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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbell13:
according to phandroid it will support sms in a future update.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wpkwolfseye:
I removed it completely. If I can't have Google Talk, I dont want that Hangout stuff at all. Google totally screwed up something great XMPP cross-platform stuff which no Google+ or Google Hangout can replace. Not everything wants to be done on a phone, tablet or Browser.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlg19753:
+1

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matgallacher:
Same here , frustrating given that my friends galaxy nexus is working just fine. I'll give it a couple of days and see how it goes
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrustyMcLovin:
I gotta say that I have NEVER seen so much confusion regarding a chat application. Pretty hilarious considering this was meant to unify things.

AND I'm not talking **** about this either, I truly am confused as hell about this too. How do I know who is logged on and who isn't? My phone now has a Google+ Messenger app and a Hangouts app. What's the difference?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anivesh93:
Exactly,

they have just complicated things here.....

no need of both messenger+ and hangouts....

also

HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW WHO'S ONLINE NOW????

---------- Post added at 05:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:43 PM ----------

The update is not working for many people.....mine came this morning....they have posted on the app details that it will take time to roll the update to all devices....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aria807:
Lol uninstalled and went back to Talk. This is one fail upgrade. Can't see afk status, merged all contacts (why?), can't filter out who I want to see, do we even have a contact list like a traditional chat app? I felt like the main page/hangouts is my contacts page but if you accidentally archive or delete hangout, all history is lost. This is just a major flop.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wpkwolfseye:
You do realize that installing TALK again won't really changed the fact that in the long run it will be updated to HANGOUTS again. As far as I can see, there is no way to stay with TALK. Thats why I have completely removed TALK and HANGOUTS. If I cant have TALK, i dont want all that.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aria807:
But for the meantime, TALK still works fine. Also google chat inside gmail is still TALK based. HANGOUT is still a mess even integrated into Chrome. I think i'll sit back and let them work out the issues 1st b4 jumping on board with the crowd.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cipsaz:
Hangouts is a one big mess. Serious, Google? How the **** can't I see online/offline status? Really Google? And missing people from gtalk?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSMB:
Needs a lot of improvement

Google have deliberately removed the ability to see who is online and who isn't. It's all about being online all the time, like SMS.

I have a number of issues with the app.

Firstly, I think the 'everyone is always online' is a terrible idea. My friends and I are rarely always online. Thus I rely on these statuses to begin a conversation I know I can have in real time. I don't want it to be like texting. People use these statuses for good reason. For example when I am busy with work, or whatever, and i don't want to be disturbed, a busy or invisible status works well. Sure i could ignore messages, but it helps others to know not to waste their time with useless banter. And I still want to know when my friends are actually online. I will NOT start a conversation with someone who is offline, and with this new system as far as I'm concerned everyone is offline.

Listing all contacts is also a terrible idea. Well, maybe it wouldn't be if I could filter it just to show my google contacts like they are listed in google talk. This current situation results in a convoluted mess of contacts I don't want to see.

The fact google plus is being shoved down our throats doesn't help. I don't use it and I don't want it. I was annoyed that I got linked to begin with, and now this app wants it. I use facebook (well, i have an account), there is no way in hell i will be using 2 social networking sites. Ever. So just back off Google, you're pushing me away.

The thing is, this could have a lot of potential if they clean it up and add a comprehensive list of options/preferences to the app (like contacts to display, layout of app, ability to disable images/text only mode (like when I'm roaming on 3G), etc)

Also, this app totally needs availability statuses like google talk. Seriously. I know they have this philosophy of 'always online' going with it, but seriously, that doesn't mean you shouldn't have statuses. You could still send messages to offline people in google talk, so what is the difference? Nothing. You've just created an illusion Google. By ripping away some of the good bits.

Whoever thought no statuses was a good idea really needs to think long and hard about why they thought it was necessary for this app.

Basically as far as I'm concerned this is what Hangouts needs:

-Statuses

-Contacts filters

-Sort by availability

-Text only mode

also, not needed but would be very good:

-Layout options (or themes etc)

Additionally, can anyone comment on the data usage of Hangouts relative to Talk? I'm currently travelling Europe and have 50MB to use for a month. Every kB counts.

Hangouts seems to have larger profile pictures which would use more data. Also, if someone sends a picture, is a large thumbnail going to popup and consume more data? See, the great thing about Talk for me now is that it is purely text and uses little data.

Cheers
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noxipoo:
I uninstalled and went back to talk on my S3 because I couldn't message my aol.com contacts like in talk, did anyone figure that one out? I can live with the stupid contact list and no filter but I can't lose the ability to message my aol contacts, prefer not to go to a 3rd party app if they shut that off but I will if Goggle forces people.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harry Pothead:
you can tell who is online and who isn't. If the avatar of the person is faded, he/she is not online. Just check your contact list, some are faded and some aren't. The old way of identiying the status was way more intuitive though...

edit: in addition, a google rep said that the g+ messenger app will be scrapped as soon as all messages have been migrated to hangouts.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solutions Etcetera:
Didn't realize that. Oh well... like much of Android, it is unfinished. Hopefully it will be added in an updated.

One step ahead, three steps back.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lithdoc:
So far, I am very dissatisfied. No voice only calls, something I used to use rather extensively. Also, when upgraded in gmail, you no longer have the ability to make regular phone calls, and you have to go to google voice instead. To add to all this, it did not update on my N4, and forced update would not connect to google at all, but I am now actually happy I'm stuck with the old talk. It seems to be a raw, unfinished product at this time, and I hope certain features of talk that I used and enjoyed will make their way back to Hangouts sometime soon.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwilliams05:
Totally Agree with Everything you said
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSMB:
Actually, this is not true, it's a misconception.

I'm fairly sure the faded contacts are those that do not have hangouts or G+ (not sure exactly, but it's definitely not an online/offline status). This means that non-faded contacts may, or may not be online.

Someone tested this by comparing their hangouts contacts to their Talk contacts on a different device. They found the shading of contacts was not consistent with who was online and offline.

This fact combined with Googles new always online philosophy leads me to my above stated conclusion.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I Am Marino:
They should have merged everything into Talk, not into something else.

-Sent from Marino's Maxx-
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mamutarka:
They should have released whatsapp/viber alike application, nit google + contacts messenger. No one will use this.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ron Shinde:
Revert to Google Talk App from Hanout without using ANY external apps!

If you've stuck with Hangout app and is wondering how to roll back to Talk app, there is an easy way to do that without having to install any external apps *like Titanium Backups). Just follow the instructions given HERE
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kirishiro:
Have a try to IM+ Pro~
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nookin:
Does anyone notice that Google Hangout seems to not use battery at all? I have it signed in and I didn't even notice it is there. I still get IMs from my contacts. There is no noticeable battery impact with Hangout running. I guess this is Google's "push" technology. I am very impressed.

The same can not be said for Skype. Keeping Skype running will drain my battery dry by afternoon.

I have not used Gtalk or Whatsapp on Android so I cannot say for it.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Aussti:
Hey,

Its been a while, but i dropped my infuse from a pressbox and it fell many feet to the concrete ground :/ The screen glass itself isn't cracked but the underpart of it is (LCD itself most likely). Im not getting any screen interaction or visibility at all....It is rooted and running a custom ROM but i can't remember which. I would love to get as many files off of it as possible. It still works for sure though. I can hear it get some notifications and the backlit bottom keys light up and still respond. My hope is that someone has a good suggestion for me.

Ive got two possible ideas at the moment:

A) Somehow blindly use CWM and get it to mount USB storage to get some of the files off of it.

B) Buy one on craigslist and replace the motherboard. (Sounds reasonable....I've already taken it apart before so it shouldn't be hard.....but don't know if it would work...)

So......

A) Do y'all think either ideas would work?

B) Can you guys show me some shots of the CWM mounting usb process and i could see if i could do it blindly?

Thanks y'all
[Samsung Infuse 4G] coreyjbaby:
The same thing happened to me. I went the craigslist method. Replaced the motherboard and it worked like a charm!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Smokey Woody:
All I am looking for is a kernel that runs well with the latest version of the Liquid Smooth ROM. That allows overclocking, underclocking, and has really good battery life because after I installed the ROM last night the next day my phone only lasted about 7 hours and I wasn't really doing much. I had all the toggles off except for Wi-Fi where I was connected to the internet so it wasn't searching. My brightness was turned all the way down as well. I also ended the unnecessary processes on my phone.

Thanks for the help everyone. :) Hopefully I can learn more about rooting so I won't need help in the future. ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
ive had so much good luck with ktoonz kernel that i havent bothered to try anything else.

it comes with a great app to do all of the things you want called ktweaker.

others run BMS and leankernel with success, but ive never tried them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Smokey Woody:
I am running the lean kernel right now but it seems to have my battery drain super fast. :/ I am thinking about getting a bigger battery because Samsung even said that the Galaxy S3 was shipped with bad batteries and that they would release extended batteries, but if I can fix it with a better kernel then I can save some money. Haha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
Whast your screen on time?

get better battery stats its likely that you have a wakelock or a rogue app behaving funny.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chriswbush:
So for all you music lovers who hate how spotify only go through your songs as playlist Google all access is like spotify but you go through your music as a regular music player ex: artists,library , ect . you can download a song a album and its cheaper also 7.99 for a month and 30 day trial to find out more just open up your play store and it should be right there.

I just thought I would share this with you guys xD
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dobiwallah:
I was thinking for some time to build myself a carputer, because I want to play 5.1 surround wav files in my car.

But that I discovered that the Galaxy S4 can output surround as well :), so why bother about a carputer anymore if you have on in your pocket..

I was thinking about the following setups:

Galaxy S4>EAD-T10JDE AllShare Cast Wireless Hub>HDMI to optical converter> 5.1 amplifier

Or

Galaxy S4>Micro USB MHL to HDMI Cable adapter HDTV>HDMI to optical converter> 5.1 amplifier

Samsung chat confirmed that the wireless hub sends surround to the receiving device.

Any recommendations, or remarks? I'm still in a early stage. There are not a lot of car 5.1 amplifiers available, unfortunately. I have found one on ebay wth a toslink, but not with a direct HDMI input
[General Questions and Answers] sidewalk_:
Hi!

As the topic suggests, i want to know how to recover files from lost.dir

Recently, my photos suddenly moved to Lost.dir directory in my SD card and rename the file extension one by one is going to take forever(I have over 1000 photos)

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!:D

Update: SOLVED! I rename the files extension in lost.dir to .jpg in batch using Extension Changer

Now, my photos are all back !
[General Questions and Answers] sidewalk_:
Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] sidewalk_:
Solved!
[General Questions and Answers] angelamar90:
Last time I was having the same problem, then I found a guide which helped me, you may take a look: lost.dir android data recovery

hope this helps.
[General Questions and Answers] hackomania:
Sorry I cannot post links so I'll try my best to describe the process.

Mark0, a developer wrote a small software called trID that you can use to recover files in lost.dir for free.

Here's your magic link

hxxp://echo.com.ng/2013/howto-recover-files-lost-dir-folder-free/
[General Questions and Answers] netdev365:
renaming file extension didn't work for me. All my images extension were successfully renamed to .jpg but still I got an error "Invalid Image","Cannot open Image' etc.

Help me
[General Questions and Answers] Ankur Batho:
I am facing similar issue, but in my case I was using 500 gb hard drive with fat 32 format. Now lost.dir is showing file ranging from 415 gb of size to few kbs

My 450 gb data just remained 15 gb, rest all has gone in lost.dir
[Sprint LG Optimus G] pdxguy77:
Anyone planning on putting this option in any roms
[Sprint LG Optimus G] jcpetrs:
Our phone's hardware doesn't support it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Finally bought it. 1.99. Thought I should all let you know in case you didn't know.

edit : Finished. As of 5/22/2013 it is available on the Amazon App Store for 1.99.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Wiskey1267:
It's a really awesome keyboard, I've been using it for about a year now.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] iwillkillyou:
Yep, that was my first play store purchase. Yep my first ever
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scplan:
Is any way to root SO-02E without unlock 10.1.D.0.343 .....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathlessOne:
If it's the new firmware then root is not available as of now.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saibz:
Is it possible to downgrade the firmware to 333 using flashtool?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathlessOne:
Yes, certainly you can mate! :thumbup:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saibz:
Well that's great news! I thought the bootloader or something somehow prevents that, and I can't find more info about it. Thanks :victory:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scplan:
I know it , but i hate update notification ...... and ota fails....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Northwoodpen4:
Freeze "Update Center 1.3.3.A.0.3"(com.sonyericsson.updatecenter.apk) by using Titanium or whatever.

That should stop the notification:)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] BlueAngel:
The folowing news is from a dutch site:

Roel Martens (Roel) @ zaterdag 21 augustus 2004 [38 reactie(s) op dit artikel]

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Het heeft lang geduurd maar de lang verwachte update is nu eindelijk beschikbaar

De update zal diverse verbeteringen met zich meebrengen en ook hopelijk voor veel gebruikers de nodige TomTom problemen verhelpen.

De update staat nu nog op de FTP server van de leverancier die de update van Dangaard heeft ontvangen en deze wordt zo snel mogelijk op onze eigen server geplaatst.

Qtek 2020 ROM update versie 1.72 NL

Vanwege een probleem met het downloaden via onze FTP server staat de NL ROM update nog op deze link: http://www.pocketpartner.nl/rom2020

Er is ook sprake van een Belgische versie maar we hebben nog geen verschillen kunnen ontdekken:

Qtek 2020 ROM update versie 1.72 BE (Available on request)

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The downside is that they don't allow everyone to read the the forum (it's restricted) And only users with a support contract get to view it....

I Would be happy to have such a contract, but they did not give me any details on how te do this, so I'll try to upload the file here later.

In the meanwhile have fun with 1.72.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] markutah:
Je kreeg zo'n contract alleen als je je QTEK2020 via de Nederlandse PocketPC Club hebt besteld anders niet.

Inmiddels hebben ze dat aangepast en kan je alsnog een onderhoudscontract krijgen maar die zal begin 2005 aflopen omdat zij na die datum stoppen met het verlenen van service.

Ik ben alleen de link naar hoe je die contract kan krijgen kwijt, maar ik weet zeker dat ik het gelezen heb.

mvg

Mark
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I am the developer of Light Manager. It is an app to configure notification LED color and its flashing frequency for different notification types. Quite a number of people reported that it is not working properly on Samsung Galaxy S 4, however at the same time there are people reported it is working perfectly. I am confused since currently I do not have a device to test.

So I created this thread to gather more comments about Light Manager on Samsung Galaxy S4. If things go serious, I would consider getting a S4 device for testing. I would like to make it compatible with S4.

For more information, you may go to the original thread at Samsung Galaxy S IIII section at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1735331
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Shug69:
Works ok for me (i9590, rooted stock) except for Aquamail notifications.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] _bottle_:
Using it for missed calls and SMS , works fine
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] kultus:
Using it only for SMS, calls and battery states and works fine. Only sometimes when I plug the charger, "stock" LED indication appears instead of Light manager indication...Very randomly. Im on stock MDM firmware with kernel 3.4.0-526204 if it helps.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] MattyDip:
Alternative mode is working fine on my GS4 but it would nice to have a little break before swiching color between to different notifications.

example: green green green break break blue blue blue ecc...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] runedrune:
Working fine for me too. :p
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] MattyDip:
Another thing that isn't working (also on GS3) is the battery pergentage setting when the led should start to blink to aller that the battery level is low. Also if I set 5%, the led starts blinking on 15%.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mabmed:
Using it for missed calls and SMS; works fine. But doesn't work with whatsapp!!

Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 16Gb..
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
The best way is to turn off "stock" LED indicator for battery in your phone settings.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Yeah, this is a bug on the current version. It will be fixed on the next update.;)
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
After you have granted root permission, remember to click "Restart light manager". For whatsapp, you need to turn off the notification LED in whatsapp settings as well. Let me know if it is not working.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] inphamous36:
It is working fine for me on the t-mobile variant of the GS4 in the united states. Wicked v2 with faux's kernel
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] kultus:
THX for advice, I will monitor it...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Pinocheckio:
For the most part, the app is working fine!

I don't know if this is normal, with these leds, but some colors are way off. Red, blue and green are fine, but yellow is greenish and white is blueish. So sometimes it's hard to distinguish which notification is showing...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] dirt:
I have also noticed this on my rooted att sgs4

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] GODSPD:
I will test it out shortly, I have been using it on my S3 all the time but after upgrading to CM10.1 it didn't work too well, it clashed with the system led settings...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] benni_1994:
Just found this app because of your thread. Tested it and it works with whatsapp,sms,calls !

I'm reallyhappy right now because I was used to LightFlow but that app has to be enabled in de accessability settings and ruins the gallery.

Yours Sir is just perfect!

Thank you! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I guess this is some LED hardware variation for different devices. You may adjust the hex color code in Advanced Setting to suit your S4 device. Could someone help to post a set of accurate hex color code for S4? Then I might be able to add a one-click button to preset all hex color code for S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I thought Samsung has fixed the accessibility issue on S4? The talkback issue is still there? This is the main reason I am not using accessibility in Light Manager but might include it when Samsung fixed the issue.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] zaki67:
I have the 9500 not rooted /stock do I need root to get this application to work for whatsapp?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fishvtt:
Hey guys, I know I'm jumping on the Xperia Play bandwagon a bit late (2 years late), but my phone just broke down and it looks like I can get a Xperia Play for relatively cheap now for around $100 - 200 unlocked. But I have some questions -

1 - I'm planning on using it with the T-Mobile pay-as-you-go $30 100 min - unlim text - unlim 4g, and will it work? I know that with the r800i the phone and text will work, but 4g will not. I've also heard that you can make 4g work with the r800at, but I'm not sure. This is my main question.

2 - Are there any roms for 4.0 + and how well do they work with the with the controller. One main reason I'm getting this old phone is because of the controller, and if the controller doesn't work I'm fine with settling on gingerbread.

3 - How is the touch screen? I know this might seem like a dumb question but I've used the Motorola Triumph from virgin and OH GOD was it a horrible touch screen. It was just all gritty and weird. So what can I expect?

I am sorry if any of my questions are redundant, I did search the boards first. Thank you for your help.