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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Nikhil_:
I made a backup from Backup & Restore named app. And now i have installed a new rom and made a factory reset, so all the data is gone.

But the backup is in Ext Card.

The problem is the same Backup & Restore app is not in this ROM.

I cannot find that app in the playstore.

It was pre-installed i guess.

Can anyone provide me with a link or something else?

My phone: Xperia Sola

Old firmware: Stock rooted

New firmware: Tiny CM9
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Anthrax:
you must have installed a custom rom...... which does not have sony apps........(backup and restore is sony's app).........

and i guess even if you try installing them and then restoring i wouldn't restore........
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
Ok so I prefer AOKP, sometimes CM if an official final release ever comes out. I've been sniffing about at the Paranoid Android ROM some. I'd like some feedback on what the special deal is that brings everyone over to it.

I'm aware of the ability to change the DPI and color of each individual apps which sounds nice if you are into that - but what other things draw people to it besides that? If it's just that it has AOKP and CM features along with the dpi/app color stuff then I'd just prefer to stick with AOKP. Is there anything else?

How's the battery life with the included kernel? Are other kernels better to go with?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
The kernels pretty much a stock Google kernel ... I prefer to use other kernels like trinity and faux but the ROM is nice .

Although I'm a big fan of Steve's aokp
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbucks911:
if you like aokp and are thinking of switching roms try codefirex if you havent. it has some form of all aokp features but its super optimized with the latest linaro and google optimizations and you can tell the difference over aokp/cm. im not a fan of PA because i think its just too customizable and is overwhelming because i would be so worried about getting everything "just right." i like most of the stock feel and a good amount of customization but to pick a color and density and ui mode for every app is just too much for me. the rom ends up feeling clunky and just wrong, but many people like it, but it sounds like its not your thing either
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
Where is the thread for codefirex? .. Does it have the bionic optimisations ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
Yeah thanks, I was thinking that same thing for the most part. I don't want to nit pick around and screw with DPI settings, my eyes are bad enough I don't need things smaller and the stock colors work fine for me.

What are these bionic optimizations that I keep seeing come up all about?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
There specific optimisations for krait which drastically improve memory management etc on the s4 pro
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eep2378:
Here's another good explanation: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37767038&postcount=1825
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweaked:
I am a tinker. So thats what PA gives me.

I change shyte all day, everyday. Then I add Franco Kernel. I get to tinker with that also.

if all you want is vanilla, stay with what ya got. If you want Everything your way. Then BK this mofo and install PA.

Its only daunting at first. Once you understand where the settings are you are all good.

Truthfully, if you are installing a Custom rom, I can't personally understand why you would install any else.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
we get this a lot. but its wrong. many people have mixed it up with "tablet mode" before and build.prop system dpi nonsense. none of this stuff applies. theres nothing getting smaller unless you want it small, seperate from the UI you choose ofc. in fact pa is sometimes used by the elderly with bad eye sight, since you can make apps big as well. not that this is pa's premise, but just for reference.

usually people who havent tried hybrid engine have no clue what it is - for me personally its androids most important modification, because i know what it can do. i doubt theres anything in the rom scene that comes close to it in complexity and practicability. and the latter point is important. its not a toy. it makes a phone better in so many productive ways, far beyond anything you can achieve through typical customization. :)

its one of many unique features btw,

here's another,

if youre a gamer you'll love pie. all features we make are meant for actual use of the phone, not just fooling around with 2-3 quick access settings a couple of seconds every day, although we have it as well.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
One of the best things pa did was ditch cm as their base.

Its refreshing to see the nexus ROM scene as a whole seems to pulling away from all the cm10 and aokp based / kanged Roms.

Nothing wrong with those roms if that's your thing. Others like close to aosp with some tweaks. Not let's toss in every single thing we can think off.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
Yea I LOVE pie ... I'll give you that :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eric-1987:
Paranoid android is awesome!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiia:
I have tried PA a few times but each time I've been surprised by the LACK of of customization features. I can easily find the hybrid engine settings and edit the hell out of them but I don't find it useful at all. I'm not sure if I've just missed or if they really just don't exist.

Here's a list of some great small AOKP features that I couldn't find in PA. I would be happy if someone more familiar with PA could confirm if they exist or not.

- Clock position (center/right/dont show)

- Clock color

- Navbar & Statusbar opacity

- Kill-all button on recents menu

- Option to hide the hints of left and right widgets when opening lockscreen

- Volume music controls (long press to next/prev)

- Allow all widgets in lockscreen

- Navbar longpress actions

- LED notification customization (has to be in ROM, not a buggy 3rd party app)

- Less frequent notification sounds

I can live without one or two of these functions but since I couldn't find any of them in PA I just had to uninstall it after a few minutes.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Try revolt jb.

It is AOKP + CM + PA
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
yes

yes (best implementation in the rom scene -> per app color)

yes (best implementation in the rom scene -> per app color)

yes (from us originally, best implementation in the rom scene -> elegant android 4.2 solution, all UI's, even PIE)

yes

yes

no, we dont want it

yes

yes

anyway. most of this stuff, thats toys. how often did i screw around with silly quick options today? 2 seconds maybe. i switched on bluetooth. meanwhile i've actually used my phone, written mails in the best email client possible. i've talked to people via the best gtalk client possible. i've set settings in the best settings app possible. an entire market with thousands of apps is simply not accessible to you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/tablet_featured you're locked out.

the fact is, youre using apps that were made to run on pocket watches. the sdk is years old and does not reflect contemporary technology anymore. your nexus4 was simply left behind. it falls back to 360p, which was used on the tiny htc wildfire xx years ago. keep in mind, 360p is WAY too small for your n4, but since the sdk is so old the next margin is 600p, you reach it almost but not quite, so back to 360. and with that you sift through unbelievable clumsy, unintuitive non-optimized apps. not to mention things like PIE, per app color, per app expanded dektop, the only rom on android that has a flawless tabletUI and a flawless phabletUI - and who knows what. i dont count anymore.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiia:
Thanks molesarecoming, I really need to give it another try. Clearly I just couldn't find the proper place for the settings.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
Awesome reply and thanks for putting the time into an explanation like that. I had flashed PA onto my phone earlier and clearly didn't give it the time deserved to determine if it was worth keeping. I'll give it a few days and see how it goes.

I didn't realize I could use tablet apps. Out of curiosity what is the best email and gtalk client you are referring to, in your opinion?

Thanks for everyone's input on my original question..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
the same gmail and the same gtalk thats installed on your phone. the problem is, yours looks like this: http://www.abload.de/img/2013-01-04-15.02g2z5f.jpg

mine looks like this: http://www.abload.de/img/n4-product-heroe5z5zbaj5a.jpg

that means i can actually see who writes me and switch back and forth. im not locked into one puny view.

your gmail: http://www.chip.de/ii/1/1/2/4/9/1/4/7/1bbccb0a376e8d44.jpg

my gmail: http://www.abload.de/img/shots_12pk0x.png (last row)

as you see, your apps are crippled beyond repair. thats how they look on my pocket watch.

that gtalk screenshot shows tablet mode all around but again, its separate, it doesnt matter, can be anything you want. same as for stuff being small, one tap and its bigger (last screenshot shows you the controls, slider controls size, dropdownbox lets you pick the UI). my gmail for instance displays in the exact same fontsize as in phoneUI. since nex4 is technically close to a tablet it can pull it off beautifully.

same holds true for tablet apps. most of these wouldnt even run on your phone, but do on mine. apps, thats what you are actually using and interacting with, 99% of the time you use your phone. here's where i see potential for customization. the last 1% where i wanna quicktoggle bluetooth is important, too - but thats fairly standard. every rom has it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biffsmash:
I can't justify using PA myself to be fair.

While my girlfriend though PIE was cool, I find it slow and a poor alternative to the notification bar outside of looking cool, so found myself not using it except to show off. When I actually wanted to do stuff with my phone, the on screen buttons were much faster coupled with the notification bar.

All the DPI stuff I tried, then set back to default. The colours everyone is raving about, I absolutely hate, and I simply cannot live without holding the home button to turn off the screen lol. I don't know why but using the power button or a quick toggle on the notification bar is just so 1980.

Aside from those things, and in all fairness, there is nothing really wrong with PA I just always go back to AOKP as it really does seem more customisable than PA when you take away useless DPI editing which adds nothing to the experience of using a phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
I see.. Thanks, I'll give it a whirl for sure now..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
Nice and positive post. Not surprised really..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlcassidy:
That is one sweet pic! Is that a lockscreen? PIE? I ordered my n4 a couple days ago & can't wait for it to get here!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yethz:
I havent tried PA though, from the features screenshots Im blown away. It is too much for me and I want to use a phone not a tablet style in it which is u need more time to tinker into it.

yet, im open for any customizations and try new things but not for my daily driver. Maybe if i have too many devices around i will use different roms/kernels on each one but I only use N4 for work and at home so i need a UI thats quick not bulky or too much fiddling inside to have a lots of features that I dont even use. If i want to show off my phone to friends or officemates i would use PA for that :)

but for my own preference I use AOKP as my daily driver.

It is so much fun that we have a lot of great developers, and build so many things to choose from, its a matter of how u use ur phone and how much time u spent staring in it and fiddling around for lots of features and customization.

I love to customize my phone without bounderies and PA is an example for that, still i prefer to be simple clean and features that i only use (AOKP is my preffered ROM btw, steve's aokp).

CM too is customizable under the hood and give us flexibility than a stock ones. But last time i tried it a few months back im having trouble adding or importing my exported contacts from other phone which is a basic feature that I cant do, instead it syncs from my gmail contacts which is i dont want to coz my gmail contacts is different from my personal life contacts ;)

All ROMS/Kernels are great and so awesome, its only on the users preferred way of how they want to use their phones.

Again, im open for any customizations and mods, it gives us a choice and easier tasks for our daily use, and the reasons why I choose Android. Thats how I look at it.

I love my Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300) but I have found

a real phone for me, Google Nexus 4 (LG-E960), So awesome!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Your whole post is incredibly subjective but you speak as if it is fact. Not everyone has the same preferences as you.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoL1m1tZ:
Can I get a hint as to where the option is to hide the widget hints on the lock screen? Thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sardiax:
As someone new to Android (I received my N4 on NYE) I can say that is exactly what drew me to it.

That is - the ability to control the layout and projection of each application while otherwise staying close to stock.

I'm generally not attracted to piles of tweaks, or micromanaging the UI, I'll do it once to get the best out of each application.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrianDigital:
it's really odd, on a software development site like xda. we huddle around "android it's open man, it's about user choice man" thread like these pop up.

where some user feels an optional firmware is beneath them to use.

why not this title PA? what am I missing out on

nope we all huddle around and bicker
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
Once you get used to the PIE system it is way faster than the normal on screen keys. You know where the targets are and you just one quick swipe to them. For all of them. Back, home, menu, search , recents, quick toggles and notifications.

Really? Useless and adds nothing to the phone. Come on bro. It can do so much its silly. Yes you can change the layout of the os to phablet and so on. That is done without changing the DPI by the way. You can use the phone any way you want with it. Change any apps ui and size independently of the system ui. You can do per app expanded desktop so you pick any app to automatically switch to full screen use all the screen real estate. Great for games, browsing the web or just any app you want full screen. No more thinking damn it. I wish this app could or would hide the buttons.

Its not for everybody but calling the entire DPI thing useless. Please. That one thing you called useless can single handedly be the most useful thing ever added to the android / phone experience.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
This is in no way bickering... this is someone asking for advice and insight on a specific rom before trying it out... that too in the correct section, i.e, Q&A...

If they were to go and ask these same questions in the actual THREAD for PA then there would be whinning and complaining about why he is asking such questions IF at all anyone bothered responding...

Having said that reading all the comments here has helped me out as well with getting to know what makes PA so special as well... since iv been a hardcore CM user for about a year and a half... reading this stuff is helping me want to try PA now when i get my RMA'd N4 back...

So at the end of the day yes android is open and its your choice to do whatever you want with your rom or install whatever rom you want to... but its human nature to ask questions before taking the plunge to help weigh the pros and cons... as you can see the are numerous points where ppl claimed that PA didnt have various features despite them installing and looking for them... but other users have pointed out that those features ARE indeed there...

So bottom line... this isnt bickering... its a constructive discussion with various viewpoints... and having said that ill also need to thank the people who have given their input as i think its enough reason to give PA a try...

By the way for those who are loving the PIE notification system... there is a thread here where you can install the PIE thing on ANY rom...

I had tried it using CM10 but i couldnt get it to work... i was probably doing something wrong tho... didnt have the time to figure it out... so if thats the only thing catching your eye in PA, then you might want to hit up that thread...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
It's not the same though. We could have used glowing orbs or rectangles. The pie shape is not what makes pie. But I've pretty much given up to fight against that meme lol. :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiia:
No. No. And no. There's no way you you're claiming that SWIPING is faster than TAPPING. It just isn't true in any sense. If you wanna go back five screens it is MUCH faster to tap the back button five times than to swipe five times. The PIE is not faster in any way than the normal on-screen buttons. In fact it's much slower in many ways.

I used PIE for a day and just couldn't get used to the slowness of it. I might get faster once you get used to it but it's still never gonna be as fast as tapping. And why do the notificaiton bar and quick toggles have such long transition animations? You need to watch a two second transition just to press a button. Really, how poor design is that?

Another huge flaw in PIE is that when the menu button is present, the other buttons move slightly. So if you're in a program that uses the menu key and you want to press home button, you will accidentally press recents button because the menu button pushed all the other buttons to the left. It's bad and almost impossible to get used to because you can't see if the menu button is there or not until you've already swiped and made the mistake.

Molesarecoming, you said that you can hide the lockscreen hints in PA. I searched everywhere for this option but couldn't find it. Where is it? You also said that you can customize clock position. I couldn't find such a thing so could you please clarify.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
You can adjust the animation speed which indeed is way to slow by default. But other than that, I totally agree. Pie is a nice toy and somewhat useful if you need expanded desktop mode. But for daylie usage it is plainly unefficient.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chromaker:
I am on Paranoid too. I tried PIE and I see it like Jiia. When you need something (back) and it isn't there, then it will always takes more time.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
Yes it can be faster. if you're going to sit there and time five back presses on the default buttons that will be faster. I can do and navigate around my device faster with the pie. I have my search and menu button permanently enabled in pie so they don't move. I know where everything is and can easily blind swipe the action I want.

As mentioned above there is no menu bug. Set it up to your liking.

Again you don't got to watch any animation. You can turn them off. Or just swipe the target.

You tell me it oh it just can't be faster. I beg to differ. I can hold the phone in the classic way with pinky on the button and fingers on back, thumb in the middle. Pie on the sides just swipe right from where my thumb is. Don't have to reach for the bottom of the screen to hit the buttons. Add in I can swipe directly into my notifications and quick settings from there. Moles moved your actual notifications to the middle of the screen now too. To they are waiting for you right where your thumb already is.

Stock you got to move your fingers from bottom to top of the the display for things like notifications, quick settings and even apps with the holo menu style. I have everything I use with one single swipe away.

Slower for you yes. Its not for everyone or even most. Moles himself doesn't use it full time. For me it makes faster and easier to use the phone. I even put my most used quick toggles on the bottom rows so I don't have to reach up to the top of screen for faster access.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
Also, pie bound to the sides of the screen interferes with most cases, though it is the best position for it. You can't swipe from the outer edge of your phone if you wrap it into a case.

But another question: Moles mentioned tablet apps. How exactly do I gain access to them from my phone?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brodern:
The tablet apps are often just the regular apps, but they are supporting multiple layout configs. For example, the Gmail app you just download, but when you set it to 600p, 260 dpi it now uses tablet mode.

But some apps have tablet only versions too I believe.

Correct me if I'm wrong :)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lownita:
That is totally correct! And I want to get my hands on the tablet-only apps :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
pie is made for gaming. that was the original idea. we made extended desktop for the same purpose, gaming, but figured it is useless because youre locked inside a single view. please dont try to fit some elaborate schemes in it, its a nice and simple tool for all sort of fullscreen content and thats it. for some its even essential. having said that, we do add stuff continiously, notifications and whatnot. to lessen that lockout effect that ext-desktop has. it is lightning fast because you can flick. we made it even faster when rubberbanding was implemented. the trigger area can be adjusted of course and pie is draggable, dunno if people know that. it does not interfere with anything if you take your time with it, figure out the settings. they are not much. but that goes to everything i guess --

[YOUTUBE]q7njDRqOYbA[/YOUTUBE]
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
I use PIE full time. It is never off. I am primarily in extended desktop. If not I have the navbar set to zero in regular mode for those times when I want the status bar visible.

Not its intended use but I can't go back to onscreen buttons. I hated the way they were implemented on phones since day one. I still do. IMHO its the dumbest thing Google has ever done with android.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
Coming from the HTC One X I enjoyed the full screen, on screen buttons are good but takes up screen estate, pie allows me anyway to get the real screen estate back and the ability to change dpi for individual apps allows me to get even more content on to the screen and make use of the big screen.

For me that's a plus. And I joy using pie for that purpose. Pretty much used to it now and can swipe away quickly and efficiently.

Anything else is an added joy like the per app colours and such.

You either love it or hate it, it's like swype why swype on a keyboard when you can tap away. We have options, if one doesn't prefer it there's always something else out there that's the good thing about Android we have choices. :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
i made you guys a video,

[YOUTUBE]MA2Y8j3U4V4[/YOUTUBE]

notice the complexity. i access notifications, toggles, settings, recents, kill recent apps, open apps, multitask, drag pie around, search on gnow, etc.

try to navigate like that with your navbar, one handed, good luck with that. if youre still trying to tell me that pie is slow with an honest face then i dont know any more. pie is THE fastest way to operate a phone one handed. thats my claim. :victory:

pie trigger is on normal btw, thats still tiny - not one missed flick.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalel86:
What launcher its in your ROM?, look fast with pie.