yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1slow4G:
I have both gs3 and nex4.

Like mentioned already, camera, extendable storage, swappable battery are the common pro's for the Samsung line, along with other pros and cons.

The performance difference is night and day. The n4 has more spark to it. Gs3 are laggy at times and have the annoying "stutter" while swiping thru homescreens or dock pages.

Not to mention bloat ware.

Battery life on the n4 is not that bad like people make it seem. Mine is fresh out of the box and get 4.5 hours screen time and 12.5-13hrs on time. Using it normally, browsing the net and what not.

Screen quality is also different, meaning better on the galaxy s3 as far as details. But the n4 has more of a natural picture. Easy on the eyes and outdoors, wow crisp and bright vs the gs3 outdoors was impossible to see the screen without cupping hand over it to block sun. The gs3 has this "yellowish" tint when compared side by side.

Style, n4 is beautiful, sexy, slick, it will draw attention. Not like the gs3 and gs4 that 7 out 10 people have it already.

Sound quality, n4 has good call and loud speaker sound, gs3 wins this one also. Gs3 much louder and better quality. Not a deal breaker to me.

Woah didn't realize the length of my post Lol. I will cut to the chase, Nexus 4 ftw! Galaxy s3 is officially retired and will be used as spare.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mssam:
I have an S4, but long thought about a Nexus 4 like you for $250. I originally didn't get a N4 because I had a GNex and I didn't see much difference spec wise besides the quad core and photosphere. Both had a 2100mAh battery. IMO, you did alright. You got a new N4 for $250. I'm kinda burnt out on Nexus so the S4 is a nice change. TW isn't as bad as I thought, the 13meg camera is fantastic and the 2600mAh battery holds up great. If you hadn't gotten the N4, I'd say spend another $150 for the S4, but since you have the N4, I think you'll be fine. At least you get the latest updates from Google, not so with Sammy...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crossjaw:
Heh I just posted a similar question I had about Nexus 4 vs HTC One. I had ordered the Nexus too along with a Seidio case. Now I'm contemplating if I should get the HTC One instead. Have you decided?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Nexus 4 best bang for the buck phone right now imo. If you're not worry about money maybe an HTC One.

☞Sent from here☜
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpollina:
Thanks everyone

Thanks everyone for your kind words.

I've decided to go with the GOOGLE Samsung Galaxy S4 for $650 for the following reasons:

1) Squaretrade gave me $599 so I may as well spend it while I have it

2) I *REALLY* need a good camera for mystery shopping

3) Replaceable battery

4) Google version (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=samsung_galaxy_s4) because I can get another squaretrade warranty AND get the latest updates a la nexus

5) I can get an otterbox defender case for it

I went to see it today at Radio Shack and the rep had one himself on Sprint.

He showed me that not only is the display 1080p, it shoots video in 1080p!

He said you can download blueray movies off the play store and transmit it wirelessly to a flat screen TV with a USB dongle thingy IN 1080P blue ray quality! That's pretty cool!

He also said it has a built-in "power saver" mode that saves lots of battery life when the added power is not needed.

And the screen is absolutely GORGEOUS!

Google said all I have to do is refuse shipment and they will refund everything.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1slow4G:
Sounds like u made the right decision. What's the difference between from Google and retail store?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpollina:
Retail store is MORE (typically $699) and locked to the carrier, but most importantly the GOOGLE version is just like the NEXUS line -- gets the updates immediately upon release and not dependent on the manufacturer!

I figure if I put it in an otterbox defender case and take care of it, I should get at least two maybe three years use out of it!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Google Edition ROM vs touchwiz Rom.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1slow4G:
Man i had no idea they sold those in google play store.. Im a newb since i dont buy phone frequently
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lopezk38:
Hmmmm.... Half right. Google just supplies the source code early to the manufaturer. Samsung/HTC (Depending on the device) still handles all the updating, but Google makes them work a little faster and they get to bypass the carriers. Thats why they usually get updates a little later then the Nexus phones.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PJcastaldo:
Just a note for your own knowledge...

Just because its a Google edition device doesn't guarantee it will be updated like a Nexus. Google edition devices are nothing new and updates are handled my the phone manufacturer not Google.

The N4 also shoots video in 1080..

Your other reasons are obviously your opinion and glad it helped you with your decision .. However to me the N4 screen and camera look great. I have compared to new devices and I just don't see it.. I also don't see why everyone downs on the N4 camera.. I've taken some damn nice pics with it.. But that's my opinion.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thfreedumb:
Sounds like you fell for the salesman mumbo jumbo, haha. However, you obviously like it so that's good.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichySamui:
You've played the system well, so far, but there's one final step... in a couple of weeks sell the s4 and buy the Nexus 5.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
1080p display might be a new thing, but 1080p video recording has been on phones for a few years now, it's not considered a new feature or anything lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] heart_of_life:
Hey there ppl.

I got some olive oil in my voice call speaker (the one above the screen!) and now I can barely hear the voice call sound.. Should I wait for it to dry out or try whipping it with alcohol or something?

Thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Envious_Data:
try getting all liquids out of it first,

once thats done type this in phone dialer

*#*# 7378423#*#*

and find the speaker test and see if the speaker volume is fixed, if not you will have to replace your speaker
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mmgirlmm:
Refer below URL:

http://mobile.163.com/05/0922/21/1U9MG5A90011179O.html

Hope u like

Cheers

mmgirlmm
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] dogmood:
Must Buy
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christiantel:
Hello everyone,

Here is my problem of which I hope you can help me out.

I own a Allwinner A13 7 inch tablet, on which I installed the Cyanogen 10 mod (Due to restrictions I cannot place the link to the mod)

The problem is I probably installed the wrong touchscreen driver, so the tablet boots perfectly into the Mod but I can't do anything.

Normally it would be no problem to just put back my backup, but I can't get it to boot into CWM.

In the first place I rebooted into CWM to instal the mod by adding the following command through the "terminal app" before rebooting,

Command: "echo -e 'boot-recovery\0' > /dev/block/nandf; sync"

Now I cannot use the screen so i cant use the terminal.

I also cannot use ADB because USB debugging is standard switched of after flashing a new MOD.

Does anyone know if there is another way to get into CWM??

Thanks a LOT!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christiantel:
Thanks a lot!

I will have a look
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christiantel:
Do you by change know where to get a working stock rom? I flashed one which i found using google a couple of times but it only results in a Boot loop (I have no luck at all!).

Thanks!

Update: found a stock version that works. But no my touchscreen is inverted.

Also I probably made another **** up, because I accepted the format option of Livesuit, so now I lost my backup.....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperiafan13:
ANDROID RAMDIZK FOR JB ON XPERIA U​

Hi all, my purpose is to create a mount point for the android system jb, according to knowledge, with modifications you can start ramdizk latest android on the same kernel.

ACCORDING TO MY EXPERIENCE IN JB ICS AND LIBRARIES USED FOR THE SAME IN THIS CASE MALI400 GPU, so it's nothing to make forced changes in the kernel.

What you need to do is make changes to the ramdizk.

You can obtain these files from a jb kernel and extract the ramdizk creating mount points for the start of the software ...

I invite you to participate and contribute to achieving ramdizk, I'm working on this ...

IN X8 SECTION, IS POSSIBLE BOOT ANDROID 2.2 AND 2.3 ON STOCK KERNEL WITH MODIFICATIONS ON RAMDIZK

Based on some reference books I read, an Android system starts up in following main steps:

CPU reads a hard-coded address which usually points to some bootloader program

The bootloader initializes the RAM, puts basic hardware in a quiescent state, loads the the kernel and RAM disk, and jumps to the kernel.

start_kernel() initializes subsystems and proceeds to call the init function of built-in drivers.

The kernel mount its root system (from ramdisk.img).

init.rc is then called to set up the environment variables such as system path, mount other filesystems, start native daemons and so on.

Now, to answer your question: "Is it possible to mount a ramdisk in Android before the Android framework starts, but after the underlying Linux kernel has started?" -- I think this is exactly what android did.

INITS

The fixes required for ramdisk.tar :

init.rc file should have 2 parts from original sony init.rc that are marked as #SEMC

add original init.delta.rc and init.delta.sh from sony or one of my ramdisks, those are responsible for service declarations.

THIS IS A KERNEL FOR GB, ICS AND JB NAA KERNEL

Ramdizk Inector tool

INIT FOR JB HERE

IM ALREADY HAVE THE ROM... IM NEED BOOTIMG FROM JB... ONLY INITS AND COMPILE THIS... WE CAN USE ATIS RAMDISK AS A BASE

PROGRESS

I AM STARTING TO WORK ON THIS

IM WORKING ON THIS...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DroidModderXtreme:
Interesting....i can help :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevSwift1:
You can close the thread

jb need new graphics driver into

KERNEL
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperiafan13:
NOT NECESARY....

REALLY NOW WHAT I CAN DO, NOT LIKE YOU, CM10.1 COMPILED FROM SOURCES WITHOUT MORE THAN BIG CHANGE CAMERA SOLUTION, NOT MAKE ME LAUGH, I'll show WHAT REALLY IS A JOB.

JB CAN WORK WITH THEIR DRIVERS FOR ICS AND WITH THE SAME BLOBS, already checked ON XPERIA X8
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevSwift1:
ok:) so show what you can do
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dd98:
could this mean a bug free jellybean?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] RockitOut11:
lol so you are comparing X8 with Xperia U? really? go on and do something then you smart455 LOL
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dd98:
it would be worth a try, imagine, jelly bean on locked bootloader
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bobthecooldad:
leave him alone he is the only one that is helping us and we have asked you all so many times to help and now someone suggest something you argue
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Little Zed:
Dear brother, I was a X8 user and a fan of your stock SGM CM7. I agree with the fact that stock ramdisk can goes a long way. But brother, it is not the same here in Xperia U. But I'm waiting for you to hear good news :)

P.S: Our X8 cannot run 4.0 and up well. You know that. And also CM7 is a big laggy. At some point, it will be same here for booting up JB with ICS ramdisk :)

---------- Post added at 05:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:46 AM ----------

We shall see :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperiafan13:
HELLO

Im already pack all files from jb ramdisk... Please test this with atis patch

REMOVED
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Little Zed:
You try first :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperiafan13:
im make the current changes to test this....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Little Zed:
Provide screenshot if you really booted man. :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperiafan13:
progress:

Well finally i can compile in tar format

already mount ramdisk, but this is recovery mode

IM NEED MAKE CHANGES AND DELETE SOME FILES IM ONLY NEED MOUNT SYSTEM AND ALL IS DONE
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SpaceCaker:
the method to properly pack ra.disk in tar is on atis112 his firedroid git repo,s ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Little Zed:
Waiting :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kwstas 13:
Sorry for spamming, i am not a developer, just a ROM tester and active member on XDA....reading all posts and i can't understand many things like TAR etc.... This trhead wants to achieve having JB on locked Bootloader? If so, this is simply great and KEEP GOING!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Hubaqu:
Ready to test! I don't care if I brick my phone! I just want JB on my xperia u LB! And leave [MENTION=4188661]xperiafan13[/MENTION] because he is the only one trying, if it works works if not thanks for trying! :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] RockitOut11:
you can also use winrar or ubuntu to just change the files inside one of the existing ones from atis, it does work afaik

i modified the current atis ramdisk with stuff from the XNovathor 4.0.4 Ramdisk in order to make XNovathor 4.0.4 boot on LockedBL, just drag and drop worked fine i guess, but yeah there are troubles in mounting some partitions, i think i forgot to change something lolz
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lespaul0143:
Hello,

Is there a way to disable the back key function during a certain app? I play a lot of Heads Up Charades on my phone and people don't understand that if they hit back, it closes the app. So, my question, is there a way to disable it while that app is loaded?

Thanks guys.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Juicyfru1t:
Hi, this is a question regarding ParanoidAndroid for Note II 4.3. I can't find an option to enable "kill all" or "clear all" in multitasking. Also, how can I enable dual panel settings for 4.3?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] mms047:
Hey guys, I m new in xda. Well I'm in a bit of trouble. think u guys can help me.

I wanted to replace my superuser app with superSU v1.45. I installed superSU and then uninstalled the superuser app from the onscreen option of superSU. And after that everytime I try to open superSU ,it says it needs to update the binary, then I need to choose a option between normal and cwm method. When I choose normal it keeps saying "Installation aborted." My superuser app is uninstalled and I lost my root.

So If there is any process of recovering my root again without flashing the stock rom again by odin, please suggest me.

***I m in stock rom now.

***Baseband version: S5360DDLC2

***Karnel: White karnel 1.3.3 build#62
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] TheFixItMan:
There are two ways - if your phone is already rooted but you just have a problem with the app then the best superuser app for our phone is

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su

once installed swipe to the right and then press update binary

if it says the binary is not detected you have to root your phone again

the best way to do this is as follows (note this will prob only work on stock based roms and not cm7 due to build prop)

download attachment

go into cwm

mount system

flash zip

select superuser by chainsdd

restart

once restarted use link2sd (playstore) to uninstall the superuser app

download the latest version of the app from the link at start of this post and update the binary as iv already said
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] mms047:
thank you markassmith . I will try & tell you if it works.... (t:thumbup:humbup)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] qhinton:
http://tpt.to/a3RmScK
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gameaddict8:
Would be cool if they did the same for the Max
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] B1GQ1B:
My brother traded in my old hero for the promo. Still waiting on HTC to send the refund tho. Got the 'your HTC Trade Up refund for your old phone is on its way! You should receive it within 30 days' email over three weeks ago. Kinda hoping I get it any day now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] qhinton:
The whole problem is they aren't paying anyone. I'm not getting the max I'm ditching sprint going lg nexus this time around.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
Looks like sprint is launching their own one year trade in program, like t-mo you pay installments for device.

http://m.cnet.com/news/sprint-preps-one-up-its-own-early-upgrade-program/57603017
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] joshuaw84:
Problem is that you end up paying for more than one phone and only get to keep one... Sorry I'll wait the six months. My upgrade is active every 18 months.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gameaddict8:
20 unless you have a special plan
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] MFOsaka:
Saw this too. Nothing on the market at least via Sprint makes it worth my dime. Figure if you're going to pay that much for an upgrade, you want the best. Considering ditching HTC with a few of you unless they can get their act together. I like the company, but I desperately hope that they (being HTC, not Sprint) don't go bankrupt.

I got my EVO in December for a dollar, so I suppose I can wait for a new phone until August 2014.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
Hmmm, maybe I misread it. It looked to me like you only have to hand over current device if you starting into one up from a position of not being currently eligible for upgrade, early adopter cost, essentially.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] joshuaw84:
You read it right, that's why I said I would wait.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
I am trying to upgrade my Virgin ROM to the 9.12 build but get a fail upon trying to flash it. The background.... I'm using TWRP recovery and have tried the chainfire root method. Here are the results:

As you can see you can see some conflicting information... all shots were taken in sequence. I'm thinking the fail in twrp is coming from the system not having root but the info is telling me otherwise....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
Bump... Anybody???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] baseballfanz:
Do you have the latest SuperSU version?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
I'm a little lost at what you are saying.

You flashed a rom, and it said fail, and you think it has to do with Root?

If you have TWRP installed it doesn't matter if you are rooted or not. It's going to over right the system partition regardless if you have root or not.

So it's either a bad download or bad transfer for it to fail.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
I do have the latest SU version by chain fire. And maybe I'm doing something wrong the because I am running the virgin gpe ROM now and that flashed in twrp with no issues. Now when I go to install (after wiping) and select the 9.12 update that I downloaded it hangs on trying to open the zip and fails... I haven't changed any twrp settings but in the write options of twrp what boxes should be checked because system is not by default... Thanks for the replies!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
I previously only used cwm so I'm not sure if I should just try that or what... And I've checked the download and md5 for verification
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
You can give CWM a try, I've been using it for a while without any issues. Out of curiosity what version if TWRP you are using? I think most people recommend TWRP 2.5.0.2. I'm using the latest version of CWM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] norml:
If all else fails, just start from scratch, get stock UVUAMDL tar, flash it with Odin, make sure to do a factory wipe after you flash it, sometimes bootloops occur if you don't. You don't even have to go past the first screen where you pick the language. Just shut it down from there and boot into download mode and root with Chainfire with Odin, then shut down and boot up again into download mode again and flash custom recovery tar of ur choice with Odin. Then download whatever custom rom zip and install it via custom recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
Thanks again to everyone... not going to have time to mess with it tonight but I'll update tomorrow. Thanks again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
heyyy saw your reply in my thread.

just as [MENTION=4917327]byron1985[/MENTION] suggested there, it sounds like you got a bad download. the flashing scripts are essentially exactly the same from previous version. the flashing process has absolutely zero to do with SuperSU.

edit: re-read. so you've verified the download. if you had success with CWM previously, i would go back to that. i do not use TWRP.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
Im going to give the twrp 2.5.2 a try as it seems most of my troubles keep happening on the 2.6.3 build. Hopefully that works either way its back to CWM for me as well. Thanks again for taking the time to help out and again sorry about hijacking the thread for a page... Your ROM is absolutely perfect so I appreciate the efforts and time!,

Andrew
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] th3h0ff:
SOLVED... tried 2.5 version of TWRP and all went well... odd but apparently my device doesnt like 2.6 versions of TWRP! Thanks to everyone who helped me out and gave me suggestions and thank you to the dev for taking some of his time to assist! It was a great help to me!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Good to know you are out of trouble :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mgbotoe:
See you shoulda said you were running 2.6.3 lol

word of advice (and to all who run twrp)

DO NOT RUN ANYTHING GREATER THAN 2.5.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuckoks:
I unlock the bootloader on my xperia z and then I rooted newest firmware 10.3.1.A.0.244 by following the instructions from hire http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2386405 . And everything worked as it should. Than I instal recovery and android 4.3 from hire http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2354328 . Then the problems started, I tried to install app via recovery, but android did not want to boot. I decided to go back to 4.2 with 10.3.1.A.0.244 kernel, but it was no longer possible to root the phone and every time when I install recovery android will not to boot. Is there any idea about my problem. Sorry for my english
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddhouse:
Do you want to stay on 4.2 or 4.3, just flash the kernel you need via fastboot or flashtool then that will give you a recovery to then install custom roms. As you are on a unlocked bootloader it is a lot easier to root just search for supersu cwm installation and that will root your device.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuckoks:
I want to stay on official 4.2 but to be rooted, i will try your advice. thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddhouse:
Okay then we'll look for doomlords stock kernel with cwm take the boot. Img out if that and flash in flashtool, then load up your phone and enter cwm. Flash rom you need (a lot of Roms are pre rooted. If not then once loaded new rom install supersu zip and there you are done. Kernel with cwm, custom rom and rooted device
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuckoks:
I am happy :) thank you very much
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtayabkk:
please help i flash doomkernel v 19 via cwm but after reboot mobile not turn on then i flash its original stock 2.67 kernel via flashtool my mobile turn on but wifi didnt works ..

then i flash

eXistenZ v4.3.5 ultra edition wifi now working but again : but cant install any of the kernels from doom kernel and others

please help
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddhouse:
is your bootloader unlocked to allow unsigned kernels ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtayabkk:
on *#*#7378423#*#* bootloader unlocked yes :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddhouse:
But have YOU unlocked it, that just says weather you can
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtGoldy:
Who's getting the combo or who has pre-ordered it already? Hell, who thinks its a waste of money?

Personally I've always been an early adopter so I will be pre-ordering sometime this week :good: