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[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darks1der:
Hi guys,

Does anyone know if it is possible to make an app containing the IF codes used by HTC TV, the reason why I ask is in work they have all forms of connection blocked. They even have signal jammers so we can't use our mobile.

But I want to be able to use all the IF products with my phone, like the TV and beamer.

And because I can't get any network connection I can't download the IF codes.

Any idea's on how I can solve this problem.
[Windows Phone 8 General] JulietteOnXDA:
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[Windows Phone 8 General] JulietteOnXDA:
Thanks for the good feedback!
[Windows Phone 8 General] jakelq:
Hmmm, concept by who?
[Windows Phone 8 General] JulietteOnXDA:
that'd be me.
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
The sync of bookmarks from Desktop IE to WP IE has already been confirmed for a future version of WP. They didn't say which one exactlly so it might take until WP Blue.

I personally don't like the idea of having the icons in the settings - at least not at the end, just looks kinda weird. Perhaps it would work better if you put them in front and aligned them properly on a grid.

Camera settings actually return back to the defaults when you relaunch the Camera App (and didn't save your changes as defaults).

As for the charms bar - I like the idea of a universal sharing and search feature but I don't particularily like the implementation of it with the charms bar on Win8 and I really don't see it work well on WP.
[Windows Phone 8 General] sinister1:
I like it but MS always let's its users down and dismisses the best ideas and concepts. WP will go now where higher that where it currently is now because of MS's ignorance. The next 2 updates for Luminas that includes the Amber and the GR2 or whatever its called don't really bring much to WP at all; who cares about another clock on the screen or data sense? Or more camera tricks...? Really now!!
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=1604322]sinister1[/MENTION]: Does that post really help? Come on, there's no value in just being negative everywhere.

Also, you call Microsoft "ignorant", but I guarantee that they know far, far more about the smartphone market than you do. If you want to be persuasive, you need to come up with arguments that have more substance to them than effectively just calling MS names.

[MENTION=4162336]KlausWidraw[/MENTION]: I think I'm with StevieBallz on the suggestion to have the Settings icons be left-aligned; they do make the items easier to identify, but having a consistent horizontal position to look for them at would help. That said, the ability to re-order the options would be huge; I use some all the time (like Cellular, which is annoyingly just off the bottom of my screen) and others not at all (like "lock screen", "tap+send", or "theme") once I've set them up initially, and would like them out of the way to make room for the options that I care about.
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
GDR2/Amber as well as GDR1 before it and GDR3 after it are mere maintenance releases. No one expects an Update from Android 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 to bring major new functionality. No one expects updates from iOS 6.0 to 6.1 to bring major new features. Somehow everyone (contrary to all reporting on those topics) expects those maintenance releases in WP to do just that. Really new functionality will only arrive with WP8.1/Blue and this has been known pretty much since the WP Blue name first appeared in leaks.

GDRs mainly serve the purpose of fixing some bugs and enabling new hardware functionality that is required for device launches. It has been the same with WP7. There were updates like Tango that served to enable LTE. GDR2 now mainly serves to enable the new capabilities that Nokia required for their Lumia 925 and Eos Camera phones and to keep Google Mail usable. GDR1 was mainly bugfixes, GDR3 will enable new hardware like even higher resolution screens.

Amber then is bundled with the GDR2 update rollout but IS NOT a WP update. It is a device specific capability update like we have seen them by all OEMs in the past.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
If there are two things I would change about WP (from a user perspective) those are:

1) A clock tile that updates real time, like the HTC one (srsly want one).

2) Battery saver profiles that let me choose what i want to remain active (bluetooth, wifi, mobile data, background tasks)

That's about it.

From a developer point of view, things are very, very different xD
[Windows Phone 8 General] sinister1:
Sorry for being so negative but this is really how I feel and what's wrong with that? I know that not everyone will agree with my views or me with views of others but my negative feed back is feed back just like positive feed back is also feed back. I'm pretty sure that you have your gripes with other things.

I'm just feed up that devs come up with some of the brightest ideas and MS simply ignores them. Tell me what is so hard for them to open the OS just a little more for people to be creative? Seriously? Now the truth is the best substance. And of course if you still don't agree with me that's okay; I won't hold it against you because those are your opinions and the way you feel. Please don't take any of my rants personal as all they are, my personal opinions.
[Windows Phone 8 General] thals1992:
I have to agree with you on this one. There are some understandable things for security's sake, but its ridiculous how complicated it is to customize Windows Phone 8 or even WP7. With WP7, you could only have a static lockscreen (ignoring LockWidgets from WPH) and couldn't set a custom text notification sound (besides MS' and HTC's.) I could add a custom ringtone, but it was a pain to do, period. With WP8, its a tad easier. You can just copy and paste ringtones, lock screens are customizable, and alarm can be customized as well, as well as the battery percentage can be pinned to the lockscreen/start screen. But compared to the other 3 platforms (Andriod, iOS, and now discontinued Symbian) could virtually anything could be changed. I remember when the 7.8 Beta was out and there were swapped fonts in the roms. Its something that no one had even thought about modifying until it was an issue.

I do have to say the native apps ability is appreciated, but it seems that Interop is still an issue (except I have no idea how problematic it still is). I do have to say I don't know much of whats been going on, due to jumping ship getting Verizon's Trophy late in the game (like when I first signed up here) and then finally moved to WP8 with their 928. So I'm kinda in the dark as to what has been added from the GDR1, Nokia's supposed Amber update, whats in GDR2, future FM support, ect. I really just wish that MS would be a little more verbal about whats in WP8's updates. They were bad with WP7 and they aren't any better now.

Another feature that MS is completely missing is Xbox Video. Seems stupid for them to say their experience is coherent between all their devices when its clearly not.
[Windows Phone 8 General] Apex-Predator:
Can u guys tell me ....which phones will get windows 8.1 update .????
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
Some people don't like customization.

Customization comes with the cost of performance. I had an android with "customization" and whenever i "customized it" it became really, really, really slow.

In order to even have customization working, the system has to waist a lot of CPU cycles on stuff like checking 1000000000000000 settings to figure out what it should render next, swap a gazillion artifacts from storage to memory etc etc.

I want my phone to do what I tell it to do. I don't give a damn about more customization than it already has, and so are 99% of all windows phone users, whom increase in numbers day by day.

If you are going to give feedback disguised as QQ, then you should head over to microsoft's site and make your voice actually count. You complaining here all day, on a freeking developer/hacker forums, will not help!

Windows 8.1 blue will probably loosen up the developers a bit, if they are going to implement all our suggestions. Which will come for all windows phone 8 phones.
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=652302]mcosmin[/MENTION]: The conecpt the you trade performance for customization really isn't true. Yes, the phone could eke out a trivial amount of better performance by hardcoding its UI styles, but they don't do that. Things like accent colors, background colors, text styles, etc. are all stored in the registry; you don't have to modify a single line of system code to modify or create themes of your own, and they'll run just as fast. Other forms of customization, such as replacing some of the builtin libraries with custom ones, might be slower in certain circumstances, but only if the custom library either added new features (not just new customizations, but actual functionality that wasn't present before) or is simply very poorly coded. The first of those is a tradeoff, the second is easily fixed if people just share their source code.

[MENTION=1604322]sinister1[/MENTION]: It's not that I don't agree with you - I do, in fact, and frequently quite vociferously - I just don't see what value you're adding to this conversation by proclaiming it. This thread is to discuss mockups of UI changes to WP8, not to complain about OS lockdown in WP8 and Microsoft's apparent unwillingness to implement some requested changes.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
And how many people do you think will be able to do proper customization? Windows Phone shouldn't be Android with squares instead of rounded edge widgets.

And solid colors like the ones WP uses will always be faster than a image on the background, or some sort of gradients or whatever they they propose to have around the phone.
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
How many people will do "proper" customization? As many as want to. Who are you to say what is or is not "proper" for how I want my phone to look?

Of all the things wrong with Android (the battery drain due to background services not exiting automatically, the more stuttery UI on all but the highest-end phones due to poorer optimization, the ability for malicious apps to send premium SMS completely invisibly to the user, etc.) you choose to pick on the customizations? Nobody is suggesting that we want Android with WP-like tiles; in that case we would have bought Android phones and installed one of the several Metro-style home screen customizations. On the other hand, if I want a Windows Phone with "rounded edge widgets" and am willing to put in the effort to develop them, I see no reason I shouldn't be allowed to.

WP uses the graphics processor for its UI. Those "solid colors" are just textures like any other. A gradient, an image, a partially translucent image... they're all the same to the GPU. The performance cost would be unmeasurably small.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
It's not about the GPU.

It's about the CPU. The more complex the image is, the bigger the size, the more time wasted for CPU to process it.

Add to that the fact it needs to purge/load from memory several times a day (in the case of a background wallpaper for startscreen), and the performance loss and battery drain is suddenly no longer unmeasurably small.
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
You're talking about a difference of microseconds. Not milliseconds, microseconds. Several times a day. And telling me that this is *not* below the noise threshold of any measurement system we have today, never mind human perception?!?

Also, consider people who use apps (with their own tiles, not just system tiles that are mostly blank and therefore rendered as mostly a solid color) on their lock screen. You know, the whole "meet <person>" advertising campaign Microsoft has been running for this OS? Those app tiles take just as long for the CPU to decode and send the texture to the GPU as the customized tiles we're talking about here...

Except, customized tiles aren't even the point. If you don't want to customize your tiles because saving a few millionths of a second per day - a saving which will never amount to a whole second over your entire lifetime, much less that of the phone - you don't have to. The rest of us want features; customization is merely one of those features. It gets a lot of discussion because:

A) It's an obvious feature to have. MS advertises personalization. People like being able to change how things look, be it their clothing or their front yard or their Windows background. For some reason, though, they can't change their Windows Phone background.

B) It's really, really simple to implement. I mean, there are tons of third party apps, some rather sophisticated, to do this. Microsoft doesn't have to jump through the crazy hoops that we did, and they have the documentation on how the OS works as well.

c) It really does not affect performance. There's no cost. Look at the custom themes and custom system tray icons and so forth on WP7, and try telling me with a straight face the percentage by which it impacts performance to use them.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
Don't compare the WP7 theme mods and stuff like that which were made by hackers that knew what they were doing.

If Microsoft allows this officially on the marketplace, it will be flooded by poor apps.

Anyway, we seem to not be talking about the same thing. We should let it rest.
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
Given that they have added additional customization options to Win8.1 we might just see something similar on WP. Apps like the Pictures Hub with it's backgrounds and lots of images in lists in the foreground aren't any more stuttery than the homescreen so I agree that it would not be a big performance issue.

As for the tiles and them being one color or another. The tiles quite obviously always have a accent-color colored square in the background (which you sometimes can see even on completely overlayed tiles when they are 3D-tilted on touch) and a bitmap image in the foreground. If you do see the accent color shine through it means that alpha blending is used and that definitely uses more cycles because it does first render the solid color tile and then the alpha-blended texture on top of it.

There would be a difference though in the memory required to render vector based graphics like solid color tiles (little texture memory required but a lot more computation intensive) versus bitmapped ones but as we as developers know - the bitmaps are there regardless for the tile foreground. And for movement it really doesn't make a difference if pixels of the same or of a different color get pushed around.

The real problem with customizing the icons though is that the tiles aren't icons in many cases but actual live tiles. In the end that means that the App is actively creating a new image to display it's information and overwrites the default image with it. Apps would have to be aware of that customizability in order for it to work properly.

Some other options simply have to arrive rather sooner than later. Especially custom notification sounds given that a) it really isn't more than a registry entry to begin with (as we've seen in WP7) and b) the feature is there for ringtones already. They could simply allow the regular ringtones there as well (as they're doing for the alarm) and be done with it.

Given that WP would be about the same when it comes to customizability of the UI as the iPhone (where you also don't have an awful lot of options to tweak).
[Windows Phone 8 General] sinister1:
Well Said, also look at iOS7 with more customization, there is no issues there either. I'm not asking for a whole re-write of the entire UI, just a lil more bells and whistles here and there... This OS could be so much more. :good:
[Windows Phone 8 General] VitasLoWang:
the best improvement would be

To add clear information about each app how much space it uses in the phone memory! This totally standard feature is in every other phone OS and it was in Windows Mobile 6.5 also. It is unbelievable that you cannot see this vital information in Windows Phone 8 made by the very same Microsoft company. The lost memory issue due to a mysterious "other" folder is ridiculous and I will have to do a factory reset soon because of this.
[Windows Phone 8 General] Exnor:
a file explorer/manager would be nice...
[Windows Phone 8 General] VitasLoWang:
everybody seems to want this, but I quite understand Microsoft why they don't want to add this kind of feature! More people would break their phones by moving, deleting files which should not be moved in attempt to save memory or "fix" something. I think there should be some kind of file manager, but specific to certain folders and specialized to do certain things. There should not be any need to dig into files not using the right apps to do it. Otherwise we are back at 90s. Unfortunately right now I would really like to see what kind of silly data is in this "other" memory :(
[Windows Phone 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
VitasLoWang, I don't think you have any real idea how OS security works. Microsoft could, *trivially* easily, make the sensitive parts of the OS be read-only. In fact, they already are. It's not too hard to write an app that browses the file system; wrap on on-screen GUI (rather than a web server, the way I did) around the native Win32 file APIs and go to town. The problem is that a lot of non-sensitive parts of the system, like the documents and media stores, the SD card, the temporary files cache, etc. are also locked away. In fact, they aren't even just read-only; we can't read them at all (for examples, we can read \Windows\*, but we can't read \, the actual root directory). It's ludicrous. Microsoft created several megabytes of security policies for the phone, dictating things like exactly what permissions each capability grants an app (and most capabilities are only a few lines; there are hundreds of private ones in addition to the couple dozen public ones). They could easily create another policy, a capability "ID_CAP_FILE_BROWSER" or similar, that has read-only access to most if not all of the OS and read-write to the user areas. They could make this a public capability, allowing people to write things like the app size checker and "other" examiner. They could make it a private capability, but include their own tools to do things like that. Or... they could do what they did. It's not even about protecting the user (because they could prevent changes to the areas where changing anything would break things), much less about security (I'm the device owner, OK? I choose what constitutes unauthorized access, nobody else). I'm not sure what it's about, but there's no good excuse for it.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
You can figure out what is authorized access and what is not, but most people can not.

if that were the case with everyone, we wouldn't know what "IT security" is.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
So what i basically want to know is this :

i've got stock everything on my note

i was thinking of temporarily rooting it, flash trasnparent status bar and mayber multindows hack, and then restock by unrooting and flashing back stock kernel (if rooting changes my kernel)

would these mods still work after unrooting or not ??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
anyone ??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aukhan:
You will have to stay rooted in order to enjoy this Mods
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
Thanks mate
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you install xposed framework you can unroot after you have installed it and all the xposed mods will work. There is one for transparent status bar.

This is according to the creators of xposed I personally haven't tried unrooting.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
ok thanks mate,

can xposed framework be installed on stock rom ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
XposedFramework should work on any jellybean based rom. There are some really cool mods if you search. The app settings mod, tweak box, modaco toolkit, X background, theme engine and icon themer. All those will let you customise your phone to your hearts content lol
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
right,

so basically once i flashed all my required mods, how do i unroot and put everything back to stock ? i want to be albe to have ota updates, warranty if needed, and most of all use skygo which doesn't work with root..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
As far as I know you can just use the unroot option in the Supersu app. I think both super user apps have unroot. You might need to use triangle away to reset your binary counter but I don't think just rooting on its own raises it
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
if i have to flash a different kernel in order to root, once i falsh my mods and unroot don't i need to reflash stco kernel ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you just want root and nothing else use chainfires autoroot. That will leave everything stock but rooted. Then select unroot from the Supersu app menu when you've finished. Every thing should be back to normal then. You don't need to change the kernel to get root on the note 2. All the xposed mods are apks and will just install so no custom recovery is needed either
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwwpuntoit:
that's great news mate

i'll give this a shot right now if i can

in worst case scenario tu fully restock my phone i just odin flash stock rom isn't it ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Very worst case scenario yes but I've not heard of chainfires autoroot ever going wrong and xposed can just be uninstalled. Dr ketans tutorials are your best guide for auto root and xposed if your unsure
[General Topics] zdmc:
Hi,

is there any possibility to power external devices from Wallaby/Himalaya? I need about 3.3V - 20mA. I didn't find suitable pins in the PDA's connectors. Have somebody any ideas?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaktiker:
Hello. I have Galaxy S3 (not carrier version, international), rooted. Now I want to install just clean Android 4.2 (with no bloatware, changes, etc).

1) Is it possible? Without installing stock or custom ROMS. Just clean Android 4.2

2) If I have to install custom ROMS anyway - which of them closer to clean Android 4.2 (without bloatware or modification). Which one to choose and where to get right instruction for newbies?

Thank you very much for helping me!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrismast:
If you are talking about stock 4.2 check the development section, a few 4.2.2 roms out there as for instance SlimBean or Liquid, with other words you cannot get 4.2 direct from Google.

If you are talking about Samsung 4.2, there is only a leak at the moment in the general section's leak thread.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Can we please clarify something?

Stock means what the phone has as stock, i.e, out-of-the-box. Stock to the S3 is Samsung Touchwiz. AOSP would be Vanilla. It is stock on some phones, but not this one.

I think we need to make this distinction before we go on.

So what is it exactly that you want?

If it's as close to vanilla as you can get, Slimbean may be a good bet. It's unlikely you'll get anything without any changes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaktiker:
Yes, but which one to choose? Could you give the link for step-by-step instruction?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrismast:
hence I guess you mean AOSP, good that you confirmed.

the process of flashing is the same as with other roms and described e.g. in the SlimBean thread (only special thing is to flash the gapps package).

which one to choose is up to you, we don't know what you like ;). just try them and see for yourself. in my experience, Slim Bean & Liquid do not differ that much anyway.