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[Moto X Q&A] Yazzinit:
I'd check out more reviews of the G2 then. Personally, I'm not sure what higher specs bring, which is the point of the Moto X. Other high spec phones provide nothing substantially better. Some lag even right out of the box, sacrifice battery life, or provide no real higher terms of performance in terms of gaming.

These aren't actual computers, despite what they do. People aren't running AutoCAD and need an i7 processor. Why these high specs other than ego boosts, I don't know. I'd maybe assess WHY you want the G2's specs. What purpose are they actually serving you? The Moto X and its "inferior" specs runs 100% smooth out of the box, has high gaming performance, and great battery life.
[Moto X Q&A] alhadee12:
I'm just thinking it will allow me to run my apps more efficiently and quicker. I've been using iOS (iPhone 5) as my daily driver and the Note 2 for business because I'm a coach. I want to move to android totally and from what your saying the Moto X will be the way to go.
[Moto X Q&A] Yazzinit:
I've had it for 1 week today, and it's been faster than I expected. I'm coming from a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 and this is light years better. Stock S3, Touchwiz was too annoying for me. Pulling down the notification bar and having the quick toggles scroll each time (thanks!), to just the useless features, it was annoying. I installed different ROMs, which I guess is fine, but eventually they'd need to be updated. That's more time I have to take to back things up, wipe everything, flash, and restore. I might be nitpicking, but it's still an annoyance. Not to mention that many of these ROMs have glitches, no matter how popular they are: AOSP camera problems, GPS locking issues, etc.

I've had 0 problems with the Moto X after 1 week. The screen PPI is the same as the S3, but looks way better since it's not pentile. To me, it seems not only brighter and more vivid, but just less "blah." I much prefer Android's customization over iOS, but that's a personal preference. Maybe check out a local store to play with the Moto X. Doesn't have to be your carrier, since I'm not sure if VZW stores have it in yet, but AT&T sure does.
[Moto X Q&A] Clienterror:
Android phones have "better" specs than any other OS because it lacks optimization. I'm not saying Android is bad but the more platforms you run a OS on the more raw power you need to push it. With all these different resolutions, cpu, gpu, ram ect it makes it impossible to optimize beyond a certain point. That's why iPhone, blackberry, and Windows phone all run so smooth.... All the phones that run their OSs have almost identical specs. Now the Moto X is more optimized so can run amazing with lower specs which is awesome, but the downside is you could possibly wait a lot longer for any updates because of all the special things going on behind the scenes that they need to tweak from the AOSP.
[Moto X Q&A] alhadee12:
I'm definitely going to check it out because I think it's time to step away from iOS. It may take getting use to, but I'm sure I'll managing. Your info has been very helpful. I do a lot of group texting to my players. Is that available in the stock app?

---------- Post added at 02:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 PM ----------

I'm learning some new things here, but as I stated before I will definitely go into Verizon today and check out the Moto X.
[Moto X Q&A] Yazzinit:
It is, just used it last night
[Moto X Q&A] jayboyyyy:
if you look at reviews of the X vs htc one gs4 or other phones the x runs apps often faster. As many have said previously, specs aren't the big deciding faster on whether a phone runs faster with apps or many things.

here is a short youtube video showing benchmark of HTC one and then running apps comparison. Both phones are bery similar even though HTC one has far superior specs and benchmarks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmU7YKoC5Is
[Moto X Q&A] scorpion667:
Why on earth would you want the buttons on the back of your phone (G2)? I don't understand how that idea even left the boardroom.
[Moto X Q&A] antawnm26:
Well, I finally went and played with the LG G2 and I think I will go with the Moto X if and when verizon comes out with the 32gb...

My reasons:

1. Its way to much to change on the LG G2 once you root it

a.bloatware, notification menu,buttons that does the same thing that comes stock with the phone,the buttons are def awkward on the back

a.Moto X comes pretty much perfect.

2. Verizon murdered this device with bloat over 10

3. Camera on the Moto X is inferrior but geez over 85% of cell phone users arent professional photographers

4. Every LG G2 is different as well, especially the verizon version which tells me the updates will not come in a timely manner(opinion not fact)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Netmon:
Dear All,

I would like to ask few questions:

1) Is it Orange SPV M500 is claimed as O2 Mini Or dopod 818 in Asia Region

2) Can I using Dopod Shipped Rom to upgrade SPV M500 from English to Chinese ? Will there have country ID or Model error etc? If so, is it using the MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe will bypass the problem?

Thanks all expert.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] TheBrit:
1) The Orange M500 is in the same casing as the Dopod. O2 Mini is in the same casing as the Imate Jam or Qtek S100 etc. They are the same device on the inside.

2) I expect you could use the Dopod rom but I have not tried it and don't intend to. :wink:

Personally i prefer the Orange/Dopod style of casing. 8)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] dudi.arviv:
Hello!

Dose anybody know if there's a different specs between the US & European version of the Nexus 7 LTE?

I mean that in fact the frequencies between the versions are different, but that's require that the LTE chip should be also different or it's all matter of baseband & software?

Thanks :)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] TheWerewolf:
You *do* realize the irony in the fact that you could have Googled this fact about a Google tablet in less time than it took to type in that request, right?

Anyway...

Network

North America:

GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

HSPA+: 850/900/1900/2100/AWS (1700/2100) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)

LTE: 700/850/1700/1800/1900/2100 MHZ (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/13/17)

Europe:

GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

HSPA+: 850/900/1900/2100/AWS (1700/2100) MHz (Bands: 1/2/4/5/8)

LTE: 800/850/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600 MHz (Bands: 1/2/3/4/5/7/20)

And that's about it for differences.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ptau:
Well, you missed that the OP is aware of that.

He is pondering about a more interesting question - if that needs a different hardware or just flashing a different radio rom.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] dudi.arviv:
That's exactly what I meant.

Thank you dude!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] TheWerewolf:
Point taken - sorry, but I've seen the frequency question come up so many times that I'm answering on reflex. :)

Apparently the WWAN chip is the Qualcomm WRT1605L which supports 7 LTE bands. It's capable of handling almost any kind of cell protocol and band - but they have to choose the seven LTE bands they'll support. I don't know (and can't find) and spec for the chip or the Gobi chipset (Snapdragon) that it's a part of. Typically, the OEM requests the chips with the bands they want selected - but looking though the OEMs for the chip, they don't seem to have a process to define it at purchase time. Mind you, this could simply mean they expect to walk the OEM through the process after purchase before delivery.

To the best of my knowledge, the Euro and NA models both use the same chip and there's no differentiation on the model number cited anywhere (but that could easily be because no one's opened both of them up and looked).

So - is it possible that you could reconfigure the WRT1605L to make it see a set of LTE bands you want? It's possible. Unfortunately, without specs or a tech document from Qualcomm, it'll be difficult to tell - and I don't think Google actually posts the source for the radio ROM code, so no way to just read the code and see if they have band switching code in there.

If you want to dig, though - here's a starting point:

https://developer.qualcomm.com/mobi...es/3g4g-connectivity-gobi/tools-and-resources

The WRT1605L is part of the Gobi platform AFAIK.

As for flashing the Euro radio ROM turning on those freqs on the NA model? Welllll.. that's easy enough to test, no? :)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] PhoneGeek:
Versions are different

I think there are six versions that one could order from ASUS:

Google Nexus 7 FHD LTE NA 2013 ME571KL 16GB (Asus Razor)

Google Nexus 7 FHD LTE EU 2013 ME571KL 32GB (Asus Razor)

Google Nexus 7 FHD LTE NA 2013 ME571KL 16GB (Asus Razor)

Google Nexus 7 FHD LTE EU 2013 ME571KL 32GB (Asus Razor)

Google Nexus 7 FHD 2013 ME571K 32GB (Asus Razor)

Google Nexus 7 FHD 2013 ME571K 16GB (Asus Razor)

So Memory 16/32

LTE 13+17 (US VZ-ATT) or 7/20 (EverUwhere else)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_7_(2013_version)#Model_variants

http://pdadb.net/ makes a abit of listing these things.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ptau:
Ok, looks like it may be a software thing, though possibly it may have different antennae/circuits. You can forget looking for any official information, it was always confidential. But I doubt the Qualcomm engineers are idiots and allow anybody to change the radio frequencies;) The system will only accept a signed image, check some efuse or something like that. Theoretically, both radio images may have same signatures, that would be the first thing to check. That brings another bunch of questions:

How does actually the nexus7-2 boot process work?

I'm still a bloody fresh n7-II owner, is there anything known about it? I couldn't found so far anything useful (I guess it should be similar to Nexus4).

Would it hard-brick the device if you erase the radio partition / the boot-loader partition?

I know exactly how it worked in ADP1 - the answer was yes / no, but that's a long time ago.

The boot-loader image seems to have a linux kernel inside and interestingly enough, some driver is sending like a mad (after every suspend) the radio firmware over to the radio chip. Let's dig deeper ...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] dudi.arviv:
I don't think that Qualcomm will provide any answers for that.. but technically your theory seems possible..

Anyway, I'll wait for somebody else to try flash it for me ;)

The LTE version is still new, I don't think that long time will past till someone will check it deeply
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] mathieulh:
The RF filters are probably what's different, meaning you wouldn't be able to tune in to unsupported frequencies even if the baseband allowed it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] TheWerewolf:
Yeah, Qualcomm is very protective of their technotes and data sheets. Usually their resellers will hand them out - but even they don't make them available. BTW, Ironically - your Nexus 4 has the same chip in it.

Very likely. I didn't see different RF filter chips mentioned in the stuff I was reading, but building a generic tunable filter over that wide a range would be difficult.

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Well two of those are the WiFi only models which may not even have the LTE chip in it (it's a relatively expensive chip, so it wouldn't surprise me that they don't populate the board for the non-LTE models).

The other four are most likely all the same LTE chipset with (as you note) different bands selected.

The Nexus devices are supposed to be completely resettable to factory state. I had assumed that included the radio partition... Same with the boot-loader? There isn't an inerasable diagnostic boot?

(I may be assuming too much here in that to me 'bricked' means 'dead and cannot be revived')
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] TheWerewolf:
Bit more info. The QMI API documentation from Qualcomm in the DMS document includes a call to get a bit list of the LTE bands supported on the chip, but no way to set them. Also, there's a chip authentication/unlock that has to be done before most feature setting can be done. There is a service code feature that might let it happen.

So a vague 'no obvious way' result. :)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] o.maille:
38 frequencies

7 frequencies may not cut it;

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...-must-be-addressed-135719748.html#prettyPhoto

Pity as I would buy a 7 2 4g from the US in the morning if I thought it could work in europe in the future.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] mathieulh:
For Europe you need bands 20 (800Mhz), 3 (1800Mhz), 7 (2600Mhz) and starting from 2016 the 700Mhz band that will be allocated to carriers (should be either band 17 or 28 )

If you want true worldwide LTE roaming you at least need bands 1, 3, 7 and 17. No commercialized LTE device officially supports all these frequencies at once. Though the closest thing would be the International Nexus 7 which supports all these bands except band 17, so it could roam anywhere except in the USA

The U.S. Nexus 7 would feature the best USA coverage to date as it supports band 17 along with AWS.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] drean:
Is it possible to tell apart a Nexus 7 LTE US unit and an EU unit?

As in, I'd like if there is any indication on tablet itself?

(either when it's powered on, by an info page or some sort; or off - a label, SKU number, or by serial number)?

Also, is there any indication on outside of the box, if the unit is sealed?

Thanks.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] LoRd_LyKoS:
That's an interesting question...When you buy it through the play store...can you choose which version do you want? Because I am from Spain and I am sudying for a year in the USA and the model I would like to choose has to be able to work with european LTE bands...

Thank you!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] drean:
You can't choose when buying from the Play Store. If you buy it from the US Play Store, you will receive a US model; and if you buy it from the Spain Play Store, you will receive an EU version.

Needing to be able to tell them apart probably only matters if you're buying it used, or through a parallel importer if isn't officially offered for sale in your country yet.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] LoRd_LyKoS:
Ohh....****..and thank you...I will have some trouble in there...Is there any way t solve the LTE bands issue even though it is an American one?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] drean:
There is no 'issue'. There are 2 SKUs. If you buy from the US, you will receive a US version. If you want an EU version, you need to buy it from the EU (or actually, anywhere else in the world, except US and Japan).
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] LoRd_LyKoS:
Sorry.

By issue I meant that if it's a hardware or software thing...There's no way to change it?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] DriftorX:
I have read this thread a few times and still confused on it. Im not familair with the nexus 7 at all. But Im just wandering if I was to buy a NA 32gb LTE version Nexus 7. WIll it work in Europe area. Mainly Italy.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
Its been about 8 months since I rooted my nook and set it up for roms.. I don't like running them from SD so I have them on the emmc (?) And it seems my bootloader has gotten older. What do you think?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagirfahmid3:
If it's not broke, don't fix it.

The bootloader's age does not matter if it is doing its job, which is loading the kernel and the operating system.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
I forgot even where I got it. Wondering if there is an update and possibility to dual boot stock.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
Yes, you can. Go to my NC SD installation instructions linked in my signature. After that gets working it will have the latest cyanoboot so you can boot back and forth. You can either put stock on internal memory and CM on SD or vice versa. If you want to reverse them I have instructions and zips that will let you put stock on SD. The instructions are on my NC Tips thread also in my signature (item B11).

EDIT: I see in original post you do not like SD installs. In that case you can put two systems on internal memory. Look for Taosaur's dual boot thread. But be warned it can be risky messing with internal partitions.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
Its not that's I'm not fond of them. I'm just nervous to install one. Seems risky.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
A lot less risky than repartitioning internal memory. In fact, there is no risk at all with SD installs. Internal memory is not touched and if the card messes up, just format and start over. No harm done.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
Hmm. Maybe it isn't a bad idea.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
Just be sure to use a quality SD. SanDisk class 4.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
That's ecmxacrly what I have. Class 4 16gb
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
If you meant SanDisk too, it will make a very stable system that runs as fast as internal memory.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
I've never been able to crank much speed out of it. Could I dual boot cm and nookbuntu?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
If you can put nookbuntu on internal memory, you can definitely put CM on SD and dual boot.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
could we swp that? lol
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
That is why I stated it that way. I know for sure CM will install on SD, but I don't know enough about nookbuntu to say if it will or not. I doubt it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
With the glitches nookbuntu has I wouldn't use it as a dailydriver
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
That does not matter, with the SD inserted, it by default boots to SD. But you can change that if you want.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
Can I still use SD for storage?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
When you install CM to SD it partitions the SD so that a little is used by the operating system (on your 16GB, it will be about 3GB) and the rest is used for your media storage (in your case, about 13GB). The problem may be to get nookbuntu on internal to see that media storage. We can hack CM on internal and stock on internal to see it, but not sure about nookbuntu on internal.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cammykool:
I'll look into it more! Thanks! What are the secrets for speed on this thing? Lol
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
It is an old device so it will never be really speedy. The fastest ROM on it is CM7.2. And many say specifically the Mirage 7.2.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SARM1084:
Hi all

Well I bricked my phone and I'm stuck in AP Fastboot. When I try to start the phone (boot it up from off) It gets as far as the M logo then enters AP fastboot or it might even go directly to fastboot.

What I was doing: I was trying to use Matt's Droid RAZR M utility 1.20 option 1 to go back to stock 4.1.2. That's when my problems started. I had nearly 70% battery when i started (now it says "low battery").

Phone set up: Droid RAZR M 4.1.2; Rooted; Locked bootloader; Safestrap 3.12 and backed up; stock slot was still stock and ROM slot 1 was running Eclipse Custom ROM. To be honest I cant remember if i was back in stock ROM slot or ROM slot 1 when I attempted to use Matt's Utility. And I didn't uninstall Safestrap nether prior to using the utility. Don't know how much those factors played into causing my problem.

What I have tried: I have tried RSD Lite 6.1.4 with xml.zip files from the Droid-Developers SBF web site. But i keep getting this fail message, "Failed flashing process. 1/19 flash partition "gpt_main0.bin" -> Phone returned Fail."

I have tried manually pushing the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img file onto the phone via cmd.exe and it fails with this message for all three attempts, "Battery Low!!" "FAILED (remote failure)".

I have tried Matt's Utility option 1 I get multiple fail messages, "Failed to erase partition", "FAILED (remote failure)", "Failed to flash partition boot", "Failed to write mmc".

I even purchased one of Team Black Hats Factory Programing Adapters (little red adapter) That acts like a factory programing cable (they said they don't sell the cable any more cause the red adapter does the same thing for cheaper).

With the adapter connected I still get the same fail messages in RSD Lite, Matt's Utility, and cmd.exe prompt. I was under the impression that the factory programing cable (adapter) would solve my low battery issue.

Any help would be great. Thank you in advance.

PS: Also, I did not take the last OTA update from a few weeks ago. I was planning to unlock my bootloader. And my computer is a Windows XP (sp3). Thanks Again.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aviwdoowks:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...not-going-into-recovery-no-os-on-phone/page-2

Found by

https://www.google.com/search?num=1...j1.6.0....0...1c.1.26.serp..6.0.0.Dd8aoiu_UJI
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SARM1084:
Thank you for offering help. Will try your suggestions.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SARM1084:
[SOLVED] I was able to get some more help on another forum. My problem was a corrupted utility. I was instructed to perform a md5 check sum on my version if Matts utility. I compared my results to the original file on batakang Web site. That's when I realized my file was no good. So I deleted it an downloaded a clean uninterrupted copy of Matts utility 1.20 and it worked perfectly. I hope this will help other people too. Thanks for your help my friend.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] theofficialpimp:
Hi does anyone know why the voltages of LP Core are higher than the MP Core voltages?

What are LP core and MP core?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] toothlesrooster:
I'm not new to rooting, ROMS or Kernels but I'm no expert either. I've flashed all sorts of ROMS on my old EVO 4g. This Samsung is a little trickier, though. I've got it rooted. No problems there. I haven't permanently installed CWM recovery though. I've read where you need to rename certain files so the S3 won't re-load the factory recovery and though I've tried, my phone won't let me rename the files. So there is problem one (once these files are renamed, is there a way to go back if you so choose? CWM says it's permanent). That said, I've got ROM manager installed on the phone and can boot into CWM that way. I've pulled a full nandroid backup before I started any of this, so I should be able to go back no problem. But, how in the heck do I flash an AOSP rom? I have no external storage, so I'm trying to use the on board flash. But I can't access that through CWM, so I can't flash it. On top of that the instructions for the Carbon ROM I'm wanting to use say's to select the wipe data/factory reset selection in CWM. When I do that, of course it wipes everything on my internal SD card so there wouldn't be a .zip file to select anyways! This is freakin' frustrating, especially after coming from an older EVO. It was so much easier.

I keep reading about using adb sideload but after all of my reading, there is no (that I can find) repository for the "end all/be all" how-to on flashing the SPH-L710. No one explains it 100% or it's for a Nexus or something. A solid tutorial would be helpful!

So I guess this boils down to:

Can I go back to stock recovery?

How do I flash a ROM using the internal memory?

How do I do this with adb (assuming I have to).

Thanks in advance, guys and gals!'

And yes, I've searched.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Chad The Pathfinder:
Ive heard that there are issues with newer devices and their recoveries. You can read through http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2391616 maybe the solution is in there.