yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnkeelaudio:
Hi everyone.

Yesterday i updated from stock 4.0.3 ROM to a 4.1.2 ROM and i noticed right away that there was a quality loss in all small font.

It´s specially visible in the notification area.

I been trying all sort of ROMS, and ALL are the same.

The first ROM i tried was the oficial Siberia samsung 4.1.2 release. Then i tried the Samsung 2.0 from the devolopers section, and now the Zap Blaster wich is 4.1.1.

All are the same, i can´t get back the clear font i used to have in notification and in apps that use small fonts, this is very bad when there´s dark background.

Any idea why this happens? Anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround?

Should i take pictures to show you?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caudex:
Hi all,

Just wondering has anybody come into this issue before?

For some reason, when i use my Vodafone Sim card it gives me the LTE option.

However when I insert another sim card (e.g. my optus or telstra) it removes the LTE option.

Is there such a thing as 4G Sim?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skeamznz:
Yes LTE enabled sims
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DomFel:
No, it's not sim related, it's contract related. You have to ask to your carrier to enable LTE, and it will probably have a cost.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madijonee:
guys any of you know how to make my phone read this text instead of it being like this ??

using a note 2 n7100
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] glassjosh:
Didn't see this anywhere, so I thought I would try and hopefully save at least one person some time/frustration. I, like many people on this site own multiple devices and swap my Sprint service back and forth between them. I normally do this through Sprint.com. I just got my GS4 and spent hours testing what launcher would be the fastest with this SOC, and setting everything up exactly the way I wanted it.(I always keep things stock for the return period so I had no real way of making a backup) After I got everything the way I wanted, I activated this beauty...but upon doing this, I didn't see the fine print that the profile update triggers a factory data wipe.. **POOF** and all my app/prefs/etc. were gone. Needless to say, I was LIVID. I waited until I was calmed down to call customer care. The rep I spoke to advised that they changed it to require a factory data wipe when switching service online and you need to call customer care to attempt a manual IMEI/DEC/HEX swap.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rawintellect:
TiBu is your friend :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TheNinja370:
Word.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Marty:
Had you already activated the device at least once before you attempted the online activation that resulted in the factory reset?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] squshy 7:
So I can confirm that this is indeed the desired behavior of chameleon. Whenever activation info is changed through HFA, then the device is now supposed to hard reset.

While this is certainly inconvenient if you didn't know it would happen (as us here in the store didn't know this was going to be the behavior going forward either), the reasoning behind it is sound: chameleon is put in place so that identical models of phones that are different sprint channels (sprint post paid, prepaid, boost, etc.) can run the same firmware; chameleon handles the bloatware payload for each channel. In other words, sprint no longer has to have different software packages for the same phone just because one gets sprint zone etc. and the other gets boost stuff etc.

Now, hopefully we get to a point to where chameleon is smart enough to recognize the current payload and decide whether a hard reset is necessary, but...baby steps I suppose.

EDIT: also, profile updates on their own don't require a reset. It's part of the whole HFA process that does it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] glassjosh:
Nope, it was a new device I wanted to set up and play with on wifi before activating it. Now I just have to call CC and have them swap the devices manually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] glassjosh:
It's only your friend if you're rooted, I always keep stock FW for the return period of a device since you never know. I have always had mixed experiences with restoring app data as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rawintellect:
I've never had ONE bad experience with TiBu. Ever. If you know what you're doing it's fine. And why wouldn't you root? You can always unroot at any given time. And yes the counter can be reset.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] glassjosh:
The debate for rooting belongs elsewhere, I'm well aware you can reset counters, unroot, however, it's not worth the time when the risk of returning is high IMHO. You don't have to know what you're doing in TiBu, that's the beauty, but you still have a better chance of stability when using new app data, and it only takes 1 bad experience with some things..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rawintellect:
LOL! You're not going to change my mind. I'm not going to change yours. I know from my own personal experience of MANY years of tinkering with android devices that you DO have to know what you're doing in TiBu or you're screwed. If you backup the wrong thing (say a system app from a different release of android) and restore it to an entirely new system you've just borked your device and are on a one way trip to bootloop city, population: YOU. And you'll have a full restore in your future.

As for "debating" on rooting? I'm not. Why even come on to XDA if you won't root? If you want stock apps stick to Google Play and sprint community forums. But don't come on to XDA and tell me or anyone else that rooting your phone is inferior to not rooting it. It just isn't. Period.

Stability is only as good as the person that coded it. That INCLUDES stock OEM ROMS or updates. I can count on two hands updates from manufacturers that have gone terribly wrong and been fixed by the devs in the XDA community LONG before they were fixed by the manufacturer. So your point about "new app data" is wrong as well.

And finally the "risk" isn't high. At all. Stop scaring folks. If your phone boots into the bootloader it's recoverable. Period. Even if it DOESN'T boot into the bootloader you can still recover it. I've had 8 HARD bricks. All of them recovered. Some even required EMMC_RECOVER to rewrite the bootloader. Don't know what that is? I'm not suprised. Let me google that for you. The WORST EVER required JTAG (again let me google that for you) to fix. But it WAS fixed.

I'm all done with this back and forth and I'll just place you on ignore and hope people see that you really have no clue what you're talking about.

Enjoy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] glassjosh:
I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, only warn others to possibly help someone out; which is the whole purpose of this site. I certainly don't have time to troll anyone's posts. Before you get more butt-hurt, read what I said. I know from my "MANY YEARS" of android tinkering and development, that you only need time to read, not to truly know what you're doing. Apparently we have different ideas of what that means. Never did I state that rooting was inferior, that's absurd. And how would you know the risk of me returning the phone in the return period? You obviously don't read or comprehend well. As stated before, I'm well familiar with the process for tweaking android devices, especially Samsung since I have 6 of them. I'm so super impressed with your vast knowledge though.. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mship:
Wow. That escalated quickly for no reason. You ignores someone for having an opinion about not rooting a phone in the first seven days of owning it. I'm sure there are plenty of people on here that don't root in that first week, that includes me as one of them.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
Please don't feed the trolls...

:D
[Motorola Droid 3] Saleh989:
Hi

I recover my Droid 3 by Using "AP Fastboot" and "SBF" to stock rom version 905, but desktop dock application does not working!!

even I updating system to newer version (5.7.906), but I still got this problem!!

under "Mange App" => "All", all apps related to dock (ex: smart dock, CarDock, Desk Home,...) are existed but under their names value is (0.00B) and there are many other application that are the same!

what should do to fix this problem!?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] boyo69:
Hello all

thought I would share some accessories with you that I have found useful

Writeshield (PPCTech) Screen protectors - excellent clarity and contrast, plus it means you can tap on the screen with your fingers and not leave fingerprints all over that nice new shiny screen ! (brilliant for the phone application).....I got mine from www.expansys.com

Piel Frama leather case for MDAIII/QTEK9090/PDA2K......lovely case, fits perfectly.........
[HTC Desire C] cooljack_08:
Hey Guys,

currently i am using 806OC with revolutionmod3.5...

But i am facing instability with bluetooth.... sometimes i am able to send and receive files without any issue... but other times file transfer fails immediately...

I want to try the new v7 kernels by nikil.... which has a bluetooth fix....

Is it possible to flash only the kernel ??

So will there be any data loss in flashing the kernel alone ??

How can i flash the kernel ??

help guys !!
[HTC Desire C] LaKsHaY1997:
Yes, you can flash only kernel....No need to flash the rom again ....Just do it the way you did it before

Download the boot.img and flash it using fastboot flash boot boot.img command.

Reboot.
[HTC Desire C] me4488:
You can flash just the kernel.

fastboot flash boot [imgname].img

No data loss.
[HTC Desire C] cooljack_08:
thanks guys...
[HTC Desire C] cooljack_08:
flashed 828OC Prometheus kernel....

haven't tested bluetooth yet... hope it fixes my issue...

but its smooth.. enjoying it... :good:

have to wait and see battery performance... :fingers-crossed:

Big thanks to nikhil....
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stalensnuitje:
Hello,

My wife and I both have a Nexus S, which are both almost 2 years old now. She has always been running stock ROMs and only updated when there was an OTA update available. No rooting, no nothing ;) I however tried as much as possible and currently running SlimBean 4.2.2 Build 5 :good:

Since 3 days now, the battery in my wife’s phone isn’t charging anymore. I tried the following:

-	Use my charger and an old Nokia charger: doesn’t work

-	Put my battery in her phone: doesn’t work

-	Put her battery in my phone and charge mine: works like a charm

The last one’s the solution for now: at night I charge one of the batteries in my phone and put it in hers, while at work I charge the other battery from my PC via USB.

Based on my ideas I’d say that something in the USB-port on my wife’s phone might be broken. However, there are 2 phenomena that I find rather strange:

-	When her phone says it’s time to connect the charger, I take out the battery and put it in my own phone. I power up and the battery level reads somewhere between 60 and 80 percent :confused:

-	When I power off her phone and connect the charger, I’d expect to see either the charging symbol or nothing. But none of these: it powers up as soon as I connect the charger :confused:

I don’t know about the first issue, but could it be the battery stats might be corrupted? The last issue makes me believe that the USB-port is at least not completely disconnected/broken.

Has anyone got an idea what the issue could be? I wouldn’t want to work on her phone rooting it if it isn’t necessary, but on the other hand she might be better off in various other ways as well ;)

Thanks in advance,

Pieter
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Setting.Out:
Being completely stock and never modified, I'd say it's the usb.. Have you tried the OEM connector for the computer?..

1. I would take it to a shop

2. You could also try cleaning the contacts

3. May do nothing but if you take the battery/sim out and hold the power button for a minute, this is supposed to completely power down the phone, and then reinstall sim/battery and reboot..

4. Use this as an excuse to modify her phone (telling her that you can put it back to stock if she doesn't like it).. :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nijnvy:
This happens a lot on my phone, .. Be careful with my solution, I hope it works for you..

Basically inside the usb port on the phone, there is a flat pin. On my phone, this pin ends up bending downwards towards the bottom of the phone.. What you could do is get a very thin knife or a swiss army blade and just try and lift the flat pin in order to make it locate in the center of the usb port (hole) .. The issue being the pin doesnt connect with the charger ..

I hope you understood this :P

PS: Don't snap it !
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
Hi,

I just received v967s from etotalk with their modded rom.

I'm experiencing a strange touchscreen behaviour so now I'm looking for its original rom or another custom one before returning it.

I found this www.needrom.com/mobile/zte-v967s/ but the recovery you found there doesn't work.

I'm posting here the original recovery in case you miss that.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6739120/zte v967s/recovery.orig.img

OFFICIAL FORUM:

http://www.gaojiquan.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=203

OFFICIAL ROM REPO (with trigger upon page change):

http://www.ztedevice.com.cn/support...ab9-445c-bf86-0f0c42568d25.html?type=software

change log

FxOS REPO ready to port FirefoxOS to the v967s

https://github.com/suoko/fxos-for-v967s

MAX FLAVOUR multilanguage based on 1.0.5 stock version²:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2419456

CWM RECOVERY (post #1) + LEWAOS¹ (post #3):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2393986

MAX SMART² multilanguage with S4 and lenovo UI mix

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2429645

¹LEWAOS is the dual sim version of MIUI

²this rom lets you enable 3g on both sim slots (one at a time)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
http://www.ztedevice.com.cn/support...ab9-445c-bf86-0f0c42568d25.html?type=software
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
Thanks. I'll try warn etotalk about that since their one is based on one from 26/03/2013

EDIT

i tried the official rom and:

. no google apps

. nicer and touchscreens works better but not solved

. camera app is great

. only cn and en languages
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
According to this http://bbs.lewaos.com/thread-137800-1-1.html other devices have been affected by the touchscreen sensitive problem.

This thread says it has been solved http://bbs.lewaos.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=138880&extra=page=1&page=2 but a comment said the bottom right part is still affected.

How does development work ?

Something to try

http://www.gaojiquan.com/thread-9583-1-1.html:

http://d-h.st/8TE [NEW! :svetius:]
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
HOWTO TO ROOT:

Use this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6739120/zte v967s/移动叔叔MTK6589一键ROOT工具v3.0 by 罗微.rar
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
Better and simpler way

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2247537
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
Here you can find the scatter file (to be tested), another root tool and the CWM in chinese language.

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2287917752

I'm testing the CWM which I flashed via the "etotalk tool", a modified versione of "uncle tool"

The CWM works (it's a touch recovery) and I noticed that the phone is affected by the touchscreen problem while using the cwm too (the bottom part works intermittently).

Should I come to the conclusion that the touchscreen is faulty ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
A new original build is available today

update:

latest rom solved all touchscreen problems
[Miscellaneous Android Development] GeorgT:
Can somebody confirm that with skype works the videocall function (of course with the front camera)!

Thanks in advance!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
of course, why not?? (πρέπει να φτιαχτεί το xda και στα ελληνικά :lol: )
[Miscellaneous Android Development] GeorgT:
one of my old phones (huawei X3) dont have such oppurtunity (πολυ σαράβαλο ηταν) and it had 2 cameras!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
Συγκρίνεις cinquencento με bmw :p
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xkaliak:
I really hope it does (γιατί το λες αυτό; ;))
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
of course it does, even the cheap chinese phones of 50 euro ..(έλα ντε:p)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] BoNt3k:
Hello 2 all

I have changed my stock ROM to LeWa 4.2.1 rom

Here u can see how does it look like and in some other videos samples videos from that camera

Regards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2cf3mAPOD0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] geheimke:
Hi,

Is there a English version of the CWM for V976s ? Where to find? Thanks

Regards

Geheimke
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
Zte is going to offer firefox os devices soon: did anyone hear about a ff-os porting for us?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cha_indian:
Can the owners of ZTE V967S speak up !! I am interested in buying this phone but I am not sure about the general build quality of ZTE. Previously I have used Jiayu, Lenovo and Star branded phones and all them were very poor quality phones and not worth at all. Can anyone speak about this ZTE ??? I understand that it is a major company in China .... Can their phones be compared with the likes of HTC or Samsung in terms of Quality ???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xkaliak:
Very Polite way to ask for info :good:

Nice phone, good built quality. If you insist of course you are welcome to pay x3 or x4, to buy an HTC or Samsung :cowboy:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cha_indian:
Thank you....

More opinions please ... :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
No it doesn't support

---------- Post added at 04:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:50 PM ----------

try again, probably your download was corrupted
[Miscellaneous Android Development] trihordias:
alternative rom from etotalk?

hi,

have anyone try the rooted/unlocked/multi language rom from etotalk? I just bought ZTE V967s from etotalk and it seems ok with no broblems so far. Should i install the "souoko's propose?

Any thoughts or reviews?

(if someone tell me how can i drag out the rom, i can post it).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] satiros:
thank you [MENTION=455439]bgcngm[/MENTION]

if you could give a try it would be wonderfull
[Miscellaneous Android Development] consti83:
hey there guys,

considering to buy the ZTE V967S!

Can I run it with the original ROM (not etotalk) or is it just chinese?

Do I need to fix the GPS signal (just like any other MTK Phone)?

Are there any other things that I need to know? Currently living in Germany

Thanx!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xnikos:
can someone confirm that a compass app can work on ZTE V967S or not?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
forget original rom, it has only english and chinese, no gapps, and many chinese oriented apps. Don't buy it from etotalk, they are very expensive for no reason. Buy it from minideal or to2c for example, they send it with multilanguage stock rom with gapps, or you can use the roms of carliv

no, δεν έχει
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cyrillem28410:
With BangGood, you can have 10$ by creating your account when you buy for more that 100$

The link for that :

http://www.banggood.com/?zf=305444
[Miscellaneous Android Development] andylah:
hi,

can someone give me link to download gapps for it original firmware.

i has tried many gapps and all bring me to force close.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dovahpig:
Why dont you just flash some other rom with gapps?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] consti83:
GAPPS for the original ROM would be great.

I don't flash other ROMs because I want the support/updates ZTE offers me.. Anyway I dont know which Android Version is going to be released for that phone :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] andylah:
i am 100% agree,

i am try to install many gapps, all give me force close on google process. so if some one can give me link ...

stock rom gapps...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] a_stefane:
gapps will not work if the phone has not full root ... stock rom of V967s has no root ... try install another rom with full root support ... stock rom doesnt support gapps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] andylah:
yes i know that...

you don;t get the point of my question, if i am install another rom that not official that i miss the official ZTE update. you get this...?

and another rom will include with gapps so it useless install gapps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] a_stefane:
official ZTE update will never suport gapps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] andylah:
once you success installed gapps, official update will never erase your gapps....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] a_stefane:
I have to say something else ... first official update on my V967s erased the root and gapps didnt work until reroot and installed another rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dovahpig:
Latest rom from zte is 1.05

Max flavour slim rom is based on 1.05, gapps work. Rom working great for me but if you want to bang your head against the wall , feel free to do it.

Послато са ZTE V967S користећи Тапаталк 4
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ares93:
I heard the GPS is bad on the MT6589 chips. Is it an issue on the V967S as well? Cause I cant decide between the ZTE and the Lenovo A850. I know the latter has a well working (for a MediaTek) gps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dovahpig:
GPS works fine.

Послато са ZTE V967S користећи Тапаталк 4
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cyrillem28410:
The GPS is very fast. The EPO function is very good
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ghosr1408:
Is there a site except needrom......com where you can find roms with change logs and working/notworking list. I would like to try fully working MIUI for this phone.

THX
[Miscellaneous Android Development] consti83:
check the official miui site http://en.miui.com/thread-2651-1-1.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] suoko:
I'm now using acer rom from needrom which has many themes embedded, is pretty fast, offers 3g switch and embeds gravitybox (u only need to install xposed installer apk and enable the module)

However it includes clean master ans swype keyboard non free edition which is not ok for play store.

Is there a way to discover 'illegal' apps in a rom ?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] basoula:
Ubuntu

Hello! I have problem with my V967s! I just delete something in my phone and now stuck in logo! It don't go to recovery (if is instaled from minideal) my problem is I have Ubuntu in my laptop and i don't know how to use SP flash tool! Please some help!

Thank you!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cappa72:
Have you got any backup of your ROM?

Let's check the adb availability for your phone.

If it is available, you can use dd command instead of win-based SP Flashtool.

If you are not familiar with that, you have to use Flashtool.

Here is a really good tutorial about the Flashtool.

Edit: note that virtualbox+win xp+flashtool is not recommended to use for mt6589 platform!

What I would do if I were you is that I only flash a CWM (clockworkmod recovery), nothing more.

Right after that I would make a backup (not to lose data).

If it is done, I would try to find a possibility to install rom from CWM.

After the installation of a new ROM (does not matter if it is a custom or stock), you will be able to restore your data from CWM recovery.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ahurmazda:
I've installed recovery on the phone But then the phone does not read SIM cards...And the sim manegement is disabled on setting...and the IMEI

invalid...I installed the different ROM and recovery but Did not get any results.plz help me
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ghosr1408:
Flash original rom back ?

LINK