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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
I've been using iphone for a while but am contemplating getting a work phone so thought I'd get something different. My wife has the nokia lumia and I'm not a great fan, although I do like the dynamic windows tiles.

So I had a quick play with the Galaxy S4 and HTC One. Before I went into the store the HTC was the one I was most interested in, but I didn't like it to be honest. I usually like HTC UI but not on this, plus I didn't like the soft touch keys.

The S4 user experience was much better imo, but the thing that let it down over the HTC was the build quality/materials the phone is made from. For a £500+ phone I'd expect better tbh. I do like the Android home screen(s) though, much more interesting than the iphone imo. I'd personally like it if Apple introduced widgets rather than just having a screen full of icons.

Sorry to compare to the iphone, but obviously that's my benchmark. I did find the touchscreen very good and responsive, but neither are as slick as the iphone when scrolling around etc. At times they were a little jerky/stuttery (only minor but there), also I found that it didn't always click the links I wanted, it would click the link above or below. Finally the web pages rendered far too small for me (especially the S4). It's as though they're trying to cram to much real estate on making the text too small and ilegible. I had to zoom 99% of web pages, whereas with the iphone I can read them without zoomin

So my questions are can these things be altered? When I had my HTC HD2 a few years ago I found similar issues with rendering and area it was clicking, but you could tweak all these things, as well has how quick the screen scrolled etc by tweaking the registry (xda-developers was a great help for this). Can you do a similar thing with android?

Sorry if this sounds like I'm bashing the phones, I'm not they're very good phones. But for me personally I'd need to be able to change the rendering size of webpages at least (if not the other things) as I'd just find it too annoying to use.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
You can alter the text sizes on Android browsers, under Settings > Accessibility. See screenshot.

Personally if I had to choose between the One and the S4, I'd take the One without even thinking about it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
Thanks for the reply and help. What are your reasons behind you comments of the One vs S4? It's a shame you can't rent phones fro a few days so you can get to 'play' with them properly, as we all know spending a few minutes in store doesn't give you a real fell for them :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Like you mentioned earlier, the build quality is better on the HTC. Samsung phones are just too plasticy for my liking, they look ugly and feel cheap. The design of the One is beautiful.

I also much prefer the stock Sense 5 UI over Touchwiz, I'm using Sense 5 on my One XL at the moment. I'm usually an AOSP fan (I've never really liked Sense much) but Sense 5 has won me over. Touchwiz looks so ugly to me, especially the comic-sans kind of fonts they use so often! If I was getting one I'd root it anyway so I guess the UI would be interchangeable.

Lastly, I think Samsung try too hard, yeah they have some cool features sometimes but ultimately I think they're really gimmicky. In fairness the same could be said about the Beats "audio enhancement" found on HTC phones, no thanks I prefer a music player with good built in equalizer (like Poweramp).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
Thanks again. I need to swot up on the different UI's as I'm not familiar with all the different Android UI's/OS's eg touchwiz :o
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
After researching and playing with these devices again in store I think I'll choose the HTC One. One think that I don't like is the black background when you go to the apps page, or in menus. The blue wallpaper of the Samsung Galaxy looks much more aesthetically appealing to me (see below). I know with android you can customise just about anything, so can you change the app and menu backgrounds on the HTC to anything you want rather than just having plain black? How easy is it to do?

Not a big thing I know, but aesthetics is important to me :o

HTC One

Galaxy S4
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
On the stock ROM I don't believe you can change the app drawer background. But, if you decide to root the device there will most likely be ROMs available that will have that as an option, plus many more.

In terms of how easy rooting is to accomplish, I believe if you can read and have a basic understanding of technology then it's pretty straight forward. It's daunting at first, I researched quite a lot before attempting it, which is always the best way to go about it.

You're in the right place. XDA is a brilliant community, with a wealth of information, and it's full of like minded people who are willing to lend a hand. If you do decide to root your phone, just go to the XDA home page, use the drop down boxes at the top to find your device forum, and start learning about the true capabilities of Android.

Sent from my Evita
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Most things on android can be changed which is what what makes it so great. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
Thanks for the replies guys. When you say root the device is this essentially hacking the device, such as jailbreaking the iphone? If so does it cause any performance issues/glitches, and does it effect warranty in any way?

As for the forum, it is truly staggering the knowledge base on here. I used the site many moons ago when I had the HTC HD2 and the info was invaluable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Yeah rooting is like jail-breaking, essentially it's hacking your phone in order to give it access to the root directory of your device (where the cool stuff is), hence the term rooting.

There is usually a warning that it will indeed void your warranty. In terms of glitches, newer ROMs can have bugs, it's a matter of testing them out and finding which one works for you best. Most of the stuff available is good for daily driver use though :thumbup:

Sent from my Evita
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
Thanks again. I assume if you root your phone there is a way to restore it to it's original condition should you have any warranty issues, or wish to sell it on when you upgrade?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Yes you can run an RUU (ROM update utility) which takes it back to a completely stock state. Your bootloader will have flags which say "tampered" or "unlocked" or both, but I believe the One has s-off now so I think removing them is possible, best to check at that forum though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snerkler:
Many thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
No problems :thumbup:
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JackyJack:
Specs says that push mail is available for this phone, but when I get in the mail settings I can't find any push option...

I can find the auto sync settings (resfresh every 15 mins, 1h, 2h, ...), but push is supposed to be an idle status sent to the mail server so the server contacts the phone instantly when a new mail arrives.

So is it possible ?

I like the Moto mail app, it looks great and gesture is nice.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangarm:
When I click "E-mail>Settings>Hotmail (in my case) >Reports settings> You can check "E-mail reports". There it says in small letters, report when e-mail arrives.

For me, it feels immediately. Hope this helps you out.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenrw7:
on my stock email on account setting scrolling down mine shows Mailbox check frequency option as Automatic (push)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
Hey there! It has been a while..

You may have noticed Team Win Recovery Project (short: TWRP) is available, but still not for our device,

and it seems I am the only one who spends time on making TWRP fully compatible

for our device which includes some bug fixes and modifications.

Both, TWRP and the kernel were compiled on my pc, using OS X Yosemite (10.10) as host system

from CM sources.

What is TWRP?

A fully touch driven custom recovery developed by TeamWin with a nice and easy to use user interface.

You can install your ROM's, backup it or restore it from/on your internal or external storage.

Backups can be compressed which saves alot of storage space and backups can have an individual,

user chosen name. Some unique features are an integrated filemanager, shell access,

rooting and the option to set a display timeout and display brightness.

TWRP includes alot of more features that I listed.. just explore yourself.

Download (also check the #Download page):

recovery263.img => TWRP 2.6.3.0 (STABLE)

recovery283_1.img => TWRP 2.8.3.0 (BETA)

For developers and for GPL reasons:

gkernel_x3_defconfig.zip => Used kernel defconfig (no kernel sourcecode changes have been made except mac os x specific kernel building fixes)

Sources (using cm10.2 sourcecode with cm p880 kernel):

p880_device: https://bitbucket.org/supergordon/device_lge_p880

p880_recovery_twrp: https://bitbucket.org/supergordon/twrp_lge_p880

p880_kernel: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/lge-kernel-p880

How do I install TWRP on my unlocked device?

Option 1: Fastboot

adb reboot oem-unlock
fastboot flash recovery recovery263.img
fastboot reboot

Option 2: ADB

(put first the recovery image to the root directory of your internal storage)

adb shell
su
cat /sdcard/recovery263.img > /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

What device specific changes have been made?

For changelogs on TWRP itself visit http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2

My submitted patches on TeamWin's gerrit:

http://review.teamw.in/606

http://review.teamw.in/607

[July 1st] --> Both patches have been now reviewed and merged into the official TWRP sources.

Please report any bugs to help improving TWRP on our device.

Bug reports can be submitted here.

XDA:DevDB Information

Team Win Recovery Project, Tool/Utility for the LG Optimus 4X HD

Contributors

gordon0001

Version Information

Status: No Longer Updated

Current Stable Version: 2.6.3.0

Stable Release Date: 2013-09-12

Current Beta Version: 2.8.3.0

Beta Release Date: 2014-12-31

Created 2013-09-17

Last Updated 2015-01-16
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
Reserved
[LG Optimus 4X HD] zicoxx:
Finally!!!...Thanks..Thanks..Thanks..

I follow you and your work and i hope that soon you release a gbootmenu 0.2 with twrp 2.5...
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ScardracS:
Or via terminale put the recovery.img in your sdcard and write:

1) su and agree superuser request

2) flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Abaddon:
gave thanks as appreciation =)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] saenta:
Thanks awesome! i really like twrp much more than cwm.

Is it possible that Fix Permissions is not working? it takes about a second to finish, with cwm it was 5 to 10 minutes.

Thanks!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tiflao:
Fastboot mode :

cannot load 'recovery.img': No error

Why?

Thx
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
no, thats fine. twrp uses its own way to fix permissions.

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[LG Optimus 4X HD] FunkyRasta:
[MENTION=4945303]tiflao[/MENTION]

Recovery.img is not in your fastboot directory. I'm 100 percent sure ;)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
be sure you change to the directory where you stored recovery.img at your terminal(linux, osx)/command prompt(windows) with the "cd" command.

[YOUTUBE]t7O8rR8bz90[/YOUTUBE]
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tiflao:
Thx guys
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
[MENTION=5054038]gordon0001[/MENTION]:

How is the development of the next version of GBootmenu going on? I am really looking forward to see TWRP 2.5.0.0 and CWM 6.0.3.1 in just one menu.

Thanks for TWRP 2.5.0.0! Good work!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordonbennet:
Thanks gordon0001. Will make flashing and everything else a lot easier. Installed using the All in one P880 kit.

Have a good weekend!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
Hey!

Nice to see you like my work, but this thread is about TWRP and not GBootMenu. Post your questions about my other work in the correspondending release thread.

Thank you!

The all in one kit installs an outdated, dangerous to use, version of TWRP.

Please install the new, updated version of TWRP or your hardware could be damaged.

Instructions can be found in the first post #1.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordonbennet:
I forgot to add that I replaced the old one with your one in the toolkit's data files (just renamed the v2.5 to whatever the toolkit was using and deleted the old one).

Thanks for the concern though. Currently loving archived backups :)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] reas0n:
TWRP is damn good! more functions, faster backup/restore etc., thanks!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ozeer:
Thanks for your work .. I love the recovery so much .. Thumbs up
[LG Optimus 4X HD] salmonpar:
Loving the touch,everything works as it should :)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
updated to 2.6.0.0. see first post

the patches i submitted were reviewed, verified and merged into the official twrp sources. meaning with twrp 2.6.0.0 every device profit from it
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tobixdev:
works perfect here :)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] zicoxx:
Works very well aslo for me..

Thanks..

Hey gordon if possible to add some features to twrp as [MENTION=659207]kokotas[/MENTION] made for HD2?

As:

* NTFS support for sdcard's 1st primary partition
* Option for converting file system [ext2 - ext3 - ext4 - nilfs2] of sdcard's ext partition (without losing any data if there is enough space on the /sdcard)
* Option for adding a 3rd primary partition(mmcblk0p3 as /sdext2)
* Option to skip dalvik-cache during backup
* Ability to restore backups that were made using a CWM Recovery
* Ability to check SD Card's filesystem(s)
* Ability to run shell scripts from your SD Card (script location: /sdcard/TWRP/scripts)
* Ability to "run" recovery (AROMA based) apps with one click (app location: /sdcard/TWRP/app)
* Ability to select current theme (example of theme file location /sdcard/TWRP/theme/MyTheme/ui.zip)
* Ability to check the size of the backup to be restored
* Ability to take screenshot (screenshots location: /sdcard/TWRP/screenshots)
* Configurable haptic feedback
* Configurable system tweaks (cpu gov, cpu freq, i/o sched, drop_caches)

or others features for p880

Link to thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2120297

Source https://github.com/n0d3/Extended-Team-Win-Recovery-Project
[LG Optimus 4X HD] alberteske:
Works perfect and faster than ever! :highfive:

Thanks Gordon
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
im not really interested in adding these things since i have my own project running.

also i dont see how useful are most of these features for our device.

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[LG Optimus 4X HD] mefoo:
I have been using TWRP on my phone, works great.

Thank you

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
What is the terminal feature for? I thought it was like terminal emulator so I tried to grab a last_kmsg for a ROM that isn't booting, no luck

EDIT: Got it to work, great tool for bootloop diagnosis without adb :D

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
2.6.0.0 works really great on our P880 !

Thanks to gordon0001 !!

:highfive:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
i keep getting error1 this way. using recovery26

anyone help?

or is there a flashable zip?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
ok. even wierder. when I try fastboot it says bootloader is locked. it's not as it's on 4.3 mokee?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] SpyKnife:
You can flash it using terminal emulator and option 2 from first post but just without first command(adb shell).

Sent from my LG-P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
worked! thank you! :D

put recovery26.img on the main directory of the memory card

opened terminal emulator and typed

su (press enter and grant access)

then typed -

cat /sdcard/recovery26.img > /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(press enter - job done)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
from the 'phone off' how do you boot into recovery?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Hold power + vol down, release power when you see LG logo but hold vol for dear life.

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
updated to 2.6.1.0

see first post
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ze7zez:
.

Option 3: Recovery Flasher Utility

- Without the use of wires.

.

0. Download 48 kB Recovery Flasher Utility

.

1. Download a recovery compatible with your device (search online)

2. Place the recovery image on your sdcard/external storage

3. Rename the recovery to "recovery.img" all in lowercase

4. Open the app and flash the recovery by pressing the "install recovery" button (Please be patient, wait for all the toasts to go away or it might not flash right)

5. Reboot into your new recovery if you wish

.

I will try this method after unlocking my P880.

.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Timbat720:
I tried this app says flashed but no change ?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ze7zez:
OK. :D

It is a method of loading the next recovery.

Probably, you have to already have a recovery that is able to do flash a new recovery.

Stock recovery it is not possible upload a new recovery.

.

When I unlock the bootloader, then I'll know for sure.

.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Timbat720:
I used recovery tools app and that lets you choose exact file by directory and name this worked ok - simpler and fool proof :o
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
wonderful ! Works fine. Thanks !!! :highfive:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] alberteske:
works perfectly Thanks!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
2.6.3.0

TWRP team release new version 2.6.3.0

:p
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
updated to 2.6.3.0

see first post

changes i made:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
2.6.3.0 causes brick beware! Works on standard cm kernel only

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
can you please explain that bit more detailed ? What does it mean ?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Aiolizator:
Really ?

II upgraded from 2.6.1.0 to 2.6.3.0 with Recovery Tool, my kernel is iodak v08 with CM 10.1.3 RC2, and it didn't brick my phone.:confused:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
I expected that TWRP (general every recovery) runs totally independent from ROM on its own kernel. :D

So, is my understanding wrong ? So, no special risk in connection with the "ROM & ROM-Kernel".

If it works, it works ....
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Aiolizator:
I agree with you, it's like the BIOS and OS on a PC. The only problem that may occur between ROM and recovery is a particular ROM that can't be installed with a specific recovery (already seen on another phone).
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Hmmm, what happened here is the phone refused to boot into anything other than recovery, have you tried using the reboot system option in twrp yet? Maybe that triggered it, then when I flashed cm10.2 it magically works again!

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
But did not wrote that he has a problem. Seems he is just surprised that it works for him. :o
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
I intended to answer your question too ;)

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
2.6.3.0

the 2.6.3.0 works fine ! thanks !! :highfive:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Hmm I'm unlucky. Maybe I had a bad install or something, I'll try again at some point :silly:

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Aiolizator:
Yes, after entering TWRP to check its version (to see if the update worked); I used the "system reboot" option, and it worked fine.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
so, all works perfect with twrp 2.6.3.0 on P880 :D
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Appears so, apologies that my phone was an ass :silly:

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
Hehe, and does it work for you now too?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Dunno, I'm scared to try :D

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
but perhaps it is esp. for our device much saver:

news from 2.6.3.0.

Proper backup and restore of SELinux contexts (thanks to Tassadar)

Pull in some ROM information for backup name generation

Merge all recent patches from AOSP bringing TWRP up to date with Android 4.3

Add 1200x1920 theme (thanks to Tassadar)

A few other fixes and tweaks
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
2.6.3.0 comes with stock cm kernel because my modified kernel bootloops to recovery and crashes in the same second it boots (bad sh it..)

but stock cm kernel is fine

edit: it only bootlooped because twrp didnt successfully boot and couldnt exec a script that gets executed to clear the boot flags after initializing twrp

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[LG Optimus 4X HD] arararagi:
Would be even more awesome if MultiROM was merged in.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] ectoplasma22:
+1000
[LG Optimus 4X HD] EB20XY:
What does it mean ?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Adam77Root:
It means that you don't have to flash a separate recovery for MultiRom features.

[MENTION=5054038]gordon0001[/MENTION]: Could you take a look at it: Here is the modified recovery source. I have built an image for MultiRom that used this tree with your device-specific changes cherry-picked and they work well together. Here are the TWRP flags I use. See also: twrp.fstab
[LG Optimus 4X HD] gordon0001:
thank you.

i was able to implement it successfully.

installing 2nd rom (slimbean) did work fine, and also flashing iodak boot.img for the 2nd rom. did boot without problems.

just some gui elements of the twrp multiboot page are messed up, but i'll look into that (for example a radio button overlaps another)

i'll release the update of twrp at the evening (its morning for me atm)

EDIT(at evening): sorry had no time yet. ill do asap

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[LG Optimus 4X HD] alberteske:
TWRP v2.6.3.0

working fine for me! Thanks a lot :highfive:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
I have already installed CM 10.2. How can I install TWRP?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Is it really that hard to read the instructions in the OP? :silly:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42497379&postcount=1
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
I'm not good at English, sorry. In order not to get a "brick" is better once to ask!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
If your English isn't good, you have two options.

1. Learn it.

2. Use Google Translate ;)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
I can not install on CM10.2. Writes - no such file or directory.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Did you follow the instructions in the OP? If you expect help, you should at least describe what you have done so far.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
I did as it is written in one post. He went into the terminal and then

"Option 2: ADB (put first the recovery image to the root directory of your internal storage)

Code:

adb shell

su

cat / sdcard/recovery263.img> / dev/block/mmcblk0p1 "

And then the error, I was talking about!:confused:
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Do you habe a file called recovery263.img in the root folder of your INTERNAL sdcard?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
Yes, that's the root of the internal memory!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Did you try to flash it with the adb shell over USB or with the terminal on your device?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
So I'm doing this through terminal installed on the smartphone. And you can make a computer? How?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Forget the shell over USB. The terminal on the device is more simple.

Okay, working with the terminal you have to type exactly the following then:

su

cat /sdcard/recovery263.img > /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Be careful that there are no more spaces or any other typos. Btw, the last "word" ist including a zero, not an big "O".
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
That is exactly what I'm doing! Does not work! I do not understand what is the reason?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tool_king:
Do you still get the same response "no such file or directory"? Which file manager do you use?
[LG Optimus 4X HD] negativman:
You mean, what terminal? Or what file manager? If the terminal then this! A File Manager - Root Explorer.