yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bilateral Pneumothorax:
Lesson well learned. When I get my phone up and running my first priority after re-rooting will be making a backup.

I was actually able to mount USB Storage via TWRP and use the ADB command adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to extract the photos off my phone to my computer. Now it's not so bad if I have to restore to default.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Always always backup FIRST before attempting to do anything, that is lesson one period.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] GuestX0019:
Great. Since you are up on adb you can easily push a rom. I will have to try to mount in recovery again. I think android file transfer messes with mounting.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bilateral Pneumothorax:
Instead, I used Odin to flash the stock GS4 firmware. Now my phone is working again. Oh and I made a backup this time. ;)

Thank you to all who helped me.

/thread
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] GuestX0019:
Super. Having not used Odin and on an imac, not sure that was an option in your case. Glad you got it.

Sent From My 32gb Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Tapatalk 4 Beta
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vasilli:
Stock everything, I use "advanced task killer" and I see an immense amount prohrams running at all times.

Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aybarrap1:
Do not use advanced task killer. Android does a very good job of managing everything. There are many things that run in the background or stay as a cache on your ram. That is what you are seeing. Do not end these tasks because it actually uses more battery to reload then into RAM. Unless you have a rogue app draining your battery do not fret over it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Greycloak42:
If you're rooted you can use an app called Autostarts to prevent apps from running after boot.
[General Questions and Answers] alchi_manche:
I'm a big fan of the sony widgets but if i use any kind of launcher ( using nova launcher now ) the sony widgets are not shown in the widget menu and i cant place them on the homescreen . is there a way to intregrate the sony's widgets in the launchers ? please help :D
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
no there is not. the widgets are built i to the launcher for the most part. this is a well known fact. please follow the rules

Wayne Tech Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] ACEe3:
Edit: not sure if this is a switching problem or the way the phone is designed, but sort of figured it out...seems that the Exhibit 4G will auto fallback to UMTS when no HSDPA link is active. Just ran some speed tests and it did in fact hold HSDPA speeds, when done it fell back to UMTS. My GS3 doesn't do this...if I have 4G/ LTE available, it stays with it. Hence the confusion.

I recently purchased a new unlocked Exhibit 4G, have been testing the various roms here...many thanks to the devs...great work! Currently trying AOIP...nice!

My primary usage is on the TMO network, at my RV site on weekends. Unfortunately, 2G is the best I can get in my location, regardless of carrier.

I live in Canada the rest of the time, on Rogers with a GS3.

I was testing out the Exhibit 4G with my Rogers sim, LTE APN's were set up ok, voice & messaging are fine, but data is wonky...I will get the 'H' (aka 4G) icon for a few seconds at a time, but for some reason I keep falling back to 3G speeds. This cycle continues over and over. AFAIK, this phone should support Rogers HPSA+ frequencies (aside from their new 2600), shouldn't it?

So I'm wondering if this is due to an incompatibility with the phone on Rogers, or needing a different baseband, or could the phone's h/w be screwy? This has been happening with all roms I have tried (AOIP, Baked, Slim).

Appreciate any insight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
Trying to sell my S3 in to Best Buy (they offered me $250) and then buy it outright (they have it listed for $700). BUT on the Sprint website and on Amazon they have it listed for $600. Best Buy told me now apparently they don't do the "price match" for cell phones on contract o I'd hafta pay the $700 which is total BS! I was planning on getting my S4 this week (tomorrow or Saturday) but now I guess I can't! Can anyone recommend where I can get an S4 (not eBay) that also has a buy back program + "price match"? ANYYY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED! Trying to get this phone ASAP, thanks!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
They will give you $262.50. The computers in the store only show good or bad condition not perfect. Tell them you saw on their website the perfect condition trade in value and they will check it. Also they don't print edition match on contract phones with is different than a off contract phone. Tell them you want to buy from them and if you are going to get the Geek Squad protection, which I totally recommend over Sprint and Assurion, tell them you also want that. But you will just order from Amazon if you have to. Also talk to a Samsung rep in the store they will probably talk to the manager and do the price match. This is exactly how I did everything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
What about paying $700 from Best Buy?! Kinda dumb I'd rather sell it on eBay for $300+ (and have them take around $30 for selling fee) and only have to pay $600 through the Sprint website or even Amazon. I just want it tomorrow or sometime before the week ends and I won't be able to do that the way I just said. I'd hafta wait a week or so. Yes I am a very impatient person! :mad:

Well the mall (where Best Buy is) is like 30min away from me and I don't want a wasted trip there... so I literally JUST got off the phone with them and the girl didn't seem to know what she was talking about, but as I stated in the OP they said they don't do price match for on contract phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
Please delete this double post!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
Make sure you tell them you are buying it full price off contract, they told me no until I made that clear then they looked a little confused and we're lime oh okay ya we can do that. I made it clear that I shop there often and wanted to buy the phone from Best Buy not Amazon. And I wanted the Geek Squad protection and they said fine no problem then.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
What do you mean buying it off contract?? I'm not though... right lol? I currently have a contract with Sprint for 2yrs but am only one yr into it but want this phone so technically I'm buying it on contract right... I'm getting confused now :eek: :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
You are in the middle of a contract so yes you are paying full price off contract. What you want Best Buy to do is match Amazon's price of $599 for the off contract s4. If you were buying a on contract agreement phone thats when you get the huge discount. Trust me I got the S2 the day it came out and since then the Galaxy Nexus, S3, and now the S4.

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It doesn't mean your contract ends or anything just that you aren't getting the discount and paying full price, then they will price match Amazon. They get confused to because not many people do this. Thats why I said make it clear you want it full price but with a price match. And throw in the Geek Squad, It's $10 a month with unlimited replacements with no deductible, just don't lose your phone, they don't cover that.

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Read this and specifically the first part of the second paragraph, it clearly states "on contract" which you are not buying.

Online or In Store: Find a Lower Price and We'll Match It.

If you find a lower price on a qualifying product at a local retail competitor's store or a designated major online retailer, we will match the price. At the time of purchase, we will match the current pre-tax price for new, identical, immediately available products from a local retail competitor's store and these designated major online retailers: Amazon.com, Apple.com, Bhphotovideo.com, Buy.com, Crutchfield.com, Dell.com, Frys.com, hhgregg.com, HP.com, HomeDepot.com, Lowes.com, Newegg.com, OfficeDepot.com, OfficeMax.com, Sears.com, Staples.com, Target.com, TigerDirect.com and Walmart.com. We will match prices between our stores and BestBuy.com®. We will also match prices post purchase if we lower our price within 15 days of your purchase.

The Guarantee is limited to one price match per identical item, per guest and does not apply to: Contract mobile phone devices and plans, the online prices of retailers not listed, the online prices of third party vendors (Marketplace vendors) on designated major online retailers websites, post purchase price match requests to competitor's prices, Best Buy for Business™, offers that include financing, gift card offers, bundling of items, free items, pricing errors, mail-in offers, coupon offers, competitors' service prices, items that are advertised as limited-quantity, out of stock, open-box, clearance, refurbished/used items, our and our competitor's Deal of the Day, daily deals, special hour sale event items and credit card offers, BestBuy.com Clearance & More and Marketplace items, and items for sale Thanksgiving Day through the Monday after Thanksgiving.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
OK lemme get this straight, and hopefully when I go to Best Buy tomorrow it's not a wasted trip lol..... So what you want me to do (and what you did to get your S4 from Best Buy and got them to price match it??) is: go to Best Buy tomorrow and tell them that I have an S3 that I want to sell into them, then I say I would like to purchase the S4 off contract and I would like them to price match Amazon/Sprint's price of $600 because I really wanna get it from Best Buy and get their Geek Squad protection. If I got that right.... that should work and I should walk out of Best Buy tomorrow with my new S4 for $599 (plus tax)?!?! Thanks!

PS- Do I hafta do THIS to sell in, or can I sell it in to them rooted with a custom ROM lol?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
If they argue ask for a manager and show them there price matching policy which I pulled from there website. It shouldn't come to that but it is their policy. I price match a lot there because I prefer Best Buy over any other stores. In fact I have a interview with there mobile department tomorrow. LOL.

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Yes, exactly what I did. I was told the whole we don't price match thing early on when I was thinking about buying the S4 then when I was actually about to buy it I did my research and went to a store with a Samsung rep who knows me fairly well and got the breakdown that they would do all of this once I made it clear about the off contract stuff. Good luck and enjoy your phone, it will all work out and be fine. LOL.

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I would wipe the phone completely and return it to bone stock. You don't want any info on it somebody might be able to get.

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Also make sure they give you the perfect condition price of $262.50 if it is in perfect condition. It shows on their website and I had them check it and they said thats fine. http://www.bestbuytradein.com/bb/fu...es&modelNumber=SPHL710KT&manufacturer=Samsung

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Also they don't care what the carrier price is just say Amazon because its a store. Sprint can kind of do what they want sometimes because they are the carrier.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
Thanks GiantJay I remember you from the S3 forums and can't wait to join the Sprint S4 community. HOPEFULLY I'll see you guys tomorrow!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
You will. Let me know when you get it. I have an interview tomorrow at Best Buy at 4:30pm so hopefully I have a new job and you a new phone tomorrow, all thanks to Best Buy! LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
Trust me man, I'll let you know how it goes! Awesome day for both... except kind of the opposite... I'm gonna be spending a lot of money, you will be making money thanks to them hahaa.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
Ya, I would make money to turn around and spend in their store. LOL. I will probably be handing them back my checks when I get them.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cas8180:
Sold mine on ebay for 265. And picked up my s4 off Craigslist in mint condition for 360. Not too bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
Well you really only sold it for around $230 because of the fees lol, but hell yeah that's an awesome deal!

Hahahhaha I feel ya man, Best Buy got one hell of a selection with everything to do with electronics. Also one last question... do I need the charger and the box etc. or just the phone with the stock battery to sell it in?? Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cas8180:
Actually I think the promo is still going where you can sell for free.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeFCaputo113:
LIST for free. No such thing as free selling on eBay lol. I just sold a bluetooth keyboard for $20 and they took a dollar or two from it in my account fees.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dcaplinger76:
Are you against an early upgrade? That's what I did and paid $332 total.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
They just need the phone and charger. You don't have to have a charger but you won't get perfect condition without it. Also the S4 has the awesome 2amp charger, one of the best features on this phone is the quick charge I think.

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I paid $385 total off contract and I live in California where taxes are through the roof, hmmmmmm. No thanks.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Dr_SUSE:
Hello All,

With some helpful advice from these forums, I was able to replace the China Unicom boot animation from my Xperia ZL with a stock version. FYI, this was located in /system/media on my phone.

However, I still have the China Unicom shutdown animation playing on shutdown. Any ideas on where this might be, and how to remove/replace it?

Please help me get this annoying Chinese branding off my phone. I would sincerely appreciate it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] DdcCabuslay:
This is just a guess, but try replacing ShutDownAnimation.all in system/app.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Dr_SUSE:
Gawd...:eek:

Froze it with Titanium. There it was, plain as day.

Actually it was an .apk, not .all.
[Sony Xperia ZL] DdcCabuslay:
Lol I meant apk but autocorrect was being autocorrect.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sally1999:
Hello,friends.

I think that you may need to place shutdownanimation file in the folder below.

/etc/customization/content/com/sonyericsson/shutdownanim/shutdown.mp4

(set permission : rw-r-r)

Please try it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] silverbios:
no!:crying:
[Sony Xperia ZL] sally1999:
So sorry.

How about referring to the following thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2068632
[Sony Xperia ZL] silverbios:
ok

but see this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2184413

this method not working sx zl
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vampyren:
Hi guys,

I hope you guys can help me with this issue i'm having as i cant find any answer from searching here nor google.

Basically i bought a Samsung micro SD card that is 64gig (from Dustin.se which is a big company so i'm sure its no fake or anything) and the first thing i did was to format it to exFat using my win8 pc. But no matter what i do the pc see the card as 26gig!!!

I even downloaded a format program from

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

Now when i put the card into my S4 it sees it as 26gig which i formated but if i do a re-format it shows as 59gig (or 64gig in reality).

So i know the card is 64Gig but the question is why cant i format it using my pc?

And to make it even more strange when i take the card from my S4 back to my PC it wont recognize it, it wants to format it again. This happens after i format the SD using my S4.

Any idea why?

Basically all i want is to be able to use exFat (for big files) and be able to use the SD card both on phone and PC. Can someone please help me and tell me what i'm doing wrong?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashton4life:
Sounds like a fake or defective card to me. If windows will not see the entire capacity the chip has problems.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vampyren:
I actually got 2 of them and as i said this is the real thing. I reported the first one as bad chip since 2 times i got "corrupted SD" card from my S4.

But now when i test both of them on PC they behave the same. And i actually think the problem with my first SD is the phone that corrupt some files (just a feeling) since it works fine when i restart the phone.

Any other ideas? (i tested on my Macbook and another PC win7 with same result :( )

Do you have an 64gig card? if so did you format it using pc? and have your tried to format using S4 and put the SD into PC? did it work reading from it? What was the format S4 formated (Fat32 or exfat)?

ps. i run stock ROM so no root or anything.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashton4life:
When you have the chip in the PC right click My Computer/Manage/Storage/Disk Management then find your chip on the bottom, right click on it, then delete the partition, form a new one then format. Check and see if the proper storage amount is there after. I cant see the phone damaging the chip but who knows anything can happen.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shug69:
Are you running xp? (Edit Sorry now I see you aren' t. Card reader? ) Older versions of Windows only have ability to read sdhc as opposed to sdxc so have problems with cards over 32gb (max for sdhc standard)

If so borrow a newer pc. The card probably was exfat from factory though. I've a 64gb card from Samsung as well (fat32) and had the corrupt message a couple of times. Fixed with remount.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.garz:
Samsung 64gb user here. No probs at all. Formatted it once on my phone when i got it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vampyren:
Cant delete the partition, its greyed, all i can do is format :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vampyren:
As you saw i tested on windows 8 and 7 so dont understand why it dont work :(

And as you say a remount fixes the corrupt problem so i dont think both my cards are fine but cant understand why i cant format them on my pc....

I want to be able to pop it out from the phone and copy/paste but as it is now when i format it on phone it gets unreadable on the pc which is also really strange. .
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vampyren:
Ok i figure it out, i was to tired to think last night :)

The conclusion is that my microSD converter was obviously not compatible with the SDXC i assume, i had 2 usb stick that take the micro SD but when using these on my windows8 they were both detecting wrong. I had also a coverter that is in the form on regular SD card so when i use this one and put the micro SD in my laptop with buildin SD reader i see the 64gig right away and can also read the memory when i take it from the phone. So all works now.

I need to find a USB stick converter to be able to use it on my big PC :)

Thanks for the help guys.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashton4life:
:good::victory::highfive:
[HTC One V] Exbruce:
I'm running rythmicrom v1.4 and when i use google now it is very very slow so does anyone know how to make it snappier? It's slow on my wifi too.
[Java for Android App Development] prtbrown:
I am now looking at going down the parsing json/xml file (haven't decided which yet) and instantiate objects route.

Let's call that step 1. For step 2 I have a design help request.

My app consists of survey questions which require the use of dynamically generated random variables. For example:

"Do you prefer keeping a dog or a rabbit?"

where "dog" can be replaced by "cat", "ferret" and "rabbit" can be replaced "guinea pig", "hamster", "rat" etc.

So each question has varying orders of <text> <random variable>

Now, my question is how would I design the json objects and the parsing function to do the above?

My initial thoughts is to put a placeholder into a whole string within the json. For example:

"Do you prefer keeping a %l or a %s?"

-> parse this string into the program

-> parse this string in the program

-> on seeing %l -> lookup list of large animals and pick random element

-> on seeing %s -> lookup list of small animal and pick random element.

-> display string with random variables inserted

What are your thoughts/suggestions?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Anyone going to get the HTC One Google edition on the 26th next week? I already have Tmobile and I could just get it and pay 20 bucks a month to pay for it. Im just wondering if anyone is going to pick up the Google Edition?

Will it really have priority updates? or is that what people only say to make themselves feel better? Couldnt we just flash the ROM and Kernal from the Google Edition when Google updates it to android 4.3... 5.0 etc.. to the GSM varients? Since they all have the same components.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AttachedSilver:
Its better to get the T-Mobile version and just flash the Google ROM on it. I forgot where I read that you can flash an AOSP ROM on a sense based variant but not vice versa.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SonicGD:
Of course you can, why not? Just pick one - http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2120
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expertzero1:
hes talking about stock android to sense.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
There would be no reason why the GE couldn't run sense. They are the same HW. I'd like to see the source of whoever made that claim.

You have two devices that have the same exact HW just running different SW. Why on earth would you be able to run AOSP on a Sense version and not run sense on the GE? It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Is it because the bootloader and partitions are different? if so with s-off that can certainly be changed.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IINexusII:
GE will have the Nexus bootloader interface so it wont be a simple flash job to get Sense

@OP: better to get the T-Mobile version as it would be easy to switch between Stock and Sense
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
As long as you have a custom recovery and the boot, system and data partitions are the same blocks you should be able to flash Sense just fine even with the GE bootloader. Even if the partitions aren't the same you can modify the update script for the sense rom to map to the proper boot/data/system partitions. The only thing I see being a problem is the partitions being different blocks. It doesn't make sense that you'll be able to flash the GE rom on the non GE device and not the other way around.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunnyman:
We have everything we need to convert to Google edition and back again. The key is fastboot mode. We should be able to install an ruu or push the images manually. The only question is will the RUU exe file recognize a converted phone. I'm assuming all we need to do is make sure the Cid matches or we use supercid
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IINexusII:
GE phones wont have any CID so i doubt the RUU would work in converted phones, unless Google gives us a way to flash to Sense version phones without changing the bootloader