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[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Julian90090:
I am a hardcore Google user. I have an android phone and tablet and lots of google stuff online. My phone is getting old, and I was thinking of trying out something new.

Couple questions:

1. Whats the equivalent of "rooting" on wp8, if any?

2. How would you go about "rooting" your phone.

3. Are there any recommend phones for general use+development?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AR2186:
1. There is no equivalent of rooting at this time, as Windows Phone is much more locked down than Android (comparable to iOS) and there aren't as many devs working on it

2. Nothing yet, but its very easy to developer unlock it to side load custom made apps

3. You are probably best off getting a Nokia, either a cheap (~$100) Lumia 520 or a higher end like the Lumia 920/925/928 (I'd go with the 1020 if you can afford it). Windows Phone is very efficient, and runs almost as well on lower end hardware like the 520 as it does on higher end.

If you are really a hardcore Google user you are likely to find Windows Phone lacking as Google is intentionally keeping their programs and services off the platform (at least first party, nearly everything can be accessed through third party apps).

I made the switch, and I love it, but Windows Phone is not for people that want to constantly tweak everything because it is locked down. I used to love to tinker, now I love that I can't.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah... WP7 was eventually broken wide open, but WP8's lockdown has been harder to bypass. There's a few devices (Huawei W1?) for which people have reported being able to edit the stock ROM somewhat, which is probably usable for "rooting" the phone, but none of the high-end devices have a known working exploit yet.

Developer-unlock, which will allow sideloading low-permission (no special capabilities, just the standard public ones) apps, is available for free, but you have to use PC tools to do it. Get the WP8 SDK from Microsoft (free, but a big download) and run the Windows Phone Developer Registration tool. Unless you pay for a developer account, there will be a very low limit on the number of apps you can sideload.

I'm actually personally pretty happy with the Samsung ATIV S phones; they have the best hardware in many ways (biggest battery, biggest and nearly highest-resolution displays, biggest internal storage that also has an SD card slot, best currently-available-in-WP8 CPUs) and you can install many of the Nokia apps anyhow (you can also install the Samsung apps on Nokia phones, same for HTC, etc.) using a proxy to modify the store requests. However, for a budget phone, the Nokia Lumia 52x line is hard to beat, and for camera quality, the Lumia 1020 is the best smartphone available, bar none.

There's plenty to do if you like to tinker with the phone... the problem is, you have to find it all yourself. There's not that much, aside from things like using a proxy to get apps intended for different OEMs' phones, that we've found to work so far. I've written a neat app that lets you browse the visible parts of the WP8 file system and registry from your PC (see my signature, it's the webserver app) which I hope will help people find something exploitable to get full Admin privileges on the phone, but so far, that hasn't happened. There's lots of other potential exploit vectors too; people just need to find them and make them usable!
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] altintx:
Like GoodDayToDie said, it's NOT rootable. End of story.

As an experience goes, though, I switched iOS -> Android earlier this year because I was firmly in camp Google. I seemed to have problems that most other users did not, but all in all it was a miserable experience. After about 4mo switched to WP8.

For reference, on the phone; I use Google Maps, Google Voice, GMail, Contacts, Calendar, and search.

Contacts, Calendar, and mail all sync smoothly with built-in stuff. Search is an app, and it can't take Bing's place on the search button.

There's not an official Google Maps app, but there are apps in the Store that offer it. After about 6w now, I'm mostly using Nokia's Here stuff for mapping though.

Google Voice is available as a third party app. I was using Metrotalk. It was better than GV on iOS but inferior to GV on Android.

For what it's worth.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
Except, you know, the part where it's nothing at all like a desktop OS.

No support for arbitrary applications or running as Admin. No file browser or registry editor. No command prompt or built-in scripting engine. No third-party background services (officially, at least; unofficially it's possible if you can work with the low permissions) or multiple windows at once. No task manager or management console. No device manager or third-party drivers. No user installer or recovery tools. No way to uninstall updates or make disk backups. No way to pass a file directly to another application (it must go through a registered extension handler, which the other app must be selected as the handler for). No multi-user support. None of the standard Windows power management tools. No OpenGL support, or ability to manually update the drivers. No support for external mice (or really for any mice, properly speaking). No support for USB host mode (that I can see, at least not in the base OS). No support for Windows networking or VPNs. No (built-in) support for remote desktop. No printing. The included version of Office is very limited compared to the full thing. No way to change the default web browser, email client, or several other such things. No support for installing new system media codecs or fonts. No way to choose what store a certificate is saved into, to export a saved cert, or to delete a saved cert.Browser has a limit of six tabs, no Flashplayer, and no Tracking Protection [Lists] feature.

Windows Phone 8 has about as much to do with Windows 8 as Android has to do with Ubuntu. In fact, it has significantly less, from the user's perspective.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mintytoo:
some Noob's experience with WP8/ Nokia 928

Some other problemsthat i have stumbled on while trying WP8 for past 2 days, Nokia 928.

1. Ringtones and txt messages are changeable but notifications sounds for other programs are not (i.e. metrotalk - client)

2. Using public wifi that requires a comfirmatory click on their acceptable use page - Broken - works first time for me, then every time after it constantly loads up "w w w.msftncsi.com/nsci.txt" and the phone is constantly asking if I want to continue connecting to that wifi hotspot - Annoying.

3. Internet explorer is the builtin browser ( with some 3rd party UC browser, Surfcube 3D browser) but NO chrome nor firefox, - some pages load weird, especially if you choose desktop mode.

Images that appears in the browser search in IE 10 or UC browser, using bing or google comes back blurry, until you choose to open that one pic in full size image , but then you can't scroll through the result of images until you go back, at which time the images will sometimes not load, mind you this is on wifi.

4. No native Google voice apps - Metrotalk is good but you have to go through some hoops to setup push notification (ie having the app be able to notify you of txt and voicemail without actually having that app open), and you can't change the notification sound of Metrotalk as stated above

5. No file browsers

As I said, this is my experience with the phone and WP8 for the last 2 days, YMMV
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silicon Knight:
I cant seem to get smart scroll to work. And even tho I have smart stay off, my screen seems to dim on its own sometimes. Anyone know how to fix this or if im doing something wrong
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Demented22:
From what I have read smart scroll only works on the email app and the internet app
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silicon Knight:
Yea I just figured that out after I posted this lol. Its pretty cool but I wish it worked with chrome cause I dont use the stock internet app. And I use the gmail app instead of the stock email app. So hopefully they expand the compatibility for this feature to work with other apps sometime soon.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ismetov:
is it technically possible or not ?

in one news with HTC Auhority he said that they only one placed inside a Camera or Wi-Fi and they prefered Cam .

I think two versions could be,

one is integrated Wi-Fi (for wireless funs )

and the other integrated Camera (for lfuns)

both possible was great but if not possible HTC will decide to product Wi-Fi version mini / Jam / Magician / Qtek

What do you think about it?

you think SDIO WLAN CARD enough ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Mvmajorem:
I am hoping that there will be a Wifi-MiniSD. Just a little more time, this technology will be available.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Rroet:
this one looks like the next mini/jam/magician / what ever the little thing has ;)

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=26378&highlight=htc+wizard

the HTC wizard aka qtek S9100 is about as large and thick and in my opinion should be concidered as it's replacement ;)

it has BT and WIFI and runs WM2005
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sokolo:
Hi guys,

So I've been running CM 10.1.2 since it came out and haven't run into any problems with it until a couple of days ago.

So every 12-16 hours my phone will lose signal and display Service state: Out of service in the Status menu. Now a simple reboot will bring back my connection as if nothing as happened but it does come back and it's starting to get annoying.

As far as I can tell, the radio is still receiving a signal as I still get a signal strength reading and a mobile network type and I can still see my network providers name (koodo). I have checked to make sure I haven't lost my IMEI and I have updated my modem firmware to the latest version. Previously, the modem firmware was I747MUMLL1.

Any suggestions that would help solve my issue would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sokolo:
bump. Here are a couple of pictures that help to illustrate the issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sokolo:
bump
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rani9990:
I think you should flash a new modem and reflash the ROM. If nothing works, you should Odin back to stock.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
Happens on SlimBean 7 [4.2.2] by besttt, I'm sure it's a small line or something on some file, but I just want that thing to say "SD Card" as it should, instead of what it says now.. Any ideas about how to fix that?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seamo123:
Yeah, I'm running the ROM on my Ray and it's the exact same story for me!

I'm sure this is easily fixable, might anyone be able to help?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pren22:
Well you can try to change the name of your sd card

Connect with pc and right click on sd card and rename.Thats the logical one,but if that doesn't work you cand try formating and just befor formating change name on setting of formation window.Hope this works cheers
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
Nah, you can't change it.. Uhh it's a ROM problem, not an sdcard problem, I'm waiting for an actual developer to look at this, Q&A doesn't reach the eyes of developers? :l I'm so sure the answer for this (and possible fix) is simpler than it looks.. It must be a single line at some text file, idk..
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Attitude.SSJ:
I decompiled the framework opened storagelist.xml from xml folder... In that file you can see that sd card gets pointed to a string puk_ enter_pin something instead of storage_sd like in other framework... That must be the reason...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besttt:
please i dont have time to look for solution i post here 2 diferent rar the one is from final slim with the problem enter pin code but everything good with 3.4.60 kernel and the other rar has the storage xml and the vold with all ok and no problem mtp enter pin code but not suport latest kernel above 3,4.53 sd card does not work only with older kernels you have to edit if you want my dear friend the 3,4,53 kernels rar old files who no problems with some changes from my new who has the entr pin code problem iam very happy if you help us to make that rom perfect
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besttt:
unrar and look

2 diferents rar the one from my rom has framework resolution apk with paired vold.fstab acces sd card only with older kernels 3.4.53 the other one rar is from mikes latest cm 10.1 framework resolution apk with paired vold fstab acces sd card only for new kernels 3.4.59 and above i want to have the same acces method from mikes latest to my rar please to all who want to help download the rar http://d-h.st/Xp8
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
Yeah please someone.. [MENTION=4910197]Attitude.SSJ[/MENTION] check if you can give a bit more help man, that'd be really appreciated.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Attitude.SSJ:
So you basically want the newer kernel to have sdcard mount point as storage/sdcard0 rather than storage/primary/legacy... Correct? If yes it can be done...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besttt:
no i want the older method kernel storage xml list to get the same acces from new storage xml list who works with new kernel i want the files from my rom to have corect acces sd card at newr kernel
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Attitude.SSJ:
I kinda find it hard to understand what you are saying... New kernel same storage list as used in old??
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besttt:
its easy my friend at my rom the framework resolution apk and the vold.fstab use the old acces sd card method 3.4.53 kernel max the other rar has the acces method at newr kernels 3.4.60 i want my framework resolution apk and the vold.stafb to get the newest acces sd card:)

and more simple if i dont touch from my rom now the storage list and vold does not have at all acces to sd card with new kernels

new kernels acces sd card method to my old framework res and vold.fstab who plays only with old kernels sd card acces method just changed sd card method to new at my old files
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besttt:
the bug solved by [MENTION=3205388]7OH[/MENTION] thanks to him ;)
[General Topics] FelixMG:
That's a good idea, but I think that actually exist some apps that do the same things you said.

I support your idea!
[General Topics] xPr0metheus:
Yep, indeed, there are some apps that do parts of this. There are some apps with floating windows, but with very few (and not really usable apps), and there are some notification apps. And there is an app called "Portal", that comes really near to what Halo on Paranoid does, but here too, there are just few apps supported.

This is the general problem. All these apps that are non-native (not made from the phone company, no official feature) are inevitably restricted. At least, they need root to convey an intimation of what would be possible if the devs would know the source codes. That's why I don't think Airview or Multiwindow will that soon part of non-native apps, unless a very very brilliant dev can crack them. Or unless the companies will make their source codes open source, but why should they do so, as this would affect their profit in a bad way if everyone can use their features to build new apps.
[General Topics] artoni:
I agree, that is a good idea.

But I've read in a german article, that CM had a ready multi tasking feature for their roms, which has been forbidden from Google. The reason was that Samsung wanted to be the only one with that feature.

In my opinion, the Samsung MultiWindow feature ist a good thing, but if Google combines it with the Apple like switching of Tasks, its really Good.

There is an App called GMD Gesturecontrol, which makes it possible to switch between Apps like you do it on iPads...
[General Topics] xPr0metheus:
Well, honestly, I don't think that Samsung's Multiwindow is that practical on Mobile Devices. It's just good on tablets. And there it is much more variable with the dual view and the cascade view.

Edit: I just tested the GMD Gesturecontrol app, but this app proves what made me think it's better to use the gestures sensor. It is much too complicated to use 4 fingers to swype. I just laughed when I heard SlideAside on G2 uses 3 fingers, now theres an app with 4 to 5 finger gestures. lol
[General Topics] FelixMG:
Yes, 4 fingers is too complicated. Also, there is an app (I forgot the name, sorry) that use proximity sensor to do some actions, like, swipe your hands left, without touch the phone, and an app will be open.

It's for free and XDA made an article talking about this app.
[General Topics] xPr0metheus:
The ones I know are Hovering Controls and Air Gesture Control.
[General Topics] FelixMG:
It's exactly those I've thought.. They're pretty cool. :thumbup:
[General Topics] artoni:
You can change the gestures in GMD, that u can control it with one finger. Just need to get into settings....

There are many apps that can be usefull with Multiwindows. While you navigate in the car, you can simultaneously choose the music you want to play. Or browse in twitter while you have whatsapp open. In my opinion its practical, if you have a large screen, maybe 4,8"+
[General Topics] xPr0metheus:
Well, sorry. My last post sounded a little too much like hating.

But in fact i love multi window (only cool additional feature would be to be able to open one app twice in mw) and i am so impressed by the gmd app. So please don't understand me wrong :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Silicon Knight:
I cant seem to get the smart scroll feature to work. I turn it on but nothing works. And even tho I have smart stay off and auto brightness off, my screen still seems to dim sometimes. Any thoughts on what the issue could be?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] [r.]GimP:
Anyone that has ported a few roms before, specifcally from a similar architecture, in this case from another Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 to our LGOG from Nexus4 and Nexus7 (2013) {edit. or GalaxyS3}. They are both spot on as far as similar but for the life of me every generic porting guide is written with great intentions and horrible follow-through.

What files for our device specifically control each part of our phone in the ROM .Zip? Especially for External SD working, and anything else off hand you feel like mentioning from experience.

Lastly, any differences porting from 4.2.2 to 4.2.2 vs 4.3 to 4.3?

Thank you in advance.

I've been trying push illusion rom over from the nexus 4 source, after 10+ mostly working attempts I started changing multiple variables at once, purposely dirty flashing over slim-bean because it left some residual files, removing the format /sdcard part from the updater-script of illusion to piggy back off of slim. Somewhere in the midst of this I actually had the External SD show up in storage settings, FINALLY. But by that point I started getting lots of FC's on the launchers and just about every app. Prior to that my main bug was that I couldn't control brightness, it was stuck on 100%. Somewhere in the middle of screwing with fstab's and the 4.2 exfat patch I could read the external card from the symlinks but it wouldn't show under storage or MTP/USB, only internal.

I'm going to have another go from 4.3 base to 4.3 from scratch. Feel free to chime in with anything.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] SnowLeopardJB:
It is fairly easy to go from n4 device repo to our repo. If you want to see what others do, just look at someone else's Repo's. I have my tree for aosp here, which is a basic n4 -> lgog fix, with a few hacks for unsupported things in aosp like button backlights: https://github.com/jbott/aosp_android_device_lge_geeb_att_us/commits/jb-mr2-dev

Not the cleanest thing, but shows what basically needs to be done.

I find dvhexer also keeps fairly clean repos that are easy to follow, if you want to check his out.

EDIT: Now I see that you mean literal porting directly. I would recommend building from scratch, even from a device as similar as the n4. It is not hard to do once you understand the basics. I actually find it is often easier than porting manually because the source layout makes sense. I believe the sdcard / mtp stuff is in framework-res as storage_list.xml though. It should match that in the overlay directory of my repo to work correctly.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] [r.]GimP:
I agree, I actually like reading through the source, and I have a good copy of ubuntu plus vm software, or I could dual boot, but unless you have explicit instructions on how to download the absolute minimum amount of data to compile from two different sources, I don't want to attempt it with this free hotel wifi. As it stands now I have more than one wifi card connected at the same time and a python script always running in the background changing the metric for my adapters, as each connection is limited to about 97KB/sec.

Does git know to sync across multiple interfaces? might not be too bad if it does.

Otherwise thanks for the link, reading that side by side with the MAKO source from googlesource.com you are correct about the location in frameworks. I'm pretty sure I can split that apart with an APK explorer and make the adjustments without breaking the rest of the rom(s).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hackercity:
I have searched high and low...

I used to use ROM Toolbox to Install fonts going back to my droidx up to my galaxy nexus.

I have been having issues since upgrading to SG3 to now the Note2. When I use ROM Toolbox not all my fonts are changed.

I also cant find an acceptable zip to flash as those as well dont change all the fonts.

Can anyine guide me on jow to dobtjis or point me to a place for a flashable zip???

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ieisha:
Have u tried this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kapp.ifont
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] joshm.1219:
Is settings/display/font style/get fonts online not working?

Sent from Kendrick Lamar, King of New York
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hackercity:
Thanks!!

Worked perfectly...
[LG Optimus 3D] galaxy76:
for months I tried to resurrect a version lgp920 not for sale. I have succeeded but I still had a problem the touch screen did not work.

then finally I realized that it was the fault of the backup battery for the clock.

Now it all works!

before the modification, touch not working http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8q5iyu2Vs

now works well ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxZJxCunGg&feature=youtu.be
[LG Optimus 3D] n00bnewbie:
backup battery clock?

Hi Galaxy 76,

I upgraded my LP990 to ICS yesterday. All seemed to go well, until upgrade was finished and i tried to enter PIN. Touchscreen is not working at all. Do you think this is the same problem you had (hardware problem) or is this a software issue?

Thanks!

super n00b
[LG Optimus 3D] galaxy76:
My mod works only on lg p920 nfs version
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martin_carpio17:
Hi, a few days ago my phone camera fault, I get a notice saying "error connecting to camera", so I did a logcat to see what happened but I honestly don't know how to read it and thus can not understand where is the reason for the problem :( so that's why I put this here so that any experienced user help me and tell me what is the problem... Here is the log http://pastebin.com/print.php?i=rXU9DwAc

Thanks for your time guys!

PS: the front camera and flashlight also don't work, I try flashing another rom but didn't work (CyanogenMod 10.1)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martin_carpio17:
Anyone?

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