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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] omnia38:
Thanks guys worked flawlessly...although I didnt get an aroma menu at all, the Rom just flashed. Will have to look into that. Still cant believe I only paid 200 bucks off craigslist for this phone. Nice upgrade from my S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Craleb:
Wow 200! Nice

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note ²
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TheodorK11:
Yeah man where'd you get a deal like that???? That's crazy!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imablackhat:
200 and esn is clean? Usually they don't ban it for a little while. Let us know what happens. Sounds like a scam.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BennyJr:
This.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmaynard83:
I did a trade for my iphone 5 for the note 2.

Seems like an even trade. Although I feel like the iphone has a better resale.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] omnia38:
Awwh man I hope not... That would really suck, especially after getting used to the size of this screen.... nothing else would compare. The guy seemed straight up though. If this comes back to bite me them I am done with craigslist for devices. I'll keep you guys up posted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Nate14:
Must be a clean ESN if you were able to activate it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imablackhat:
If you do an insurance job and get another phone. They don't ban your original for weeks. So he could activate it. But it's still on a list to be banned.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] omnia38:
Thanks for the nervousness guys....lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Nate14:
Ha Ha Just give Verizon a call and have them check it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Craleb:
Stay optimistic! And I think I heard somewhere that when the note 2 phone is reported the Sim gets "burned" and So I've read... You can get a new Sim card from Verizon and have it work? Here look at this........ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2214899 .. I mean just in case it happens

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note ²
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] omnia38:
Thanks for the link....good read. Hope the guys that sold it to me doesnt get greedy. Seemed like a cool guy. Plus he mentioned that he was a member of the xda forums.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] sublimaze:
If its legit, then you got a killer deal. The cheapest GN2 that I've seen was $350 but it had a cracked screen. I see some for $200-250, but I am sure those are scams. The next time you buy a Verizon phone, call *611 and verify the ESN status before handing over money or trading phones. A legit seller will not mind at all.
[LG Optimus 3D] bartas225:
I have ported ICS Darkroom V2 and I want to install this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2212799 I must do CWM backup, but I have TWRP. How can I install CWM recovery?
[LG Optimus 3D] 3069:
Hi !

Use P940RecoveryInstaller
[LG Optimus 3D] bartas225:
Hi, thanks for the reply ;) Currently I have TWRP, so it's safe to install CWM with this apk?
[LG Optimus 3D] 3069:
Yes

I was so
[LG Optimus 3D] Itaka06:
Why you dont make a twrp backup instead of a cwm backup? To make a backup i recomand twrp had issues with cwm. Anyway if you did a backup with cwm try to restore bavkup, i had trouble with it.
[LG Optimus 3D] bartas225:
In Darkroom V3 topic is "take a CWM BACKUP", so I did cwm backup :) Anyway I have TWRP backup so I'm safe
[LG Optimus 3D] Itaka06:
It isnt very important wich backup you do, you are saver with an twrp backup too much people have trouble with cwm backup ;)
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] pdanhieux:
I just bought me a QTEK 1010 with ROM v3.08.10ENG and Radio version 6.02.

But my Operator only operates at 1800 Mhz, and i think this phone can only handle 900/1900 (its has model no. PW10B1). Is there any way how i can change this ? or is that impossible?

thx
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] cruisin-thru:
It wont work, or if it did it would be extremely flaky if it managed to connect bearing in mind the 100mhz difference in frequency.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] pdanhieux:
Hmmz, while i was googling for WALLABY Bootloader, i came on the main site of xda-developers where the bootloader was describer. Then i went into the UTILITIES screen of my bootloader, and changed my settings to GSM 900/1800. And i rebooted my phone.

It looks like it's now running on my 1800 Mhz provider, cause i can make phone calls!

Does this mean that it IS a triband phone?
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] cruisin-thru:
Not really, where people have been able to get 1900 on 900/1800 phones it has been very flaky at best, let us know how you get on using 1800. By the way, which operator are you using.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] Joe_Scheidegger:
Change 900/1900 to 900/1800Mhz ....

I bought a SX56 few days ago in eBay(US) .... I decided to buy because the guy was sure that his phone was TriBand... but when I started to use here in Brazil, I realized that's impossible to find a carrier ...because the GSM here is 900/1800Mhz.... instead 900/1900 from US GSM Mobile.

How can I change the band ???

I presume the SX56 is 900/1900 because I read a AT&T logo ...

But I need to change to 900/1800Mhz...

Could you help me ???

Thanks,

Joe Scheidegger

Sao Paulo Brazil
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] Biso007:
Hi guys,

thought of saying a couple of important notes:

1. when checking the type of your device, refer ONLY to the sticker on the rear side. do NOT depend on what's written in the device info!

2. the xda 1 is a "dual" band device either 900/1800 (A type) or 900/1900 (B type). both ROM and GSM menu will have the 3 options but this doesn't mean it will work. if you want a tri band device get the xda II
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] sprint:
Hello

:shock: XDA 1st working good in Russia . The phone and GPRS .
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] Peter Poelman:
Re: Change 900/1900 to 900/1800Mhz ....

You can try what this other person did: change the band in the bootloader.

Hold the power button while performing a soft reset (large hole, bottom left). After you see the bootloader screen, press the calendar button (top right above display). The options 900/1800, 900 and 1900 are all in the menu. Move with rocker keys (below screen), and press the middle of the keys to select. The soft reset again (without holding power).

1) You may need to remove the SIM and put it back in before the phone 'understands' the change.

2) Your radio part is now operated 100 MHz or ~5% out of tune. And it wasn't a very good GSM radio to begin with. Pray the 1800 provider you're with is high in the band.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] chris_khho:
Peter said, "Hold the power button while performing a soft reset (large hole, bottom left). After you see the bootloader screen, press the calendar button (top right above display). The options 900/1800, 900 and 1900 are all in the menu. Move with rocker keys (below screen), and press the middle of the keys to select. The soft reset again (without holding power). "

After you do all this, does the original Radio ROM 4.xx.xx or whatever compatible as before? People used T-mobile 6.xx.xx in US for 900/1900 Radio but 4.xx.xx in Europe for 900/1800 Radio.

I knew in the wallaby bootloader they have that utilities but you may need to change the radio as well, is it? I guess....
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] pdanhieux:
After testing the mobile on 900/1800 for a while, i would not advise it to anyone of doing it, cause my connection is really sucky sometimes.

If there is anyone in europe who wants to have an XDA 900/1900 for testing purposes and exchange it with an 900/1800. Let me know :-)
[Nexus 10 General] HarmonyFlame:
I'd like to know what everyone is looking forward to the most with the next version of android.

My list:

-Multi-window (or at the very least a 50/50 side by side. I would love to be able to watch Netflix and browse simultaneously)

-Completely fix chrome

-fully integrated support for 3rd party application synchronization between devices (with real time data snycing)

-centralized gaming hub for high scores/achievements ect. (possibly integrated within Google+)

-support for optional cloud application data hosting (for those with not much local storage available)

-native theme support

-native NTFS support
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
Nobody knows what will be in Key Lime Pie, or even if it will definitely be coming at IO, so this is a bit nonsensical to answer -- but still.

If I could request *one* feature for Key Lime Pie, it would be vastly-improved stability. No more random, total lockups of the user interface. No more sleep of death. No more random, spontaneous reboots. No more opening a web page and suddenly your whole browser vanishes with no error or warning of any kind. No more other apps doing the exact same thing.

In short, a properly stable operating system.

Oh, and proper multitasking where programs don't spontaneously close without warning when they're in the background, where programs don't stay running after you swipe them away from the recent apps list, and where they don't remain in the recent apps list after you exit them by actually shutting the app down. That'd be nice, too.

I couldn't care less about side-by-side display of apps; on my phone I would never use it because the screen is too small, and on my tablet I would never use it because that's what multitasking and switching between apps is for.
[Nexus 10 General] CWalkop:
[quote="knoxploration"[/quote]No more random, total lockups of the user interface. No more sleep of death. No more random, spontaneous reboots. No more opening a web page and suddenly your whole browser vanishes with no error or warning of any kind. No more other apps doing the exact same thing.[/quote] I would agree that we'd all like to have our OS 100% rock-solid stable, and that this is a goal to strive for, but that sounds a bit odd...the way you're describing it, these things are quite frequent for you. I rarely see issues like this on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2; I recently had to do a system wipe due to some corruption that caused super battery drain and issues with text messaging, but that's unrelated to this, really. The hardware on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 runs circles around my GNexus, too - is it really that bad? [quote="knoxploration"[/quote]Oh, and proper multitasking where programs don't spontaneously close without warning when they're in the background[/quote] That is automatic task killing used to keep RAM reserves in check and keep the system running smoothly at all times. The Nexus 4 and 10 have a LOT better experience with multitasking than older devices, with their 2GB of RAM. There's a reason Google upped the ante in that area! Android needs those resources to operate efficiently and properly. [quote="knoxploration"[/quote] where programs don't stay running after you swipe them away from the recent apps list[/quote] This one puzzles me...they don't stay running unless its a background process, like TextPlus or Gmail push notifications. And you can turn those off, if you want to. Some even do stop - if you swipe away Google Music, the background music stops playing as well.

As for side by side display, I have to agree with you. Not TOO meaningful on a tablet, definitely not a 4.6" phone. It would be a nice option, though.

By the way, nice topic HarmonyFlame! I love these kinds of posts. Theres great, positive discussion on them, usually.
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
They are very, very frequent issues on my Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 (I own two, both do it.) It's an issue even on a stock, unrooted tablet without a single app installed, and has been ever since the Ice Cream Sandwich update. (It was fine on Honeycomb.)

I've not bought the Nexus 10 yet, but have already been warned it suffers the same issues.

It is much rarer on my phones than on tablets; they do it, but very rarely. The tablets do it on a daily basis.

I know why it is there. I also know it is poor design. I know which of the apps running in the background are important to me; the tablet doesn't. A good design would simply warn me that I was running low on memory, and let me choose which apps to kill, rather than killing something I potentially need. I have lost data to this; it is bad behavior.

I can't provide examples as I don't remember which programs do it, but I have come across multiple apps that definitely stay open (with no notifications present, and these aren't background processes) when you swipe them away. Go to apps and force stop, the program will actually exit. Swipe it away from the recent apps list, and it will not.
[Nexus 10 General] roloracer:
So you don't own a nexus 10 but you're making comparison to the tf101? Which is a very old tablet! It doesn't matter to the system what apps are important to you, the system is going to decide what should be closed when is needed, specially if you let it sit in the back too long, why is Google going to worry about what app the user would like to keep open while is in the background, with how many apps we have today, that's for the end used to worry about, if you don't want to lose data just don't push that important task to the background until you're done with it. I personally think that it handles the task of killing apps when needed quite well, it will never be perfect for everyone but it sure is as good as it gets right now. If you're having issues closing apps, by having to force close from the manage apps menu then you need to see what app is causing this, because that's not normal..

I know there's always room for improvement , but that's why I run rooted and custom, that way you get the best available and not just what Google wants you to have.

My 2¢ :)
[Nexus 10 General] the_boo:
Full ui hdmi scaling
[Nexus 10 General] hufqnjhu:
what multitasking and switching between apps is for.
[Nexus 10 General] roloracer:
The one thing I should love to see again is for them to somehow have the OS know that if you're running it on a tab, you get tab nav bar, and not like a phone/phablet, like in previous versions, or let the user decide which one to use, like our custom ROMs that have them, not like AOKP though, it still looks funky, they're too separate., I'm saying this but when it comes out I'll run it for a little bit, and be on the first custom rom after a dev cooks one up. :)

RoloRacer on RootBox Nexus 10
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
I'm comparing to the TF101 running numerous Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean ROMs, including the stock Asus ROM, plus the experiences of others using the Nexus 10 and other Android tablets. We'll see soon enough though as I just got the Nexus 10 myself today...

And wow, if your opinion is that it is the user's fault rather than poor OS design, then thank goodness you aren't an OS designer. The OS is supposed to be seeing the user's needs, not vice versa. People don't buy tablets because they want to be slaves to them.
[Nexus 10 General] trickster2369:
The OS doesn't care. If the RAM is getting full, and the OS needs the RAM in order to run something else, memory management will kill whatever it needs to in order to get enough RAM to run it. Regardless of the fact you, the user, use that app 4 times more than anything else currently in memory. The tablet is not learning your usage habits.

Sent from my Nexus 10
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
And that is precisely my point. The OS is dumb, and yet it forces its dumb decisions on the user. An intelligent OS would either learn which apps the user didn't want closed, provide a way to prioritize or prevent closing of certain apps or apps in certain states, or simply warn when the threshold nears and let the user decide what to close.
[Nexus 10 General] the_boo:
I'm not sure if I want that feature... But now that you mention it I'm actually surprised it is not there... What with google being the king of tracking usage habits and all
[Nexus 10 General] Bait-Fish:
It seems simple enough to implement. Have the ability to "pin" apps you want kept alive in the apps list.

Edit: Clarification.
[Nexus 10 General] hughlle:
I think it then becomes a tradeoff in terms of convenience. For example it might be more convenient if apps are forced to remain open if that is what the user wants, but at the same time it means that if you have a list of apps that the OS cannot close on it's own accord, and you suddenly decide you want to use an app that requires more resources than are available, due to them being used up with these pinned apps, does the user then have to manually go and close their apps down in order for the new app to run correctly?
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
That is infinitely preferable to the OS closing an app randomly and losing your data.
[Nexus 10 General] hughlle:
And therein lies the issue. Who to cater for? You think this preferable, i think it not. Google has to decide which market to target. I have no statistics, just an opinion, but i personally think that there are probably a lot more people buying phones and tablets who just want to press a button and have the app work. As a user, i personally do not come across many instances where i switch back to an app and find i've lost my data, i imagine this is more important and relevant for people using their tablets and phones for more serious work be it business or study etc. But for someone just wanting to get onto facebook, or take a photo, or play a game, which is in my mind, the majority of users, i think it would be preferable to them not to have to have to start killing apps so as to get their youtube video to play in a smooth fashion.

Maybe google could arrive at a compromise, or a DEV could somehow implement it either as default or as an option, but for now i think that it is as it is for the sake of the general market. Most users are casual users, maybe not even technically proficient, they just want it to work in as simple fashion as possible. Just look at roms as an example. Plenty of roms offer plenty of features that people claim they want or need, but the vast majority of users happily get by without these supposedly important additional functions.
[Nexus 10 General] roloracer:
But you're still comparing it to a tegra 2 , 1ghz processor , 1gig of ram tablet, apples and oranges.

And my opinion is coming from a person that has been into android since day one, still have my T-Mobile G1, among other devices, and the matter of fact is that the OS has never cared about apps open and what apps the user wanted to keep open, before we had to use app killers because they would stay open and eat up all the ram, yes this tablet has issues and is not perfect, but is still the best as of now. Apparently I hit a nerve with my comment, it wasn't my intention. I agree with you that the OS should see what apps get more use and give them some sort of priority over others to prevent them from being killed but it doesn't work that way as of now I'm afraid. Maybe that will be a new feature in key lime pie, intelligent memory management.

RoloRacer on RootBox Nexus 10
[Nexus 10 General] 3DSammy:
Memory management is tricky. Physically memory can get fragmented so despite overall memory being available, what is there is in chunks too small to be actually use. There is nothing random about which app Android chooses to close when there is not enough memory. "Least used" logic would be just one example of how an app is choosen. Other factors are also taken into account.

A major feature of Andorid is memory management which includes that when an app starts it registers a "close routine". Android calls that routine when it needs more memory and has selected that app for closure. The routine lets the app gracefully save any user data before it is closed. Only poorly coded apps would loose values user data when signalled that it is being shutdown by the OS.
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
So Google's stock browser and Chrome are both poorly-coded, then?

Those are the two apps that lose me data -- or simply force me to have to log back into websites over and over -- the most often due to this poor design.
[Nexus 10 General] hughlle:
Have you not seen the number of complaints about chromes instability and such, it certainly seems that it is indeed poorly coded.

That said, i have never experienced this with chrome on my N10 at all. The only website that i find i am often asked to log back into is XDA, every other site is just fine.
[Nexus 10 General] live cell phone case:
I agree, I also consider:good:
[Nexus 10 General] lonesomedove:
OS is a small analogy to how human mind thinks/works!

Remember every one that any OS is a big pool of apps all interacting with one another and affecting on each other just like human body. It is not possible (at least now) to design such an OS that will interact as per human beings want it, it is dumb as do not have its own thinking process( and can never have one otherwise we will be challenging God who created man which is practically impossible and is equal to creating a human life) but with more hardware becoming cheap on tablet arena we can look forward to have refined OS and do not forget that Google started its android in 2007(first device appeared in market) and still very young where as Microsoft started in late 70's and even they are facing hard times selling Windows 8 platform now a days and only at Windows 2000 platform did Microsoft OS was stable enough to run all apps smoothly.Android will take time to become stable and smooth and yet developers may take longer to design apps that do not waste resources and are bug free.

Operating system design is a huge philosophy and any philosophy is never perfect!:cowboy:
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
Nonsense, and let's leave the preachy religion out of this shall we. Other operating systems handle multitasking just fine without shutting their users' apps down at random.

And Android isn't a new OS by any stretch of the imagination. It is an extension of the Linux operating system, which has been around for over 20 years.

But even if you stick with the flawed comparison to Windows, Android is 4.5 years old now. Start from Windows 3.1, the first version that could really be counted as an OS rather than a graphical shell on top of another OS, and we are already of the same vintage as Windows 95 and NT 4.0, both of which were stable and multitasked well enough to be used in a business environment. (I know because I used both alongside everything from Macs to Solaris as a network engineer for a major corporation at the time.)

Add in the fact that Android is based on another extant OS that is stable, multitasks properly, and is also used in business environments by huge organizations, and really there is no excuse for this.

It is by design that Google made it this way, and it is by bad design. They are under the misguided belief that half-assed multitasking which closes your programs at random is preferable to the user over a simple memory warning and option to close programs yourself.

And memory fragmentation is not the answer either. The OS is quite capable of fragmenting the memory as needed.
[Nexus 10 General] pfmiller:
Sure, but where do you think Google should put a page file on your N10? And btw, other OSs do in fact shut apps down at random when they run out of memory and they do it much less gracefully then Android does.
[Nexus 10 General] knoxploration:
I have never had any device *except* Android ones randomly and silently shut down an app when I was using it. Crash, yes, but Android does that far more frequently than any OS I've ever used (with or without a force close dialog; seems to be the luck of the draw whether Android bothers to tell you there's a problem or the app just vanishes while you're using it.) I've also seen more complete lockups of the Android UI than I've seen with any other OS in the last decade.

Stability is not Android's strong point.
[Nexus 10 General] pfmiller:
Right. Crash is what I'm talking about. That's how OSs typically handle out of memory situations. I'm sure you have seen it, and if you were using a system with under 2 GB of memory and no page file you would see it more often.

The most recent version of Android has stability issues, but Android in general is not unstable. Gingerbread and ICS were both extremely stable.