yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] carguy303:
Its the vivo tab but its RT so I'd assume its the same.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Jaxbot:
Optimize is good. That means it's either running TRIM on the SSD, or defrag on an HDD.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] The.Yield:
SuperFetch is definitely on by default on my surface. Still doing a lot of A - B testing, but it seems like having it on is benefitting the surface.

Also, the HDD in device manager is very non-standard in its listing... I wonder what superfetch is actually doing on RT; maybe some secret sauce compared to standard Win8.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] carguy303:
What about prefetch? That is also set to run on windows rt
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Jaxbot:
Same thing
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] The.Yield:
Indeed it is and I had forgotten about it completely. My testing is netting some interesting results: It seems that disabling either one or the other alone nets weird performance. Disabling BOTH nets, so far, a very solid performance bump... More testing needed. I'll report back.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ctitanic:
Really good article about this topic.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2727880
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] AndreyKnd:
It seems that after disabling of the Defender, Windows doesn't identify corresponding updates - last update was installed on May 6th (when I disabled the Defender). I have just enabled it and Windows "see" such updates but can't install them (((

SOLVED: After editing of the registry, the Defender shall be turned on in Control Panel.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tboy2000:
I have disabled Defender, SuperFetch and Prefetch and notice a difference. Thanks.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Clienterror:
Holy cow its way faster now! Its almost as fast at loading metro apps as my Acer w700 with an ivy bridge i5 which is insane considering the difference in CPU power.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] AndreyKnd:
For the purpose of disabling of Superfetch I created the corresponding DWORD Key called EnableSuperfetch in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters" - am I right?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] sho0z:
Ok, either I'm an idiot or I just simply do not have the same commands as you with the instructions provided? After pressing the Windows key and permissions, I do not have "additional settings" and/or "owner", am I missing something?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
It might be advanced settings instead of additional settings, I do not have my display language set to English so I don't know what those are in English :P
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] sho0z:
Could you create a registry edit file for this? I'd even donate for it
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
I could, but it would not work because of the needed permission changes.

Edit. Well I just thought of a another way of doing it automatically, hold on.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
I created an app that does this automatically, you can download it from the first post of this thread.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] heero01:
I tried the app and got Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation mscorlib at System.securty.accesscontrol.win32.setsecuirtyinfo. There was more but i dont want to write it all unless you want it .
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] calebrocca:
Please check the attached photo!

Its a photo of my error code.

What am I doing wrong?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] smarti13:
SAME pb for me :(

I can loauch application but not disable Defender ...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
Do the manual registry editing, I can't figure out how to replace the permission settings in my app.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] smarti13:
I've tried it, permmission deny...

:(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
Did you take ownership of key before add write permission before edit key?

In this step it have 2 sub-step. First is take ownership and second is add write permission.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ctitanic:
Disabled the Defender and did not noticed too much of gain. In my opinion is more the risk than the benefit.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] crkdslider:
Hey guys,

Sorry to revive this old thread, but this caught my interest as I was scrolling the threads.

Like a few people, I had a few problems gaining access to the key in order to change it. I just wanted to let you all know how I did it, in case anyone was still interested, future issues, or if people just said screw it because they couldn't figure it out.

Something to keep in mind... This is on a brand new Windows RT Surface. It is 2 days old (as of July 26, 2013) and this is the ONLY modification I have made to this machine. The only things I have done is your standard out of the box Windows Updates and now this.

Anyways, now that that is out of the way, here is the process I used:

1) Windows + R > regedit > Enter

2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows Defender

3) Right click "Windows Defender" > Permissions

4) Select "Administrators (Your_login_name_here\Administrators) > Advanced

5) At the top you should see "Owner: SYSTEM"

6) Click on "Change"

7) In the text box that says "Enter the object name to select" type in EXACTLY what you highlighted in step FOUR (4)

---- This needs to be EXACTLY how it looks in that list down to every capital letter or underscore! ----

8) OK > Apply > Apply > OK

9) Right click on the key "DisableAntiSpyware" > Modify

10) Change value data to ONE (1) and hit OK

---- After you hit OK, I received a notification from the taskbar telling me that protection needed to be added. I took this as a confirmation it worked ----

11) Reboot

Again I will repeat exactly what I said before...

This is on a brand new Windows RT Surface. It is 2 days old and this is the ONLY modification I have made to this machine. The only thing I have done is your standard out of the box Windows Updates and now this.

Hopefully it works for you all!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] smarti13:
THANKS

IT worked

:)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] chp:
FYI, I believe this would be the preferred way to disable Windows Defender without having to change any registry permissions:

In regedit, create the following key, which probably doesn't exist:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender

In that key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value called "DisableAntiSpyware"

Modify the value data of the new value and change it from 0 to 1.

After restarting (or possibly after logging out), Windows Defender will be stopped/not running.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] madmanmostafa:
You can just disable it by going to the services and changing it from Automatic (Delayed) to Disabled. I went to the task manager, clicked on Services, clicked on Open Services, and disabled it from there. It didn't seem to come back on either. Though I'm not really seeing any performance gains on my surface tablet.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ctitanic:
You are not seeing it because there is not it. At least, nobody have been able to prove any gain.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Rancor62:
My surface rt experience has always been smooth. I did not notice any general performance gain. However, the almost daily 100% disk usage that brought the system to a crawl for 10 minutes at a time has not occurred since the registry hack.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ctitanic:
In a Surface RT? Because I have not found any setting making the AV scan automatically at certain time.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] nX3NTY:
For anyone who wanted to disable it when the exploit or regedit hack won't work, open up run dialog ( Windows button + R) type services.msc and press enter. Scroll down and find 'Windows Defender Service', double click (or tap) and press Stop, if you want to permanently disable it, on Startup type select 'Disabled' Job done.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Osprey00:
I just did some comparison testing, and disabling Windows Defender has absolutely no effect in Windows RT 8.1 RTM. If there was a performance decrease before, Microsoft appears to have eliminated it. So, if you have 8.1, I wouldn't bother disabling Defender.

For the record, this is what I did...

I launched Word, Music, Skype and Microsoft Solitaire Collection (a decent sampling of different types of apps, I reckon) one at a time and just did a rough timing of them with the clock on my laptop. I then ran them each a 2nd time and timed them that second time. If you're curious, the results were:

Word, 1st run: 4s, 2nd run: 2s

Music, 1st run: 3s, 2nd run: 2s

Skype, 1st run: 8s, 2nd run: 8s

Microsoft Solitaire Collection, 1st run: 13s, 2nd run: 6s

Note: Those are the times for the apps to get past the loading screen and display a UI. In most cases, the apps needed another second or two to finish processing all elements (ex. Word needs an extra second to show all of the thumbnails for the document types).

I, then, went to stop the Windows Defender Service, but it can't be stopped or disabled via Services in 8.1, so I tried the policy registry change that user chp posted in post #38. I rebooted and checked Services; Windows Defender Service was not started and was set to Manual. I then did the very same tests that I did before. There's no need to post the results because they were exactly the same as before in every single case.

So, whether this tip worked at one point or not, it doesn't seem to be useful going forward. Microsoft has seemingly done a good job of optimizing things to improve performance over the last year, and this might be another case of that.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
thanks for doing the thorough test. I didn't notice any difference either and posted it in another form where a number of people reported positive and no effects.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] helikido:
Can you guys check if you can change the languange on your phone to Arabic? I have a vibrant and I can do it on mine but I'm not sure of slim bean on the s3 can.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
Has anyone come across any dark gapps version that works on stock GSM JB? I have tried various versions, but could find none that works :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BOSS__DAWG:
I have looked as well and havent found anything
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anurag.dj2u:
Try to download full gaaps from the link if it doesn't work with ya mobile then flash modded gaaps and hell yeah ya need to wipe caches and dalvik caches before flashing

Thx

Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
Thanks, but would have appreciated a more useful response. The full gapps are usually for AOSP ROMs and they don't work on motoblur. Tried that already, but most of the modded gapps only work on AOSP based ROMs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anurag.dj2u:
Then extract the zip and push appropriate gapps like gmail, gtalk etc directly into system and remove all the stock gaaps and set the permission .

Thx

Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
Dude, thanks but I very well know how to install apps and ROMs. As I said earlier, please reply

only

if you know of a mod that works on stock JB 4.1.2. Only then will your reply be any useful.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anurag.dj2u:
I am sorry i tried to help somebody who is really very intelligent .

Sorry once aging

PS
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
Here is a blacked out version of GTalk which I can confirm works on stock JB (I am running the EU retail 4.1.2 JB on my XT910): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29178200

I will continue to see if I can find out other gapps that work on stock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SysAdmNj:
Almost feels recessed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] MattMJB0188:
I had this issue with the S3. They're not all the same. My S4 button is fine. Only problem is the damn animation lag.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] N3utrin0:
Turn the animations off in the developer menu.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SysAdmNj:
anybody else on the home button? Is it suppose to be pretty flush to the screen, I even feel the bottom part goes in more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mcmb03:
mine is about as flush as it can be, with just enough of a bump so i don't miss it if I'm quickly just feeling for it and not looking
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SysAdmNj:
I guess its not a defect or a reason to return. I'd feel a whole lot better if I knew a touch2wake type of mod could work on the sgs4 in the near future.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brogi87:
Hi guys!

I hope to do not any mistake posting here... I would like to know if is possible to modify the transparency of the Gmail widget.

Thank you for any answer

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
Try here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=990014

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] harry0717:
Can you tell me a good launcher with good features and fast speed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] LittleRedDot:
I know a lot of people use nova or apex, but I always preferred GO launcher. Though I've been stuck on stock TW since I got this phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] chousayz:
I run ATOM LAUNCHER on my Nexus 4

But I like APEX launcher for the NOTE 2

Its all personal preference though
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] NightHawkUndead:
Nova.

Atom is good too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] people211:
I really like Xperia launcher
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] David Felix:
I use Nova Launcher.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jon3sh:
Niva Launcher here too. :)

View attachment 1940433
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gregsarg:
Nova, ADW pro, Apex....All good launchers to use..

It really comes down to personal preference....g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] lmike6453:
I use nova but if you're looking for flavor check out tsf launcher and sslauncher
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rhaneyjr:
Have noticed Xperia launcher is just snappier than apex. However there is less customization....

However if you are willing to kick out $16 there is the next launcher by go devs. Check it in the play store
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Eternalty:
I use nova with prime. Got prime for 25 cents and it's been great never had a problem.

Sent from my CLEAN Note ll
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] David Felix:
Ha! When I bought Nova Prime it was well over 25 cents! :rolleyes:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Eternalty:
Yup nice sale price I got! :D

Sent from my CLEAN Note ll
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ainen:
Splay Launcher looks pretty interesting. I've read that it is lacking in customization but it has some pretty great potential.

Also, Buzz Launcher is pretty nice if you're looking to use themes made by others. It's got a pretty big selection.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
+1 :D

Ya got to look out for those sales.. Lol

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] potatotree:
I am loving apex. I find it faster than nova and less jerky. I have my htc rezound set up so clean, everything is perfect and workflow is definitely enhanced.

I am rooted and running snuzzo's viralota v3. Really fast and awesome battery life.

Try apex. My wife runs holo on her mytouch 4g and I set it up. It's not rooted, but it is almost as awesome as my setup.

They all look so similar and have very similar options and abilities, many times identical.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karthik0001:
Hello guys

I changed my phone to z. Restored all the contacts from my old phone to new one.

After this is done. For few contacts I can't find their name or number when I search it using smart dial or phonebook search. But when that user calls me up his name n no. Flashes on the screen n stays in the call log. Later vanishes.

Could anyone help me to get all those hidden contacts.

Thank you.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sfkaudi:
Did you make a backup of all your contacts on Googleaccount on your previous phone
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karthik0001:
Nope. I dint backup to a Google account.

I used wondershare mobilego.

My old phone was HTC wildfire we could not keep 2 Google accounts in it old version of android so I dint backup n dint want to mess up my primary account.

N in this phone I backed up all the contacts to a gmail account.

But I can't find it in phone.

I.e. When I try to find contacts In phone home screen last tab after favorites. Three persons icon where u can find local groups n Google account

In Google account the count is 0 , though I backed up the contacts.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rashkae:
Go to your contacts, optiond -> filter, expand the gmail account you used and make sure the correct group has a tick in the checkbox.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karthik0001:
Thank you.

But in gmail account I checked all the sub fields.

When I backed up all my contacts to that gmail account.

After logging into gmail from my pc I'm able to see those contacts.

But in phone I can't find them under the Google account tab.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rashkae:
Re-sync maybe?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gm007:
Could be duplicated numbers or names?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karthik0001:
Yup.

I had so many duplicates must be *3

Coz I had the Facebook sync on old phone.

That's the reason I used mobilego app to delete the duplicate. It worked well.

Still I have few duplicates. Very few I don't bother much with it.

But if I factory reset n sync my gmail account will I be able to restore my contacts.

I doubt coz I'm not able to find them in my phone.

I'm planning to root. So will have to be doing a factory reset many times. I'm new to root.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karthik0001:
Resynced everything contacts calender etc.

No change
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gm007:
Sync your contacts to Google than open your gmail on your pc and check if all your contacts are there before doing a factory reset.

In gmail there is an option to merge all duplicated contacts ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apkapkapk:
This happened to me too. I found out the contacts merged somehow O_O it's apparently a problem that other people have (Google it) as well. I painstakingly just unmerged every single one manually :(

Check if the contacts are merged!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
My Z merges contacts with every single reset or flashing of the phone. Became a bit wearisome.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowle:
I have upgrade from an XDAI to an XDAII, I have trawled through this forum and cannot find the answer. Please put me out of my misery want to transfer the data stored on the XDAI to my XDAII what is the best way of doing it. Obviously you cant use backup and restore and I have tried copying and pasting the Db directory (not possible).

Any clues anyone, I would be very gratefull
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Rudegar:
what data because if it's just contacts and appointments and tasks and such tnen it activesync with outlook and will automaticly be transfered

programs you can reinstall using activesync 's addremove programs
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowle:
It is contacts appointments etc.. but I cant use my contacts and appointments because I administrate about 20 of these XDA's so they only connect as guests. I dont want all of the appointments and contacts in my Outlook.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Rudegar:
spirit backup or something i think let you choose what you will be backing up maybe if you can choose only those things you can restore it on the xda2 even though it came from xda1
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] wfberg:
You could just add a new user to windows and use that user's outlook for activesync to store the information in, then delete everything and move on to the next one.. Not ideal, but it should work.

Oh, if you make the user's profile mandatory (not sure if you can do that on a stand alone windows computer, but you can on a domain), all the settings (including outlook contents) should be lost when you log out. That should make things easier still. Just get the user's profile so far as to enable it to sync, make it mandatory, and then log in, sync, sync, log out, repeat.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] flintanis:
Can you not just back up to an SD card those apps/data you want and then restore to the new advice. Not tried it, just a thought.

Regards
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slimegod:
I've looked around for the 4 in 1 volume up and down mod to skip music tracks but all the leads have a dead end. Anyone has a link to it? Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ZaZu90:
I found some apps that can fix Gamma but require the phone to be rooted.

Problem : My phone has a yellow tint. I prefer having a cool white instead of warm white display. The people at my retail shop did not acknowledge the problem, saying that they can't see a yellow tint. However they did give me another S4, but the problem is still there. ( compared to another S4, iPhone, Samsung Tablet, and Laptop screen ... They're all white, mine is off-white). I disabled auto-display and auto-tone. Brightness fixed at 80%.

How do I start with rooting my S4 ?? Will I lose phone memory ??

I have a sim-free S4 unlocked, with a yellow tint issue. Replaced it and the issue is still there.

Apps such as :

Nexus4 Control

Advanced Color & Gamma Control

require the phone to be rooted in order to change Gamma settings.

Would appreciate any advice.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] TheAH:
Hello,

I am getting an HTC Rhodium that is from Verizon. I currently have T-Mobile and I am wondering what the steps are to get my T-Mobile SIM running on it. Could someone please give me detailed steps on how to use the Verizon phone on T-Mobile's network?

I've been here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=594862.

Thank you,

TheAH
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] arrrghhh:
That thread covers it pretty well. Need to do the SIM unlock, and you won't have 3g.

What else do you need?
[HTC Sensation] egyptian_guide:
Hi

So my phone's battery started to mess up. It would run out in 5 min from 90% if using WiFi even if the screen brightness was set to minimum. Same thing would happen if watching videos. But playing music would last about 3 hrs and if not used for media it would last full day with average number of calls. I tested it with current widget and it showed a loss of 2% over 2 hrs when in sleep mood .so is there anything I could do to improve the battery life or should I buy a new one?

I already have 2 extra batteries that I bought with the phone but they are even worse!!!thanks
[HTC Sensation] NicoC72:
Sounds like your buying bad knock off batteries. If the issue isn't ROM related, try picking up an Anker and see if that fixes the issue.
[HTC Sensation] egyptian_guide:
I forgot to say that the current battery its the original battery and its almost 2 yrs old. Would that make any difference or should I just get the anker battery ?
[HTC Sensation] hanisod:
yup your phone's battery is dying.

I don't think the anker battery is available in Egypt.

Try asking couple of local stores because I'm sure Vodafone or mobinil don't have Sensation batteries.

And if you have some issues and you want help. Pm me I live in Egypt