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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albert_htc:
Hi

I currently own an S3 and I'm considering getting the N5 as a replacement.

Either that or the S4 or HTC One.

If I buy the white version with an official black flip case, will any white be visible at the back ? Near the camera or buttons?

How loud is it for notifications, ring tunes and alerts?

How is the handsfree. I tend to only use it occasionally.

I have a nexus 7 v2 and find the color and brightness of the S3 screen to be better.

How is the N5 in comparison?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N-Forced:
Can't help you on the case as I don't have one, as for sound; the speaker on the nexus 5 isn't the best but it does its job. Seems like I have to turn the volume up louder on my nexus 5 while on my gs3 it would of been a little more like half way. Hands free can't help you there either as I don't use a blue tooth headset. As for the screen I kind of like the nexus 5 better, I didnt realize how saturated the screen on the s3 was until I ran the same app on both my s3 and nexus, can't believe how many colors I was missing out on with my s3. But don't base your decision on what anyone says here, go to the store and try out the demo units to see what looks and feels better to you.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psousa781:
If you like the S3's colors you may want to go with the S4. The N5 has more natural colors as opposed to the vivid colors on the Sammies. I had an S3 and so far the camera is the only thing I think it did better than the N5. Everything else I prefer on the N5.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Set8up:
Upgrading from S3 - since its screen glass replacement, the digitiser has been less than sensitive. So for me anything new is good.

Onto the Nexus 5 - So far there is a definite speed boost. Turned off the animation, it's a joy to use! The OS is much more responsive - touch gesture feels much nicer immediately. Due to having on-screen button, the useable screen real estate is lesser - but not by much - the landscape mode in most apps is more restricted. Currently down to 59% battery after about 3:30 hrs usage - a bit worrying. Getting the S4 delivered tomorrow - will see what it's like. I definitely miss S3's more comfortable feel in hand, Nexus feels a bit boxy around the corner - but that's just nitpicking.

On the screen - it's difficult to tell 1080p in most apps I currently used. (email, fb, etc) That's part in S3 had contrasty AMOLED screen that boosted the image's vibrance. Comparing the two reminds me of Sony Z's washed out screen next to proper AMOLED - but not as noticeable.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] setspeed:
I changed to the N5 from an S3 and although my S3 was heavily modded, I still like the N5 better, stock.

The S3 was definitely louder for ringtones & notifications, even when I had it stock. But the N5 is acceptable, and I've yet to apply any audio mods which will increase the volume - I know the speaker can handle it because I can play music through it pretty damn loud.

Not used the handsfree at all.

I thought I would miss the bright contrasty saturation of the S3, but after a day or so I didn't miss it at all. The N5 screen is really crisp, although the 720p of the S3 was acceptable to me anyway.

The battery life on my S3 was better when using a Samsung ROM (would easily get 5-6hrs screen-on time), but it went to hell in a handbasket when using vanilla ROMs. N5 has way lower standby battery drain, but drops quicker than the S3 when you use the phone. I've only kept the screen on auto-brightness, I'm not really prepared to manually manage stuff like that to increase my battery life. I could probably get better battery if I set it at 30%

But I prefer vanilla for almost everything, and this is the first time I have had an Android phone and I've not felt the desire to do anything more than root it so far. Everything just works (for the most part), it's fast, and it looks good doing it.

The camera is not good compared to the S3, if you want to just 'point & click' and get a decent picture. My cameras use is very sporadic though, and having a great camera not something that bothers me overly. It can take decent photos but I've found it time-consuming and more difficult to do so than with the S3.

The N5 is not perfect by any means - but no phone is. This just happens to be the one I prefer at the moment. A bigger battery and better camera and this phone would be hands-down the best in the world. Maybe next year, with the N6, eh Google?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supitsronnie:
I came from an S4. The camera is way better on the S4. The speakers on the N5 go up to about 75% of the S4's volume. Volume in certain apps like YouTube is really low, but Google is working on a fix. I can't say anything for Bluetooth, as I don't use it. If you like stock android, the S4 will be hell. I find touchwiz unpleasant to the eye and to use. Also, the battery on my N5 lasts longer than my S4. It is really a personal preference.

If speakers are a big thing to you, and you like HTC Sense, by all means, go for the One.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonykks188:
Dose anyone know when cm will be available for Verizon note 3???
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G8orDroid:
Probably never. Officially anyway. CyanogenMod usually stays away from devices with locked bootloaders and I don't think they recognize SafeStrap as an alternative. That said, some developer may decide to try port and SS installable Cyanogen version. If I still had my build setup going I might even try it, but I'd need LOTS of help. I'm not a developer by any stretch, but I can tinker a little.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diceroll:
Could see it for the developer edition. Safestrap can't flash kernals for right now from my understanding. On the S4 only kernals based from stock can be flashed. It takes a ton of work to make a stock based kernal able to boot AOSP, but I believe its been done.

Hit thanks if I helped you out.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 running Jelly Beans

Previous Devices: S4, Note 2, Droid Charge, Fascinate

Posted by a Indirect Verizon Rep that actually knows what your talking about.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brandonrz:
That's not what's preventing a aosp rom for our phone. The reason is you can't flash kernels in safestrap. And aosp requires a special built kernel... Plus, as much as I loved aosp on all of my previous devices, I wouldn't put it on my phone because it takes away the reason I got this device, you can't use the pen and all of the gimmicks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmorton10:
I agree 100%.

Running beans ROM now and I'm 100% happy with it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G8orDroid:
Correct. And the reason you can't flash kernels in SS is because of the locked bootloader (which is also the reason we need SS in the first place).

BTW: Cyanogenmod supports the s-pen. It just doesn't come with the proprietary Samsung apps.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bajasur:
This is why we need [MENTION=3247702]nitroglycerine33[/MENTION] bad. With his ROM you get basically all the aosp look you want but maintain the TW features and functionality.

We need to get him a device!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbh87:
JellyBeans also focuses on theming close to AOSP.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdmoore74:
Speaking from my Note 2 experience (currently an iPhone 5s owner looking to get back into the Android game) I always went back to Touchwiz roms even with my unlocked bootloader. I now feel that if you want AOSP or cyanogenMod get a Nexus device. The Note devices are just not made for it.

But this SS method sounds interesting (first time hearing about it today). If I get this Note 3 from the trade in a few days I can't wait to see it in action.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MissionImprobable:
Say what? You forget you are no longer in the land of Apple. Can't doesn't exist in these parts :p Need to hurry up and get more Dev editions in stock though or I'm going to end up just holding out to see if the M8 gets the features that will have it taking best in show.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xXJay_RXx:
I love Paranoid and AOKP but I also love Touchwiz. It really has evolved over the years and has become smooth. I wouldn't mind AOSP but it's not a deal breaker for me.....even tho I do own a Dev Edition and I'm able to flash custom kernels :D:p
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InhibitorIota:
After installing Quarx's CM 10.2 october 30th nightly (defy, not plus) the device seemed to be working normal but I then soon noticed that no internal storage is detected. (meaning I also could not install apps from the play store) Upon restarting, I go through the entire 'first time' sequence again and any thing I did before I restarted was not saved. I think this is because, when entering TWRP and going to mount, data is the only partition that it will not allow me to mount. Attempting to wipe the data partition yields the result 'unable to mount /data'. Is it possible to mount somehow in adb or terminal? Is anyone else having this issue? And is there any known fix? :(
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danarkin22:
Well , I had this problem too , but not with this ROM , enter in Motorola stock recovery , and make a wipe , after that , you should flash again a SBF , and put it again.. , or if you can still flash something , try to flash the 10.2 CM again.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InhibitorIota:
But it won't let me. :/ Like I said before, attempting to wipe the data partition just gives me 'Unable to mount /data'. Does that mean the partition is corrupted, or can it be mounted somehow in the terminal? This has really become a headache...

As an update, I actually was able to wipe in the stock recovery, but going back to TWRP now shows that both my data and cache partitions cannot be mounted (or still corrupted). Would flashing a new sbf fix that? I can still access cyanogen if I boot normally but it is the same as before, no internal storage and nothing is saved after reboot.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danarkin22:
Did you try to wipe data and cache in stock recovery ? I don't know if you will flash a SBF will fix that , try to wipe data and cache too , and after that if you can't boot , flash a SBF.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] swamks:
Hello all, I just bought a Xperia Ray, and it's kinda weird that when it's 40 percent, and I connect to my laptop it takes about 2 hours to get to 90 percent, but when I use the wall charger, it takes 5 hours only to get to 80 percent!!! And I've tried it a lot so far, it's the same story...anyone knows the reason?!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] flopticalcube:
The wall charge is not supplying enough current. Many are very poor performers. I charge mine with my wife's Blackberry tablet charger and that provides a steady 2 amps @ 5 volts. Most cheap wall chargers provide less than 400ma @ 4.5 volts.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] swamks:
interesting...so charging with the laptop will not hurt the battery in the long run?!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] flopticalcube:
Not at all. The charging circuit on the Ray will handle whatever is fed into it (up to a point). The laptop USB provides a higher and more stable voltage at the required amperage than the wall charger does so the Ray charges quicker. Finding a decent USB wall charger is actually not that easy. Most are garbage.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] stratoboom:
when my battery is about 10% my sd is disabled

a pop up tells it but i don't understand

macigian last about 2 3 hours....

meawhile i can't use my sd

my manual don't speak about it.

is a magician particular feature?

is possible to disable thi feature? i preferer only 1 hour but 100% working.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] findus:
No, my universal does it too and my Himalaya and Blue Angel used to as well, I suppose its an attempt to keep the unit powered for as long as possible so you don't lose data maybe?

Fin
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] vijay555:
It is a standard feature power saving feature. I think there's a bit of a Trinity-esque hack that might work around it, but don't hold me to it. I'll be investigating it at some point in the future.

V
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] woaisusu:
My father just bought the Tmobile note 3..but theres no chinese support.they cant read english...anyone can help? is there any rom support chinese?i mean the interface should be the chinese not only the Apps..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ZoneBlaze:
I've got the same problem. Got my mom a Note 3 for Christmas and I'm trying to find a ROM to flash that has TouchWiz and more language support. Wanna flash it before I give it to her.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dragonstalker:
There are 2 international MJ7 based roms. The Stainless and DragonsAir Rom, but support all languages on this device.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rijidij:
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes.

I was running Mokee 4.3, and loved it; but the battery life was terrible.

So I went back to White Rabbit 2.11.

Now I'm getting lots of reboots due to Errors in Telephony Layer.

My question is: Is it possible to take the RIL from the stock ROM and replace it in White Rabbit?

If so, which files should I copy?

Thanks
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotdog125:
Copy the bp_nvm_default folder from system/etc into the ROM.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rijidij:
Thanks. I'll give this a try.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rijidij:
Update - progress so far:

As per advice from hotdog125, I copied the bp_nvm_default folder from a nandroid of the (rooted) stock ROM.

I found it in the /system/etc/motorola folder in this ROM

It appears to be working so far - I will keep a close eye on it for telephony errors...

If others want to try the same, here are the steps I took. (YMMV)

Extract the bp_nvm_default folder from the stock ROM (in /system/etc/motorola)

Rename to bp_nvm_default.stock

Copy to phone SD card

On the phone, copy from SD card to /system/etc/motorola

I had to chmod the folder to 755, and all the contents to 644 (again, YMMV)

Rename the existing bp_nvm_default folder to bp_nvm_default.bak

Rename bp_nvm_default.stock to bp_nvm_default

Reboot...

My phone booted up OK, and everything looked fine. So I decided to push a bit further. :fingers-crossed:

Reboot into recovery

Clear cache and dalvik cache

Reboot...

Again, I had success! :)

A few points:

Steps 4-7 were possible thanks to JRummy's ROM Toolbox Pro (great tool - worth every penny! :good:)

A message appeared saying changing permissions failed, but after refreshing the list, permissions were correct. :confused:

I had to chmod each file in the folder individually - a bit of a pain, but it only took a few minutes. (I tried it in the terminal, but that definitely didn't work).

Baseband has defaulted to Central Europe 3.4.2-145. I'll leave it on that one for now and see how it goes.

On the subject of Baseband, I'm in the UK and have these available under the GB heading:

3.4.2-117

3.4.2-11

2.51

T-Mobile 2.51

T-Mobile 2.21

3.4.3-3

4.5.1-85

Any recommendations from this list?

Thanks
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rijidij:
Update:

No telephony reboots so far...

But the phone has got quite hot (while dark) on a couple of occasions.

Also, I couldn't get a connection to the Play Store this morning. Toggling Aeroplane Mode fixed it.

I might try one of the other basebands next.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rijidij:
Arrrgh! I spoke too soon!

RIL bug has struck 3 times since last night... :(

Damn... I thought I had this fixed.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekguy:
RIL Bug is due to hardware issues. Changing the baseband will not help unfortunately:(

The best way to fix it is to use one of the later builds which have incorporated SlugZero's RIL patches
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sonnycohopie:
Hi,

So I have a SGS4 with ME7 and and unlocked bootloader. I am looking to upgrade to MJ7(4.3?) and be able to keep my full root. Is there a good way to do such a thing yet? Most info I see says MJ7 is only for safe strap, I have a custom recovery so I am not sure if it will work or if it is worth it. Please advise and help me....

Thank you in advance!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kdo23:
If you are on ME7 you only have safestrap, which is not available for MJ7. MJ7 upgrade while retaining root is covered in the general section of this site. There are files you need to download and first install MI1. There are no rom options but the benefit of a rom are little on ME7 as you can't get off TW and are stuck on 4.2.2 becaise of kernel limitations.

Read a bit but I took the update from ME7 after losing MDK due to insurance replacement. Only if you really have a custom recovery such as TWRP or CWM on MDK are you losing much.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sonnycohopie:
I have CWM Touch Recovery V1.0.3.5 with my ME7 phone so it sounds like I should probably not take the update... I am pretty sure I don't have safestrap. I was on MDK then updated to ME7 and kept my unlocked bootloader and root. I just wish there was a way I could get 4.3 or 4.4... I will keep reading and searching... Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] zmedhaug:
You updated the radio I take it? That will show you on ME7 but have the MDK bootloader. Thus leaving your TWRP intact.

So anyway, I'm looking for the same thing. Not happening right now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Super Sam Galaxy:
Up until today I had ME7 *with* CWM Recovery. I have no idea how that happened but I think it had something to do with flashing Hyperdrive while I was on MDK. I flashed a ton of ROM's through CWM since having ME7. However, lately I started to have a few bugs that seemed to carry over even after flashing a new ROM (like intermittent boot loops) so I decided to go back to a factory image (without knowing the limitations of ME7). Since I was on ME7, my understanding is that I had to flash an ME7 factory image, which I did and *now* I can't get recovery back, aside from Safestrap. It's a bit of a bummer but I just wanted to post to point out that it is possible to have ME7 and a custom recovery, it just seems like it isn't possible to flash a custom recovery *after* you have ME7. If you got it, keep it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kdo23:
You didn't have stock me7 which was my meaning. You had an me7 rom I think is what you're saying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Super Sam Galaxy:
Well, it wasn't stock ME7 for sure. I think it changed to ME7 when I first flashed Hyperdrive, but was that way for a while on every ROM I flashed after Hyperdrive so whatever change Hyperdrive made seemed to be permanent. Or else I may have just been flashing ROM's that were ME7 by coincidence - do all ROM's explicitly set the baseband or do some just use whatever is already on the device? I don't really understand basebands too well. Anyway, sorry about the mix-up, I wasn't aware you were referring to stock. I sure hope that someone is able to figure out a workaround that allows for a custom recovery because I really like KitKat and I suppose we won't be seeing any TW based KitKat ROM's until Samsung releases an update first. My understanding is that Safestrap only works with TW.

I find a certain degree of irony in the fact that I've never permanently damaged a device when rooting or flashing ROM's (which is pretty good for a noob like me), yet I've done something even worse just by inadvertently allowing an update that came straight from the manufacturer! Why do they have to make things so complicated? :crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kdo23:
Baseband is separate, your rom base is what we were referring to. The baseband change happened with a file you flashed for sure but likely not hyperdrive but a radio file. With a custom recovery you could have had mj7 baseband and custom recovery. Look at build number in the future.

Edit: build number can change too with a rom. Mdk is the only starting stock firmware which can be exploited to allow a custom recovery. Since you had one it meant you rooted on mdk and should not have odined to a later release.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshm.1219:
Absolutely impossible to have a custom recovery on an ME7 boot loader. You could've flashed a ME7 radio or a ME7 based rom such as HyperDrive but your boot loader is still MDK. Which is why you lost your recovery, you flashed the wrong factory image.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Super Sam Galaxy:
I figured out the part about not flashing to a later release after the fact, unfortunately. It was simply a matter of not thoroughly researching and it's a pretty big bummer now because I can't flash! But I suppose worse things can come of not researching, like bricking and thankfully that hasn't happened yet (though I'm certainly going go be more careful in the future). Thanks for explaining about all the baseband/radio stuff, that is a bit over my head. Sure hope an exploit for ME7 (or a way to revert to MDK) is found soon, though from the sound of it that isn't likely. :(
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] tiunilohmu:
I have done a little mod for our z1.

replace this bootanimation.zip at /system/media and change the permission to rw-r-r.

reboot and done.

2/4/2014

One more.

All jpeg files credit goes to Sony.

Just flash it using your choice of recovery.
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] funky0308:
Could you add some screenshots?

Sent from my Z1
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] gregbradley:
Seems to be the same just with the word Xperia highlighted underneath the swirly patterns..
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] SweFox:
Does anyone know any of those boot ani that you can find for lots of phones? I know for example the Z Ultra has one for it.

Obviously they are edited to show the specs of the phone but yea.
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] funky0308:
It's very simple to create Bootanimation...

You have simple txt file desc.txt in which you can set resolution, loop animation and first animation.

You have great tools for creating animations...

I have few of my own but just can't find time to create new ones ;)

FUNKY0308 ANIMATIONS

Sent from my Z1
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] SweFox:
Wow, my post was badly worded.

What I meant was.. Some boot animations have this bios boot animation reading the specs of the phones etc. So I was wondering if someone knew if it existed for Z1 :)!
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] novaymawbowo:
Honani bootanimation. Thanks for share..
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] gregbradley:
Those bootanimations don't really read the specs for the phone, they are made up of images just like all bootanimations. You could just take the ones already in existence and resize the images in the .zip, change the wording on the images and then put it on your Z1
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] funky0308:
Or just download that "bios" Bootanimation, open zip and find desc.txt file, open it and change resolution to resolution of your phone ;)

Save and put bootanimation.zip in system/media :)

Sent from my Z1
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] SweFox:
I'm aware of that.

I was going to do but no. I saw one for the Z Ultra and can't find that damn post anymore...

Download "that"?

Does anyone know where you find a bios template?
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] funky0308:
Yeah...just download.

We don't all in our pockets, mate.

Use Google search, not XDA and you'll find it without any problems.

First result is what you can't find!

Just use Google and find resolution for your phone.

XDA LINK

Sent from my Z1
[Xperia Z1 Themes and Apps] SweFox:
Why would I want a bios bootani for Nexus on my Z1 :)?

I've googled and there are lots of bios bootani but how does that help me. You can't just edit the text from the png like that so it's pretty useless.

I could wipe the current text and redo all 100+ pictures but thats lots of work, hence why I asked here first.