yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
Your firmware is updated.

Software is based on the rom you are running if you flash a 3.17 rom you will be updated in that area also.

As for dirty flashing it's not a good idea to dirty flash when going to a new base
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evoimevo:
thanks bigdaddy, I appreciate the response. Is there any downside to being on older software and newer firmware? I thought Captain TB or someone had said that the firmware and software are optimized to work together and shouldn't be out of sync. If that is the case I probably need to bite the bullet and go ahead and wipe and flash the stock rooted deodexed rom to get her the software update.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
Is it just me... Other than stock rooted 3.17, I'm not seeing any custom roms for this base. Im still using mean bean.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evoimevo:
I think it is kind of what bigdaddy was saying and what CTB has said...3.17 is the software update that brought the firmware update if done OTA. I believe what CTB did was extract the firmware so people could update the radio/firmware without installing the OTA or stock 3.17 ROM. So, you can have latest radio/firmware with CM10.2 for instance. In my case, my wife wants to keep stock as much as possible so I was trying to figure out best way to get her to most recent stock software without taking it OTA. I think the way to do that is going to be to flash 3.17 stock rooted rom. As you mentioned I haven't seen many/any roms built from 3.17 source if it has even been released at all yet. I moved to CM roms long ago and haven't used any Sense roms since meanbean 3.09 which last I checked hadn't been updated in months. There are plenty of CM10.2 based ROMs available that have tons of updates and fixes. I left my wife's stock because otherwise I get blamed every time Sprint or htc messes something up. This way I can say I didn't touch her phone. By s-off and rooting it and installing stock rooted deodexed I am opening myself back up to her wrath but so be it. It's better than her telling me 4 times a day that her phones says an update is ready but fails every time she tries to install it OTA. It's all about path of least pain. LOL.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
I would flash the new rooted base. As I mentioned before, I'm on mean bean 3.09 with the updated firmware from the Captains thread and all has been working great.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evoimevo:
Cool. Thanks for that info. I think I am going to do a twrp backup and a dirty flash of stock rooted first. I know that's not the best and most advisable route but dirty flashing is underrated. If things are wonky I will wipe and factory reset and flash again. Dirty flashing a new base on top of the old isn't THAT much different than getting the software update OTA. I trust dirty flashing more than I trust Sprint to be able to seamlessly deliver it. Probably do it tonight while she's asleep and see if she notices anything different tomorrow. I'll just blame Halloween spooks and goblins if things go wrong.
[HTC EVO 3D] ccgeogeek:
Here is the deal.

The usb port on my EVO 3d fried a few months ago when my kid spilled water on my phone. Everything else worked fine, so I bought some extra batteries and an external charger and would just swap them out. Never had an issue with it until yesterday. The phone was working but the battery was low. I shut it down and waited for all the lights to turn off, took the battery out, put a new one in, and hit the power button. Nothing happened... no red light, home buttons didn't light up, nothing at all. I tried to swap in two other fully charged batteries (stock and non stock) with the same results.

I've tried taking the battery out and holding the power button down, tried holding the camera button + power button, volume up/down and power button, and other various combinations in hope that it works. The problem is that I cannot connect a cable to the phone because the USB is, quite literally, melted - has been for two months.

Is there any hope? Or is this a lost cause. I am reasonably skilled with a soldering iron and considered replacing the USB jack but I don't want to go through the effort if there is an easier way, or if this is a hopeless cause...

BTW this is an unrooted phone...
[HTC EVO 3D] gonk24:
If volume down and power button isn't turning it on, I'd say it's toast. You're probably lucky it lasted 2 months after the spill. I wouldn't bother soldering a different usb port likely wouldn't even work even if you could get it done. The contacts/solder points are in very tight spots and a portion of the board itself could be bad since it was wet, which is causing the problem.

If you could get a hold of a really cheap 2nd device say with a broken screen, these phones are very easy to tear down to the main component and swap out.
[HTC EVO 3D] ccgeogeek:
Bummer, I figured that would be the case... I've replaced screens from other phones before. I guess I'll try that.
[HTC EVO 3D] gonk24:
Here's alink to show you the tear down:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1165986

You'd just need to switch out that board of components in the 3rd to last pic. I would suggest checking sites like craigslist first to see if there is one for sale in your area for cheap that you could just activate. I picked up one 2 weeks ago for $80 after I shattered the screen on mine. You should be able to find a broken screen one for darn cheap on ebay just make sure it has a clean ESN or it's going to be worthless.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rrambert:
Is there a way to remove or hide the quick panels from the notification screen? The space is wasted since my settings are already set and if I needed to make a change I could go into settings.

I'm rooted and already installed Wanam. Are there other ways to remove or hide quick panel.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] dfens:
I just unlocked my SPV-M5000 and replaced the orange 3G sim with a regular Vodafone SIM. Much to my surprise the phone after a few minutes of being on the regular 2G network picked up the UTMS network from Vodafone (the provider name changed and the gprs symbol changed from G to U).

The coverage was only 2 bars and I could not make calls on it anyway, so I changed my network settings from auto to GSM and now only the 2G network is found. I was wondering how this could have happen when using a regular non 3G sim in the first place.

I think the best thing is to get a 3G sim anyway from Vodafone. Is this something that vodafone would normally do. I would keep the same number etc of course, I just want a 3G sim instead of a 2G one.

Thnaks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] as400:
I am running an O2 XDA Exec and a Sony Eric 750i.

Have asked O2 to send me a 3G compatable card for the Exec which presumably will be the same number, not sure if this will automatically invalidate the original Sim or if this can continue to be run in my SE?

Any ideas?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zillocx:
Vodafone does not provide any seperate 3G sims. they just provide SIM cards and depending on the phone they are in they pick up the signal.

The o2 3G sims work in all phones......3G or not so I don't think they are any different. They could be.

But as far as Vodafone is concerned, they donot provide seperate SIMs for 3G/2.5G.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Slave1:
There is no such thing as a 3G SIM.

The clever stuff is done by your phone.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] jdee246:
Voda and O2 do it differently.

With Voda, any sim will do.

With O2 you need a 3G sim, which are different to a standard 2G sim. I believe this has something to do with enhanced security. Either type of sim will work in a 2G or 3G phone, but of course you can only get a 3G signal with a 3G sim and 3G phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlessandroXCV:
Hi man, I've a little question. Can I buy a Nexus 5 by the Play Device, using a PayPal account associated to Google Wallet?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lpganesh:
No
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tech_head:
Why not??

I have a PayPal MasterCard Debit Card from associated with my Google Wallet.

I use it all the time.

You just need a PayPal debit card on your PayPal account and use that debit card for Google Wallet.

Did I miss something in the original question?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evronetwork:
To buy a device from play store, google must have a play store for mobiles in your country

For example for Greece there isn't any play store for phones so I can't buy it from there, but I can buy it from other places.. :silly:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] md1008:
You can buy it on eBay using PayPal
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kid Poker:
you just threw an answer not even related to the question
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
I`am almost sure only Visa and MasterCard creditcards are accepted on Google Play. -Edit- Also Amex and Discovery card are accepted. NOT PayPal.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markdapimp:
Google wallet is anti paypal they are trying to compete against it so of course paypal isn't accepted
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frigidazzi:
As said above if you have a PayPal cc then it should work. No reason it wouldn't. If you want to use PayPal by just doing it without the cc then no.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matteventu:
Non puoi, non è possibile associale l'account PayPal a Google Wallet.

Se invece hai la carta di credito PayPal prepagata ( https://www.paypal.it/prepagata/index.html ) allora si, dato che fondamentalmente si tratta di una normale carta di credito prapagata come la PostePay.

--ENG--

You can't link the PayPal account to the Google Wallet one, you need a credit card.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amr Khaled:
PayBal cannot be used as payment method

Yes exactly, as mentioned on the Wallet help website, PayBal cannot be used as payment method,

Google Wallet can't be used with:

Wire transfers

Bank transfers

Western Union

Money Gram

Any escrow type of payment.

At this time, PayPal can't be used to make purchases on Google Play.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tien113:
Google doesn't support PayPal at the moment. You should use Google wallet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evronetwork:
The original question was:

"Hi man, I've a little question. Can I buy a Nexus 5 by the Play Device, using a PayPal account associated to Google Wallet?"

So from this sentence although not very well written I've said that you CAN'T buy nexus 5 if you don't have a google play store in your country(for example I don't have google play store in my country, I can buy apps, I can use google play but I can't buy a phone)

and you said "you just threw an answer not even related to the question" ..you might need to edit that mate :good:

Nice point ;-}
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedrmonkey:
You just said it there; it's a Mastercard. Google takes Mastercard so you're fine then.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tech_head:
I have my PayPal Master Debit Card attached to my Google Wallet and use it all the time
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordLugard:
Can you all stop conflating two different things??

A PayPal credit or debit card (Visa/Mastarcard) is OBVIOUSLY different from a PayPal account.

It's not rocket science.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedrmonkey:
Exactly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kid Poker:
He asked if he can purchase a Nexus 5 using PayPal or a PayPal issued debit card, not if he can or cannot buy the device in his country. Then his question would be "Can I purchase a Nexus 5 in my country?"
[One (M7) Accessories] fidoedidoe:
Hi

I'm fed up with audio quality of my HTC when connected to my Hi-Fi Amp. On headphones my HTC one sounds amazing, but when paired to my Hi-Fi amp I have to turn the audio levels on my phone and HiFi amp turned up to max just to hear the music at "normal" levels (this introduces back ground hiss / and distortion). There's an article here that explains where this is the case (in essence the output voltage from the headphone output is insufficient to drive an Hi-Fi amplifier).

Does anyone know where I can get a device (I'll call it a pre amp) that will convert (i.e. amplify) the headphone output to Line-out level voltages. I'm guessing a dock with line out would be okay - but my GF uses iPhone (with the same issues), so Ideally the headphone jack on my phone will connect to the pre-amp, with the pre-amp connecting to my Hi-Fi amplifier (the pre amp will be externally powered my mains adapter).

I live in the UK, so UK sources / experience be most relevant, but any feedback is welcomed.

Many thanks!
[One (M7) Accessories] TriBeard:
if you can find somewhere locally to buy/try out something like this it might work

http://www.amazon.com/Fiio-E07K-Portable-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B00A9LHLQ6

The posts I have read show some success with certain android phones, though it's by no means a guaranteed success. It works with some Samsung devices, and our phones support USB OTG/Host mode, so at least on paper it should work.
[One (M7) Accessories] xzyragon:
well if the amp you're looking for is anything similar to amplifying nicer headphones, theres a couple of options available for you to just flat out buy (for anywhere from $20 - $100), or you can just make one yourself from an altoids can for $10 - $20 if you know the basics of electronics and soldering.
[One (M7) Accessories] fishline:
Supposedly you can use an OTG cable/adapter to hook up the phone to an USB DAC (must be self-powered, as the OTG cannot supply enough juice to the DAC) and then DAC to the amp. I'll try it when I get home tonight to see if it works. I read that it's possible, but haven't tried it myself.

[update] I tried hooking up my AT&T HTC One to the USB DAC (self-powered, not USB bus powered) via the OTG cable. The stock music app still play music through the phone. However, fire up PowerAmp and the music comes through the stereo! Sweet sound...
[One (M7) Accessories] nushuth:
why not consider a bluetooth speaker adapter like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Speaker-Adapter-Bluetooth/dp/B004VM1T5S

i have one, connected to my hi-fi amplifier.

it's cheap, ands sounds very good!
[One (M7) Accessories] Fatmouse:
I am a huge fan of the HTC Bluetooth adaptor, it works great and has great sound quality for a bluetooth.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eduardovitalino:
Hi,

Sorry for the noob question but when I first turned on my brand new Z1, in manual camera mode there was a button SCN, for scene selection and HDR selection, ect.

After that, I updated both the camera software, and phone firmware to .257 and since I updated it, I don't seem to find the SCN option in the camera app anywhere.

Does anyone know if it was moved somwhere else, or the update wasn't done right?

Thanks
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 301stSpartan:
Doesn't have that option in 20 MP. Change to 8
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eduardovitalino:
Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinos3:
Which recovery you use, and why?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prashanthme:
In future..

Which number u call/text more?? and why :D

just kidding..

Usually the recovery one which comes with ROM..

because to install next new ROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul Blake:
Hospital recovery

Math recovery

"Stay in bed" recovery

This will be a whats the best recovery thread in a day cuz if people say that they use twrp cwm people will think that most used recovery is better
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sukkukikku:
I used cwm,cwm touch,philz touch, twrp touch.

Now on twrp.

I just want to try all of them.

For me I think twrp is best.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doctor_droid:
The one that comes wid the kernel :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midnighteight:
I use the one that is with the kernel, but I have also tried the TWRP and I like it very much!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daserds:
CWM 6.0.4.5 work fine for me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xter2:
CWM best
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rruready:
So my friend wants me to help him put a stable rom on his phone. Since I'm not familiar with this phone, I was hoping the good people of XDA could possibly give me some suggestions for a very stable TouchWiz ROM. He is currently running a cm rom and has issues with rebooting. Thanks in advance!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ddochi11:
Padawan V4.

And many of 4.3 roms are pretty stable as well. I experienced reboot issues with 4.2.2 roms, but not 4.3/4.3.1 roms.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] wasThere:
Hi !

My A100 is rooted and the bootloader is unlocked. It has TWRP custom recovery.

It is running ICS 4.0.3 (image version Acer_AV041_A100_RV16RC02_WW_GEN1)

System Update wanted to install Acer_AV041_A100_RV22RC02_WW_GEN1

I let it run. It downloaded the update and rebooted to Recovery. Nothing more happened.

I found a 56.26MB zip in /system/cache so I wiped Cache, Dalvik Cache and System and tried to flash it but it failed.

I decided to restore from my nandroid backup to get back to the begginig.

My question is: do I have to remove TWRP ans revert to stock Recovery for the update to be possible ?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] gpdas:
i may not recommend this update as chances for bricking are very high.

now why your update is not working?

whenever you unlocked the bootloader and installed twrp, it is very likely that you disabled (renamed/deleted) the file to run the upgrade. i think i have seen pio mentioning that to avoid bricking later.

probably other more experienced devs could give more clear answers and suggestions.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] chicinwang:
DO NOT install/update stock files on custom/and unlocked bootloader. It'll brick. You need to read pio's all in one thread about the A100, before you do any more. If you're wanting to flash stock firmware, you have to flash the A100 blob (bootloader) and flash the stock recovery first.
[G2 Themes and Apps] Hammer_Of_The_Gods:
Hi,

I have just remembered this app, I share it here:

Play Store

Original thread

It can be nice to change the look of the soft buttons :), I have not tested yet so I don't know if it works well and maybe it can conflict with some Xposed modules for the navigation bar...

Feedbacks are welcome...

:)
[G2 Themes and Apps] brackett5:
Doesn't work for me
[G2 Themes and Apps] cookie1203:
The guy that made the app made it to work on the nexus line. He didn't expect it to work on the g2. I tested also and as was expected it doesn't work. Steer clear of this thing until/unless the app developer okays it.
[G2 Themes and Apps] Elemenopee:
These work for me so far.

UDN - Needs Xposed and works really well. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270198

LMT Launcher - Awesome pie nav bar. Select #9 in Gesture input. Works perfectly on my G2.

G2 Exposed - Use this to hide stock navbar. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2477586
[G2 Themes and Apps] GetPatriotized:
Anyone find a way yet?
[G2 Themes and Apps] dpk3:
Just Found This :D

ok guys i found this app called "Floating Soft Keys *ROOT*"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhoadster91.floatingsoftkeys&hl=en

hope if works out for you guys :D
[G2 Themes and Apps] fr8cture:
Works fine for me but I'm on cm based rom. Also anyone know where to find more icons? All I find are recolored stock ones mostly.
[G2 Themes and Apps] glurak888:
There is an online gallery

Gesendet von meinem LG-D802 mit Tapatalk
[G2 Themes and Apps] Lowresolution:
Is this working on KK based Roms ?
[G2 Themes and Apps] lic3ns3d:
Nope
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sunseaker:
I'll be passing through London on Saturday and was hoping to pick up a K-Jam or Qtek9100 for my wife. Anyone know of any stores (not internet retailers) in London that stocks them (sim free)?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] skagen:
Several stores on Tottenham Court Rd in central London shoping distric have it, including one called Iniko or something like that. Just walk the street, you'll find it, mostly on the right side as you go north.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] aliendad:
again in TCR is a shop called Kamla 251 Tottenham Court Road

they have both in stock

(got mine from there, very helpful)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] davebo:
Might I suggest...

The O2 shop on Oxford Street? Only £79 or free on big tariffs.

Well, it all goes toward my bonus :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sunseaker:
Thanks. I'll go down TCR then and have a look.

Davebo, I am looking for sim free (unlocked and without contract). Surely O2 are selling them with contracts for that price.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] skagen:
Yes. I doubt they will sell SIM free - the point of the store is to get 02 customers! BUt you can definitely find that model SIM-free on TCR.
[Zooper Widget General] billab0n6:
Can we do toggles?

Like for example.. lets just say a wifi toggle.. I have an image in which I would like to put it at opacity of 65 and when I tap on it to turn it on. it will become an opacity of 100..

Are there any threads that teach how to do it?
[Zooper Widget General] kwerdenker:
This is only possible if you have Tasker. Zooper currently has no built-in function for this.

I think there was a tutorial on Zooper/Tasker integration but I'll have to look that up. If there is not, I'll put in on my (ever growing) Todo list.
[Zooper Widget General] krysdafur:
Actually you can. This is what makes Zooper so good, much better than the other custom widget app.

Insert your bitmap and set the opacity to 65

In the advanced parameters enter

For wifi connected

$#NWSTATE#=2?[bo]100[/100]$

For wifi on but NOT connected

$#NWSTATE#=1?[bo]80[/100]$

change the value between [bo] to your desired opacity
[Zooper Widget General] kwerdenker:
Yes, that would work to display the current state of wifi but his question was if he can do an actual toggle that switches the state of the wifi when touched (and then display it). That is currently not natively possible in Zooper.
[Zooper Widget General] krysdafur:
Oops, you're right. Zooper cannot toggle any settings. You will need another app to do that function.

billab0n6 - you can use an wifi shortcut app and link to it from Zooper's ontap action. I'm not sure how to use Tasker but Trigger (aka NFC Task Launcher) can create shortcuts.
[Zooper Widget General] jimfbk:
Tasker and Zooper integrate very nicely.
[Zooper Widget General] kwerdenker:
Tasker works really well, when you know how to set it up right. I already used it in my setups :D
[Zooper Widget General] billab0n6:
Tasker seems very very complicated to use.. I do know seeing them in the forums.. alot of advanced users are using them but from the way I see them talk about it.. it seems quite hard to set it up. .. sigh
[Zooper Widget General] Torgadden:
You can also use More shortcuts by chYK - available on play store - just link to it in on tap shortcuts. Hope this is helpful to you.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackroc86:
Just tried to install BluelightsV2 and it appeared to come up with an error while installing then went back to twrp. I chose reboot system and now it is sitting with a black screen and white SONY and seems to be stuck there. Any suggestions on what I might try? Thanks.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackroc86:
Update.

Found the proper keystrokes to get is shut off.

Press and hold the power button for or five at the side of the volume up key.

Remove your finger once you feel the vibration then press and hold the volume up button for ten seconds.

Now the phone begins to shut down automatically with a three-pulse vibration try.

Now turn the phone on once more normally as you are doing and also the phone has restarted.

Then I was able to flash the 10.3.1.A.2.6.7 ftf file and got it fired up again thankfully.