yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
Hi. Thank you for your reply. My post was to start a discussion about the features of new update and about lack of some expected ones (which maybe still will be announced).

And what was the purpose of your reply?
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
It was never said that wp8 and w8 would become one and the same. You have misunderstood. Some of the new windows runtime features are coming to windows phone and the services offered were to be merged, but the operating systems themselves were to remain seperate.
[Windows 8 General] e.mote:
>Some of the new windows runtime features are coming to windows phone and the services offered were to be merged, but the operating systems themselves were to remain desperate.

:)
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
:( that way I had to misunderstood this (would be a great idea thou). Sort of like universal apps shared between iphone and ipad) I seen few apps which are being announced as both windows 8 and windows phone 8 (check co-pilot or halo) which probably kept me in believing in this. Oh well we will see where windows 8 will evolve.
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
iPhone and iPad share apps simply because they are the same operating system. The iPad is just a giant iPhone. its the same as how one android phone and another share apps, they are the same thing.

Windows phone and windows 8 are not.

The desperate thing I said above, may be true but autocorrect fail, wrote it from my nexus this morning.
[Windows 8 General] Vishwal:
Purpose of his post is that you stop using that $ instead of S.
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
Oh. I am sorry I didn't know that I hurt his / yours religious feelings.

Unless of course this gentleman refers to his home as "under the bridge" I read his post as simple attempt to offend.

In light of recent E3 news (xbox one- drm management, activation fees, price, Internet connection requirement to work, always-on camera pointing your face and listening all the time which you cannot just unplug) I thing that using $ instead of S is good way to comment the situation.

To end this pointless conversation - unless there there is a XDA rule which prohibits me to do so then please stop trolling and trying to offend other forum members.

Now coming back to 8.1 - is this correct what I understood from brief installation description that if you install this release you will have to reinstall all the programs if you would like to install final release?
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
"M$" and similar (and I'd apply this statement even to, for example, "$ony" which is a company I personally detest) is most commonly used as trolling behavior online. This is doubly true in a forum devoted to discussing Microsoft products. It's possible you had, and still have, a legit intention to create a meaningful discussion. However, it looked (and to an extent, still looks) like you're merely trying to stir up trouble.

I agree that the XbOne restrictions are nasty, but I have no intention of buying one, and this forum has nothing to do with that product.

The only hint I ever saw regarding merging the app models was a job posting about installing both XAP and APPX packages on the same platform. That's interesting, and does imply a merged app platform, but there's no guarantee it was even going to happen, much less when. To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft never officially said anything to the effect of "we will do this" although there's been rampant speculation since the Win8 beta days.
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
You are right. I has never been said officially thus my expectations and hopes to see any bits of confirmation during the press conference. When I haven seen any I asked the question here. Still must say I am looking forward this update (probably not for first public beta - if the rumours are true that you will have to reinstall all your applications).

Personally I believe that The Redmond company :) will need stronger impact to conquer more market right now windows 8 is getting the love it should receive as is being designed for touch but mostly is being use on non-touchscreen laptops and PC. Marked wasn't ready for this. So right approach would be IMO to get more tablet users on their side (look at the latest adverts windows 8 vs iPad). If 8" tablets market is good for win8 is another discussion thou.

But coming back to subject. Has this been confirm that win 8.1 final version cannot be I painless way installed on top of preview?

Cheers
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
In practice, it's pretty much always possible to do an in-place upgrade via tweaking a few files in the installer or a value in the registry. However, in-place upgrades are a bad enough idea even when they're supported; I really can't endorse doing it on your main system. I may well install the preview in a VM, though.
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
I think in this case I will rather wait for official final release. Hdd restrictions will not allow me to have more fun on vm. I am already running win8 on bootcamp so no more complications are required ;)

Also partially as an answer to my initial question it has been announced that new halo game for win 8 and win phone 8 will not be a cross buy. These will be two independent apps so no one unified system for now at least. :(
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah, that's been the case for a number of games already. On the plus side, the games *can* still share data between platforms if you have it on boath, and you can earn achievemnts on both... which would matter more if I gave a damn about gamerscore (I've got like 3500, LOL) but some people really care.
[Windows 8 General] Andrew_j:
Hi all. There is still light at the end of the tunnel (hope it's not a train ;)

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...indows-phone-teams-in-titanic-microsoft-rejig
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] eltinio:
Hello,

I'm having a I-mate jam with an 265mb wifi card but i'm not always connectect to wireless networks.

If i'm not connected and i do click on the IE icon it's itrying to use the gprs settings whom are not installed becaus i don't want to use gprs.

Is it possible that the I-mate doesn't use gprs ore the dialup modem?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouse100:
When I bought Nexus 7 I followed this trick http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1792592 to obtain 25$ free credit.

But now I have all prices in dollars and I want to remove my Google play balance, but when I try to go to wallet.google.com I have no way to remove google balance like other credit card, because there isn't the REMOVE button.

I can't change also my country and address if I don't delete my google balance.

Do you know if it's possible to delete it?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acrylicus:
Having the exact same problem and it's driving me crazy. I just immigrated to Canada and my bank apps are country restricted, this is a huge pain. I have 28p which is difficult to spend...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gumbald:
I guess nobody found a solution to this? I have 22p left in my account but want to change it to US to sign up for all access...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Can you not buy a paid app (say .99) and use the play store balance and pay the difference?

Not sure if this will help or is possible, but thought I'd see if it could be useful.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gumbald:
Sadly not, from their terms:

I've had a new idea, does anyone know an app that has some really small in-app purchases?

EDIT: Update! Even with a Google Play balance of £0.00, it still won't let me change country...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] y2whisper:
I just ran into the same issue.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emilic:
I have the same issue :S

Has any one found out if something can be done? I don't really want to sync my phone with a new mail just to change my play balance...

sent from a land far far away...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] csfolmer:
here same problem.

I want my 5 euro that i won of eating a kitkat ;)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asovse1:
The free balance is said to expire by the end of the month. Maybe then this will resolve our issues?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitbitbit:
I have some credits from a year ago (from the purchase of the N7 2012) and the balance has been 0 for about 6 months now. Still no way to change home country.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobitronics:
I also had a N7 and did the US trick to get 25 dollars, but now I won 5 euros from kitkat and google doesnt give em to me. I have 75 cents left in my account, what can I do? Can't google support help us in any way? Because this is plain stupid..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fmeragli:
This is kind of ridiculous... People need to be able to change their country if they move and what not. It is October 1st, yet the remaining .75 cent balance is still in my account! Sigh... :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetpiggy:
What app have you used ? Thx

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus con Tapatalk 4
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gozzaa:
i would like that too!

i have 35 cents left on my account.

any ideas how to spent them?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] y2whisper:
Even with spending, the card stayed on my account with 0 balance.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fmeragli:
Anybody know if theres a way to delete/re-add or reset google wallet?? And if that would remove the balance?? :confused:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atomoton:
Just want to confirm I've basically got the same problem. I moved to the US but can't change my address because I have $0.07 CAD in my google play balance.

This is actually outrageous.

I hope someone finds a solution, I've been trying for two months now.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luismix:
Did somebody find a solution for this weird issue? :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nm8:
I'm with the same problem... I have .83 Pence (UK) on my google wallet, I now moved to USA, and I purchased a $25 google play card. It won't let me redeem the card. I contacted google, but they will not help, they said I need to create a new google wallet account.

This is ridiculous
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AngryCoder:
I believe one can contact the Wallet help online, or by phone, ask them to close the wallet account and then rejoin. All transaction history will be wiped out and no balance will appear. you will start from scratch again.

Google for

Google wallet balance help

How to close a gogle wallet account

support. google .com / wallet / answer / 3086986 ? hl=en&ref_topic=3209987

Link : Deleting an wallet account

support .google .com / wallet /answer/2907658?hl=en[/url]

could be this the solution, who knows it is Google we are talking about....:angel:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nm8:
I contacted google about this and they said they can't do anything, and they asked me to create a new google account. Such stupid thing to do. I have x4 accounts that I already use with my android phones, I can't just cancel them because I have bought apps with the different accounts. Maybe if they can be consolidated to one account, it would be better, but it is impossible to do that at the moment.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SchnookoLoly:
I have had this issue as well. I had 14p sitting in my account, and have moved form the UK to Canada.

After searching around for awhile and getting nowhere, I called up Google and explained the situation. The woman I spoke to really didn't know what she was doing.

She first suggested I use the 14p towards a purchase. Um, no, against your T&Cs.

She then suggested I top up money in my prepaid balance and use that. Um, no, also against your T&Cs, and getting slightly annoyed now.

She then suggested creating a new Google Account completely. How about ... no.

Finally after a lot of back and forth, she got permission to add 55p to my account, which gave me 69p total, so I bought an app for 69p.

My balance now says zero... and I still can't change my country to Canada. I got transferred to someone else, he tried to help but ultimately said to give it 48 hours and see if that did anything. It's been 48h and I still have the error message... has anyone had this cleared after a certain amount of time??
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] y2whisper:
So far no. I have had it at 0 for months
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexStorm:
My attempt

So I had a balance of 0 Euros and now I moved to the Uk where I won 5 GBP from a Kit Kat.

I read this forum and got a stupid idea.

If you request your Google Wallet to be deleted or closed or whatever the Google Play balance gets deleted as well so if you reopen it, you shouldn't have any Play Balance and that would let you change the Home Country.

What do you guys think??
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gumbald:
Speak to Google, but they'll likely say no...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginobili1:
I have the same issue 90c in my account and it won't just go away. Is there a way to get rid of this? It was fun to get the $25 from the N7 purchase, but it has become a real nuisance now.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeMurphy:
Just spoke with a rep, he says it's on their radar and their engineers are working on it.

He confirmed that if you ever had a balance in another country you cannot currently change your home country, regardless of whether that balance is spent.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtyid:
Apparently there's a wallet phone number you can call to sort things out. Haven't personally tried it.

productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/wallet/z_JdloPILvQ
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginobili1:
This this and they said the same thing, that they can't do anything about it and they can't remove the Google Play Balance either. I asked them if its a bug, and they said that it is by design. I don't know what Google is doing about it, but it is a real pain in the neck.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelj70:
google play balance

Great design ... even Apple works better. I have .35 euros left as I travel between France and UK. America is another world Its stupid as I could be actually buying stuff from Google play store but now I cannot
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joval74:
I eventually managed to get my balance down to 0 by searching for 0.28c on the Play store and finding some ****ty Russian book. Still have the US address though. Have requested my account be deleted. It's the only fix I can see. Dumb.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joval74:
So now my Wallet account is suspended:

That's great, Google. Thanks. I can still access the Play store and all of the other services, but you can't take any of my money. Well done. :p

That $25 gift voucher wasn't worth the hassle.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginobili1:
I don't know why Google hasn't fixed it yet. I got an email from them a long time ago that they are working on it, but never got a reply back.

This is the worst case of tech blunders! That engineer should get sacked... so shall his whole department.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fmeragli:
I'm still having this problem after a little over a year. I basically made a second account for the sole purpose of making purchases and using certain services, and I need to switch between them constantly on my phone and in the web (to listen to music for example) and what not. It's not acceptable and makes me want to quit using google services all together. If this was by design, it is horrible and very stupid. People move do move and don't stay in the same country their whole lives. Just let us change the country Google! Seriously.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joval74:
No problem. I'll spend my money elsewhere. :p
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
Some idiot at Google Play Music just made things worse by issuing what was supposed to be a $15 CAD credit but it is in fact a USD credit. So now I need to find a way to get that exactly down to zero.

Can anyone suggest how to find apps that sell for an exact amount of US dollars or cents?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
Hey, my Wallet account just unfroze and allowed me to change countries. Now when you change countries it just gives you a warning that your GPlay balance will not transfer over, but it will remain for whenever you switch back.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] csfolmer:
Yes here also! Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetpiggy:
finally!

i'm back in Italy :laugh:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sndv:
Google Wallet

.....
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eliciuss:
Hi guys,

My first post here. So a friend from the US sent me a 10$ gift card, and I changed my google wallet to a US address (I'm originally from Spain). Spent 9.99$ (So now my balance is 0.01$). And now I can't change it back, it says something like "you've used google play balance, now you can't change your home country".

Any idea? Spending the last penny will solve it? (how do I spend it?)

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
Strange, this issue had been resolved for months. In my experience it now warns that you will not be able to transfer your GP balance but it does let you change country.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arunscape:
Can't change from US to Canada

I get a slightly different error message. Whenever I try to change my address, it says my play balance won't be transferred over blah blah.. And then it says "updating settings". Then, it right away says " Updating settings has failed. Please try again later.."

Havent been able to solve this for a week, contacted google support and it doesn't seem like they're doing anything...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P-AF:
Found out that if my balance is under 10$ i'm supposed to be able to switch country , but it's not working ...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P-AF:
Clarification

For the search purpose , You can change country if your balance is under 10$ , BUT it would not work if you have a pending transaction. I hope this could help.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waheedrafiq:
Hi Guys I am in the same situation with a balance of Zero in euros and want to change it to UK , as I live in UK , I have rise a case with google support chat BOT team and am waiting for a official answer
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jotapalma:
Same problem here. Google balance 0. And also says I can't change my country as I'm a manager of a family account which I'm not...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westyswifey:
How to remove the google play balance off of your payment methods?

payment methods on Google, the option to pay via my mobile billing has disappeared & I can't delete/remove the stupid play balance option off of my account now even though I have never used this feature. Can anyone help with this plz, its driving me crazy!! :silly:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vnation:
i have samsung s2 SGH-T989(t-mobile) and already installed official ics 4.0.4(T989UVLH1).now i want update my phone through kies.when i plug my phone kies show pop-up that shows a firmware update is available after click on next "Prepare for firmware update" dialog box appear and after 100% complete it goes in idle state and after 45 minutes dialog automatically close. pls help me sir i really want to update my phone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] krazierokz:
kies is tricky it takes a while for you to actually get it working have some patience and continue to try you will get it :D also if your phone has become unusable flash the kies emergency recovery or something like that to get you back rolling
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vnation:
well, today i try to update my phone and after 100% of "Prepare firmware update" i wait for 1 hr but still kies dont update my phone...pls help me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] krazierokz:
are you wiling to try another method besides kies ? because there are other ways if you want me to point you in the right direction :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
ODIN and download mode are likely your best bets. I don't even bother with kies.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emerica243:
So im a flashaholic, and ill usually flash new builds every couple weeks if they've included performance or features improvements. Ive always had good battery life .5 to 1.5% an hour. Well lately its sucked, at around 3%/hr idle. I always use the same stuff, Xylon Rom, and francos kernel. Ive tried just about everything to try and figure out why its happening, even trying different roms and kernels. One thing i will say is i believe when i had the best battery life was before the latest system update. When i was using baseband .33. So im thinking that might be my next test, to try to flash the older .33 radio.

Here are all the constants as far as applications i install that people might think be causing problems, even though BetterBatteryStats really shows no problematic wakelocks to my knowledge, which ill post screenshots of later for you guys to analyze

Facebook

Messenger

DashClock

Ez Weather Widget

Mightytext SMS

Franco Kernel App

What ive tried so far

1. Restored my phone stock 4.2.2 image from google developers. Flashing all the img files via fastboot trying to start from a clean phone. Right after that i flashed latest Xylon rom and franco milestone 2 kernel. After that i install all my apps, customize my phone and such. I charged it last night pulled it off and let it idle through the night and it dropped from 100% to 85% ~3%/hr. This is what ive been getting for the past 2 months so im guessing the stock flashing didnt help do anything. Unfortunately i didnt save the screen shots of betterbatterystats for you guys before i decided to proceed to step 2 this morning.

2. Trying a different kernel this morning and also upgraded my .48 baseband to the .54 one. I flashed Faux kernel this time, and also his Faux123 App. I kept all the default settings just like i do with Francos kernel. Im currently charging my phone to 100% right now, going to drain it throughout the day, and then charge it up again, clear the battery information and let it idle overnight. Ill report back after that, including the BetterBatteryStats information. Hopefully you guys can help me get this sorted out.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scream4cheese:
The problem is not coming from the kernels or the baseband. Most likely the trouble is coming from your apps. Install "wake lock detector" to find the cause of issue. Optional: download "Greenify" and hibernate apps so they won't drain power and wake up constantly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emerica243:
Thanks, ill install that app and include Wakelock detectors findings as well.
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
I am trying to flash a factory RUU on my gf HOX but not having any success.

The error code (140) comes up and bootloader message.

Its running on hboot 1.39

Any ideas? U have relocker the bootload oem not it wont boot in to the rom just fastboot

this is the RUU

RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_H3G_UK_1.28.771.9_Radio_1.1204.103.14H_release_256494_signed

shes on 3 mobile

thanks
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
To old ruu, you need a stick backup to get back to original state.

Give the real main version

Fastboot getvar version-main

Post it here please
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
3.14.771.34
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Here is your stock nandroid backup !

http://bugsylawson.com/files/file/184-cwm-nandroid-backup-cid-h3g-106-31477134/
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
thanks ill give it a try! do i just put it in the nandroid back up folder and run it from recovery?
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
do I then have to flash stock recovery on relock boot loader??
[HTC One X] athulele:
First flash recovery then lock the bootloader.
[HTC One X] vin4yak:
Don't forget to flash the boot.img as well! ;)

-Sent from my IceCold One X!
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
ok the phone has restored but now we have no signal to phone network nor any wifi

havent flashed boot.img or recovery yet either but its fully booted
[HTC One X] athulele:
Flash boot.img

That'll solve it.
[HTC One X] Andyokane:
Thanks! it did!
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Nice teamwork guys ! Keep it up ....

CASE CLOSED ! :D