yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
Well, I'm not looking for a flawless phone. I know every phone has problems. After all i'm changing from a Nokia C5-03 to a Galaxy S4 so that would be a HUGE improvement. However, It's better than the S3, right ? I mean the S3 also overheats and such or it works without problems ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
Mines doesnt have any of that problems, because I remove all the crap from a rom and it only uses 600mb ram.

But it does suffer from knox....lol
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
Well, I decided to buy it after all but i guess i wouldn't root it because i'm a complete newbie and i might do something wrong. Thanks anyway for all the replies :D it really helped :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
Dont do anything to it until you read about knox/even samsung updates.Also reading other peoples problems on here shows what can go wrong.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertostorm:
A big nope, using CM 11, with construidor kernel, it's a rocket! haha, you should try it :)

Shouted from my GT-i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxsam4:
I would say that you should at least wait till 24 feb as s5 is expected to be announced on 24.

If the phone really gets what the rumours say then you should wait till april and buy s5 instead of s4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakcoon:
Have had the phone since launch. Originally came from ios (iphone 2g, 3g, 4, and 4s).

Mind you, I have TMO variant, so my experience may vary with others with international version.

I love the large and clear screen. I don't experience any heat issues not lag of any kind. My battery lasts long enough, just have to charge before I sleep.

I have used google edition roms, and currently using touchwiz stock.

Also, love the wireless charging.

MicroSD I have in the phone allows me to have many music albums as well as couple seasons of my favorite TV show.

Hope it helps!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
Well, The S5 would be really expensive on launch and i won't have enough money to buy it so guess I'll just stick with it. After all, It must be better than the S3 which i was originally going to buy :D

[MENTION=5619483]robertostorm[/MENTION] and Rakcoon : Thanks guys for the help :) It really helped me :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBeast:
Keep in mind that there are huge differences between its variants. I have i9505 and for some reason it drops frames in all games including subway surfers and fruit ninja. So if you are into gaming at least a little bit dont get the i9505. But then again i9500 doesn't have lte...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
Yea, I knew that :D I was going with the i9500 anyway and i don't have LTE in my country so i don't really care about it :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannyling:
No is my answer I came from a nexus 4 only to find lag and knox (which was not informed of in the update) I would of bought a nexus 5 ,galaxy s4 is okay but the feel and software let's it down and Samsung awnser for app closures and heat is factory reset. I think Google rma'ed My old nexus 4 if it went wrong . Lesson learned
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoddex:
totally worth it, specially if you are on a budget, if GS5 gets announced GS4 will get even cheapier. Great performance, I did experience overheating when I bought it (Apr 2013) but it got fixed after an update. I would buy it!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertostorm:
Well...i've had a nexus 4 too...i like the speed and all the updates really quick..but i still love a bigger screen and hardware keys...plus ir control :laugh: but for the money you pay a nexus 4 is really worth it. All hardware and s**t, no lag
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
Well, After some researching I've found the LG G2 which i think is better than the Nexus 5 and the S4. So, What do you guys think about it ? :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kimitza:
G2 any day...

Sent from my EchoE'd GT-I9505/smart phones,dumb people.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EclipseX:
If you like sami style go ahead

Enviado do meu GT-I9505 através de Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I think I'm gonna sell my S4 and buy a nexus 5. I hate all the knox sh*t stuff
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Power Of Chaos:
I think the LG G2 is better than the Nexus 5 except for the design (for me at least).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hannah Stern:
....S4 - Worth it?

Well, it's a good phone acutally! (FullHD-Display with good Colour Quality, Good Processing Power, ...)

[IMG="Camera Specifications for nerds"]http://xdaforums.com/images/icons/advanced/camera.png[/IMG] But the S4 doesn't offer

4k-Recording

or FullHD@60 Fps or HD@120fpshttp://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/...ion-function-t2904242/post56013525?styleid=18 but has the same sensor as the Note 3. It offers FullHD Recording @ 30Fps and 9.6MP Still images while Recording. The Note 3 can take Full-Res 13MP-Image@1080p@30fps, the S4 can only take 13MP's while 720p@30fps.

But at 2160p@30fps/1080p@60fps, Still Images aren't possible, even if you pause the Video Recording.)

The S4 and the Note 3 have the Same Camera UI that i love.

Much better than the S1-2-3(Note 1/2) or S5 (Note 4) camera UI.

So, it's a good phone, but 4K is really missed on the S4!

Feel free asking me, if you want to know more, anytime you want! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arber95:
Firstly i live in Kosovo (small country in Eastern Europe) and i use IPKO Mobitel sim card.

I am having a very weak signal on my Octa variant , i did root it in the past and changed the firmwares 2-3 times and flashed CM11 but after coming to stock non-rooted 4.3 i am having poor signal always 1 bar and sometimes even 0 when im at my home. I tried flashing different modems but still same no loss or gain..

http://i.imgur.com/D6IEVFu.png

Any help ? Which modem do you guys recommend ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxsam4:
You on 2g or 3g?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arber95:
2G
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxsam4:
Go to Settings>More Networks>Mobile networks>Network mode and change it to gsm only. if it doesn't help then change it to wcdma only and if even that doesn't work then change to auto connect and get a new connection from a better company :p

Note: It takes some time to switch network mode so be patient and give it a minute or two to properly shift.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arber95:
Seeing improvements after doing what you told.

Thanks alot.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxsam4:
Hit the thanks button if you appreciate my post -_-
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eidanhe:
hey

how did u get this screen?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zander21510:
So I had a bit of a mess, two concurrent but different backup copies, the original copy was all my wifi passwords, app data, etc. from the first time I used Android, the second copy was somehow created one day when i updated from one 4.3 nightly to another. I tried to fix it at the time, but I could never get the original backup copy back, so I figured it was lost.

Fast forward to now, my phone has been using the second backup copy for a while but I have some apps and wifi passwords from the original still missing for whatever reason. I got a Galaxy Note that has 4.3, when I registered it, it restored the backup from the ORIGINAL backup copy, so it was there all along. And every time I would clean flash a rom on the tablet, every time it would restore from that original copy. And my phone would restore from the second copy.

Finally I found the stupid setting in Google dashboard that lets me erase all backups ever for any Android phone I've ever had, so my plan is to shut off backup and restore on my phone and tablet, execute the delete on google dashboard (done and successful), dirty update to 4.4 on my tablet (done and successful), turn on backup on my tablet and let it make a new copy of that original data, then wipe both devices and do new, clean flashes for both of them to restore that original data.

My question is: how long does it take for Google to make a background backup, and how can I tell if it's completed a backup?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurrrtin:
Hey all, I've looked all through this forum, and can't seem to find an answer.

I have an unlocked bootloader. If I use any custom rom (have tried various 4.3 and 4.4), WiFi will see the access points, but will not connect to them no matter what, or where.

If I go back to stock, wifi works fine.

I've messed with all of the wifi settings in the phone. I've found a couple of posts in the forums here, and tried one suggestion of replacing a file in the /persist foler. Doesn't help.

Has anyone seen this before and/or know what to do to fix it?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CeBBe:
Hello,

I had the same problem with some ROM and to solve this issue i put a reservation on my mac adress in the config of my box.

I hope this is help you.

Sorry for my bad english.

I use the gummy ROM, it is awesome.
[Moto X Q&A] Jay10826:
Like the title says i'm using Chomp SMS as my default SMS app and it works great. However, the stock messaging app notification won't go away, even if i open the app. I'm on 4.4 rooted t-mobile if it matters.

Thanks
[Moto X Q&A] dray_jr:
if you open the stock messaging app and set it back as the default msg app then open settings and uncheck the notification box then check all the msg in the stock app to make sure it goes away.

then back in chomp set it as default again and everything should be OK if you are still having issues then you can try freezing the stock MSG app with titanium Backup and that should def stop it.

I have a Sprint Moto x and i froze the stock msg app and it has not caused any issues receiving msg's so it should not on yours.

hope that fixes your issue
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Official Builds of LiquidSmooth​

LiquidSmooth is an aftermarket firmware based on the Android Open Source Project.

Dedicated to providing users with smooth, stable and fast ROMs. A Lightweight modified AOSP base, and then add the features you crave!

While we make every effort to test these builds as much as possible, we are not responsible for anything that may happen to your device.

We ask that you do your part to know your device and know how to recover from problems before you flash!

Liquid Members:

Liquid0624

Deadman96385

jsnweitzel

Somber73

TheBr0ken

Cdub50

Features:

Linaro 4.8 GCC Toolchain
O3 Strict-Aliasing & ISO C++11 Mode
ARM Optimized String Handling Routines
Linaro and Code Aurora Optimaztions
Slims DPI on the fly
Custom animation controls
TRDS 3.0 (Liquid Blackout in settings)
Active Display
Slims QuickSettings
Ram Bar
T-Mobile Theme Engine
Privacy Guard
Built in SuperUser
Working WiFi Tethering
Cell Broadcasts
Slims Configurable Power Menu
Slims Configurable Nav Bar
Gamma Configuration support
Custom animation controls (Listview)
LockScreen Notifications
And way more than this...

Build Change Log:

**4/4**
Battery Saver
Fast Charge Tile added (May need tweaking we will see)
Audio theme's from Omnirom added
Shutdown speed increased from cm/slim
Upstream changes

**3/31**
Switched to IllusionRoms kernel (Omni base)
Switched to SaberMod 4.7 Toolchain for the kernel
Removed AOSB Recents
Stock Recents are default now (option of Slim's or OmniSwitch)
Removed Color Statusbar and App Side Bar as they were buggy

**3/17**
Status Bar Colors (Settings > Interface > AppBar)
Keyboard Animation's (Settings > Display > IME Animations)
Custom Scrolling Values (Settings > Display > Scrolling Modifiers)
Battery Bar (Settings > StatusBar > Battery Icon)
App Side Bar (Settings > Interface > AppBar)
Performance Control Replaced with Kernel Tweaker
Starting with 3/8 builds there will be limited CWM support you can flash updates using it as long as you do do use the wipe data action in the app thanks Steve Spencer
When a notification was clicked in active display on some device SystemUI would FC, fixed by Jason Weitzel
Gesture Anywhere (Details later in the post)
Active Display cleaned up and features merged in from Omni (Details here http://goo.gl/9eNhQ8)
Internal Memory QS Tile
Bug Fixes:
App Settings do not launch twice on long press in slim recents
3rd Party app support added to trigger recents
Keyboard does not close when recents is opened
SlimRecents Multiuser Compatible
Add Long press menu to SlimRecents, it includes app info, Playstore link, Amazon appstore.
FC on Pinch fixed
Make Slim Recents follow Google Design standards
Smooth none holo-spinners
Smart Pulldown added to LiquidActions
Recents added to LiquidActions

Source Code:

[url="http://github.com/LiquidSmooth"]LiquidSmooth Github[/URL]
[url="https://github.com/IllusionRom/android_kernel_lge_msm8974"]IllusionRom's Kernel[/URL]

Downloads:

[url=" http://goo.gl/mt8MtO "]ROM Download[/URL]
[url=" http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/gapps-t2012857 "]BaNkS GApps Download[/URL]

Screenshots:

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Please Support Liquid by Donating HERE​
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Know Issues - please do not post about bugs that you see on this list:

- Kernel Over Volt of +25-50 (may cause your device to run hot)

- Font Size picker does not work

- LCD Density force closes settings once you change the density and click the home or back buttons.

- Slim Pie needs a reboot before the trigger areas work

- There is no way to activate multi-window

- There is no way to disable Nav bar and pie currently

- OTA App is still in the testing phase, so it will be buggy so do not use it.

- Settings force close when setting custom icons for lockscreen slider shortcuts

If you see something not in this list, let me know below. :cyclops:

New Features:

Custom Progress Bar.

LG apps known to work:

RieGo's LG QuickRemote v7

My personal settings:

System DPI at 400

Navigation Height at 36

Action Launcher Pro

Kernel settings:

TCP Congestion Control: westwood

I/O Scheduler: noop

CPU Governor: ondemand

MPU Voltages: -25 to all

CPU Frequency: Max 2265600
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Saving two.
[Verizon LG G2] iOSh8er:
Sweet! Thank you for this!
[Verizon LG G2] eleazar123:
Been running these builds for a few days now.

Very solid and very smooth! :)

Thanks for building!
[Verizon LG G2] joewaz:
I'm not having any luck being able to flash this... Anyone else having issues?
[Verizon LG G2] philsfan:
problems here as well. "some symlinks failed" "error executing updater binary...."
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
I have noticed in TWRP that if you have wiped system (which I always do) you have to go to Mount and un-tick the box next to system and it should flash for you.
[Verizon LG G2] joewaz:
OK lol.. So you have to unmount the system?
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Yes, at least that has been my experience.
[Verizon LG G2] philsfan:
this did the trick! gonna give this a whirl. thank you! :good:
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Thanks for letting me know :cowboy: I will work on this in the next build so hopefully we won't have to take those couple of extra steps.
[Verizon LG G2] joewaz:
I'm loving this ROM.. It has every feature possible and its organized perfectly.. Seems stable so far.. But what's up with the over volting lol
[Verizon LG G2] Lawlrus:
Ran this for a few day a week or two ago. Was already really complete.

Also currently using this on my old ass xt912 glad to see you guys toss up a thread here. Awesome work.

Edit: didn't see this was unofficial haha my bad.

Regardless, awesome to see more options

Sent from my Vs980
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Hmm, I didn't notice that, in my previous builds it was running lower, this would come from dr87 as these are his defaults. I will look into it.

I am trying to help them out as the devs are working on all of the others they build for. As soon as I can get a few more things fixed I think they will put up an Official post.
[Verizon LG G2] tatootie67:
Seems to be running warm. But loving this ROM so far
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
OP is updated with a build that doesn't need you to unmount system.

In looking at the OV issue, I found one of the "features" that dr87 added to v3 of his kernel
[Verizon LG G2] datsyuk:
This was my favorite ROM on the Galaxy Nexus! Will be trying it.
[Verizon LG G2] Reginald476:
Same here, that's why I was so excited to see they were working on it and that I was able to get it build.
[Verizon LG G2] zeroxg4:
Holy crap you can change DPI on the fly without going through like 5 steps? This ROM is freaking FANTASTIC
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Backup TA for Sony Xperia™ (Mac OS X version)

With this app you can backup and restore the TA partition of your device.

This can be useful, for example, when you want to unlock your bootloader and not lose your DRM keys and most importantly, your warranty. Before unlocking your bootloader, backup your TA with this app and you will be able to restore it to a factory state (locked bootloader, DRM keys intact, etc).

The app is based on TA Backup v9.10 by DevShaft (thanks !), which can be found here.

View attachment 2573685

Downloads

Frequently asked questions

Source code

Issues
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[Sony Cross-Device General] DevShaft:
Thanks a lot for bringing this to Mac OS X and make it open source as well! Will have a look at the source and your work at a later time.
[Sony Cross-Device General] stanley321:
Stuck on requesting root on the first try, successful in the second time.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Did SuperSU ask you to grant permissions to "shell" when it hanged ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] stanley321:
I have granted SU permission to shell, so it won't prompt anyway.

The app is then not responding and I have to force close it.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Yeah, the app will appear to hang but it actually waits for adb to work it's magic.

Is there any chance you could send me a copy of the system log ?

To do so, open the Console app, enter "Backup TA" in the search field in the top right corner (to filter the logs) and make sure that "All Messages" is selected in the Log list (sidebar) on the left side of the window. At this point there should be lots of messages from Backup TA shown. You can now go to File -> Save a copy as... and send that file to me so I can look at what went wrong.

Thanks :fingers-crossed: !
[Sony Cross-Device General] stanley321:
Tried but nothing show up after the search!?

So I think it is just a case that I'm too hurry to check the app and closed it earlier than I should while it is working.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Try selecting system.log in the sidebar and then search for Backup TA, it should work.

Anyway, I'll implement a better way to get logs from the app soon :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] stanley321:
I find it but can't get it up here...

We are sorry, your post was flagged by our system and was blocked from submitting. If you believe this was in error, please contact an admin to report this.

Looking at it, I think I just closed it too early. Nothing wrong with your part!
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Too bad about the log, but thanks a lot for testing and helping ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] stanley321:
Checking the timestamp, maybe you should add a message to ask the user to wait for at least a minute to prevent nervous users like me from closing it too early.

Sorry for being new to this TA thing, I don't know how long I should expect.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
No problem, will add it in the next version :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] scoobydu:
Thanks for bringing this in a simple form to MacOS :)

Already backup up, but did another backup and did the test; all seemed well.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
New version 1.1 (2) available !

Download it here.

Changelog :

Added better log handling. You can now see the log files using Help -> Open logs folder

UI does not lock (beachball) anymore during lengthy backup/restore operations
[Sony Cross-Device General] imen27:
make it for linux please :angel:

thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
I will take a look, but don't get your hopes up :p
[Sony Cross-Device General] imen27:
sounds great,many thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
New version available

New version 1.1.1 (3) available !

Download it here.

Changelog:

Enabled verbose logging (for tracking down issues)
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Big update

New version 1.2 (4) available !

Download it here.

Changelog:

Added auto-update support

Improved reliability (by using bundled BusyBox commands)

Bug fixes
[Sony Cross-Device General] Miche1asso:
Thanks, mate. I think it worked. Just one question: is it normal that a 2MB TA partition gets zipped into few KB? Something like 77KB. Are those sizes (for both TA partition and zip file) normal?
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
Glad it worked :D

Yes, the sizes should be OK. the compressed one is smaller since the TA partition is mostly filled with zeroes, which get compressed quite well. If you want to check if the backup is functional, do a Test Restore (dry-run) with it.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Miche1asso:
Yeah, I was thinking that was the case. It should just store few keys. Also I already did the check indeed, it reported it was fine. Not that I think I'll ever unlock the bootloader, after getting root I'm perfectly fine with 4.4.4 (God! Even the battery usage went down to 1.3% per hour!) and sure I'm not going to waste time with WiFi not working, reboots and stuff like that. . :D But it's good to have the backup, which went straight in the Dropbox!

Anyway, this was with the Xperia M2 D2303. You may add it to the list of working devices if you have any! Thanks again!
[Sony Cross-Device General] psychowood:
Hi,

I was trying to backup a Z3 Tablet Compact SGP621 flashed with the D6603 system partition (following lowtraxx's guide), on OSX 10.10.2. The embedded adb (in your bundle) would not connect correctly, I replaced it with v1.0.32 (pulled from the latest android sdk) but it caused most of the commands to fail ('sh: ... not found').

For example:

[self executeADBCommand:@[@"-s", deviceInformation[@kUSBSerialNumberString], @"shell", @"su", @"-c", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\"%@ echo true\"", DEVICE_BUSYBOX_PATH]] output:&output]

tried to execute

/Backup TA.app/Contents/MacOS/adb -s XXXXXXXXXX shell su -c "/data/local/tmp/busybox-backup-ta echo true"

resulting in

sh: /data/local/tmp/busybox-backup-ta echo true: not found

The strange thing is that running that complete command in terminal worked flawlessly.

Digging with XCode the problem seemed to be the quotes. At first I tried to use single quotes

[self executeADBCommand:@[@"-s", deviceInformation[@kUSBSerialNumberString], @"shell", @"su", @"-c", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"'%@ echo true'", DEVICE_BUSYBOX_PATH]] output:&output]

but it did not work.

I then removed the quotes completely

[self executeADBCommand:@[@"-s", deviceInformation[@kUSBSerialNumberString], @"shell", @"su", @"-c", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ echo true", DEVICE_BUSYBOX_PATH]] output:&output]

and eveything went back in place.

A (careful) global search/replace fixed all the problems, and since I was there I also fixed some UI related warnings like this one

I tested the whole backup/test restore/restore (after unlocking the bootloader, so with TA partition cleared), and so far so good.

Attached to this post you can find the updated app (with the newer adb, busybox, and a nicer icon ;) ) and and sources.
[Sony Cross-Device General] limiter121:
New version available

Huge thanks for your excellent work [MENTION=618783]psychowood[/MENTION] :D !

I have included your changes in the new version 1.3 which is now available as an update or download (check first post for links).

Changelog (1.3):

New icon

Updated binaries (adb, busybox)

Bug fixes