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[General Questions and Answers] nastyhasky:
I bought an unlocked S4 that I'm using with straight talk. It came with CyanogenMod 11 nightly. I am having a lot of issues with the software and would like to return to stock. Its been years since I've loaded roms or did any of that with my droid. I've downloaded Odin on my computer but don't know how to load a ROM or which one to use. I would like kitkat but don't know if the stock ROM is available yet. I'm fine with 4.3 tho. I know this is the tmo variant but I don't want a carrier specific ROM. Reason: When I got a sim from straight talk I got an att sim since it will work in this phone cuz I wanted better service in my area. I've been trying to figure this out for three weeks and finally threw in the towel and came here. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
[Windows RT General] slow_mo_panda:
I just got myself this Windows Surface RT Tablet (finally) after having been through many cheaper tablets in the past, because I had been unable to afford the Surface. So, now that I have it, and have already done all I can with it (which isn't much!), I have found that I am unable to even PLAY MOST OF MY VIDEOS (most of them are mkv, avi, mp4) which is one reason I got a tablet to begin with! I have not been able to find ANY video player apps that are even worth TRYING in the MS App Store, and so far any searches I have done online for "How to install programs on surface RT", or even "How to hack my surface RT tablet" have not come up with any answers! I did find one article on how to "Jailbreak" the tablet, but even then, it will only actually RUN a tiny number of programs.

I have become so fed up and am out of patience for this thing! :confused:

I can't watch most of my movies, I can't figure out how to play the Win8 SNES Emulator (since I can't install the game ROMs), I can't install Firefox (my ONLY browser!), I hate how the Home Screen only allows you to pick from the pre-installed backgrounds, and I can't load my own wallpaper like I can on my laptop, and I really hate the Home Screen interface with all the annoying little tiles! Can anyone offer advice, or point me to where I can get some of this fixed??

THANKS! :fingers-crossed:
[Windows RT General] Ace42:
The RT runs RT windows 8, which doesn't run x86 apps aka .exe files. You can only install apps from the store without jail break. Also there's no Firefox for rt, I think you were confused on what rt could do compared to full windows.

All wallpapers can be changed via settings or control panel using the classic desktop. For video files the rt doesn't support every format, it'll work with the sane format every windows machine does. MP4 will work, but I'm guessing you have mkv.

Sent from my Optimus G
[Windows RT General] undeadking:
I am feeling your pain, i got my surface rt for a steal on eBay and I was super disappointed to find out that I cant even plug my Razr MAXX HD in and transfer a single file either way... Need to find a loop hole quick or something like that will make things better for me...
[Windows RT General] SixSixSevenSeven:
Errm you should be able to. The RT has USB host. Should plug it in and it should just appear as a device as normal, tested with an Xperia M and Surface RT (not my tablet though). It only worked with my phone set to mass storage or MTP modes in the USB menu, didnt work for the picture/photo/camera mode and doesnt work for ADB.

Failing that, both have bluetooth file transfer....
[Windows RT General] Ace42:
That's different, you have some issue with your phone. My RT detects my N4 & LGOG.

Sent from my Optimus G
[Windows RT General] undeadking:
When I plug in the razr maxx hd via USB- Motorola device manager tries to install and it is not compatible with RT. So I resorted to uploading from my phone to a cloud app called MEGA and then downloading through my tablet browser...
[Windows RT General] SixSixSevenSeven:
You dont have to use their software unless motorola have really cocked the razr maxx up big time.
[Windows RT General] undeadking:
Yeah they cocked it up really good- it wont even connect to my ps3 via USB, things we sacrifice for amazing battery life. Oh and if i connect it to the surface as FTP- I can view the pictures that are on my phone storage only, no sd card or video support either.
[Windows RT General] domboy:
Why can't you install the roms?? I just used windows explorer to copy them to the C: drive on my Surface RT. I put them in a folder within the downloads folder, but you can probably put them anywhere. Then you open the Snes8x and just add that folder as a Rom directory (press the "Load Rom" button). Someone on this site pointed out you can enable keyboard controls by swiping in from the right, and click settings->Input Settings.
[Windows RT General] LolitaPlus:
Good news is, VLC is coming to Metro. They will submit their app to the store in the next following days.

Bad news is, right now this support x86 only. You have to wait for ARM support.
[Windows RT General] Ruffa-Duffa:
I feel for you. My school has given us all windows surface RTs and they're kind of annoying. I've found a few workarounds for a lot of my problems though. If you're having trouble playing .mp4s then that's just weird. Unless they're encoded really strangely, rt's video player should play those. However if that's no help it's worth trying out PressPlay, a free video player with very small ads that do not interfere at all and can be removed for a buck or two that let's you

1. Play external subtitles, although I've found it impossibly buggy but I haven't done extensive tests so it could be useful

2. Play .mkvs although that's experimental and also doesn't work very well

3. More features in general such as pausing without bringing up UI, changing playback rate, stuff like that.

Now if you have mkvs I would recommend using this program on a jailbroken windows rt:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2368706

It's a program called ffmpeg and it's ported from normal windows. Make sure to download ffmpeg2.1_ARM.zip not ffmpeg0.6_arm.zip

with this program you can copy the video and audio from your mkv to an mp4 so it can play on your rt if you extract fmmpeg to a folder and then run this in command prompt(include the quotation marks and make sure to use backslashes(\) not forward slashes(/)):

cd "The bin folder in wherever you extracted ffmpeg to for example C:\ffmpeg\bin"

ffmpeg -i "Your mkv for example C:\myvid.mkv" -c copy -map 0:v -c copy -map 0:a "Your output mp4 for example C:\myvid.mp4"

That will also go super fast because there's no compression involved, it's just copying all video tracks and audio tracks from and mkv to an mp4.

In fact if you continue to use this command a lot you speed up the process heaps by making a batch file including these 2 lines of code:

cd "Again, your location of the bin folder in the folder you extract ffmpeg to, for example C:\ffmpeg\bin"

ffmpeg -i %1 -c copy -map 0:v -c copy -map 0:a "%~n1.mp4"

and then put that batch file into your SendTo folder(C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo).

If you do that then all you have to do is right click on one of your mkvs and click SendTo whatever you named your batch file and it'll make an mp4 with the same name in the same directory.

As far as snes games go snes8x has now been taken off the store but you can get a port of the desktop app of snes9x from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2339228

if you have a jailbroken device. Although it is an emulator and it doesn't neccessarily run great so if you have the original surface RT as I do I would stick with 2D games. But test them and figure it out.

In fact if you have a jailbroken device there's a thread here all about apps ported to the RT or native for the RT right here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092348

If you have any trouble with any of that I'm happy to help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] KaRa:
After being searched enough for working VPN Clients for my University Wireless Network, I have decided for the fallback-solution.

But my network wants PPTP with PAP support, but in Settings I don't see such an option.

Could someone help me?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xtreme Addict:
Hello , I'm new to andriod and I'm using HTC desire c . I moved all my user apps to the sd card using Titanium Backup , and now none of them work .When I open viber , It gives me this massage " unforunately, com.viber.voip has stopped" . And some apps say "application is not installed" . I tried to move them back to internal stoarege but nothing happend . Is there anyway to fix this , or should I factory rest the phone ?!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jr67:
Some apps just don't work when you move them to your sdcard. Try uninstalling all the apps that are giving you problems then reinstalling them from the play store. Depending on the number of apps it might be quicker to just start fresh and do a factory reset.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xtreme Addict:
I did a factory reset and now everything is back to normal ... thank you ..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoxXxeR:
Hey

i need your help:(

i tryed to install instercoin on my HTC One but after the installation my One doesn't load to recovery it still rebooting after choosing it in the bootloder.

please help me

i read that i have to erease cache but i don't know how to without the ability of opening the revovery
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
which version of InsertCoin ? are you s-off ? what version of recovery do you have installed
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elitewhey:
hello everyone (sorry about my bad english)

I bought Lg g2 d 802 (international), everything stock..not even rooted and the first unusual stuff I saw was "Content Adaptive Brightness"

but i get used to it now. The other thing i wanted to ask here is image persistence of isp screen.

I saw some tablets with ips screen suffering from this...also some samsung lcd Tv-s from 2008-9, and i found

it in my phone...when i surf internet, facebook for a couple of minutes (lets say 5+ minutes) and after that i enter

picture from my gallery that contanins medium gray color in bottom od full screen view i can see shadows from

dock sensor buttons (back, home & settings). shadows are temporary and disapear after few minutes, but as the main

buttons are always on you can see them in full screen of medium dark grey picture every time after usage of phone.

I love this phone, camera, battery, & other fast hw are simply amazing for multitask, and usage, but wanted to see if i'm

alone experiencing this with g2 or not?

all best
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GlitchedSoul:
Does it fade out slowly when it disappears or does it just instantly go away after a while.

Sent from my magic box.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elitewhey:
it fade out slowly m8
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eseregin:
I think our screen is not amoled so does not burn out

Really did not see this on LG , but definetky it was priblem for Razr i
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
LCDs too have burn-in, but they are far less susceptible to it than OLED displays.

I had several SAMOLED devices, now I have an IPS device... and in almost 5 years I never saw any burn-in whatsoever.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elitewhey:
I know that OLED and old plasma screens are prone to burn in

And i have 4:3 samsung 710n tft monitor for 10 yeras without

Problems, but my question is about lazy pixels of IPS screen.

Can someone test g2 the way i described in my first post (10 minutes

screen sensor bar on, then enter gray picture in full screen)?

I'll put example when a reach desktop later.

Cheers
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruzargel:
Wtf I just noticed my screen! I have image retention on navbar and status bar. It does not go away!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
I have this phone about 15 days, and i have the same problem. Can you resolve this ?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
LCD displays are totally IMMUNE to burn in the same way AMOLED and CRT displays are completely vulnerable to it. This type of burn in us caused by phosphor wear over time. It just won't EVER happen on our G2s or any LCD display.

What you're referring to us called image retention and is a completely different. beast all together. If you notice thus occurring on your phone or TV, etc, then turn the display off for 24-48 hours and any retained images should be gone.

It's rather difficult to get a LCD display to do this unless you try (or game all day straight and the game has static elements in it) but none the less it happens. It's not a "G2" thing.

Very very rarely I hear stories where a LCD display has decided to permanently remember images and even keeping the display off didn't solve anything. I've never had a first hand account of this though so those people either probably mistook a fauly display for image retention, or it's an extremely rare occurance.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
Do you have a source for this information?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
I found this test

http://www.marco.org/rmbp-irtest.html

To view if you have IR or not. If i run the test for 5 minutes and switch to grey i can notice the image retention but dissapears with time. I cant see the image retention in normal use.

Any can run the test for 5 minutes, to compare please.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
Plenty of sources. Google "image retention vs burn in LCD AMOLED) and you should get plenty of sources but here's one.

http://www.rtings.com/info/what-is-image-retention

---------- Post added at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:32 PM ----------

Here's a much more detailed article...

http://www.tweakguides.com/HDTV_8.html
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
But its normal ??? I can only see if i search for them, idk if go to the warranty or keep it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
Yes it's normal. If the image doesn't fade out over time though it's not normal. Our screens are LCDs and this is common for all LCD displays, TVs included.

Plasma and OLED displays have it worse because the phosphor wear on these can be permemant. I used to play a certain game hours and hours each day on my old Galaxy Nexus which had an AMOLED display and I eventually had the menus permanently burned into the display.

Since our G2s use a LCD display though any image persistence we may encounter should fade away once the screen is off for a while. If it doesn't then no that's not normal. Most image retention issues should fade away in a few minutes, but rarely it may last up to a few hours to a few days.

Unless you keep your display on a static image though hours and hours on end, this shouldn't be an issue. If any retention doesn't fade away after having the display off for a while or if it commonly happens without having to try to make it happen then you might consider a warranty replacement.

There's a ton of information regarding this if you search on "screen burn in image retention oled lcd plasma" in Google.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
Thank you very much, yep mine´s fade away after 30 seconds.

You have image retention in your G2 ???
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
Only if I force the issue by doing things like leaving this web page,

http://link.tapatalk.com/api/click?...t.html&subId=c157297d1a1ff043255bfb18530caaa2, open for a while. It quickly fades away though. That's the only time I've ever noticed anything.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
Yep Same Here, i think all LG G2 suffer from this problem.

Thank you.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
Np ? All G2s,...all LCD devices. LCD tech kind of plateaud so manufacturer starting developing AMOLED displays. LG seems to have made great improvements though with their LCDs and I'm glad they chose this route as I prefer LCD to AMOLED any day.

AMOLEDs may evolve to the point where burn in isn't an issue, much like how LCD displays when first introduced suffered from ghosting that was so bad it wasn't even am option for anyone who games. With

today's LCDs ghosting, much like the real thing, kind of faded away into the VAST.

I guess in the end it all boils down to each person's individual tastes.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qix84:
But i have a LCD IPS LG MONITOR, and run the test about 10 minutes and i havent IR, i have a LCD IPS LG TV (LA6200) and i havent IR. I think not all LCD IPS have this problem :S
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightHarvester:
Yeah the IPS LG monitor is susceptible but just because it is doesn't mean you'll ever see it happen. People in the Apple forums are always asking about why their Safari url bar remains once the app is closed. These people must be on Safari all day every day lol.

Most often you'll see it on displays in places that keep a TV running all the time with like CNN running (restaurants, display units in stores, etc) . Just because it can happen doesn't mean it will. It's something I never worry about while using LCD displays
[Acer Iconia A500] sharkguy:
I have spent all night researching this forum, and have had no luck finding a solution to my problem. My tablet is stuck at either the lock screen (15% battery, no touch controls) or "shutting down" loop, all depending on how I power it up. Most of the methods listed on the forum either involve flashing updates via SD card (none have worked so far) or require me to load a bootloader via PC connection (which I cannot do since I cannot access tablet settings). Does anyone know how I can get this thing working again? I assume that an OTA update was mishandled by the previous owner, and this is the cause of the brick. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
[Acer Iconia A500] Sleepybear84:
You do not need access to the power settings to be able to boot into APX Mode. If I remember correctly you do the following:

Press and Hold Power Button

Press and Hold RESET Button (Using paperclip or pin) for 3 seconds

Release RESET Button

Release Power Button

It will appear that the tablet doesn't boot, but if you then plug it in to you PC with a usb cord to the miniUSB port it should recognize it as an APX Device in the Device Manager. This should let you do the BlackThund3r's recovery method, or any other method using APX.
[Acer Iconia A500] sharkguy:
I have done all of the BT, TD and babsector stuff with no luck. APX mode is easy enough, but it doesnt help so far.

Sent from my SGH-I317M (Samsung Galaxy Note II) from Tapatalk :p
[Sony Xperia L] rsssmcet:
i have Xperia L C104 and i tried everything for rooting it but no results..... superuser was working before update 15.3.A.1.14 and now it is showing SU BINARY IS NOT INSTALLED pls tell me what to do n help me pls....... :(

pls suggest something?????
[Sony Xperia L] varunpilankar:
For 1.14 firmware you need to root again.. The root is already out, so please search the blog for it..
[Sony Xperia L] Joel16:
Hey mate, have a look at this
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kreuger:
So a buddy of mine gave me an OTG cable and I wanted to hook my PS3 controller to it, to try out some racing games. I downloaded Need For Speed Most Wanted but the settings don't seem to allow using anything except a "moda" controller or the phone. My buddy said it worked for him to play on his HTC One but I'm not sure what game he used. So my question is, will this work on the G2, and the issue is just game related?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GlitchedSoul:
I don't think you can use a ps3 controller on your phone with a cord. I do know that you can use Bluetooth with another app, it requires a little work and if you resync it with the ps3 again you'll have to do it again. Your buddy may have used an app to make it work. The MOGA controller is Bluetooth only by the way.

In short, it should work with the G2 it just needs an app to be the "middle man" between the controller and the game.

Sent from my magic box.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vepaot:
Sixaxis Controller is the app you want to use to pair your controller with your phone.

However, I have not been able to get it to work on my VS980. It works just fine on my Nexus 7 2012.

Sent from CAMACHO, my Verizon G2 (VS980) running PAC ROM 4.3.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kreuger:
I wasn't interested in using bluetooth but thanks anyways.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] geminixx:
Ok guys, after about 3 days of search i finally find how to install Clockworkmod Recovery (Touch Version) on my WIND T999V so im sharing it with you!

Assuming you are already rooted right? Ok then read on!

If not then i suggest you follow mrRobinson's thread on how to root.

Note: THIS METHOD WILL TRIP YOUR COUNTER!!!

So if you worrying about that then please read how to remove that using Triangle Away here

I would like to quickly say im not responsible if you brick your device! so please take the necessary precautions etc​

Ok lets move on.

Files needed:

FIRST Make Sure that the Samsung USB drivers are installed. You can find it here

Odin: Located here

CWM Recovery: Located here (Although this is for T999V other phones are listed but im not sure if the procedures are the same)

MD5 Checker: Located here (This is to check your download files to see if they are complete or correct files)

Download Odin.

Turn off your Phone and Turn it On While Pressing, Volume Down + Home + Power button until you see the download mode screen, Press Volume Up to continue.

Open Odin in Computer and connect your device to PC, while it is in the Download mode.

If your Phone is successfully connected to PC, the Odin port will turn Yellow with COM port number and in the status section you see <Added!>.

Now Click on PDA and select the File "recovery-cwmtouch-6.0.4.3-d2tmo.tar" (would be better to rename it something like recovery.tar).

In Odin, Check Auto reboot and F.Reset Options if they are not already checked.

Now Click the start button and wait for the process to complete.

After the installation is complete you device will restart and once you see the Home Screen, unplug the cable.

You should now have CWM Recovery installed!

To check turn your phone off and press Volume Down + Home + Power.

OPTION 2

Ok so after a few more brain storming, trials and error i found out that i can actually install CWM from ROM Manager without going through the above process. Anyways i am leaving it just in case some users need it.

Now its simple to get CWM for your phone!

First Download ROM Manager (if you are rooted)

Open the app

Select Recovery Setup

Select INSTALL OR UPDATE RECOVERY

Select the Option Button >>>>>

Select Show All Devices

Select Ok at the popup

Scroll Down untill you see Samsung Galaxy S3 (T-Mobile) (it should have d2tmo below it)

Select It

Select Flash ClockworkMod Recovery

Wait until its finish and you are good to go

Note: If you want to support the dev you can Select YES at the Flash ClockworkMod Touch before you Select Flash ClockworkMod Recovery its just $1.99!

Its easier to use anyways!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Talex416:
2nd method with ROM MANAGER worked well on my wind s3.

Thanks for sharing
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
Root is not required for the first step. Both methods will work for all T999 variants in case anyone is wondering. Good write up