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[Motorola Droid RAZR] marcomir:
Hi There Friends! I used to have ICS installed on my XT910. i wanted JB so i changed my stock rom from "Puerto Rico" one to "Argentina" and then installed Jelly Bean via OTA....My question is...if i want to do a restore via RSD or something, which file i should use? i cant go back to ICS, so which JB should i flash? THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCE PEOPLE! :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AztekSoul:
Look here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2231289

I would suggest Claro Puerto Rico,since you were on that while on ICS.

the universe is hostile so impersonal, devoure to survive..so it is,so it's always been.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] marcomir:
Hi there! I used to be on Puerto Rico but then i changed to Argentina to update to ICS...Also..whats the diference between "Service" or "Full" ? Thanks again bud!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AztekSoul:
You can flash any of the Latam firmwares without having to delete your cid..

And the difference between "service" and "full" is that service will only update to Jelly bean and full will also do that but will delete your installed apps and data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] goldrock91:
Hi guys, i'd like to know if CyanogenMod 10.1 official nightlies note2 i317 has the French Language?

Thx a lot
[Xperia Z General] zanderman1985@yahoo.co.uk:
I thought I would post up a lil speed boost which is really simple amd involves going into developer options and changing the number of background prpcesses option to 0... Thats it. It was night and day my phone is super reactive and smooth as silk when opening and closing apps, even quicker than if theseapps were cached!

I dont know if this has been mentioned before but I thought I would share it with you all.

Also an aggressive app killer also helps, kernel tuners OOM once set to 1000 aggressive helps as well.

My phone is rooted running doomkernel06 and xperia revolution custom rom with no overclocks.

Many thanks

Alex
[Xperia Z General] DrKrFfXx:
From my point of view, disabling background processes just slows down multitasking activities.

Just deactivated proccesses for a few minutes to try your theory, and I could notice a general slow down using the recent apps multitasker to switch to different apps. Phone had to constantly reload stuff from the internal memory, peobably due to the fact that disabling background processes just unloads everything else but the main process from ram. That's what I perceived, I have no insight of what that option really does.
[Xperia Z General] G1_enthusiast:
flash monx rom and u dont have to do any of that crap. setting background to 0 essentially just like using an iphone because there is no multitasking capability.
[Xperia Z General] LenAsh:
Shedloads of RAM in this phone and someone has suggested crippling one of the standout features that is a boon not a hindrance.

Pathetic and illogical.
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
You do know your phone has four processor cores, right?

How could you possibly improve performance by letting only one run?
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
I don't think you understand.

No, scratch that. You definitely do not understand. The OP's (poor) advice is nothing to do with disabling CPU cores.
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
Lol :) Pray tell where you think the background processes run.

The OP isn't disabling the additional cores explicitly. He is disabling them by not allowing any processes to run on them. His idea would make more sense if he would allow for at least three BP.
[Xperia Z General] DrKrFfXx:
Aren't Android apps multithreaded?
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
My understanding from reading up on processes and threading in the Android developer docs is this-

Background processes are not using CPU cycles. They are cached in RAM to facilitate quickly restarting the associated app in the state it was in when it was closed.

So, they aren't 'running' anywhere.

If you want to link me to somewhere that states otherwise, then go right ahead as it's a while since I looked into any of this and I'm always willing to learn :)
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
I don't know how many of them are. For sure, at least the kernel is.

But with multiple cores most of the time you would prefer the threads belonging to the same task to run on the same core, so that the L1 cache isn't flushed on every thread switch. Having your cache contents intact as frequently as possible is only possible when you allow for the other processes to run on the extra cores.

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What you say is certainly correct on one core systems. You don't have *real* multitasking there, because you only have one running process at all times. All the others processes sleep at that time. Fast switching between processes gives the illusion of parallel execution.

But the idea of having more than one core is that you can really have the ability to run more processes simultaneously, so with four cores you have the ability to have four tasks use CPU cycles at the same time.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
So you're telling me that processes that are low priority and in the background are actively using CPU time?

Please link to documentation as this is interesting to me :)
[Xperia Z General] DrKrFfXx:
That for me would be a huge battery drainer. With no real use. Having backgrounded processes hibernating on RAM seems to be a better option.
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
No, of course not. It would be stupid to waste CPU cycles if you don't need them.

What I'm saying is that they *could* actively use CPU time even in the background if they *actively* do something.

What do you think happens when when a program is waked for updating? Does it wait for the foreground process, or does it do its job right away?
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Surely if something is woken up, then it's priority increases and it's no longer classed as a background process.

Anyway, as I previously stated, I could be completely wrong in my understanding of how processes work now as I haven't looked into it for a long time, so instead of this to and fro-ing, why don't you link me to the docs that state this and I can read it for myself? :)
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
Yet this is the default behaviour. There is no real sense in draining the battery from the point of view of the user, but there are tens of processes that wake up one after another, and you have at least 3-4 times longer battery life, if you deinstall the programs you don't use, and freeze the others with something like Greenify.

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No, I don't have a link, sorry.

What I said, I took from my head. That is my understanding of how things work. For all I know, I could be as wrong as you are :)

But seriously, do you still say that on a multitasking OS on a multicore HW you can have only one running process at a time? Now I want a link :)
[Xperia Z General] zanderman1985@yahoo.co.uk:
This is only my experience, I have basic knowledge of tye android system and i'm only going on what happened when I did it.

And from a computing background the multitasking on a phone is a myth to me. Every app takes up the full screen so from a practicality standpoint you may as well be only using one core.

Also my apps loaded much faster and smoother and ran smoother when they were used.

And correct me if i'm wrong but the four cores could still be utilised if the app was multithreaded?

It worked for me so I thought I would post, every persons different and phone manufacture, if iy works, it works if it doesnt it doesnt :)
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
If multitasking on a phone was a myth, why wouldn't multithreading be a myth as well? :)

I am updating my maps, which are many hundreds of megabytes. Why wouldn't I be able to play games, or take a call at the same time? What does the screen have to do with this?
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that background processes are low priority and probably (almost definitely) not using CPU cycles.

Developer docs on processes - http://developer.android.com/guide/components/processes-and-threads.html

Also, a simple Google search will throw up plenty of stuff to read if you're interested :)
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
This is from your link (emphasis mine):

So the definition of a background process is that it is not visible, definitely not that it is not running. What kind of sourcery would be able to run a process without using CPU cycles, srsly? :)
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
I think the definition of 'running' and 'background' is the issue here.

As an example, your question about maps updating while doing something else would probably mean that there is a service running in order to update maps. A service is different to a background process.

Background processes are loaded into RAM (running in a basic sense), but not using any CPU cycles. If they are called upon to start and use the CPU , then they are no longer truly background processes as it probably means a foreground or visible process is using it.

In any case, your statement that killing background processes disables CPU cores either directly or indirectly is still wrong :)

Edit - http://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/stopping.html

You will have seen from the first link I provided that for a process to be put in the background, onStop( ) has been called. If you check out the flow chart in the above link, you will see that when the process is needed again, onStart( ) is used and causes the process to become visible (not background any more).
[Xperia Z General] petkob:
You still don't understand that the background processes are not frozen unless you do this by yourself. They still consume CPU cycles, not just memory.

You seem to think that running process is the same as foreground process, which is definitely not true.

As for my initial statement, it is apparently not quite correct. I was assuming there was only one foreground process, which turned out to be false in the doc link that you provided, so I learned something today thanks to you, not everything was pointless hair splitting :)
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
I suggest you read the link I edited into my previous post. It elaborates on what happens when a background process is called on to do something.

Anyway, thanks for the interesting discussion. It makes a change from the usual 'I can't find the developer options' or 'how do I root' posts around here :D

Peace :beer:
[Xperia Z General] MattJaO3D:
Greenify is a good app imo just select the apps you want to sleep

If use any instant messengers regular I'd leave them alone :)
[Xperia Z General] zanderman1985@yahoo.co.uk:
Multithreading is when a process utilizes more than one cpu at the same time, where multitasking is utilizing more than one program at a time. Anyyime a call comes through any game i'm playing is stopped to take the call whether I have background processes enabled or not.

By a totally practical standpoint my apps load faster now than they did before so in fact my 'multitasking' in that sense has increased

But for arguements sake, I can still download a torrent and play a game without background processes activated because technically utorrent is active and so not a background process
[Xperia Z General] ckyy:
Thanks, but hell no Lol

Gesendet von meinem C6603 mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Xperia Z General] zanderman1985@yahoo.co.uk:
I forgot, you also have to check dont keep activities as well in developer options
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tupisdin:
LCD Displays for Himalaya and Magician for SALE!

Currently i have replacement LCD displays for Himalaya and Magician in stock. PM if you are interested.

P.S. please PM if you really interested.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] bartlinux:
Ok dann ist es so minimal das es mich nicht stört. Selbst wenn ich ein iPad direkt daneben lege und teste fällt es mir nicht auf...Oder es liegt an mir...

Gesendet von meinem GT-P7500 mit Tapatalk 2
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Firreath:
When I use the adb cmd to reboot to recovery, my phone reboots and then lands on a screen that shows a dead android with a red exclamation point. If any one can help that would be great.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] adfurgerson:
My guess is your boot loader isn't unlocked.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatyrei:
Hi is't possible to buy a LG Optimus G 13MP camera module and put it to our Nexus 4? They say Nexus 4 and LG Optimus G has almost identical hardware.?!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lopezk38:
Wouldn't the 13 MP OG have a different camera connector then the Nexus? If we did manage to get the hardware connection, the drivers and libraries are going to have to be ported to use the module... I've actually heard that the 13 MP module actually takes worse pictures then the 8 MP module anyway... Megapixels aren't everything
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scream4cheese:
Even if you could switch the cameras the Nexus 4 doesn't have the necessary software to utilize the camera's potential like on the Optimus G.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aanonymoushuman:
Optimus G ROM might already have the drivers to utilize the hardware of an Optimus G. The developer even said himself that almost nothing was edited in the port
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roobwz:
I don't know if you ask me.... Try and post results :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bucika:
I just bought this tablet and I can`t get the wifi to connect. It keeps toggling the wifi on and off and I can`t connect. I have power cycled and rebooted several times but can`t get it to work. Any suggestions would be helpful.Skip

Read more: Ampe a76 wifi cycles on and off but cant connect? - I just bought this tablet and I can`t get the wifi to connect. It keeps toggling the wifi on and off and I can`t connect. I have power cycled and rebooted several times but can`t get it to work. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bucika:
Bump
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Half Alive:
I have the same problem with this tablet,. Hope someone could help us.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bucika:
[MENTION=4692134]Half Alive[/MENTION] Yes, I've read it on some other forums too.. I've tried to download official firmware, it takes for a full day do download it!

But that dose not help, cuz I don't know how to flash the damn thing!!

By the way it worked fine for the first couple of hours...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Half Alive:
[MENTION=2810837]Bucika[/MENTION]

The same here, Worked just fine in the first two days with some problrms.

Flashing stock rom didn't help to get this problem solved.

You can use live suite to flash it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bucika:
[MENTION=4692134]Half Alive[/MENTION] Do you think that the problem, can be hardware, not the software??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Half Alive:
Really don't know,. I hope not.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Half Alive:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Half Alive:
There is a new update on the official device page.

fixed my wifi ,.. now i can turn it on and connect to my router ,.. but sadly there is no internet connection.

http://www.szampe.com/support_down.asp?id=1181

Edit: Flashed the fw with format option.. Now internet is working.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bucika:
Thank you man, it worked!! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanyeldakak:
Download link is not working

Dear friend,

Thank you for helping us. unfortunately

szampe

site is down and the download link is not working. Could you upload the working fw file to any upload site. Appreciate your effort.

Thanks

hany
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] s27moto:
hi

i found this rom from CM Forum and share in there i hope you like it

Download Link : MOD EDIT: Link Removed

Good Luck
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] garcimak:
[ROM][KERNEL][TWEAK]JellyBlast pour GT-B5510[2.3.6]

Another cool one (my current daily driver) + theme based on :

• ROM stock Samsung XXLH3 (CSC OXALH4, Modem XXLH2) (Gingerbread)

• JellyBlast V3 OTA 4.1

• ASAsoft kernel (https://github.com/asasoft/Kernel-B5510)

Kudos to nyco

Download + intruction (french)

MOD EDIT: Link Removed
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] stunning:
Second rom looks awesome but i cant able to download it, sites not letting me to register my self there like giving me some kind of error :(

do u still having the rom and if u may upload it some where;)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] garcimak:
JellyBlast for GT-B5510 Direct link to files

cheers

MOD EDIT: link removed
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kiewirevo:
Anyone tested this yet?

Hey there this rom looks nice and all but has anyone tested this yet? id like to try it out but the instructions dont seem very clear to me, can anyone provide me some detailed instructions on how to flash it?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Towle:
Download link removed and thread closed for a few reasons: No sources, warez, no credits (permission?)

Towle

Forum Moderator
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] koto_kun:
Hi, I'm not sure if theres thread on this but my signal is lost. two weeks ago i wake up one morning to find my service isnt working,the sim does work on my two old phones so it's not a sim issue. I then found my baseband is unknown. So I searched and found some fixes which are too flash the radio with a new radio through either clockwork mode or nexus toolkit. I've tried 5 different radios all being diffrent updates of the galaxy nexus radio. I was runnung 4.2.1(which i hated) but now I got android revolution HD 2.1.2 and ak kernel and downgraded to 4.0.2(yes the phone is unlocked and rooted). I was wondering can anyone tell me whats wrong before I factory lock it and unroot and send it in for warranty repair. Btw phone was with Rogers/Fido carrier.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Since you've done all that, we don't know what's wrong with it. 4.0.2? You're missing out on security fixes (been talked about a lot lately), new features, optimizations, not sure why you're running it. That aside, and I'm not saying it will do anything for you, you could try GetRil from the Play Store, to see what RIL you have installed, and if it recognizes any baseband at all. Your radio (or radios, we don't even know which variant you have) may be dead, who knows? What's the latest baseband you flashed? What's the latest bootloader you flashed?

a manta wrote this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] koto_kun:
I wanted 4.1.2 but for some reason I got 4.0.2 so I have no idea, but I'm going to stick with ice cream sandwhich since 4.2.1 update had tons and I mean TONS of bugs that wanted me to kill my nexus.

Build Number: Android revolution HD 2.1.2 GSM

aNDROID vERSION: 4.0.2

kERNEL vERSION: 3.0.8-GAAA2611 ANDROID -BUILD@APA28 #1

IMEI: UNKNOWN

IMEI SV: UNKNOWN

I have flashed versions:

UGKL1

UGKK1

UGKM1

(All are for I9250M GSM not LTE or CDMA since my phone is GSM)

I have Clockwork Mod version: 6.0.3.1

Bootloader PRIMELA03

Baseband: I9250MUGKL1 (According o bootloader, still unknown in About phone)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
... and install the app GetRil. Not sure, but I think you should revert to ICS boot loader.

a manta wrote this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] koto_kun:
Hello, yeah I got the app, but it says that they dont match and they show basband unknown compared to ugkl1. How do I get the ICS Bootloader?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
See the sticky by efrant (android 101; useful links)

a maguro wrote this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] koto_kun:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1587498 Is this the link? I have no idea and which one do I get.
[General Questions and Answers] DedPixl:
Looking for a place to get some LG Optimus U ROMS.. anyone know of such a place, Google doesn't lol:D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darksonic3:
Hi my t-999 is getting a no sim error when i have my sim in and i dont know how to fix it.

EDIT: Also my micro sd wont mount
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DJ_SpaRky:
Sounds like the SIM/MicroSD reader has failed or become disconnected.

See the rectangle in the lower left, that is the connector:

Warranty it, place an insurance replacement request, or take it apart and check it is was disconnected, if so reconnect it, if not replace that part.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Before you do all that, if you were rooted and modded, Odin flash the Stock firmware and try again.

Also try different SIM and sd cards, just to be sure. Go to a T-Mobile store if you don't have any of your own.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darksonic3:
You were right the the connector came loose so i opened the phone and plugged it back in. Thanks man
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DJ_SpaRky:
Great to hear that you got it fixed. Glad I could help.
[HTC EVO 3D] electrickoolaid:
I've been having an issue that I thought was due to the ROM I'm running (dastin1015's CM10.1 Wild For The Night - Jun 21) until my dad reported it on his handset (not a smartphone, some Eriksson flip phone thing). The network-based time changes to an hour behind the actual time, with relative frequency.

When I view the clock/alarm settings it shows our timezone (EST) as GMT -4 instead of GMT -5, and also implies the phone thinks I'm not located in this timezone. It will display a "home" time (which is the correct time) as it does if you are traveling outside of your time zone, and display the current network-based time as an hour behind the real time.

Someone on the Sprint community forum mentioned that toggling airplane mode once (on and off again) should temporarily fix the issue. It does, but almost always, the phone will revert to the incorrect time a few minutes later.

Screenshots illustrating the problem:

http://goo.gl/89OJR

http://goo.gl/qSM9r

http://goo.gl/GbvUz

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to fix it? I use my phone as my alarm clock and I need the time to be accurate.
[HTC EVO 3D] The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle:
I have experienced this, but only on the stock unrooted ROM. I have been running Dastin's WFTN for longer than I can remember, and haven't had this problem with it. Sorry, I know that isn't very helpful to finding a solution for you, just thought I would confirm that I have seen the problem before. :(
[HTC EVO 3D] donkeykong1:
Go to settings-time and date, and disable nework time. That way you can set any time zone you want

Sent from Mwakious powered EVO 3D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaken990:
Hello all,

I recently flashed liquid smooth rom android 4.2.2 on my galaxy s3 i747. I love the rom but for some reason the camera shows a stretched image when taking a photo, but when I go and view the photo taken it looks normal. Why is this happening? The same thing seemed to have when I was on cyanogenmod 10.1. I really don't think its the phones camera but maybe the gapps? Never had this problem on stock touchwiz. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheKucho:
It may be a problem with the AOSP camera or your kernel. Lowering the picture's resolution is a temporary fix. If not, try switching between front and back cameras, exit the camera, and reopen camera. Hope i helped!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaken990:
Thanks for the reply! I have tried that before and still doesn't work. Are you saying I should flash a different kernel? If so which one should I flash?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeQuality:
Running CM10.1.2, I noticed that the calendar on it (jenkins), is not as up to date as the Google calendar app. I tried installing the Google one, but (1) the installed name was some random hexadecimal string and, (2) more importantly, caused significant problems with everything.

Can we replace the CM calendar or will it be updated with the new features from the Google calendar?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
Replace the cm calendar. I just disable it in app settings and install the play store version. I've never had any of the problems you described, but you might try rebooting, reinstalling the app, and clearing calendar app cache and calender storage data