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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex2059:
Hello.

I've just installed archidroid, and it seems nice.

The only problem that I've noticed is that adblock is not working on Chrome.

Any idea why?

Thanks.

Alex
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkened_Sky:
i do not remember well as i only tried chrome shortly, but I think it has a feature to reduce bandwith traffic by compressing data on their servers. and if this feature is enabled ads cannot be blocked. try to disable it in chrome settings as i am not really sure.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanXamar:
Hi guys.

Does any of you tried the new google play store 4.8.19?

I installed as a new apk and the pictures of apps aren't shown correctly.

Check attachments

Does anybody have a solution?

Thnx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Yes, that's what I've reported about (here and here), and someone told me it's ok (here), though maybe he didn't understand what I'm talking about.

I tried to wipe and install again, and it seemed ok, but after a few runs, it just crashed. Now I can't even open it... :(

Not only that, but Google's keyboard also started crashing all the time.

It's a good thing I use an alternative to this keyboard.

I suspect that the problem is that the rom has google apps being modified, so there could be weird things going on when some of them get updated.

I hope there will be at least an option to turn the modding off, and use the safe way to show google apps, the way they were meant to be.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Darkened_Sky is right. If you want to know technical informations - by enabling this option you literally communicate with google servers ONLY and you can't filter ads servers, as everything comes from the same source. Therefore, you won't be able to block ads if they can't be filtered from the main content.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Hey mate. Thank you for great explanation. This is how issues should be written.

Your problem is quite unusual, therefore I'm not sure if I can help.

What I suggest:

Make a wipe of your internal sdcard (/data and /data/media) folder, this will act as factory reset with sdcard cleaning, don't remove your current CM/Omni and don't use ArchiDroid at that time, as ArchiDroid will not boot after such cleaning.

After you're done with wipes, let CM/Omni boot. There shouldn't be problems. Download once again latest ArchiDroid and put it on your internal sd card.

On flashing screen, tap on "Recovery flashing" preset, and select PhilZ Touch. It should properly flash latest recovery and after clicking "Next", it should reboot recovery. You should be running PhilZ 6.26.6 if I remember correctly (not sure about version).

Now flash ArchiDroid zip again, this time with selecting custom type of installation. Don't forget to tap on "yes, I don't have ArchiDroid" when asked.

On main screen after flash don't restore google account, tap on "not now" and see how system performs.

If it works okay at this point and you don't have strange errors, it's fine. If you do have strange errors, like FCs right after flashing without google account, then I'd suggest going back to latest Sammy through Odin, then flashing recovery and repeating process again.

Good luck.

You can always flash latest micro PA GAPPS to solve some of the problems. Gapps were heavily updated yesterday, therefore there may be some conflicts. But the only modified gapp is play store, and this is to allow you downloading every app on custom dpi. Yes, you want this, because without this you won't have access to most of the apps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
As soon as you find a bug or something you'd like to report the logcat about, you can take a snapshot of the logs.

One way to do it, is by using the "SDK manager" . you go to "tools" folder, and run "monitor.bat". then you choose the device, go to the logcat tab, and click on the diskette icon ("export to..." ).

that's it.

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But is it ok that I flash gapps? and why did I get weird colors and crashes?

Could you please add an option to use the normal gapps instead of the customized ones (and also warn about the density feature if you wish) ?

I've also noticed another bug that I'm not sure if it's related to this: the menu button (and sometimes the back button, which is worse) sometimes doesn't work at all.

EDIT: I've now made a full wipe again, and used the "micro PA GAPPS". it caused a lot of crashes on the "play store services", and the keyboard also doesn't work anymore (keeps crashing).

Not only that, but both the back button and the menu button don't work anymore.

I've used Philz recovery BTW .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
You screwed up something. I suggest to stick with my ArchiDroid install only and deal with it until I fix it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
I don't know, my PlayStore is not auto updating (and shouldn't in your case), as it's modified.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanXamar:
Can I delete gravity without any problem?

It's complicating things unnecessary.

So, can I delete it without problems?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Yes, nobody is stopping you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atisha:
My camera, video and email/internet downloads are saved in internal sd card opposed to external by default. How do I set it to external? I remember Sammy camera has setting where pictures n videos should go. Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
There's no "default location", default location is based on your app. So you should modify it in app itself, if it allows you to do so.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
This is a problem on Kitkat, as third party apps cannot write to anywhere they want on the external sd card anymore:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...at-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/

However, on such custom roms, there is an easy fix for that, and there is even an app :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

I don't know which apps do support saving to sd cards though.

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You can update it here:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...issions-bigger-buttons-and-more-apk-download/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
The point is you shouldn't update play store, as it's modified for a good damn reason.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartfratze:
Hey Archi,

thanks for your quick answer.

I tried out your first solution and unfortunatly it didn´t work, I will try flashing the stock rom in the next days. In the meantime I also tried out another rom with active display support (resurrection remix) and there was the same error. I also tried an app called DynamicNotifications from the PlayStore. It misses some of your customisation options but otherwise works properly, so i´m relieved that it´s at least not a hardware issue :D

Just out of curiosity: can you explain to me why it could help to install the samsung stock rom first since it is usually advised to do a full wipe, wipe dalvik cache, format /system and some people even recommend to format /data/media prior to the installation of a custom rom?

would it be possible to just format every existing partition, flash a recovery via odin and install archidroid.zip from my external sd card?

Of course my main goal is to get a perfect working archidroid, but I also like to understand how things work :)

Thanks for your help again.

Bartfratze

PS: I tried to install Gravitybox manually and it works, so I really don´t understand why it doesn´t work with aroma installer, I am quite confused oO

Do some other user experience this problem or the active display issue, too? I am afraid that they do not, because I couldn´t find any clue in google or xda, but maybe you know more than I do?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
What is the reason for not allowing me to use the original one on the first place?

And what is the reason I shouldn't update to it?

Also, this isn't the reason, as you've mentioned I can use the PA-gapps solution, and it also caused problems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
I told you already that I'm using modified play store with Multi-DPI fix.

By overriding playstore you're asking for troubles. When proper multi-dpi fixed version comes, I'll include it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Flashing latest Sammy usually solves many werid problems, and it updates your low-level things like bootloader, params etc.

Active Display probably is global issue and this won't be fixed, but things shouldn't FC for no reason, if you're getting FCs do as I told you, full wipe, flash Sammy, ArchiDroid to internal and then flash.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skyler13:
Loving the rom i get about 12 hours on this rom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
But I asked how can I avoid both the special density and the black color, and you wrote that I should flash the PA-gapps-micro...

:(

Please allow to use the normal gapps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Okay, then I told you wrong.

Make a full wipe, flash ArchiDroid, then manually take and overwrite those two apps from pa-gapps micro:

/system/priv-app/Phonesky.apk

/system/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk

But keep in mind that you may have various issues regarding custom DPI and I won't help you with that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
But the default one that is set is the customized DPI. The real DPI the device has is 320 ...

Why shouldn't I use the real default one (320) ?

This is such a good rom, and I never saw a rom that forces you to use an irregular DPI, and a black play store that can never get updated by itself...

:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Who forces you to use irregular DPI? You had a choice during flashing, what are you talking about? If you chose 320 DPI then you can flash original gapps and update as you want, however I'm using 240 and I need properly patched store, and actually more people use custom DPIs so I don't know why you want to force everyone back to 320, only because you can't update your beloved store to newest version.

Does multi-dpi patched store work incorrect? Does it cause problems? No.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
You wrote that there are issues with custom DPIs , but you didn't say what's custom for you, as the default one that is used on the installer isn't 320.

I'm sorry. English isn't my main language so I tend to misunderstood things sometimes.

I also didn't talk about the DPI at first, as I easily found how to change it during the installation. here's the first post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52712894&postcount=1387

I just wanted to use the normal, official one without a black theme and that can get auto-updated by Google without any issues.

Just like any other rom allows...

Updating by installing the APK like I did never had any problems on other custom roms.

Please allow to do it.

And about the reason why I prefer 320 DPI, that's the real density of the device and it also helps me when testing apps (I'm an Android developer, but not one that creates roms). Plus I've tried others, and I think I still prefer the normal one better.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
I'll repeat one more time.

Default suggested DPI for ArchiDroid is 240, which is not standard for SGS3, as standard for SGS3 is 320.

Therefore, to allow using all of the apps for our device, ArchiDroid requires MultiDPI-patched playstore. Typically, this is why my Playstore is black, because I can have inverted and multi-dpi playstore at the same time.

This won't change, as it's the core of gapps bundled with the ROM. If it hurts you that much then either install ArchiDroid from barebones preset and then install your selected gapps later, like "other roms allow", or change ROM to "the other one", because this is how things are in my ROM and won't change.

There's no point in providing original non-patched play store. I provided such in the past and it only caused problems for people to apply multi-dpi patched on their own. Now it's multi-dpi patched right after installation.

Again, multi-dpi patched playstore does not cause any problems, and there's NO POINT in changing it. It's in version 4.6.x right now, when there will be new multi-dpi patched playstore, I'll update it in ArchiDroid and include. If you can't accept this fact then you either need to overwrite my playstore with original one, as I told you before, or change ROM to one that doesn't have such restrictions.

This won't change. If you need your playstore, I told you already how to do so on your own.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Again, I already understand the DPI part, and I know how to choose the real one. You don't have to explain it. Seems odd for me that you force using the modified one even if the user has chosen the original DPI, but as long as there is a workaround, I don't care.

About your instructions, that's what I did - just on the recovery, I've also flashed the PA-gapps micro as you told me.

I did it this way:

full wipe.

flash of the rom.

flash of the PA-gapps micro.

I want all google related services to be stock ones. No modded Google apps. Please let me know what's wrong with what I did.

EDIT: now I've only done these steps, and google play consistantly closes itself:

full wipe.

flash of the rom.

Why does it happen? will a log help?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
You did everything right. This is your original stock package.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rudy83:
Two applications that c didn't open from play store were black berry messenger and the Amazon app.

Message your device is not compatible.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
It fakes DPI only, not device. Otherwise you wouldn't been able to install facebook for example.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
OK, I will try later this week the new version you've published. I really hope I can run it well.

As fun as rom switching is, I really just wish to use one that works fine already...

After all this time running a stock based rom and waiting for Samsung to finally publish if it updates the device to kitkat, I was thinking that all of the AOSP rom developers probably made a much better rom that what Samsung has created. Samsung roms may be slow and bloated, but at least they don't have so many stability issues.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
ArchiDroid doesn't have any stability issues, it works like a charm, unless you're destroying it intentionally, like trying at all cost to include stock gapps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanXamar:
Just a question I dirty flashed the new 2.4.5 archi.

I thought it included the new gapps.

What did I do wrong...? Or am I mistaken?

I need the new one because it supports PayPal.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Check latest few pages and you'll know.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanXamar:
Yea i checked it. In the changelog of 2.4.5 you say the new gapps 17 may. In the rom you have 4.16.17

4.8.19 is the new gapps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
So? PlayStore and Prebuilt core is not included in pa gapps. I mean normally it's included, but I use my own - I9300 Prebuilt GMS Core and multi-dpi patched store.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vyp54:
If stock Play Store is a MUST for anyone I suggest you try this Xposed Module:

http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.mods.playstorefix
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Yes, this will do the trick.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guihardrock:
or a custom patch with lucky patcher :cool:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guihardrock:
screenshots from lucky patcher showing the custom patch for google play
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atisha:
Ooh. . New rom so soon. . I was about to fix my gallery n camerahttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2611870 so that they save pictures to external sd card. Wonder if the apps would be overwritten when I flash new 2.4.5. ROM next time (I seem to be flashing n reflashing ROMs these days...)...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
But this time I didn't. It crashes just after a few minutes.

After I got this, I've decided to try another rom (OmniRom) and I get the same issue: after full wipe and flashing of the rom, it's a matter of minutes till the play store cannot be opened again - each time I open it, it crashes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vyp54:
Is the Spirit2 FM radio app that comes with Archi 2.x full version or I need to still buy it from the Playstore?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malachow:
Srsly? :laugh:

Mate, it's obviously free version as it's not open-sourced app & we do not support piracy here. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vyp54:
Of course I get that, but I never had the full version to see the difference. I just thought that the dev made it exclusive to Archi's ROM; You know...since some custom ROMs have paid apps exclusively integrated in the ROM.

Thanks for the info anyway.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartfratze:
Hi Archi,

Just one last question (I hope so at least ;)): does it really make a difference whether I flash my stock rom as a 3-part version with a pit-file or a 1-part firmware?

Greets

Bartfratze

EDIT: Just took the 3 part firmware, didn´t solve the active display or gravity box issue and the strange first-time boot behaviour. I don´t know where this could come from anymore. Besides, it works very fast and stable, so i will continue using it because it´s still one of the best i ever tried :D

Can you think of a reason why gravitybox isn´t working "out of the box" for me? As I already said, it works perfectly when I install it by myself...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozkaya84:
battery save mode

well done again. great work .

A question , I am using 2.4.5 stable , where is the battery save mode shortcut ? ( top sliding menu shortcuts) I love this feature ... It was there version 2.4.4 .

Best Regards ..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I think I found the issue, and it wasn't the Rom's fault and probably not of Google.

It's a bug on my app (here), which I probably created the shortcut to the play store in the wrong way.

I've found it by launching the play store from the app drawer of the launcher. Using this method it worked fine.

Anyway, I will need to check out the issue and publish a new version before users notice it.

Sorry for all the time you spent on this. Thank you for your patience.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atisha:
I'm using v2.4.4 now and I don't see any battery saving mode. It disappears since 2.4.4
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
It was in 2.4.3 and has been removed in 2.4.4. Read changelog of 2.4.4 to know why.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atisha:
Is there an easy way to have all apps writing data in external sd instead of internal? Understood it's a kit kat feature but it's a pain having to move my folders and downloaded files manually. I installed some kit kat external sd patch and it doesn't seem to help as far as I can tell. Photos still stored in internal device.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackHawk:
Woah.

Hello there. I've noticed that Google Play icons are corrupted (they are distorted and displaying wrong colours). I tried with reflashing of both ROM and GApps. I don't know why it happened. What's the deal?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Should be fixed in next version.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] synkus:
After installing micro PA GAPPS, go to titanium backup and

1) wipe data for Google Launcher

2) uninstall Google Launcher

3) reboot.

That's the way I resolved "play store services error". Use Nova Launcher.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanXamar:
Hello

When installing 2.4.5 which option do I choose to disable hard swap?

The option:0 mb?

Thanks for your time
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
0 MB or "Current", if it says "No".
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katolink:
Hi Archi, hi everyone!

I am using ArchiDroid V1.7.15 and I have a question related to kernels. Can I separately flash updated versions of kernels included in the ROM? For example, I have installed Googy-Max2 Kernel v. 2.3.0 as part of the ROM flashing procedure and then I have noticed that v. 2.3.1 is available - can I flash it over the existing version without getting into any trouble or should I wait the new ArchiDroid ROM release?

Many thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vyp54:
Get the new version of your kernel in .zip and flash it via recovery. You shouldn't be experiencing any problems. I've done it at lest 10 times.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivek Agarwal:
Hi Archi,

i installed the original latest sammy 4.3 with baseband I9300DDUGMK1 (still on the same one), did a full wipe and installed 2.4.5 however still the same issue with both the kernels (boeffla and yank). this time around after the rebooting was done and went it a bootloop . i tried another AOSP ROM (slimkat) same issue so i guess it not with archi. archi barebone not working either:(

however few questions on the archi zip i have:

in aroma i checked on Google + hacker keyboard after installation both of them missing, could you please add one keyboard in G APPS? so that i do not have to work with Google speech which does not recognize my accent:fingers-crossed:

Also i have received android.process.acore stopped working after flashing and booting the phone each time (however in googy kernel boot the phone sustained that error) however i still get the android stopped working now and then... not sure if if is anything related to your ROM..

also i would like to mention the network issue which i mentioned earlier it was same in original sammy as well so i believe again that is not archi issue...:o

again having said that it is a wonderful to be back to archi's rom (was there in sammy for two days and got feed up with the lag which i am not

used to in archi's rom)

cheers, Vivek :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nobelium:
Hi!

Do I need to root my phone before starting the whole thing? (before installing the new recovery)

my phone is currntly new from the factory.

tnx :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malachow:
Nope, the only requirement is custom recovery. :)

I'd recommand you to flash PhilZ Touch. :good:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/orig-development/i93xx-philz-touch-t2002953?goto=newpost
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nobelium:
Hi again! How can I change the size of my apps? They are too small... I would like the icons to be bigger! Tnx.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mushious:
How do I go about changing the colour of all the icons that appear in the statusbar (clock, battery, gsm, wifi, vibrate/silent, etc)? Is that part of xposed or something?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malachow:
Wanam Xposed. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katolink:
Hello! How can I install a different theme in AD 1.7.15 other than reflashing AD in update mode? I'm interested in being able to switch themes as I use the ROM, to compare their features/looks before deciding eventually. Thanks in advance!

P.S. AD 1.x is a great ROM, I love it! Great job Archi! :)