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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tbrummell:
Yes it does. It's called Wireless Phase 2 (WPH2).

Please don't answer a question if you don't know the answer. Cell tower location reporting is Wireless Phase 1 (WPH1).

If a PSAP requests the WPH2 data (most do it automaitcally on answer of a call, and then every 10-30 seconds thereafter) the cellular carrier must provide the Long & Lat, otherwise a failure is reported. This data is then passed to the PSAP CAD system and the location is shown on a mapping system. Yes, they can track you as you are walking down the street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1

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Also, side note. Go back a few years with Rogers (possibly other carriers). back when they had the HTC Dream/G1. They managed to release a build that when dialing 911 the phone would crash. It was because the phone module was calling a pointer to a NULL point, rather then the GPS, causing the whole phone to shutdown. I got myself a brand spakin new HTC Magic due to that blunder. Thanks Rogers. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TimeAndroid:
Yeah, Canadian carriers suck don't they? I made an attack YouTube video against them. Anyways, thank you for the help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jb4kats:
I don't know why I even rooted, I don't even understand it, I just hear others talk about how much better it can make your phone but I did root but that is it, I haven' teven installed a rom and do not even know how to do that. I probably should have waited until I I know more about it but I just got caught up in the moment a few weeks ago when someone else had done it and they said it was easy so I took the bait. Now I am going to give the phone to a family member and to avoid having any issues with the phone I want to unroot and do a reset so the phone is set to factory so they may set it up to their liking so how can I unroot? I was told that since I did not install a rom then I could do a factory reset and it would set everything back to stock so can someone advise me on this? If it can't be done that way is there a unroot abvailable?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] amwworks:
First thing. This should have been posted in the Q&A section. Second thing. Go to the link provided. Follow the instructions and download the stock MDC.TAR file. Use Odin to flash and you'll be back to stock. No root!

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?p=2599
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Linger1974:
Hi gang,

One quick question, I wish to back up the current image on my device (Rom, settings, installed apps). Can I just use the bootloader and back up to my SD? If not, what's the best app to use for a wallaby running WM2003?

Thanks!
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] palmtest:
Hi linger1974,

The method I used is as follows.

Get the XDATools from this site.

Install the XDATools.

Now you have the XDA OS Image Tool.

Use this tool to read the current OS, and save it to your PC.

You now have a backup (*.NB1) of your XDA OS.

Make sure to have about 15MB of free space on your SD card.

Use SDBackup on your XDA and make a Backup to SD.

You now have a backup of your 'working set' of installed applications on the SD Card.

Use a card reader to attach the SD Card to your PC.

(Your PC probably sees it as a removable harddisk).

Make a Windows Backup of the SD card.

(RightMouse> Properties> Tools> Backup Now>)

Burn a CD with the downloaded XDATool, the XDA OS backup (*.NB1) and the Windows backup of your SD card (*.BKF)

Store the CD in a safe place :D.

In case of a severe emergency, find the CD which you created above, use the XDA OS Image tool to write the XDA OS NB1 back to SD Card. (If necessary install the XDATool which you burned on the CD).

All existing information on the SD Card is lost forever (but we still have the *.BKF on CD).

Perform a Soft Reset with your Stylus while holding down the On/Off button.

Release the On/Off button and perform the OS upgrade.

Now you have restored the XDA with the original OS.

Use a Card reader to attach the SD card to a PC. Format the SD card.

Perform a restore of the *BKF on CD and be sure to restore it to the SD Card.

Place the SD Card back in your XDA and use SDBackup to resore the 'working set' of installed applications.

Perform a normal Soft Reset and you are completely restored.

Hmmmm... your quick question did not result in a quick answer from me.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] theb:
Would this be the same method for the XDAII? If not, can somebody explain to me how to do a complete backup, settings and all?
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] BRosenow:
My recommendation would be to purchase a copy of Sprite Software's Sprite Backup ver 3.0. Excellent program! It even creates self-restoring backup files, so you don't need to install the program before you can restore the device.

Excellent program! Indispensable!
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Linger1974:
Thanks a lot, Palmtest, for your reply. Sure, it wasn't a quick one, but the detail was much appreciated. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huiq3:
hello every one:

my hd2s toch dosent work and l use usb host function with usb muse!i have very very big problem:(my wifi dosent work with usb host,l used sd build (paranoid android)

can youhelp me?

i need to connect to internet,becuse divice without internet is unusable:(

please

sorry for my bad english
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ryuken11221:
Hey guys can anyone elaborate as to why I get this error when I try to flash a ported ROM that I have worked on
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ryuken11221:
Does anyone know why this is ocurring
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ryuken11221:
Ok i guess it was recovery related but now that i have switched to CWM i get the Status 6 error can anyone help with that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
Your script is checking for a different device in your build.prop add a safety precaution.

You need to edit it to church for this device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] bigfau:
Church. RotfLmao:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
Swyped yet again...

*check*
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ryuken11221:
I verified that the the build.prop and the updater script are edited properly just not sure why this is still occurring
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorc2:
Hello everybody,

I have a Lumia 820 dev and I want to activate Visual VoiceMail that is already activated by my operator (B&You - Bouygues Telecom) but the toggle switches is not present.

I don't want to flash my device that is developper unlocked.

I want to know if it is possible to enable this feature on my phone or if you know a way to edit the registry.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
Believe me, we'd all love a way to edit the registry...

Odd that the switch wouldn't be present. Have you tried rebooting the phone? On mine, it showed up (and worked) as soon as I put the SIM in (which the phone was shut down during).
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorc2:
I have my WP8 for 2 months so it have rebooted many times but never appear.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victorc2:
I contacted my operator to desactivate, reactivate the VVM but even after several reboots, the option never appear
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve10:
Did you make sure to dial into your voicemail after? It may be missing from some carriers' ROMs, but if it's there you usually need to dial into your voicemail after VVM is provisioned for the phone to try to set it up.
[Blade General] scouse83:
Hey guys I have got this phone for myv3 year old son for apps the sim card part is broke so its just for apps and that can anyone recomend an good rom for me to use that wont have and force close probs or anyfing like that just nice simple n works I cant remember what rom im running on it at the min but it has a few probs like any help would be great

Thanks in advance guys
[Blade General] De@n:
Stick with CM7 http://get.cm/?device=blade
[Blade General] scouse83:
Cheers mate nice one
[LG Optimus 2x] deepgrass:
The purpose of this thread is for discussion about best use of MIUI in general.

Which may or may not be related to MIUIv5 by rugglez.

It is recommended to try his rom first to see if you like it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2219511
[LG Optimus 2x] deepgrass:
For bugs about 3.5.3.

Issue: When you press and hold the home button, the multi task will flash up and then exist.

Solution: Setting-> button -> desktop key -> choose none.

I have already flash back to beta 2, but this should be the way to solve the issue.
[LG Optimus 2x] deepgrass:
For tips about 3.5.3.

- on the music icon, press and hold, then swipe up. You will see a pop-up music control

- there is a battery saving mode in setting >battery. I think this have something to do with tune down cpu freqz to from 1.2 to 1Gz.
[LG Optimus 2x] flopower1996:
Is there any battery drain or any other major downsites of this Rom?
[LG Optimus 2x] rugglez:
1. Uses material stolen from pengus77 without permission

2. Battery drain is higher than any other rom for the o2x

3. Our phone's low amount of available ram in android 4.0+ can't handle resource hungry miui any more. May be smooth at first but apps take a lot of time to open, compared to other roms, and multitasking can't be handled well(mostly due to low ram, again)

Those are the problems in descending order of importance, (and coupled with my lack of time) why you aren't seeing newer versions being released by me ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] deepgrass:
MIUI ROM 3.5.10 is released. Changelog

[Messaging]

Fix - In some cases when network becomes unavailable, it still sends as network message instead of a normal text

[Lock screen , status bar, notification bar]

Optimization - Improved the touch slide fluency of lockscreen

[Desktop]

Optimization - "Global search" thumbnail style in editing mode

[Camera]

Fix - When entering camera from contacts, front camera mirror image function does not work

Fix - When enabling camera from other programs, the preview and image of moving objects is inconsistent

[Gallery]

Optimization - Gallery blacklist

Fix - Unsorted picture can still be moved to the photo album

Fix - In some cases, thumbnails cannot be displayed

[Music]

Fix - Online music fails to load from cache or flash back in some cases

Fix - Clicking on desktop widget cannot enter music player

[Sound Recorder]

New - “Recording silent mode” switch

[Calendar]

Fix - In some cases the calendar view switch may cause selected date to change

[Notes]

Optimization - Notes reminds will display notification in status bar area

Fix - In some cases the notes renaming notes folder will lead to flash back

New - Slide down on Notes icon to create a new note

[Alarm clock]

New - When setting an alarm, remaining time before alarm is displayed

Optimization - System default alarm ring interface displays weather

Optimization - Adjust the alarm interface for Samsung I9100

[Xiaomi account]

Fix - In some cases Cloud service activation is unsuccessful

source
[LG Optimus 2x] deepgrass:
3.5.17 is now available from MIUI site.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jthein1989:
Does anybody know if this phone supports audio through USB (analog, not digital)? If so, how do you impliment it? I can do "some" programming, and I'm great at soldering...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tmjohnsonfse:
I made the ultimate mistake the other day. I flashed a kernel for another device onto my S3 and of course paid the price of bricking my phone.

To set the scenario, I had back surgery last Thursday and was released from the hospital on Friday with a supply of pain killers and orders to not do anything. Well, while sitting around doing nothing I got bored and decided to work on a couple of my friends tablets that needed rooting and roms installed. I got them done without any issue and then decided to mess with my phone. There were a couple of new kernels I wanted to test and so I decided to do this. I booted into recovery and selected the kernel and flashed. At that moment I realized that the kernel I just flashed was not for my phone and when I tried to turn on the phone and nothing happened, I knew immediately what I had done and after saying a few nasty words to myself I started searching for a way to fix it. While searching through the forums I kept reading about MobileTechVideos.com and their ability to jtag repair phones. Since I have never had to do this and my phone was not going to work anyway I decided to give them a call and see what they had to offer. I called them and asked about their services and they said that it should be no problem fixing my phone. I live in Dallas and the company is in Bryan, about 3 1/2 hr drive, I decided the easiest and fastest way to get my phone repaired was to take it to them and wait. On Tuesday morning I drove to Bryan and dropped off my phone. When I had called them they told me it might be a couple of hours to fix it, but once I told them it was a tmobile device they told me to wait because it might only take a few minutes. During this time they showed me around the office and I was really impressed. What impressed me the most is that no one working for this comany could have been over 25, even the owner. So after a brief tour of the office, about 10 minutes, my phone was fixed and was ready to go. I paid my $60, which I believe was well worth it, said thank you and was on my way with my fully functional phone.

They never asked me to post anything and I don't have any affiliation with this company. I just want to post about a company that provided the service they said they would at a price that is reasonable since without it I would have a $600 paperweight. So if anyone ever happens to make the foolish mistake that I made and you need your S3 repaired, I would 100% recommend this company. Here is the link to their website, http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com, mods let me know if this is not allowed and I will remove it.

I know I am always questioning online companies likes these, but this particular company has earned a customer for as long as they are open and support whatever device I happen to be using. I just hope that since I made this mistake I will hopefully never make it again.

Moral of story: If on heavy doses of pain killers don't crack flash kernels. If might cost you in the end. :}
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] IXChicharitoXI:
Never bricked a phone before but I've heard great things about that company. If I ever run to trouble I'll surely go to them immediately.

Thanks for the review.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Bass_Man25:
Thanks for the review - it's good to hear good comments about the company "just in case".

Hope you're feeling better.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bgbagz:
Cool.... Drugs say No to them... Get well
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DeerSteak:
Pain meds after back surgery are a definite yesssssss, just don't brick your phone. lol

Happy to read a ringing endorsement, though - also "just in case".
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gypsy214:
Hey dude. Im in Dallas too. Good to know. I read all about them. They are really good in jtag fix devices. They were the first ti have s-off on the htc one. They did it after an hour of getting the phone. I havent brick any phones yet but I have their number save just in case. I have seen where they sale the jtag device to do it yourself. It cost about $100 it is well worth it
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tower_gilead:
Good service but more expensive than some.. but local is good.

Sent while sleeping in chair.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
I'm glad your device is back and operational. Thanks for letting us know about a trusted reputable service.

Sent from my SGH-T999 running Chihuahua v1 ROM
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tmjohnsonfse:
Thanks. I am not one who likes reviewing companies, but this one time I felt it was justly deserved. I read to many threads about shipping your device to someone and for a cheaper cost they will fix it. That makes me uncomfortable. I would rather pay a little more for the peace of mind. Even then I was more comfortable driving as far as I did, after just having surgery, because of my skeptism. That is why I felt the review was warranted to help someone when they are not local.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Alex9090:
Josh [MENTION=374082]mobiletech[/MENTION]videos is certainly a trusted guy. He's been here since vibrant days.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] wcterp:
I didn't realize your phone would get bricked with a bad kernel. You can't just go into odin and restore the original system image?

Not criticizing here, I'm just trying to learn something. Glad you had a good experience, as I'm sure at some point in my life I'm going to brick a phone.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dito33:
I can confirm that flashing a wrong kernel will brick your phone. I did that and still not sure if it was wrong one but in did screwed my phone, luckily I exchanged it for another device since I had it for a week.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] radar9:
I have done the same thing. I flashed an international ROM on my T-999. I had also read great reviews people had using Mobiletechvideos. He had mine back to me in less than 1 week. Awesome work. If someone from MTV is on here, thank you!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tmjohnsonfse:
It wasn't a bad kernel, it was a kernel for a different device. I was working on several devices that day and put a kernel for a nook tablet into my S3 folder by mistake. Teaches me to only work on one device at a time.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Dano79:
Yes don't take painkillers give em to me lol

thanks for the write up good to know
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] wardoc22:
Can't you just re flash the entire rom stock or not with Odin or cwm?

I dunno, first time I "bricked" my phone was from an incorrect kernel also. Just downloaded stock touch wiz rom go to download mode and flash with Odin.

I'm not aware that you can brick your phone unless you mess with the bootloader itself.

Bricking means exactly what it sounds like. It's just a piece of useless hardware that you can't recover, in this case, with an incorrect kernel flash, you can, either through another kernel that is compatible with your device or re flash the entire rom; with either Odin or cwm.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tmjohnsonfse:
When trying to connect to computer it would not recognize the device correctly. So no odin if you can't connect to computer. No flashing anything else if the phone doesn't turn on. That would be as hard bricked as you can get.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] wardoc22:
Yeah but you can't hard brick it if you flash a wrong kernel unless the kernel replaces your bootloader.

Oh wait, ok I get it. You flashed a kernel that replaces the bootloader also, like with the international dual boot kernel
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tmjohnsonfse:
Correct!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jm1999:
I haven't even opened maps at all. I have used instagram and internet. What should I do?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] kreoXDA:
I believe this is Samsung S Health, the pedometer "Walking" application. If you do not use the pedometer, make sure the screen does not contain the widget, and make sure the tracking is stopped inside S Health.

On a second thought, it could also be Google Now, or latitude. Also disable location tracking in Now.

I use pedometer app and Now with location tracking on, and it is not draining the batt that much, but Maps does show up as high power consumer. The phone lasted 26 hours before I charged it today.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jm1999:
Could it be my foursquare widget? I think it might be.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bjray:
I had this same exact problem, go in Maps > settings > location settings > uncheck: Report from this device, Enable location history, Automatic check-ins.

That will stop the battery drain / usage from Maps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] erasat:
I also have noticed this, more noticeable after the update, anyways, is not that bad, but I have noticed draining since then, and when I check my Display is taking 54% of it and then Maps follows with 15%, I can tell you that every time I check is at 15%, and like the rest of you Maps is not opened, I have disable all Location Settings on Maps and have no Google Now widgets running, I have even tried disabling GPS and even after that, the Maps still there with 15%.

I thought that a reboot will help but still the same, any other suggestion?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jm1999:
Ugh. It definetly has some thing to do with location right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
I read that someone had this issue before. If I am correct, someone else suggested they remove the pre-installed "maps" APK that ships with the phone and then go to the APP Store and re-install Maps from there. I don't know if it worked or not or even why. You might want to try and search for the original thread. It was either here in the AT&T S4 forums or the original S4 forums. Again, it was just something I read when the phones first came out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] creepyncrawly:
Maps is a known battery drainer. The best solution with the SII is Greenify, and I suspect that it will also work very well with the S4. Requires root. You can install from the play store, but go to the developer's xda thread and read the first three posts. Lots of folks just greenify Google maps and nothing else.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] erasat:
I just removed original Maps app, and installed Play Store one and now everything seems to be back to normal, so. my theory is that something occurred during the update with the maps app and is causing this, because it wasn't doing this before that.

Thanks for sharing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jm1999:
I guess there is now way to fix this with out root? Thanks guys!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jm1999:
I want my 16% back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Big-A-Rob:
It's the location history option for Google maps. That is nothing to do with the phone and it had been a problem on many devices. Turn off location history and you should see it go down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Grant H:
All this bad advice with such an easy problem to fix.

My location history and auto-update of location/gps is on at all times. This causes NO BATTERY DRAIN!!!

This is actually how to fix your Google Maps battery drain.

Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps and battery drain.

Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] got_milk:
I'm not sure if this will always work, I tried this a couple of days ago and my battery drain returned pretty quickly. I had to disable location reporting and location history.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] erasat:
Same here, it worked for a while, but then once I opened Maps the next time, it came back, although, this time is showing 3-6% instead of the steady 15% I had before.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Maesedroid:
Have you tried to disable "report/update my location" in settings? Worked as a charm in my old S3. In the S4 haven't that huge drain.

Regards :thumbup:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] got_milk:
Doesn't this break Google Now?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] djmouse:
same thing with maps and i still had great battery life today