yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nokia Lumia 920] Portospirate:
Hi,

I own a lumia 800 and i love it. Lately tho im very frustrated with it due to some core functions. I just want to know if these problems exists with windows phone 8 .

1. Messaging hub. Sometimes i receive the messages, sometimes i dont. And not just facebook, even the ones from windows messenger. I know that one doesnt work anymore or something, so my next question would be how good does the skype messaging is integrated in the message hub?

This is THE biggest concern of mine btw, i cant play message roulette. I have to check the facebook app so often just to see the messages that im not getting with the messaging hub. Is ridiculous !!!

2. Wi fi not staying on when screen is close. If it was a future i would understand, sometimes it stays, sometimes it doesnt, seems so random that i dont know what to believe about this "feature"

3.Skype not working in the background. No clue how this is possible, it works great with android, it works great with iphone, but not with the very company that owns skype? Is this fixed in windows phone 8?

I guess these are the biggest concerns i have. On paper this OS looks great but with so many hit and miss it makes it not worth it for me.

I really am hopping someone will tell me windows phone 8 doesnt have all these messaging problems, cause if they exists im just gonna drop windows phone and go back to apple. Would really hate to do that, i love all the good things windows phone has to offer , or at least is SUPPOSE to.

Thank you.
[Nokia Lumia 920] piaqt:
I don't use Facebook or Skype, but there is an option to keep WiFi on, and my mail tile updates as it should. To get an idea of messaging experience, search at answers.microsoft.com, WP8 forum.
[Nokia Lumia 920] canhcutvl:
I don't use Skype but WP8 doesn't allow any app to run continuously in background, unlike Android, which means the toasts we see when the phone is in lockscreen are push notification from the app server. The reasoning is to keep your battery life healthy and phone fast, but not every app has its own server, haiz. And Skype and WP are 2 different divisions, so yeah, they are like two cousins, not siblings.
[Nokia Lumia 920] miodrage:
I am using all the social networks that exist in WP8, and they r working pretty good. Now about FB - u will receive every single message IF u r to answer from ur phone. If some computer interrcepts the messages (u r online on some of ur computers, the messages might not all get delivered to ur phone).

As u were told, the WiFi can be set to always ON, no worries about that.

Skype and MSN Messenger are now 1, and it is always in the background, and cannot be turned OFF. At least I haven't found a way. There is just a possibility to hit switch accounts, and that way u r logged out.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakki12345:
i was just wondering
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostofcain:
No, thank christ. What is it you want to do?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
No thank God there is not. We don't want this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostofcain:
Seriously now if you're going to ask the question please supply more information, what functionality of iTunes is it your after? And what desktop OS are you using? Personally I see no benefit to using iTunes and find it a royal pita when attempting to manage music for my wife's iPhone / daughters ipod on a single laptop.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkknigh_t:
Greetings :)

I've been searching and wondering I really love the S3 keyboard just the layout of the buttons and everything is pretty amazing.

My question is is it possible to port that keyboard to our lovely i9000? Or maybe if it isnt mod our stock keyboard to look close like that?

I've seen people porting xperia keyboards and stuff so is it possible? :)

Thank you in advance for all your answers :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlngu118:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2195453
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkknigh_t:
I saw that but if you look closely to the picture youl see that it looks like a themed normal keyboard but the button layout is different from the s3 keyboard :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shashx974:
bro im also seeing just saw that post will give it a try
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sbster:
which 4.2.2 kernel has given you guys the most battery life?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Here's the thing. Within kernels, there are different governors. Those governors impact battery life as well. But, there is no one size fits all for governors, either. It really depends on how you use your phone.

I would suggest reading up on different governors starting HERE.

Once you can determine what governor might suit you best, find a kernel that supports it :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] Papuchooo:
Whats the best rom out there right now for the charge havent really found anything up to date so figured id ask any input is welcome
[Verizon Droid Charge] dSlice:
The only custom one... Tweaked or the plain old stock.
[Verizon Droid Charge] tmanschuette:
New Eclipse beta is available.

http://www.elementalxdesigns.com/eclipse/showthread.php?p=381

Sent from my SCH-I510 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beergenius:
So I bought a nexus 4 on craigslist the other day and superuser was trying to reboot the phone and install twrp. I did little digging and found mako(sp?} ROM zip on SD card. I froze superuser and deleted mako zips. Long story short, what is the stock build number,kernel, and other info? I have ran ROM check and phone is not rooted but how come I can't uninstall superuser? Any help would be appreciated.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaronrw:
if you can access the bootloader try a factory reset?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beremus:
Factory reset and if it's still there, download the N4 tool and select unroot option in it. It should fix your issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbell13:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beergenius:
Thanks y'all!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
are you sure that its not rooted? you deleted the su app so that if you were rooted, you cant grant su to any off your root apps. superuser probably wasnt trying to install twrp, superuser was most likely asking you to grant permission for twrp to get installed.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j3ssejamez:
You could use the root checker app in Google play to check if your phone is rooted
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cholodelrosario:
Hey guys how can I disable the foxhound built in adblocker. I've tried flashing it's stock hosts, it works but after a restart it still reverts to its modded hosts. I've also tried installing adaway, it still doesn't work. I hope you guys can help me.

Thanks and have a good day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oomahey:
Just curious, but why do you want to disable adblocker?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cholodelrosario:
I don't want to disable it. I forgot to tell, that i just want to whitelist ad.fly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhariamine:
freeze it or uninstall it...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cholodelrosario:
There is no app installed. I think its the hosts.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Replace the hosts file or learn how to edit a hosts file .

Same edit method as windows host .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cholodelrosario:
The problem is there is no hosts folder in my etc folder
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Make one stock is

127.0.0.1 localhost

jje
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Arturofm2:
I installed this update for my rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2109229

and my mms stopped working, I mean... my messages in general... When I open the message app, it gets frozen and I have to close it.

Any idea why?

I had the version 1.5 before. Thanks

Question answered: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40302000#post40302000
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
For future reference is better to ask in the thread for the rom instead of making a new thread. Especially tweaked dwitherell is amazing at responding to problems and fixing them. Glad is fixed though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] janjannsen99:
So what made you think you'd get better answers here rather than in the thread for tweaked whatever rom. I'd really love to know this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
LOL - if I change it's name to this I will have to credit you for the inspiration ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mysticfrog:
Deleted..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] storm_chaser:
I was a little too enthusiastic about this new device and thought I would get the resolution just right before getting my backup systems in place. Big mistake. When I rebooted, the icons were so small I could not make them out. I finally got back into LCD Density, but was not able to make any changes or revert back. I was just able to make out the android settings menu and navigate to the reset menu. Unfortunately, while the OS was reset the screen density was still not right.

This is the RK3066 dual core android mini pc. I do not know how to boot into recovery. There is no place for a paper clip like on the older mini android pcs. I don't see a tried and true method.

I have Android SDK and various root tools on my win 8 desktops - any help to get the screen viewable is appreciate.d

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SohamJ:
there must be a recovery mode for the device

try connecting the device to your PC with USB and use adb recovery command to reboot into recovery

if this doesn't work then try pushing the original system folder
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JamesManios:
I'm using lineInitialize and lineopen to do things like query signal strength, but I was wondering what four of the parameters to the Callback are. I'm talking about the Callback made in LineInitialize.

The parameters I would like to get more info on are:

Msg, Param1, Param2, Param3

I believe Param2 is the Line Register Status, with values like LINEREGSTATUS_HOME but what are the others? The help on the function is extremely vague? Are the values device dependent? If so, does anyone know what the values are for the XDA/XDA2?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JamesManios:
Ahh forget it...

The Param1, Param2, Param3 change depending on the MsgType, and the message type is defined in tapi.h

:oops:
[Galaxy S 4 General] NZStevenC:
Hi all, I'm a long time user on XDA but I think this is my first new thread, so be nice :)

I'm keen to build up a list of LTE bands supported by the various variants of the S4. Current specs online seem to be fairly sketchy on what LTE bands are going to be supported by our pre-order phones. The general consensus from most sites is that the overall network frequencies supported will be:

I'm pretty much set on getting myself an S4 however unsure on what I'm actually buying into at the moment. I'm UK based (on o2 currently) but travel to the US several times a year. I've had the HTC Sensation XE which supports 1700MHz and therefore allows me HSPA connection on T-Mobile USA, and their $3/day prepaid tariff is brilliant. Going forward AT&T is also a possibility but their tariffs are a bit steeper (seem to need to pay for a month at a time).

So... what I'd like to do is pull together a list of supported bands for phones sold in various markets/regions/countries, as we get more detail on LTE bands supported. If folks are happy to post links to detail/evidence then I will compile this into a list. Would prefer to stick to the E-UTRA Operating Band numbers as opposed to frequencies.

For my own situation specifically, I'd also be keen to understand:

- Bandings of those phones sold by Carphone Warehouse UK, o2 UK, EE, AT&T, T-Mobile US

- There's a list of LTE bands on the S4 page on Wikipedia (so a big pinch of salt required): 700, 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2600 MHz. Is this likely to be the base European offering? If so, what band numbers would these correspond to, since a lot of the frequencies are used by several bands?

- AT&T apparently uses 700MHz for LTE - is that nationwide or just certain states picked up through acquisition of smaller carriers?

- Is T-Mobile US likely to get a special variant to support HSPA at 1700MHz?

- How widely has T-Mobile US reapportioned HSPA at 1900MHz (from the old MPC)

- If a new handset is bought outright at AT&T or T-Mobile USA, will they provide an unlock code free of charge?
[Galaxy S 4 General] NZStevenC:
List

(reserved to set out a master list as information comes in)
[Galaxy S 4 General] NZStevenC:
Thanks for the list - I think there's a semantic issue here though which reflects much more widely than this particular forum. For me this is about markets (e.g. countries, retailers and carriers) and in each these markets, what LTE bands will be accessible if I buy a i9505 handset. Will all of Europe and North America get the same LTE access? My impression was no. We could go quite granular with this...

UK:

Carphone Warehouse - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

EE - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

o2 - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

Three - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

Vodafone - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

USA:

AT&T - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

T-Mobile - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

Verizon - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

Sprint - i9505 with LTE band a, b, c, d, e, f

etc etc...

In a country like the UK it could be the case that all of the retailers and networks all support the same bands... but I just don't know for now. For the US that probably won't be the case.

Potentially we could build up a picture for all countries?
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
Dude how many accounts do you have? And how much would you spam your blog here?

sent fromXperia sT21i

Everything stock
[Galaxy S 4 General] knowthenazz:
I've been waiting to find out more information about this as well.

I'm in Canada on the Roger's network, and when I visit the US, I too use the T-Mobile $3 a day plan.

Unlike the S3, does this mean that all North American S4 variants will be the same phone (Telus, Rogers, Wind, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc)? If so, does that mean that if I purchase any S4 in North America that it will work on all North American cell networks?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
I have seen 3 accounts getting banned,for promoting the same website. Even when there are true sources like sammobile, etc, you source them to your website.

Already reported your post.
[Galaxy S 4 General] NZStevenC:
Pleased to hear I'm not the only one looking for this detail. It seems to odd to me that something's going on sale in just over a week but we aren't informed of exactly what it is. If Carphone Warehouse would confirm their model includes LTE on bands 3, 4, 7 and 20, I'd pre-order a sim-free phone right now :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Aerodeath:
I'm hoping to find out what are the frequencies 9500 support, not 9505.

Because 9505 has already been revealed.

If, within US, the bandwidths are carrier-dependent, what about international 9500?
[Galaxy S 4 General] camaroz28:
I live in the US and I'm also very interested in LTE band info amongst the different variants. I have the Verizon GS4 [SCH-I545] on preorder and currently using the AT&T Galaxy Note [SGH-I717]. I know absolutely nothing about UK carriers or their LTE bands etc, but know a pretty good bit about the US so I'll layout some of the info I have so far. Also I travel to Japan a lot so I would be interested in their LTE info as well.

Firstly, the GT-I9505 is not a variant that is intended for the North American market. (We are special and Samsung always makes us special ones :p) It can probably be bought online in the US, but no carrier is selling that model and I wouldn't expect it to be compatible with any LTE in the US (though it could work).

LTE Bands US carriers use that I know of:

AT&T (Evidence)

Currently Used Bands: 4, 17

(Band 17 is the only one I've actually seen when I look at my phone and I believe is used in all their LTE markets nationwide so far)

Future Use: WCS Band [EUTRA unnumbered ~2300Mhz]

(Evidence)

Potential Future Use: 2, 5

(See SGH-I337 supported bands for evidence)

Verizon (Evidence)

Currently Used Bands: 13

Future Use: 4

(Verizon to begin rolling out band 4 Summer 2013)

T-Mobile (Evidence)

Currently Used Bands: 4

LTE Bands of North American GS4 Varients:

AT&T SGH-I337

Bands: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 17

(Samsung Website Shows Bands 1,4,7,17 and FCC License Testing shows Bands 2,4,5,17 [Bands 1, 7 are not used in the US, therefore FCC doesn't care to test them.])

I think Samsung made a typo on their site listing all the bands because FCC documents proves that this phone can operate LTE on band 2 and 5.

Verizon SCH-I545

Bands: 4, 13

(Evidence and Evidence)

T-Mobile SGH-M919

Bands: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 17

(Evidence and Evidence)

Sprint SPH-L720

Bands: 25

(Evidence and Evidence)

LTE Bands on International Variant:

GT-I9505

Bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20

(This is my best guess based on the this info. However, 800 and 850 could be any combination of bands 5,6,18,19,20,26,27. Also 1800 could be either band 3 or 9. Some of these are subsets of others.)

(Also, this proves that it

at least

has LTE band 5.)

I can post more info as I come across it, but hopefully this will get you started.
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
do you know if the s4 is the same everywhere for frequencies and then limited via software or it actually has different hardware? I'm referring to the s4's in the USA vs the international version.
[Galaxy S 4 General] THE_KINGDOM:
Would this international version with Bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20. work on Rogers highest speed LTE Band 7?? EVEN though this phone is unable to connect to rogers LTE band 4???

Answers to this question will be thanked!
[Galaxy S 4 General] evildave_666:
All of the major japanese LTE carriers (not counting emobile who is a minor player) operate their primary network on band 1.

Softbank bands 1/18 (and band 41 TD-LTE)

Docomo bands 1/19/21 (band 3 to come)

au bands 1/11/18

Emobile band 3

Docomo is the only carrier with the S4 (phones are bought locked, subsided via a carrier shop 99.9% of the time in Japan). The japanese variant (SC-04E) only interoperates on band 1. The radio claims band 4 support but I was never able to make it operate with T-mobile LTE.
[Galaxy S 4 General] camaroz28:
Many of the versions of the S4 have different hardware, but for the ones that do have the same hardware (all the US versions), it's hard to tell whether the frequencies are set through software or hardware. I imagine the only way to verify would be to, for example, try an AT&T modem on a Verizon phone and see if it can connect to AT&T LTE band 17. If not, then either there are deeper incompatibilities between the two phones, or the hardware is not able to receive that band.

I am inclined to say yes, except that via Samsung's website it has a disclaimer stating that the bands it supports depends on the market. Which I interpret as meaning that the supported bands depend on where you buy the phone. So perhaps if you bought the phone in a market where band 7 is utilized, it would likely work. (Assuming it's unlocked.)

According to Samsung's spec page on the SC-04E The phone only supports "800,1500,2100MHz" which I assume are bands 1, 19, 21 as the phone was intended for operation on Docomo which uses all 3 of those bands on their network.

If you are referring to the service mode menu when you say "the radio claims band 4 support" I have found that to be an incorrect for all of samsung's phones lately. For example, my Verizon Galaxy S4 service mode menu claims it supports bands 2,3,4,5,7,8,17,20 which is completely false as Verizon operates only on band 13 at this moment and this phone absolutely doesn't support AT&T's band 17.
[Galaxy S 4 General] evildave_666:
I have not gotten anything but a band 1 connection on my SC-04E, in areas with only platinum-band service (i.e. anything in the mountains) only UMTS..
[Galaxy S 4 General] camaroz28:
Not entirely sure I understand this post, but I'll try to respond anyways. From what I can tell, the platinum-band in Japan refers to any bands in the 700-900Mhz range? So for Docomo, that would be their 800MHz band 19 allocation, which according to this map, they have almost no coverage with that band (the orange parts of the map) unless you live in the Chūgoku region. Their map does not distinguish between band 1 and band 21 but, based on an article I read here, it is safe to say that there won't be significant deployments of band 21 until after March 2014, and that even then they will only be in "key metropolitan areas" according to the article.

All that is to say, that I think it's clear that the vast majority of Docomo's LTE network is deployed with band 1, so therefore it makes sense that you have only seen that band being utilized on your phone. As for the mountains, again refer to the map, they don't have much of any LTE coverage in the mountains so it makes sense that you are limited to UMTS there.
[Galaxy S 4 General] basicblue2k:
Thanks guys for this detailed info, it does bring some hope for me to use my S4 bought in the UK in the USA while I travel for a week.

So just to confirm, a Vodafone UK phone would work in T-Mobile USA network on 4G speeds?

Also, I want to know more on the Three-UK's "Feel at Home" offer - did anyone use their S4 in the USA and how was your experience with this?
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
you UK version will only work with T-Mobile 1900Mhz 21Mbit 3g where they use it (very few places) It won't work on 4g lte.
[Galaxy S 4 General] planetf1:
Bear pricing in mind. I was in the US for 5 days a few weeks back but on three. I used their new free USA roaming. Between 1 and 2 GB hspa+ and all included. Worked great on s4 i9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
in which cities did you get hspa network?
[Galaxy S 4 General] basicblue2k:
thanks very much for confirming! happy days :angel:
[Other Tools & General Discussion] CalcProgrammer1:
I'm trying to get a framework going to port OpenJK (the Jedi Academy open source project) to Android. I've tried numerous Quake 3 Arena ports (all ioquake3) based but none support any useful means of input. Touchscreen controls for FPS games universally suck, I've not tried one that was even remotely playable yet, so why not implement the real deal? It's easy to plug in or pair up a keyboard and mouse with newer Android releases, so I want to get proper support for these in ioquake3.

The problem is it appears Android developers have flat out ignored the mouse and the API for it is a half-baked touchscreen mimicking compatibility layer. Using ACTION_HOVER_MOVE still gives absolute position, which is next to useless for a FPS. Is there any way to get relative input? Even if it requires a rooted device and bypasses Android's crappy mouse integration, I'd like the option to use the mouse.

Another idea I had was resetting the pointer every frame, then using the difference as the offset. It sucks, but I'd rather have mostly playable with a cursor on screen than unplayable touchscreen controls.

Currently I'm using the spearmint-android project which is SDL2 based. It compiles and runs except it's unplayable due to the touchscreen only emulating the mouse and no keyboard at all. If I plug in an external keyboard it's slightly playable.