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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Minchir:
Hello guys. I am new to this forum (reading a lot, but not writing) :)

Today I got my S4 i9500 and I am very happy with it. I got my Huawei 8800 pro for 3 years, so you are understand, that I am not a fan of changing my mobiles every year:) But I am really like to read about changes in mobile world and, of course, reading this forum:) So I got some questions, that little bit bothering me:

1) I am from Lithuania, Europe and I am thinking of updating to 4.3. Read, that region does not really meter, but would like to confirm this information for i9500.

2) Played some games, almost everything running smoothly, but, for example, in game "Dump ways", when there are level, when need to tap to kill bees, when I got 4 bees on screen, it is getting notable lags, so it is really strange for me, that in such game I am getting lags.

3) I am got 1 year international warranty, so I would not like to loose it, so for a year or maybe half, I am not planning to root my device. So I would like to ask, if rooting your device is boosting it, that "medium use" user can definitely notice changes?

Thank you in advance for answers and sorry, if questions are very "noob like" for you:)

P.S : Delete please this post, moved to another post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] slaakker:
Is it just me being impatient or is anyone else disappointed in the amount of development for our phones? Is it due to the security issues or good old sprint running good people off? If it wasn't for the unlimited data I would have left ages ago.

I mean no disrespect to Josh and Freeza. They rock! Just would like to see some options. I watch the threads for other versions of the note 3 and it seems like there are more developers there.

Cheers
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] tt281gt:
Give it time. The phones been out for 2 weeks. Holidays coming and with that new discounts. I'm sure development will come with time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Naddict:
see here, already posted thread for this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2490885
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khalil_y:
The capacitive button on my Nokia Lumia 521 are not lighting up at all, even in the dark. Is it like this by design? Or is this a hardware issue? I've only had the phone for 2 days and it's new from T-Mobile.

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cevi:
If hard reseting the phone doesn't help, then i think propably it's hardware defect. (bad or displaced flat cable).Bring it back to T-Mobile.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
The buttons don't light up at all on the Nokia 521s. STill a damn good phone though.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merwin:
Eh, try the next size up... Much better experience.

Now I just have to sell my 521. Know anyone who wants to buy one for cheap?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thals1992:
how much? and is it carrier unlocked?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urveshvora:
Hi,

I have a GT-I9100 SG II with no efs folder backed up.

I flashed the ROM once. however the IMEI has now changed to generic 00499.

When checked there is no .nv_data file present in the efs folder. Nor there is a nv_data.bin.bak file present for restoration.

I also tried to go on the stock firmware and re-rooted the phone, however still same IMEI number.

All functions work well. even I am able to make calls and receive it.

However somewhere I checked that normally nv_data.bin.md5 is used to verify the checksum of nv_data.bin and dump all the information in nv.log files.

When I check the nv.log files, it says

MD5 is turned on.

checksum fail

NV restored.

Does it have to do anything with thing generic IMEI 00499. Is there any way I can restore original IMEI for the phone (without a .bak file or .nv_data file).

Please help
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
No EFS backup = service centre or local mobile repair shop. Bit hard to restore something you don't have a backup of, dontcha think ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urveshvora:
Yes but what's the guarantee that they won't mess up more.

Do they have any tool to create EFS folder...

To avoid further more issues, thought of taking guidance from senior folks here..

Any advice???
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
You mean what's the guarantee they won't mess the phone up more than you already have ? :rolleyes:

Samsung service centres have equipment to 're-write' the IMEI to the device, and local mobile repair shops who aren't service centres might also have this equipment.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeFinooy:
hi everyone,

i have a Samsung Galaxy Note 1 (GT N-7000) on android 4.1.2

once a day it shuts down alone and when it restart i cannot access my SD card, it says "SD card is blank or has unsupportable filesystem", the only way is to format the card, i've done it but when i transfer something on the card it happens again.

please i really need help, i can't stay on formatting my sd card every day, and thank you :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawong:
maybe ur memory card was dmaged.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeFinooy:
i've tryed with an other memory card and i have the same problem well i think the problem is comming from the phone :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lionelia:
You should try another brand, mine went wrong with Sandisk, now works fine with Samsung SD card.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeFinooy:
the first one was a lexmark 8Gb , after this problem i tried a samsung 2 Gb and a sandisk 4 Gb but the problem always persists, it takes a while and then the device rebooted again and the same card problem appeared
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lionelia:
Maybe a rom related bug... Try to flash another one or restock your Note.

If the problem persist, you are probably facing an hardware issue. (SD card socket for example) :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeFinooy:
Thx i'll try it :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swampy59:
Hi All

I have spent a week trying to resolve this now and have trawled the interweb to no avail!

Here is my sad story:-

I bought a DHD from a friend a week ago, which was working fine. The phone was an Orange contract phone but he had paid to have it unlocked somewhere. After messing about with the phone for an hour or two I started getting annoyed with the Orange bloatware and decided to have a go at getting rid of it and maybe upgrading Android in the process. After a look around the internet I decided to have a go with the AAHK. Lovely I thought, this should be a doddle. How wrong can a person be? It's a week later and I am still trying to get the phone to work!

So, running AAHK (thinking of renaming it to AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!), the program went through the motions of rooting the dhd. AAHK went through the goldcard creation and I now have that saved on my hard drive. But when it came to root, the program said I had to downgrade first. OK says I, go for it! The DHD flashed twice and then rebooted into the white HTC screen where it stayed for the next few hours while I worried if it had worked or not. Seems the worrying was worth it as it has not worked since.

ADB no longer recognises the DHD and the phone will not boot. I can however get into bootloader and pull information about the phone when it is in fastboot.

Here is the information from the phone :-

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 0.85.0024

INFOversion-baseband: 26.09.04.11_M2

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: 0438

INFOversion-main: 1.31.405.6

INFOserialno: HT0CRRX02826

INFOimei: 356299042629434

INFOproduct: ace

INFOplatform: HBOOT-7230

INFOmodelid: PD9810000

INFOcidnum: ORANG001

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 4194mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: on

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: a3d4fa0f

INFOhbootpreupdate: 11

INFOgencheckpt: 0

INFOregion-id: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.004s

After more exploring on the interweb, I have tried the following

Flashing stock roms from sdcard and PC

Flashing custom roms from sdcard and PC

Upgrading the HBOOT

Read and tried copious amounts of things related to this problem.

I am pulling what little hair I have left out in sheer frustration at the moment but if someone can help me I would be one very happy bunny!!

Cheers in advance

Swampy
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascuals:
look at the top of the bootloader screen

It says locked, unlocked, s-on, s-off.........

Tell us

You have 0.85.0024 bootloader, it can be unlocked following htc-dev guide

or just download easy unlock bootloader tool http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2133336
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananagranola:
AAHK is retired. Use the Easy Ace Root Tool.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swampy59:
Sorry forgot to put that bit in :-

ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-0.85.0024

MICROP-0438

RADIO-26.09.04.11_M2

EMMC-BOOT

APR 12 2011,00:55:45

and I have tried unlocking it but as stated, adb is not seeing the phone. Tried the one you suggested and, as usual, adb error
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascuals:
Try upgrading adb or re-installing drivers

Time ago I'd the same problem, re-installing drivers solved the problem

Enviado desde mi Nexus 4
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swampy59:
Hi Pascuals

Thanks for the suggestions. Tried different drivers and re-installing adb drivers. No luck. Also tried on other machines running XP, Vista and Win 7. Still no joy, not one of the other machines would recognise the phone. After more experimentation, I think that it might be a problem with usb debugging not being set to allow adb. As I am unable to boot the phone, I don't know. The phone was set to debugging mode before AAHK ran.

Tried an Orange UK RUU but the CID was wrong, at a loss to know what to do next. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers

Swampy
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascuals:
Un fastboot mode

fastboot devices

It's recognized or not

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 usando Tapatalk now Free
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nodeffect:
Hi guys,

I'm not able to boot into android recovery. I'm using cLK. But after installing a ROM, I'm not able to boot into recovery, and the ROM won't boot, so I will need to boot into recovery mode. i tried pressing my power button for long time, but it doesnt boot into recovery mode, but trying to load the android ROM.

I'm a newbie on HD2 here, please help. Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukes91:
you need to keep pressed home + power until recovery appears :)

otherwise you can boot into clk by keeping pressed back + puwer and then select "recovery" to boot into your recovery...
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
Hello guys,

I have a really strange problem with my ringtones. Yesterday I installed a universal player , called TCPMP or smth like that. I dont know if that is related to my problem but I thought I should say. Today i missed a few calls because my phone didnt ring...at all. I checked in my ringtones folder (I use mp3s), and they didnt have any icon and when I tried to play them it said: " there is no application that supports this type of file", or smth like that. So I found smth in a thread here, and I editted the registry and my mp3s had icons again and the phone recognized them and played them again. BUT THE PROBLEM JUST BEGINS: the ringtone, the default one and the ones assigned, plays interrupted. U know, like an old cassette , or better saidlike the memory would be very full and the ringtone interrupts. Lets say a 10 seconds ringtone plays 2 seconds and theres a small pause and so on. It happens for every format: mp3, wav, mid. AND it doesnt happen when I play them in Windows media player. ONLY as ringtones. What should I do, besides a hard reset of course???:) Thanks very much.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
I have the same problem with the ringtone I have (it's a custom-made wave file, mono, 22KHz, 16bit samplerate, lasts about 1min 30 but usually never plays to the end ;)), I get the problem where it's almost like a buffer underrun, the audio cuts out for a fraction of a second, and then continues playing again, then does the same thing a few seconds later...

... I'm starting to think that it might be a CPU usage issue, too many things running in the background at the same time for the device to be able to play the ringtone and show that stupid animated graphic on the caller ID window when someone calls (I have pictures set for a few of my friends, but for everyone else it just shows the default graphic, I wish I could selectively disable it so only my mates' pictures show up, but I've not had much luck with that).

I've set my CPU to Turbo mode again, turned it off as it was using too much battery, so as soon as someone calls me I can see if it makes a difference to the ringtone playback issue :D
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Seahorse:
The issue is file associations. Once you add a new player mp3 ringtones aren't associated with Pocket PC Media Player & don't work. WOrk around is to use WMA ringtones (making sure that WMA is not associated with your new player)...
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
I've already tried re-association MP3 with WMP, to no avail, I tried hacks and patches suggested on another forum thread, and I tried the MP3Ringtones registry patch... No joy.

I'm beginning to suspect that there may be something tieing up the audio playback or excessively using the CPU, as I get slight jitter when playing back audio, and some MPEGs can't play back at full speed in PocketTV (for instance, there's one full-frame, 1300kbps MPEG file which PocketTV can't even render over 50% realtime speed, including in benchmark mode which doesn't playback any audio)...

... Currently in the hunt for many task managers to try and analyse the problem... Tried the one in the Airscanner Anti-Virus package, no joy (as I'm not 100% which processes are essential and which are extraneous to my XDA's operation) and I'm also looking for PHM Task Manager, but I can't get onto the PHM site and the download doesn't seem to be mirrorred anywhere.

The plot thickens yet more...
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
Update...

I've cleaned up my XDA somewhat, removed the O2 Active UI amongst other things, blah blah... I think I've managed to get the audio to stop cutting out entirely, but nobody's called since I've made the changes so I can't test it. Odd little thing I noticed, the audio glitches are happening every 5 seconds (regardless of when you start a file with audio playing / someone rings, triggering the ringtone playback)... It's almost as if there's a background process which is cycling every 5 seconds and using 100% of the available CPU for a fraction of a second... It's really starting to piss me off.

I have a fair few processes running when I check up on them using something like PHM Task Manager, but I'm not sure which processes are necessary to the XDA to keep it running without fuxoring it up... So I don't want to go testing purely on random choice. The audio glitching is definitely a regular occurence (every 5 seconds), very very strange...
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
Yes it's very annoying. Meanwhile I upgraded my qtek to the latest and it worked fine for a while. The ringtones were playing smoothly. But after that, I started to install some apps and games and now it's doing it again. I feel like throwing it to the garbage can. I heard that Pocketzenphone ****s up some phones and I have it too. Didnt try uninstalling it yet, cause it's really annoying to set it up after reinstalling. But I will do it soon to see if thats the cause.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] thorneh:
Same issue

I have the same issue on my XDA2i- ringtone tends to "cut" out for half a second almost as if the unit cannot buffer the information fast enough- although this happens even on low memory/bitrate ring tones. I have also noticed that when I am playing some games (such as Skyforce) it "pauses" for a fraction of a second fairly frequently- although this is less noticable in flight mode. I wonder if any of my other apps is causing this- I run Pocket Informant, SPB Imageer, Pocket Music etc. Something in me is also questioning the O2 Active software and whether disabling this would help. Do you run any of the above apps?
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
no none of the above. Alsi I've heard that spb apps tend to create problems sometimes. I suspected Pocketzenphone and after I reinstalled it , the ringtones finally work fine and smoothly. I had to do a backup on the memory card, after that I did a hard reset and after the restore, my ringtones worked fine. But I guess my Mms problems are caused by Spb pocket plus. I say do a full backup then a hard reset and after that see if the ringtones work fine. If they do, it means its a third party program issue. Good luck!
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
My XDA 2i isn't running the O2 Active software any more, thanks to this forum providing a method to stop it from running :D, and I'm still experiencing the problems. I'm wondering if perhaps the animated photo caller feature is causing the CPU to overload (having to render the animation and play the sound file at the same time...

I run SPB Pocket Plus, but I don't really want to uninstall it (if everyone had the same problem, there'd be loads of complaints on this forum about it, surely?)... I think I might have to give it a try, though.

Aside from SPB Pocket Plus and O2 Plus 1.6 and the small Switch app (by hfrmobile.com), I have no other apps running. I try to keep CPU load on my XDA as low as possible, to save battery life, but obviously there's still a problem somewhere.

The problem happens with the CPU set to both Standard and Turbo mode too, so this makes me then think that it might not be a CPU issue as much as it's a problem with the method the XDA is using to decode and playback the audio... But I've checked my file associations (a handy feature which forms part of Pocket Tweak) and the .mp3 association is associated with Windows Media Player, as it should be.

Currently cycling through combinations of Today plugins loaded, killing all other processes except for the essential ones, and trying various things out. Will report back in a bit, after I've gone to have my root canal done one one of my front teeth, oh the joy.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
LOL about your tooth problem.. :) Well I dont know what to say. It seems that for me uninstalling Pocketzenphone solved the problem. Myabe you should try upgrading to the latest unbranded formware , as I have.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Seahorse:
PocketTV is processor intensive and I don't like it. Try The Core Pocket Media Player - much smoother. Check that you are running in Turbo mode (Settings/System/Power/Processor).
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
I used to be able to run PocketTV fine in either of the modes, very bizarre. I think I had an underlying problem with the system, something fuxored up somewhere along the way... I hear that some of the other problems I'm having are fixed with the 1.04 radio, so I'm currently flashing to that.

I didn't install TCPMP before now because I'd heard it can cause MP3 association problems etc etc, I'll definitely give it a shot once I get my XDA up and running again (and if it doesn't still have the problem where it's unable to connect to the O2 network, a problem it developed earlier yesterday afternoon - probably because of all the messing about I was doing with it trying to find out why my ringtones were stuttering!)

On the off hand, you don't happen to have any links to a freeware CPU indicator app? I have a couple of free process manager apps, but the only one I could find which would show me realtime CPU usage was Pocket Hack Master, and I'm absolutely and utterly penniless right now (I truly know how it feels to be skint now that I'm a student, I don't have two pennies to rub together :() If you have any info, I'd love to hear it. If you're using PHM too, then fair enough ;)
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
The ROM flash worked, and I'm now running version 1.11.162 of the firmware with, crucially radio version 1.04. I read in one thread that this 1.04 update to the radio software helps to get rid of the stuttering ringtones, I've tried ringing myself a few times as I've been adding software to the XDA again, and I've had none of the stuttering problems I was experiencing before.

Give it a few days while this new installation beds itself down, but for the moment, we're looking hopeful! I think it's probably a registry issue or DLL issue, something multimedia-orientated is causing a conflict and leaving it there even if you uninstall it or reassign file assocations in the future... What a pain.

Anyway, it looks like the radio upgrade might just have solved it, and I believe you can upgrade the radio on its own now (see other forum threads for more info about this, I don't have the links to hand right now).
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
Well you've done well to upgrade, but I had this problem even with the exact version that you uograded too. I use that one now. Its not a firmware issue, but, as you said, a dll or association problem. And, about that tcpmp I would think twice, as the s.o.b. changed my file associations and the phone dindnt recognize mp3s at all. Do a full backup on your card before trying that one.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
Hmm, strange. I associated pretty much most of the files EXCEPT for MP3 and WAV with TCPMP, deliberately, to make sure that it didn't try to hijack existing registry settings. I might dump the entire registry to a backup file with PHM Registry Editor before I try associating the files.

I've also not turned on photo caller ID yet, it just shows the default window with the caller information without that dorky animated graphic.

I've also not installed SPB Pocket Plus yet, I'll have to try that sometime soon as well. I can remember the problem not starting to happen until a while after SPB Pocket Plus was installed though, so I'm not sure if that was the trigger for it or not. Hmm...........
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] leoking3:
Pocket plus might "kid around" too, as I suspect it for messing up my MMS receiving. I can only send, never get the mms. But thats another story. The idea is that, for some of us, Pocket plus also does a bit of a conflict there.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] thorneh:
Resolved it

My "pausing" ringtone problem was resolved simply be removing O2 Active software. The whole unit works better now. Installed SPB as well to customise it, and it looks much better now as well. The only feature I think I will miss is the "connection setup" facility where you choose either GPS or GPRS and it sets up connections. Is there any way of running this without the O2 Active interface?
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] johnk1973:
I've just had the same problem on my xdaIIi, although I've had the problem a few times before. I actually get very few calls so find it hard to pin-point when the problem starts. It's nothing to do with the processor (I've overclocked mine) and it's nothing to do with TCPMP, I've had this on my device for ages with no problem. Never had SPB Pocket Plus so that's not the problem (for me)

I'll tell you how i got rid of it and hope someone else actually finds out why it happens.

I simply backed up my device using xBackup, hard reset and restored using backed up file.

Problem gone.

Hope this helps someone.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
It's gotta be some kind of file association problem. Let's put it like this though, I paid for SPB Pocket Plus, and after I hard reset my device the problem hasn't reappeared. I probably did something else to it too (when I first got it I tweaked it to ****, to put it concisely), but aside from about two features, I don't miss the 'enhancements' SPB Pocket Plus gave me.

Shame, cause I paid for it 'n all. ;)