yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buckwurst:
Getting out of the China Play Store

I can share my experience, it may be relevant for some of you. I live in China, but don't read Chinese, so obviously don't want to deal with the Chinese version of the play store. Note, I buy my phones outside of China and dont' know anything about rooting, so this is just about the play store. If you're in China with an international version OR you have a China version and you're seeing the China play store and don't want to, this is how I fix....

On international phones, Play store looks first at sim, and then at Wifi to see what country you're in and what store to show you.

1. Power off

2. Remove Sim

3. Turn phone on

3a. If you're in China, connect to wifi, then connect to VPN and choose whatever country you want the playstore to think you're from

3b. If you're not in China, proceed to step 4

4. Go to application manager and find google play store, click on it and then press "Clear Data" and "Clear Cache"

5. Then open playstore. It should then present you with the version of the country you're in (or you're emulating being in over VPN).

If you live in China but want to

buy

apps, you'll need to go to the google wallet thing (only ever got it to work on PC over VPN) and then use a credit card that is NOT Chinese. Strangely I use a Singapore CC, but play store seems to think I'm in HK, either way ok with me as not CN.

Good luck, hope above helps. Note, again, this is pretty much for international people/phones in China, not sure if above is relevant for people with China phone in other countries.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael1982t:
Update Nov14

Looks like the devs answered my help call, there's support for N9006 to5 RDLV. Enjoy.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khalid1393:
hello all

any one have orginal rom for this phone n9006 ?

thank you
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harcol:
I just bought an Chinafied N9006, and going to root later. But for now I use a market called Aptoide. Search for it. It has a lot of mirrored APK's from playstore and is not country specific. Hopefully you can find the APK's you're looking for
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael1982t:
Found this for you by searching on XDA. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2460126

I have tried or tested this but let us know how it turns out.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magndo:
HI there can u re-upload the file the hotfile server is done !!!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naviga8or:
My SM-N9006

Hi I have the Chinese SM-N9006 with Base Band Version N9006ZCUBMI3 Build Number JSS15J.N9006ZCUBMI5

I have the Google Play and Google music working perfectly fine. My Apps work without any issues.

I find sometime phone is a very sensitive and I am also feel that I am still not 100% knowledgeable of the phone capabilities. I have only had this phone for 2 weeks.

and also I cannot get it to link to he Samsung KIES. I feel like my Camera is not as good as it should be for 13 MP Camera, its dark and even with the light or flash, it seems very sluggish. I am looking for any advise from any one as to if they experience the same and what they have done to improve the Camera and the sensitivity of the phone as well any other issues that you may have that fixed your phone.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Criticalstriker:
can someone upload the https://hotfile[.]com/dl/232926252/272b320/i9502_FILES.zip.html file again? Because it appears that hotfile is permanently shutdown
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drsandeshdahal:
from the computer

open google play store on the laptop or computer, and log in with the same google ID as ur mobile device. Then you select the app and install. Easy. I did the same for FIFA, and lot of apps.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manika2:
sound volume

I do have the sm-n9006 and the sound levels are low on any condition

You maybe are the solution to my problem ..Do you know anything about this problem?? (the device is rooted fro the beginning)

thank you
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rn0rdin:
problem with cwm

when i wanted to install cwm

i rooted my phone

and then i installed cwm using multiple ways (odin. officiel recovery menu...)

but every time i end up softbreaking my phone (bootloop)

well the problem is the cwm i was trying to install and the version of the installed rom

the cwm for 4.2 won't work for 4.4 and vice-versa

so check the version installed on your phone befor chosing wich cwm will suites you

i managed to succesfully install all goole products

1-root my phone

2-install cwm

3-install gapps (respect the version installed on your device) :cowboy:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usernome:
Can anyone upload the files again ?

Thanks !
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shemeer:
n7506v playstor not working

i have n7506v orginal not3neo playstor notworking no arabic pls help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
Do you Kill Tasks on a regular basis?

and why or why not

which apps do you kill?

and what do you use to kill them, or what is your favorite task manager?

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NekroWolfen:
Can't stand having em' open(them all), once I'm done with an app, is killing time.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
They say in Linux that unused RAM is wasted RAM

And they claim that, apparently, the fuller your memory the better off you are

and they say your programs "arent doing anything" in RAM

and that killing it increases your CPU and Battery usage, as it took much more resources to close the tasks and reload them into memory, as opposed to "sitting there doing nothing"

So, if they arent doing anything, Why do they need to sit there?

I think its alot of propaganda by people wanting their programs loaded into your memory 24/7

The problem, as I see it, is that many apps just throw themselves into memory like crazy, even if you only opened the program once ever

MANY programs we likely seldom use, once a month at most.. and alot of those same problems load themselves into your memory automatically

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM AND HOW DID THEY GET THERE?

you clear all your RAM, reboot your phone, and THEY CONSUME RESOURCES cheekily loading themselves into your RAM

as if my start up / boot up time doesnt count?

GET OUT OF MY RAM

thats all I have to say about it

and I've used alot of task killers and apps that claim to disable startup items, yet, they still load into ram

their solution is "uninstall apps you dont use all the time"

thats not a solution.. thats an excuse to keep things gratuitously loading themselves into my RAM

If I dont use the program, I DONT WANT IT IN MY RAM.. until I use it.. then, it can stay there until restart, or until I kill it.. and then it should never appear again in my ram until summoned forth by my own finger tap

Is there really no actual solution to this, and instead, we have to listen to devs tell us all why we need apps in our RAM at all times

because I dont buy it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
"Unused RAM is Wasted RAM"

until you launch a game or apps you actually need..

then GOOGLE decides what should be deleted and the app you actually want to use next gets kicked out of memory

thanks eh

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
We should get a way to select which programs stay in memory and which are dumped from memory on close

any apps like that?

I have also used Avast Firewall to block certain apps access to the internet, and after a restart, several of the apps acted like it was their first time online, or like they deleted all the info and pretended not to work if they couldnt access the internet, and they were all programs that had no business accessing the internet. but also all programs that require this or that special privileged or control to your information.. leading me to the conclusion that they dont need that ability to access all your private data for the program to run, but so they can send it to themselves. Thus keeping their program in memory seems a high priority for many app developers

I have yet to find a task manager that allows me to truly control app behavior.. disable items, keep them from staying idle in memory, keep in memory if possible, etc..

I'm really hoping Piriform's CCleaner for Android will be the answer we're all looking for, when it comes out

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
Well, tried a thousand task managers, and I found only one that can help to give you full control of your RAM

its called "Android Task Manager" (ATM), by SmartWho

you can select which tasks get auto-killed after exit, which tasks stay in RAM, How long after you close the app it gets booted from RAM / How long it stays in RAM after you close it, and by far the most control & customizability of any Task Manager out there

most others are designed to "Kill Apps" but that doesnt solve the problem..

it is true that Unused RAM is Wasted RAM, but you also need to have control over what exactly is in the RAM, and what isnt, for it to be anything other than counter-productive and harmful to the performance of your Android System

I think this power should come standard in all Androids..

its a bit confusing to get all set up, but it does have Widgets in the "Android" section (of Yandex) and in ATM's settings you can specify an action for clicking the widget.

so now all my important apps are safe from ever quitting, such as swapps, floating keys, exernal2internal, etc..

and all the apps I bring up frequently (chat clients, etc) get to remain in RAM

and programs I often need to close in more of a minimize state (like Office, Notes, etc.) are now also safe from being kicked out RAM

and every single thing else gets booted out of my RAM, to be sure theres room for all the stuff I actually want in there

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lindsay02:
I always try to unload my phone APP, but always uninstall failed. :crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
ya, i've ran into apps that wont uninstall..

which is why the other thing missing is a better way to control apps behavior, at the launch point

Of course you can try to boot into safe mode and try deleting apps, you can force quit them & clear the cache then try to uninstall, but some apps you want on your device because they're useful, you just dont want them to start up by themselves at strange times.. and alot of apps wont stop being intrusive even if they are taken off the Boot list

There's just too much crapware out there disguised as legitimate programs because of an excessive amount of bad /poor/weak/unethical coders

it makes a strong argument for a 100 dollar buy-in for Android devs, like Apple & WinPhone have

however, the largest party responsible for the troubles we face is the devs of the OS itself. the android phone team.. for making all this possible

and 2nd to that group are the many ROM devs, the Telecom Carriers as well as the Private ROM devs.. many ROMs are actually made with stuff you cant ever delete, even in Superuser mode.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
Today I turned on my phone screen and SuperSU was just sitting there waiting for me, asking me to allow something called 10068 to have root permissions, I totally spaced out and hit the wrong thing with my thumb... 10086 is my Telecom Carrier company, i thought it was that.

it created a blank entry in SuperSU permissions that couldnt be deleted or forgotten, and every time I clicked "forget", SuperSU would crash

and there was literally nothing anywhere I could do to try and figure out what the problem was..

Avast didnt recognize anything either

and I have some blank space in my Apps folder too, like some invisible program or something

I looked through the running processes and couldnt find anything

It might be from Tencent, that would definitely be about par for the course for that company

I had to re-root my phone to reset permissions, but who knows what kind of malicious code was already executed by that point.

I swapped SuperSU for Vroot SuperUser, which gives me alot of control over boot apps, running processes, etc.. which I can use with Android Task Manager to manage most things..

anyway, its running pretty smooth at the moment.. hope it keeps up

but all this could have been avoided with a platform made for me, and not for malicious coders & Corporate coders
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
Sometimes, words are simply not needed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinarabbit:
Glad you caught the show, here you go bud
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
Thanks for the pic - it makes what I'm about to do even harder :(

This is not a constructive or useful thread. It's just yet another in a long line of rants by you against Android and Google. This is a development site, and we're not focused on negativity here (especially when it's incoherent rambling). Please stop creating rant threads.

Thread closed.
[Themer General Discussion] The "A" Factor:
I have Xperia L and can't use the Themer as it doesn't support for 782 x 480 resolution (Stock resolution of Xperia L) .

Can anybody having phone with 800 x 480 resolution share a ZIP of Theme here , so that I can download and try to apply it through MyThemes...???

First you'll have to Export theme by going to themer Setting > Settings > Advance>Export Theme

The Themes which are exported, are located in Storage>SdCard0>MyColorScreen>Themer>Exported>Zip Folder.
[Themer General Discussion] penreturns:
which theme you want to try?
[Themer General Discussion] The "A" Factor:
Lol ..

As I can't browse the themes , I don't know ...

But I got some names from the official site ...

Iconify

GTA V

Beautify

Reddit

Organize

Minimalize

I just noticed that I have to stretch the wallpaper in order to fit the Theme in whole screen ...

So basically I need themes with plain wallpapers ... (eg Iconify) .

Thanks !
[Themer General Discussion] penreturns:
Download from my Dropbox
[Themer General Discussion] The "A" Factor:
Thanks a lot dude !!!

If possible please share the following too :

GTA V

Beautify

Reddit

Organize

Minimalize

I'm trying to edit some values in it so that it can fit perfectly in Xperia L ....

BTW I'm not in a hurry , but share whenever you get time or send me via PM.
[Themer General Discussion] penreturns:
As requested. Here is the file
[Themer General Discussion] The "A" Factor:
You made my day :victory: !!!
[Themer General Discussion] penreturns:
No problem! Enjoy Themer :good:

---------- Post added at 11:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 PM ----------

I think mod can move this tread to Theme Screenshots and ZIPs :D
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] syncopath:
Can anybody help me? I have (what thanks to this forum I now know is) a Wallaby, with the original Windows Pocket PC Version 3.0.12039 (Build 11178). A week or so ago it went into a difficult state with the 'phone turned off, and wouldn't turn on any more, and the backlight only flashing intermittently. I could still use the palely visible OS. A soft reset had no effect on this condition, so after doing my best to copy all the files on the device to the SD card I bucked up my courage and did a hard reset. This restored normal working behaviour of the device, and of course also removed all data and everything I had installed, and also put back a lot of programmes I didn't want and had gone to considerable lengths to remove.

However, one thing I needed was missing from the Programmes: Notes. After synching with Outlook on my desktop I had back an only slightly older version of my Calendar, Contacts, etc., including my notes themselves. However, tapping on a note doesn't open it, nothing happens at all. And the Notes item has disappeared from the Start Menu

Can anyone tell me what is going on? Have I now got a new "improved" version of the OS in which they have dropped Notes? (This is what I fear!) Is there a version of the (presumable) programme executable for Notes for this version of Pocket PC anywhere on the Web that I could download? If anyone can tell me where, or offer any advice, I would be most grateful. Thanks in advance.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Rudegar:
it's a pretty old rom why not upgrade to a newer rom it's bound to have piles of bug fix's compared to your iceage rom :)
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] syncopath:
Rudegar, Thanks for your rapid reply. I am encouraged. What upgrade would you recommend? What could my old hardware maximally cope with? Would a newer rom give me Notes back?
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Rudegar:
i dont know you can get 2003SE for xda1's not sure if it have issues

and unless you missing notes is a hardware issue which i doubt very much it should
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] syncopath:
I got my notes back. What a relief. Once again I can read my shopping list! Looking through what I'd managed to copy to my SD card and browsing the contents of my Wallaby, connected to the PC via the USB cradle (using Windows explorer which, unlike pocket File explorer, allows you to see most files and some extensions, though the option "search" suddenly disappears from the right-click menu when you reach the Mobile Device or Card Reader) I found and got back most of what I was missing.

Many thanks to Rudegar for the help. And all others who have read and perhaps thought along. I'm still interested in upgrading if my hardware can handle it. On the other hand I'm a little nervous about flashing my rom (as I depend on my device for a lot more than my shopping list :)). I'm very willing to believe that flashing your rom is dangerous, as is pointed out on the relevant page. I think I need to do a lot more reading on this forum and associated sites before attempting an upgrade. Making a restorable backup of my present OS would be a good start, I think.

I hope this little thread is of help to anyone with similar problems.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Bumper03:
I've attached a picture showing that my cache and system partitions having a lot of free space. Is there any way to resize these partitions to get some more space for data? I'm asking it because on my ZTE Blade it's quite easy to do this, and I'm interested how to do this with Nexus 7.

Thanks, Abel
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrlovkim:
Every thing was working the day before yesterday then I went to backup and its doing nothing now. I have the International Note 3 SM-N9005 from The Netherlands. Any ideas whats going on?

btw already tried reinstalling USB driver then uninstalled Kies and re-installed and neither worked.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrlovkim:
Resolved I think.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] paed808:
This probably happened because of an update to google play, but every time I try to press an app from the search results, it doesn't register my tap or I have to hold it for a long time for it do go to the app page.

This only happens on Google Play.

Anyone else have this issue?
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] aloy99:
It seems to be a bug in the app. I experience this on my phone and my parents' phones as well.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] luq529:
The same thing is happening on s3.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Ilxaot:
It's every phone sadly. /:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCabana:
I'm facing a problem very similar to the one described in this thread.

As one can see in the picture, the screen gets all blue.

After trying so many things, I came to the conclusion it's NOT a hardware problem because if I go back to stock GB, the screen is fine.

It's also fine if i install ICS, with CWM 5.x.

On the other hand, if I go to any JB ROM, tryied many ROM's and several kernels (mackay, semaphore, devil, ...), all of them brings the same blue screen.

To me, it seems to be a problem with CWM version 6 or above. Which is kind of strange, because I couldn't find anyone else having the same problem, except for the thread above.

So my questions are:

1) is there a way to have JB, but keep stock recovery instead of CWM? Or maybe have JB 4.3 with CWM 5.x ?

2) maybe there's a place where CWM keeps its settings and I can go there to delete them and/or reset them?

Some history:

I managed to install JB 4.2.2 and it was working for over 1 month. One night my wife installed an app called Jater Calendar and started playing with its color settings. The battery went dry and the next morning the phone booted up all blue.

I've already tried to install that app again and try to find some "restore settings", but I couldn't find anything.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, some app shouldn't change CWM settings like that. Or could it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Just to clarify some of your questions:

-CWM 5.x.x.x is only compatible with Gingerbread and ICS. JB can only use CWM 6.x.x.x (as far as I've see for the S anyway). So no, you can't use CWM5 on Jelly Bean...

-I don't think CWM has this setting in recovery. Other kernels such as Semaphore with its own custom recovery might.

I took a look at the other thread and what xsenman and you posted, and this SEEMS like a hardware fault but isn't... I mean if colour corrections apps + advanced device settings don't work, then this is usually beyond the software.

Which version of Mackay have you tried- stock CM colours or Voodoo? Or have you tried both?

EDIT: Hold on a moment. You have an I9000B...

I9000B roms are NOT the same as the international I9000.

Hmmm.

Try Helly Bean- and make sure you get the I9000B version- and see if that changes anything. Or you could try CM builds for the I9000B (the code for it is galaxysbmtd).

I don't think its very likely but it MAY be due to the device (and therefore the kernels, even if they're only miniscule) being different.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCabana:
Thank you very much for your quick response.

"this SEEMS like a hardware fault but isn't"

It can't be! If hardware were faulty, it wouldn't work on ICS or GB.

"Which version of Mackay have you tried- stock CM colours or Voodoo? Or have you tried both?"

Both, 0.199 Final CMC and VC. Also tried Devil3 (CMC and VC), GearKernel (JB, JB3, JBPlus) and Semaphore JB 2.9.12b.

All of them load the logo fine for 1 second, then it flashes really fast and becomes blue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
I'm wondering whether its to do with the fact that you flashed roms that weren't meant for the I9000B.

Try flash this- make sure you download the I9000B version- and see if the results are the same: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2012061
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCabana:
Yes, I know that ... the versions of CM I am using are all for i9000B. I even tried the i9000 (without B) to see what happened. It's also blue and the touch doesn't work.

I also tried Helly Bean (the 4.1.1 or 4.2.2 version, I don't remember which), same blue effect. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Hmmm.

If you're on 4.2.2... Have you tried this as well? (sorry, I know I'm probably not helping too much but its better to try everything and see if SOMETHING happens I guess)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2105611
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCabana:
Yes, I had tried this one. It's the same file I downloaded yesterday.

The results are the same.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soryuu:
Damn. Then I'm sorry, I really have no idea what's going on :/

The only thing I can think of is to ask your wife what exactly she did before that happened using that app...

Or (I'm not sure whether this is possible so someone else may have to correct me) somehow grab a logcat. I'm not experienced with logcats so I can't help you here: but there may be a possibility that taking a logcat, especially during booting (because you mentioned something like it being normal for one or two seconds before going blue) might reveal something, but as I said, I really don't know...

Try PM a developer you can get in touch with and see if they can do anything about it.... Or alternatively (if you ahven't already) try post in the CM thread and pawitp might know something.