yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 Accessories] BCSC:
I have ordered cases from China too and everywhere else both OEM and knock off. I know a thing or 2 (or 67) about them. These are identical and that is why a minimum of 6 different case makers/sellers have branded them as their own without being sued..
[Nexus 5 Accessories] persianrisk:
Stop crying dude, someone will listen to you. It's not the end of the world. Also looks like I am not stfu.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] BCSC:
The awesome thing is that every time you comment you bump this thread to the top of the list thus increasing its value and helpfulness/exposure, so by all means continue. You only help with what I am doing.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] persianrisk:
Yes I have to say I have started to enjoy helping you in your crusade against cruzerlite
[Nexus 5 Accessories] Watcher07:
I really just need to be clear on exactly what's going on here. So, because Cruzerlite is a respected case maker selling a generic case for a significant markup, you're mad at them?

Hyperion makes good cases fyi, but let's not get stuck on that. This is business as usual. Volkswagen has been doing this for years selling parts for the Porsche at a ridiculous markup even though they're the exact same as the VW parts (same part number and everything). This is the common business practice. There's only about three tv panel manufacturers that sell those panels to all the other brand names to slap their names on. Food companies do it all the time with juices, cereals, crackers and such. The list of companies and examples can go on and on.

In a later post of yours on the first page you said this was about business economics and that if someone couldn't understand that then they should stfu, but you're not talking economics, you're talking ethics. From what I gather you're basically pissed that Cruzerlite is passing off a generic case as their own which in and of itself is good business but could be perceived as poor ethics. Anyway, just seems this is less a post meant to educate people and more to wage some kind of personal vendetta against Cruzerlite for some unknown reason.

I've never used a Cruzerlite case but after this thread I'm interested in trying one, though my Diztronic is nice for now. If you wanted this thread to be more educational, then it should have a less aggressive tone than "ZOMG! They're ripping you off!" and more something along the lines of, "Hey, there's these cases over here that are the same as Cruzerlite but at a fraction of the cost!". Anyway, just my .02 cents.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] BCSC:
This thread has nothing to do with being mad or any kind of emotion. It is about letting consumers know that they are being hosed by what was for the most part a reputable manufacturer. Imagine if Otterbox slapped their name on this and called it the O-Force, would you be fine with that? Would you recommend it to your friends at the standard Otterbox price of $30 or would you let people know that Otterbox has done this. As for your second paragraph, my comment was that this was NOT an argue about business economics. Originally it was about saving people money by not paying way over price for an item that is no more than a generic case. Kinda like posting a coupon code for screensavers. I will agree that the tone in the OP does come across aggressive, but it is in no way a direct attack. Just spreading awareness to nor overpay and save money just as the title points out.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] prateek2888:
My two cents, unless someone has held both the cases in his hands and confirmed that there is 0 difference, we cant be 100% sure. pics can be deceiving.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] techteacher2:
I have...am sure of this. Cases had different outer packaging, but both had the same cardboard insert and are otherwise identical.

I was a little disappointed b/c I ordered the Cruzerlite based on prior experience with their product and their reputation for producing quality cases at reasonable prices. I had actually ordered the cheaper one several days earlier and it shipped from overseas so it took forever to get here. I knew they were similar, but didn't really cross my mind that they would be identical until they both arrived.

For $5 it's a good value...I just wanted an option with a bit more protection than my every day case. Not mad about it, but walk away a little more educated on the topic.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] BCSC:
Thank you!
[Nexus 5 Accessories] mr_mojorisen:
Well this is a really stupid move on the part of Cruzerlite. Didn't they know that it would only be a matter of days before someone figured this out and posted the proof?

If you want to sell 6 dollar cases for 12 dollars, you need to maintain your reputation. This doesn't help.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] spicydicy:
These are fake imitation. I have a few of these and a real spigen one. They even have fake warranty cards, but the text is changed a little bit. They are labeled as NED HYBRID.

You get what you pay for.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] augoza:
So we should buy on their official website?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ta-wan:
Hello - Unofficial phone so I respect that you may not want to or can't help me.

This is a copy phone, looks and works just like the real thing but is not the real thing. Not sure what hard/software is different to a real one.

Model

GT-I9500

Android Version

4.2.2

Kernel 3.0.13

1313 V75

SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 25 09:48:20 CST 2013

Build number

JDQ39.I9500ZHUAMDE

Custom build version

1378866812​

If I hold Vol Up and Power I can boot into some kind of system test.

If I hold Vold Down and Power I get "android system recovery <3e>" with the options to Install from SD

Tests tell me that the phone is not rooted but is custom/not true stock.

-- I wonder if it is safe to try and root this phone?

-- Does anyone have experience with fakes? Any caveats when rooting/flashing?

-- Am I right to be suspicious that this ROM would have some spyware in it as this is my strongest motivation to get root and install a ROM I trust.

Thanks if you can help! :laugh:
[Continuum General] cncboy:
I love my Continuum but for the last two weeks it has been behaving badly...unsolicited reboots, taking forever to activate the phone, etc. My thinking is I've got nothing to lose by upgrading from Froyo (2.2.2) to GB in the hopes of regaining some performance. I'm a noob and based on what I've read here and other places I needed to downloaded the drivers, Odin3 v1.85, garnett_3.pit and SCH-I400-EG04-Ginger-Rel.tar.md5. Then follow these steps:

1. Download and Install USB Drivers

2. Download and Install Odin

3. Put phone in Download mode by holding Vol- and Power buttons simultaneously to get to Samsung Recovery Utilities

4. Start Odin

5. Connect phone to computer with USB cable

6. Wait until a Device is detected on COM port ( get a yellow box indication)

7. Map to .PIT file on PC

8. Map to .MD5 file on PC

9. Verify re-partition, auto reboot and F. Reset Time boxes are selected

10. Go...

Step 6 was never reached (device detection) when I put the phone in Download mode per Step 3. I left the PC-phone connected for nearly an hour and nothing. So I took a chance and turned on USB debugging and just plugged it in. Success! Odin indicated a device detected. Proceeded with the rest of the steps above to a point where the following messages appear in the Message Box:

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> SCH-I400-EG04-GINGER-REL.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

And I wait. And wait. And wait some more. After 15 minutes, still nothing. PC is quiet, too. When I've convinced myself that I've given it enough time, I dismount the PC/phone connection and the following messages appear:

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/005> Removed!!

What am I'm doing wrong or need to try to complete the upgrade? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

cncboy
[Continuum General] trailblazer101:
I'd try Heimdall, see if that'll help :) If you need help with that, let me know. Basically you need to extract The *.tar file using 7-zip, then load up each file one at a time in said program...

EDIT: it's been a while, but I remember this happening when I was using a wrong PIT file. I don't know if that's what's going on, but just an idea.
[Continuum General] cncboy:
Curious...

Thanks, Trailblazer. I found a video on youtube that supposedly does what I'm trying to do. I'd post the link but I haven't had 10 posts yet. If you're interested, it can be found on youtube. The title of the video is "How to Update Samsung SCH I400 to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread"

I downloaded the same pit and tar files that the guy in the video did. Are the drivers supposed to be anyplace special on my computer? I choose the default when executing the install and it created a folder at C:\Program Files\SAMSUNG. I'm running this on Win XP.

Thanks!
[Continuum General] jaycush:
The GB files need to be combined if you got them from here.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zohaer21:
hi

im making a cool phone skin for my jasjar...

the only thing is that ive mapped and replaced all the pictures (tabs or buttons whatever you wanna call it ) but cant seem to find and replace the voice call button..

when you hard reset youll notice that the dialer has a different skin than the one if you allow ext rom cabs ( the VTxxx.cab) to be installed..

there is something in that cab that not only signs on the intelli dialer but also adds the voice call button and the native dialer pad skin (note here ..that the colored button skin of the dialer pad is ALREADY present in the rom by default) but these are activated only after the installation of VTxxx.cab from ext rom

i was wondering

1) does any one know how to find /replace the voice call button

2)how can i enable intellidialer without the vtxx.cab ... through reg settings???

thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zohaer21:
does anyone have any idea of getting the intellidialer to work without the cab from ext rom????

thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cmartin:
hi,

I'm working on the same problem. I haven't found out how to get rid of the video button though.

The blue skin at the beginning (when you input your pin) is the default phone skin from wm5. The one you see after the VT Plugin CAB is installed is the custom skin. The VT Plugin CAB seems to mostly just set those Registry Keys. Here is also where the Intellipad extension is activated.

You can activate or deactivate custom skins in the registry HKLM/Security/Phone

Just install the VT Plugin CAB from ExtendedRom and check out those Registry Keys that are set.

I was able to replace all buttons except the video button. All except the video button are in the ROM from the beginning. I decoded and dumped the ROM and deleted the carrierlogo.gif and replaced the buttons (most buttons could probably be remapped in the registry settings above also). Now when the VT Plugin CAB from T-Mobile is installed I have a new skin except for the video button (it's still the pink button from T-Mobile). If I find something out I'll let you know.

I'm assuming the video button is hard-coded in one of the phcan*.dll files. I will replace my t-mobile phcan*.dll files with the files from the qtek ROM and see if there's a difference.

BTW: how does your "cool phone skin" look?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cmartin:
ok, I can confirm that the video call button for intelli pad is hard-coded in the phcan*.dlls. I have now replaced the t-mobile dlls with those in the qtek rom and now I have the qtek (green) video button.

I also found that the transparency color settings must be in those dlls also. I had edited the qtek buttons after noticing that those pink corners were being shown when the t-mobile phcan dlls were there. Now with the qtek dlls the video button has proper transparency, but the edited buttons didn't. So if you use the dlls from qtek you will have to use the same pink color as a transparency color if you want the buttons to show properly.

Now I just need to find out how to edit the Today plugin from t-mobile (the t-mobile icon). When that's accomplished then I will have accomplished complete "unbranding" of my MDA Pro ;-)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zohaer21:
hi

how could one edit the phcan**.dll... i tried opening it with resedit but that didnt work..

tia
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zohaer21:
here are the few pics..
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] zohaer21:
more...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] DudeXXL:
You like Motorola don´t you :-)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] wassa:
Edit the T-Mobile Today Plug in

Try this url. It is in German but you can get the message.

http://maisfeld.de/mda/index.php?action=artikel&cat=4&id=71&artlang=de tit works i tried it substituted the tzones bmp for a normal IE one.

change this reg setting and you can rename the T-Mobile plug in as well.

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Today/Items/"t-mobile"

use a reg editor to rename the "tmobile" to anything you want
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexile:
Just got my nexus a couple days and it's been great up until now. I recently thought I was recording a video and was dissapointed to find that not only did it not record, but won't record anything. Nothing happens when I press the record button in video mode. Takes pictures just fine, plays video just fine. Everything else is working great. I hope there's some simple thing I'm doing wrong but I know my way around an android phone and I don't understand what could be the issue.

Thanks for any help!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Blitzkrieg1321:
Hi. I just flashed Cyanogen mod 10.1.3 on my LG Optimus 4X HD. The problem is that now when I connect it to my computer, it doesn't read correctly what is on the internal memory and SD card. It's hard to explain but basically only certain things show on the internal memory and SD card. For example, I have a bunch of files on my SD card (I double checked by connecting it directly to my computer) and all the files are there, but when I look at the data on my phone, it either shows some things or none at all. And when I try adding something to the internal memory or SD card through my phone, it shows that it's there but it actually isn't. I'm sorry if I didn't explain it well, just ask questions if you need more information. Please help.
[LG Optimus 4X HD] kessaras:
if u cant explain it better then show us with screenshots. " To be there but is not there " is hard to understand !
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Flying_Bear:
Check data/media and data/media/0 folders. All your data is in one of them (cm in 0,stock in data/media)
[LG Optimus 4X HD] LGaljo:
I don't know if it helps, but you can run "media scanner" from Trickester mod app. Sometimes it helps for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PrOtaku:
Pls help, i bought me verizon samsung galaxy note 3 from a guy on craigslist with a bad IMEI number.

i understand that with a bad IMEI number i cant use verizon services but i can use GSM ones. also verizon samsung galaxy note 3 comes factory unlocked so i should be able to use T-Mobile, but i cant. i went to mobile network and change the preferred net work to GSM/UMTS but i kêep getting Mobile Network Not Available.

PLS help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalsnakebite:
I know that providers share information on bad imei and then they block it, essentially not allowing it to connect to a service provider. But It may be different on an unlocked phone. Either way try to change your APN settings to what ever provider you want to use.

Good luck.
[General Questions and Answers] amsgh:
I recently just migrated to ST from T-Mobile because I had very low network speeds at home with T-Mobile. Im all setup with the service and am getting "expected" speeds around 5-8mbps down in my area and other towns.

I did purchase the ATT LTE Compatible SIM.

Now here comes the confusion...

Does Straight Talk provide lte speeds in LTE coverage areas for ATT? I've been in areas that should have LTE coverage from ATT but my ST speed was nothing close.

Im running CleanROM ACE 5.0 (awesome) and don't have an option to change my network mode now to lte/gsm/wcdma... Although I don't think it might matter from what ive been reading in other forums.

I really just want to know if its ST not having lte or my phones modem/apn configuration the problem?

I feel like a leech asking a paragraph question and not completely browsing other threads. Even though the other threads dont seem to have a concise answer to this.

I would greatly appreciate even a simple link to a specific post that will clarify this issue.
[HTC One SV] HeIIBoy:
android 4.2.2 with sense 5 has been officially released but still not have any custom ROM/Kernel from our developers :(

sometimes, i wish there's a custom kernel enable s2w :silly:

do you think that? :D
[HTC One SV] russellvone:
when are you releasing?
[HTC One SV] old.splatterhand:
What do you want, without kernel source?

And related to custom roms: Aren't there really cool mods already?

As 4.1.2 was out, first the mods where made, then, when enough mods are ready, the custom roms came.
[HTC One SV] BrateloSlava:
Before the beginning of February we should not expect the appearance of the kernel source code for our model.
[HTC One SV] ravemanti:
why our phone doesnt have AOSP or CM base ? even ICS or Jelly Been ? :confused::( :(
[HTC One SV] BrateloSlava:
And you know at least someone who can develop it for us?
[HTC One SV] ravemanti:
I wish we had :( and it base on dev? i there another way to get it?
[HTC One SV] BrateloSlava:
No way, no dev's.
[HTC One SV] Modding.MyMind:
You would either have to build from scratch or port it to our device. Cyanogenmod has some tutorials on how to port their materials. Neither is easy lol.
[HTC One SV] bataya:
What about dev from 4pda who build kernel with s2w options and build cm alfa version?
[HTC One SV] Modding.MyMind:
Contact him and find out.
[HTC One SV] bataya:
Don't know who he is, or how to contact him. BrateloSlava is one who post kernel (Monday kernel) update from him.

Gr8 kernel btw!
[HTC One SV] BrateloSlava:
I - one of the developers of this kernel. The site htcdev.com not currently contains the kernel source version 4.2.2 for our phone. Presumably these source code will be available in late January. So - is not yet any developments from me and the people with whom I work.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml70:
Received Kitkat OTA update to my plain vanilla Nexus 7 4G 2013 (not rooted, not-anything, running 4.3.1), noticed images missing in Play Store, facebook app, small but annoying things i've forgotten now. Decided to take the long march and wipe and install the Kitkat factory image (flash-all.bat went flawlessly, this version: 4.4 (KRT16S) md5:20bee0445c67aa45c002a14e4bac1d77	sha-1:bd6c92418035598c0815d19a2b21066d3f6fe9b6, checked that the hashes do match).

After this, images are still missing in Play Store ("Couldn't load screenshots.") but worse, some apps don't update at all (Maps, Google Drive) and many complain of no connection, for example Hangouts: Signing in -> Couldn't connect to the server, or Youtube.

In Chrome, google.com loads just fine, but going to engadget brings up the page with no images at all despite several reloads (request desktop site ticked on), same with youtube. But some sites work all ok.

I'm connected via 5 GHz wifi, other devices don't have any trouble through this network. Now also tried 2.4 GHz, same issues. Unable to try mobile data due to weak signal.

Any ideas what is wrong, how to fix these issues, what can i do to troubleshoot? And if i decide to go back to 4.3.1, how to prevent OTA from loading? My #1 objective is to gain the use of this tablet back.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml70:
Just flashed back to 4.3.1 and everything works perfectly.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml70:
3rd time's a charm, so flashed 4.4 again. Same results as described in first post. This 4.4 thing don't work.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml70:
Even when installing Kitkat with wipe, Play Store works very erroneously. Maps and Google Drive updates do not succeed, return error 495. Have trouble installing new applications, most do not install, try to download for a long time, then abort. Hangouts will never connect. On a fresh wiped system?!?

NONE of this happened before the Kitkat OTA upgrade. It's like a virus: Make a clean install with wipe for 4.3.1, and Kitkat OTA hogs all the bandwidth immediately...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml70:
Play store images loading issue has finally gone, but these still persist:

-Google Drive will not update

-Google Maps will not update

-Cannot sign in to Hangouts, neither before nor after updating Hangouts

-Cannot download many applications from Play Store, the downloads never start (no percentage)

This is unbelievable for Kitkat straight out of the factory image.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] blkhrt13:
I was wondering where to locate a particular mod in the folders of an unzipped ROM file. After unzipping a ROM, where would I find the CRT off mod? Which folder and what is the name of the mod? I am looking in a touch wiz based ROM. Thanks guys!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imnuts:
I believe it is part of services.jar, if not then I think it's in android.policy.jar. In either case, there is more to it than just replacing a file in one ROM with the same file from another.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maratu:
unlocked GSM gnex. I believe it was previously used on At&t in the US. Currently has a T-mobile SIM. For whatever reason, can not connect to the network at all.

I flashed it to stock 4.3 yakju images, and updated the radios to I9250UGLL1.

SIM card definitely works.

Any other ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JuanG:
Do you have a valid IMEI?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maratu:
15 numbers long, seems so.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zombran75:
hey

I found flashing the ROM your on again usually works.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kgarlick:
Reboot to bootloader and check which variant do you have. Maguro?

To be 100% sure, please post all info from bootloader screen.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
I just tried a KitKat GE rom on my i9505, To my surprise the gear paired up !

You need to make sure you have the relevant gear apks in /system/app.. although it did pair up fine..

I'll give more information on this shortly.. going to verify everything works as intended.

EDIT: To my surprise, the latest version of kitkat comes preloaded with the needed gear manager files.

All that is really needed is accuweather & gear manager and your set!

EDIT 2: In saying that, its no where near stable to be used as a daily driver, random reboots & wifi connectivity issues.

Although its nice to know its being incorporated.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Hmmm...I wonder what files it needs to make notifications work. I'm getting nothing on my Nexus5 even though it is set to send them
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
Do you have GearManagerStub.apk ?

You running kitkat or jellybean on your nexus ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Yeah. Without that, gear manager won't open

All I get is:

Incoming

Missed

More notifications

I've ticked things, but nothing seems to come through. Going to play around with it a bit more
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
You do get notifications from your nexus ? :confused:

If you do get notifications, what dont you recieve ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Nah. Only phone calls and caller details. No stock contacts, notifications, logs, etc
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
Oh ! I see..

If we figure out how "more notifications.." works then were set.

Have you tried connecting the gear via gear manager ? Running a logcat at the same time..