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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
The S4 and N5 weight the exact same at 130 grams. And size wise too, they are nearly identical. But I have a Spigen Neo Hybrid case on mine, adding more bulk and weight. I agree, without a case the S4 feels very light and wimpy.

Try Nova launcher with Kit Kat icon pack, and also install Wanam Xposed framework, both those will really allow some good tweaks, and make it look a lot different than stock TW.

Of course you need to be rooted. And with root, you can debloat this phone. I got rid of every ATT .apk, and a lot of Samsung crap I never use. By doing that, my battery life went up big time
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
Not worth it IMO. The N5 is a side grade to the S4, not a massive upgrade by any means. I think the N5 has a lesser quality screen, and worse battery life than the S4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
Screenshot of my home screen;
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Theoriginalgiga:
What gets me is the locked bl of the S4. Back when I was able to run task650's rom I was getting .3% battery drop an hour in standby running 4 emails constantly pushing along with bunch of texting and a little game play. I'd average 20hrs with 3 to 4 hrs screen time which IMO wasn't bad at all. After I blew out the chip on that one (from it being on my dashboard from a 700 mile drive using it as GPS) I got a replacement with Mf3. Now I'm getting anywhere between 2.2% to 9% battery drain an hour with less than 2 hours screen time with the EXACT same setup and usage. By lunchtime I put the thing on the charger. Oh I've used TiBu and frozen 99% of all the bloatware, and it helped getting it down from 13% drain an hour. I want the ability to use custom ROMS as I feel the devs on XDA are miles ahead of any of the devs with sammy or any other company. I'm not a stickler for screens, so long as I can see it outside and I can read messages I'm fine. Now my brother on the other hand... he's special when it comes to what is screen looks like :laugh:. I'll check out the battery life on the N5, maybe find a custom ROM that'll get better battery life. Worst comes to it and I don't like the N5 I'll hang onto it for a few months and trade for the next latest gadget phone.

Thanks for your feedback!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
I agree 100% on the locked bootlaoder. That really pisses me off, and almost made me sell my S4. But with Root, and Wanam Xposed framework + Nova Launcher, and other.apk's, I am very happy with my S4 now.

Yes The Nexus 5 is great with the freedom, and all the custom ROM's and Kernels, etc... To me that is a big selling point to a Nexus device.

But end of the day, I care about battery life #1, and a beautiful screen #2. My S4 is gets sick battery life, somewhat close to what my old Note 2 got, and from what I read here about the N5's battery life, my S4 blows it out of the water. And screen preference is subjective, but I like the 1080p AMOLED, compared to LG's IPS displays.

I also got a S4 for my Wife, and her battery life is great too, of course her phone is rooted, with ATT and Samsung .apk's deleted. She comes home after work with 14 hours of usage, and still has 70% battery life left, but with only like an hour or little more of On Screen time. Her phone sits on her desk at work, on the ATT network, no WiFi ever for her at her workplace, and she only loses like 30% over 12+ hours with light use.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tevil:
yeah the MF3 lock screws the potential of this phone. Why is it still on 4.2 (mine) when its capable of running much more.... my guess is their bloatware isnt compatible with anything higher.

I use APEX launcher myself I just find it more stable in my past experiances.

I Think for the modding, updates, and sturdiness alone the N5 is actually a better phone and more of an upgrade IF you didnt pay for your GS4 and are stuck on MF3, if you paid money then off it and get teh N5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Theoriginalgiga:
well you can jump to 4.3 if you wanted to, but again the phone is locked down so you can't root or SS which makes it kinda useless IMO. As for launchers I use Nova Prime. I really like it and it isn't heavy at all.

Agreed, it's a fantastic device, with an unlocked BL this phone would still smoke the N5 hands down. Heck if I could trade my phone over to an MDL or MDM phone so I could reload a custom rom I'd do it and never think twice about the N5. But with the phone the way it is, it's only a little better than the Iphone. Heck that's where the button came from. If apple wouldn't have fought so hard about the button, the S4 wouldn't have one. I buy android to do what I want, how I want and if I can't do it, I want the ability to make it happen. With an android phone locked and bloated that just doesn't happen and IMO detracts from what Android stands for.

/rant
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
I hear you. The locked bootloader on the S4, and now the ATT Note 3 too, really sucks. Every Android phone I have owned, has been rooted, with customer Recovery on it, and ROM's flashed on it all day long. Now this S4 being locked down, is so alien to me, not being able to flash anything on it, I feel stuck, or like an iPhone without a Jailbreak.

Thank God for Root + Wanam Xposed Framework + Nova at least :good:

I blame ATT mainly for this BS. Samsung doesn't lock down other S4's or Note 3's. The International versions, and T-Mobile, and Sprint versions can all be unlocked easily. It's ATT pulling this crap.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] d-rail:
The KitKat theme you're running - is it KitKat (Apex Nova Adw theme) by BLADEXDESIGNS?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Theoriginalgiga:
you're right that the AT&T phones have been the hardest to crack but rest assured that Samsung will pass these locked bootloader techniques to the rest of them. Samsung has been in so many patent wars with Apple, they're really starting to follow suit with them.

I do mainly blame AT&T as well. their whole fear of network insecurity and "wanting to ensure user's experience" is just bull. They don't know how to manage their network which causes these issues. But I don't lift any responsibility from Sammy either. If Samsung wanted to embrace the true vision of Android they'd follow HTC's model. HTC offers (at least they used to) a "developer" unlock for theirs device from their own website. Sure it would void the warranty, but so does any rooting (which is another rant for another day). I'm voting with my wallet from here on out, no more locked phones and no more Samsung phones until they offer them unlocked as well. And seriously the person who invented the Qfuse needs to be taken out back and beaten with a rubber hose lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zorachus:
Next phone I buy sometime in 2014, I will really investigate first, to make sure it can be unlocked easily. But unfortunately, that means paying full price for a 'developer edition' or getting a Nexus phone. I don't see any contract phones being rootable out of the box in the future.

For sure the Galaxy S5 and Note 4, on ATT, will be locked down tight like a submarine, no custom recoveries on those phones. Maybe the upcoming HTC 1 will be unlocked ?

There are only three phones I am interested in 2014;

- Galaxy S5 = Feb / March release, but will be locked down

- HTC 1 = March release, maybe open bootloader ?

- Asus Nexus 6 = October release.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Naddict:
Please take this discussion here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2433789
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] brentsalinas714:
I hope we see some development finally because I'm tired of using a lot of different apps to tweak the rom and kernel.

It's like a twrp recovery

http://galaxynote3root.com/galaxy-n...-custom-rom-using-safestrap-on-galaxy-note-3/
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] the2rrell:
This is old news, you should have checked the threads....there at least 2 here mentioning this.

i think it is still in the works, but hopefully they get it working on the att variant.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] brentsalinas714:
Yeah i figured it but just in case there hasn't. I don't have time to sit and read and look at op's sorry.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Naddict:
Dupe thread on dupe topic = thread closed.

Users please use search prior to posting...Always! ;)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makozak:
Salut à tous,

Yesterday, i got a problem with my LG. I wanted to change the Rom and after i finished the procedure, i got and LG Logo Loop

Here a little video a made of the Loop : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDgzhDNBb0&feature=youtu.be

Normaly, i can change the Rom again by Hard Reseting, but when i press the 3 buttons, nothing happens.

When i connect the phone to the PC, i don't even got the sound that Win8 does when a phone is pluged in, that means that the phone isn't recongnized by the PC, and i allready installed all the Drivers.

I can't enter Emergency mode, when i press the buttons, nothing happens too.

My phone wasn't rooted so i don't have CWM.

I tried LG Support Tool, KDZ Software update, but as i said, the phone isn't recongnized, so i can't do anything.

Some people on forums adviced Medusa Box, but when i launch the app, i got as a message : Card init failed ..

So this is it.

I hope someone can help me. The phone isn't mine, so i'm little afraid of this loop .. Some people on forums said that this is a Hard Break, others said that this is Soft break, other also said that this is a Dalvik Cache Loop ..

Anyway,

Thanx in advance :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nasheich Xfiles:
mAke sure you have install all LG Software on your computer, like usb driver the important one

then download stock rom for your device

and flash it through KDZ Software update,
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddjonko:
Try instaling drivers on some win7 pc/laptop, then try to revive the phone via kdz, because win8 sometimes has problems with drivers etc,

Btw which procedure were you using to change the rom?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugen_dz:
Try to remove battery and connect the phone to the pc, hold volume + and - (between + and -, the middle) and the power button, this will works to get emergency mode, got same problem when tried to flash, still have the problem as you, logo loop with this stupid sound
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makozak:
Thank you everybody for your awnsers !

Yes, it work, i'm finaly in the Emergency Mode ! My mistake was to press Power and Volume - or +, not the middle ..

Now that i'm in the Emergency mode and i don't want to get in any trouble again, which rom do you advise me to instal ? and with what method ?

Thanx again :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugen_dz:
Download the stock rom (original) for your phone, must know which version there is a lot of version ( V10C, V10G, V10E ...)

Use Kdz updater, if the App crash check compatibility and choose windows XP, in KDZ updater use the mode 3GQCT and phone mode DIAG, browse for the stock rom in the KDZ FILE and click Launch software update.

When i flashed the stock rom i got the loop, so i tried to hard reset it and it worked for me (power + menu + volume down or up i forgot)

Try to hard reset before flash if it doesn't work, flash it.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makozak:
Okay Thanx again mate, i'll try it now and tell you :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugen_dz:
Worked ?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makozak:
Sorry mate, i was busy all the week, i only had free time today.

Anyway, yes it worked :D

Thanx a lot !!

You're a life saver :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugen_dz:
Excellent !
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] skyworxx:
Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to tether the wifi based location data to the gear (running null) from a phone. I know it is possible to tether the GPS data (see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47857358#post47857358), but this will require a lot of power on the phone. Wifi needs a lot less power and works for most purposes good enough in big city with a lot of wifi access points.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] 20545ZR16:
did you find an answer???

I am also interested with this,

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
Hi,

I am also interrested in having my location available on the gear without having to drain the battery using gps or have to start/stop the gps tether on both phone and gear when I need it. So having done some android development I tried to put together a small app that enables you to use three modes for location tethering, off, wifi/cell or gps. The wifi/cell updates every 5 minutes if the location has moved 100 meters or more. The setting can be changed on the phone or on the gear. I have tested it on my stock S4 and gear with null_13 so it may not work in other situations and as it is my first test I do not guarantee it will work in all situations or that it will not crash your devices.

The app must be installed on both phone and gear, it is signed with my debug certificate so you must enable app install from untrusted sources.

This is my first contribution to the community so I hope I have done it in the right way.

Regards

Martin

Get the app from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48333080&postcount=5
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] atijasa:
link is not working

link is not working.... can't download
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
Uploaded to github

I hope this works for everyone interested, the project is now on github. As a new user here I cannot post direct links so here goes

Screenshot:

raw.github.com/Mohlsson/GearLocationBridge/master/device-2013-12-08-162923.png

Install and run the apk on both gear and phone

github.com/Mohlsson/GearLocationBridge/blob/master/bin/GearLocationBridge.apk?raw=true

/Martin
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] triplerider:
I was able to get it installed and was able to select connection method but neither worked in google maps to pull my location.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] kashortiexda:
well done

works for me, get location now on Gear without GPS.... great for Google Now / Search / Weather etc

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] triplerider:
I must have something else going on. I can't get the "old" manual way of Share GPS to work either. It used to work but now it doesn't. I know this is off topic but I'm having trouble with Autoremote BT as well. I'm working in another thread to get it working but since both don't seem to be working, they must be related to my BT connection but for the life of me I can't figure out what. Everything else seems to work great, I get notifications, the stock weather app updates correctly, and other items like mini gallery and pedometer work.

Feeling lost and confused.:(
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
Let see if we can help you getting my app to work by first looking at the app status. What does the title in my app say on the phone and on the gear (sorry to ask, you did install it on both right?) when you run it? If it says "Gear connected" and "Phone connected" BT communications work. If it says "Waiting for connection" there are problems opening the BT connection. If it says "Restarting" the connection has been made and then lost.

/Martin
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] triplerider:
They both said connected and as I would make different selections it would change on the other device. But no actual location service on the gear (as mentioned, the previously working Sharegps app also isn't working but also shows connected).
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
Ok, good! Next check that I can think of is that mock locations is allowed in developer settings on the gear and Use GPS is checked i the phone settings.

/Martin
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] triplerider:
Checked these things again thinking maybe one of them got unchecked but sadly they are correct and still no joy.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] almulder1092:
Very Interesting. Installed and working!

Edit: NOT Working, Still has ShareGPS running. Once that was turned off Gear no longer gets location, Withing Maps it says "Waiting for location" when I try and get it. All other settings are correct.

Edit: A restart of both devices has fixed the issue. (But needed to wait for the app to update)

Would be nice if we could have it update our location at specific intervals.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
New version of GearLocationBridge

Hi all!

I have been using my app for a week now and found some bugs that i fixed. I also added settings for network location update frequency. You can now set the intervall for updates from one second to one hour and the minimum distance moved for updates to occur from none to 1000 meters. Updates are sent to the gear if both criteria are fulfilled. Be aware that network location might not be available everywhere, so if you don't get a location on the gear when using network location that is the most probable reason.

Donwload from

github.com/Mohlsson/GearLocationBridge/blob/master/bin/GearLocationBridge.apk?raw=true

Instructions, thanks to almulder1092, can be found at

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48324092&postcount=15&nocache=1&z=9810111129152026

Note that you must allow mock locations on the gear as described in the turtorial for option one in the first steps of setup. Also, this is beta software and I take no responsibility if it messes up your device. All source code is on Github if you are interrested in how it works.

/Martin
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
Great job bud, you should get your hands stuck into a tasker plugin !
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mohlsson:
Thank you fOmey, good idea to make it a Tasker plugin. I took a google crash course on how to make a plugin so there is a new version on github that should work with Tasker. I haven't used Tasker myself so I have only done some simple testing creating a task and triggering it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] almulder1092:
Looks like this needs to be updated for ML1 firmware, could you take a look?

or its just me. Using null_18 full system ui.

Tried reinstalling same thing "GearLocationBridge has stopped"
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] red rocket:
al i found i think i got it go to developer options on the gear and enable mock locations. zfarishta
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] almulder1092:
No that was already turned on. I could not figure it out, So i just tried a full reset again. now it works. ODD not sure what is different this time around, but not going to complain. :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1188low:
I've tried to create a backup of my current stockrom using apps like rom manager, cwm and team win. Whenever I click on the "backup" tab, it will reboot my phone and it will show the Android icon with its "belly" opened up. Once the phone boots up again, I can't find any trace of the backup file. What am I doing wrong?

I'm using the d802 version if that helps
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martindar:
it sounds like you have lost your recovery?try and reflash twrp or cwm I prefer twrp, with one of the methods on the twrp or cwm section in xda I have used flashify to install before now but once you have recovery you can then reflash them again if not working correctly if it has backed up your stock rom it will show up in apps like rom manager

have you checked in twrp or cwm that you have the necessary files checked before you back up ie mount and then tick all boxes?system,cache,dalvik,data,efs

hope this might help? is your current rom etc showing up in twrp or cwm folders say in es file manager (another good app to manage all your files)
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicolasjoshiel:
The problem is that i rooted my defy+ from 2.3 to 4.0 and now i have triyed every root prossible and metoth, but no one works, every single time i get an error. I have triyed with RSD lite, every SBF posible, and they all give me a RAM error, but with TBPI-228E-0-7009-A04_Signed.sbf it works every time, i also triyed doing the rom from my SD, and when i try any CM it sayis the file is corrupted. Can anyone help me pls.

Im stuck and cant get to install 4.3 or any other room.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ted_don:
It seems you have the SBF for the wrong defy, see what exactly model you have, it is written under the battery, maybe you have the MB526?

Also to restart the phone and enter the bootloader (just like you did when you did with the RSD lite by pressing volume up and power when the phone is off for some seconds and then letting off) and write what version of the bootloader you have.

There are many bootloader versions and specific SBFs for each out there

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=966537

write the exact model and the version of the bootloader so that we can guide you...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicolasjoshiel:
The model i have is the Motorola XT535 with tinboost+ ICS 01.06
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicolasjoshiel:
BUMP
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolshahabaz:
Try this....this site have your SBF checkout

[URL="http://www.droidevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=13111"]http://www.droidevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=13111[/URL]
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markjo:
Has anyone else with an AT&T One converted to GPE 4.4 been experiencning horrifying battery life? I am running an entirely stock GPE conversion, including recovery, kernel, etc, latest firmware, radio, etc. On a fresh install (NO Google settings changed from defaults), off Wi-Fi and with consistent good LTE signal, my phone will drain from 100% to 75% in about 2 hours. That is with no apps installed and a screen-on time of only 45 minutes, texting and web browsing. Such battery drain is very consistent.

With all of my usual apps installed, some of which include GroupMe, Facebook, Maps, and a couple others, battery life doesn't change for better or worse.

And this has always been the case for me with any sort of GPE conversion. Well, with any ROM for that matter. I had the same astronomically bad battery life when I OTA'd from stock to AT&T 4.3. In fact, the ONLY time my phone has what I would consider good battery life is when running stock AT&T 4.1.2. I can reach up to 3.5 hours of screen-on time over the course of a day and a half that way.

Anyone else? Lots of threads and complaints about this, but I'm wondering if having an AT&T phone converted to an "international"/"Google Play Edition"/"Developer Edition" is to blame some how? Radio perhaps?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anoubis282:
me too

++terible battery life...s-off unlocked vodafone version converted to wwe 4.3 unrooted all stock.It seems that this is an android 4.3 issue thar remains in 4.4....
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocktv88:
Yes, 4.3 seems better. I only used few days. Need to use bit long to see.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ktan188:
You have to give the phone time to adjust to the new software. Give it a few charge cycles.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swag1981:
I cannot remember how the battery life was for me on sense 4.1.2 because i installed a GPE 4.3 ROM and the batterly life was terrible on that. I ran battery calibration multiple times because my charge would go from 14% to 1%; powering off in less than a minute. Now i did do the conversion to GPE the other day and like you i am running the stock kernel, recovery, radio, firmware etc etc and the battery life compared to the ROM is amazing. I also enabled ART immediately so i cannot compare it to dalvik, but you may want to try that out.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markjo:
Would you mind telling me what firmware you are running? The latest GPE 4.4? I used ART for a few days and don't recall a difference, but I'm currently going back to it to see if things improve.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pooblej:
Hi,

Using the default email client on Nexus 4 latest factory build of 4.4 - and wanted to report a problem

If I receive an email send in plain text (from iphone is my test) - the attachment (*.jpg) does not appear. If I check the same email on a different machine etc - all is fine.

Anyone have a solution to this? Or am I the only one? I am using Yahoo mail and connect via IMAP

Thanks

J