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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaynpayn:
Oh you didn't mention the need for more than 16gb. That actually weights in a lot. The oppo finder 5 should be a good candidate then, I believe it's the best price you can get for a phone with those specs that already brings 32gb (if bought new)

If you understand and don't mind the exynos, the 16gb+sdcard lte s3 is also an option (2gb ram), not sure about prices though.

Also, for what's worth, I've compared the camera of my s3 with the n4. Didn't think it was all that different apart from effects I don't really use. Phones are cool for the casual shot (and actually take very decent ones) but if it's serious quality I'm after, nothing beats a good, dedicated camera. :)

Edit: oops didn't realise you couldn't spend more than 350. I still wouldn't get the s3 and would wait out for the prices to get lower. Still, if you must change your phone now, for that price point, with your requirements is probably the best bet.

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Main issue I find with ebay uk sellers, they won't send to any other country, even if its their neighbor Portugal few miles below :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I wasnt suggesting buying from Ebay UK. It's just an example.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
I am not sure what is the problem with S3 cpu. S3 seems to have great support community, a lot of roms, etc. I do not really care if I have the newest subversion of Android available on my phone 5 days after the newest Android was released.

I just want it to work, and I couldn't care less if I have to wait a month, or 3 months for Android 4.3, if I have fully workin 4.2.2, with great battery life, photograps, excellent GPS, screen, and pretty great for a mobile audio quality (headphones, and speakerphone).

Considering that, would you still disadvice me an S3? I looked at prices of S4 and even 380 euro is a bit of a stretch, considering I wanted to spend 200 euro initially, and 300 for S3 is already a significant budget enlargement.

And what about HTC One X? Would that be better than S3?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Exynos documentation lacking. No sources. Poor camera. All devs complain including cyanogen. Read their threads, posts and blogs. Research. Or buy blindly. You choose
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Here are results of my research:

1. Stable CM10.2 available on S3

2. S3 camera is one of the best among mobile phones

3. Considerable amount of roms available for S3.

I just don't see the point you are making. I do not want to get S3 blindly, but neither do I want to blindly reject it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
1. Cyanogen refused to release 10.1 as "stable" release. Remains nightly build forever due to lack of exynos sources and documentation. Same with 10.2

2. Touchwiz rom camera great. Since samsung didn't release camera HAL, aosp camera not very good.

3. Loads of aosp roms. None meet their own potential due to the issues mentioned above.

4. Battery life poor on aosp roms.

S3 is great of you're happy with touchwiz. Bloated and slow but good pics and great battery life. But if you know you'll be using aosp roms, its a poor choice - and im sure any aosp dev would agree with that. Yes there's lots of choice. I even use aosp all the time but it cannot exploit the devices potential.

Also a lot of devs are starting to move on now. Kernel development for aosp is down to about 3 or 4 good ones.

Im trying to be Frank and save you buying a dying devices thinking it will be as good as you think it is. I wish I had known about the exynos issue before buying. Would I have held out and bought something else? Probably not. It was the only device that met my requirement 14 months ago. That said, would I recommend it now? No.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Ok, that is much more informative. It is really difficult to find this kind of info by just googling phone comparison, when not owning and flashing the device. Thank you.

So are you saying S4 is free of those problems? Or does it have its own problems?

And how about audio quality on S4? S3 was supposed to be superb for a mobile phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangerX:
S4 i9500 still has exynos ergo has same problems with AOSP

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Right. But as per suggestion, I am considering I9505, which I believe has a Snapdragon?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangerX:
Correct and is indeed a best option :D

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
However, right now I have a HTC Desire also with a Snapdragon, and people are complaining of no sources being released by HTC, which results in handicapped ICS and JB roms for this device.

Is that because of Spandragon, or just HTC?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangerX:
no idea about HTCs but with exynos and driver chaos it can't be THAT bad ..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
The snapdragon we had in the Desire was pretty much only in the Nexus one, besides. After 2.3 GingerBread, we couldn't get what we needed for the hardware because Google stopped supporting the N1, so these legacy devices couldn't get updated drivers / blobs etc for ICS. This will be a problem on ANY device IMHO, once support is dropped for the phone / SoC.

The problem with Exynos devices is that this stuff isn't all available whilst the phone is STILL IN support.

The i9505 SoC (Snapdragon) is well supported and documented and as long as some phones are using that particular SoC, support for AOSP should be great. But yeah, once that SoC is legacy, no matter what SoC / Phone you have, there will always be problems. It just takes longer to get there.

IMHO S4 even in 6 months time better than s3 now, so long as you get the i9505;
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
I see.

And how does it work wiht Nexus phones, like Nexus 4? They will be supported indefinitely, or only until Google decides to drop them?

Because if so, then this is not exactly much different than non-nexus phones, apart from having updates a little bit earlier.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Nexus phones are supported longer than normal phones I think. Nexus 1 is no longer supported. Not sure about the nexus s. Galaxy nexus is still supported I think

Quick updates, no oem ui. Pure android experience

+ for devs, no trying to merge aosp source with device tree and trying to get stuff working. Aosp includes nexus device tree. You can literally download source code and compile it and it will work. Other devices, devs celebrate when they finally get device booting, let alone working.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
I had a look at S4 forum, and it appears there is not only i9505 submodel, but on top of that, a I9505G. What is this new devilry?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
G = Google Edition :) Limited edition S4 (and HTC One has one too) that instead of coming out with touchwiz or sense, comes with Google Nexus ROMs
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] langbat:
I've had an S3 for more than a year and i m still loving it. The only thing that's not perfect in your list of requirements is its battery life.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Does that mean they are better because they get firmware directly from Google and in this aspect are just as good as Nexus phones?

And do they have the same hardware as Samsung?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
The hardware is identical to the i9505. Im.not exactly sure if the updates come direct from Google or via samsung but they're unmodified by them. They get updates as quick as nexus.... might be more expensive being limited edition.

But the roms apparently work on the i9505
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
So in the end, no matter if I get I9505 or I9505G, it will be the same phone, with same abilities, and I will be able to install the same ROMs on it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangerX:
Yes

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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pratoscope:
So I am using AmnoSferum Rom and I need a floating keyboard in portrait mode. It works in landscape but not in portrait. Any way around?

Also, any way for the keyboard to not show the white text box in landscape mode?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
My Google maps appl is unable to fix onto my current location. I have turned location on in settings and Google settings. The problem is peculiar and localized only to the maps app, while apps like foursquare get a fix just fine. Anybody face the issue before?

ROM: PA 3.98

PS: maps works perfectly fine on browser
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cameron3200:
Have you tried this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cochibo.gpsstatus

Helped me out when I was having similar issues with my old phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
Tried it but to no avail.. The thing is my GPS works fine.. As I said opening maps from the browser works.. The problem is with the app
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exb0:
Clear app data?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
Did.. No use.. Want to remove the app and install again but its a damn system app..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamel_tza:
You could always factory reset and re-flash PA and gapps again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vikas Rao:
I wanted to avoid that option.. But yeah it helped
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suren545:
I have had this phone for 1 and half years approx working flawless , but just recently my phone started to randomly turn off.

I have noticed that before it turns off the screen starts to flicker then the signal goes and then shuts down. This always happens when the battery level reaches approx 50% . the only way of turning it back on is be using the ac adapter and power it back on ,when you do that the battery level will be around 55%

So I searched it up on Google hoping to find a fix, I found out that many people had this issue, their solution were to return it to their carrier ,but since my phone is rooted I can't do that, and one of the post mentioned to use an app called "load monitor " so I downloaded that app and tried it out, thanks to that app the phone shuts down at approx 35%.

What I have tried so far to solve this issue ,was changing ROM , resetting fuel gauge chip , calibrating the battery and using load monitor. It still isn't functioning properly after all that.

I hope one of you guys know how to solve this problem. Thanks in advance for helping out
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LosserKlosser:
Just flash stock ROM with Odin and return to your carrier - they won't be able to see you have had a custom ROM.

Sendt fra min C6603 med Tapatalk 4

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And reset the flash counter with triangle away. Find it on Play.

Sendt fra min C6603 med Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vmze:
Try flashing Bitfor ROM

I'm using it and not having problems
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Replace battery 1st, USB board/port 2nd (I'm tipping it's the 2nd one tho).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wacly:
I agree, it's the best solution. Install the latest stock rom et root it with philz kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Suren545:
I have tried the triangle away app to reset then flash counter ,but it didn't work, I got it from the XDA website
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LosserKlosser:
Get the newest version from Play. I don't know why it's not working. It have always worked for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VALYYYY:
Why my accounts don't remain loggedI after reboot?

Second screenshot - all my accounts

First screenshot - after reboot
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ietzschi:
Hi! I'm new in this forum and i don't know if this is the right section to post. I ask for a mod, an app, a whatever method to improve the quality of LG Nexus 4 videos. On wednesday i'll leave for a music festival where bass are so incredible and i need to record it. I've just tried some mods that i saw in this forum but the quality audio is so unlistenable. Does someone know a method to recording video in a live music session? please help me
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] username8611:
I'd like this too, I tried recording a video in the car with the windows up and radio off, it was pretty quiet, and all I heard was horrible distortion, it was complete trash.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ietzschi:
try to flash faux kernel, install faux app and set microphone volume to -15. I haven't try it yet but i'm going to do it
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
Did someone try this? Does it work? I really want to know if I am going to buy Nexus 4 or another phone like Note 2 that doesn't have this issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ietzschi:
i tried it at outlook festival, i don't know if those basses are too much high but the quality audio is very low
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
You can simply do a test on speakers if you put on high volume and put the phone near or in a car with high volume. Thanks anyways! I am looking now towards S4 or HTC One. So sad that I have to give N4 up.
[General Questions and Answers] aoshimuda:
how i can change navbar like sony xperia

how i edit sytem ui android
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A14n:
Looking for a BTU (UK compatible) firmware for the GT-I9190, any developer have any information on this? pre-rooted would be great also.

There are certain apps etc on Google Play that I can't access/purchase, IE Asphalt 7/8. I'm thinking it's because they are region locked. I have foreign firmware.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whosat:
You could try using a firmware that is known to be able to purchase Asphalt 7/8 so that you can better diagnose your issue.

Mine works! XXUAMFA
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] letoubib:
Hello there

i got a qtek 1010 with mobinil (egypt) (locked to the provided i guess :roll: ) ... i tried upgrading it to 2003SE through activsync installer .... but i failled , every time the upgrade slide starts, it simply soft resets and the originial rom (2002) is back ... ? :( ... i did the same procedure (with the same rom.exe and the same cradle) but on another device (XDA O2) and it worked very smoothely , so i guess the problem is in the qtek hardware itself or it s a sort of security protection from Mobinil .. ???????? :?: :?: :?:

any help would be greatly appreciated

best regards from the land of pharows :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] letoubib:
error 008

i forgot to mention the error message that appear right after the soft reset occurs :

error 008:open port error

can not open a COM/USB port. please use deevice manager on pc to make sure that the COM/USB port is available and working properly

thanx
[Other Tools & General Discussion] 11alex11:
I noticed that if you want to let testers test paid apps in the merket they have to buy the app (what I think is not right...)

I can't make the app free cause their no rollback to paid option.

How do you let testers test your paid apps?

(I have to test it with the market cause I want a feedback about the way it license the app)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] arpitkh96:
Use virtual device manager in eclipse
[Other Tools & General Discussion] 11alex11:
The problem is not when I test my app, Its when I want other to test it.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] marozu:
I used testflightapp (its a website not app). Good service which lets you upload an apk of say your full version, and then set up a list of testers. The testers will get notified and when they login to the site with their device connected, it will download the apk to their device.

Having the testflight site handle installing the beta apk is good since it also tracks each copy so that if one of your beta testers releases your apk into the wild you know the guilty party.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] 11alex11:
Any help with this?

I'll ask again, How can I let other people test my paid apps with out the need to buy the test app...?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Murasaki no Kaze:
What I've seen on the market are:

Locked features - choosing which features are essential and which are gimmicks is key

Demo version - after x minutes or after opening x times app dies and only gives message to go buy app.

Free older version - self-explanatory.

Stable + Beta versions - beta is testing with sporadic improvements and possible sudden incompatibility whereas stable costs money but ensures compatibility and great performance.

I don't think I've seen any other way of doing it, it really depends on what type of app it is though. The pros and cons for each of these differ, but I'd ask myself: "How would I want to test someones paid app?"

I feel that's what's going to get you best results and better user feedback/experience.

So what type of app is it?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] 11alex11:
I think that mine is the last option: Stable + Beta (Alpha) versions

Can you please explain Where did you see this options and how they help me let testers test my paid app for free???
[Other Tools & General Discussion] warping:
What he means is that you release 2 version of your app on the market!

1. Stable version that needs to be paid for.

2. Beta version with bugs/unstable for free and testing!
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Murasaki no Kaze:
Technically they were both free, but the idea is there. I saw it with Firefox Browser.

They do a stable release and their beta that let's you test out the new stuff and provide feedback.

You can do the 2 apps then charge for 1. Hell, you can do 3 apps, 1 alpha, 1 stable, 1 old version to let other people who aren't interested in helping the app improve, but still want to try it, I'd keep it several versions behind.

If you did 3 I'd say keep the old nice but somewhat bare bones. Then have the stable version with everything that you know works, then the alpha with all the new stuff plus the added features of direct e-mail + constant self logging (keeping only last 3-5 minutes) + auto attach crash report or something to that effect to make the suggestions/bug reporting easier on those helping you, this way anyone not savvy enough to give a detailed report can simply say what they were doing at the time and the attached crash report can give you more technical info than just "I clicked on that button and it closed". Just in case something isn't right, your user will already be telling you which button, in case the crash report has the call/command/etc mislabeled.

Since you'd be releasing alpha first, you can get feedback on how much your users would be willing to pay for it (if there isn't anything else like it on the market). This way you don't overcharge and lose potential customers, but also you won't undercharge too much and lose those extra pennies. They add up quick.

***edit

Just came across Neutron Music Player.

They do a 5 day trial.

You could also try something like that, though I'd say a week instead of 5 days. But that's just me :p
[Other Tools & General Discussion] neotrin2000:
Ummm, Yeah, post 1 as paid and 1 as free. Make the free version your Beta. I don't think Google forces you to put a charge on your apps if you don't want to. Course, I wouldn't know for sure since I've never posted an app on the Play store.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] UberTester:
Tools to test your APP (paid and free)

You send the version through distribution platforms like Ubertesters this way they are not going through the stores and the testers do not have to pay. Further more the distribution is in push mode so they get it to their mobiles when you like it.

Ubertesters as a Mobile APP Testing Platform has many more features that will help you monitor and communicate with the testers
[LG Optimus G Pro] haruyukisama:
Hi guys. My OGP is rooted, flashed the hidden carrier label, flashed the screen sensitivity thingy, enabled tether with SQlite editor and set ro.radio to enable

Everything worked perfectly until suddenly I can't send out SMS. It kept saying "message not send". I checked the AT&T service number address and it was blank.

Tried typing in the number which is +13123149810 but it won't save it

Anyone has any idea?

I also set me network mode to LTE/CDMA only for faster speed

Reverted all the mod back to stock one by one but to no avail

If anyone know any solution, please let me know.

Thank you in advance guys
[LG Optimus G Pro] adizzle23:
I would think that if u change your network mode back it might fix the problem because if u don't have lte in a area it can't run on CDMA so won't have service at all. I'm not sure about it fixing your problem but it's worth a shot.
[LG Optimus G Pro] haruyukisama:
That worked!! Thank you so much
[Motorola Droid 3] odj1041:
Everytime I flash a new rom I have no service. I have no SIM card in and I have a XT862. Help please?
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
That can be normal. I think the SIM card needs to be in there for it to work perfectly.
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