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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scandiun:
Some manufacturers like Sony or LG provide their own app, so you can make a backup to the internal or external sdcard. Note that applications with android:allowBackup="false" on the AndroidManifest.xml won't be backed up.

Nexus devices and android stock don't support that feature.

[GUIDE] How to enable adb backup for any app changing android:allowBackup
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
-------- UPDATE ------

It appears my IIi was broken. I am getting a new one soon, and I will update this thread with some pics with the new phone. Disregard this thread as it does not appear to reflect the true quality of the IIi

-------

Guys, I bought an XDA IIi. The one with the 1.3 megapixel camera. I heard the XDA series had bad cameras particularly in low light, but this is ridiculous!

It's even worse than my very first phone cam (the plugin to 7210), or a £2 webcam.

Surely it should be better than this?

http://img60.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img60&image=image000056cq.jpg

My old nokia 6600 takes the exactly the same shot PERFECTLY just with VGA and slightly unsaturated colour balance.

NB it takes better photos in daylight, but still poor compared to 6600.

So is my IIi broken? or is this how they are?
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
By the way, I have tried adjusting all the ambience settings (night, daylight etc), and the contrast brightness saturation hue etc but there was no improvement.
[General Topics] NinjaDonkey:
Any chance you could post a piccy taken in daylight? Outside if possible.
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
OK I will do tomorrow matey when it's sunny :lol:
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=image000079ub.jpg

http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=image000085jw.jpg

Pictures taken in daylight with a grey sky
[General Topics] buzz_lightyear:
damn $h1t... :o(

so you get more pixels with the same sorry looking quality...

Try to reduce Sharpening... That always helped on my XDA2.

buzz
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
lower sharpness

http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=image000137rs.jpg
[General Topics] buzz_lightyear:
not a big help...

anyway, what a nice place, you are living... :o)))

buzz
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
OK I created a little page with a comparison between IIi and an old 6600 VGA cam.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~knaib/xda/xda 2i.html

The pictures are taken in exactly the same lighting at exactly the same time.

WTF is going on?
[General Topics] markh:
I have an XDA II and I have the same complaint with the camera. They use some crappy CMOS chip that produces pictures with a "watercolour" effect. For a £550 device I'm not sure what the logic of including an unusable camera.
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
guys, is my XDA IIi broken?

or is this typical?
[General Topics] buzz_lightyear:
I'd say, it is TYPICAL :o(

buzz
[General Topics] dutty:
oh those pictures are really crappy, even my mda compact produces much better pics and i thought the 1.3mpx cam in it was bad!
[General Topics] Rudegar:
cmos cameras will never be as good as CDD (used by real digi cams)

wrong colours

light sensitivness (grainy and such )

but they are cheap to make

and use less power
[General Topics] markh:
From what I've seen most other camera phones produce resonable pictures and they're using CMOS chips. It's just the XDA chip is pretty bad.
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
i just dont understand how it can be so bad. What the hell is the point in upgrading the camera to 1.3 megapixel if the quality doesn't improve, unless it's just a marketing scam.

I didn't expect it to be brilliant quality, but I thought it would be at least usable (or at least better than those sodding free webcams you get when you order a printer ink cartridge). I have a 14 day return period so I guess I will have to do some thinking :(

Also, before I take the pic, in the viewfinder it looks quite good. But when I press the button, it takes about 2 seconds to process and the final image is abysmal! It gets darker, and blurrier, and more pixellated. Is there another 3rd party camera program about or anything?

My camera version is 2.70
[General Topics] kj:
Since the camera should be the same as that on the imate Jam, perhaps people in this forum could comment on the picture quality. Indeed, it is disturbing to see a 1.3MP camera produce such horrible results,. If resolution were the only measure of quality, 1.3MP is more than enough for good quality photos. I have a 5MP Sony digital camera and seldom use resoultions larger than 1MP. If it is true that the quality is as bad as shown (rather than a faulty unit), predictions don't look good for the quality of the MDA IV camera.
[General Topics] zairyaab:
loookin at the pics you've uploaded i am a bit confused....because one of the other user has also uploaded his side of pics taken out by xda IIi but they,re not THIS HORRIFIC !! :shock: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=16580&highlight=

(scroll down and see a post by applecom)

but some of the pics that youve taken out in daylight are a BIT OK !! just OK !! with same crap quality image....

what the hell is wrong with HTC when are they gonna take out a pda phone which has a good camera quality and a built in lan and qwerty keyboard are they scared to take out something like this because they might run out of business or something ? :? (as tht dream pda phone will be having everything in it so no more upgraded phones ?)
[General Topics] applecom:
i have the same opinion that the pictures are crap, i have tacken probley 50 pics and not been inpreded with any of them rearley. But espically the one of the sheep dog i posted looks not to bad.

i did not look at it until it was posted, the spec is 5 lux so no chance of a good pic in the house, the one of my daughter cleaning th car ( that cost me £10 :evil: ) has a sun blure on the wite gates, but this was at 4pm and i am in the UK, and we dont get sun this time of year :D so maybe just the large area of white confused the camera.

as you can see i am no photographer but tomorow i will take some more pics of the same thing using a XDA2 XDA2i and a proper camera so you can compare

John (applecom)
[General Topics] zairyaab:
a comparison would just be great.... if possible also try to take out the pics from xdaIIi in open air not in the house

regards

jeetz
[General Topics] applecom:
i will do
[General Topics] zairyaab:
alright.....now...ive taken a pic out from my friends cell Siemens SX1 (0.3 Pixel Cam) just like xda II.... and ive taken out a pic from same angle same light but...you guys can judge for yourself that whether theres a 5 times better image quality given by Siemens SX1 or no....where as both have 0.3 cam....with resolution 640x4Something....
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
Guys...

my friend brought round his XDA 2s today

it was about 8pm.. dark outside, only fluorescent indoor lighting... we put the IIi and the IIs side by side, and his IIs was 100x better! He could see a similar scene to my 6600 (bad quality but at least he could see things), and all I could see was black, nothing at all.

So the IIs has a better camera?? I am going to take it to the o2 shop tomorrow and ask them... I am sure my IIi is broken
[General Topics] zairyaab:
somethigns wrong with your xdaIIi .......get it checked....
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
I took it to the o2 shop and compared it to another IIi. Their one was much better than mine, so I can confirm mine was broken and for others to hopefully disregard this thread.

I spoke to o2 and they said I will have to return it then take out a new contract. I was very angry by this, but then I checked online and found the IIi is now £180 instead of £250.

HAHA

i love it
[General Topics] paul_east_leeds:
xda2i camera

just thought i'd put my two penneth worth in as well - i've just upgraded to the xda 2i from the 2, the device itself is great, bluetooth works (shock horror) not like in the nasty 2s!!

main problem is the camera, its totally crap, can't take a decent picture if it tried, i've fiddled with everything going on the camera, quality, brightess, and still pants, its too grainy and nothing like a proper 1.3m camera, the xda2 camera was much better.

i hear there was a fix for the xda2 mini which had the same or similar 1.3 camera in it, can anyone get that fix or patch for the 2i, as most 2i's ive seen and used as all as bad.
[General Topics] Jezuk:
Another unhappy XdaIIi camera owner..
[General Topics] Anton.Valleyman:
Is this a common problem with the 2i then? My pictures in lamp lit front room scenarios are terrible unless in night mode, and even then it's dingey...

Is it worth going into an o2 shop and comparing? I ordered my 2i from o2 staff accounts on roughly 10th Feb and my cousin also ordered the same day. We're both having trouble with auto algorithms.

I'd be interested to know just who has taken it back, and particularly if anyone has any pictures taken before with old 2i and then again later with the replacement.

Cheers

Ant
[General Topics] Jezuk:
Gave o2 online a call today to set up insurance, and mentioned the camera, they said there wasnt a general hardware fault they are aware of. This of course means jack..

On a related topic, is it possible to set the xdaIIi up as a webcam? Is there some clever person out there working on software?
[General Topics] melodystyle2003:
this photo is taken by a qtek s100 with the camera upgrade of xda2mini.i think is acceptable...for more quality i use my canon!
[General Topics] sho ryu ken:
I haven't yet ordered a new IIi since I returned it, because I read so many threads saying it is useless. Unfortunately there is pretty much NO alternative for a PDA/phone :(

BTW melodstyle, your beast is very handsome.
[General Topics] melodystyle2003:
thank you!!!!
[General Topics] pebsuk:
XDA IIi Camera

I don't know why, but everyone seems to be getting a little heated about the IIi camera, in low light conditions it doesn't seem to work particually well but what do actually expect from a small lens?

I've attached a picture taken in daylight with some text included on a sign and you can quite happily zoom in on the text with too much distortion.

I would say that the XDA IIi is a dream product as it all seems to function perfectly...
[General Topics] gabrielh19:
Faulty XDA 2i camera

Hi, interesting to hear that someone else has an XDA2i with a faulty camea. I am new to phone cameras having finally moved on from my Nok 6310i so it took me a while to get round to taking my XDA back and comparing to one in store. O2 shop were nice, but useless in comprehending the problem so i just told them that Telephone support had authorised and exchange .

The difference is remarkable - it can now see in daylight!, and there is no random noise or "hot-spots" in the jpeg compression. The brighness is now what i would have expected it to be had i seen one before and my original device was clearly sub-standard.

I would suggest anyone with a suspect camera exchange the device.

G
[HTC One VX] victor0888:
I can not play the games from sd_external (sdcard 32gb), put the data in android/data/ but the game does not recognize, please help me, thanks
[HTC One VX] anthonyp2123:
same here

im curious also if anyone knows how to put apps on the sd card and the apps work, can anyone help?
[HTC One VX] victor0888:
mount SDCard2 as /SDCard

look file vold.fstab in system/etc

change:

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard emmc /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host

dev_mount sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host

to

dev_mount sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd emmc /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host

reboot

update: if you use JmzTotemJBSense 4.1.2 change lines to:

dev_mount sdcard2 /storage/sdcard0/ext_sd emmc /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host

dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard0 auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host
[HTC One VX] anthonyp2123:
thanx, does this require root?
[HTC One VX] victor0888:
yes
[HTC One VX] anthonyp2123:
tried it

I Tried it but it didnt work and yes im rooted and put it in exactly, but thank you anyways
[HTC One VX] victor0888:
i have unlock hboot and s-off
[HTC One VX] el_venga:
I have tried this without success. Not even app2sd works.
[HTC One VX] anthonyp2123:
another option

since this didnt work i downloaded an app called gl to sd , in the play store and th app basicly put all the data on the sd card, so far it works great , but u must be rooted for it to work
[HTC One VX] el_venga:
ill give it a shot and will give feedback about its behaviour.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lirong:
I recently bought a Class 10 Sandisk SD Card to increase my storage on my skyrocket.

Initially I thought I would use it to store all my music and free up space on the device. What I am finding is that my PC Music Players (WMP, MusicMonkey) just dont seem able to synch to the external SD Card. They synch no problem to my device, but I get constant errors and freeze ups when trying to synch to the external SD Card. So it doesnt seem useful for music storage.

Then I saw that its very hard to store apps to the device, and I think I need special apps that let me save and run apps from there.

So what good is having the SD Card? Does anyone have suggestions of other ways I can make use of this to better manage the internal storage space on my phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lingowistico:
There are lots of other apps you could use instead. Me personally I never use any music player syncing, I copy the music manually in explorer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bleedos:
+1

Even started using Beyond Compare (or any folder comparison tool) to have a better view of what's already on my phone :cool:

I have too much music for my external sd card capacity
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lirong:
A number of people have mentioned that. What I dont understand is the following: when I use the player to synch, it will automatically figure out which are the new songs in the library and synch them.

When you do a manual copy and paste, unless I keep track of whats new and what needs to be copied, how do I make sure to only copy the new songs instead of having duplicates of everything or having to re-copy the entire library each time? Is there some setting that only copies new files or something like that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrfeuss:
It should give you a message that says something like "SongXYZ.mp3 already exists; Do you want to Overwrite, Keep Both, Discard" when you try to paste in a file that already exists.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lirong:
Right but is there any way to set that as a default on a batch of 700 songs, of which only 10 may be new? Obviously cant click on that one at a time.

Sorry I know this is basic stuff, but appreciate the guidance...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrfeuss:
If you're doing it from a Windows computer it'll say something like "Do this for the next xx conflicts" I think.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] greyhulk:
My HTC One is rooted and I have Adaway and Adfree installed. I generally install both on all of my devices and run them side-by-side, even though it might be redundant/overkill.

On my One, ads will spontaneously stop being blocked. I'll see them in apps all of a sudden or somewhere else. When I open Adaway and tap the update button, the One reboots without prompt. When it comes back up, I'm able to update Adaway and ads are blocked again.Rinse and repeat a few days later. Ad blocking works for a while, then this happens all over again.

I haven't tried removing Adaway yet, but it seems to be the cause of the problem. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? What are you using to block ads on your One?
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Xstop:
Yea, I'd say big overkill on the adblocking. I just use Adaway, it works perfect for me.

I would go to both programs and set things as default, uninstall both programs, clear cache and wipe dalvik. Install only one program, update from there and see how things go from there.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] greyhulk:
I could accept the fact that using both Adfree and Adaway together was the issue if I didn't have the same exact setup on my Nexus 10, Galaxy S4, Note 2, and Optimus G Pro with no issues whatsoever. I'm only having this issue on the HTC One and the fact that it reboots the phone when I launch Adaway makes me think it has something to do with that program.

I will try removing Adfree and see what happens.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] cschmitt:
Phone reboots because the stock kernel write protects the system partition and when the app attempts to remount it RW it blows up. There are kernel mods and ROMs that can bypass the write protection.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Mantelinho:
I explained how to make AdAway work without kernel mod in this thread (you need custom recovery however). Symlinking the hosts file to another partition is the suggestion from AdAway help section
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] greyhulk:
So Adaway is the issue? What about Adfree? Does it work normally? ABP?
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Mantelinho:
No, they all use the hosts file method to block advertiser hosts. This file is located in the write protected /system partition (at least for S-On devices) and changes are lost after reboot. The symlink method (linking to a writable partition) may also work with Adfree or ABP, however what definitely works is flashing the modified hosts file via recovery. Both methods listed here
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] greyhulk:
Why does HTC have to be so much more difficult than everyone else? First, there's S-Off, something you don't need on Samsung, LG, etc devices, and now this? Love my One, but I hate having to do a workaround for something that works so easily on all of my other devices.

/rant
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SchleckBlood:
Hey guys,

I just gut my Nexus 4 and wanted to connect it to my PC.

It installed the drivers, but it wasn't recognized as a MTP device, so I can't access the storage.

It works fine on my Laptop.

Both have Windows 7 64-Bit installed.

I also got a Nexus 7, which works just fine.

I couldn't find any solution for my problem.

Any idea what to do?

Thank you!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SchleckBlood:
I solved it, even though I'm not sure how.

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the driver over and over again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philfna:
Next time I would try a different port (preferably a USB 2.0 port) if you have one, but I am glad the drivers worked for you.

USBDview has been a great app for seeing what drivers are installed, and removing outdated bits and bobs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anurag.dj2u:
Hello everyone ,

I'm not new on this forum ain't no noob too :D.

I've tried installing the Motorola drivers on my windows 7 laptop but still when i connect my phone to the laptop it doesn't install any drivers at all .

So what my question is :

Is there any way to install drivers through sdk or eclipse . I just want my phone to be get recognised by my laptop

Edit : yeah i tried it even on xp and windows 8 , none of them worked for me but my friend laptop is recognising my RAZR using same data cable . Any help would really be appreciable.

Thx in advance
[Motorola Droid RAZR] marconz:
I've had similar issues getting a pc to recognise my xt910. Im pretty sure it comes down to different usb manufacturer chips used on the pc.

I came to this conclusion after reading up on rsdlite user manuals from Motorola.

One thing is for certain not all computers will recognise our phones, sadly its a case of hit and miss.

Sorry dude keep trying till you find a machine that works
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anurag.dj2u:
Yeah bro kinda looking for a solution because i love flashing custom roms and tweaks so unfortunately i brick my razr frequently and i just don't like going again and again to my friends or brothers and beg them to use there laptop :(

Please hit the thanks :thumbup: if i ever helped ya !! :D:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Sarath280:
CWM TOUCH RECOVERY FOR SAMSUNG GALAXY MEGA 5.8(GT-I9152) By Sarath280​

Installation:-

1.Go to Download Mode By Pressing (Volume Down +Home +Power) And Connect Your Phone To PC.

2.Launch Odin v3.07.

3.Browse recovery.tar.md5 as PDA

4.Hit Start and Wait.

5.After Installation Go To CWM By Pressing (Volume Up +Home +Power).

6.Make Sure That In Odin the Auto Reboot And F.Reset Time Checkboxes Are Selected, Uncheck The Re-Partition And Other Option.

Rooting:-

1.Download UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip from the download section.

2.Then go to cwm recovery.

3.Then choose install zip and then install UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip

4.Make sure that you have a cwm backup before doing rooting.

Download Link:-

Odin v3.07- https://www.dropbox.com/s/gs88vpsbsx2po9p/Odin v3.07.rar

CWM TOUCH RECOVERY - http://d-h.st/WhV

STOCK RECOVERY - http://d-h.st/EKW

UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip- http://download.chainfire.eu/333/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip

I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY WHAT HAPPENS TO UR PHONE.

HIT THANKS IF IT WRKS.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
Will this work for Galaxy Mega 6.3?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ampelift:
No it won't work .
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] clubtech:
Maybe the OP can create a recovery for the 6.3 as well? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] kiwi45:
yes please develop one for 6.3 :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ipsuvedi:
+2
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] magnus731:
+3
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AndyGod:
+4 Y(^o^)Y

Sent from my GT-N5120
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Sarath280:
K I will make the cwm if smone gives me

1.recovery.img

2.recovery.fstab

Of galaxy mega 6.3
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] curgervending:
I have the galaxy mega 6.3 i9200. I don't know how to get these files but if someone tells me I will pull them.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
BTW, you guys can root using this method -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2329899
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] abhijit_net:
I tried flashing CWM through Odin, its not working.

http://s23.postimg.org/53as4lcgb/CWM.jpg

Thats how recovery looks with provided CWM. Am i doing something wrong ?

So i flashed back to default recovery, and only tried to install UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip through default recovery.

http://s13.postimg.org/lexoh9div/IMG_20130623_WA0012.jpg

While installing it i got some errors which i could not capture.

I checked to see if phone was rooted, but its not.

http://s12.postimg.org/4rwylacpp/IMG_20130623_WA0013.jpg :crying:

Plz help, not able to use lots of software on my new phablet . :o
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] predogo:
not working for me. Galaxy Mega 5.8 GT-I9152. CWM recovery looks like this
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] predogo:
Help! :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] baladev:
it doesn't work flash back the original recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] predogo:
Hopefully someone will root our phones. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kangburra:
Root already works, recovery does not.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] abhijit_net:
How did you root?

I have tried every thing on the internet.

Mine is still not rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] predogo:
Please give us the guide to root with stock recovery. Thank you in advance. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kangburra:
Oops, my bad, I thought this was for the I9502.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TakamineSubasa:
Hello, im just wondering how many of you have received an Xperia S with dust specks or dead pixels on it (or any other build quality issues)?

I got mine last week and i spotted 2 dead pixels, so i returned it, and they gave me a new one. The second one had a dust speck under glass (and im pretty sure that is not between the antishatter screen protector), also it has two white dots of paint inside the white led icon strip (more specifically in home icon) (although they doesnt bother me, and cannot send it back cuz' already used the warranty). So, all of this led me to think about build quality of our beloved Xperia S (or that im just an unlucky person :p)