yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 General] ratibars:
I had a Lumia 920 earlier. It was a beautiful phone but that's about it. Lack of apps was a big pain. I was looking for a phone with a good camera and a big screen. S4 fitted my bill but it's so common that everyone who doesn't have an iPhone has it. Then I came across G2. Read the reviews etc and realized that this was a phone that was just made for me (I can vouch on that!).

I understand techie things well but I'm still learning about custom ROMs and Mods. The choices available in terms of apps and ROMs are mind boggling and then I'm still looking for answers on rooting and flashing. I read horror stories on how rooted phones get "bricked" when they get OTAs but there is no clear answer on how to stop OTAs or how to retain the root in spite of OTAs. Anyways, it's an interesting world out here on flashing and customization and I like it! :)
[G2 General] fleeting_dreams:
I came from an iPhone 4s. Probably the most compelling reason why I switched is the awesome display of the G2 (and the specs as well). I just got tired of the small screen size of the iPhone, although I somewhat miss the better selection of apps in the App Store and the overall simplicity of iOS. On the other hand, the ability to customize Android to my liking kind of evens it out for me. It just take more work than usual, but nothing too complicated.
[G2 General] ch0c0lateb0yctg:
i am pretty disappointed by the camera...i expected so much from a 13mp shooter with OIS...eveythng else is superv
[G2 General] alone-together:
I've got a VS980 with the latest Mahdi ROM & furnace kernel and I'm very happy. Camera doesn't matter that much to me, and I'm sure the software will improve. I've had excellent battery life, very little SODs and no call echo. Not going to change ROMs any time soon.
[G2 General] androidkid311:
Love my G2 but won't be getting another LG phone.
[G2 General] abdel12345:
Same here. Unless g3 is same size but rumors put it at 5.5 inches. I'll probably go with a Sony. They have some sweet phones and being water proof is a big bonus.

But for now in loving the g2 especially the amazing battery and I'm hoping to keep this for a while
[G2 General] androidkid311:
Yup. Looking at Sony and the new HTC one! ;).
[G2 General] zer0bytes:
From s4--- the G2 is awesome specs camera battery and display
[G2 General] bachera:
if kitkat isnt nexus smooth I am getting a nexus next time or an apple if they ever increase screensize.

No Samsung, htc or Sony. They fail my smoothness tests.
[G2 General] abdel12345:
Have you tried the z1? That beast is as smooth as a nexus And smoother than the g2 for sure when it comes down to hi. It's not anywhere near as bloated as touchwiz and lg ui but it's nit as bare as stock either. Perfect in between. I was going to get a z1s but it was locked to tmobile so I traded for the g2 instead. And I'm happy with it though the verizon version buttons are annoying to try and press
[G2 General] Enter The Nexus:
Came from a G-Nex.

Here's what is better: Almost everything.

G2 > G-Nex for these reasons.

SPEED SPEED SPEED.

BATTERY BATTERY BATTERY.

CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA.

1080P 5.2 INCH SCREEN LORD JESUS!!! Porn just got better (just kidding...sort of)

Though, I miss the easiness of flashing on my G-Nex. I got it with 4.0.4 and went all the way to 4.4.2. I can still run AOSP on my G2, but there's a risk of problems for it. Other than that, good bye Galaxy Nexus, you will be missed.
[G2 General] :
yeah tried it instore. For some reason all instore Android phones seem laggy here in Netherlands.
[G2 General] Danilo Pantelić:
Waiting for official KitKat update, till then pretty happy with stock JB + G2 Xposed mod + Camera fix :good:
[G2 General] Kabloinko:
I tend to keep my phones until they literally fall apart before I buy a new one so I came from HTC Incredible S.. so yeah, what's NOT better on the G2?!

I was really just looking for decent hardware that would last a little while, bigger screen without having to go into phablet territory and a bit more oomph in overall use.

Integrated knock-on feature is just absolutely fantastic, I was getting so sick of having to press the powerbutton to wake the phone. Downside; knocking on my samsung tablet to wake it up is getting pretty annoying... ;)

Looove the screen, it's gorgeous even though I have to run a screen filter to not make my eyes want to crawl back into my brain and explode.

I find the camera good, but the camera software.. uh just no. Hoping for impovement with Kitkat.

No physical homebutton..YAY! Power+volume on the back, genious! Overall phone size: as a woman with big hands and loong fingers I find the G2 to be the perfect size.

Not having to constantly check to see how much battery I have left; Priceless!

I had a bit of bad luck and got a crappy G2 the first time around, but the replacement has been great so far. There are a few minor annoyances with the phone that I'm hoping will be fixed with the upgrade to Kitkat.. if not I guess I'll be learning how to root and all that. My prediction: I am going to be very happy with this phone for a good long while :)
[G2 General] :
+1
[G2 General] Subtleone:
I came from an LG Optimus 4x.

I wanted a larger screen, better battery life (4x battery life SUCKS so bad, it is not funny), and top notch performance. The rep of the camera was a lure also.

I love the larger screen with manageable size (any bigger though and it would stick out of my pocket so this seems the upper limit), and I can finally read ebooks without a grimace as long as I do not use Kindle app with those ungodly margins (Moon+ reader Pro FTW). I love the performance, though I had no complaints in this regard of the 4x. The battery life... Oh yes! Yes! Yes!

The camera is a mixed bag. It can take great pictures, but in practice between pressing the shutter and it focusing.... geez it is slow. Forget about capturing the moment. Also, the camera seriously overestimates its OIS, and as a result the shutter speed is always slow and leaves blurs. 3rd party camera apps fix several things, though not that. I have never been a big pic taker with my phone (I bring my Sony for that), but it is disappointing.

I hated the permanent soft button navbar, which killed the advantage of a larger screen IMO, but UDN ended that gripe, and not it only appears when I want to use it.

I won't be trading phones anytime soon, I can say that much. This phone absolutely kicks ass.

Note: it does not hurt that I paid $450 for an unlocked 16GB model, but when it finally arrived I got a 32GB one instead....
[G2 General] tiguy99:
Had the HTC One for a week before I got the LG G2.

Prior to that I had the Motorola Atrix HD, HTC One X, Galaxy S2, HTC Sensation, & prior to that Apple products. As for upgrade, didn't notice a speed increase from the HTC One but did notice a HUGE increase in battery life, larger/better screen and more comfortable/lighter phone.

Love the G2 for all the reasons as the O.P. Miss the speakers of the HTC One but that's it!!!
[G2 General] SKyRocKeting727:
Same situation. :thumbup:

Sent from my JEE TWO
[G2 General] tell4ever:
came from the htc one,

the HTC ONE has a better build quality and better speakers

the G2 has better battery and screen..there is no perfect phone but the g2 is doing a good job into getting there no regrets here
[G2 General] tiguy99:
I agree with you 90%. My HTC One had horrible build quality...gaps at the top where the speaker was along with the screen rising a tad bit. I also had a hiss sound while on call that was bad and Bluetooth issues.

After multiple complaints to tmobile i ended up returning it after i discovered they carried the G2! I've been happy ever since
[Thinkpad Tablet General] amir84:
hi everybody

i have the yoga 2 pro for one month now and i gathered all the questions for now please help me:

1. hotkeys!- is it possible to adjust the hotkeys with the lenovo built in keyboard? for example to have the F8 to play musice and so... ??

2. windows touch key on the buttom of the screen...!- can i disable the Vibrations of the laptop each time i tuoch that key??

3. i have mad an USB ISO installation for making some more space on my laptop - can i duplicat that bootable ISO USB i made? (i don't have that partiotion anymore at my yoga.. just at the USB)

4. APPS - backround apps? dont work in backround? for example the IE touch stop working in bacround when i play a video on YouTube and i just "minimize" the app it stop playing... shuold it be like that?

5. how can i know my original produst Windows 8.1 key ? and how can i make a clean installation? does it mean i'll have to reinstall the lenovo stuff or it'll be like i got it from the box?

6. Opening everything as Administratore - how can i do that witout having the need to right click and choose "open as Administrator? becouse most of the time i can't install anything or play programs without doing that!

7. partitions at the SSD what are those 1 GB and other 1 GB that are hidden at my partions? can i get rid of them?? or move them to a backup HD drive?

thats are my important questions for now

i be really thank full for help! please
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junewi123:
So recently I converted my SHW-M250k into Gt-I9100. I used odin to flash it with the I9100 Pit and I9100 Firmware.

I followed this procedure : http[colon]//dabinslab[/url][dot]blogspot[dot]ca/2013/03/turn-shw-250sk-to-gt-i9100[dot]html?m=1

It worked but I have few problems:

1. I live in Canada and I'm with Fido. My Messaging does not work. It won't sent text.

2. Service connection problems. Often I have really low connection or no service. I would be using it with full service but suddenly drops to none.

3. Data REALLY slow, its very slow, My other phone has no problems.

4. Data stays on for few minutes even though I turned it off.

I have a fido 3g SIM and It had no problems on my old phone. I set the APN up already.

Please help me with at least one.

Thank you.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] moh6299:
£200 in perfect condition with usual stuf. i live in london
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] XShell:
No discount? :)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] moh6299:
make me a offer will you b able to pick it up
[Thinkpad Tablet General] amir84:
i have a yoga 2 pro 13"

recently i buogt a micro HDMI to VGA connector so i could connect my external display wich is samsung S22B150 (21")

anyway i connect the yoga to the display

and everything worked with the maximoum reselution display 1920 X 1080

the only very annoying thing is that i need to restart the windows for it to show the icons and the taskbar in normal good mode!!

so when i want to use my lenovo screen and discconect the yoga from the external screen the display on the yoga shows everything minore!!! the icones is extremly small as is the taskbar wich bring me again to make a restart so i could use it normaly

i did tried to change setting with the Intel display but it doesnt seems to take any effect just when i make a restart :smileysad:

that is terribale! why can't i use it normaly? connect and discconect external screen as i want without having to restart all the time??

another strange thing - sometimes when i connect it to the external screen the Bluetooth disapear and stop working and i have to reinstall the drivers of the bloetooth all over again

please help me !!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] eletendre84:
Hi Guys, just got a note 2, and i have a quick question.

It has L900VPAMC2 verson software on it (4.1.2). Should i hold off doing the OTA if i plan on Rooting and ROM-ing?

Previous experience with Samsung phones tells me 4.3 brings knox, locked bootladers....and problems.

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] srod562:
Congrats on your Note 2! Yes you are correct on 4.3 bringing knox and the locked bootloader which means no custom kernels like perseus which is awesome. 4.3 is rootable and I believe you can revert back to MC2. Theres great roms for MC2 and MA7 which im currently on and have the newest MK4 modem installed. Let me know if you want the link to easily root your note 2 using mskips toolkit.

Sent from my Knox Free Galaxy Note2 using SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Only reason to worry about MK4 at all is if you intend on running Touch wiz MK4 builds....otherwise if you want 4.4 now just go root and flash aosp.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] eletendre84:
Yes please! Thanks. I see that Framaroot would technically work, however rooting from the phone itself seems so.....unelegant.

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] srod562:
Yeah I love using the toolkit. It installs everything for you so easily including custom recovery. There is no option under sprint mc2 but you can select ma7 and it will root your phone just fine. Tried it a couple times already while on mc2.

http://www.skipsoft.net/?page_id=1099

Sent from my Knox Free Galaxy Note2 using SkyBlue Tapatalk 2

---------- Post added at 11:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 AM ----------

Also read the Toolkit thread for more info and instructions....http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957155

Sent from my Knox Free Galaxy Note2 using SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ziggysmalls:
Do any of the non-TW builds have any S-Pen functionality (Air Command, etc)?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] spidercheek:
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/02/22...y-gear-2-neo-leaked-ahead-of-official-unveil/
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] stevedrz:
Cool!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] jutley:
Dont look like they are running tinzen os then?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] stylus1828:
Evleaks is now saying that these watches are not Galaxy branded. So it seems Samsung is presumably just going to run with the Gear branding.

This is from gsmarena.com
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] T-Anthony78:
Yep, these are probably the Gear 2 and Gear Neo... later will probably be the Gear Fit. I'm glad it doesn't look too different from my Gear watch... as I'm not ready to shell out more loot yet.

Digging the physical home button and new camera placement though.

Skype, anyone?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fOmey:
These look very nice !

Thanks for sharing.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] fletch33:
I am hoping that I can get a Gear Fit with it still having all the Gear 2 features like the camera.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] donzzy:
I need to start saving now to buy this. Got to have it for my Note!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mutantblack:
I saw a report saying they are indeed running tizen os.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/19/samsung-galaxy-gear-2-tizen/
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] chuko303:
Tizen on the new gear is a dead nogo imediately for me that is, I can imagine no apps for this thing and since tizen dont have an app store tell me how will we sideload apps from google play to it? The whole point was to make it slimmer and better. It looks the same. Looks thick like the gear and now its running tizen? Hell nah. Ill have to test it out and look more into it for me to buy it. Considering tizen is the os. I think I'll stick with my gear
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
about point 1 i would say it is harmful for your sd card so i would skip it

about point 2 see battery extender kernel thread and follow flashing steps and you can easily get it done right

about point 3 it is kernel which decided whether init.d should work or not so if a kernels it the rom automatically supports it { as i know }

about point 4 aokp rom i dont know that as no stable aokp rom has been build for ace yet { though you may find laggy aokp roms for ace also }

try cm 9 by [MENTION=5300277]Rhievaldo[/MENTION] it is great and light too

about point 5 my answer is still cm 9 by rhievaldo

i hope i helped you brother
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjnapster555:
thank you for your time i want aokp because when i press home for long it show ram with app kill this is the best feature on which rom or app i can get that easy to kill apps

and about point 1 if we link only internal to use as storage its not dangerous but using as a ram is dangerous right ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viper The Ripper:
Both become dangerous over time, but it's more dangerous to use "swap partition" due to the increased number of write/read cycles ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
i guess about point 1 you are satisfied by mr [MENTION=4938641]Viper The Ripper[/MENTION] answer
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjnapster555:
agee :o
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5617821:
You can still use scripts like CronMod to increase the internal storage. All you need is an ext2/3/4 partition and a rom with init.d support. Follow the instructions in the below thread on how to install CronMod.

CronMod Script

You can use the following guide by [MENTION=4910339]Venomous Viper 119[/MENTION] to learn how to improve the battery life of galaxy ace and what are the best scripts to do so.

Improve battery life & performance of ace

You can check the following guide by [MENTION=4825267]alireza7991[/MENTION] to see how you can add init.d support to your kernel or rom.

How To Add Init.d Support to Your Kernel & Rom

Haven't personally used AOKP roms, so I can't help you here. Also no recommendation on the roms above 4.1 since I only use Gingerbread 2.3.7 based roms.

Also I disagree with user [MENTION=5288564]aditya rathee[/MENTION] on his answer to the fifth question since cm9 roms are Android 4.0 - 4.0.2 while the user specifically asked a rom above Android 4.1 .

Hope I helped :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
yeah you are right

you can disagree but i told him as good rom of my interest after knowing that he was asking for rom above 4.1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5617821:
And here I was under the assumption that you didn't see the above Android 4.1 part of the question. Glad to clear out the misunderstanding buddy :) Though I still don't understand why you suggested it as an answer to Question 5 when you could have mentioned it as a suggestion.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
i guess i have to end this discussion

look buddy let me go straight

i by mistake suggested him cm 9 instead of cm 11 or cm 10.1 or 2 by [MENTION=868594]Mardon[/MENTION] so plz dont make this an issue

AND KEEP THE THREAD CLEAN
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5617821:
Fair enough buddy now you know your mistake :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] atifrawn:
hay

i have xt910 and i am using retail uk.can i instal retail france on my cell

thanks

i am on jellybean
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Yes,you can.

But what's the point of doing that?

JB roms for europe are the same.

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] atifrawn:
I instal 2 time uk retail but my wifi signal working weak.

So i want too instal anyother retail.

Any suggesion
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Try to flash chinese baseband,some people say that thay have better signal with it.

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] atifrawn:
From where i got that Chinese basband file(i think cant instal chinse basband because of bootloader locked
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254094

You can flash it with BMM,just extract bp.img,put it on the root of your SD card (not ext) and flash it.

And the bootloader has nothing to do with it,don´t worry. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] atifrawn:
can i only flash bp.img file with bmm

i am courently using ss
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
I think that SS can´t flash bp.img but I´m not 100% sure,I never used SS,maybe I´m wrong. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] atifrawn:
i flash bp image but i could not find differense .

i think signal depends on radio can i flash chinese radio?

a big question mark
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Bp.img and radio are the same thing,the only difference is in flashing,BMM flashes bp.img while the radio you must flash with adb commands from your computer.

Sent from Razr XT910
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
would anyone have this firmware...damn only place that ive found takes 12 hrs to download 1.4gb then it says network error...i need this baaaaaaaaaad
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Android_Monsters:
It's always good to go to the source: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
ok, downloading...cant believe it says 5 days for 1.4gb...lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Android_Monsters:
It really shouldn't take that long. This place seems to have mirrors: http://androidromupdate.com/2013/11/27/install-m919uvuemk2-4-3-firmware-tmobile-galaxy-s4-m919/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....yeah been there. The one place is where it gave me errors and now says ive reached my limit of downloads and the mirror says i can only dl certain size and this int one...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
WILL THIS WORK?

http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS4/SGH-M919/rooted/Stock_M919UVUAMDL.5.12.zip
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Vigz:
That is MDL. You will get 4.2.2 if you flash that one. It's odd how there are virtually no mirrors for UVUEMK2. After some digging on threads at XDA, here is a mirror: https://copy.com/1yJkfBBGa4VwTzl
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
****, didnt even realize it...ok downlaoding your mirror...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
u my friend are a lifesaver...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mwhitt:
thanks for the mirror, saved my a$$, been loking forever.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] axel2589:
Why switch from mdl to mk2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
In my case my rom which is on 4.3 wont work on mdl...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] axel2589:
Ok. Cause for the rom im running which is wicked rom. They recommended switchin to mk2. But it works great on mdl.. so im wondering and questioning whether to switch or not???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
I ran wicked for quite a while and evil1 highly recommends mk2, im now on dbrom which also recommends mk2...im one to always follow the devs for best performance...just me tho...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] axel2589:
Ill switch it then. Now one more question. If I swith over will I loose anything..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bx10r:
No, u shouldnt...i didnt..good luck..keep us posted
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Android_Monsters:
Just update the modem not the bootloader: like this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2544612
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] axel2589:
Is there a step by step on how to do the switch to mk2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Android_Monsters:
Look at the first page of the last link
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] axel2589:
Switched to mk2. Rom is working flawless. Thank you guys.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lmacmil:
If I update from the settings/about phone/updates screen, will it install 10.2.1 completely without any intervention on my part? Any potential pitfalls doing it this way vs the manual method I had to use for the initial CM install?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lmacmil:
Will I have to manually update gapps?
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiddenG:
Yes, updating directly from settings will install CyanogenMod 10.2.1 without any intervention (it will boot to ClockWorkMod Recovery and automatically install CM10.2.1, then reboot into CM). However, you will need to manually install GAPPS again; so I'd just manually install both.

You can get gapps for CM10.2.x from: http://goo.im/gapps

All the best.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] Temas1989:
Hi All ! I am the beginning developer firmware. My device Acer IconiaTab A701 ,i don't porting 3G in Pac Man ,help me !:eek:
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] Shreps:
Hi,

Pac Man Rom is only for A700 for now, that's normal that 3G doesn't work.

Use CM 11 and you will have 3G ok :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] gaz1970:
Does any body know of a place to download the original Orange rom that first came with my M600 I am sending it back to orange and would like to reflash it with their firmware for obvious reasons

Thanks