yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
"Best" is a term that can only be determined by the user. Battery life can be influenced by running apps and usage/signal strength amongst other factors as well..

As there are several TW based kernels that work universally, and also because we usually do not allow "Best" threads to exist for roms or kernels as they spiral into arguments, along with the fact that the development threads are full of information already out there for consumption, this thread will be closed.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pshadoww:
As title, I really want to got transparent status bar but I like to use CM more than PA. Any way to get this feature? Thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rohit02:
Easiest way is using a launcher..Press thanks if I helped you..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Install Xposed Framework and the Gravity Box Module.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow Ronin:
xposed framwork and gravitybox worked for me on tmoble sgs3 running cyanogenmod 10.2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fndpena:
Really working? No issue at all?

On GravityBox thread there is nothing about CM compatibility.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TToivanen:
It works. Simply don't enable CM built in tweaks in gravitybox and you'll be fine
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow Ronin:
Yes. Only use what tweaks cm was short.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crus:
Hi

I have flashed the rom following the guide by MarrkDaviid (Thanks) - Fix Caller ID, install Google Play on the Galaxy S4 i9502.

I have tried changing it to 11 / 12 / 10 and none of it works.

I have also change the contacts phone number to look like how it was display when someone called me (04XX XXX XXX) and

it did not work as well. It didn't work when my contacts' number was 614XX XXX XXX as well.

Can anyone help me with this?

The phone has an Australia Optus and Telstra sim card in it.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crus:
Hi

Seems that it is working now if I put the phone number in my contacts in this format - 04xx xxx xxx

Can anyone tell me how I can make it work with the 11 number format? - 614xx xxx xxx

I now have both format in my contacts number so that the caller id work.

Please help.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Did you tried to change it to 9?

And did you wipe contacts storage after)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crus:
Hi nfribeiro

Thanks for the reply.

Just tried and change to 9 and I did clear the contacts storage,

but it still did not work.

:(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toppenkillen:
For a solid CallerID solution, check out this post :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47238118&postcount=38

My patch is written for SVA ROM 3.5 but I'm pretty sure you can do the same for SVA 2.5 or even the stock ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carlimdepocos:
Buying a i9502

Guys, I'm buying a i9502 here in Brazil and I have read that there are still some problems with it. was wondering if there is more customized rooms or just SVA 2.5??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crus:
Thanks for your help, I have been very busy with work and had not have a chance to try it.

Will hopefully be able to try that during Christmas period.

Maybe you can try what toppenkillen suggested to me.

I might read up on SVA ROM 3.5 and give it a go.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamszia:
do this ROM work on 4.3 version of i9052 ?
[Zooper Widget General] MrBiggzz:
Hi!

Could somebody tell me what the other possible values for #NCCONS# ???

I'm assuming that Ev or EVDOrA (if I use NCCON) is 3G. But since I have no 4G WiMax or LTE signal I don't know what the value would be. Also if I'm a GSM network it's not going to be Ev. I'm on a CDMA network. I just want to cover my bases that if I do release a widget that I get the proper values!

Thanks for your help!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renaissance18:
i flash the htc desire z hboot now i cnt restore my back up do i need 2 go bck to htc g2 hboot i need help plz
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renaissance18:
htc g2

thnks im trying 2 install ubuntu on my htc g2 t-mobile but i cnt cd ubuntu on the cmd
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
I think you will have to give a bit more detail than this if you want accurate help
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renaissance18:
http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
So again, need more information

In the fifth post from that link describes the type of info you may want to share

Also in the post I linked you has a link for how to install Ubuntu on the g2 which seems to be what you want

You need to explain all what you have tried and where you got stuck along with all info pertinent about your phone

Without this all I can do is write a guide for you which you have already read so... Yeah
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renaissance18:
(What it looks like after copied over to the SD Card)

1) Again, make sure you have your Android smartphone/tablet “rooted”!

2) You must have Android SDK installed or have access to adb.exe.

3) Make sure your Android phone/tablet is in debugging mode. Go to Settings->Applications->Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.

4) Connect your Android device to your computer via USB cable and set the USB mode to “Just Charge”.

5) Your Android device should be recognized as “ADB Device” under Device Manager. If not, install appropriate drivers.

For all HTC Android smartphones/tablets (such as G2 Phone, Nexus One), you can download Windows drivers here:

HTC Windows 64-bit driver download – Click Here to Download Driver

HTC Windows 32-bit driver download – Click Here to Download Driver

6) Open up a command prompt by typing “cmd” under Start->Search programs and files.

7) Browse to your SDK directory where you installed the Android SDK:

8) Then go into platform-tools directory:

9) Type “adb devices” to double-check your Android device is recognized.

In this example, I used an HTC G2 Phone, which shows up at “HT09SR204261″. This is fine. However, if you get an empty device, that means you didn’t install the drivers for your phone/tablet correctly. (Go back to #5)

im stuck at step 10 Type “adb shell” to enter the Android shell.

"Then type “su” to enter super user mode, then type “cd /sdcard” and “cd ubuntu” to enter the ubuntu directory in your SD card of your Android device." ← this part
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
So your device is recognized by adb, then you type

adb shell

And you see a # after su

But when you type

cd /sdcard

cd ubuntu

What happens, does it say something like no file or directory? This would mean there is no file on SD card named Ubuntu

Maybe if you can copy and paste all input/output from cmd here
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renaissance18:
after i type cd ubuntu it says on my cmd "cnt cd ubuntu" thts problm im getting
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guillermo095:
God. I've been looking all over the forum and apparently only me and ONE other guy noticed the massive stuttering and lag while using any web browser and Google search... Does anyone else also have this problem?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tabenf:
Mine seems faster than before mabe you have readinv mode or something enabled. Only problem I have is that stock browser reloads pages twice sometimes
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guillermo095:
It can't be that because I'm using CyanogenMod but I tried the stock 4.3 and it was still laggy.. I thought It was only me until I found someone who posted the same problem on one of the threads of 4.3 firmware.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
fine here
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerardo87:
Mine is really smooth with omega v13.2 :D

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plasmastate:
My performance is almost like 4.2. Maybe a little better
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
try enable/disable hw acceleration
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aresbv2000:
Touchwiz Browser is horrible comparing to AOSP one.So....use this free app on Playstore to install AOSP Browser and you will experience a fast internet browsing.It`s way better than Touchwiz Browser.Is working on MJ5 but you will need to get rooted in order to install it.Other thing that is great is that it syncronizes with Google Crome.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fuser1337:
Yes, Scrolling is laggy in Google search. but browsers work fine for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a67q:
Why I'm not surprised at all...?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tvercetti28:
I ve noticed significant performance loss in aosp browser when upgraded to 4.3 from 4.2.2, apparently this is related with HW accelaration not being applied while browsing, how can i enable or disable HW acceleration Bala?!

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
settings-> developer options-> hw acceleration
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tvercetti28:
Thanks for the tip:) Ive tried to enable HW acceleration but did not noticed any improvement while browsing in Aosp Browser, its still choppy and laggy, if any 1 fins a work around i would be much appreciated if you post it here.:D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] concesca:
i feel the same too...i use dolphin browser and it is lag very much T.T
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guillermo095:
There's something wrong here :S
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslak89:
Korean GS4 have been updated to MJC. (build date:10/26)

Now all third-party browsers which include SBrowser perfectly work as smooth and fast!

The initial release MJA have a same problem that scrolling is laggy in browsers.

Just wait for sams,

their weekend might be stolen..:banghead:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
Same here too ... i was using boat browser which run flawlessly on 4.2.2 since the upgrade to 4.3 scrolling is lagging ... on the other hand chrome is lagging less and seems to work better consuming less power now ... generally that ups and downs in some apps seem weird ... i have the i9500 btw
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tvercetti28:
Hope you are right, lets wait for the next builds updates and see if this issue is fixed.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Yeah, this issue is disgusting. Not only browsers, now AquaMail, which is my default email app for a long time, lags, along with many other apps! Yes, especially for those apps which need an internet connection! Changed browser from Naked to Opera, but no way I am changing all the other stuffs to just have 4.3! Hardware acceleration is definitely broken, enabling/disabling under dev option don't change anything by 1%.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tvercetti28:
Tried that too but with no sucess, saw no difference at all, you probably right, HW acceleration must be broken indeed.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anubhav Agrawal:
Everything is oky for me ..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Yeah I know :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
I think I'm the one the OP is referring to. I was the first to complain about browsing on dolphin. Now im on Opera mini as its the most fluid for 4.3. Even the email app is jerky. I use the email app a lot and boy I'm really getting pissed. I feel somewhat ashamed that I have to show an email to someone and when I scroll up and down it feels very choppy. I don't feel like I'm using a flagship phone at all.

Makes me want to go back to 4.2.2.

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I think I'm the one the OP is referring to. I was the first to complain about browsing on dolphin. Now im on Opera mini as its the most fluid for 4.3. Even the email app is jerky. I use the email app a lot and boy I'm really getting pissed. I feel somewhat ashamed that I have to show an email to someone and when I scroll up and down it feels very choppy. I don't feel like I'm using a flagship phone at all.

Makes me want to go back to 4.2.2.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
Browsing is fine for me, except Chrome who seems to freeze for few seconds now and then.

But, I have the feeling that something is slowing the device in the background. Maybe the Knox security system. Why I am saying this ? my device is fluid, scrolling much much better then 4.2.2 but still, the response is delayed sometime. It's like something is slowing it down.

Also , I get a lot of security warnings .... that silvery shield thing in the notification bar.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
I dont get those warnings. Have you tried using the stock email app? Does it feel fluid?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
I just tried it now. It seems ok for me. No hiccups. I am on BTU firmware. Stock launcher, stock rom, most of the things that could generate traffic in background disabled.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Yeah, same here all stock. I'm on the i9500 though. Your email app is fluid when scrolling up and down inside a message? What's your web browser? Do you use dolphin? Is it fluid?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
I just got a hint of lag while I was replying to a mail.

Browser: I use chrome, because of the bookmarks synchronization with desktop chrome. I found it to be really pleasant to use on DTB firmware, but the battery drain was too much , plus I installed N5 launcher and apps and I didn't like the performance after that.

After I changed to BTU, is still good, but it hangs now and then when navigating from one page to another.

Being used to AOSP browser, I tried this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser&hl=en , very good.

I just tested Dolphin for you, and is ok. Test reflow is working well, scrolling is good, not as smooth as Chrome and AOSP, but very close.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Well no offense, but I don't believe those guys who say the browser is smooth, because we all are running same firmware and someone's is smooth and someone's is lagging like hell don't make any sense. Either that or the definition of smoothness differs from person to person, what seems smooth to you will look like lag to me. Record a video if you wanna establish you have no jittery, not from phone.

As I said before, something is very wrong, even the official GMail app is lagging, only two browsers aren't lagging, stock and Opera (not classic one), but damn Opera doesn't even support flash! This thing is really irritating.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
I made a video test with 3 browsers, Chrome, AOSP, Dolphin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSO_3D4wAAU&feature=youtu.be

You tell me how laggy it is.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Thanks for checking Dolphin. I'm glad you are not feeling any performance issues browsing. I'm downloading the app you suggested. The email app is really bugging me still though. I believe Samsung should optimize the OS more as we should not be having issues like this especially in their native apps.

jujuburi - I think we are experiencing exactly the same issues. It somehow makes me feel better to think that I'm not going crazy or anything.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istampal:
browser lag 4.3

I tested all availale 4.3 roms and due to browser lag will go back to 4.2.2 .
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
I just watched the video you posted and I saw that all three browsers were fluid enough. Not as jerky as I would see on my phone. Is it probably because you're on a 9505?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Exactly same as mine, and others. Chrome, a lot less lag, AOSP, lag is very prominent. I didn't even notice the Dolphin part carefully as I don't like it anyway. On 4.2, that site would've been scrolled like butter!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
I think there's an issue with the browsers (and other apps like the email app) not fully loading the page hence when you try to scroll down its just starting to load it. Not like before, and not like what we see in the video of rsndetre.

Please do let us know if you're successful downgrading to 4.2.2 and tell us how you did it. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
I don't know what's the problem. What I can tell you is this. After I bought the phone, I messed with it. Usual stuff, root, custom recovery, etc. At some point, I formatted by mistake a partition from CWM Recovery. Since then I had incredible shutter while scrolling, even in contacts. Not matter what I tried, I could not get rid of the shutter until I installed 4.3. Now it's a lot better ... if not for the fact that I tripped the Knox flag while testing 4.2.2 roms :)

So many little things that can go wrong.

Anyway, I did a factory reset, both before and after flashing 4.3.

And yes, my phone is I9505.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guillermo095:
Yes becuase when you end up scrolling all the way down and then all the way up you can feel it's normal again, but then wait a few seconds, and its really laggy again, honestly this phone its f**ked up :S never buying samsung again. :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Umm, partition has nothing to do with performance, lag in this instance. One thing I noticed later that you don't have flash installed, installing flash makes the performance even more horrible! Chrome will never be able to show the difference, as it doesn't support flash.

The phone isn't really ****ed up, it's the new firmware which is a little bit. Let's see if Samsung fixes it or not, if it's a Samsung's problem, could well be Google's. Honestly people who use Nexus don't even notice this things. Some people do though, that's why this page is surging...

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59020
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guillermo095:
I just hope everything is fixed so cyanogenmod can work smoother
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsndetre:
I agree that 4.3 is not silky smooth, but is better then 4.2.2 stock. Some small performance loss came after I started receiving a lot of security warnings ... My guess, Knox is acting like an antivirus, anti spyware in background, scanning when the network is accessed. Hence some hangouts in Chrome when I am trying to open new links.

I should root and see what services are active. Remove Knox altogether and see if is getting better.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blasiusx:
I have very big trouble with hardware decoding in video streams and Browser with hardware acceleration . It seems like android 4.3 have basicly a bug with hw/hw+ acceleration. No more apps work correctly. With 4.2.2 there were no Problems. But i can't go back with the Knox Bootloader with FW MJ5. :( Look here : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59020
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Thanks for this link blasiusx. It seems that the issue is more prevalent to their supposedly in-house i9500 version... such a shame really.

"I really can't believe this! Upgraded my S4 I9500 to 4.3 yesterday and this was the first thing I noticed. Stuttering in third party browsers, email app etc, this is really unthinkable! This is a very severe issue, and I can't believe it isn't fixed yet. Going back to 4.2.2!

Shame Google."
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-xXx:
Maybe there is a line we can edit in the 4.3 roms to enable HW+. I'm sure there is.

I hope a good dev will take a look at this and come with a solution for us.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
I hope samsung / google takes notice and fixes this. How about those poor people who's not very keen at tweaking their phones. They would just suck it all up? :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Maybe, it happens for some apps, unfortunately for most of them in my case and the others are okay, like stock browser and all!

Just keep this topic alive until it's fixed, if ever. I personally will never be happy if things remain this way, no way I can digest this, especially after seeing a problem free 4.2.2. I really wanna go back to 4.2.2, but I've made whole system wipe and installed my apps again. I'm not doing that again, buy if things aren't fixed over a month, well Good Bye, I mean S4. I'm not angry, or annoyed at all, I certainly didn't pay 700 bucks for this, what's the problem with my friend's 1/5th price Micromax then? An upgrade should be an upgrade, not some half-arse effort (again I'm not blaming Samsung as I'm not sure that it's their fault), a new lock screen clock, 1 second faster camera and 2 seconds faster gallery and then break everything else! If they were not ready what was the point of this upgrade, who were forcing them?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Strongly agree with you. When the note 3 came out, I said meehh... I love my galaxy s4. Now that these issues are coming up, I'm having this sick thought of posting my s4 online to sell it and buy myself another "working" phone.

I use emails a lot and I can not put up with this jerkiness. I tried the google search app too and its the same. It's very jerky when you scroll down the first time. Only when you get to load it all up when it will go back to being fluid. Again, it was not like that before in 4.2.2.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Hey same here, that email thing is killing me. I need to send ~ 30 mails per day, only for work. I stopped surfing, stopped using Aqua Mail thinking it was lagging and switched to Gmail, but no benefit, and God knows how many apps are there which will lag, I had around 110 apps on 4.2.2, now I've 27, I'm not installing any app thinking it might lag. Enough nonsense. I would switch over tomorrow to a different phone, but what will I buy? After seeing this magnificent display, I don't really know what will please me. I just can't wait for S5 to be released to be honest..........

Now, as I said before, if it's Google's problem then no point in blaming Samsung, it could well be, see that how many users have reported the same issue with Nexus, really Nexus? I keep comparing i things to very bad things, now I just hope whom to those I laugh at don't get to know about this issue and laugh back at me doubly.

PS: Going back to 4.2.2, damn my warranty. If anyone has a Nexus here, I think that'll prove everything. Kindly try the same apps and give your feedback here, if it's same as S4 or not, running on 4.3
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-xXx:
As i said.. hopefully some devs will take a look at this problem and tell us what line to edit to enable HW+. After this, everything will be perfect.

For me i can't stand the 4.2.2. The stutters/lags in app drawer is horrible sometimes, the stutter/lag in logs is horrible also. So if we will find out what to edit in the 4.3 to enable HW acceleration, this 4.3 will be perfect.

On the other side... i bought this phone in May and now is November and i still cannot fully enjoy it. For me lags and stutters are not acceptable for a device which i paid 700euro for it
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
I hope too, but I'm not sure if devs are aware of this, maybe they are. But all of them are busy to make a stable kernel first.

Lag in App Drawer? Are you talking about stock launcher? I've never seen a lag on Nova! And the call log lags are gone? Gonna restore and check tomorrow then.