yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BornDroid:
So are you asking for an aosp ROM with the best battery life or here to talk about how they make your phone hot.....

Either way each phone is different. Its all relevant on your personal usage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] shangrila500:
I have never had any issues with my phone getting hot on AOSP unless I am outside in the Alabama heat, then the phone gets hot but that has zilch to do with the ROM.

The only other time my phone has gotten hot was on TW when I was using Mobile data instead of Wi-Fi, had a terrible signal, and was using a browser with a white background.

AOSP isn't what's making your phone hot, it is one of three things:

1. Your usage in combination with bad service is forcing the radios to work much harder than normal and white backgrounds just seem to make the phone hotter unless you're in a cooled building.

2. You have your screen set to full brightness.

3. You have a defective phone (Which is highly unlikely).

As for battery life all the AOSP builds are around the same, some marginally better or worse. What really changes your battery life is using a different kernel.
[HTC Droid DNA] t1gartist:
what is the rom file size limit? this port im working on i had to get it under 800 mbs before it would flash
[Motorola Droid Bionic] breatheoflife:
Quick browser question. Whenever I go to a website and start browsing around, and then I press the back button, it goes back to the home page instead of the previous web page. Any way I can fix this? Is there a setting I'm not seeing or something?

Rooted, CM10.1
[Motorola Droid Bionic] MekEnginery:
Home page of the website or home screen of the phone? Stock CM browser?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PeanyTech:
I've asked Samsung and Sprint on Twitter about this. Any other/better places to express my interest in this?

Also, where is the best place to purchase an unlocked Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4? Best I have found is $599.99 from Amazon (no tax, free 2 day shipping). Probably can't do any better without taking a spin with eBay roulette.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
I had Best Buy price match Amazon for $599.99 and got the Geek Squad protection for $10 a month with no deductible on replacements.

---------- Post added at 07:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 PM ----------

Here is the thread you can read with all info of how to price match if you need it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2331184
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jj14:
Or look on local craigslist - just make sure you meet at a Sprint store and have the store inspect the phone. The store will also verify that the account is not past due, and that the phone is not stolen.

I've purchased a few phones (a few new in box - unused) at close to on-contract pricing from Craigslist.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PeanyTech:
Tried BestBuy, would have liked to gotten a pricematch for 599 + the $50 giftcard promotion they have untill Saturday, the 6th. Asked several Mobile employees, and even the Samsung rep.

Rep A: "We don't pricematch off contract phones, only for Virgin Mobile"

Rep B: "We stopped pricematching off-contract phones mid april / may. I used to pricematch like crazy back then" "we pricematch EVERYTHING else EXCEPT off-contract phones"

I even told Rep B that a friend did it recently, when that friend offered to sign up for the GeekSquad protection plan, which I would have done also if it got me the phone.

I was even planning on applying for the BBY Credit Card.

Any suggestions? Try a different store?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] obender:
Are you sure the SG4 Active even available for Sprint? Also, are you sure it is sold SIM unlocked? I seriously doubt both of this points.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GiantJay:
Did you read my instructions in the link I provided earlier? It has their price matching terms from their website and it clearly states that the only thing they don't price match is "On contract phones" if they argue show them their policy off the website. Read the link I provided you need to have them ask their manager don't rely on some person on the floor alone.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Schneijs:
Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a nice gallery app that is similar in smoothness to the sense app?
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Nick281051:
People say quickpick is good but I haven't used it in a long time
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] spitfire2425:
The aosp one is the best hands down.

Sent from my HTC One
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] cell master 2:
Oh god the sense gallery app is terrible
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] kayone73:
I don't know why people love the Zoes so much, I hated the Sense gallery app, I just a nice, no frills way to organize & view my images, not give fancy slide shows for others
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Schneijs:
Haha, I suppose that's the beauty of android - a tailored experience for everyone. I like how you can have events organized by location and I do enjoy the preview slide shows.

Zoes: I like the 3 second snap shots. They're annoying to share but a neat way to remember an experience.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Trooper_Max:
"A tailored experience for everyone" - I like it! I'll have to remember that phrase especially when I'm talking to Apple users.

I'm also intrigued by the Zoes, but have some mixed feelings about them. I tried to use them to take little "action shots" but found the timing to be very difficult to get right (sometimes it seems like the interesting part happens just after it stops, or it takes a moment to focus and you miss the beginning). It'd be nice to be able to tweak the duration, which got me thinking why not just have it where you press and hold the camera button and it does video/stills until you let go? Then I thought wait, why am I doing this again, why don't I just record a short video in the first place?

Not sure what the answers are, but I like that we're trying new ideas.

~Troop
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] drewdatrip:
I still cannot find a better exchange email and calender application then stock Sence 5
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] CheesyNutz:
quick pic > all
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] fishline:
If you're taking zones for grabbing still frames, you can press the camera button and hold to get burst shots. You can also take video and then grab frames from that.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rodz:
Correct me if I am wrong but XDA II is supposed to have 64 MB of ROM, right?

However, my problem is when I go to Settings -> Device Information -> Hardware, I get a Flash size of 32 MB.

CPU: Intel(R) PXA263

Speed: 400 MHz

RAM size: 128 MB

Flash size: 32 MB

So is my device lacking the supposedly 64 MB of ROM? Or am I interpreting the information wrong?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
why does it matter ?

roms have to be 100% made for a device and htc would never make a rom which dident fit

and you cant do anything with more then the 5MB you can access in the extented rom

http://www.myxda.com/product/XdaII/...m?faq_id=377&type=faq&category_id=6&id=26#cat
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rodz:
That is true, but am I lacking the supposedly 64 MB of ROM? Because my Device Information only shows 32 MB of ROM.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
mine say that too

if your ram was smaller then it needed to be then

the xda2 rom would never have been able to fit in it
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
OK there's a problem: After using this method you get only 8GB and it seems like there's no fix for that :(

Does somebody know a solution?

PS: Yes, already tried that: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36673191#post36673191
[Nexus 4 General] meangreenie:
Have you tried formatting data, not wipe, in recovery?
[Nexus 4 General] RussianBear:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Yes.

Mentioned it above, but forgot to remove postcount behind showthread, sry
[Nexus 4 General] hp420:
nice!!

I know someone who can use this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2175663
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
I think I found a fix for the 8GB problem :D

But it needs a external sd so I need to make some changes

EDIT: Got it, I'll add this to the guide now :)
[Nexus 4 General] tigerCHINA:
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am from china.

i flash the 4.3 for s4.

and i know 2 person have the same problem like me in our forum.

SO happy i encounter the god-like person--you!

thanks a lot.

And i will quote your ways to save them, are you mind this?
[Nexus 4 General] KiNG OMaR:
Why on earth would you flash anything for the S4? I'm curious :eek:
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Updated OP with Instructions to get your 16 GB back :D

No problem, it's there to help everyone ;)

Everyone does start as a beginner, one and a half year ago I thought there are universal ICS flashable zips (look here xD) , now look where I got :D
[Nexus 4 General] tigerCHINA:
I wanna try 4.3 but i dont know i will fail

I wanna try 4.3 but i dont know i will fail
[Nexus 4 General] cicciociccio333:
Hi, thanks for your help. I have a Nexus 4 bricked, when a friend tried to flash Nexus 7 kernel. The phone is dead and have only a red blinking led. When i connect the nexus to my Windows 8, i see a DXUSB_ERROR (or something similar, i don't have now the phone). Do you think it will work your method?

Thanks

Regards:o

EDIT: I have no fastboot or download mode :(
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Hmmm....don't know, can you get into a download mode?

Give it a try, seems like you can't brick even more

Oh, didn't saw that edit.

No, without download mode you can't use this
[Nexus 4 General] cicciociccio333:
So i tought. That's a pity :'(
[Nexus 4 General] johnxarma:
thanks for the guide! as i said you're my hero!!:D:D but i cant do the 16gb part. i think im doing something wrong:confused: first, i write the lines one by one right? second, when i type: cp /system/dd /

it says that cannot find the file, something like that. i have move the 3 files to /system of course. and no the dd file didnt renamed to dd.bin, i check it. can you help??
[Nexus 4 General] mangesh57:
@OP,

Thanks a ton bro!!
[Nexus 4 General] meangreenie:
Ignore, I was incorrect.
[Nexus 4 General] johnxarma:
thanks for the reply. but i dont understand you.. what part i must change to correct the code?
[MENTION=4411844]Gigadroid[/MENTION] can you fix the typos in OP??
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Yes, one by one.

Try to mount system partition, simply type:

mount /system

I'll add this to op

It isn't a typo.

cp stands for copy, the first path says which file will be copied, the second path where it will be copied.

In this case we want the files in our root directory which is /
[Nexus 4 General] 51liberty:
its very useful THX:good::good:
[Nexus 4 General] marvi0:
Sorry storage 't get what you mean, because if I continue, I get errors in the end and myy storage remains 8gig?
[Nexus 4 General] Dany-69:
Even my tempFS had a different size compared to the guide :)

But i don't get any error in the whole procedure.

I suppose the errores are caused by something else, maybe a wrong terminal command .

Can you paste here the errors ?

In the latter screenshot you have only backupped the old 8 gig partition table with the dd ...

Now you have to put the new partition table files for the 16 gig version :)
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
cp stands for copy, the first path says which file will be copied, the second path where it will be copied.

In this case we want the files in our root directory which is / :D
[Nexus 4 General] domiq123:
Ok, thaks!
[Nexus 4 General] vlatkonexus4:
This method works really 100%

Guys you must follow the steps very carefully

This helped me to restore my Nexus 4 16gb again fully

I accidentaly flashed rom for nexus 7

Then i followed every step and thanks to this guy and this thread i now have fully working 16gb N4
[Nexus 4 General] themike10452:
LGNPST link is dead, please re-upload to dev-host or any other cloud (not dropbox)

thanks in advance.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
There's a skydrive mirror alread ;)
[Nexus 4 General] khairm01:
Bad link

Hi,

The Factory Image flashable with LGNPST link (MEGA) is really slow/bad (I've been on 0% for 10 minutes and signed up tried different browsers ect).

Could you please post link on a different cloud storage.

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Again there's a skydrive mirror already :)
[Nexus 4 General] khairm01:
Download mode

Thanks,

I can't seem to start download mode. I did it two times already to test if I could do it and now that I'm finally going to use it it won't seem to start. Why do you think this could be?

I do have a working bootloader, no recovery mode...could this still work? adb does not work but fastboot does. Is it possible to use fastboot commands to initiate download mode???

BTW bootloader/fastboot triggers as soon as I attach the phone to PC or charger is that normal?

Thank you in advance

EDIT: nevermind you can get into download mode from bootloader by holding volume up and down and power

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------

Hello again

sending 'bootloader' (2201 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.082s]

writing 'bootloader'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.086s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

< waiting for device >

sending 'radio' (54321 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.979s]

writing 'radio'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 1.982s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.024s

< waiting for device >

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'

archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'

archive does not contain 'system.sig'

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

Bootloader Version...: MAKOZ20i

Baseband Version.....: M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.84

Serial Number........: 004426a95b584386

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

checking product...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

checking version-bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

checking version-baseband...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

sending 'boot' (6194 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.226s]

writing 'boot'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.243s

Press any key to exit...

This is the message I get from cmd when I execute flash_all.bat in the factory flash .....am I screwed?

It's like the device is read only.... even if I lock bootloader as soon as it reboots it's unlocked again.

I got the factory image from the google website as your dropbox link is down..... Could you possibly mirror to skydrive so I can try with the file you currently have.

Sorry I don't mean to spam.

Thank you very much in advance.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Sorry, didn't saw that.

Currently I'm uploading the files to some services ;)

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk 4
[Nexus 4 General] Camarda:
When I use the "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0" and press p, it gives me "Error: /dev/block/mmcblk0: unrecognised disk label"

How can I proceed? :confused:

And, thanks for the tutorial, except the part of 8Gb instead of 16Gb, the process worked perfectly! :laugh:

The strange thing is: I bricked my device flashing the Franco Kernel (the correct version), nothing of wrong ROMs or something :eek:

Edit: After this error, I wasn't able to recovery the 8Gb tables, and the phone stoped to work again, but now , it don't boot or get in bootloader mode. I had to make the whole process again...
[Nexus 4 General] venec:
Thanks for this. I bricked my phone and i'm desperately trying to get it back to life.

However, the link for "Factory Image flashable with fastboot" seems to be broken (or blocked by dropbox rather)

Can anybody reupload this file please?

Thank you
[Nexus 4 General] Camarda:
You can download the Factory Image in the Google page, and Flash the files manually (the file in the thread just do it by itself).

See here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
[Nexus 4 General] farrock02:
what exactly do you mean when you say fast manually? please help me out. my phone seems as if the sd card cant be accessed at all. i go into cwm and just get a bunch of errors
[Nexus 4 General] theedon323:
any idea? I can not mount through CWR my phone is stuck on the GOOGLE logo.
[Nexus 4 General] way2muchcoff:
Can someone please mirror LGNPST.

Dropbox link overloaded. Can't find any other mirror in the thread. Spent a few hours chasing google links. I've been hoping the dropbox account suspension would be lifted but it has been 2 days already. Thanks in advance. :)
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
+1

and Factory Image flashable with fastboot

thx
[Nexus 4 General] xanthrax:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=989dd7aae2fa7a70&id=989DD7AAE2FA7A70!643&authkey=!AGeukj61m6Mxwzw#

sent from my Darkside of Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
you are everywhere......respect.

The last i need is this: Factory Image flashable with fastboot

to make the next step :

" To do that open the folder that contains the Factory Image flashable with fastboot and do CTRL+Right Click in that folder and select "Open Command Prompt here" or something like that (don't know the exact name).
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
I posted the skydrive link a month ago and it looks like no one saw it xD

Switched cloudservice, everything should be fine now :D

Done

Try to do the 16 GB conversion first and then do the LGNPST things.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Delete
[Nexus 4 General] Camarda:
The link that I showed (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312) explains everything.

But, is only type some codes on CMD using Fastboot ^ ^

The "flash_all.bat" just makes these codes by itself, without user interaction...
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
i have my phone in fastboot mode . but i cant come forward. i dont know what to do. i need help plz.
[Nexus 4 General] Subhojit:
Help fix the bluetooth

Hello bro,

First million thanks for helping me fix my nexus4, but unable to get the bluetooth fix working with my noob head, please assist:

Fix for Bluetooth adress:

For bluetooth:

- In /persist directory create bluetooth directory. Under the new directory create a file named .bdaddr (don't miss the dot!)

Edit the file and put 6 random characters in it. Even better, if you can do this in a hex editor and put 6 random bytes, not just printable characters.

- Set execute and read permissions for everybody on /persist/bluetooth directory and change owner of .bdaddr to bluetooth:bluetooth and permission to 660 (read/write for owner and group and nothing else). In command line:

Code:

chown root:root /persist/bluetooth

chmod 755 /persist/bluetooth

chown bluetooth:bluetooth /persist/bluetooth/.bdaddr

chmod 660 /persist/bluetooth/.bdaddr

I have a bluetooth headset, my nexus doesnt retain the pairing, I have to pair everytime I have to use.

I tried on another phone, it doesnt do that and it used to work on my nexus fine before I tried to install s4 rom and then luckily got it fixed now, thanks to u, but please help fix Bluetooth if thats fine with u.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
For bluetooth:

- In /persist directory create bluetooth directory. Under the new directory create a file named .bdaddr (don't miss the dot!)

Edit the file and put 6 random characters in it. Even better, if you can do this in a hex editor and put 6 random bytes, not just printable characters.

For this use Root Browser, ES Explorer or what you prefer.

Then go to the highest directory, there you should see the persist directory.

Go into it and create a directory named bluetooth and in there a file named .bdaddr

Open this file with a text editor and write the six characters into it, like qdvvfh

- Set execute and read permissions for everybody on /persist/bluetooth directory and change owner of .bdaddr to bluetooth:bluetooth and permission to 660 (read/write for owner and group and nothing else). In command line:

Code:

chown root:root /persist/bluetooth

chmod 755 /persist/bluetooth

chown bluetooth:bluetooth /persist/bluetooth/.bdaddr

chmod 660 /persist/bluetooth/.bdaddr

Download terminal emulator, type su in it and then the code shown above

To start an adb shell you must be in recovery not in fastboot mode
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
thx now it works. btw thx a lot my device is now repaired. the guide is 100% working.
[Nexus 4 General] Subhojit:
I did all you said and went thru well, no errors but stilll didnt work.

Thanks for the detailed description and help.
[Nexus 4 General] Subhojit:
I take back my previous comment, its working now. Just the way it did initially. THANK YOU.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
No problem :)
[Nexus 4 General] partyk93:
Man, you're my hero. Without you I'd fail in fixins my phone.

I was so desperated that I started looking for service points in my city. I knew that I'd lost warranty.

The problem was that I sold my N4 and I tried to just clean it, wipe, unroot and relock. Something went wrong, I'm not sure what it was.

Fortunately, I coped with that with you like a wizard ;)

Without you, it would be impossible to fix. Thanks a lot, grab a case of beer from me!
[Nexus 4 General] Stoyicker:
And if there's no device in the LGNPST?

I've followed this guide as far as I've been able to but my N4 16GB does not appear in the LGNPST. I haven't forgot to install the universal drivers nor any other steps and I've restarted the PC several times. Furthermore, the phone doesn't appear even in the Device Manager while in Download mode, but it does when in Fastboot (which proves that the drivers are properly installed, I guess). Any suggestions on this?
[Nexus 4 General] coolau:
doesnt work!!!!

I went through the whole tutorial with no problem but I still have no imei, no bluetooth address and wifi address change with every boot but still work. Is there any other recommendation or should I call it fully brick and give up.

It doesn't seen the bluetooth and wifi fix did anything. I created the file in the right folder using "Root Browser" app then using adb shell to enter the command in the tutorial.

Please Help, thank you in advance.
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
I dont know it help or not. But for me it works. I have 5 usb Ports and only one of them works for nex4. Try all you have may be it help. And for me works only USB 2.0 not the 3.0 one. Good luck. Write if it works or not.
[Nexus 4 General] Stoyicker:
Works!

God, I can't believe it. But, although all of my parts are 3.0, the N4, if on download mode, is not recognized only in the one I was trying yesterday xD In fastboot or turned on it's recognized in any. Thank you very much!
[Nexus 4 General] venec:
I can't get my nexus to work, i've done this like 10 times and still no imei or baseband, should change title to 99% :p
[Nexus 4 General] Agupecorari:
I'm in the same situation as you. IMEI and Baseband UNKNOWN.
[Nexus 4 General] Gigadroid:
Changed ;)

Now to your problem..I'm sure there is a way to get it working again, but the problem is I can't reproduce this problem and check what the problem could be :/
[Nexus 4 General] Antonio0:
I get to the .tot renaming and after that nothing

i Get to the step where you rename the .tot file to a .bin file, but then you say to run LGNPST, but when i clicked on the icon it said that the program the shortcut i clicked was no longer in the directory...... can anybody help?
[Nexus 4 General] Stoyicker:
I'd start by checking if this file exists. "C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST\LGNPST.exe" If it does, run LGNPST straight from the file instead of using the shortcut.
[Nexus 4 General] billykidd13:
I also get the

process : upgrade_masterbin

subproc : masterbin download

cause :fail to write partition

primaryGPT, 512th sector

failed and cannot get anything to work??? I read the suggestion to try the fix 16gb first but cant get into any mode to do that either. ANY help is much appreciated!! Thanks. Same as the image in post #196. (I cant post pics)
[Nexus 4 General] DeZire17:
i can't copy the files to /system folder, can you help me please?

its writes "file system is read only"
[Nexus 4 General] johann2204:
which file manager are you using?

i recomend this one. for me work fine

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer&hl=de

btw plz dont reply the whole OP. thx