[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dwitherell:
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FAQ

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Q:

What the hell is TSMParts (new option in Settings menu)?

A:

A interface for a huge slew of mods and tweaks originally put together by the original members of TSM and inspired by impressive works of numerous others - the TSM Parts interface acts as a control for all of the customizable fun available. There are a large number of options there - so make sure to check them all out!

Q:

TSMParts is asking for superuser access?!?

A:

Yep - there are some options (one in particular under Miscellaneous settings) that will need it, so make sure you grant it!

Q:

I'm having overlap issues with statusbar icons and center clock - what should I do?

A:

Yeah - things may overlap, so you will have to either change settings to avoid the issue or just deal with it.

Q:

I set a statusbar icon to hide, but it's still there. What gives?

A:

The statusbar icon tweaks may require a little effort on your part for changes to take effect. All changes can be elicited with a reboot/hotboot, BUT for most there are other ways:

-- Bluetooth/vibrate-silent/alarm icons/ime -- just change their state (on/off or vibrate/sound, etc)

-- No sim -- if the notification is already active you will need to reboot/hotboot to hide it

-- smart "eye" icon -- changes will happen once the eye triggers

Q:

How is battery life on this rom?

A:

This is a stock modified rom. As such, battery life will be equivalent to stock were you to be running a similar array of apps and kernel - it really should be no different than stock otherwise (which imo is not half bad really). The kernel and misbehaving 3rd party apps have more to do with battery life than a modified stock rom - at least in my opinion (and experience, though it's limited).

Q:

I keep getting messages saying FlashBarService had to close - WHY YOU MAKE BREAK ON THIS!?!

A:

There are two ways I've seen this happen. The first is when someone has HUNDREDS of apps installed - and in that case it usually FCs once and is fine after that. The other time I see it is when a particular app is installed that just refuses to play nice with multiwindow or penwindow. In that case, if it can be chased down and isolated, you can add the package name into the fbs_exclusions.txt file in /system/etc/ and all should be well once again. Worst case scenario - disable unlimited penwindow apps and unlimited multiwindow apps and see if things improve. If so, use the pick-what-to-include types of apks and see if the situation improves.

Q:

So tethering is a common topic... can it be done with this?

A:

Truth is tethering should work on any stock modified rom (with the exclusion of bluetooth tethering, which seems perplexingly to be the property of international-based stock roms only, or verizon from what I hear). The upsell avoidance is what people are really after - and much like others who lay the claim I did a little work in an attempt to avoid such things. That being said, there are one or two common things I've heard that are helpful (and unable to be set as defaults per my inability to figure out just how to do that) in attaining such a goal, and they all involve minor edits to the APN.

- The first is switching the APN protocol from IPv6 to IPv4/IPv6

- The second is adding auth to the list of APN types

I know little to understand why these things should have an impact, but reports indicate they do - so there you go :)

Q:

CRT/fade animation doesn't work in landscape... why?

A:

I actually forced this to be the case, as I could not avoid an odd half-screen effect scenario that happened in landscape - which was the result of a hacky fix to FCs that occurred with those animations and rotation changes.

Q:

When I toggle navbar on/off there sometimes is a black bar left at the bottom - CAN YOU MAKE IT STOP!?!

A:

This only seems to happen when toggled via the power menu and appears to be specific to the TW launcher - and has an easy fix. Open up an app, like Messaging for example, and then close it. The wallpaper will resize and all is well once again :)

Q:

Why isn't the accurate data icon mod working!!?!

A:

The only time that mod shows an effect is when you are on the T-Mobile network - I don't believe other networks will see a change in data icon behavior.

Q:

After I flashed the 2.X update I can't see texts in Mms - WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME?

A:

There may be instances where the default colors I point to in xmls don't jive with the bubble options you've selected, or have been edited based on the theme you are running. Seems like a good time to change the color of the text right? :)

Q:

What is this LMT thing? How do you use it?

A:

You need to check out noname81's thread

here

for info on that!

Q:

Why don't you mention blah blah blah in your FAQ? It would have helped me a lot!

A:

My bad - PM me anything you think should be added to this that would be helpful for the general user base! :)