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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KINGDROID25:
I recently came across some post abt blackberry lockscreen option for the galaxy s3.. So I was curious and I looked on Google and apparently there's some mods to incorporate both keyboard and lockscreen from the blackberry 10 to the s3... I couldn't find an exact download link for these mods so I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction so tht i can get these mods please.. Hope I put this post in the right place..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTM_rhinox:
Thanx!
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Kingkong:
I can't download my new application in my XDA via USB. It says :

"The download path name for Start Menu does not exist..."

What's the problem... and its solution?

Thanx for your response

Kingkong
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joho5:
Does this use more battery? I notice it keeps the first two cores at 1026 and 1512.

And the other two at 384 and 1512.

What benefits do you get for turning mp decision off?

I've tried a couple kernels but don't get the smoothness I get with stock on 4.2.2.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Benefit is increased battery life. The sacrifice is less smoothness. I haven't used a kernel without mpdecision that is as smooth as one with it. I tried to convince myself that others were, but when I went back, the difference was very noticeable.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Arrow44:
So I've noticed the forums been a little dead lately so I thought I might show some people some things they can mess with. It's just wirelessly transfering files between your pc and phone.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4158...between-your-pc-and-android-phone-wirelessly/

Also, I couldn't find swiFTP so instead I use WELLFTP

-Sugardaddy Duncan
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] area51avenger:
I use airdroid. Allows me to fully manage my phone from my pc wirelessly

Sent from my VENOMized HoxL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
I much prefer transfering files via FTP. Thanks for the tip, I didn't realize ES file explorer could access FTP shares.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] superchilpil:
Solid explorer is what I use with FTP, works great with AFH
[General Questions and Answers] sparkyuiop:
Yeah, as unbelievable as it sounds it's quite true. My friend saw a table in a skip outside a charity shop the other day that she thought she would take and restore. When she took it out she noticed something heavy wrapped in newspaper and several old Samsung (D400 type) mobile phones in the skip.

When she unwrapped an iPad she brought it to me to examine. It has a white front and a silver back with model: A1458 written on it. I couldn't turn it on as the battery is dead which is indicated by the battery symbol that appears on the LCD when the power button is pushed.

The charge / USB socket looks to be the new iPhone 5 socket for which I do not have a cable for at present so I was unable to tell what spec it was.

I tried to register it with Apple but when it asked for date of purchase (I made one up of about a week old) the website asked me to provide proof of purchase information and would not show me any details about it.

I found another site that claimed to I.D it by it's serial number and I took a picture of it (attached).

So tomorrow I will get a lead and see if any owner info is on it and if so contact them to find out what they did with it. However I have a feeling this is not going to be registered to anyone (if it powers up).

My friend just wants to sell it.

Can anyone give me some advice on the best course of action? I really don't want to just hand it in to the filth so some copper can give it to his brat in 6 months!

Cheers

Phill.
[General Questions and Answers] gparmar76:
I highly doubt someone just discarded an iPad 4...do the right thing and take it to an Apple store and have them track down the rightful owner...if the owner can't be contacted or did, in fact, discard it...then have fun selling it or keeping it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] VeryCoolAlan:
Which one to choose?

Seems both offer about the same things.....but what is your choice?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Yolando25:
I would go to PAC-MAN
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] y0yerrj0sh:
PAC-MAN is updated more frequently so i would think it would be better, for example if there's an issue or a bug it would get fixed sooner.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warfexion:
It randomly started after I flashed the 7th release of the Faux Kernel my phone has just been running warmer lately and I'm not sure why, and before on any kernel I could get at least -100 uv and now I can't undervolt at ALL on any kernel. Whats happening with my phone :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ...Awesome...:
Factory Reset your phone or flash the kernel cleaner I posted and then re flash a different kernel.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chivalryyyy:
Ok.. This is driving me nuts. .. lately I have tried to copy some X264 files of tv shows onto my sd card and in every instance it causes windows explorer to crash and restart. .. and the transfer fails. .

It happens on all file sizes. .. From 200mb up to 6gb

Ive tried taking the card out and transferring it via a adaptor plugged into the usb socket. . Same problem

I've tried renaming the extensions. . Same problem

So far the only way I can do it is to rar the file up on my pc.. Then copy the rar file over. . Then unpack the rar.. As you can imagine it's very time consuming. ..

So anyone got any ideas What's causing it?

Oh.. and just to mention. .I get the same problem on both my 8gb card and my 32gb card. .

Thanks for any help
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilx:
Where are your SD cards from? are they cheap ones off ebay or some other possibly dodgy seller? They could be bad cards and don't believe the branding if the seller is not a proper retailer.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chivalryyyy:
The 8gb one is a Samsung one I've used for the last 2 years in my s2... The 32gb one is a SanDisk I bought directly from Amazon. .

I can transfer any other type of file with no problems. .. But as soon as u try ax264.. windows explorer gives an error message and crashes and restarts. . Its the weirdest thing. ...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
Looks windows related.

Try another pc.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spycedtx:
Odd that it's just that extension. But I'm not surprised. I've yet to have a good experience with this entire mtp/ptp crap. There's an app in the store that will expose your external sd via UMS, but I've yet to try it. Maybe that would make things not crash?

-----

I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Have to agree!

The fact that you have the same issue using the card directly in the PC via an adaptor takes the device itself out of the equation, so it can only be the card or your computer.

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chard101:
So what happens if you rename your .x264 file to something called .dat, copy it onto SD card then rename it back?

Could it be a problem with your anti virus?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chivalryyyy:
Tried that. . Still fails. .

Maybe a silly question but does formatting the card in the phone make any changes or differences to formatting it in the pc?

I shall try again tonight and turn off anti virus just to rule it out. .

Although I have a new pc coming from chill blast in the next day or 2 so maybe that will solve it too..

Thanks for the replies all. ..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lolpeople345:
Done everything right (rooting/ unlocking phone), i've gotten up to the point of 'unlocking' my phone. but i don't have the use of my volume key because they were accidently damaged in the attempt to fix my phone not bothered to go into it.... but yeah as i've said i don't have the use of my volume keys so when im prompted for the use of these keys to select yes or no for 'unlocking my phone' it already is highlighted on 'NO' so i have no choice but to select that thus unable to unlock my phone..... such as simple defect with a great cause for me to be unable to root my device

Now my question is...

is it possible for some other method instead of using my volume keys to select yes or no in the bootloader menu to unlock my phone?

(at the moment the only key that works is the sleep button on the phone)

My device: Samsung galaxy nexus

Root method: nexus root toolkit v1.6.3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
No you can't
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
Can you drive without a gas pedal?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] namtombout:
Sarcasm at its finest

Fred Flintstone could :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jack Jake:
yeah there are two ways

1

First turn off phone, take off back cover, take out battery, see all the little screws? unscrew them and take apart the phone until you reach the volume rockers, see whats wrong. most likely there in wrong shape (should go into it more, if water damage then skip this way)

Idoubt this will work but give it a shot

2

sell your phone buy a new one
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lolpeople345:
Ahaahhaah yeah was the reason i messed it up in the first place... idoono ill mess aorund with the volume keys again just never was bothered with puting them back in the right spotn because it ripped off and i had no clue where it went but yeah ill try fixing it again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] standa75:
Maybe I do not understand really well why you need volume keys for unlocking phone, but you can reboot to recovery via pc, or from Rom, as well as you can unroot phone by using wugs tool for example(no need for hw keys).

You can then try to use twrp recovery as there is no need for hw keys, because twrp fully uses touch screen.

Hope this could help you.

greetings from tapatalk :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
That solves precisely nothing. He needs volume keys to unlock the boot loader.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bodh:
There seems to be two ways: One is if he's on earlier versions of 4.x.x, root via adb backup restore exploit.

The second is via dd.. BOTH REQUIRE ROOT FIRST. I'd follow the best advice which is to fix those volume buttons or get rid of the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] standa75:
Well, boot loader could be unlocked via PC by using wugs application...no need to even touch the phone.;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lolpeople345:
narh thats the application i used.... once you get up to unlocking the phone you have to use volume keys unless im missing something/// any way i pulled apart my phone and long story short ****ed my phone aahah... but bought a dirt cheap nexus of ebay with cracked screen so im going to use the old screen of my phone which was mint

:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] standa75:
:D So you have it already solved:) Did you use latest wugs app(1.6.3)? I usually flash stock+unroot. Then flash custom recovery, i.e. TWRP and there is no need to use volume keys as far as i remember. Access to recovery could be then possible from wugs by reboot into recovery if needed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Asmodicus:
You've done a remarkable job with this. Congrats on so clearly explaining how you came to your conclusions. I've implemented your settings and will report back in a few days how they affect my battery usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeffcavicchi:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Applied... Will let you know!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dep169:
szucsgf, Thanks for your advice. just applied all the setting as yours.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eqjunkie829:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Will try it out for awhile
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeffcavicchi:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

All I can say is wow! Despite reducing power consumption, my phone feels even snappier than before! Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmoG530:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

+1. I noticed it immediately. Don't have a full charge yet, so I cannot chime in on battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

That's unexpected but certainly welcome!

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ricemaker:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

As soon you posted your findings on ak kernel's page i read into it and researched about voltage levels n processing needs. Thanks for the extra knowledge mang!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Glad to hear. If you find something particularly informative please share!

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SahilC:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

This is just.. Amazing.. Not just the settings, but the way you explained it. Thanks!

Sent from my Nexus Prime powered by AK goodness!

---------- Post added at 01:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 PM ----------

Underclocking to 920 would help a little more, right? Not as big as the jump from 1200 to 1000 but still, right? 920 is going really smooth here.

Sent from my Nexus Prime powered by AK goodness!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kicker22004:
Im on toro and decided to give this a try... same setup and im getting lockups...having to remove the battery. my phone my just hate the low 180mhz
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Charmacas:
AW: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

If I got it right your idea is based of the four different voltages. But if people have Smart Reflex activated they could have others.

I assume you are meaning the core voltages in Trickster.

So should I try your voltages or trust in mine?

-- EDIT --

For testing purposes I turned off SmartReflex for the core. Then I changed them a bit to the standard. But I also looked at the voltages measured by SmartReflex before. So my voltages are now looking like this.

I am going to report back how that works.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus with Tapatalk 2

-- EDIT --

Another thing I thought about: If you just calculated with the core voltages you may have forgotten that lowering these could result in higher IVA voltages?!?!?! Just a thought. I did not recherche it by now. :) May it be possible to do the same with the IVA voltages? ^^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ufrat:
i would just try smartreflex to deal with the voltages... its does what i aspected for me and it ended in the voltages reportet by OP +-10mV.

i'm trying a similar setting but with the change that i'm using hotplug govenor.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flytechguy:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Was this test using 3G strictly or LTE?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Thanks for the comment! In fact I haven't adjusted voltages at all. I kept Smartreflex on. I just adjusted frequency and read the voltages my device was operating at on each frequency.

My goal was to keep Smartreflex on (I figure a power management technology created by Texas Instruments is smarter than me) and just find the most efficient frequencies given the voltages that Smartreflex sets. Does that make sense? Maybe someone who knows more than me on this topic can comment?

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Nice description. I've been using similar settings except underclocking to 920mhz max screen-on, 350 max screen-off, Westwood and fsync off for quite awhile now. That's why my settings have been so popular. ;)

Underclocking is the way to go.

Sent from my AK Cylon Powered AOSPA 3.1 Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

3g. I'm using Maguro.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

My results are slightly less for on-screen time since I'm on Toro and refuse to turn off lte lol. Feel free to take a glance at my settings if you want, links at the bottom of my sig. :)

Sent from my AK Cylon Powered AOSPA 3.1 Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

I'm very happy that my experiment led me to use settings that are similar to yours! I know yours are extremely successful and used by many people.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Charmacas:
Hmm... but are my voltages measured by SmartReflex (first Screenshot) right? I know there is no right or wrong but they maybe could be far away from anything you guys saw before.

But I think I got the point you mean. On the first site of the Trickster App is the status which shows the voltage of IVA and MPU. You looked at the bottom right one which is MPU and you tried to see which voltages are used!? Am I right?

So if you done so and you noticed the four voltages (820, 1000, 1090, 1230), I do not understand what I am configuring under the "specific" Trickster site. There are also settings for MPU voltages and they are related to every freqency. So much more as only 4 voltage steps... . But our mobile phone just don't use these freqencies or what?

I hope you all got what I mean. I don't understand this.

-- EDIT --

Btw: Configured voltages out of my screenshot 2 are stable so far. But I really don't know if that would make any difference...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Just tested my settings with more aggressive usage. Got 13h 20m uptime with 4h 5m on-screen. Quite an improvement compared to what I experienced before implementing these new settings (which was 17-18h uptime and 3h on-screen). Maybe around 30% improvement in on-screen time:

(245 minutes) / (180 minutes) = 1.36, or 36% more on-screen time.

Since I got over 4 hours ost in 13 hours uptime I'll round down and assume approximately 30% improvement, because presumably I would have gotten a bit less ost with 17-18 hours uptime vs 13-14 hours.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 | AK Cylon 716
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crea78:
With your settings and also using Deep Sleep Battery Saver, I got 1d 6h 19m + 3h22m of screen on time. This is the best for me since I got my phone and it still runs very smooth. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

I wish I knew how to answer your question but I'm actually confused about the same thing. I don't know what's the difference between the voltage reading given on the bottom of the Info tab and that given in the Specific tab. Two different things both labeled "MPU". I hope someone else can answer this.

One funny thing I noticed: when I turn MPU Smartreflex off and then look at the voltage reading on the Info tab it just stays at 820 no matter the frequency.

If I find something out I'll certainly share.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/03 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

I'm very happy to hear that!

You exactly replicated my own results. Awesome.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/03 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crea78:
I am actually using AK Purity so my lowest mhz only goes to 350000. Maybe that is why I was just shy of your results.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

That makes sense. Surprising how similar our results are.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/03 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ufrat:
The voltage at the bottom of the info tab is the acctual voltage reported by /sys/kernel/debug/voltage/vdd_mpu/curr_calibrated_volt which is the current voltage after smartreflex altered it.

/sys/kernel/debug/voltage/vdd_mpu/curr_dyn_nominal_volt there you have the corresponding voltage you set in the specific tab which is the voltage that is altered.

Hope i could help
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

You helped very much!

So it seems the bottom of the Info tab displays the voltage the device is operating at with Smartreflex on. With Smartreflex off the device operates at the voltages found in the Specific tab, which can be adjusted by the user.

It looks like Smartreflex undervolts a great deal, probably based on where your particular device can stably run. Explains why another user's voltages were +/- 10mV from mine.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/04 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matthew0776:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Thanx for the 411 will def try ur settings ...and see what happens. i know all phones react diff to settings. Thanx again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dialmformostyn:
Tried these settings. It's as smooth as ever, though I can't say I've noticed as significant a gain as others here, but that could be any number of things. I'll keep them for when I next clean flash a ROM and see how I get on from afresh. Great effort on the OP's part though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nodens76:
I'm on the way of underclocking too. But I think that you ommit a parameter in the calculation of the theoricals gains. Because if you cap max freq then for the same task, the cpu will remain longer at max freq. So in your exemple, the gain of power is near 21% and not 30%.

Anyway it's still interesting ! Tell me if i'm wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

You make a great point.

The 30% extra battery life I calculated (roughly) was just [(new average ost) - (previous average ost)] / (previous average ost). This happened even though my phone was taking longer to complete tasks that required it to run at Max CPU. So it seems the decrease in voltage more than offset the negative effect of a slower Max CPU speed.

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/04 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] albsat:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Nice thread. How about brightness settings? What do you use?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

I use this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/04 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Charmacas:
AW: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Why did you decide to use "Lux"? What's the advantage to "Velis Auto Brightness"?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] szucsgf:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Just because I didn't know about Velis before. I just checked it out, thanks for the info. Velis seems to be very handy because it has several pre made profiles so you can set auto brightness to your own preference. I think I'll stick with lux though, just for the useful persistent notification that lets me toggle brightness on the fly if needed. Both seem to work great (way better than the stock auto brightness).

Maguro | Vanir 4.002 03/04 nightly | AK Cylon 728
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Charmacas:
AW: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Thank you for the quick answer! If I purchased Lux I think I also would stick to that as far as both apps are as similar as they are. ;)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] albsat:
Re: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

Never understood, how velis and lux works. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Charmacas:
AW: Efficient underclocking to improve battery life

It's just like the system auto brightness adjustment. But in these apps you can customise a lot and configure some nice features (depends on the app). Just try them. I would recommend Velis first because it's completely free.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] t1.8matt:
sorry to go ot, but like albsat, lux and velis confused me. never could get them to work how i wanted. and i know the lux dev said creating extra links and customizing like some people do can be worse than just letting it be. wish i could figure them out. thanks for the info Szu, i'm giving your settings a try with nephilims screen off freq and westwood, gonna see how it plays out, but so far so good.