yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Accessories] inspecta:
I now have a 'Silver Shield' mount, and yes it does sqawk when the phone transitter is operative. However, it also does that when I hold it near my nokia, but not when the nokia is in its car-kit. I should be receiving an external antenna tomorrow, so I'll let you know whether the theory works in practise. In the meantime Dr. Fresh, I'll take any unwanted goods!
[General Accessories] cruisin-thru:
I tried the Arkon mount, it landed somewhere near the service station at Bristol on the M5 when I launched it out the window, interference was so loud, it should have been returned to the designer and inserted up his ass....sideways.
[General Accessories] inspecta:
It works!!!!

Just got my external antenna and adaptor; plugged it into the XDAII, inserted this into the amplified mount and hey-presto, you can hardly hear the interference, whilst the audio signal is strong enough that you could leave the whole lot at home and hear it on a trip to France! (Well, almost!)

My only problem now is that the Antenna adaptor is a bit bulky, sticking out of the back (about 11mm or so), which makes it a little lop-sided in the holder. I now have to take a look at modifying the mount to fit the connector in. Will let you know how I get on
[General Accessories] cruisin-thru:
Inspecta. I am interested to know if using an external antenna fixed the problem. I think it will probably make it worse, it is direct rf breakthrough from the phones radio causing the problem and I think the antenna lead is just another place for it to splash its unwanted interference over.
[General Accessories] inspecta:
Interference

Hiya Cruisin,

absolutely, it is the external antenna which rectifies the problem.

When using the internal antenna, all of the r.f. energy is in close proximity to the speaker and amplifier. By using an external antenna, you have the same amount of energy, but it is radiated from the antenna located on (in this case) the windscreen. Energy is radiated in all 3 planes, so the interference reduces by the CUBE of the distance, therefore, by doubling the distance from the speaker/amplifier, the amount of interference reduces by eight times. You can verify this effect by placing any mobile up to your car radio; it will eventually pick up the noise, no matter how good the radio.

........ sorry about going off on one! Yes it does work; I removed the external antenna, and the set-up went back to its bad old ways, replaced it and everything is great!

(Now got to get some shares in external antennas!)
[General Accessories] cruisin-thru:
And now I will admit my stupidity by telling you I was pretty stoned when I wrote that reply and for some reason i thought you were referring to an external gps antenna, now I cant blame the dope so i will accept all responsibility, thanks for the lowdown on the rf. :oops:
[General Accessories] alix776:
or you couyld get a holux like received this morning just tried it and its great amplified speaker and built in gps receiver worked with my xda2 no problem
[General Accessories] petest:
Must have missed something here.

I've got an arkon powered mount CM532 with built in speaker and gps connection but the voice prompts from the nav software only come thru the internal speaker on my XDA2. I can't get them thru the mounts speaker.

Any suggestions?

ROM 1.60.00WWE

ExtROM 1.60.50

Radio 1.10.00
[General Accessories] inspecta:
Did you get a cable to plug into the handsfree socket and into the amplified mount? You need this for all of the mounts that I looked at. If you ordered the mount specifically for the XDA, you should have received a cable to go with it.
[General Accessories] petest:
yep - got the cable to convert 2.5 to 3.5mm and I do use it.

Having searched the forum I've found that others have highlighted this problem about a year ago ( voice commands from nav software not coming thru mounts speaker).

I've also got medion loaded and tried that today with everything connected up and the same thing happens ( voice prompts thru PDA speaker only).

Maybe theres a program i can load that will overcome this without having to experiment with any .dll's.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mossey:
I have had my new Visture V97HD Retina display tablet for a week now and I am having few problems understanding what is happening with drivers/adb/fastboot and recovery. I managed to install the Win 8 RK3188 rockchip driver, but had to do it with USB debugging/disabled and driver signing disabled. Then I installed the rockchip update.Then I installed PDAnet 64bit and run a RK3188 root script and all seemed to have worked OK. Rootchecker now tells me the device is rooted. The trouble is I don't have any recovery. When I try to boot into recovery I get the little Android with red exclamation mark. Also when I run ADB cmds the device is not recognized. When USB debugging is enabled and I attach the device. I get message from the device to connect via USB, then another question asking me to press here for USB storage. When I accept and connect I can see the device in explorer but still not recognized in ADB. What is happening and what can I do to fix this?

Confused
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mossey:
I still really could use some help!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afk_cz:
I've successfully rooted v97hd using how2 on vondroid.com. it worked for original FW and also for the latest from 05/05/13. But I need to get some image to flash. what did you want to flash ? I have the same issue with the bootloader...
[HTC Droid DNA] snowman122:
How do I configure WiFi tether the root one. I don't see an explanation here and the rezound had one. I tried using the search on sea but the search is complete garbage so anybody want to help please I just need it for this weekend
[HTC Droid DNA] ghstrdr1985:
I use Wi-Fi tether version 3.2-beta2 with the following settings:

Device-Profile: Generic ICS/JB (wlan0)

Setup-Method: Netd-Ndc (master)

I include encryption & access control but that's up to you.

With those settings, any device will work.

---------- Post added at 04:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 PM ----------

Another good thing about tethering with the DNA, slow battery drain, & little heat.

Sent From My Kindle Fire HD 8.9
[Nook Touch General] chipsugar:
I've rooted my Nook Simple Touch thanks to the advice and instructions xda (thank you all) and after a few days decided to instal the custom kernel (174 modified from the thread in the dev forum).

Battery drain went from moderate to losing about 10/15% per day even when turned off?!?

I made a full backup via nookmanager before rooting. I would like to try uninstalling the oc kernel first but don't know how to pull files from the backup or what files need replacing or deleting.

I'm willing to do a full restore but only as a last resort. Please could someone tell me how to get back to a stock kernel?

Thank you.
[Nook Touch General] cowbutt:
Are you leaving WiFi enabled? What extra apps have you installed?

If you've got a Linux machine somewhere, you can mount the backup image by gunzipping a copy to backup.img and using something like:

#!/bin/sh
losetup -D
mkdir -p backup
losetup --offset 16384 /dev/loop0 backup.img
losetup --offset 79691776 /dev/loop1 backup.img
losetup --offset 96468992 /dev/loop2 backup.img
losetup --offset 295714816 /dev/loop3 backup.img
losetup --offset 597704704 /dev/loop4 backup.img
losetup --offset 849362944 /dev/loop5 backup.img
losetup --offset 1101021184 /dev/loop6 backup.img
fsck -y /dev/loop5
fsck -y /dev/loop6
cd backup
umount *
mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/loop0 boot
mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/loop1 rom
mount -o ro -t ext2 /dev/loop2 factory
mount -o ro -t ext2 /dev/loop3 system
mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/loop4 sdcard
mount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/loop5 cache
mount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/loop6 data

NookManager only does a full restore. If you do that, the old stock kernel will be restored.
[LG Optimus G Pro] witeboy07:
Check it out guys, more to come!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWX7W-r_wM :laugh:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mudu kai:
Which 3rd party battery is gud (capacity) for our 9001 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Take a look at the Accesories question, you might find something there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
I saw LTE yesterday in my notification bar, and that was the first time I saw it in 2 weeks. I always have 4G, but I believe that's HSPA+. Anyone have anything similar, and how they would fix it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] hamzer11:
Maybe there are issues with LTE in your area? If you didn't change anything on the phone I would reboot it just to be sure but it's probably a coverage issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
I'm gonna talk to Rogers today, cause I should have LTE around my area.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] koflem:
HSPA+ is H+, not 4G. Test your connection speed if you're unsure, anything over 10mbps (especially for upload) is most likely LTE. I get around 24-36mbps up here in Canada.

Edit: Ah, that might be different for each carrier then. I definitely get H+ when I am on HSPA+.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
8mb/s. On download, I don't believe those are LTE speeds, and if they are they're pass poor.

Also, never seen H+ on my GS4, so I think 4G is HSPA+.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] done12many2:
The "4G" indicator is HSPA+.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] hamzer11:
On the AT&T version, when on LTE, there is a small print "LTE" under the 4G symbol. The term 4G has been abused so much, God knows what it means on any given device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] kylecore:
I`ve got the rogers one and it says LTE when theres LTE and 4G when there isn`t.

Check your apns and make sure its ltemobile.apn set up ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
Where are you located? And ya, I have my Rogers LTE and my tethering APN as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] kylecore:
I'm in Chatham Ontario.

Between Windsor and London
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
I think it might be a radio issue with the stock ROM. It was the same on the S2 Skyrocket, some radios worked better than others. The Radio I had on my S2 when I switched over to the S4 showed LTE in my area constantly. Previous radios on that phone were hit and miss...some a lot better than others. I guess we will have to wait until the BootLoader is unlocked (for AT&T S4s) and other basebands (radios) are released until we can test and see which one works better in each area.

My S4 has a pretty good connection now, but it too shows 4G where it use to show LTE. Like I said, some radios do better than others when handling LTE connections.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
So apparently the representative lied to me and said that I would have LTE, but my region doesn't support it. That's awesome : /. Thought it doesn't explain why I had it for a brief period. Maybe it came from a tower with LTE. Weird.

Well, This things going back unless a representative can give me a decent deal : /
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
Are you positive that your area doesn't have LTE? Just because the phone is capable of having LTE doesn't mean you are guaranteed an LTE signal. You have to be within the LTE broadcast area and, your phone's modem (radio) has to pick up that LTE signal. Like I said before, the phones radio has a lot to do with it. Some just handle LTE connection (and all connections) better than others. Radios are flashable, but the bootloader has to be unlocked, with custom recovery installed and different versions of the radio have to be available before Devs can make them flashable. Some will do better than others. It's just a matter of trying them when they are available.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] QuickSkope:
I live in Nanaimo BC, Checking the Rogers Map, it states that LTE is "Coming Soon". Which is ambituitous to say the least.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feedme128:
I'll preface the description of my situation with the following question. Is it actually possible that tethering damaged my cellular antennas as described below? Or do you think the source of my problem is software rather than hardware? If that is the case can anyone offer solutions?

I attempted to use the tethering function once with moderate success (it was slow but worked). Eventually I lost the connection and was unable to regain it so I turned off tethering. For the first few days afterwards my phone would only pick up GSM/GPRS in areas where I previously had full access to HSPA+.

Eventually, my N4 started to show an HSPA+ signal again but was performing much slower than before. The speed problem persists and my phone commonly suffers from long delays between detection of data networks and actually gaining access.

I bought my N4 through the Play store so it has bluetooth and wifi data tether available out of the box.

I use it on T-Mobile's monthly unlimited plan (speed caps after 5gb) and have never even come close to hitting the usage ceiling so I know it isn't that.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ziddey:
No
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SneakyGuyDavid:
Original Message Here:

DUDE ! i know that feel ! , i tethered my phone this morning and it was SUPER slow 30 KBps then i went to school and i ran a couple speed tests still stuck/capped at 30 , i checked right now too still stuck at 30 KBps even after a reboot , toggling on and off airplane mode , i think T-mobile will automatically throttle anybody who tethers without having a tether plan. im on Simple Mobile , but its just a MVNO under T-mobile.

this speed is rediculous , my edge is at 20 KBps and Hsdpa is at 30 KBps .

*btw using KiloBytes not Kilobits*
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feedme128:
interdasting

Well I guess that could explain it. I thought it had been at least a billing cycle since then but I could be wrong. Or T-Mobile could be taking their sweet time switching off the throttling. Thanks for the insight.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisrozon:
T-Mobile doesn't throttle like that, there must be another issue. If you get caught tethering, they just redirect you to a page to sign up for a tethering plan.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpookyTunes:
Even if you were throttled, you would still connect to HSPA+ the same as before (not EDGE). Throttling is not done by the cell tower, but with TCP/IP networking. Depending on you location, they may be working on the cell site. PCS HSPA refarm and AWS LTE deployment are two reasons that come to mind.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SneakyGuyDavid:
not sure what my issue could be then , still getting slow HSPA+ speeds , just checked right now 3/4 Bars anddd it is for sure

HSPA+

i can see the little + next the the H , anyways , 31.2 KB/s looks like i made an improvement by 1.2 KB/s , thats a start lol

EDIT: if anyone was wondering the upload speed was always in the "Teens" , my upload this time was 19.6 KB/s and goes to as low as 13 KB/s
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpookyTunes:
The OP's issue was connecting to HSPA, while yours is most likely bandwidth limiting and QoS. As you are on a MVNO, this is more difficult to troubleshoot. I would check your APN settings are correct, then call customer support and confirm they are throttling you.

Their policy on tethering is different than T-Mobile. I have T-Mobile post paid and can tether all 2.5 GB of my data, while unlimited data plan that is $10 more than mine can only tether 500 MB a month. Ready SIM is a MVNO that allows tethering, but cuts data off after the hard data cap.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SneakyGuyDavid:
i called those bastards they said "everything looks good on their side" and yeah i think its probally QoS , i mean , i've heard that T-mobile will give their users priority on HSPA over prepaid users , but even at this time ? its 1AM at the moment in my time zone and i just checked , 30.1 KB/s , so weird, but whatever. goodluck OP with figuring out your problem :good:

EDIT: LOL , sorry Spookytunes , just realized we're in the same time zone, i've met too many international people on xda
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpookyTunes:
I look into several MVNO's and found PTel users were the most happy. Some MVNO's have hidden throttle caps (like 100MB per day).

I stayed with TMO, as the new plans dropped the cost on 2 lines to less than the MVNO's and having the same account for 12 years now (aka Voice Stream) has it's perks. My speeds are 15 Mbps x 2 Mbps, so if it ain't broke :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Overdose1986:
WHAT!?!?! LOL that's ridiculous, how you guys let TMobile scam you that way?... here you can use the data the way you want, after all you are paying for it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WARpig5:
Yeah, if you're on Simple Mobile and you're tethering then they'll either throttle you or straight up disconnect your service. Tethering with Simple Mobile is against their terms and conditions. That's probably what's happening to you now. I'm with them too and I'm in the same boat as you. Except that I wasn't tethering I just passed their data cap by using google music.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpookyTunes:
Carriers here still offer "Unlimited Data" plans. All newer data plans now include some tethering.

Even the free 500MB plan allows for 500MB of tethering.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisrozon:
Its not a scam, T-Mobile offers plans with and without tethering, you can chose which one makes the most sense for your needs.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andromon01:
I would like the "ink effect" from note 2. Here is the link to the website http://odwproductions.com/kingdenzel92/galaxy-s3-4-1-2-lockscreen-ink-effect-from-galaxy-note-2/ can someone tell me which link to download and what to do after that? Im rooted. Any help would be awesome
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Purple Ferret:
I need to make sure that I have instructions ahead ahead of time, because currently I am having to tether for internet access.

Model: SGH-T999

Baseband Version: T999UVDMD5

My phone is currently running stock. However after finding out about Carrier IQ, I would like to root my device so I can remove it. FOREVER!

I am mostly just paranoid that Carrier IQ includes information about me using PDANet+ and I really dont want Tmobile to find out. I have performed the TTL=64 Registry trick, and Mask Tethering in PDANet is set to Level 1. I am also using a User Agent Switcher to force Chrome into appearing to be an Android browser, but I am still nervous that Tmobile might find a way throught Carrier IQ

Rooting would provide some great benefits. If at all I would like a manner that allows me to root without losing everything and just being able to continue using it as if nothing happened, besides being rooted. I have a decent number of apps and I would like to not have to reconfigure them all.

If anyone can assist me on this, that would be great.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re rooting

[FONT=&quot]You will not loose any music, pictures or videos and google will automatically import your contacts.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The only things you will loose if you don't back them up are your apps that you got from the playstore.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Follow instructions exactly.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

Easy and sure way to get your phone rooted - Here is s step by step guide:

Download the newest pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean Touchwiz v4.1.2 rom: [/FONT]T999_UVDMD5[FONT=&quot]

After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the

file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.

Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file

Here is the link for Odin: [/FONT]http://d-h.st/Q14

Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)

Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin

Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted

Turn off your phone and boot into

DOWNLOAD MODE

(Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up,

then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)

Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.

You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)

Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.

Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)

Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.

TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.

If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.

Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!

Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.

You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.

Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!

(It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)

Good Luck!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] MikeJennni:
I'm saying thx for all your effort In that post
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
You mean to copy and paste? lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] MikeJennni:
Oh... Im using xda app the font didn't change from copy/paste. after reviewing this on xda desktop it was clearly pasted

... Regardless... At least "someone" gave him thx right..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
For sure lol, it has been posted so many times I have it memorized now. Seen it other sites as well even lol. All good in the hood.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Purple Ferret:
Thanks muchly, I will copy down all of this and go from here.

Now regarding updates, I do not want to OTA update with this correct.

And Aerowinder, your solution is for CWM. I might want to go with that, CWM has been bat**** useful for me in the past with an older phone (Which was much much harder and used a completely different routine just to do this. However I cant rely on that Youtube video to guide me as my phone is the only form of internet I get as of the moment(loltethering)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: secret

That was supposed to be a secret! LOL
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheDoolster:
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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidjavid:
I have an unlocked AT&T i747 on T-mobile's $30 100 min unlimited text, and 5GB 4G data plan.

It is running a fitsnugly nightly build of CM 10.1 for d2att

Was previously running Leankernel and now i'm running Ktoonsez's kernel

I unlocked using this method.

The Issue:

My signal switches between H+, 3G, E, and rarely G. All while being in the same spot. It spends 90% of the time on E.

This happens in areas of great reception, indoors and out.

Rarely will H+ happen and 3G is very sporadic too.

I live in the heart of a major city (Boston) where T-mobile is prepping LTE so I can get their 3G/4G on the refarmed 1900MHz and without AWS.

My IMEI is listed in the status section.

What I've tried:

Before doing any modding of my phone, I previously backed up my EFS/IMEI with Andromizer (XDA link). Restoring it hasn't changed anything.

Changing network modes (LTE/WCDMA, LTE/GSM/WCDMA, GSM/WDCMA preferred)

Enabling/disenabling data roaming

Changing APN settings (The choices were T-Mobile US and T-Mobile US LTE)

So would flashing Tmobile radios help? Tmobile/d2tmo ROMs?

TL;DR:

MY ATT I747 ON TMOBILE WONT KEEP THE H+ OR 3G SIGNAL AND IT SUCKS AND MAKES ME WANT TO CRY. PLZ HELP PLZ PLZ PLZ

Seriously though, any help would be appreciated. Thanks everyone! If you need anymore info Just let me know.