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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tricks25:
I EXACTLY have the same rant..

My note 2 is very very fast and smooth but when i open apps its lagging/stuttering.. no lag in playing heavy games and using apps and very smooth scrolling.. my only problem is the lag in opening/closing apps..

Very annoying for a super phone to laggingly open/close apps lol..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zuhao:
Yeah, this is so annoying...

I flashed about 40 roms and all kernels. Everytome with fullwipe.

More tipps?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zuhao:
Push
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoney73:
Sandpaper.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThumbDriveCorps:
Have you just tried doing a full factory reset on your note 2? No custom stuff?

I am using a note 2, flashed a few things on it. Still using stock ROM and kernel though. My device still smooth as butter.

Waiting for those note 3 features to be made flashable for our note 2.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 1137695:
With my previous S2, I never really played music, for no reason actually. But now I got myself a fancy S4, I'd like to give that a try.

I installed a (usenet) nzb app and downloaded a nice music album containing MP3s. They were stored in a folder on the internal storage called Downloads, and I moved the folder containing the music files to a folder called Music (also on the internal storage).

I now opened the stock Music app to play the newly downloaded album. Alas, that album was not found.

I tried the stock app Play Music, but the same thing. My highly anticipated nice MP3s were not in there.

So my question is: what the hell do I do wrong?

Need I to reboot the phone so it might rescan the files on the internal storage?

Need I to put my music folder somewhere else?

My wish is just to play some nice music with the stock Music app.

Thanks, for I am a noob.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x102x96x:
Setting > Apps > Music play

then clear cache

clear data

then Force Stop

now try music player.

(and also check this; go to ur file manager and select a music track to play, if u get problem with playing of music then try to find stock music player app OR flash another *Stock* rom (from sammobile.com)

Also check How u transfer music to ur phone

buy from play.store

via usb cable

WiFi or ...

:good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
download media scan from play store and do a scan.

i use vlc application :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Silly question.

After you downloaded from usenet,did you unzip the album?

I make a folder called MUSIC , and put it on my sd card.

All music apps find it without issue.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 1137695:
Tried it, but this didn't help, unfortunately.

Yup, the folder was unzipped.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 1137695:
I searched the play store and found an app called Rescan Media. This did the trick! After the background scan, my music files were found in both the stock Music and stock Google Play Music apps.

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haygij:
The only thing that work for my (No media scanner) is VNC player.

In my stock music app and in Google play music app I can only see 10 song out of 1700.

Sucks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helderg1984:
Hello I'm new to installing custom Roms and I am having a bit of trouble.

I am installing AOKP Milestone 1 and that goes fine but I am having trouble getting my gapps to work.

So what I do is reboot into CWM, factory reset, install aokp, install gapps 4.2.2 2013.03.01 then boot.

Once I start my titanium restore I get everything as it should but my camera app and a few other g apps like chrome show up as a little green android guy and says app not installed. I also get error messages non stop and if I try to open gmail for example it just crashes non stop.

Am I just using the wrong gapps file or something or am I missing a step?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Helderg1984:
the error message is Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
try a different, newer gapps http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=rasbeanjelly&device=gapps

reflash your rom and the gapps.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Itachitops:
How i wipe data via adb on my LG Optimus L3 ?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MadBob:
I would like to start a thread containing known wireless (and dongle-less) Mice that will connect to the S3/S4.

I.E.They connect without a transceiver

Microsoft 5000 Laser Bluetooth Wireless Mouse

Doing this because I cannot find other threads about this.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] AMoosa:
Any bluetooth mouse will work. Every single one I've tried so far has worked.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MadBob:
The problem is that all wireless mice I'm finding have a usb dongle (transceiver) and none of these work unless you block the bottom port with the dongle. I want a list of good mice; that leave the usb port free, for people to be able to Google for and purchase.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] JaeKay:
Umm.. as the previous poster said, BLUETOOTH mouse.

All phones have bluetooth built in so you dont need a dongle.

The ones that have dongles do NOT use bluetooth.

Here is a list courtesy of Best Buy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...l&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&usc=All+Categories&gf=y&cp=1

But anyways, what do you need a mouse for on a phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] MadBob:
Ok firstly, in UK so best buy not much use, secondly try searching Amazon uk for Bluetooth mouse and see how many have a nano receiver. Bluetooth mouse does not mean they necessarily connect to your Bluetooth, it can easily mean they connect by fixed paired, nano usb receiver

And to answer your question, to connect via mhl with keyboard and mouse and use it on my tv.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] johnus:
I've never seen a Bluetooth mouse bundled with a receiver that you couldn't also pair with other Bluetooth devices. Just because it comes with a receiver doesn't mean you have to use it.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Marty:
MadBob,

Any bluetooth mouse will work with the GS4. Some may come with a separate receiver but this is simply for devices that don't already have bluetooth builtin. Any bluetooth mouse will work with the GS4 regardless if it is bundled with a receiver or not. As long as it is a bluetooth mouse, the bluetooth receiver is not needed to work with the GS4 (regardless if it was bundled with the bluetooth mouse or not).
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] deedscreen:
This one works!

This Motorola Bluetooth Mouse works flawlessly with my Galaxy S3. Amazon link shown below ($19.99), however may be found on eBay for less ($9.99-$14.99+).

It pairs DIRECTLY with my device. It DOES NOT require a USB Dongle, it pairs similarly to pairing a Bluetooth headset.

I've had it for over a year now and have purchased Engergizer Lithium AAA Batteries... I've changed the batteries maybe one or twice now.

$20 + Free Shipping via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-89519N-Bluetooth-Mouse/dp/B006428K7I/

EDIT:***Cheaper*** ($9.99 + Free Shipping) on eBay HERE: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Motorola-Wireless-Bluetooth-Mouse-For-Smart-Phones-Tablets-AND-Laptops-/251127182854

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On a sidenote, I use the Perixx PeriBoard-804 Bluetooth QWERTY Keyboard, (http://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIBOARD-804-Wireless-Bluetooth-Keyboard/dp/B005MJ6F80/), and that charges via MicroUSB with great battery life.

This way I can use a Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse without any OTG Dongle Attached, that way you can hook it up to an HDTV via MHL ;)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Mosthitman:
Dear Geeks,

I have an T-Mobile(Unlocked) HTC Amaze 4G with factory android installed ICS. Till last day phone was working fine then i configured google music and synchronized my phone with wifi. Before i had disabled syncing.

Now overnight what happened was the phone went to emergency calls only. I thought sim contacts may be bad i reinstalled sim it detected for 5 to 10 minutes and again it went same. I restarted phone and it wont recognize it. I did same and it recognized for 5 minutes and then message came like PUK code is locked (i have disabled the pin-code request on my sim though). Interesting part is same SIM is detected in my old nokia cellphone but in HTC i will not recognize it.

Can you help me and also if i factory restore it will it again country locked ?

Thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] lilmikey201:
can somebody tell me how to flash a kernel on the s4.i went to bootloader but it just says downloading target dont turn off device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] yungskeeme:
Power off then hold power, volume up and the home key. Once you see the Samsung s4 screen let go of the power but not the home and volume. Then your recovery should come up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] daraj:
whats u r seeing is the download mode. to flash a kernel you need a custom recovery installed. what the other user suggested to do will take u to stock recovery which u cant flash kernels from it.

root your phone then goto play store download goomanager then flash recovery script then reboot. u will have twrp recovery. once inside u can flash custom kernels and roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] neo_styles:
From this point you will have needed to copy the zip for whichever kernel you intend to run to your internal SD card. Get yourself into a custom recovery and choose Install Zip From File, navigate to the zip you copied, and select install.

Additionally, you should always wipe cache and dalvik before installing a new kernel to keep things safe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] lilmikey201:
i have CWM but ive always known u go to bootloader and connect to usb and command flash from the computer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] neo_styles:
Interesting because I haven't needed to do that since I've had the OG Evo. Then again not everyone is command-line savvy which is why I recommended my method.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] lilmikey201:
i had to do that with the htc vivid for everything! lol

but im guessing with the s4 the kernel is included in the rom zip so it flashed while thats being flash?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] plwalsh88:
No need for a computer. Just use CWM.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] thanatos:
I have just purchased (awaiting its delivery) a UK QWERTY MDAIII on T-Mobile(UK) and am wondering if it will accept a VodafoneUK sim card? if not is there an unlocking service/software?

Also could anyone tell me the differences between a T-Mobile Rom and the standard i-mate PDA2k rom? Has T-Mobile disabled any functions/features? or have they customised any of the builtin software/today screen like O2 do?

Thank you very much.

Regards

Richard
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xda-rocks:
I have T-Mo MDAIII, but had to pay £15 to T-Mo to get it unlocked for my O2 SIM. There is no unlocking software yet.

There is no flashy interface like the O2 device, but you do get the voicedial, zip, truefax and GPRS monitor software with it.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] thanatos:
£15? - Not bad at all, in the grand scheme of things. How was it done? Over the phone, and they add it to your bill sort of thing? or did you have to send it in.

Many thanks

Regards

Richard
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xda-rocks:
Done over the phone and added to my bill.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] jann:
What price for the MDA? - o2 are in total chaos about the XDA IIs - on website it is quoted as £179 (with contract) [look for 'Great Deals' link] but link leads to dead end page with incorrect phone number.

Phone staff say variously: "£350 on our price matrix, even upgrade" - "£249 on business offline, not available on business online)

Ta
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] CarlnAdele:
Price for MDA III

Try here http://www.scancom.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=17024 I paid £49.99 although I did sign up for 18 months not 12
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Guest:
>>I paid £49.99 although I did sign up for 18 months not 12<< - thanks, what monthly rental cost then?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] dcs:
Looks like £29 a month, looking at the details.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] CarlnAdele:
Yes £29.00 per month
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wbexpress:
I am about 9 days into the purchase and may regret having done so. To keep this brief, I have never seen so many things that don't work right, out of the box. Mostly force closes on some key apps I have. However, the thing that is most irritating is the internal storage. I just went back to stock MDL, to sortof start from the beginning, but (and since I can't use Root Explorer atm) Estrongs file explorer still shows 8.37 GB's used out of 9.62. I get the thing where we really don't get 16 GB's, but I am looking at what is on the internal and I can't see anything at all that is using anything close to that much space. Is it correct that apps don't show up in a file explorer, and is that likely what is taking up all the space? Regardless, this is nuts. I can't be jockeying around with trying to free up a GB or two just to nandroid the stock ROM for the next two years or however long I have this. I was rooted and had installed a custom ROM or two since I got it, but I tried to nandroid the stock ROM before flashing AOKP last night, and it would not let me due to the internal card being full. Has anybody else experienced this, and figured out how to free up some significant space? Last couple of things: for when I am rooted, does anybody know how to get fix permissions in ROM Manager to work? I keep getting "error trying to run privileged commands". Has anybody gotten My Backup Pro to actually do a full backup? Finally, having gone back to MDL, isn't that what the phone "upgraded" to when I first turned it on, and am I now able to bring it back without concern of the warranty being voided?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] puretone:
Something must be wrong between your shoes & the phone...just saying.

Insert a Class 10 32GB stick from Samsung, storage woes solved. Added bonus, snap many more pics & faster too.

Lots of force-closes? On a custom ROM or OEM? Either way, be sure to FULLY WIPE when you do either...99.9999999% of n00b foolishness quoting "this phone is a piece of junk bla bla bla" stems from not following instructions properly, or just missing a key procedure.

Samsung have spent MANY millions developing this phone, rest assured that they've had any number of tards try to do stupid things with it to find it's weaknesses...hardware OR software.

Btw, why are you trying to have ROM Manager fix any permissions? Do you have expressed instruction to do so or is it an old habit from Android 2.2x days? Otherwise don't do it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Purple Velvet Pimp:
The storage is horrible. The external sd card if basically useless; you cant move apps and you cant backup directly to external sd. I'm returning the S4 tomorrow and going back to the S2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] flipq88:
You can't backup what? Nandroids? Yes you can. I don't know how you can fill up 9gb with apps but if you did then maybe you should get a different phone or wait for the 32gb version

Sent from Flip's Galaxy S4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Purple Velvet Pimp:
rynroks from

Read what I wrote. 3 backups and I'm already maxed out, and I debloated before I backed up. Beautiful phone but I like the S2 a helluva lot more.

Update: Finally was able to save a backup to the external sd card. Keeping the S4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Misterjunky:
re:external sd

I don't know where you guys get your information from, of course you can make nandroid backups and restore from

external sdcard using the latest CWM or TWRP recoveries, and of course you can flash roms and install APK apps

from either the internal sdcard or the external sd card.

You just need to get better acquainted with the file system in the Galaxy S4.

It is way different than the file system on the Galaxy S2 or S3.

Good Luck
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wbexpress:
Thanks for nothing. The subheading of this section is "HELP and troubleshooting", not butt wupping. How are my storage woes solved if there is not enough space on the internal card to then try to transfer it to the external, regardless of how large it is? Glad to know that you have it all together and never needed a hand to understand something. Oh, and BTW, good for you that you apparently don't have any "tards" in your family or in anybody's you know. Karma, dude.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Purple Velvet Pimp:
With TWRP I get an almost instant failed when backing up to external. CWM took so long [easily 3 x longer than S2] I restarted. Finally I let it go about 20 min and it completed. Restore worked too. I've had trouble getting OUDHS to backup external and where I can see the file. With CWM I can at least see the file, renaming it though seems to screw up restore. OUDHS is the fastest, hope I can get it to work as needed.

UPDATE: just finished backing up with OUDHS & think I found the file. I had to install CWM recovery first, save to external so I have a backup folder created under clockworkmod and now OUDHS saves to that folder. Before it was nowhere to be found. Nice.

Mainly porn sites, why?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] puretone:
I've got nearly 120 apps installed, all downloaded from the play store, nearly 7GB free space left on internal storage. How many apps etc do you have installed? Or do you mean that the performance of the internal card is horrible?

I backed up to external 3 times now; ROM Manager, MyBackup & Titanium all allow it.

Is Apps2SD not available for the S4?

You might miss some of the speed of the S4 if you go back to the S2 ;)

Also keep in mind that they may not take it back for a refund or anything in the worst case. It is likely that you've got to pay the 75$ restocking fee.

Edit: duh, you've already answered yourself, my bad. Tho keep in mind keeping 1 or 2 ROM backups is usually enough, unless you're developing really hardcore.

---------- Post added at 06:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:30 AM ----------

Relax, I wasn't referring to you as a tard, I meant the many unsuspecting randomly chosen folks charged with road-testing early development S4's...you know, the product surveying/market research boffins.

What you did describe previously sounds a heck of a lot like a missing step here or there. I've been there often, with a phone acting wonky, until I found it was all my dumb mistakes bc I didn't bother to RTFM enough. Don't take the internet so seriously, after all the internet is full of cynical bastards like myself.

---------- Post added at 06:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:39 AM ----------

I had pretty much the exact same issues. CWM now works just fine.

There is mention that on the S4 / 4.2.2, file storage is encrypted and hidden if I remember correctly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Purple Velvet Pimp:
I got about 71 apps & now that I figured out how to get my backups on external I got a little over 8gb on internal. I can live with that. The internal memory performance is fine, it was the limited space I was griping about. Apps2SD and similar programs won't work on S4 or S3 I believe. S2 is good to go depending on ROM. I think my backing up to external problem was due to using an 8gb card for testing instead of a larger one. Once I put in a 32gb it was off to the races :cool:

You're right about the speed, the S4 blows the doors off the S2. Restoring my sms' was 10x faster. And I got a sick odex theme so I'm mostly stock but thoroughly themed.

And with Tmobile the restock fee is $50, not bad if you're not happy with the phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] psybmb:
So here is my issue...

I've backed up with OUDHS the first day i had the phone and without a sdcard on it... Now I cant find the backup folder and my internal storage is completely empty but when i check on the PC it has 3gb of used space! How is it possible? My only guess is that the backup is somewhere in there but i cant find it at all.... I've looked with root explorer and nothing!

Any ideas?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] omnifarious:
Root/data/media/clockworkmod
[HTC Rezound] joeymagnus1:
I just unlocked, rooted and S-OFFed a Rezound. I then put my sim in it and it wanted to update. Will that mess anything up if I let it?
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
It won't remove s-off, the update won't install unless your locked and running stock recovery.
[HTC Rezound] joeymagnus1:
Cool. I think I'll just drop a different ROM on it anyways. My B-I-L gave it to me. Said the ear-piece wasn't working and he couldn't hear people talking. After I did the above, I tested it with my sim and calling my house phone and I could hear myself clearly.
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
You can stay s-off, just keep a locked boot loader and you can install the new RUUs.
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
That's what I said isn't it?
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
You made it seem like you had to relock everything.
[HTC Rezound] El Schisne:
To be clear: if you're S-OFF, the update will install (keeping S-OFF intact) regardless of your lock status. I've received more than one OTA update without issue on my S-OFF, unlocked Rezound--after which it remained both S-OFF and unlocked.

S-ON/unlocked is the only permutation of the two that would prevent an OTA update from working properly. That is, if you were S-ON, you would need to be either locked or relocked.

If you're rooted, on the other hand, the OTA will most likely fail. And it definitely will if you have a custom recovery (Amon Ra, TWRP, CWM).
[HTC Rezound] dottat:
Mostly true....however the latest ruu will give you the 2.28 hboot in locked status. S-off will remain so you'll have to flash vinylfreaks modded 2.27 hboot from hboot using a ph98img or simply unlock again.

I've done a handful of these lately and always ended up with a locked hboot even if I was unlocked or using a modded hboot prior.
[LG Optimus 2x] mez90:
seems like repeating many times is good for you. its failed again but this time got a lot further.

going to keep trying.
[LG Optimus 2x] paglop:
input the battery after start is OK.
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
my friend,

have you tried the AIOT...link in my signature (I have used the V5 version many times...dont know about the v5.5)...read the thread and you will have more info

but, there are tools and ROMs which are based on the NVflash method....progmaq's NVflash and unbrick tool, Homero's NVflash, Stefan's NVflash ROM....

LG O2X is almost unbrickable....so try it
[LG Optimus 2x] bitdomo:
Hi!

It seems like your usb ports dont like your phone. I have the same problem. Every time I try to flash full nvflash rom or flash stock rom or basbeband with smartflash it keeps failing. Nvflash showes the same error which you have and smartflash always write time out errors. I dont know why is this keep happening. The only solution for me is using usb3 ports. Strange, isn't it?

So if you have usb3 port try that. If you dont have usb3 port download aio-toolkit from the development section and use it to repartitionate your phone then flash a custom rom. I think aoi-toolkit should work because it does not take too long, so the timeout error will not happen