yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
TouchWiz S4 Mini was gutted in terms of some cooler TouchWiz function available on the regular S4, namely:

Air View, smart stay, smart scroll, air gesture, multi Window, TV remote, etc.

However, I have seen they are porting S4 room into regular S3. I would imagine it should be even easier to do it with S4 mini (especially, as pre-sale versions already had (some of those?) features that were later disabled).

Is there a good chance for a rom that will contain those S4 things that are now missing from S4 mini?

This is one of the main question I ask myself while deciding whether I should get S2 or S4 mini, as S3/S4 is more of a spade, than a mobile phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whosat:
There's TV remote on s4 mini (ir blaster )

Also, does the S2 have those features? If it doesn't then you might as well get the S4 Mini for the performancd
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
No, S2 doesn't have those features but is 100 euro cheaper than S4 mini, so I would like to know if there's a point of that price difference.

So the remote is there (I don't care much for it). How about chances to get the rest of the features with a S4 rom port?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eradica:
The things that the S4 Mini will never get are things like Air Gestures since the Mini doesn't have the front facing IR sensor that the S4 has so it can't detect movement.

However things like smart scroll is POSSIBLE in a ROM since that just uses the front-facing camera, so smart scroll is a software exclusion not a hardware issue. As for multi-window that too is software related so MAYBE a ROM might have it but remember that is some serious work so you may never see it.

As for Smart Stay....the S4 Mini already HAS that...

Regarding porting an S4 ROM to the S3/S4 Mini as I said above Air Gestures will NOT work since the IR sensor for that is missing.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Thank you, that explains quite a lot.

So I am still stuck between a S2 and its amazing development resources, or S4 mini, which for the moment has next to none. And I don't know if it will ever have enough to produce some really interesting ROM options.

S4 mini advantages:

- camera wide lens as in S3 (can someone confirm? I hate narrow lens of regular S4)

- slightly better screen

- slightly better camera

- slightly faster (don't really care, cause I never game, only multitask)

- might get some S4 functions down the line

S2 advantages:

- 100 euro cheaper

- huge amount of roms

- roms with changable dpi (remedies the issue of lower resolution, making it even possibly an advantage over S4 mini without this function)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eradica:
Well it seems you have made up your own mind here :)

If being able to choose from large amounts of ROM's is what you want then maybe the S2 is what you want but remember the s4 mini only came out around July/August so not really a lot of time to create stable ROM's.

All I can say is that the S4 Mini is much more future proof in terms of hardware specs so that should count for something. If you wanted to stay stock then my argument would be simple since the s4 mini would definitely be updated by Samsung since it is a rather beefy phone but since you're interested in using various ROM's then the S2 seems like a winner at the moment. Main phone such as the S2 or S3 and S4 would get more ROM support since they were "flagship" phones when they came out.

Take this in mind, look at how much support the S3 Mini has gotten and then apply that to the S4 Mini (but in my opinion the S4 Mini seems to be more popular than the S3 Mini so it may get more ROM support, but give it some time)

To end off as a closing argument. If you want a phone NOW then I would say the S2 since you clearly want ROM choices BUT take into consideration that the S4 Mini has only been around for 1-2 months.

That's the best I can do, hopefully it has helped in your decision.

*Addressing one of your advantages of the S4 Mini, the S4 Mini is not slightly faster than the S2. It is MILES faster. It's getting +-19500 in Antutu 4 whereas the S2 is only getting +-10500

*Also what do you mean by wide lens camera? You mean like choosing a wide capture mode? The S4 Mini does let you choose full resolution 4:3 which are squarish or you can choose slightly lower resolution 16:9 pictures which are widescreen. But ye maybe I don't know what you mean.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Good point. Haven't thought of looking into that.

I am not sure where would I see this speed difference if I don't game.

No, that's not what I mean. If you look at the difference between the area of the picture S3 and S4 fit into the frame (check out S4 gsmarena review) you will be amazed by how much narrower is the lens of S4. That's a serious issue for me.

I read S4 mini's camera is nearly the same as S3's so I would like to know if the viewing angle is also as wide.

Also, do you think prices of S4 mini will drop when Note 3 comes out?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whosat:
The speed improvement will be clearly reflected in your multitasking. Also note the amount of ram the s2 has vs s4mini.

The prices are unlikely to drop as they are of very different functions and target very different user groups.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k00lguy105:
Can someone help me or point me in the right direction for editing a theme? I want the Cobalt theme to have transparent status bar, transparent system backgrounds(dialer, settings...etc) just like the HoloGlass Beta but with all the nice stuff from Cobalt(https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...b.theme.cobalt) (HoloGlass https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hologlass.beta)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Look HERE or HERE

:)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msanto:
I like to use a bt keyboard with my note 10.1 but every time it connects I get that famous message suggesting the OSK be switched to the Samsung one -- after which it switches. It ia also annoying to see the osk popup when edit fields are entered; Do any custom roms fix this?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrazilNut:
Hi All,

I've had a good look through the "contacts" issues and can't see a relevant thread that helps with a 2 point problem so here goes:

I have an Xperia Arc LT15i

It has suffered some water damage, though the indicator is still white.

The screen is completely dead / black rendering the phone unusable.

Connecting the phone to pc with USB lead allows me to access the SD card through PC Companion - this is the good news.

The bad news is I have no way of backing up my contacts to the PC as I assume they are stored on the phone memory and there is no way as far as I can tell to see a contacts folder.

The Contact Back Up feature on PC companion and everything else I've read requires that I access the phone directly, which I can't do.

Does anyone know how I can access my contacts to back them up using a USB connection and not needing to directly interact with the phone?

Also, is there any chance that this fault will repair itself and the phone come back to life or do I save whatever files I can and then write it off?

Thanks a lot.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phenomzye:
You had your contacts synced with your google account? Try logging from google to your account and search for the contacts page.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrazilNut:
Thanks, but I'd tried that and regrettably the contacts are not there so I can't have synched them.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] issak42:
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-rescue-squad/30987-acquire-contacts-via-adb.html

Of course that would require USB debugging to be enabled.

If it's not, you can use the keyboard and usb-otg adapter to enable it like this guy did:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...een-need-keyboard-sequence-usb-debugging.html

Of course his phone is different, so hopefully you're using stock gingerbread? or ICS?

play around.

Basically, for any other tool you would need ADB, so try to get that enabled.

Are you rooted?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] issak42:
Wait, don't you have HDMI out? If you don't have HDMI cable, look on ebay for that too, I'm sure you can get one for cheap, you just might have to wait a little to arrive from hong kong or china :)

Plug in a screen.

That guy is reffering to 'otg' keyboard:

https://www.google.com/search?gfns=...w&biw=1920&bih=986&sei=7skyUry5D4iMtAbr04HoCA

Arc s does support it, I tried. No root needed. And since Arc is pretty much exact same thing, it shouldn't cause any issues either.

Actually if you get the picture on the screen via HDMI, you're better off using a mouse. You will need the 'usb otg' connector (search ebay, they are really cheap) and USB mouse. Any should work, even wireless with dongles (logitech nano any unifying reciever both work)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrazilNut:
Hi, thanks for the advice. If I was in the UK, it would be much easier to get hold of these things, but I'm in Brazil travelling and (whilst not complaining), it's going to be tough to get things set up as you suggest. I still have the USB OTG that came with the phone but keyboard and particularly HDMI connection will be a problem.

But it would be definitely worth a try if I can arrange things at some point. Thanks,
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
How do I un-root?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
That depends on a lot of things.

Are you stock rooted, or are you running a custom ROM?

If you are stock rooted, do you have a custom recovery installed?

There are a bunch of ways to unroot. If you are stock rooted with stock recovery, you can remove SuperUser and the files associated with superuser in (going from memory) xbin.

If you have a (working) custom recovery (that you did not use ROM Manager to update) then you can simply flash the stock firmware in recovery (unzip the file from Asus 1 time).

If you have a TF101 (non-3G version) you can use NVFlash or EasyFlasher to flash back to stock in APX mode.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
I am running KatKiss and CWM. I have superSU, and there is an option for "Full Unroot". Not sure if this would work, since I need stock rom. Would I do the full unroot, then just flash the stock rom? what would I do with the custom recovery then?

If I were to flash the stock rom, wouldn't it still be rooted, and also have custom recovery? I need to set it back to all stock and factory defaults
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
If you flash the stock ROM, it replaces recovery and unrooted as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
ok - thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
should i follow this?: http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...frederuco-s-guide-flash-tf101-back-stock.html

and do I need an sd card?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Yeah, that is a good guide. :D

No, you don't need a microSD card so long as your recovery can see the internal storage.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
do I need to install gapps, or is it already in the stock rom?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Nope, just flash the stock ROM. It has all the GAPPS and such you need.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
For some reason, when I boot into recovery with the android guy, it gives an exclamation mark with a triangle.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
That is Stock Recovery. You can only flash the currently installed version of the Stock ROM or a newer version of the stock ROM with stock recovery.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sniper8752:
i wasn't planning on flashing any roms yet. So this is normal then? just want to make sure everything is working fine, and is at stock now.

I thought maybe it was broken, or I did something wrong, that this is showing up.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Yup, that is normal.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DK5:
Can't stop laughing XD

I wonder who made this guide :p
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Reckoning:
I'm getting really bad audio lag when streaming bluetooth from the N7. I have a high dollar pair of Siemens hearing aids with bluetooth curiosity of some a******e with an RPG and the VA. They pair up fine but the lag is unbearable. If this was just an unnecessary headphone issue it'd be no big deal, but I need an 80db bump to hear a vacuum cleaner running. Anyone know a fix to sync them up without reinventing the wheel? I REALLY don't want to go back to my iPad.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] joebongo:
Hi,

I had 2 Blue Angels and had to get rid of both as there was a slight popping type interference when listening to MP3's. It was a bit like a static pop from an old vinyl record, but not quite the same.

I am desperately hoping that this issue has been resolved with the Universal, cos then I will have to have one.

Anyone been using it as a MP3 player who can comment on the quality of the sound reproduction?

Thanks,

Joe
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NickosD:
After some time while the screen is off, if I try to unlock it I just jump immediately to homescreen. If I lock and unlock it, it works. It's just like getting hibernated.

Send from Samsung Galaxy Note II (N7100) using Tapatalk 2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NickosD:
???

Send from Samsung Galaxy Note II (N7100) using Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] engelsione:
Are there any that mirrors completely to TV HDMI?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] moe6:
Search Accessories forum for Slimport.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] RPK925:
You could try a MHL adapter.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Chadneu:
Mhl will not work, must be slimport.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] duke_dreadmoore:
Hi.. i have lt30at.

Plugging in flash disk via usb otg cable to my phone doesn't seem to work at all. The device doesn't give any power to the flash disk, the light won't light up. Plugging in mouse or keyboard gives the same result.

I'm using xperimenT Rom, can someone help me? thanks.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] nreuge:
From my experience, some flash disk work and some other not. It depend on the power they require. If the flash disk require too much power, using a hub (even not powered) can help sometimes.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] n70shan:
Usb otg works perfectly on my stock JB rom.....two things 2 keep in mind...

1. Usb must be fat 32 type formatted...

2. Usb otg cable you are using must be high quality ones.... i use nokia Ca 157 usb otg cable .... its the best one...

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read above instructions..
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] duke_dreadmoore:
thanks for your reply guys.

I have a no-brand OTG cable. It's working perfect on xperia Arc, for mouse, keyboard, usb disk.

But now it's not working at all for TL. it's not even powering the usb disk.

I'm confused :confused:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
have you removed any of the apps?

see if you have

in system apps

and

in system framework

use an app like "root browser" by jim rummy to see

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My 250gb usb harddrive (mechanical) lights up but gives error sounds

Solid state 500gb usb harddrive works fine :D

My cables a non branded cheepo yang tang ting

If it works on your other phone I cant see that being the problem
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] duke_dreadmoore:
I have that 2.

I removed some system apps but I think they are really a junk.

Shall I buy another otg cable?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
I would back up your rom with cwm

Then try flashing another rom

Just to make sure its not something you have removed by mistake. When I scroll through my system apps theres quite a few apks that mention usb and mtp.

It should just work out the box...

Also i had a problem with one of my old phones not charging. it turned out to be a tiny bit of fluff from my pocket that i had to scratch out the phone with a needle.

Good luck
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] duke_dreadmoore:
thanks for the reply, everyone. I'll try flashing another rom. :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavpreet:
so, i just flashed the modified firmware.zip for 3.09 with twrp recovery, and everything was a success, until i rebooted..now im stuck in a bootloop.

bootloop as in the splashscreen when you turn on the device shows, and then it restarts

i followed everything right, relocked bootloader, etc etc

im soff, i once flashed a custom hboot (without the warning text), but i dont think that should be a problem with soff..

i have super cid, so what did i do wrong? and what can i do to fix it?

i was thinking of flashing cwm and restoring a previous backup i made, but when i try flashing it, it says "not allowed', so i cant even get cwm recovery.

so basically my question is, how do i get out of this bootloop after flashing the latest firmware.zip?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stefan0vic:
Maybe you can't flash a recovery because you are relocked?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhavpreet:
twrp flashed fine..just cant get cwm to flash..so that shouldnt be the problem. regardless, how can i get out of this bootlooop
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoryTallman:
You can't flash cwm because you relocked the boot loader.

You're stuck in a bootloop because you can't have a locked boot loader and custom recovery. It will always cause a bootloop.

Unlock the boot loader and it will boot fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkob024:
This was originally a post about how i stumbled on a problem Chainfire 3D causes which ends up soft bricking your phone. I got a replacement phone from verizon through my warranty and it came with MDK build on it. Apparently its not a good thing to figure out loopholes in the system and share them so ive changed this post to warn people about installing the drivers from the Chainfire 3D app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hexitnow:
Doing a factory reset doesnt wipe root. The root binaries are in system and a FDR only hits data partitions. People doing this is also why insurance deductibles are going up and caps put on how many claims you can file.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Addiso:
Here goes more people frauding the system, people like you that make insurance claimed raise prices, just deal with what you have. We all want to be flashing yes but is this is what we are ultimately going to be doing for now on on new flagship devices? It's one of the reasons they actually lock bootloaders because if it were unlocked there will be even more cries about bricks and people attempting stuff without researching, we can all argue back and forth about all that but seriously guys? Breaking your phone on purpose, obsurd.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkob024:
Even if root isnt wiped during a factory reset they wouldnt see that. I would assume that once they try to boot the phone and it doesnt work theyll just use whatever software they use to set it back to stock and get it ready to send out to some other person. Im not saying this is the best idea. I just happened to stumble upon it and once i had an excuse to get a replacement i went for it. Obviously i very well could have used the stock tar file floating around and fixed it but i hate TouchWiz and the stupid features that came with the phone. I honestly doubt this is why insurance deductibles are going up considering i didnt use my insurance to get my phone replaced. it fell under the manufacturers warranty. if i wanted insurance to replace the phone i could have just dropped it "on accident".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hexitnow:
You hate touchwiz but you bought a touch wiz based phone. Lol smh.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkob024:
Didnt hate it until after i had used it. I had planned on putting a custom rom on the phone as soon as i had gotten it. Ive seen how much faster the GS4 performs when its running a pure android rom. My phone is at least twice as fast now that ive switched from the stock rom to an AOSP based rom. i know it doesnt really mean anything but i also scored almost 2000 points higher on my Antutu benchmark test.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] haza12d:
I wish there was an "unlike" or "thumbs down button" Don't break your phone on purpose people...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stvn2569:
If Verizon would just unlock everything people wouldn't have to accidentally ;) break their phones. I personally bought the phone outright to keep my unlimited data I feel that since I did that I should be able to do what ever I want to MY PHONE! ! ! Plus I pay every month for my insurance and in doing so the insurance company takes the risk that something might happen to my phone to where they have to replace it and if nothing happens to my phone well that make out like bandits because I'm still paying each month for their insurance that I don't use.

"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"

"Oderint Dum Metuant"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hexitnow:
Agreed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkob024:
I agree with you there. What i do with my phone is my business exspecially since i payed for the phone outright instead of getting it through an upgrade for free and i also pay for insurance. I didnt figure out how to break my phone then break it. i just figured out one thing on accident and decided not to fix it on my own (which i could have done very easily). The phone also had several issues right out of the box that would never seem to happen when id go into verizon. All the negative feedback to my post has forced me to change it to a warning about chainfire 3D. but that wont stop someone from figuring out they can get their phone replaced this way, but im also not forcing anyone to do this, its your phone do what you want with it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jd1639:
Wtf is this thread all about? Warranty fraud isn't cool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Surge1223:
Lets not start a debate judging others morality/immorality or ethical/unethical decisions. This is so subjective, we might as well start arguing about whether there is a god or start debating about when the age of viability is for a fetus. Just keep your opinion to yourself, I don't care if you want to screw the system or not, theres not right or wrong in the grey area. Just dont be annoying about it like the people who knock on my door trying to convince me to join their religion, preaching they carry "the message of god". Like I tell them, then sing a prayer about it instead of annoying me, god damnit. This should be locked, the entire thread is a logical fallacy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jd1639:
Agree, this thread should be locked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Naddict:
Users who think XDA is a site to perpetuate fraud are mistaken...To ask for help recovering from a bricked device is fine, you all should be fully aware of the chances you take when you came here, using fraudulent recovery maneuvers is not how we do things...be adult about your mistakes, claim accountability on your own and pay up.

And, for those who are offended about this, thanks, but instead of replying, next time just report the thread and a moderator will handle from there. Thanks

Thread closed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] majdinj:
Discussing other AirView control features

There are other options that you could enable as well in the same smali,,, see the pictures bellow

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These extra options are useless to be enabled in our Note I (GT-N7000) since our device doesn't have the hardware capability.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mjrifath:
Great finding majdinj

Looking for this feature since Note2 release.

Thanks mate:good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ezaechiel:
nice one, thanks majdinj ;)