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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TabGuy:
Welcome aboard! Here's the first thing you'll have to deal with: Size. The Note 3 (I have a Note 2) will seem huge and you may get buyer's remorse. Most of us do. It wears off in a couple of days, though and then you'll wonder how you dealt with such a small phone.

1. I use Apex launcher. Why do I use a launcher? Because I like to change the number of rows/columns from the standard setting. I also like to eliminate the Google search bar. And, I like using gestures to go to apps. I use swipe-up for Google Now and swipe-down for notification shade. Why do I use Apex instead of others? No particular reason but it seemed to have the most available features for a free version at the time. I have since paid for it.

2, There are a bazillion apps. But, coming from the iPhone I would first experiment with keyboard replacements. Why? Because you can and the iphone users can't. Try Swype or Swiftkey. Swiftkey is amazing at guessing what your next word will be. Most of all, get used to swiping instead of typing. Once you get good at it it's MUCH faster than typing. Then show that off to your iPhone buddies and say, "Take that!"

3. If you really want to dazzle people with your new phone find a high def YouTube video (the Vevo ones are good). Playing a beautiful video on a large screen has some really powerful WOW! factor.

4. Some apps I use a lot:

Color Note - A great note and checklist app that syncs via the cloud.

Chrome Beta

Flixter for getting movie times and watching trailers

Gas Buddy to find cheap gasoline

Amazon App store. A free app every day. You have to side load it, it's not in the Play Store.

Droid of the Day - A new app suggestion every day

Timely - One of the most beautiful alarm clock apps. It also syncs with all your devices

The usual apps: Netflix, Pandora, Watch ESPN, HBO Go, Dropbox, et al.

5. I turn off Auto display brightness. I leave my Note 2 at full brightness all the time. The battery can handle this just fine.

I leave GPS, Wifi, and NFC on all the time.

Make sure you setup Google+ to automatically upload your photos

6. Don't go too crazy downloading apps. You may find your battery suddenly draining too fast. If you don't like or use an app delete it immediately so it won't eat battery.

Good luck and have fun.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmorton10:
Nova Prime because it is better than TW in every way.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Impuls3101:
Ok I will answer some of my own questions from using the device the last 10 or so hours :P I hope this helps someone else. Please add suggestions because I am still getting used to everything.

1. Nova launcher seems to be easier to use because it takes all ur tw settings and imports them. It makes it easy to switch between the two. I like the tw weather widget better though

2. -I still need to find a good email client that syncs the few accounts that I have together. I haven't looked into this yet.

-Equalizer is a really good app to put more bass or customize the sound of your music.

-Adblock plus is really nice to have while browsing the internet .. I always hated that I couldn't use it on the iphone.

-The adapt sound settings helped make my headphones sound a little better. I use an aux in on my car so it kind of sucks that they don't have profiles for different sources.

3. -Next Launcher is really nice to show people but I don't know if I could use it everyday and its 3x the price of other launchers.

-Real Racing 3 is a nice demo game but good old angry birds star wars 2 probably looks the best and it has a note 3 achievement :P

-slow mo camera is really nice but anything less than 1/2 speed and the image starts to look very grainy .. 4k really has a wow factor even on the 1080p screen.

4. Sketchbook for Galaxy is a lot of fun to draw in with the s-pen.

5. -I followed this guide for disabling some of the bloatware: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2478448

-I also disabled most of the air hover features because they are nice for demoing the device to someone but I probably won't use them. Plus I wear glasses and it doesn't seem to detect my eyes very well.

-People are reporting poor wifi and one of the settings suggested is to turn off network auto connect.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2472779 .. I experienced the problem but reset my router and it seems fine now.. not sure if its a software glitch or what.

6. -Here is a useful guide on how to transfer your contacts : http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/transfer-iphone-contact-to-android/

-The only thing I am missing from iOS are the nice lock screen notifications. If anyone has a suggestion please let me know
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mynameismolotov:
1. I have been using Nova for a while on my Galaxy Nexus, and use it on my N3 now too. It's not too bloated, allows custom number of icons per row/column, gestures, and resize all widgets. I used to use Apex, and that was really good too, but I switched a while ago to Nova because there was some feature Apex didn't have, though honestly I don't remember what now, and they may very well have added it.

2. SketchBook Mobile by Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and Inventor, among many other engineering-oriented programs) is kind of cool, it's a sketch program that you can do a lot with, and works well with the stylus. Not the most useful app, per se, but a fun "proof of concept" if you will, and it's free. I believe there's more options than the built in equivalent, though I haven't used either a ton yet.

3. Any high def media will look awesome. Show them Netflix streaming, or as someone else said, HD Youtube, or any other HD video. Even pictures taken with the camera look great, simply because of the huge high res screen. Pictures taken with the phone probably would look even better on the screen than ones taken with another phone with a better camera but worse screen, because it's still small enough to cover up minor imperfections, but big and crisp enough to really look amazing.

4. For a music player, I like PowerAmp. It's got a really good equalizer, and a ton of settings to play with. Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the interface, but it's not awful. You can also customize the widget as much as you want, in terms of colors, fonts, transparency, buttons, size, what's displayed, etc.

I also use UberSync for Facebook, which lets you use sync HD pictures from facebook as contact photos. You can also import birthdays into your calendar, if you want, and some other info from people's profiles. You can choose what resolution to use, how often to sync, and only use wi-fi if you want.

5. I turned off all of the Smart features and that kind of thing. I don't want to control my phone with my eyes or hand gestures, I want to use it with my hands or S Pen. Of course that's fully a matter of preference. Also I noticed that the setting to alert you if you walk away without putting the S Pen back in is disabled by default, so I enabled that. I still worry I'm going to lose it sometime, but that's just because I'm forgetful.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmorton10:
How are you using Adblock without root??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsohne:
I'm using Firefox with the adblock plugin and its working great. Firefox now flies on this phone.:good:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] CJSnet:
Hi, I am using ActiveSync 4 with Windows Mobile 5 on the HTC Universal Pocket PC.

I have 565 Contacts in Outlook, however Activesync only leaves about 100 on the device after the 2nd sync (all 565 copy successfully on the 1st sync).

I also have many Mobile Favourites organised into folders on the PC. Again, only a fraction of them ever stay on the device after the 2nd sync.

I have tried:

Deleting the partnership on the PC and PPC

Checking the Contacts filters

Copying all my Contacts on Outlook to a new folder to delete them from the PPC

Recopying them back to Contacts to recreate them on the PPC (works until 2nd sync)

Manually copying Favourites to the device (they appear correctly until the next sync)

Rebooting device between all the above

Please could somebody help?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsandroid:
Had to buy a screen replacement for my Nexus 4.

After the replacement i can see one distinct vertical line to the left. It's purple on white background.

I can also see it in recovery mode, but when i take a screenshot it doesn't show on the picture.

Is this a malfunction of the new screen, or did i mess anything up?

The screen i ordered missed the frame so i had to buy a front frame seperately and glue the screen to this.

I used this guide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe1I0MlpLI

everything went well, except one thing; when i connected the flex cable to the frame (check @ 23:19) i removed the little blue transparent plastic sticker, i thought it was a protective sticker cause my screen was new.. (the guide also said i had to remove a sticker if it was new)

but i found out right after it was actually supposed to be there.. i sticked it back on, though i didnt take care to align it 100%,.

This was the only thing i did sloppy..

could this cause the vertical line? think i'm going to open it up again and try set it straight if the line annoys me too much, but does anyone know what the purpose of this little blue sticker is? it looks like plastic so i thought it weird that this should lie between a cable and the frame?

anyone know?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex240188:
Not sure about the blue sticker but it's either a defective screen, or more likely a badly seated flex cable.

I haven't had to change a screen since my old Nokia n95. That had something similar. Though mine was a line of purple and the backlight would only come on if I squeezed the phone.

Taking the screen back off, removing and reseating the ribbon cable fixed this issue.

I'd say it's likely to be the cable because the colours are sent as rgb values.

In your case if your only getting red and blue to x row on the screen then that will appear as purple.

I'd be less likely to think that it's a screen problem because either the whole row would be black, or there would be specific pixels that would be missing an rgb and not the entire row
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StarScreamerX10:
Hi guys!

So my sister's xperia x10 wich will be mine in 5 days is kinna' broken. It keeps blocking( well, closing) after 10 minuntes of use and theres smthing strange, every time she turns it on the battery is 100%. Can u guys help me fix it because if I do it it will be mine. I think the problem comes from the OS but I'm not pretty sure! :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] ninjewbag:
Hello, I've recently completed the Bootloader unlocking method with Easy Ace Root Tool. Bootloader is unlocked and SHIP S-ON, I need to flash a rom. These roms require S-OFF and have no method to flash them with only an unlocked bootloader and S-ON.

So let me get this straight, us 'low level' and unexperienced users are left without any method to gain S-OFF privileges without following the

vague

guide provided at tau(dot)shadowchild(dot)nl/attn1/?p=411 Yeah... I can't.

Trying to find alternate methods I have only gone in circles and keep running into old how-to guides. The more I read the more confused I become. I hope someone can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Ninjewbag
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
You don't need S-Off. Flash a ROM in recovery, then flash the ROM zip's boot.img in fastboot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ninjewbag:
Good deal, thanks for the reply!

I put the ROM Android Revolution HD 9.0 on the root of my SD card, booted in recovery mode and chose the recovery option, I got the red exclamation mark icon so I pressed VOL up + power button which didn't work so I pulled the battery. I tried all above steps again but this time I was able to successfully get into "Android system recovery <3e> with VOL up + power button. With 4 options:

Reboot system now

Apply update from sdcard

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

I chose the option to wipe all data, said it could not find E:(folder name)'s and "data wipe completed successfully".

Then I wiped cache, then chose the option to apply update from sdcard, it said "Invalid operation" then "success rebooting by reason 00" and proceeded to reboot by itself.

Phone factory reset, I rebooted into recovery again with the same red exclamation mark error. Pressed Vol up + power and back into "Android system recovery". At the bottom in yellow text it says "E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command". I tried another "update from SD card" and recieved error: "success rebooting by reason 00" and reboots.

I don't have a nandroid backup as I read I needed Root to make one, but the phone still works fine as far as I can tell. I don't have a working simcard in it though.

Also from what I've read my eMMC chip may be fried so it looks like I'm retiring early. I'll keep an eye on this thread among others with the same problems.

Cheers,

Ninjewbag
[HTC Inspire 4G] RadRacer:
Volume + and power brings you to the factory recovery; you need to use vol - have you flashed a different recovery? If not, flash 4ext recovery through fast boot and try again
[HTC Inspire 4G] ninjewbag:
Thank you for the info! No luck finding the 4ext .IMG file anywhere yet, they're all dead links. I have the 4ext recovery.APK but that doesn't do me any good since I don't have root. Still looking and thanks again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RadRacer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31211732
[HTC Inspire 4G] turboyoshi:
You can install the app and then open the app and use it to manually download the recovery zip which you can flash or copy it to your pc and extract the recovery.img file and flash with fastboot. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself wiht the adb and fastboot utils as they come in handy.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ninjewbag:
Thanks for the reply but as for installing the 4ext free updater version, it wasn't on the market so I used android injector to place and install that APK. None of the options worked as they all give the same error "it seems your phone is not rooted, this option will not function" etc.

Nice! Wasn't expecting to find the 4ext recovery within the adbfastboot.zip. With that I was able to move on, create a nandroid and successfully install a custom rom, thanks! Was a little scared after rebooting, it took around 5 minutes to load past the "quietly brilliant" screen but is working fine now nonetheless.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RadRacer:
Glad to help. Wanna hit thanks? :P
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] SaintCrispin:
Hey guys is there any way to silence the camera shutter sound on the Galaxy Gear? With that thing making noise everyone pretty much knows you're taking a picture.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] polstein:
That's the idea. Samsung did it intentionally for privacy reasons. A dev will probably do a work-around at some point, but I doubt Samsung ever will give us an option.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] spinkick:
Aww yiss, creeper pics. I'd like to know too.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] SaintCrispin:
Ahhh I see. Thought I could go all secret agent on people and take their photo. I guess we just have to wait for a root and see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ArborRes:
Here is a simple temporary solution for you- Cover the speaker holes with your finger while taking a shot.

It mutes most of the sound, then. :P
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] SaintCrispin:
wow you're right that does work. thanks a bunch. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Ryland Johnson:
That's the whole idea, to prevent inappropriate use of the camera.;)

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I dread to think WHY you would want to do that? :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] bugluv67:
Definatley creeper status. But i suppose you could take a video and screen shot the pics you want from your phone!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Ryland Johnson:
Most of the population understand a mobile phone can have a camera and when its been used. A watch, I think not. I fear we shall all start to pay for deviant-illegal-inappropriate-criminal behaviour by a few irresponsible owners. I can see the day looming when the crap will hit the fan regarding this device and its camera? Remember all things good have the balance of being abused for bad.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] spinkick:
honestly, isnt it obvious looking, the way youd have to hold your arm and hand, etc. There are much cheaper, easier ways to achieve creeper status without an expensive nerdwatch
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] bugluv67:
With great power comes great responsibility.!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Comphakk:
Found a solution. Use snapchat and save the photos.

I notice a slightly bigger quality change though.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dragonthl:
Bad purpose :))~
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] R0CKSTAR3N3RGY:
If youre rooted. Push over a root explorer via ADB. Then navigate to /system/media/audio/ui and delete all the camera_*.ogg's.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] JasonRRob:
Install Wonder share mobilego for Android on desktop and download silent camera app.

No Root required!!! Only problem is that all photos are rotated 90 degrees. They transfer over to the phone fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] phi11yphan:
Exactly. 1. Root, 2a. install Null_ROM so you can 3. BT tether and 4. use Play Store (or 2b. ADB) to install a root browser.... then find\delete cam oggs.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] skoobz:
Yeah, but we already got the phone. got the watch. we don't want to start wearing the utility belt for more gadgets. since we aleady got the watch with us.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] patburk:
install

I'm using the mobilego app you recommended but the driver wont install because it wants me to enable USB debugging on the watch
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] JasonRRob:
Developer Mode

Go to settings, gear info, about gear, then click on software version a few times until it unlocks developer mode which allows you to enable USB debugging.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] patburk:
gear 2

ok i found that, this is a gear2, Tizen i think? will the android desktop app still work so i can install the silent camera?
[Windows 8 General] vaibhav1:
Intel. Passed

RAM. Passed

HDD. Error biohd 8

Dvd. Passed

Booth. Passed

Need help

I test my hp pc and it's show an error

Bioshd 8

How to fix these issues without combining hard disk

I will try tuneup utility but problem not solve..
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
Thats a hard-drive error at the firmware level, tuneup only covers the data on the drive not the drive itself.

Some people have reported system restore working (will delete your data though). Otherwise you are best contacting HP for warranty repair/replacement.
[Windows 8 General] vaibhav1:
I have a regenerate HDD sectors disk can i regenerate my HDD sectors ...and fix these error.
[Windows 8 General] vaibhav1:
I delete and recreate my partition but problem not fix

Bios hd self test show 7 unknown error in HDD
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
HDD sectors are not firmware. If repartitioning has not worked then the drive is faulty and you will need warranty replacement.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mdpatterson:
Just scouring the forums to see if there is any help available with my issue. I have a Verizon Galaxy s4 ME7 SCH-1545. Some of those identifiers are I believe redundant, nevertheless, I dont think I put all needed info about the phone in that description, because I dont know whats needed and what isnt. That being said, I will explain any details missing to anyone that can help. Im looking to root my phone, yes i'm aware of the void, and yes im aware of the brick risk. Like I mentioned earlier, I have the ME7 update(took it before I knew it was detrimental to not take it), and would like to root my device. I have tried the method on the XDA forums several times(the one that just came out recently) to no avail. I also tried the motochopper method. Nothing. The only progress i made was that now when i boot my phone, it says "Samsung" underneath that it says "custom" and then has an unlocked lock. but when I run the terminal app as directed by the dev who came up with the root for the ME7 update, im stuck on the ./pwn portion.....it says (permission denied). Now, also on these forums it mentions to ignore the permission denied and to continue the steps, well I do that too, and everytime I try and open the SU app(whether it be from the inherent SU app or another marketplace one) it always says that i do not have root....yet on startup, the custom screen is displayed...Im at a loss and so is probably anyone trying to follow along with the course of events i described. Like I said, obviously if more info is needed to diagnose the issue, I will provide it immediately. just because I didnt disclose it here doesnt mean I forgot, just that Im a noob and didnt know to disclose it. Any help with this issue would be much appreciated. Oh, and I assume based on all the other forums, that flashing a ROM with this OTA ME7 update is out of the question....let me know if I'm wrong. Thanks again for your time. Semper Fi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Naddict:
I suggest you read in the Q and A section and/or go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2417713 ..

And Semper Fi to you too ! Devil Dog!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Recovere:
Sounds like the SD card wasn't formatted to exFAT before you did the rooting process. Make sure you are doing this from an

external SD Card

and that it is formatted to exFAT. You can reformat it to whatever when it's done.

Also, I am on ME7 running Hyperdrive. You're looking for Safestrap after rooting. Make sure when you install a new ROM you also include the ME7 bundle when flashing, otherwise your phone will not boot up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] manoce:
also make sure the s is capitalized and c is capitalized when you enter in the sdcard command prompt. The cap and no cap is important.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Surge1223:
Im going to help you because you are one of the only new gs4 users I have seen that actually read and understood that me7 didnt allow for custom roms in the traditional sense. If the instructions below don't work then copy the output of terminal. If you don't know how then just hit menu in terminal and select email the results then just copy the text from the email and post it here.

In general:

1. Go to settings then select the header that allows you to get to the "about phone" menu

2. Tap buid number 7 times until it has said Development settings activated

3. Go back a menu then select developer options, enable USB debugging and deselct verify apps over usb

4. Go back to settings and select the header that allows you to select the "security" menu

5. Select allow unknown sources and deselect verify apps.

6. Make sure your extSdCard is formatted to exFAT, don't do this with windows native ability use an application. Then confirm that the folder "System volume information" isnt on the extSdCard. If it is, delete it.

7. Unzip the contents of RootforVZWS4.zip directly onto the extSdCard, then insert card into phone and again if you see a "System volume information" on the extSdCard while on the phone, delete it.

8. After running the ./pwn step and the ./script.sh continues to fail try this. Run ./pwn and after it completes type "cd /mnt/extSdCard" without the quotes and then type "./script.sh" again without the quotes.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] No0b3rT:
Okay so I have a MicroSD that I'm putting into my Xbox 360s xk3y. I thought I would be able to just plop in the MicroSD to the Phone and it'll pop up on the Computer lol. Obviously that's not the case.

My question is, is there anyway I can mount the SD Card on my computer, rather than having it under Portal Devices in My Computer

Sorry for the Noob question, I'm brand new to Android, I just got the Note 3 on the 4th and I also rooted it today (AT&T) :). So I've had an iPhone since 2007.

So if it's something really simple I'd appreciate it if I didn't get criticism for it lol. If it requires a Root as I said above I am rooted soooo yeah.

Thanks :)