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[Galaxy S 4 General] brakke97:
Samsung does a great job with their plastic design, I like it because the back cover is removable (Battery replacement, battery upgrade, etc.), and BTW: Plastic feels better than aluminium!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bigjim1488:
Just hope that they make the banding around the phone out of something better then note 2 had. That thing creaked like crazy. The HTC one isn't doing it for me so lets hope the s4 rocks
[Galaxy S 4 General] mg2195:
I don't like aluminum on my phone...looks nice at first, but after a few months the back is covered in small scratches that are very noticeable in light - and even worse,the paint on the aluminum gets scratched off in places revealing the original silver...on the long run it just makes the phone look ugly

-that's just from taking the phone in and out of my pocket...yep aluminum is definitely premium *sarcasm*
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kasdarack:
I would absolutely pay for a metal version, but if the plastic is anything like my i777 then I'll be perfectly happy with that. I've never had an issue with it feeling cheap or fragile.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ohraii:
I was thinking about this today, and I don't really have a problem with plastic. I fell in love with the HTC One look, just like many people did, but that spell is wearing off. I feel I'd be too worried about the back scratching if my phone was aluminum or glass. My ancient Atrix 4G is plastic and I'm fine with just laying it around without a cover. I wish that Samsung used the kind of plastic that HTC One X(+) had though. That was very very nice! So no, I wouldn't pay a premium.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Sarcron:
^^^ Pretty much my feelings exactly. Scratches/dents appear very obviously on aluminum, and they're hard to avoid unless you keep your phone in a TPU case, which in itself cancels out the whole reason for going with aluminum if you bought it for the appearance.
[Galaxy S 4 General] vantt1:
I read this article today, and it's a pretty relevant article to this topic. There are different types of people in the world. Some like aluminium, some like plastic. If I wanted to use a phone case-less, I'd rather have a plastic phone because it is not as easy to slip out of your hands, and not uncomfortably cold in the winter morning.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Tom-Helge:
Polycarbonate is more premium than cheap aluminum.

There is a reason why Polycarbonate is used in bullet proof windows.

And aluminum itself on a phone have to many negative sides that makes me not want it on a phone.

Just sayin.
[Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
I think the reason Samsung uses plastic is because the amoled screens are so brittle. An aluminum shell would crack far more amoled screens when dropped.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy S 4 General] aami.aami:
and why should i pay premium for that one when i can get ONE for lower price than S4?

and dont u think $750 has a lot of premium in it already?
[Galaxy S 4 General] jodvova:
I like S4 plastic finish because its very light. 5 inch screen S4 weights less than a smaller sized iphone 5.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tuxonhtc:
Nope, Samsung uses plastic because it's viable for the sort of mass production. Many HTC One devices had imperfections (many minor) which is always a drawback of producing metal phones in large scales. And it's pretty durable too, so win-win. Just wish they'd used a better design than they do ATM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Check out the S4 Active,

That will shut up all those metal lovers

Enviado desde un Samsung Galaxia S Cuatro LTE
[Galaxy S 4 General] knarfl1:
Echoing what others said, it's
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruddag:
Hi All

I downloaded and flashed the leaked 4.2.1 jelly bean (odin flashable) rom and flashed it on my S3. I want to downgrade to I9300XXEMB1 4.1.2. How do i do that? I flashed the 4.1.2 rom but when it reboots it just go into a bootloop, rebooting to the samsung logo every time. Then i had to flash it back to 4.2.1 rom. The new rom also dos not have developer options in settings. Please Help i want 4.1.2 back. ps my phone is not rooted.

Thanx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
If you want to go completely stock

Run triangle away

Flash Rom with Odin

Factory reset

It should then boot after the reset, you will lose your data and sd card content doing this

---------- Post added at 07:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 AM ----------

Btw.....to get dev options on 4.2.x go to settings/about phone. Tap build number 7 times and dev options will appear in setting/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruddag:
Hi Thanx very much.

Is triangle away an app, i will get it and run it, the flash 4.1.2 with odin and then factory reset. Thanx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruddag:
Hi thanx allot, but i see to use triangle away the S3 must be rooted. My phone is not rooted.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IamIrene:
your thread title misleading people =_=
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruddag:
Sorry, dont know how else to put it. just want to downgrade my S3 with leaked stock jellybean 4.2.1, from samfirmware to stock jellybean4.1.2. Ps my phone is not rooted.

Thanx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Just do as I said, but your flash counter(alerts warranty claims that you have flashed custom/leak firmware) will remain at 1 so your warranty may well be voided.

I if you want to circumvent that you need to root, then proceed as I instructed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryanscobberwash:
when you flashed back to 4.1.2 did you try going into recovery and wiping data and cache? if not that should help :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruddag:
Hi Yes got it right. In odin do not tick reboot. Then after flash go into recovery mode and wipe data and cache. Thanx
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] aarons510:
I recently bought a used KF2. It was running 10.2.6 when I got it and seems to have updated itself to 10.3.0 in the last day or so.

I have a MacBook running OSX 10.6.8 with a current (as of last week) version of the Android SDK installed. Mac adb commands work as well as they should on the KF2 without root permissions. I have used the Mac and adb to root and otherwise modify several original KFs, several of the Nook Color, and quite a few phones, so I'm not a noob, although I hardly remember what I did to root those devices. (Many of them were rooted using Gingerbreak, which was easy, but presumably won't work on devices running Android 4.x.)

In addition, I tried booting into fastboot mode using a factory cable. When I do this, the screen on the Kindle after a few seconds shows the word Fastboot on top with what look like traffic lights under it, -- with a flashing green one and a steady red one. But neither fastboot nor adb on the Mac then can 'see' the KF2. (It does show up in System Profiler as 'Otter2-Prod-04'.)

I need to end this for now and get some sleep. It would be nice to wake up to some links to some useful info, or such info itself, for rooting this baby. Providers of such info will be profusely thanked!
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Jackering:
Not sure if it will work on 10.3.0, It fixes the whole in the bootloader that was used to get root, I think you will have to downgrade first.

How to downgrade: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=39692784&postcount=343

How to root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2074565
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
The bootloader has nothing to do with whether or not you are able to achieve root on the 2nd generation devices. The bootloader in the new update fixes the exploit used to install the 2nd bootloader along with custom kernel and recovery. Flashing the bootloader from a previous software version is how to circumvent the new fix.

To achieve root, we use a method discovered by Bin4ry which takes advantage of a timing issue in the system partition being remounted (read/write) during an adb restore. It is an ICS/ADB issue and will likely work until Google patches it. ;)
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Jackering:
Oh, my mistake, I was thinking off rooting and then installing TWRP, but if you just want root, then yeah.

I usually always do root then recovery, old habits die hard, eh? :laugh:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troy2062:
Hi,

I purchased a HTC One in Ireland yesterday and am wondering if there is an unbranded stock ROM available yet which I can flash?

Thanks! :3

Troy,
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicus07:
Not possible atm... there's no s-off!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Only with a custom rom I'm afraid.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowboy23:
That's the one thing about HTC with their phones, it's always a drama to debrand. I have a branded Xperia Z and debranding it was so easy. No need to root or unlock the bootloader or change the CID.

Now I have to wait until HTC brings out S-OFF for the HTC One before I can debrand it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
I don't see a thread like this for the T-mobile HD2 so I figured we can have our own.

It would be nice if you included the following with your posts:

screenshots including on screen time, information about your rom, kernel, etc. and estimated talk, text, browsing, and gaming time, and what brightness you had your screen on (auto, full, etc.). If you use something like SetCpu with profiles list your profiles and settings here too.

:good:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jvzijp:
Good idea. Here some screenshots of my battery usage and system.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] downloader50:
wake

I get about a day on mine running Nexushd2-ics-cm9-hwa-v2.9a. I use setcpu to fine tune and use between 4 and 5ma on standby according to currentwidget. It is disappointing to see such a small battery in a power hungry phone. I do have the larger HTC battery but it makes the phone too big and bulky for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
Thanks for the screenshots, how much battery life do you get by one recharge.???
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Unscrewed:
Screenshots don't say much, I think, as the use of the phone is always different.

After charging I can game about 4-5 hours straight on full brightness for my battery to be empty.

With a lot of standby and only screen on to Whatsapp/Kik/Text and brightness on 'automatic', it can last for 1-2days.

Only listening music all day it can last about a day.

Standby only it can last almost a week.

ROM: Xylon 4.2.2

Battery Capacity: 1230mAh (stock battery)

Charging using an external charger because the USB port is broken.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Deyinka:
Whoa. I get 3-4 hours straight whatsapping/tweeting plus some reading with Kindle. My battery is gone, I guess.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
e

I guess your getting good battery life for 1-2 days on use of some specifc apps.:good:

My battery goes down in 6-7 hrs with normal use, time to change it i guess.:(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
3-4 hours is too bad i guess. You really need to buy a new battery.

Because i get abour 6-7 hours from normal use, and about a day by just whatsapping or surfing.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] marcimix:
Try wipe battery status. :good:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Unscrewed:
That shouldn't do anything for a Li-ion battery.

However, using an external charger seemed to have doubled my battery life, as strange as it may sound. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
Wiping battery stats does nothing.It is just a myth.

Check this out : http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justom:
I often get 2 days using (no data, wifi, no game)

That's acceptable
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rahil S:
That is pretty much acceptable. :good:

How often you use wifi, is it just for some time or for complete day?
[General Accessories] shmi:
Can you help me with this problem? Everytime the phone rings, is powered on, or try to listen to MP3 or ringtones, there's a screeching sound that overshadows the sound being emitted, whether song or ringtone, etc.

Yet, I can make and receive phone calls and am able to hear the caller thru the same speaker clearly and with no screeching. What could be causing this problem and how can I fix it?

Thank you.

Shmi
[General Accessories] cruisin-thru:
Wow Shmi, if this problem persists you will need a bulletin board all to yourself :roll:
[General Accessories] shmi:
Ahhh, that very dry British sarcasm. Don't think it's not appreciated.

Not all of us can be techie geniuses such as yourself. I'm not too proud to ask for help when I need it.

Some of us are actually quite new to this game and spend our days saving lives for a living. So, in the wee hours of the night, as in now, we try to work out our tech problems.

I guess you don't believe in the phrase: "there's no such thing as a stupid question"
[HTC Wildfire S] SulthanSuperTramp:
where can i get sense lock screen for cm9 and cm10 ?
[HTC Wildfire S] NikSalsa:
Google Play or 4PDA
[HTC Wildfire S] thehacka1:
Or use widgetlocker app.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] nemesis93:
I see that when running the neak kernel on the uNeak app, theres a section where there are steps for the GPU clock speeds. To oc do you just raise the last step or what? Do I have to add a step if so how do I add one?

Also what is the highest clock you guys have run GPU up to on the note 2? On my n7, I ran it up to 700mhz without issues and 750mhz with occasional lockups

I'd like to do this on carbon with the kernel it comes with if possible.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] nemesis93:
Bump?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] minhajmsd:
I have OC'd up to 800MHz, but I usually keep it at 733MHz and underclock the CPU a bit. I don't think the Neak kernel supports OC'ing of any kind. You're better of with Perseus in that regards. By flashing the kernel the STweaks app is also automatically flashed and you can change settings from there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] nemesis93:
Oc is supported for the gpu in the neak I wanna know if its possible to add a step instead of overclocking every step or just the last step

Cpu oc is not available though.
[Android General] Mohaned98:
Hello everyone,

My Name is Mohaned and i'm new to xda forums, well not so new, just first time for me to register

Sorry if i'm posting this thread in an incorrect place, i still need 10 posts to be able to post somewhere else

So, please read my words

I've got the phone Vodafone 858 (Huawei U8160), and yesterday, i downloaded CM9.1 by psyke for it,

i rooted my phone, installed recovery, and here's what i did in recovery :

Install zip from sd card>cm-9-20121130-MADTEAM-u8160.zip>Choose Zip to install from sdcard>mini-gapps-ics-20120429b-signed.zip>wipe data/factory reset>reboot system

I have to say, the rom is totally perfect, everything is amazing, it's smoother than cm7 on my phone

there are just some problems which i need a hotfix for please

1- No Lockscreen - when i press power button, no lockscreen shows up

2- Home Button Doesn't do anything - when i press my home button, nothing happens, it just vibrates and that's it

3-Bluetooth + wifi at the same time = freeze of wifi - when i enable bluetooth and wifi at the same time, the wifi gets stuck in state of : enabling wifi

4- Root Problem - when i install move2sd enabler to change install location to external, or install any root app, it says that root access wasn't given though i don't get any window to select accept or decline

5- Screenshot app bug - when i hold power button and then select screenshot, it tells me : failed to capture screenshot, sd card storage is in use

So Please make a hotfix for me cuz i think this rom is sooooooooooo amazing, specially this version cuz i experienced an older version and was horible

Extra Info : I made some changes to the zip files of rom and the gapps, idk if that affects but here's what i replaced :

Trebuchet with Nova Launcher

added youtube, twitter, facebook, whatsapp, google chrome in the rom zip file

added google play store, google play services, google search, maps, streetview, voicesearch in the gapps zip

the mobile just starts fine, but i want to fix these issues
[Android General] Mohaned98:
any help plox?
[Android General] Mohaned98:
Fixed

Nevermind everyone, i redownloaded the zip files and didn't change anything and it's all fine now, looks like changing files was affecting negatively
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mcarbaja:
I'm currently running Cyanogen Mod 10.1 but I accidentally erased my internal storage. I'd like to go back to stock but I have nothing to go back to.

Any ideas?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] datallboy:
Use the repart.img from here. http://raywaldo.com/2012/06/how-to-un-brick-a-nook-tablet-8gb-or-16gb/

Write It to an SD card. It will return your nook to stock.

When you say internal storage did you delete all your partitions?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mcarbaja:
I accidentally formatted the internal storage when I was trying to format my removable sd card so I suppose so.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
I'm pretty sure all you erased was the user partition, so no real damage done.

Like suggested, use the repart.img and your'e back to "out-of-the-box" nice and clean Nook Tablet.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chriswbush:
So anyone know what happened to flex? his thread is closed, and he had a great rom just wish someone knew what happened
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NissanNick:
I done know... There is always something going on... I wish it would stop because his roms are the shiznit.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chriswbush:
Yeah.. I feel lately that xda has banned or scared off more developers than it has actually gained...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] trsix:
link

waste of space
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] trsix:
childish

Seems a bit childish when they decide to ban a dev they just close their threads. His stock w goodies had 899 posts so there must me plenty of members using that Rom. Members that visit this site. Without members and visitors they wouldn't be generating all the ad revenue.

Without the devs and development does xda have "anything" to attract visitors?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
On the comment "xda has scared off more developement than it has gained",+1 couldnt agree more. seems to be alot of the bro deal buddie buddie s#!t going on and it kinda makes things suck. Especially for devs like flex360. I seen in a post title "if your a user just looking for a cool rom go away" well as a user ill remember that crap. And wont use it even when it is released, or any of the other crap he puts out. XDA is supposed to be about shareing knowledge and helping others obtain it. And Shareing what you have developed with the community. Not for the "this is mine and you cant have it" frame of mind. Seems that things have gotten turned around somehow at xda, and the ones who deserve to be reprimanded are being rewarded, and the ones like flex360 and others i wont mention who deserve recognition or reward are being punished. Whos next, OMJ or bigdaddy for helping and contributing too much.(just a couple names off the top who have helped me greatly in the past along with many others) At any rate, we dont know what happend with flex and maybe never will, as long as he knows theres a great many of us who are bebind him 100% and will support him in any way we can for his contributions to us. We're here for ya flex. :endrant:

*Information IS the most dangerous weapon of all*
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] detcup4evr:
If u read the sense 5 thread, you can see what happened, (690ish post) flex ported something to sense 5, and shared it, and didn't give credit to original mod, until a little while later. Not really sure why they locked his rom post as people may still have discussions regarding the rom.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] swaze:
Also seemed like all was cool with everyone afterwards so that can't be the reason. They all made up and laughed it off.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] detcup4evr:
Flex just tweeted banned until may 29,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chriswbush:
The thing I want to know why is he banned? How can they close a thread with 700k+ views? That's like lost ad revenue to them if those users say f it to xda, and if it was Over a little incident that got resolved that is unfair in all ways possible, but oh well we are user's and no one gives a @#$? About us.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mrlakadaddy:
There's more to it then you or I or anyone can speculate. Its between flex and the mods, he more then likely understands it and hes not complaining...if you have questions, contact a mod, if you value flex privacy, then leave it alone, let this be handled by flex, the site admins and the mods.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] pstevep:
Firstly hi.

Secondly, I'm not the mod who banned flex however I can speak to why the thread was closed. It was closed due to him not being able to support it while he is banned. Same thing happened the last time he was banned.

To the scaring off developers, give me a break. I work the website as a whole and there isn't a mass exodus of great devs. If people don't abide by the rules dev or no dev they meet with consequences. Everything is taken into account before bans happen user history post history.

As for the dev thread mentioned with the title saying users don't come. I changed that thread title because users were getting upset at devs getting upset at users posting in it. The devs aren't keeping it to themselves, it's a development thread. Purely not meant for users. Like someone said this XDA developers. It's in the original dev section, yet users who have nothing to so with the project despite being told otherwise continued to post. It was stated that the sense 5 port wasn't ready for mass consumption when it is you will see a bunch of stuff about it.

Now everyone go on about your day and spend time with your family. Put your phone down for a while, step away from your keyboard.

Thanks.
[Motorola Atrix 2] PRichardson:
http://links.pjr.bz/Atrix2-USB-Drivers

I recently had a ton of fun with the Atrix 2 drivers. I thought I'd share these in a way less painful than it was when I attempted to gather them ;)

This is a High Speed Box.net Public Folder, of both new and old Motorola official drivers, PDANet drivers, and MotorolaDeviceManager, in both a bright red x64 shade, and the more traditional x86 hue as well ;)

HASH VALUES are included.

(simple text file of hash values)

ps. Sorry, this is just for windows.

:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Chew DZ:
Who has successfully backed up their imei/efs using the plan b method ? I have tried it and it never works when I flash the zip. It'll say something like

"backing up efs *if unlocked*

efs not unlocked *skipping backup*"

What's that about? It doesn't create the Synergyrom folder or anything which assures me that it didn't backup anything.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eisawi99:
so i was looking through the display settings and saw that there is no setting for smart rotate like in the GB27 update... im running the boost release (GC01) and i thought it was the same except for the bloat ware... any help or insight on how to get it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eisawi99:
Bump
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RoadToNever:
Anyone enjoy watching these? Looking through the videos of user galaxynexusroot right now.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ProGTXjay:
help guys is there any apps/tools to change the font of our ace?
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nabs Zains:
Font changer from play store :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ProGTXjay:
thanks for the reply sir.what is the name of the apps sir?
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srt99:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.font.installer&feature=related_apps

try this app..

it's free but root required
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android-fany:
There is an option in the settings for the fonts.