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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo3D:
Thanks, what about the Samsung Calendar widget?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YungMage:
Same thing everything works same with or without stock Launcher as long as you remain unrooted.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo3D:
If we root but keep the stock ROM, will everything still work as well? I don't really need a custom ROM but need to use Titanium Backup to copy my Smurfs game over to my new phone. I spent almost two years playing Smurfs and I'm really far on it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
Try Helium instead of TB, it's non-root.

Send From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YungMage:
Idk depends on who created the stock ROM and what system files/apps are left intact.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhtesem insan:
Most of samsung widgets does not work in other launchers. So S planner widgets also wont be working.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmaq:
If you have taken back up of smurf game app folder under internal sdcard/android/ data+obb folders from your previous Android device you can copy it to your new device. It should work from your last status until unless the newly installed smurf creates new folder structure.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
Then why do I have the S Planner widget on my homescreen in Apex?

Send From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhtesem insan:
You can't but you can have Google calendar widget.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogretech:
You lose the swipe up gesture to get the My Magazine function with an alternate launcher, don't you?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YungMage:
Yea but you can just put app on your home screen or better yet dl Flipboard.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] highway jones:
With Nova, can you still use the gestures to reduce the screen size for one-handed operation? I could not seem to do that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jp2dj1:
So, i love my note 3, so far. I rooted and installed Ds rom and l love it. Everything works perfectly, except for one thing my display is auto brightness itself!! I have auto brightness off, I have dynamic mode checked, and smart screen setting turn off. :(

Every time I start to play need of speed most wanted, it starts to auto bright itself!! :banghead:

Check out download the game and see if it happens to you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Actionx1:
It happens on mine too. It's a Touchwiz thing because it also happened on my S4. But once I installed CM10 on it that issue went away. I know it's annoying.

Nexus ONE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gonnapushthru06:
Did u go to display, screen mode and change it off of adapt display
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] breezy09:
Theres nothing you can do about it , its a feature in the kernel called brite and it happened on the S4 also. A dev is gonna have to make a kernel with it disabled. Its there so when the phone gets warm or hot it dims the screen automatically until phone cools back down and then full brightness comes back. There have been a couple threads on this already and i even took my first Note back and exchanged it and the second one does it too. Its software related hopefully samsung will release an update to take this feature out
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gonnapushthru06:
O yea I know that but it happens a lot less to the point where it isn't noticeable attached all after about a day of use
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] breezy09:
Yeah i unchecked everything and anything that had to do with auto-brightness and it seems to happen less now. Its just annoying i think its also in there to help preserve battery life but i bought this phone for the big bright screen hopefully a DEV will fix it with a custom stock kernel
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jp2dj1:
I think that's good news about my phone. I thought my was defective or something like that... :o

I did try lux and a brighter note apps, to see if that would fix the issue, but it didn't.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bobbyphoenix:
Yep it's normal. Nothing you can do except keep the temp under 90F. LOL I went crazy trying to figure it out myself. Once the temp gets over 90 for me, it starts auto dimming even with everything disabled for auto-screen brightness.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] inmnbob:
Does anyone know if there is a way to buy a backup charget
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] YiZK:
The cradle/dock? Or the actual wall charger?

//YiZK
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] inmnbob:
The cradle
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] wm2001wm2001:
I'd like to have a Charger cradle comes with Qi Wireless Charging. Therefore cable's no longer needed
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] calinormy:
If gear is selling well will se accesories soon....
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Ryland Johnson:
This is a duplicate thread as this has already been posted on.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] inmnbob:
Well then what's the answer
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Hardcore73:
I would like to know as well. Need an extra one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] traybent:
Does anyone know a way or know someone working on a way to unlock the sim card for sprint Note 3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] qwertyegg:
I'm wondering the same thing. Submitted my req 2nd time in 7 years today. But I do hope there is a way to do this by myself like say the autoprime's great job on S4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
It can be done through Sprint. The prices takes 2 days for them to get back to you. They call you back to verify your info then unlock the SIM.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fatspark:
Sorry to be so obvious dudes, but should the keyboard on my Exec light up?

Cant find the details in the manual, but have found plenty of references to it in various forums.

Thanks in advance chaps.

Fatzzz
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] AntGodber:
Yes it should, and it will. . . .if you are in a practically pitch black room. Above the words "XDA Exec" on your device is a whitish circle. This is a light sensor. If you cover it with your thumb and press a key, it will all light up :)

On the more permanent side you could edit the registry so it always comes on when you press a key. First you need to install a registry editor, i use Resco Explorer 2005. You can find it here http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer

Then drill down into your registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

ControlPanel

Backlight

AutoSensor 0x0 (1)

This is set to 1, edit so it is 0. Soft reset your device. That turns off the light sensor so the backlight always works.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] herpi:
What's wrong with:

Settings/personal/buttons/backlight/untag "enable keyboard sensor"?

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=30184&highlight=keyboard+light

Huib
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fatspark:
Thanks dudes, works a treat

Fatzzz
[Android Apps and Games] chrisstavrou:
﻿As I found myself having to repeat typing the same text (email, signature etc) I decided to create this app to assist me on the matter.

The app provides the next functionality:

- Copy from a predefined (favorites) list of text entries.

- Copy text which has been typed in the app.

- Overlay window which allows the background running app to remain active and able to paste the copied text from the utility.

- Floating window (can be dragged) or be minized to allow for better visibility of the background running app.

Does not require root access.

Permissions Explanation

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- System tools

Be able to start at boot

Google Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cs.csclipboardctrl
[Android Apps and Games] vaibhav011286:
where's the download link?
[Android Apps and Games] willverduzco:
I've added the Play Store link to the thread's OP.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kentcp73:
Dear all,

My Xperia S cannot detect by PC, even I called to Sony service centre, they also cannot help me over the phone and ask me send to repair. The problem is this phone are old and not worth for repair.

This phone detect new software update (currently is 2.3.7) but need to use USB with PC companion. I suspect the phone USB port got problem, although still can use it to charge battery but windows OS cannot detect and install driver on it. Tried few PC also the same.

My question is, is there a way I can download the firmware and I using wifi transfer the firmware to phone and flash from the phone itself ? (I manage to download firmware - LT26_6.1.A.2.55_CE.ftf but it need USB connection to flash it)

Appreciate for whoever can help me here. TQ so much.

Best Regards,

Kenny
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 424aca:
1) Try different Cable

2)No way to wireless transfer or anything

you need USB in order to update

sorry :(

edit:

did not notice you stating PC Companion

do what [MENTION=4681015]Ben36[/MENTION] says and use flashtool and flash the FTF that you have downloaded
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kentcp73:
Already try different cable...still the same..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
it's a common gingerbread problem, just use flashtool
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42009706
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
Anyone else have an ac router? My gs4 gets a 400+mbps connection and is n only I believe. But the n3 carries a much slower connection. 200 something mbps
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jocelyn:
S4 also has AC. My Note 3 is almost always connected at 433, but performance (page load time) is still a bit lackluster even for Tapatalk or simple Google searches. I'm on Sprint, but trying to get more opinions on this. I hope it's simply a driver issue that can be updated.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
I wasnt aware the s4 was as well. What router do you have? I have an asus ac 66u
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
I have the Asus ac66r and I Dont get access on my phone? Do I need to do something special?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jocelyn:
Same, and it's sluggish on 2.4 and 5. I tried resetting resetting etc, and it's not crazy slow, but compared to my note 2 it's much slower to load anything.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
I didn't seem to have this trouble on the s4. It does remind me of the s3 tho
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
Is everyone here with sluggish Wifi on the ac66u/r? They are the same router just designates if you bought it in store (R) etail or online. Still weird I didn't have this issue on the s4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jocelyn:
Same, my S4 is fine and I should say the Note 3 browsing experience is less smooth rather than sluggish. Regardless, I'm still disliking it as it makes the overall experience feel slower than my Note 2.

Edit - I just did a manual firmware upgrade to 3.0.0.4.374.979, which mentions nothing about performance. It feels a little snappier, but it's too soon to tell. Will post back after more use.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
I'll upgrade mine when I'm home. How many ac clients do you have? I might shut the ac off and see.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jocelyn:
It's still inconsistent imo. I have three AC clients; S4, Note 3, and WD AC bridge to our Samsung smart tv via Ethernet, but that's not on very often.

Edit - Can one of you download Signal check? When I turn data off, it stays on regardless if it's LTE or 3G and I feel like this may be the culprit.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
Do I need to turn ac on? Anything special I have to do to activate ac? Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoFanboy:
That's weird, I was just thinking about posting this issue. I also have a ac66u and on my HTC one the ac wireless worked great. It's barely working on my Note 3. I'm upgraded to the latest fw and everything.

As long as you're on your 5ghz ssid and have default settings (80 mHz) you'll be connected through AC wireless.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoff5093:
I just bought the Asus AC68U, I'll post if it has the same issues once I get it configured.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
I'll check when I get home. With signal checker do you guys have the auto switching enabled on the phone? It wouldn't allow me to connect to Wifi with what it deemed "slow" Wifi in an area where I got no reception. LOL
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
It's just weird to me. S3 always performed ****ty for me tho that was on tw based roms. I don't remember how the s4 was on tw. It spent most of its time on aosp. And for the life of me don't remember how the n2 was for me
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
Here is the s4 and n2 next to each other
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
S4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTvert90:
Anyone figure anything out about this? Think I'm gonna shut ac off on my router and see. Tired of my wifi being useless at home.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bd177:
Did you try changing channels?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jocelyn:
Change channel to 36 or 44 (Samsung bug that goes back to the S4), don't use spaces or underscores in the SSID name, and disable explicit forcebeaming under the professional tab. It's only been 24 hours, but I haven't experienced any problems since.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
I just replied to a question in the development thread where an N4 user, running stock 4.3 suddenly lost connectivity to his 5ghz router band, nothing changed on his phone but suddenly he loses connectivity to 5ghz band?

Of course this is a well known issue, impacting hundreds of users globally since the 4.3 update, and it got me thinking that just maybe the actual code written for the Wi-Fi radio drivers in 4.3 was overly aggressive in terms of the capabilities of the radio hardware in the N4 and actually physically damaged the hardware? Code can break hardware, we all know of devices that have been permanently bricked and became coasters - all because of bad code or a flash that went wrong.

What if the radio code written in 4.3 was to maximize signal strength to remedy the complaints of poor/slow Wi-Fi on many 4.2 devices, but was too aggressive for the radio hardware in our N4's causing it to basically overload and physically die? I've read of people who had no issues with their 5ghz channel (like me) then after updating to 4.3 completely lost 5ghz connectivity, and even after downgrading to factory 4.2 stock firmware STILL had no 5ghz connectivity. In my case after downgrading to 4.2 i still had no connectivity to both of my dual band Netgear routers, nor any other 5ghz band router I tried, complete 5ghz failure - downgrading to the same 4.2 firmware that had worked flawlessly before updating to 4.3! If it was just software then downgrading to the previous 4.2 firmware should have instantly resolved the 5ghz connectivity, right? If it worked without issue before then it should work without issue again. Except for many it simply remained broken, so it stands to reason that something else changed - i.e. the physical hardware was damaged.

Maybe that's why Google quietly shot out 4 different versions of 4.3 in an attempt to hide the fact that the radio code was too aggressive for some phones hardware? They perhaps toned down the radio code's aggressive push of the hardware, which might explain why some people don't have the issue, but it was already too late for phones with lower hardware tolerances and the damage was permanent.

I'm getting a replacement device from Google tomorrow and if the 5ghz band works out of the box on the stock 4.3 firmware, I'm highly likely to immediately downgrade to 4.2 stock as I have a strong feeling that its just a matterof time before i once again lose 5ghz connectivity just like the person i mentioned at the beginning of this post.

I suspect Kit Kat to use the same drivers as 4.3 so I'm staying clear of new builds until V5.0.

Of course if people regain 5ghz connectivity on Kit Kat I will stand corrected, but I'm willing to bet they don't - if functionality that worked fine on 4.2 can't be recovered by downgrading from 4.3, it's almost certainly damaged radio hardware, and no new versions can fix that.
[Nexus 4 General] THEBANDIT420:
Scary but probably unlikely I'm sure google knows the hardware limits of the devices and tests before it releases it. I mean google is generally try to play it safe then sorry like how high they set the CPU voltages.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
Google releases their ROM's for numerous phone manufacturers, remember that ICS was the first android version that was cross compatible across all phones and tablets, the idea that it was easy to mass implement.

Consider the price of the N4 - $250 for 16gb model, about 40% of the price of a Samsung GS4! And the old saying that you get what you pay for. Junky screen compared to the SGS4 and other top price phones. Crap audio hardware compared to the fantastic sound chips Samsung uses. And most likely many other corners were cut to be able to release a 'flagship' device for less than half the price of the next major Android competitor (SGS4). It's straight forward economics, you get what you pay for. And I don't think Google realized that the tolerance levels of the N4's radio hardware were as low as I think they actually are, which is why they have been unable to resolve the issue in 4 quickly released 4.3 builds! I think they knew that the first release boosted signal strength in most other phones but didn't expect it to actually exceed the tolerances of lower end components that had to be used in the N4 which packs in all the top features of a high end phone at half the price!

I would never buy an LG flat screen TV, I'd always buy the Samsung simply because it's better quality in every way. I'm not sure why my brain didn't tell me this when I bought the N4. It was too good to be true at less than $250 for the latest Android phone? I think it was too good to be true!!

Let's watch Kit Kat roll out and watch these forums fill with p!seed people who still don't have reliable connectivity, and never will because their phone is physically broken.

Again, the acid test is to downgrade to say 4.1.2 and see if your 5ghz band works and your 2.4ghz speed flies, because it did when the phone was released back in December 2012 when it ran 4.1.1 or 4.1.2. I'm betting it won't work like it did and you still can't connect with the speed and reliability you once had. And if you can't get 5ghz connectivity on 4.3 you won't ever get it again because the hardware is cooked.
[Nexus 4 General] 903tex:
You don't buy lg TVs yet you bought a phone made by lg......

You bought the n4 but yet to YOU the s4 is WAY superior to it.....

Then I guess you know what you need to do then.....

Smh
[Nexus 4 General] PJcastaldo:
Highly doubtful that the radio firmware is causing hardware failure. As for your example usually a phone bricks because something went wrong with the flash or an incorrect file was flashed and the file system is no longer accessible hence a black screen with no boot... or worse.. the the hardware its self isn't actually damaged.

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[Nexus 4 General] Johmama:
A few things.

1. It seems you fail to grasp the purpose of the Nexus program.

2. I doubt Google would release software that damaged the hardware on the latest Nexus phone. That's kind of the point of the Nexus line; development. Not only for independent developers, but also internal Google ones. If this scenario were true, it definitely wouldn't be the Nexus phone that got broken, it would be a different one.

3. Assuming that the Nexus 4 is of lower quality than the GS4 since it is half the price, citing "simple economics" as a reason is just plain ignorant. There is a lot at play here, the two devices aren't in the same situation. Samsung is trying to make money off of the hardware so they mark it up. Google is just trying to showcase Android and offer an affordable top-end phone, so they don't mark up the price. Plus, they make their money off of their services.

4. Head over to this thread and start flashing different radios. I'll bet you 3,000 Internet Dollars that one of those radios fixes your WiFi issues.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
So childish. I bought the N4 for thethe same reason most others did - it was sold as a flagship product for what was literally a 'steal'. I haven't had this many issues with a phone since I ditched windows and moved to Android when eclair came out. But I suppose this makes me a Mac fanboy now? Lol.

I actually have never owned a Mac - PC guy.
[Nexus 4 General] Globespy:
This thread was started because of an idea, based on a problem that I've struggled with as well as friends who ate all nexus guys.

It was not to bash LG or Google - I've been around on this forum a LONG time and have bought many nexus phones and tablets, and have enjoyed them!

The last Gnex was not priced at the level the N4 released at, yet at that time Android phones had been selling as much as iPhone, I believe around that time worldwide sales surpassed them for the first time. I understand that Google has a different business model focused on selling software (actually their main business is advertising) and want to market their products at a lower price point than hardware manufacturers like HTC, Samsung etc. But when you do this you still cut corners. I'm not alone here in saying that the screen and sound hardware used in the sgs4 is just better. There's no argument. I could have bought one but I'm a nexus guy and have been for a while. I bought a sgs4 for my Gf, she loves that TW nonsense. But maybe just maybe I have a point about hardware failure given that the majority can't resolve it even going back to software that worked before!

Anyway, your recommendation of flashing different kernels may work for a few, but from looking at the hundreds of posts on numerous different sites (most notably Google's N4 support forum), it's clear that the majority are still having issues, me included which is why I just ordered a replacement phone which success today.

You see, I actually like the device - with a few tweaks here and there it can be vastly improved. Screen gamma can be fixed, sound quality too with things like viper.

If a problem that didn't exist on a previous build still exists when going back to that exact build then you tell me why? Something else has changed.
[Nexus 4 General] Johmama:
When you say you go back to a previous version of Android, how do you do it? Do you have a flashable zip that you flash through recovery to return to the previous version, or do you grab the factory image from Google and run flash-all.bat?