPLE MINUTE LONG VIDEOS AND SEND THEM VIA MMS AND THE DATA THAT WE PAY FOR FROM OUR PROVIDERS, THEN AOSP SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME THING AT THE VERY LEAST. If you disaree you're a bozo flat out.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zelendel:
Look 2 things are plain at this point. One is you have no understanding on this matter. Second is that this thread has gone way off of topic. You were given your answer.

If you think it can or should be done then by all means do it. Until then

Thread closed

Wayne Tech S-III
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyij:
Right now my thunderbolt is running 2.3.4 with one of the gineritis ROMs. I checked a while ago and people were certain this phone was "given" up on and was to never see ICS, until I just gandered and noticed a few ROMs were actually made and have a lot of work done already..

The one that looks most appealing or promising I believe is the LiquidSmooth ICS, please correct me if I am wrong although I am thinking of upgrading to that.

I must have the camera work (stills are fine), like to be able to use wifi, and have tether (along with LTE) up and running, and be able to make & receive calls without any/many hickups.

So.. my main question, what do I need to flash first if I am switching to a 4.x rom? Radios, etc..
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
Why not use twisted version as he took over where liquid left off.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyij:
Thanks, for letting me know. If I am going from 2.x, to 4.x, anything special I have to do?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] coltownaz520:
I am trying to do the OTA update of Jellybean for my at&t Galaxy SIII. I used a tool box to install custom recovery and root. Everytime i go to install the over the air update it take me to CWM recovery and i get a signature error. Can anyone help me with this, Does this have something to do with the software i installed to root my device?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] coltownaz520:
Please someone help

Can someone please shed some light on this please
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] y0yerrj0sh:
I thought if your rooted the offical image won't work because you need the samsung recovery? i could be wrong, but if you want the jellybean rom why not a just flash an official rom with root injected? I can link you one and if you follow the directions you'll have a stock Jellybean Touchwiz rom with root injected but you have to flash it via odin.
[General Questions and Answers] triaqu:
My phone is HTC one st ,I want try to flash new radio.img with recovery, the script like "if=/tmp/radio.img", "of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p?". I checked emmc,there are 4 "via_radio_info". How can I determine flash which mmcblk0p is radio partition. Whether only need write mmcblk0p17?

dev: size erasesize name

mmcblk0p23: 00040000 00000200 "misc"

mmcblk0p16: 007f8000 00000200 "recovery"

mmcblk0p15: 007f8000 00000200 "boot"

mmcblk0p22: 50000000 00000200 "system"

mmcblk0p30: 001ffa00 00000200 "local"

mmcblk0p24: 0c800000 00000200 "cache"

mmcblk0p25: 00008000 00000200 "extra"

mmcblk0p34: 78000000 00000200 "userdata"

mmcblk0p14: 00500000 00000200 "spcustom"

mmcblk0p28: 00100000 00000200 "cspsa0"

mmcblk0p31: 014c0800 00000200 "devlog"

mmcblk0p32: 00276800 00000200 "pdata"

mmcblk0p33: 0bfffe00 00000200 "fat"

mmcblk0p12: 00020000 00000200 "via_boot"

mmcblk0p13: 00800000 00000200 "via_cp"

mmcblk0p26: 00800000 00000200 "modemfs"

mmcblk0p17: 00080000 00000200 "via_radio_info1"

mmcblk0p18: 00080000 00000200 "via_radio_info2"

mmcblk0p19: 00080000 00000200 "via_radio_info3"

mmcblk0p20: 00280000 00000200 "via_radio_info4"

mmcblk0p29: 00500000 00000200 "via_rfs"

mmcblk0p27: 00080000 00000200 "via_crash"
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gazzacbr:
anybody seen a really good iPhone theme? one that actually has the signal/wifi/clock etc in the right places.

the few that i found are only just replacement icons

i will set up a new sd build so i can reboot into iPhone mode...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
I don't know anything about theming but I don't think it's possible to change the positions of those icons. The best you'll do is a MIUI ROM with an iOS theme.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gazzacbr:
OK, will keep looking. I had a CM rom sometime where I could move the clock to the middle so was hoping that it was all doable.

Sent from my HD2 using the power of Jelly Bean
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XxlemonxX:
Miui you can center clock and get a beautiful iOS theme
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cipher101:
Start with "Espier" launcher and take it from there. If you like iphone then you might want to find "Smart Keyboard Pro" which will let you use same keyboard as iPhone.

GL
[HTC Sensation] ardy4droid:
hi everyone, i have been search ..nothing solve, please help ..

I try to s-off my htc sensation with juopunut bear and done, here where showing in bootloader

=Juopunut Bear=

PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL

HBOOT-1.27.1111 ( if i not forget before was 1.27.0000 after s-off its like change)

RADIO-11.24A.354.31_M

OpenADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418

eMC-BOOT

i use 4ext recovery touch (before was cyanogen)

may be i did wrong when s-off .. now my phone stack at htc logo when i press nothing vibration. factory reset, wipe/factory reset from 4ext not solve. when mounting sd card showing message "error mounting sd card". please help ..
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Format sdcard from 4Ext recovery and check troubleshoot point #4 from my soff guide... Link in my signature
[HTC Sensation] ardy4droid:
Yup .. everything ok now . Thanks..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joho5:
Will all the kernels work for any ROM?

Hope this isn't a dumb question, but this is my first experience with an unbranded true vanilla android experience.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android88:
Yes because all ROM's are AOSP. Just make sure to flash the stock kernel after if you decide to switch from franco.Kernel. My favorite kernel is faux123's kernel. Battery is amazing and performance is also great. It's a little sluggish at first but after it settles it's great.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksavai:
Yes all works with all roms as well as stock.

Nexus 4 all have same android version so there is no different kernel for that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
I just saw this...maybe some of y'all haven't...but my jaw is on the floor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nh2NSLgaII
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] shiftr182:
That is freaking sweet!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wizzlewizzle:
It seems like the video is sped up to make you think the phone is processing faster..

-Wizzle
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ac16313:
No I think the video is just sped up to be shorter
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bxreppa@yahoo.com:
Wow coldfusion has become famous with this video. It's new to ppl everyday even though it's been out for a while..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] q711179:
I hooked up my note to a computer screen after viewing this, works amazingly well and not difficult to set up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lovekeiiy:
nice, but I felt a little underwhelmed. I agree there is power in the phone to be PC replacement. I didn't watch the whole vdieo, so I don't know if he discussed the short comings of what can and can't be done compared to the PC. It's not the fault of the phone, but more Android and the way apps are designed.

With that said, we may see these things replace the cheap PC in the future. Bablysteps....babysteps
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Unknown Zone:
Yea I saw this video a while back while looking at note 2 vids on youtube and that is what got me to get a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse and turn my note 2 to a little personal pc to do simple things on my flat screen which I enjoy
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chiikko561:
I have it on my n7 and love it but I think I would love it more on my Xoom I can boot ubuntu and any other roms is great why don't we have this
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chiikko561:
Multirom anyone Motorola defy has it
[Xoom Themes and Apps] celderic:
Anyone?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chiikko561:
This would be great if someone actually payed our device some mind its lower end devices with more going
[Xoom Themes and Apps] celderic:
Bump
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chiikko561:
Bump back
[Xoom Themes and Apps] LOGMD:
I'd love for this to happen, do you know if the kernel source is available for the method used to dual boot? I got an i9100 dual booting with gokhanmorals dual boot, we should start there with sharing the Linux kernel between two ROMs then it would make experimentation on a secondrom Less risky

Once I finish my degree this June I'll be paying our device a lot of attention

P.s. unrelated I'm in the UK but need to find a replacement digitizer for the Xoom min has a hairline crack all the way diagonally through the sscreeen!!!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] celderic:
In my opinion i think the uboot bootloader would be better,

And on gokhanmorals s2 kernel. He just used the s2's 500mb preload partition as a system. and had a 2gb data partition on the internel sd. and cache. He didnt have 2 different kernels. The same one for both roms.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chiikko561:
How every it works I see major potential in this my Xoom I use more then my n7
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kathas:
Safestrap

I saw that Hashcode did a rev of Safestrap for the Xoom2.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1965686

Maybe someone could check in that thread to see if he has any plans to bring it to the OG Xoom (Wingray, Stingray, Everest)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] N-Gage4ever:
up
[HTC Radar] 358days:
I managed to get an F400 error on the spl screen of my htc radar Tmobile. I have tried the gold card method to get back to shipped rom and whenever I do it keeps trying to update but always fails. I have tried downloading the rom. Help!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjheiss:
I am interested in reading the docs about the technology used in the second Kindle Fire, but I can't find it anywhere. Is there any documentation, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

I am interested in attempting to write a driver for using the Kindle Fire's screen for use with the Raspberry Pi. I know I know absolutely nothing about driver writing, but I have to start somewhere...

Thank you if you can help me.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
You may find it more helpful to post in the correct forum http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1789 .
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjheiss:
I can't, I have less than 10 posts...
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] helikido:
Guys my touch screen quit working only 2 days after i unlocked the bootloader :( Everything is stock except for the bootloader. What can i do to fix my issue and whats causing it? :(
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] kenhicg:
I'm having trouble with mine having a mind of its own it will zoom in and out on its own and things will open and close on their own as well. I suspect it's hardware issues.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] payazo915:
I had the same problem. I know its a hardware issue but would changing the screen fix the issue or is it the main board?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Seems to be a grounding issue on the digitizer, my vote would be screen.

Sent from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] payazo915:
I saw a screen on amazon w/o the digitizer for 49.99. I also see the digitizer is a separate piece. I dunno wether to buy the screen or digitizer. I bought a nexus 7 but wanna repair my a100 for my son
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
If you buy one, the digitizer is what picks up your touches,so I would start there.

Sent from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] payazo915:
Thank you. I found one on ebay for 24.95
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] kenhicg:
Hey it's pio. Hey funny seeing you in here and not the thrive forum. So you think a new digitizer and not a plug or connection issue?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
I was saying in terms of replacing I would replace the digitizer first, pretty cheap for a100s vs the thrive lol

Sent from my HTC DNA
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] helikido:
Guys are you sure its not software?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] payazo915:
I flashed stock recovery then back to stock and problem persist.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] gag21:
Hello here is some media apps fron xperia t jb leak from doomlord(credits)

It was ported to xperia s by krabappel2548 (credits again)

And I with some tweak ported it to xperia 2011.

It is working on my xperia mini pro official unlocked.

and will also work on all xperia 2011 devices running stock ics based roms.

Contains working download music info which works on LOCKED AND UNLOCKED BOOTLOADERS

View attachment 1655280

Contains NEW PHOTO SHLIDESHOW LIVE WALLPAPER FROM SONY.

View attachment 1657733View attachment 1657734

Instructions ¡ Recommended backup! Only for ics stock roms !

1 Install Walkman app from pranav(credits) or tk(credits).

2 move supplied semcmetadatacleanup.apk to system/app set permission reboot to home screen

‼‽{live with Walkman users delete the semcmusicWalkman.apk from system/app reboot to homescreen}

3 install zip file given wipe cache and dalvic cache reboot

4 move this semcmusic.apk in system app reboot

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5 enjoy !!!

Download

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MediaV3.zip:http://www.mediafire.com/?kbw40xl8p27txbt

SemcGenericUxpRes.apk requested by chikrron :View attachment 1660019

CHANGE LOG

V3 special thanks to Till-Kruspe

Fixed globe and map view

Fixed fb music like(only for locked bootloaders:()

Fixed fb and picasa sync

All thanks to Till-Kruspe:good:

V2

fixed album

fixed Walkman

some extras added
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] aminsetan:
Security error downloading music info...

Sent from my MT25i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] gag21:
Try again with clean Rom
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] georgeiulian89:
Many, many thanks for this port,i have unlocked bootloader, and absolutely everything works including download music info and fb music likes. This is the best and most complete NXT Walkman port. Many thanks,again ￼.Procedure that i've followed: flash Thilina's Walkman v 7.5,then flash Pranav's Walkman v 6.Delete semc metadata cleanup.apk from system/app and replace it with the one provided in the OP. Flash Media App.zip, wipe cache and dalvik cache and reboot.Also Facebook and Picasa pictures are shown in album.PS I'm using stock 587 rom with unlocked bootloader via official way ( Sony Website).