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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgebizkit:
I came to N4 from the GS3, and while the N4 is a million times better, I miss a few features already.

I can live without multi app windows and cartoon colour menus, but I miss these features in particular:

Blocking mode (mutes certain sounds at night)

Quick toggles in notification bar - Yes N4 has a similar function through pressing the button, but I mean, the ribbon of toggles.

Pop-up play video to watch video over what ever else you are doing - I have one for youtube that works well but the app for floating videos was rubbish but surely this is an easy task for a quadcore phone so I'm hoping there is a way.

I'm currently unrooted and will remain unrooted until I really feel desperate for a root function, so non-root ways if possible, please, although Root solutions will be usefull if there aren't alternatives - I don't flash roms either (because I don't trust myself with the duty and dont have a cheap device to practice on first, if i ever do then i may become a rom flasher.)

Thanks for any help you give :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeezie:
Most roms already have quicktoggles or sometimes "power widgets" and a number of other similar functionality (slimbean for example has power widget, plus the notification shortcuts that would sit as a ribbon/strip over the notifications.)

Blocking mode, that's called Quiet Hours on a lot of roms, slimbean has it, CM10 has it, and so forth, likewise you can just make a profile switcher since it also has profiles, say you have 'gaming profile' if you want to mute various notifications or alerts.

So they're there, just mainly in custom roms (non-root probably won't give you what you want outside of just a lil power widget on the home screen).

http://slimroms.net/index.php/slim-bean-features
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiamatDusk:
Is there a way to get T-Mobile visual voicemail on my Dev Edition without changing the ROM? Is there an APK I can just sideload, or am I just SOL?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nugzo:
You should be able to get it from play store. If not its just an APK/ pull it from a tmobile rom and see if it works. Here is the playstore link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmobile.vvm.application&hl=en

Here is a link from appbrain http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.tmobile.vvm.application
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiamatDusk:
Yanno, I looked in the Play Store and couldn't find it. :silly: Thanks for this! Works perfectly! :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
The button disappears when I put my phone on landscape then back to portrait, it's really similar to this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2099524 but with the difference that it only happens with I use a CM10 theme, with the default System one, this issue doesn't happen. Also, the other thing that the previous thread says, the am/pm thing, I have always used my phone on 24h format so, that's not my case.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sahaab:
Its a SystemUI.apk problem

either u cud

1_ Fix it Yourself

2_ Change SystemUI.apk

3_ Find a Fixed SystemUI.apk
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheHaso:
Offtopic, but damn, youre having a lot of trouble.

Once I entered the forum I saw 7 threads by you. One by one at the some time....... :p

Loire experiencing a lot of issues
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
Actually, they are circumstantial "problems", which do not really affect my daily phone's use at all, and also getting 6.5k @ antutu, so.. could you leave the thread and let me wait for real answers? thank you.

if there are other people experiencing this, how am I going to know what to do? If I come to xda is because I have no idea about apks or system or compiling etc etc. And it remains buggy if you change the systemui, have tried before without success, but thanks anyway, even when it seems more like a generic answer.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sahaab:
Well no problem

I suggest u change SystemUI , there are many great ones out there

Also if many ppl are having this problem i am sure there will be a fix , so what i can say is keep searching, and hopefully u will find a fixed systemUI :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
Well since then I'm just gonna use the System default theme, thanks :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheHaso:
Sorry, didnt ment to be rude. :):)

Btw, antutu benchmark doesnt matter anyways. Its almost just numbers.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
When there are drastic changes and FPS changes on the tests, it surely matters bro :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android addicts:
Hello all!

I purchased the Galaxy S3 i9300 last week. Now it has left exactly 7 days. I guess there's no hardware issue. Therefore I'm thinking to root this phone and install a CWM and apply holo theme zip file via recovery.

I have read somewhere that some of the Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 the brick while rooting or installing zip files. How do I verify my device safe for development?

Here's my about phone.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
The biggest danger to your phone is you, most bricks are caused by their owners flashing without reading and understanding. The only danger from the phone itself is SDS, go read the SDS thread.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android addicts:
Yes I agree with you. But what is SDS?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Its as the post Sudden Death Syndrome you need to read the SDS thread in General section .

As it says its sudden and its dead .

Other brick problems are user not bothering to read faqs guides and instructions or DUBS dead user brain syndrome .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android addicts:
OMG, I have EMMC brick device. but it's running Android 4.1.2. :D
[General Questions and Answers] dino50:
Hi all, i'm a newbie on here looking for help/advice not sure if this is the right place but here goes. I have an Archos 97 Titanium and have forgotten the password for the screen lock. I have contacted customer support and they suggested trying holding the volume - button and the power button together to put unit in reset mode. This didnt work, nothing happened. The other option was volume + and power, using this combination the unit does power up but just a normal start up. I relayed thsi information back to Archos who said they would contact france for further advice, but im still waiting for a reply. Just wondered if anyone on here could offer advice/ assistance.

CheersDave
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sciguy125:
I've been running SHOstock3 for a few days to get comfortable with it. Tonight, I decided to encrypt the device. It rebooted, encrypted itself, then rebooted again and asked me for the password. For over half an hour now, it's been playing the SHOstock3 boot animation over and over again. The SAMSUNG screen doesn't show up between loops.

Is that normal behavior? Should I just give it more time?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sciguy125:
The power button was able to turn it off. After restarting, it would ask for the password and do the same thing. I should point out that entering the wrong password would make it ask again, so it was working "properly". I decided it was toast and tried wiping it. However, it still asked for the password. Repeatedly entering the wrong password to force a wipe didn't work properly either. It still remembered that it had a password, but forgot what it was.

To fix it, I had to go back to stock Jelly Bean (flash stock Gingerbread then use Kies to upgrade; Gingerbread doesn't know about encryption). When the newly flashed Jelly Bean asked for a password, but as soon as I entered something, it rebooted. I presume that it wiped whatever encryption information was left because it rebooted properly.

I'm still trying to decide where to go from here. I keep work stuff on my phone, so encryption is fairly important to me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sciguy125:
I found this information regarding encryption on Android:

http://source.android.com/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html

It's for Honeycomb, but I'm going to assume that it hasn't changed significantly. It looks like all the encryption information is stored at the end of the /data partition. However, it's not part of the filesystem itself. If init can't mount /data, it assumes that it's encrypted and takes appropriate action.

As such, I would assume that completely erasing the entire /data partition would take care of it. Note that the /data partition needs to be erased, not just the filesystem. Based on what I've read, I think that the /data partition needs to be wiped/erased/formatted in such a way that the last 16KB of the partition is erased. After that, a new filesystem would need to be created to keep it from asking for a non-existent password.

So, does anyone know what the wipes actually do in recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
A couple of observations.

I don't think it is advisable to work at this level of the file system while making assumptions. In my view, you make two very questionable assumptions in your remarks.

I don't have any information on the workings of wipe and format in recovery. You can, however, work with eMMC blocks using Linux commands. For instance, if you use the dd command to make a copy of the data partition, you will get the whole partition, not just the file system. You could then use reverse engineering to see what is contained in the last 16 kb of the partition. This would require a skill set that is certainly way beyond me, and I suspect beyond you. You could also use dd to write to just the last 16 kb as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sciguy125:
Well, at this point, I'm not really trying to find a "solution", I'm just trying to understand why it's so hard to wipe the phone after it's been encrypted. The only reliable method I've found is to put on the stock firmware, then repeatedly enter the wrong password until it wipes itself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sciguy125:
I was poking around in the jeboo github (SHOstock3 uses the jeboo kernel) to see if I could figure out what's going on. I found the following line in fstab.smdk4210:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 /data ext4 noatime,nosuid,nodev,discard,noauto_da_alloc,journal_async_commit,errors=panic wait,check,encryptable=/efs/metadata

I'm currently running stock 4.1.2 and I found the same file with that line. After doing some research, I found that the encryptable flag tells the system to allow encryption for that particular filesystem. Its argument says were to keep the encryption metadata. In this case, it's kept in /efs/metadata. That file exists on my encrypted stock JB system and the file happens to be exactly 16KB. The first part of the file is plain-text and it appears to be encryption related. After further research, I found that "footer" is an acceptable value for encryptable. In that case, it stores the metadata in the last 16KB of the partition (but the filesystem can't extend into it for obvious reasons).

Given the behavior I've seen, my guess is that if init sees /efs/metadata, it asks for the password. This would explain how wiping /data would cause the system to still remember the password. Even if you were to erase everything in /data, /efs/metadata would still exist. I also suspect that certain methods of "wiping" /data don't actually do so because they attempt a check before doing the wipe. I'm far from an Android expert, most standard methods of checking a filesystem in linux would fail if said filesystem were encrypted.

So, I think I've figured out why wiping an encrypted phone is so hard, but I still haven't figured out why SHOstock3 doesn't boot after it encrypts the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Jebo knows a lot about the kernel. You could probably get into a meaningful discussion with him on encryption. I don't know if he has a chat channel of his own, but he is probably in Shoman94's chat channel quite a lot. You can find that in the OP of the SHOstock3 thread.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] AnotherHero:
Hi, does anyone know what the max supported speed is? I can buy a 2 mb/s write and 3 mb/s read 1 GB SD card or a 5mb/s write and 6 mb/s read for just 10€ more.

So my question is, should I pay 10€ more?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Guest:
Buy the fastest

Because ifyou by a usb card reader you will be able to copy data faster. :o
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] AnotherHero:
So it only matters if I also buy a cardreader?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Guest:
Hmm i wondering about this myself even, whats the different . Can anyone answer exact how fast the qtek s100 writes and read. It must be some meaning of faster memeory card. Example Simpletech has 10/10mb fast and writing speed . And Sandisk 1.5/5mb i think. Dont the phone be faster with faster memory card???? please someone?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tCC:
the card reader is really slow :(

i've bought a Sandisk 1GB Extreme III SD card, but in fact it is slower that a normal 512MB Kingston SD card, to bad... (both around the 1MB/s with PocketMechanic SD benchmarking).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I repackaged this for myself because I like to test out ROMs and mods. I found that slim-gapps's swipe to type didn't work on any aosp installs I tried except on slim itself. Slim also didn't include Google keep or Google settings in dark(settings not dark for now. Will fix as soon as I figure out what is conflicting). I fixed the swipe by manually pulling the lib files from slim. I wrote the updater to fully clean any files that would prevent a successful install, set the permissions, and finally to wipe the cache and dalvik so I didn't have to do it manually. I didn't Dev any of these apps and should you choose to donate, donate to the devs who did do the work. All I did was write a simple script. :thumbup:

The package includes:

Slim Gappsslimroms.net

Google play multi dpi, Google music, Google play music, Google news, Google now, Google hangouts, Google maps, Google calendar, Gmail, all sync apps, and toggleable Latinime. Basically everything the aio does plus maps and plus.

TeamBlackout appshttp://www.designrifts.com/teamblackedoutapp/new-blacked-out-google-apps/:

Google plus, Google keep, ES file manager, and YouTube(Theos0o http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1529715)

Instructions:

Download

Reboot to recovery

Make a backup

Flash package

Reboot

Downloads:

http://d-h.st/gzM - 6/18

Old:

https://copy.com/7wtEW - 6/15

http://d-h.st/QYT - 6/15

https://copy.com/ANUom - 6/14

http://d-h.st/FHH - 6/14

Update 6/18:

Slim's google plus would not connect to google on a fresh install. Swapped it out for the teamblackout google plus. Until I figure out why the blacked out google settings is giving me compatibility issues I included the standard gmscore, which will update on first boot and all google apps should connect as usual.

Verified working on slim, aokp, and liquid
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Forgot to mention but this will ONLY work on AOSP ROMs that have the dark toggle feature.

:rolleyes:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dadoc04:
Thanks man!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dadoc04:
New slim gapps posted up..... Gonna update soon?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Will do tonight
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Updated. :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dadoc04:
TeamBlackouts clear version of hangouts looks amazing Dubb... Check it out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Will do. :thumbup:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
I don't know if it is just me, but google+ gives me "No connection" "Couldn't connect to the server." Just flashed this into the latest PACman, clean flash.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I just got that this morning on a fresh flash. Going to rebuild the zip today.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
As an update something is messed up with Slim's latest gplus update zip. I'll hop on my computer in an hour and try to figure oy what's missing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
6/18 update:

Been working on compatibility issues between hangouts and plus with gmscore. gmscore/Settings was reverted to a factory version until I get the black settings to play nice.

Basically, I would get google plus to connect fine, and then hangouts would be broken. Then I'd fix hangouts and plus would be broken. :eek:

Everything is working as it should now, but settings isn't black for now. Still working on it though.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tautges:
Hi all,

I keep getting ad notifications popping up. Sometimes they're links that take me to a web page then to the G Play store for "Candy crush saga", other times they're survey questions like "Do you want an iphone 5?". I've run a few apps that look for adware, and also long-pressed on one or two when I could, and both point me to the Network app, which looks to me like the Android-native network service (it has an icon that looks like 4 or 5 bars of increasing height, kinda like you'd see for a wifi service). Is this just something I get for buying a piece of Google hardware? Or, is there some way to stop this annoying behavior w/o having to put a whole new ROM on there?

Thanks.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TellTenPeople:
I use to get these mid-video on the Funimation app — it was incredibly annoying. I finally got rid of it by rooting my devices (Nexus 7 and 4) and installing AdAway (system level adblocker) from the f-droid appstore. So, no special ROM, but rooting was needed.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dibblebill:
You can also disable notifications from certain apps. I've never gotten ads from the native ROM, its something you installed. I believe they'd apepar to come from the Network app anyway, even if they didn't. Find out what apps you installed are ad related.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rirere:
I would disable the Network app's notification permissions. If it is a system app, this really shouldn't impact its performance (unless you prize the "Open Wi-Fi networks" notification. Even then though, I'm a little concerned that you have a network app. Can you give us the full name of the app and tell us what buttons are available from App Info (e.g. Force stop, Uninstall, Uninstall updates, Disable, etc.)? I just checked through four or five of my devices, and I don't have a "Network" app on any of them (including on my Nexus 10).

I'm wondering if it's not just some incredibly shady app name.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] skyhi0:
Upon installation of the SystemBackup test apk file, it will not open and it will prompt to this "Unfortunately, SystemBackupTest has stopped". I already uninstalled my phone antivirus and I do not have a screen filter application installed. My phone was already rooted before but when I updated it to JB, it automatically was unrooted and was back to normal. I want to root it again please help.r:(
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Nemeziz 56th:
Use this tool to root your Phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2230934

Download the tool extract it to place where you want.

Install the tool install driver und tick the number 1 connect your Phone to PC follow the step on the screen.

LG 4X HD - Better than a Smartphone
[Nexus 4 General] nikwen:
Ubuntu for phones (aka Ubuntu Touch)

Important update: The Ubuntu Phone project was discontinued in April 2017 and is no longer being worked on.

The mobile version of the popular Ubuntu operating system.

Find out more about it on the official website.

Installation instructions

There are two ways of installing Ubuntu on your Nexus 4: Single or dual boot. Dual boot is definitely easier (that irony!).

Single boot requires you to have a desktop PC with Ubuntu installed while dual boot can be achieved by downloading an app from Google Play.

The single boot instructions are presented very well on the official Ubuntu developer site: Installing Ubuntu for devices

Advantage: Very easy to reflash without losing your data

Disadvantage: Requires a PC with Ubuntu installed

Dual boot can be set up by downloading MultiROM Manager from Google Play, installing the MultiROM parts from inside the app and then installing Ubuntu from inside the app as well.

Advantage: Very easy to get Ubuntu working without the need of a PC

Disadvantage: No way to reflash later without losing your data (but don't worry, updates work fine)

No matter which installation method you choose, you will be presented with a list of channels to pick from, each of them containing different versions of the OS.

If you want stable images with updates once every six weeks, choose the channel "ubuntu-touch/stable".

Daily development builds can be installed from the "rc-proposed" channel, but this is not to be recommended as they break regularly (sometimes they do not even boot).

Note that in that case there is no way to recover your data if you are using MultiROM.

Official promotion videos:

[YOUTUBE]-dpfHYpfEXY[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]TShKZLeZzWE[/YOUTUBE]
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
[ROM][Official][Nightlies][Dual Boot] Ubuntu Touch 14.10 (Utopic Unico)

This is the original, though very outdated, OP. For actual instructions please use the new OP.

"Touch Developer for Ubuntu" is released for free non-commercial use. It is provided without warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability, satisfaction or fitness for a particular use. See the licence included with each program for details.

Some licences may grant additional rights; this notice shall not limit your rights under each program's licence. Licences for each program

are available in the usr/share/doc directory. Source code for Ubuntu can be downloaded from archive.ubuntu.com. Ubuntu, the Ubuntu logo

and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

"Touch Preview for Ubuntu" is released for limited use due to the inclusion of binary hardware support files. The original components

and licenses can be found at:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers.

INSTRUCTIONS TO FLASH VIA TWRP or CWM

:

MOD EDIT: removed as the instructions are outdated

Download Link:

Armel + Mako http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled

Touch armhf http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled

Dual Boot Installation Guide:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DualBootInstallation

State of things

spreadsheet here:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArLs7UPtu-hJdDZDNWliMmV1YUJ3Zk1pQlpDdGp4VFE&usp=sharing

HOW TO GET BACK TO ANDROID:

Easy as flashing a rom... Just go back into recovery & flash as usual... works perfectly...
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
[YOUTUBE]Q566IGyVB0o[/YOUTUBE]
[Nexus 4 General] Joel Chan:
It's finally here!
[Nexus 4 General] sandy-achar:
Thanks, how is this different from the already existing ubuntu touch ? Have you tried it ? Is it finally daily driver material ?
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
yup is is daily build (nightlies).....
[Nexus 4 General] alanwyl:
Will it delete everything in /sdcard ?
[Nexus 4 General] sandy-achar:
Sorry you misunderstood, i meant to ask if the previous bugs of ubuntu have been fixed and can be used as a daily rom.

No.
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
yes wipes all data, you can just make a nandroid then flash it, try it out and nandroid back.
[Nexus 4 General] alanwyl:
I meant /sdcard not /data.:)

/sdcard is where you save your photos, videos and music
[Nexus 4 General] sandy-achar:
I dont think /sdcard is wiped. Just cache, system and couple of other partitions.

---------- Post added at 04:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:17 AM ----------

No it wont get deleted.
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
yup...can used as daily rom ....is stable version d
[Nexus 4 General] hoe010:
ok
[Nexus 4 General] Maddmatt:
Hell no.

"Touch Developer Preview for Ubuntu"

If you expect a daily driver when it is clearly labelled as a developer preview, you're gonna have a bad time.
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/
[Nexus 4 General] JustinOkay:
Is there a change log with what's fully functional and broken?
[Nexus 4 General] kfheaven:
Changelog is at OP....