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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fox Mccloud0:
A lot of my factory functions/features are not working after I flashed the Serenity ROM and tried to restore:

- My alarm widgets do not appear when I drag them into the main screen (but there IS something there cause I can grab the square)

- The camera lock screen turn to open feature does not respond

- The phone is not recognized by by computer

*Here was my procedure:

I installed SuperUser using Odin and Recovery Mode, flashed Serenity ROM to my phone. Prior to that I installed Samsung Keis to my computer and made a backup... I think. It seems maybe I was supposed to do it on my phone through CWM. Anyway, I didn't like the ROM and tried to restore my last backup through Keis, but it kept the ROM and just deleted my settings. It also made an error appear "!@#$ is not working." Then, I did a "wipe all/factory reset" and "wipe the cache" and replaced it with the JellyBean 4.1.1 TouchWiz ROM, hoping replacing the ROM instead would return it to factory like settings and it got the closest, but the features listed above are still not working correctly. I went to Samsung.com and grabbed the updated drivers and download the latest version of TouchWiz! I'm not sure how to just get back to the basics. I have Titanium backup, but it feels like backing up at this point is just gonna backup up the stuff I don't want restore. I've read numerous forums and watched plenty of YouTube videos to try and help but I can't figure it out. And am I missing something by not finding more "How to restore Galaxy S3 to factory" or "Remove ROM from Galaxy S3" links?? You figured that would be more common a topic than what I got.

Please help in anyway you can. I just want to go back to the beginning when it was the still the baddest stock phone out there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] FIESTY2:
ODIN back to stock. There is a link in the first sticky in the "General" section, It's called "Guides/roms/roots/recovery" that will get you the factory image. After, boot back into recovery, wipe cache and do a factory data reset and you'll be back to day 1 when you pulled the phone out of the box.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
As he said factory restore with ODIN and next time never use Kies for anything except just a factory OTA update. Make all backups in TWRP or CWM recovery. Makes it so much smoother
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
Do a lot of people stick with the stock rom as their every day rom ?. I'm not about to ask which rom is best, don't worry :)

Is this phone easy to sim unlock yourself ?. I had a Galaxy S3 which was very easy to do myself, but i've been searching around and there doesn't appear to be any do-it-yourself method to unlock it. Obviously there are ebay solutions, but i don't really trust that method.

I can buy an unlocked one, but the difference in price between that and a network locked one is quite significant, so i'd rather do it myself if possible.

One point that kept cropping up in all the reviews I was reading last night was that it sometimes does run quite hot, so has anyone found this to be the case ?. I'm not a heavy user at all - primary use will be listening to music while i'm out with some web surfing and occasional gaming.

The reason i'm considering one over a Galaxy S3 is that I managed to drop the S3 down some stairs in my building and it shattered the screen, so i claimed on the insurance and i'm just waiting for the cheque :)

thanks in advance for your time :)
[HTC One X+] Kraizk:
International or AT&T
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
International I guess - i'm in the UK
[HTC One X+] Kraizk:
Sim unlocks can be done rather cheap through different websites for roughly $15 US (not sure how that converts out). I know there are a few listed in other threads so a search should net you that result. I know unlocking in the U.S. just became illegal so some of those sites may not be around anymore.

As far as heat I can only talk from experience on the AT&T model and I do not find it to be a major issues. I have heard of even less issues with heat on the international model.
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
that's a bit harsh to make unlocking illegal ! wow :)

thanks for your reply. i'll have a look around for an unlocking solution to see what i find. it would be nice if someone could just come up with the superoneclick method right at the point I have to buy the handset.. not that i'm asking much :D
[HTC One X+] AndroHero:
Unlocking in the US didn't just become illegal. It's always been illegal, it's just the protection that covers unlocking phones has expired. There is no way a US network operator will go to the effort to prosecute individuals. And the protection will almost certainly be restored when the exemption rules for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are reviewed in late 2013.

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Hansoon on this forum sells unlock codes. Generally its seen as good forum etiquette to help the devs out by buying things like that off them, as oposed to giving your money to some faceless organisation.
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
If I do end up getting a One X+, then I'll certainly have no problem with sending some money his way.
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
i can vouch for Hasoon i bought an unlock code from him for my X+ which was net locked onto o2 uk :)
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
That's good because the handset I had my eye on is actually locked to O2. The difference in price is £325 quid for a C Grade handset locked to O2, or £375 for a B Grade unlocked one - both from CEX. So it's a fair leap in cost as you can see.

Do you use the stock sense rom though ?
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
Nope i don't use stock, i use my own builds :) AOSP\CM10.1\PA
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
Cool, thanks.

Can I ask you one last thing ?. I've read the guides about unlocking the bootloader and flashing, but would you say that flashing the S3 is simpler?

When i've done it in the past, it's just doing all the necessary wipes, flashing the rom and job done - the One X+ doesn't seem that simple, unless i'm missing something.
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
the X+ has one extra flash and that's the boot.img myself and a few others are working on a way to flash boot.img in recovery instead of in hboot/bootloader (yesterday i flashed a kernel in recovery, failed to boot the device though) Also i have no idea how you guys flash the S3 as i haven't used a Sammy device since the Samsung Galaxy Spica.
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
To flash the S3, I just used to put the rom file on the phone, boot to clockworkmod, do all the wipes and flash the rom and that's it.

thanks for the information. still don't know what to do though. S3 or One X+ ..
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
only you can decide that one dude :)
[HTC One X+] AndroHero:
Ano you guys have already prob discussed this approach. But when i had the SXL. A user called fardjab, discovered that the hboot partition was not protected by the security flag, he then modded a hboot to think it was S-off, and flashed it. Although the devices technically were still security locked, we got pretty much all the functionality of S-off.
[HTC One X+] hankhandsome:
Tell me about it .. really can't make my mind up. loved my S3 but I really like the build of the One X+ ..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob0762:
Hello,

I was running FH 1.7 fine and decided to OTA to FH 1.9, so I downloaded the update last night on the my phone hopeing to flash it via rom manager today....except when I woke up this morning, my phone was stuck in the samsung boot screen. I was not able to enter into the rom manager at all, I'm not sure why.

I am now trying to flash a stock rom back on my phone via odin, but in doing so I get an error saying "There is no PIT partition."

I have googled this and search the forum and no one has any answers other than JTAGing it.

Does anyone know how to get around this issue or know how I can just get my phone back to stock?

Thanks!

-Rob
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep99:
sounds like SDS to me.

What does it say in the top left of the screen when in download mode?

Binary download etc......
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob0762:
ODIN MODE

Product name: [blank...nothing here]

Custom Binary Download: NO

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

Any luck with anything above?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikep99:
Product name: [blank...nothing here]

As far as I can tell, you've suffered from SDS.

A trip to the warranty centre is needed I'm afraid. They should replace the motherboard for you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qtwrk:
No completely SDS I think, because as people described, SDS should be completely dead although some of them was able to get into download mode.

It seems to be a problem about partitioning.
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Welcome to the offical SKN-Spielzeug thread!

*Le badass Paint-made SKN Flag*
[Off-topic] InfinityFTW:
Hi, my name is pie.

I like pie
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Me too, I like pie.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Re: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

No pornography? I'm out of here.
[Off-topic] InfinityFTW:
Yeah, I hate it when I visit an Android site and don't find pornography
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Odp: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

Yeah, Android sites is only about pornography :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] UndisputedGuy:
Re: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

You can write about ANYTHING?

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Odp: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

Yes, but I edited the OP :p
[Off-topic] UndisputedGuy:
Re: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

Just as I'd expect!

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
Re: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

Where's the pony porn?
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Odp: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* The Beginning

You have permission to write about PONIES, but there's special threads for it :)
[Off-topic] UndisputedGuy:
Yeah, I'll stick to the Brony thread. Thought it'd be better to get your pony rule established now rather than later lol

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Odp: *The Official SKN-Spielzeug Thread* Mods&Security needed!

I deleted this rule, but beware ;)
[Off-topic] predatOr:
Why is Security column... when you already specified one for Moderators...:confused:

PREDATOR95 ->->->->a.k.a. ->-> predatOr
[Motorola Atrix HD] bennyreyes715:
Hey I just got the Atrix HD today coming from Sprint. The phone feels very good. I'm having a problem trying to figure out how to get this phone working with QPST, I'm familiar with the Sprint dialer codes, but I don't take it they are the same for AT&T. I did a few searched with no luck. Anyone have any idea to push me in the right direction?

Thanks.
[Motorola Atrix HD] diamond12:
I'm not familiar with QPST but take a look at this for an app that puts us in the *#*#INFO*#*# menu.
[Motorola Atrix HD] bennyreyes715:
Thanks for the reply, that's not necessarily what I was looking for, but I am sure that'll come in handy.

I semi answered my own question. You have the put the phone in BP Tools mode for the drivers to install, but the problem with me is the diag mode drivers wont install for me I have no idea how to get it going so I just gave up. If anyone knows where I could get the drivers specifically for the Atrix HD diag mode it'd be greatly appreciated.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogbrandon:
Hello, I'm having a problem with my DHD on Jellytime R4 4.2.

My GPS is not working at all. I do not get ANY signal. It has been like that for a while and I'm getting sick of it.

Is it just me? Any ideas on how to resolve this?

I've tried several 'gps fix' apps, but no luck here.

Also tried this without luck:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1563226

Regards,

Brandon :o
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogbrandon:
Bump:

I have also tried flashing a new radio. Didn't fix it. So I guess it might be ROM related then?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marian42:
It worked for me on this rom.

Do you get a signal on other roms?

Also, remember to remove any case from the DHD and make sure the sky is visible.

There is another GPS hack:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1266525

I installed both and that worked as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0mega007:
Hi, i think there are various colors back camera eye (the 8MP one), whats your color?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Choristav:
...mine is purple.

Why?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Actually they should always be more or less the same color since it's the reflection of the UV filter and photo chip you see.

Depending on the light they can look somewhat more blue or purple.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
That's weird, mines green.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0mega007:
I asked because mine is green too, but i had others s3 before and i believed they where blue, but i wasnt sure.

i wanted to see if there where more people with green ones.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nail16:
Same here, its green in mine :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tovagulet:
Mines green too, nothing to worry about...

Prob better camera than those blue and purple ones ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
Yeah I've never even paid attention to the lens colour. If it takes pictures fine then there's nothing to worry about.

The S3 does use 2 different camera modules though, one made by Samsung the other by Sony.

Maybe Green is the Samsung module and blue/purple is the Sony module.

My camera module is ZD version which I believe is the Samsung module.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jayd365:
Noob here. I'm running synergyrom for the multiscreen function but it keeps dropping calls and I can't send text messages. I have rebooted, taken the battery out and all and it works for a sec till 4g lte kicks in then it stops working. I am new and my buddy rooted this for me. Any help would be great.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] y0yerrj0sh:
hm maybe it's the rom? I would head over to the synergy thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2113436 and ask over there maybe others have had the same or similar problems.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intub8:
I would bet money that your imei was erased. Go to settings , about device , status. Is your imei 00000000 or does it have numbers.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
While a great VZW rom it still has some bugs to work out for us GSM folk. I suggest you make a nandroid backup in your recovery and install something like CSROM, i747z, or maybe darthstalker. Great first time custom rom's that are easy to install and do. CSROM even has a aroma installer and its practically fool proof.

Have you flashed a rom before ? If not feel free to PM and I can help you out some
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jayd365:
Its all 00000
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jayd365:
I've never done it a buddy begged me to let him root my phobe ans its been a nightmare ever since. I have no clue how to do anything. Switched to yhe gs3 from an iphone
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Toggle airplane mode and download Goo manager and then open it and select install recovery script and then reboot to recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jayd365:
I already had it but I don't see recovery script
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shortydoggg:
You or your buddy need to fix that IMEI before your phone can do anything. There is a sticky in the Development section on how to do it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intub8:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1777915

I suggest you go to the above thread. Try the second link and read the part for corrupted imei with out a back up. There is a tool that let's you type in your imei number ( which is under your battery ) and it will create the nv file and follow the instructions on how to push it to your phone.

Since your already on synergy ROM you must already have a custom recovery installed. Once you get your imei restored get a different ROM. Synergy ROM has corrupted a lot of imei's this week.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivelafrance:
HI,

I have a SGS3 phone. I can use my SGS3 3G connection on my laptop when there's no WIFI at my location.

Is it possible to do the same with the tablet? Cause the model I have is the WIFI only but would love to use my phone 3G connection.....

thnx
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesc760:
Why can't you do the same thing with the Note? It's called tethering. You enable wifi tethering on your phone first, then connect your Note to your phone. Easy peasy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivelafrance:
So "WIFI Tethering" will use 3G Data Connection of the phone?? Cause as I said, it's in the situation where there's no WIFI.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Herman76:
Yes

Beamed from my CM10.1 Galaxy Nexus
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
Just be aware that tethering to your phone will eat your phones battery power very quickly...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivelafrance:
yeah I thought so :( ....... I have a 12000ma portable charger, that should circumvent that issue
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
Mate, from your post, it says you have the N8000 model. This is the 3g model. The wifi only are , worldwide, the N8010 and the , America, N8013.

There's also the Turkish N8005 but that has 3G internet.

There's the 4g LTE N8020 too..

If indeed you have an N8000 then you can slap a normal sized sim in it and use it for 3G and phone calls...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivelafrance:
No it's my mistake, it's the N8010 that I have
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Axel_:
Sv: [Q] Using phone 3G connection on Tablet

Actually, sharing the connection using bluetooth is much more energy efficient and in my opinion better and easier.

Or would it be possible to connect with the phone by USB using an OTG adapter?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivelafrance:
How do you share internet access through BT?

I like your USB idea indeed, didn't think of it, yes I do have the adaptor.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Axel_:
Sv: [Q] Using phone 3G connection on Tablet

Using another Android 4.. phone the procedure is as follows:

Open the settings and share internet (same place as share by wifi), click the share by bluetooth button.

Open the bluetooth settings on your tablet. The easiest way to do this is to hold the bluetooth symbol in the system bar a couple of seconds, the same button that can turn bluetooth on and off.

Pair your devices, the first time you might have to make sure that one are in pairing mode (or visible might be a better name). Click the setting button for your phone in the tablet bluetooth menu. There's a setting called something like "use this devices Internet connection", click that.

Done! There might be some quick fix app that gives you widgets to turn it on and off instantly.

It won't hurt to try, when you connect it to your computer as far as I remember you get the option of sharing the phones Internet connection. Maybe it's just as simple when connecting to the tablet. Else, there might be an app for that as the kids are saying nowdays :D
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jamajenx:
Hi guys, just alerting you to the presence of this: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/04/opencl-mod-for-the-kindle-fire-hd/

Seems pretty good, eh? You think amazon will end up working with this? It'd be pretty awesome. :victory:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] persano:
good
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
PowerVR GPU OpenCL mod for the Kindle Fire HD Series

jamajenx,

This is a great find! Thank you, we will have to take a peek at the code to see how we can better improve the overall PowerVR GPU Graphics performance.

We have tested Chainfire 3D Pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.cf3d.pro&hl=en

This had a nice improvement on the overall OpenGL performance on the Kindle, give it a try. Just in case OpenCL and OpenGL is confusion to the reader, here is more information.

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is one of the most popular tool-sets available for graphical processing, and many computer games and CAD tools rely on it for 3-Drendering. Originally developed by Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s, OpenGL has been ported to Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and many embedded devices. On desktop computers, a modern OpenGL application consists of two parts: a host application that runs on the CPU and special-purpose routines called shaders that execute on the graphics processing unit, or GPU. In general, the CPU handles complex graphical routines such as physics and geometry and the GPU performs simple tasks like assigning positions to verticals and colors to pixels.

In contrast, OpenCL (Open Compute Language) is only a few years old and isn't nearly as well-known as OpenGL. However, it allows developers to access GPUs (and many other devices) for purposes other than graphics. Because of this general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) processing, OpenCL is frequently employed to crunch numbers at high speed, and common OpenCL applications include data sorting, statistical computation, and frequency analysis. An OpenCL application consists of a host application that runs on the CPU and general-purpose routines called kernels that can execute on any OpenCL-compliant device, including a GPU.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jamajenx:
Just noticed, it says incompatible with ics, any risks from doing this on fire hd?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] persano:
OH GOD OTHER MORE, chainfire 3d is compatible with kindle fire hd and some ics and jb devices!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Chainfire3D OpenGL Upgrade

jamajenx,

We have tested successfully tested Chainfire3D on the Kindle. Yes, we noticed that warning, I do not understand except to say the ugarde went well and Chainfire3D did increase the OpenGL Gaming Performance.