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[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] konman795:
I've been using Best Skins Ever for literally every phone I've had (S2, GNEX, S3, S4) for the body protection. Their skins include a cutout for the camera lens part. I've always thought it was a good idea to protect the lens part because I don't think it uses any kind of scratch-proof material. Especially because the camera sticks out enough that it contacts any surface when you lay it on it's back. Here's the link if you're interested in seeing the cutouts for it: http://www.bestskinsever.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-skin
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Mr. bird:
Only thing I would worry about isa lens protector degrading the quality of pictures. The camera is a big reason why I went for this phone. If you get a good case it will protect the lens. The otterbox commuter case I got sticks out past the camera pretty far so its fine.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trickee360:
Google music is for some reason downloading album art to my xperia play's internal storage instead of sd card. As you can guess, it's eating up ~100mb of my 400mb internal storage and the music files are still downloading to the sd card. Is there a way to make Google Play Music download album art to the sd card?

My apologies if this isn't the right section
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ronny927:
Q&A and troubleshooting would be the right section. Any moderators can move this thread?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] camille:
Regards all,

I was hoping that someone has figured out how we can check our mail, for email accounts in hotmail, yahoo, netscape (HTTP servers) without having to do it through Internet Explorer. If there is a way to check the account as if it was a POP3 mail account. Please let me know if someone figured it out or downloaded an add on to the mail client application that comes with the PPC. Thank you for all your help.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Biso007:
For Hotmail there is a s/w called pHotmail v2.1 so maybe you can try it ... but I'm not aware of a way to setup HTTP accounts like POP3 and IMAP4 inside Outlook
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eldiazira:
Bonjour, je suis un jeune français de 18 ans , et j'aimerais pouvoirs installer Windows 8 sur ma Tablet S ,

Android c'est bien et moments mais la ça devient nul je peut rien faire avec ^^,

j'ai Windows 8 sur mon pc et j'aime bien m'en servir j'aimerais le mettre sur ma tablette ,

mais je c'est pas si sur ma tablette c'est possible .si quelqu'un la déjà fait merci de bien vouloir me donner un tuto bien expliquer .

Cordialement.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stifilz:
This is a English only forum, please. As for installing Windows 8 on your tablet.... NO WAY. Not possible, well highly unpractical. No driver support for one, locked bootloader etc. If you want Windows 8 tablet then buy a Windows 8 tablet. Plain and simple.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimibxl:
c'est impossible, déja que windows 8 est un système pour architecture x86, alors que la tablette utilise une architecture arm. Tu pourrais à la limite installer windows RT qui est lui fait pour du arm.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eldiazira:
Okay thank you for your reply, sorry I do not speak any English, but I would use the translator for the next time thank you
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
Windows 8 requirements are 2.5GHz+ and some BIOS security features which are in most modern PCs these days (not Pentium 4 or CPU unsupported in black screen form appears).
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ubichinon:
Thats true, but for the Pro Version. The Windows 8 RT version doesnt require such stuff, and the only thing that wouldnt be good enough on the XTS would be the RAM - 1 GB ram is too little for Win 8.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
Same applys to the release/developer preview.

Windows RT needs plenty of ram for sure but there is something in the hardware code which makes it possible.
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] Umair Brada:
How can i get the animation while charging like on sense roms.

I am on touchwiz ui 5 build 3
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] russelldias:
That is Only For Sense!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Tomaat:
Hello guys im stuck in recovery after i wanted to install the new Gapps for CM10.1 with goomanager (im on pacman rom) and now it keeps booting to Gbootmenu, i cant get out, i factory resetted everything, wiped everything, how to solve this ? i have acess to a file manager (2 actually) and can i remove some sort of file that keeps booting it there??

Regards, Tomaat
[LG Optimus 4X HD] mono28aug:
You can try and flash stock firmware
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Omario-242:
Stock reflash or nandroid backup :)

You won't be able to get out of boot loop

When deleting something with file manager I think :)

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] rahulsnair:
If u could get into recovery mode do nandroid backup. It ll be nice than stock flashing..
[LG Optimus 4X HD] mono28aug:
And i wonder what that will do? :confused:

Coz when we flash stock firmware it wipes everything so what's the use of creating nandroid backup?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] rahulsnair:
After flashing with stockie...put up clockwork mode and restore your system to what was before:)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] mono28aug:
wtf

what are you even talking bro....when we flash stock firmware everything on our phone gets erased even with internel and external things..how the hell on earth would that back wont get deleted :/

u need to get your facts straight !
[LG Optimus 4X HD] rahulsnair:
Hey. I dont think externel will get wiped out while flashing with stock. Even if it does you can make one backup of your externel sd card .
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Omario-242:
He is right! Ext don't get deleted and u can root, unlock, flash cwm and restore your device.... I think you need to get your facts straight (and even if it would get erased, just pull the ext memory out of the phone before flashing stock?!)

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] mono28aug:
That's back up over back up over back up... :) ok cool
[HTC One X] syed4384:
how to fix red screen?
[HTC One X] mono28aug:
It's probably due to colors from a kernel ... Re flash another kernel and see or try trickster app to change the color presets

Hope that helps.. Good luck
[HTC One X] athulele:
Did you change the white balance of your screen?? Try Twilight from play store
[HTC One X] syed4384:
ok I'll try, thanks for your help ......:good:
[HTC One X] athulele:
So, how did it go?
[HTC One X] syed4384:
I refresh rom again.....
[Java for Android App Development] martinevannew:
Hi, i got a generic android tablet momo8 and the front camera works like a mirror and I need it to work like a laptop does cos im working on a website that reads qr codes and it works fine in laptops but the android tablets wont read it correctly. I was wondering if maybe modifying the camera.apk it could work but i dont know much of java to do so and I need it kinda urgently to present it working to some potential client. If somebody could help ill be more than happy ...if someone know of an app that changes that mirror function it will be even better.

Thanks in avance.

desde Córdoba, Argentina mil saludos :D
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
Is it just on your tablet?

If it occurs on all tablets, you will not be able to do that by modifying the camera app as it is different for each device.

If it is a problem just on your tablet, ask in your device specific forum.
[Java for Android App Development] martinevannew:
Yes its on every tablet with android. There should be a way to disable the mirror effect on the camera.. it cant happen that ipads work fine with it but android didnt think of reading qr with front cameras. There must be an app that changes that behavior of the cam

desde Córdoba, Argentina mil saludos :D
[Java for Android App Development] octobclrnts:
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but the android camera app does not read QR (or any other) barcodes. You would have to download an app to do that such as ZXing team's Barcode Scanner.
[Java for Android App Development] martinevannew:
Ive created a web application that can read qr codes, it works on laptops and the idea is to use it by loading the site from tablets, when it loads the application it works well, it opens the camera with no problem, however the front camera by default works in a mirror effect so the application cant load the qr. This doesnt happen when the tablet has a camera in the back but i need to use the front cam. This is why i need the camera with no mirror effect and working just like a latop does

desde Córdoba, Argentina mil saludos :D
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
Check this: http://answers.opencv.org/question/7143/mirror-image-on-android-front-camera/
[Java for Android App Development] Zatta:
OpenCV and the methods used there need to have the openCV manager to be installed as a separate app (there are workarounds for this) for the libraries.

Bottom line is, you have to create your own camera app for this, disturbing the idea of a mobile site. There are (more or less) easy ways to implement camera, you are not the first one to bump into this problem.
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
He could also flip the picture on the server.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Over the past couple days I've noticed this as the top partial wakelock on my device. This seems to be at least partially coincident with info propagating across the internet about Google games. There is an apparent associated wake alarm, which ends in .Gms.

While these aren't insanely bad wakelocks, they are irritating to me as I'm not sure where they are coming from. The number of wake alarms from this is pretty aggressive... Previous to this maps was my most aggressive waker by a large margin, and this new one is twice as aggressive as maps.

Is anyone else seeing these? Anyone have any insight as to the source?

Screenies attached...
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MaluNoPeleke:
Yes, same problem here but with a Nexus 4
[AT&T LG Optimus G] OMGMatrix:
It looks like that's caused by Messenger.

I can say for certain that it Might be caused my Messenger, as I do not have it installed ,and do not suffer that wakelock.

I do got a lot from Maps, but Greenify takes care of that.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
What specifically is pointing you to messenger? You're referring to G+ messenger I assume. There haven't been any updates to G+ or messenger recently...
[AT&T LG Optimus G] OMGMatrix:
No, but I have seen com.google.gms implicated in recent Google Play Services updates, in reference to the upcoming game center-thing Google is launching, so That could potentially have something to do with it.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] atrix4nag:
DId you get rid of this wakelock. this error is not lettign my phone to sleep.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
No. It seems to have gotten slightly better with a different kernel, but still present. I'm still getting decent deep sleep and awake: screen on ratios... It isn't completely preventing deep sleep for me.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] atrix4nag:
I saw this wakelock first time on my phone.. i installed a new ROM today. I used this rom before also, but i never saw this wakelock. What you have done to reduce this wakelock
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Is been around for a few days... I think it is being caused by updates to background Google services, but I'm not sure. Since I don't know what's causing it, chasing it down by freezing stuff or using greenify odd going to take time. I haven't had that time yet. So I am living with it for now.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] atrix4nag:
ok, let me try different options.

I tried all the options given in Better Battery Stats app, to minimize gsf wakelocks and disabling maps. I tired these settings for the first time..
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Karpfenhai:
Did it help? Just out of curiosity.. :D
[AT&T LG Optimus G] atrix4nag:
yes,it helped after fully recharging and restarting the phone. now no more nlpcollector wakelock on my phone
[AT&T LG Optimus G] wolfboy1984:
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?

It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Could be. I haven't had really any time to chase this yet. But for grins, I installed the app AutomateIt, which if I understand correctly takes advantage of some of those new Google features. I turned on a couple options in the app to trigger things "when in a vehicle". I subsequently saw more of this wakelock.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Alsarea3:
Anyone fount out what is the solution ?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] jdock:
Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.

I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now :)
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
It may be battery friendlier than the old location services - it doesn't seem particularly drain inducing to me - but it is running on top of the old location services (I haven't noticed any reduction in wakelocks from them) so it does result in some additional drain.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] wolfboy1984:
It aggregates it from wifi, data and gps remember.

If you are using wifi - it will be there.

Keep your smart phones smart.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] jdock:
Yeah, I was under the impression that it's kind of up to the apps to actually USE the new service. If they still go about things the old way then the new service doesn't help anything.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
I posted the following on my own thread but I'll be moving my discussion here because it's pretty much the same thing.

I think the issue is that the old service and the new service are running simultaneously and is negatively impacting battery instead of saving like what was promised with the new service. Maybe we need to find a way to remove/freeze the old service.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
This looks promising...I think. http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
That was my impression as well... Haven't had a chance to grab it yet...
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
Someone in the comments mention something about nlpcleanup code.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] sblock:
In my case I have found the reason: It was the active AutoLocation, a beta Tasker Plugin.

sblock.de - Galaxy Note 2 & 10.1 - Tapatalk 4 beta
[AT&T LG Optimus G] larry_thagr81:
I'm having the same type of issue with my google services, more specifically nlp wakelock constantly running. Right now I'm testing out the play store 4.1.10. Hopefully this addresses my google services issues because it is keeping my phone from entering into deep sleep.

I'll post an update in the next 12 hours on the status of my battery drain issues.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
Just remember to reboot after installing.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] xlightan:
Trying this market update atm, will be back later with results.

---------- Post added at 06:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:16 PM ----------

Same issue after updating market. 81 wakelock in 20 minutes
[AT&T LG Optimus G] larry_thagr81:
Well xlightan, I think I have you beat on wakelocks. Although I will say that my battery has improved simply because my phone is actually able to go into deep sleep unlike before where it didn't go into deep sleep at all.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
I'm seeing 639 partial wakelocks over 6 hours 45 minutes. I'm not sure how that compares to what I had before the update, but the battery life feels better. I also enabled Now and I'm sure that's contributing to the drain.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
After the Google play services update Android OS was at 22 to as high as 29 percent. Now, after the Playstore update its holding steady at 16 percent. Battery life is noticeably better but I still see the two services running at the same time. (Googlelocationservice and Networklocationservice). I guess those two aren't related then.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Initial impression for me is considerably better deep sleep numbers, and no sign of NLP collector in the top of the wakelocks. Will continue to monitor, but looks like significant improvement initially
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Before and after pics
[AT&T LG Optimus G] obyn:
i'm running cm10.1.0, tried both stable and latest nightly (0701).

i've updated to google play 4.1.10 and still seeing big battery drain from google services.

and nlpcollectorwakelock's got around 400 wakelocks in just 8 hours.

this is really starting to freak me out.

have got maps and a couple of location-based widgets in hibernation using greenify.

nothing seems to help.

i've also tried setting wifi to always on and always off.

nothing seems to help.

is there something i can do to completely remove the nlpcollectorwakelock? what does it really do besides eating battery?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
If you really want to kill it, try turning off all of Google's location services. I haven't tried that myself... It will certainly disable Google now, and probably other stuff, but that would be the way I'd go. I've just decided to live with what's left of it because I want to continue to use location based services.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] obyn:
hmmm, after i flashed cm nightly 0701 and set wifi to "never" i went into recovery and wiped battery stats.

now when i look at the phone, google services is way down (only 3%) and nlpcollector has only 3 wakelocks!

i don't really know what solved the problem but i guess it was cm 0701...
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Germian:
Well, I have a Galaxy S2 (intl.) but I got the same problems with about ~2000 wakelocks in ~6 hours, it's driving me crazy and I can't really use my phone anymore because the battery is dead in not even half a day.

I think it began with the new Google Maps (the 7.0 version) where that problem began to occure. I already have the newest Play Store installed. Seeing how this thread didn't have any activity for over 2 weeks, is that problem solved for you or do you guys still have problems?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] OMGMatrix:
NLP Collector is my highest wakelock, but it's not causing any significant battery drain for me.

Have you looked in the SGS2 forums?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] rmg88888888:
I'm still have this cause wakelocks for me as well. I also seemed to notice it appeared with the new version of Google Maps. I've been searching and haven't been able to find a solution.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] carlosmg2:
GoogleLocationService vs NetworkLocationService

Are these 2 services needed?? or networklocationservice is from the old Gmaps?

I say this because when I kill googlelocationservice it comes back (as it is supposed), but if I kill networklocationservice, it doesn't come back, even if I open Gmaps. So maybe it is leftover process rubbish from past gmaps?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] toge64:
what is the best fix for this? my phone won't deep sleep anymore thanks to this wakelock i think.

edit: trying the fixes from this discussion http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/LEPcl9e3dYE[51-75-false]
[AT&T LG Optimus G] SlabBulkhead:
This is ridiculous, these problems only started a few days ago but now my phone won't last more than 8 hours because it barely goes into deep sleep. I've tried multiple roms now to no effect, any solutions?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Started with the new maps update maybe?

Check what you have set up for maps location settings. In my experience, turning location reporting off should help some (on the old version of maps - haven't had it on since I got the update). Looks like G+ is being pretty aggressive for you too...do you have something on G+ doing something in the background?

Edit, what device are you on? LGOG or something else?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] SlabBulkhead:
Galaxy S2. I froze google plus, I had no idea what it was doing since I never even ran the app since I did the fresh install the other day. I've turned off location reporting and history, will see if that improves things.

EDIT: Looks like that may have done the trick, my phone is back to sleeping correctly for now but I will have to keep an eye on it.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
good luck. something to consider on the S2 - watch your number of alarms from certain things - I used to have an i777, and on that device, pretty much any time a wake alarm was launched by an app, it held the device awake for 6 seconds...anything with lots of alarms was a monster battery killer.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] milesjohnson:
Dude I just got your pm I did install the new Google maps! Could that have been the problem??? I have it uninstalled now but if I were to install it again what should I do so I don't get that stupid wakelock
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
It might be. I'm just trying to think of recent changes to stuff that might impact location related stuff. I think they are a little more aggressive than they were before the update for me... But not sure. I still get them... Just live with them.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MakhouT:
This is really awful! I'm clueless about how to fix this. Have to charge the phone 2-3 times a day :o
[AT&T LG Optimus G] putsometrebleinit:
The only time that Wakelock has been an issue for me is when I enable location access and reporting. Turn that stuff off, reboot and see if it goes away. Mine did.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MakhouT:
Where exactly can I turn it off on my stock s3?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] putsometrebleinit:
Google settings>location then uncheck the box for location access. You can also go to system settings>location and then turn off location access for other apps too but all I had to do was kill it from Google settings. Also if you have the S3 it may be better to ask in that forum.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
The folks in the BBS thread are good at cross device wakelock chasing as well. I'd read the instructions in that thread and put together the data they want to see, then post it up.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] keltickal:
Check wifi signal strength

Whatever Google did to cause a variety of wakelock problems, having a strong wifi signal seems to solve them.

Kal
[AT&T LG Optimus G] dandrumheller:
Do you have Wi-Fi location on (not sure if you can even disable that separately, actually)?

These are location collector wakelocks... I think any time you are on Wi-Fi it's constantly aware of your location, so no need to wake up to check in. Just a guess.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] keltickal:
Wifi signal strength!

I have been getting a wide variety of wakelocks that all disappeared when I used a range extender. This is a general issue with more than just NLP causing wakelocks and Google will need to address this.

Kal
[AT&T LG Optimus G] suttonps:
NlpCollector wakelock

It causing lots of wakelocks for me too. Tried searching to find a solution, but couldn't find any good answers so started playing with a few settings.

Ever since I disabled the "Wi-Fi & mobile network location" in the Location Access page of settings, this wakelock seems to have disappeared. Don't know the root cause, but this seems to have temporarily fixed it for me.

Using Galaxy Nexus, 4.2.2 AOKP.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] danial.aw:
Instead of disabling location services fully I just disabled location reporting and history in maps... That fixed the issue for me
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MakhouT:
Too bad, we have to shut everything down so our phone will last.. Not getting the full potential like this..
[AT&T LG Optimus G] noellenchris:
Turning off the location from wifi and networks stopped the wakeups for me also under settings/location . But in the past not using that setting caused all the apps to wakeup the gps which also used battery. I don't know what google did, but it should not be waking up our services for location every 10sec or so! I hope they catch this and fix it. I know it was never this bad and I've had all the location settings on for years on lots of versions of google. If I find anything I will post here as well...

Noellenchris