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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xIceCream:
Hi guys, was wondering about what makes you decide to leave stock and stick to cm, or why you're staying in stock rather than cm10.1?

I've been thinking which ROM to go for, thinking about the cons and pros for each..

for stock, great kernel support from doomlord, better cam( i think ? ), more mods available( better sound from zeroinfinity).

for cm10.1, loads of customization, super smooth( carbon rom for now ).

What additional feature else to add?

Please list down what ROM you're using + the reason why you're sticking with ( stock / cm10.1 ) ? Would like to see different users' opinion.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjgowtham:
If u want to preserve warranty, go for stock

If you want performance and daily updates , go for cm 10.1

If you wanna customise your device to d core, go for miui v5.

Aosp, paranoid android and pacman roms are also worth it
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richy99:
stock - I find cm/aosp roms are ugly and lack features available
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x102x96x:
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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Actually, there is a noticeable

drop

in performance while running CM10.1 vs stock. Whether this is related to the build I'm running being a debug build vs release/optimised or if there's a more efficient graphics driver in stock ROMs I don't know, but I get 5600 in Quadrant running CM10.1 vs roughly 7800 in stock. Pretty large difference.

The most likely reason for this is what I mentioned above, that a debug build is not at all as optimised (as that takes a lot more time for compilation) as stable builds. But still worth mentioning as one is most likely to be running userdebug nightlies at this stage. If this is the case then we will most likely see improved results when the CM10.1 stable gets the new FXP kernel that's been pushed to the nightly builds.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richy99:
good now run along, the cm roms I have used previously lack the fm radio player, hdmi out just to name 2 things missing
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Both are in CM10.1 for XZ...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
I will find the next person who uses quadrant as a form of measurement for performance.

Or any benchmarking tool
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rchard:
Benchmarks aside, I have been testing gaming on the latest cm nightly. Nova and including modern combat 4 runs smoothly. Don't put your

hopes only on benchmarks.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Was about to type in my last post that I wasn't complaining about the performance, not at all, because it is stellar. Just saying that I've seen better performance on Sony ROMs.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rchard:
Never said u r complaining. This just came from my point of view. But I agree that on Sonys ROM benchmarks r better. Its difficult to ditch cm, I have always liked aosp but might end up testing Sony's.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geekygrl:
How about this....I can send pictures via MMS on Stock Sony firmware no issues (APN is the same as what I use for CM10.1) but I cannot send anything with CM10.1....

I would much prefer to use CM10.1 as well but unless I can find a fix (and yes, I do know how to search :p ) :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sykes133:
hi all, i have a question any have a tutorial to mod for make the fonts in GB small?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] naheel azawy:
Hi,

There is no need to any tutorial for that just download this app form the play store so you can make the font size smaller or larger:

Or download from attachment.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sykes133:
you rock :D thnx
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] movielover76:
I just ordered my AT&T S4 and I'm just wondering if their are any plans to build a rom that would essentially turn and AT&T GS4 into a Google Experience Device.

I know we might not be able to get everything, for instance maybe OTA's won't work, but it seems it should be possible to create a ROM that gives us the same software, the hardware is identical.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chazbot7:
AT&T Galaxy S3

Mac OSX 10.8

I know I can get my device back, I'm just not sure how. I successfully rooted using CASUAL, no problems there. Got the normal root applications installed, did the Clockwork backup, everything was great.

I then decided to try a custom ROM - the Cyanogen 10.1. It downloaded fine, and I selected to also install Google Apps, then it rebooted and the Cyanogen boot screen with the spinning circle came up. However, this lasted way longer than I thought it should, so I looked it up, and what I got from the research is that I had the wrong gapps on there.

So, I followed the instructions in this thread (same problem as me), and wiped the system. However, I believe I used the wrong list item, and now everything I had is gone. I can't boot from recovery because it doesn't exist, and when booting into CM I just get the same error message that setup has stopped working. I thought maybe I could put a new ROM on the sd card or phone harddrive and boot from that, but both are inaccessible through USB on my Mac.

I can get it into ODIN mode (where it says "Downloading... Do not turn off target!"), which I'm thinking is what I want, and I have Heimdall installed and it runs and recognizes my device, but I cannot for the life of me find a tar.gz file to use.

If anyone can offer any sort of help, I would super appreciate it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
Your recovery shouldn't be affected by a wipe (unless you flashed something over it) as ROMs don't flash recovery, therefor vol up + home + power should get you in it. If you success to, You should be able to mount through recovery.

As for Heimdall, it just got S3 support (last week I believe), therefor it might not be easy to find a stock file for it. That being said, if you have access to any Windows pc, that'd be the easiest solution here (using Odin).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chazbot7:
Yes, I can still get into the recovery menu, but when I use "backup and restore>restore" it says No files found. Is there anything I can do to just get a working OS running? Or am I just doing it totally wrong, I'm new to the rooting stuff. The Windows computer will be my last resort haha.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
Windows pc is definitely the easiest option here but you try mounting your SD from recovery, redownload the ROM and Gapps you wanna use, put them on your device and flash them after a factory reset.

If you wiped your SD card, it's normal that you don't have a backup anymore.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chazbot7:
It's aaaliiiiiiive! Grabbed an extra micro SD I had, threw Cyanogen 10.1.0 RC4 on it, and installed it just fine. Now updating to RC5. My only question now is how to get Google Apps on there. Does this need to be done beforehand, or can it be done after?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
You usually flash the Gapps right after flashing the ROM, before rebooting.

P.S.: fully reading the instructions helps before flashing ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chazbot7:
Gotcha, sorry about that. Thanks for all the help good sir. This is actually way faster than my stock ROM, I'm pretty stoked on it, Google Apps or not.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
No need to apologize. Glad you got it back up! And it was mostly to keep you from making similar mistakes in the future ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pcshano:
also one thing you need to know

First boot after you flash will always take longer than normal. After that, it's fine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Naruto101:
Is there any support for rogers s4's?. Like for the s3?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Psykologikal:
Find the proper code for your phone and look on the aokp site. I know there isn't one specifically for rogers but there is for the 19505
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Naruto101:
Awsome another question I got is the s4 is 13 mp if I flash and have the stock camera app will I lose any quality?!
[About XDA developers] Peter Poelman:
There's a yet another new phpBB security problem. Something to do with uploading avatars. I cannot oversee the scope of the problem right now, and the phpBB people have messed up uploading their new version to Sourceforge, so the new version cannot be downloaded.

I've turned off the Avatars until we upgrade. No worries: your avatar isn't gone, and it will come back soon...

PP
[About XDA developers] cruisin-thru:
I have been having problems with very slow access to site and also non availability of site for the past 2 days.
[General Questions and Answers] ACdev:
We have a client wanting to add a game into their app. The app we have developed is for the insurance industry. The client believes by adding a game it will attract more downloads and increase returning users. We are not convinced that adding a game will achieve either. In our view people download an app to get to the point. An app needs to satisfy a direct need i.e. a banking app shows your balance. A game seems like an after thought. We are also concerned that the game will have to of a very good standard in order to attract use and not be ridiculed. With the likes of EA Sports spending millions on app game development this is a difficult area to compete. With this in mind we would consider developing a simply addictive game like Pac Man.

I would love to know your views on this subject. Do any apps exists that have managed to offer a game into a 'sensible' app and made it work?
[General Questions and Answers] syung:
You should ask your client why their app exists in the first place. Is the app designed to aid users conducting business with the insurance industry? Or is the app designed as marketing in order to draw in more potential customers. It is not a good idea to design one product to do two completely different things, as you will end up not doing either thing particularly well. If the client is hoping to increase their customers, developing a separate game app that is free as a marketing tool would be more feasible, as you would have one app dedicated to conducting business, and another app conducting marketing for the company.
[General Questions and Answers] ACdev:
agree

Hi Syung

Thanks for your reply. I totally agree. At the client meeting I suggested creating an additional game app to assist in their aim to reach a new target audience. It nice to have someone back your approach - thanks.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhatsAUsername:
I'm not sure how many people moved from the Nexus 4 to the HTC One, but if you have, I'm sure you've used Google Plus/Picasa to sync your photos on stock Google. If you're like me, you even deleted those photos off your Nexus 4, but the gallery app still gave you full access to them, as if they were on your phone (sharing, viewing, and even editing cloud [Picasa/G+] based photos).

My issue now is that I'm not able to do any of this. I'm able to access my G+ albums through the stock gallery app on the HTC One, but that's about it. I can't see my camera roll, I can't edit the photos, I can't share them, etc. There is a clear distinction between the photos that are actually on my phone vs. the ones on my G+ account. Is there a way to overcome this?

I've already looked into getting the 4.2 camera/gallery apk, but I would apparently have to root my phone, which would mean starting over and deleting all my data. Any tips?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhatsAUsername:
Nobody? :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mashkawizii:
Backup all your data then root.

Then you wont lose all your data.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhatsAUsername:
I was considering this, but I'm waiting for stock Android to have IR support before ditching Sense. Anyways, XDA recently released the live wallpaper and camera APKs for the Google Play HTC One/S4, and I installed them. Voila! I have the stock gallery/camera apps! Problem solved :D

P.S. I was shocked that they worked since my phone is completely stock, not rooted or anything! I read before that the phone needed to be rooted and the camera/gallery apk must be put into the system folder, but all I did was put the APK in my dropbox, allow untrusted sources, and click it directly from my dropbox on my phone. It installed and everything is working perfectly!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxt:
Does Photosphere work for you or does it crash?

On my AT&T HTC One with CM10.1 nightly, Photosphere crashes.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhatsAUsername:
I just checked. It works perfectly fine for me (stock Rogers HTC One, not rooted). I even went into the gallery, and after a second or two of "rendering...," the panorama showed up perfectly. It's probably a CM issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brendanvista:
Hello XDA! I have a strange issue here. My girlfriend has a Galaxy S2 on ATT.

The phone is not rooted, and is running the stock rom. The phone will not charge correctly. After leaving it on the charger all night, it'll show 100% battery. However, the minute you take it off the charger, it will only show say, 50% battery. The issue has gotten worse over the past weeks. Her phone hardly holds a charge now. It dies almost immediately after being unplugged. The phone is only 6 months old. I've always avoided the threads on resetting your battery stats, as they've always been wishy washy, and inconclusive. But I'm not sure what to do here.

I'm completely comfortable rooting phones and installing roms and such, but I don't want to do that to my girlfriend's phone. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Reseting battery stats doesn't do anything on this phone, or any Samsung phone for that matter.

The first thing I would suspect is a bad battery. If possible, borrow a known good battery to verify that it will hold a charge before you buy a new one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brendanvista:
It seems odd that the battery would be bad after just 6 months, but I suppose the whole thing is odd. I'll give that a try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Did you get it new? Is it still under warranty? If so, AT&T will give you a new battery just to see if that is the cause. I think you can do that in a corporate store or over the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brendanvista:
Alright. I tried a new battery. It didn't fix the issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] brendanvista:
New phone should be here tomorrow. Hopefully that one works.
[HTC Sensation] KiD3991:
Well, my experience got me at most 3 hours and 13 minutes. With 2% left and boiling hot.

Is there any way to improve more? I'm like a battery maniac.

I heard of Anker, but its too expensive in my country.(firstly overseas delivery, then after currency exchange, I'd rather buy a powerbank)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kr1tikalMas:
Hey folks

Was charging my phone last night, picked it up to take a call and noticed a brilliant bright green pixel staring at me. Looks like a single one. But driving me nuts (I theme everything pretty dark).

Any ways of fixing this? I'd try Samsung's accidental handling service, but I've rooted the phone etc..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mittaa:
Flash stock firmware and return it :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kr1tikalMas:
Do I not have to worry about the binary counter?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mittaa:
If you flash stock firmware with Odin PC, I think it will reset to zero.

But better get a second opinion :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kr1tikalMas:
I don't think so.

I'm actually not sure what the counter is on even :|
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlbertoSONIC:
Flashing with Odin increase counter... But you can use triangle away app!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kr1tikalMas:
Sadly I'm on i9500
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Naturesretard:
I see people are able to use these governors, but I can never get my phone to be stable for more than a few minutes before rebooting. Am I doing something wrong? Running vanilla rootbox and kt747 kernel
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
I thought those both were known to cause issues??
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Naturesretard:
So I've heard/read. But I still see people saying they've got it working and reports good battery life. But it begs the question, why include the governors if they're known to fail? So my only thought is there must be some way to get them working
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Got me there I've seen some devs remove them so they aren't synced and some just don't bother wasting their time with it I guess. I'm not big on kernels as is so, hopefully someone else will step in or you can research more for yourself I guess.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Naturesretard:
I wasn't really able to find much research. Then again I'm trying to search on my phone as I'm away from a computer.... But yeah, some little more knowhow would be appreciated. Pegasusq was a quad core governor I believe and somehow tailored to dual core... At least so I've heard
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Naturesretard:
Shameful self bump
[Touch GSM General] dannyogolo:
I mistakingly flashed Elfin File into this phone and its stuck on bootloader mode.

Pls I need original Rom to get it back alive before i Can change laanguage again.

Details on screen now is

IPL 1.11.0002

SPL 2.26.0000

I believe its either NETHERLANDS or GERMANY.

SO Pls who can give me working links for the following? (All links on this page for the files I need are dead on rapidshae)

- MDA_Touch_2.26.111.4_GER_All_included

- RUU_Elf_TMO_NL_2.26.114.3_4.1.13.52_03.08.90_BLUE_Ship.exe

-----------------------------

Pls my phone info is as follows:

HTCSELF010000

ELF010000.......

HTC__F08

-------------------------------

Thanks in advance
[Touch GSM General] dannyogolo:
rhttp://rapidshare.com/files/126437733/ruu_elf_htc_dan_1.11.403.1b_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_blue_ship.exe

Device: ELF010000

CID: HTC__F08

Version: 1.11.403.1B

Language: DAN
[Touch GSM General] Hakim Rahman:
you can look it at http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=windows mobile&model=Elf
[Touch GSM General] dannyogolo:
Not available on shippedrom

That file not in that shipped rom directory
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shlazzer:
Howdy

I have a Razr M which was the old BDH debloated stock rom.

I flashed over to PACMan this morning, rebooted, stuck in fastboot!

I have tried the Razr M Utility and RSD Lite to try to flash back to stock, but I am met with incessant errors:

#1 When I try RSD Lite, it fails at writing the system.img

#2 When I try Matt's utility, I get a 'remove fail' when writing system.img

FastBoot reasons vary between "No PIV in system block" or "stick bit in factory_reset"

I am unable to get to any kind of recovery, or any kind of logo screen. M will flash, but then immediately to fastboot.

Phone was previously unlocked and rooted
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jco23:
not sure if your problem has been resolved, but are you able to get into recovery? also, make sure you charge the phone up to 100% first (if you can't tell, then just charge it for about 2 hours)
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shlazzer:
Fortunately, my issues have been resolved.

Not sure what the specific fix was, but all I really did was just retry flashing over and over and over, with RSD Lite and matt's utility. One time it finally worked.

from there, the factory_fastboot sticky bit was fixed by clearing oem fastboot userdata and cache in ADB

phone was good as new!
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adriantech:
I find the solution

:laugh::laugh::laugh: I find the solutions reply me if u want
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el_venga:
i got one stuck at no valid piv block in SP for system. tried to flash to kitkat but always got stuck at system partition with rsd. tried to downgrade without sbls but does not work.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klen2:
If you want to downgrade, remove commands to flash gpt.main and tz from the xml of the ROM
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el_venga:
left it for like 2 hours with rsd. finally system was flashed. thanks for response.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiztednibbz:
Right guys after successfully flashing my partners phone to make it run better i used the Siyah safe kernel 5.0.1 and vanilla rootbox ROM.

i tried the performance option in the kernel options and it was draining the battery big style.

So... decided to re-flash the kernel and put it in battery mode for optimized battery performance and now all i get is a black screen. ive done a factory reset and I've wiped the dalvik cache and fixed permissions but still a black screen straight after the kernel logo.

What have i done wrong? how do i get the phone to boot again?

Cheers Brett
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GamingDj:
You can still get to Recovery and Download mode,right? Then flash a Stock Sammy ROM via Odin,then do a Factory reset.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiztednibbz:
Yeah man. I just ended up flashing the rom again and it worked fine. I was trying to just switch form performance to battery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GamingDj:
It woked? Then press the thanks button :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider1980:
Hi all,

I am currently with Verizon and would like to get Samsung Galaxy S4 phone without changing my plan hence continue staying with Verizon. One option is to pay for a legitimately unlocked phone which is expensive (~$600) another one is to buy a phone from someone (~$350) and if it is not Verizon phone then possibly unlocking it.

Now my question is:

What version of firmware I should be looking for when buying a phone from someone and what carrier? Or does firmware version is all I need to worry about?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

David
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider1980:
Anyone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] md4dodge:
It really doesn't matter what firmware version it's on as of now... there's no unocked bootloader, but there are ways around that, of course. :) I had my s4 rooted with custom recovery within 15 minutes of unboxing it and built my first Rom for it within a few hours, so..... Look here:... study it a little and feel free to get your s4 and flash away!! :) Hope this helps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostrider1980:
So, the way it works, I need to root the phone and that will give me an ability to go between carriers with no problem?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] mbonamassa:
I have searched the forum for some qualitative information on what the radio upgrade gets you. The masochistic geek in me is dying to upgrade the radio (after the recent SX66 Upgrade from Siemens) just to have the latests but... I have not seen anyrhing other than some conflicting anecdotal remarks on what the 1.06.02 Radio offers. Has anyone done any testing before and after the update? If so please share.

If not - I will probably lose control of my better judgement and do the upgrade. Any advice on what I should expect to see change and what might be measureable (without extra equipment) would be great. In that case I can take measurements before the upgrade and after the upgrade and post results.

BTW: this forum is great!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] hdbueller:
I am running the 1.33.110WWE Rom on my pda2k and recently was running the 1.06.00 radio, but I have changed to the 1.06.02 radio from the Qtek 1.22.167WWE rom. My b/t is better with a full 25 ft range and my wifi connects much faster and stays connected.People that I talk with say that there is no longer any echoing in my voice.

All in all, I am very happy with my pda2k now. It is an 8 out of 10.(Finally!)

Hope that this helps......