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[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acvice:
Ok, so im new to Windows Phone and after lots of reading I still have a few small questions if anyone wouldn't care to humor a noob. So here is my situation...

I bought a lightly used, sim unlocked, RM-940 ATT branded Lumia 1520 with the intention of flashing the latest stock firmware in order to start with a clean slate and get rid of ATT's bloat as well as be able to take developer preview updates from microsoft. I use an ATT MVNO so I need to make sure it's sim remains unlocked. From what I understand the newest RM-940 ATT firmware will relock the sim to ATT, which is exactly what I don't want. So from what im reading my best option is to flash the RM-937 Global Rom. I remember there being a Dev ROM for the Lumia 920 but I havn't seen any mention of such a thing for the L1520. Am I correct in assuming that I can go backwards from RM-940 to RM-937, or is that not possible? Would anyone care to set me straight please? I would greatly appreciate it.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maboivin:
I'm also interested in this info. Did you find if it's actually possible to flash a Lumia 1520 RM-940 (AT&T) with a Lumia 1520 RM-937 (Global) firmware?

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kunafpls:
It shouldn't be able to. AT&T and global f/w support different radios, and afaik, AT&T models always use different radios than global models. Fancy USA.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] ZeroJawster:
I tried using different chargers and ports and outlets and nothing will make my phone charge,help?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Electriccars:
Try taking it to a repair shop. Sounds like you've got a bad port.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surge27:
You are not alone...I have owned pretty much every Android flagship as well.

At least some if not most will have the same gripes.

I have a One on the way soon but I am not as particular (at least I think so).

1. I never had screen fitment issues. I owned about 4 M7's (don't ask lol)

2. Notification light...ya this one bugs me. You pointed out yourself and I'll leave it at that.

3. I give up on the camera discussion. I'll refrain on chiming in on this because this can go on for days. In the end, I'm ok with it. If I want good shots, I have a regular camera.

4. I love Sense..simple, clean, and fast. I don't need all the bells and whistles. If I do, I pull out my Note 3 which is used for work mainly.

The One (pun intended) thing that keeps me coming back is the M7/M8 just does what it does best...be a smartphone. I think the biggest complaint is the camera. I think the M8's strong points are more than enough to make up for the lackluster camera which isn't the best but it's adequate.

For you WizeGuyDezignz, the questions is are you willing to return/sell/exhange the M8 for all the things you point out?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
YES

I was just recollecting today about how much I disliked my M7 (and how happy I was to trade it for an S4), and I couldn't remember why.

This is the #1 reason why (with bad battery life of course)! There is so little color and so little contrast that the whole UI is BORING! TouchWiz on the S4 was colorful and inviting. Although it was more bloated, the experience was more pleasant somehow.

I also have to agree with all of your other gripes. The build "quality" seemed quite lacking (and mine was pretty good compared to some of the "Ones" that looked like trash out of the box). Apple does it right with the metal. HTC, not so much. I'm canceling my M8 Dev order and either going for a GPE or an S5. I'd never hated a phone as much as I had the M7 (just /using/ it made me unhappy), and I really don't want to go through the same thing with the M8 (Sense hasn't changed much and I'm sure it will go down the same). If I were you, I'd return it and go for an S5 or GPE as well.

And no, you aren't alone/crazy, but maybe I am :P
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
I have a M7 right now, will be getting M8 when T-Mobile has it. But I'll chime in as well, since theyre pretty similar.

1. Yea, I agree. I had tons of issues with my first M7, my second M7 is better but still not perfect. Your issues with the M8 sound a lot better than either of my M7s though.

First one: Badly mis-aligned top and bottom speaker grilles. Recessed power button (had to use my nail to really push it). Screen wasnt flush with the bottom grille.

Second one (current one): Top and bottom grilles are better, but still slightly misaligned. Power button is normal. Screen is slightly sunken in on the lower left corner, but I'm not sure if this developed over time.

2. Yep.. I miss the notification lights from my old phones. They all did this better than the HTC One, except for the HTC G2... which had an equally useless tiny LED behind the speaker grille... hmmmmmmm

3. I'm one of the few that actually likes the camera. I have no need for so many megapixels. My Canon 5D Classic has 12.8MP and my Panasonic GM1 has 16MP. Even with these cameras I dont like to zoom in 100%, even with my sharpest lenses in the best lighting I rarely want to zoom in that far. Theres no need for a phone to have that much... I'd say 8MP at most, but I'm fine with the 4MP right now.

4. I dont have an issue with Sense. But maybe you feel its "cold" because its completely black and white? I believe Sense 6 allows you to change the colors a bit, so try that.

5. Yeaa.. its a pretty big phone. I'm not sure how I'll adjust to the M8 after having my M7. I would rather lose the speakers since I don't use em anyway but meh. Maybe next year.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
Yeah, the reason why I posted this was to type all of my thoughts out to make me think more logically. On the surface, I want to keep the M8 for the style/design, speakers, etc. But I can't let that be the only reason. I need to look beyond those things and value the functionality of the software and the user experience.

This is why I am actually going to consider the S5. I already pre-ordered it for my gf since she wants to stick with Samsung. So I am going to give hers a test drive and make up my mind at that time.

Thanks for your input!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
They aren't completely black and white (one is though), but all four themes lack contrast. There's no "custom" theme option from what I've seen (ability to customize the four main colors), and the whole thing looks too bland to me because of it. To each their own, but Sense just doesn't cut it for me. Although I've installed ROMs numerous times, I always find myself back at stock for one reason or another. Hence, I'm against putting a custom ROM on the M8 to fix the colors.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
Honestly, I think it would be better to just install a custom launcher or wait for custom roms (if you dont mind unlocking/rooting your phone).

Samsung's Touchwiz is the worst thing I have ever used. I've never owned a Samsung phone but I've helped plenty of friends with their S3s, S4s, etc. I also cant stand the plastic build. And the S5 looks like a bad ripoff of the original Nexus 7.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Hey of course! I agree with typing stuff out. Sometimes it really helps :P

I've been in the exact same situation as you, wanting to get the M8 because of the metal/hype/great reviews, but if you don't like the UI you don't like the UI. I'm very glad I could help, and don't forget you helped me also! It was your post that made me realize why I disliked the M7 so much :D

---------- Post added at 09:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:52 PM ----------

I considered the Google Launcher, but all of the stock apps have the theme/color issue too. Probably the biggest reason I've stayed away from ROMs (except for when I've tried them of course :P) is that they're never 100% perfect, and rarely as stable as stock.

The GPE caught my eye, but I'd just assume get a Nexus 5... Some metal, speakers, SD slot, and a bit more battery life are in no way worth a $300 premium IMO (and more weight+slower updates). Does the GPE even support the Dot View?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HolyAngel:
... You all know there has been TONS of themes for Sense made here on xda right? Can make it look however you like.. sure there's no built in option for it in the ui itself, but there are flashable zips aplenty here. That should be a non-issue. And if you like the nexus(aka stock/aosp), the same launchers work for this phone and the m7. Can even convert the m7 to GPE, and I'm sure the m8 will be the same once we get soff..

As for build quality, you need to at least exchange the phones, I've had 3 m7's and now the m8 and all are absolutely perfect. No raised speaker grills or anything of the sort. Had to just be a bad luck at the time(s) or something :/
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
For Sense 6 though?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
+1
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HolyAngel:
I know my team already has some made and working on more, and I know there are a couple other teams/people making themes for sense 6 too but don't have any links handy. It's taking a little longer as there were massive changes compared to 5.5 but yeah there are themes out for sense6 and there will be a bunch more soon.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
And I'll be honest:

Even if the colors were nice and had good contrast, it still wouldn't work for me. The whole thing: menus, blinkfeed, settings, they're all too /flat/. This may seem weird, but the new TouchWiz has some "texture" to the menus and such.

Also, as an iOS user, I was actually insanely surprised about how similar Samsung's settings and quick toggles are to iOS 7's... But hey. I like it :D

Here's what I mean:

Some of those icons, shapes, and colors all look quite similar to me.

Not to mention Samsung reverse-engineered iCloud backups so if you switch you can get all your iMessages, texts, call logs, calendar appointments, app data, and other stuff on your S5 XD
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
Sounds good, I'm looking forward to trying some of them when theyre out then. Assuming I can unlock the T-Mobile M8 variant that I'll have... hope I can lol.

That does look kindaa similar. But I'm sure there are plenty of valid arguments on both sides... Didnt Windows Phone do the whole flat look in general first?

Meh. I stopped supporting Samsung a while ago for my own reasons, so I have no idea who did what first anymore.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Yeah I don't care who did it first, but I just wanted to emphasize how hard Sammy is trying to get iOS users to switch. They'll get my money, but it'll be used on my "mess around" line. No Android offering can take me away from iOS 100% yet :P

Edit: Windows phone was the OG flat--more reminds me of Sense than iOS though (very little color, mostly 2-3 tone). iOS is colorful and flatter than it was, but not Sense 6 or WP8 flat.

I had a Lumia 1520 for a while, and hated it for the same reason I did the M7 (OS colors).

On WP, there was nothing you could do to change it :P
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul211b:
I also have this, does anyone else? Is this a fault and should I be sending this back? Only have a day or two left cooling period so need to decide asap.

thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hamdir:
i will let go of all the nega on the main OP

however regarding build, we all been there before, a unit or two or even a dozen will never reflect something that is in mass production

products coming from China will forever have a possibility of imperfections, yes even iphones, for that if you are really picky just replace your unit

millions of happy M7 owners will disagree with you there, yes there was a bad batch at launch but it quickly moved on

so why go through this everytime as if its something new, just hand pick or replace your unit and move on
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
The One with Sense 6.0 has a theme chooser builtin, it makes the theme making VERY easy for XDA folks.

Just pay a visit to the themes section and see how in just 5 days how much themes are made and consider 1000x more in a couple of weeks, INCLUDING colors and icons of your beloved ios 7
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
Well guys, I returned my M8 today and pre-ordered the S5. While in the AT&T store as I was waiting for them to process my return, I played with the S5 that they had in the store. I'm sold and it's a better fit for me. The M8 got really boring very fast. I guess I'm not a Sense fan.

Oh well, I understand the people who are fans. Good luck all!! :good:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I have had my first hands on the M8 today. Speed aside, I swear I wasn't impressed. The M7 is a legendary phone like the Galaxy S2 was. This M8 is the same as the M7 but taller and the metal is brushed. Now that I have had my hands on the M8 I can honestly say that I prefer the M7 (looks).
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surge27:
Any thoughts on camera?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I tried to test it but they had wires connected to the phone and it was in front of the camera lens so I couldn't.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AhsonAli:
i was thinking about getting one but now I'm not so sure... ??
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
The camera on the M8 while I owned it was mediocre at best. Don't listen to the people who can't face the facts. I'm not trying to hate, but I was just very underwhelmed with the M8 camera. Not lots of detail and drab colors.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korora:
multi colour notifications make s5 the winner for me.

I'm in the market for a new phone (after drowning my Note 2 while trying to rescue a downing toddler).

So it's S5 or m8. Based on your input, it's the s5 for me!! Multi-colour notifications are on the top of my requirements list.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skoobee:
I used to own the galaxy s3 and while I liked it at the time when I got the m7 i realised how poor the s3 was, just so plastic. I considered the s4 at one point but it was just a rebadged s3 and the same now goes for the s5. The only real difference being the water resistant thing. I have owned mobile phones for as long as they existed and never once have any of mine gotten wet so this is just a gimmick in my eyes. I now have the m8 and love it. Sure the camera is the weak point of the phone but its perfectly adequate for normal day to day snaps. As for build quality, my m7 was perfect and so is my m8. I dont have any gaps or raised speakers on either of the phones. As for sense being bland, as someone said earlier, just flash a new theme and you can get whatever you want.

skooby
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
The S4 by no means was a re badged S3. The S4 bought 1080p to the game and a host of other things like IR etc etc. The S4 is an excellent phone I may be biased as I own one but it's great it's got small bezels compared to the current new flagships etc etc.

I got a chance to test both the M8 and S5 recently at a store. The M8 looks lovely where as the S5 looks meh. The S4 in my eyes looked better than the S5. One thing I despise about the M8 is the bottom aspect of the phone. I know the tech behind this but can't help notice the discrepancy of the top bezel and bottom bezel. The on screen buttons alter the screen aspect and would have preferred buttons like the M7. The S5 has a top notch screen I really do prefer AMOLED due to the deep deep blacks but I've always been impressed by the SLCDs HTC use my one X had a lovely screen. Didn't get a chance to test the cameras but I've read all the views across this forum and reviews on the M8 camera and will say no more on this topic.

I do miss certain aspects of sense but I've got use to TouchJizz and it's not that bad once I've themed and taken away the stock colours.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DuratecPaul:
Touchwiz is a lot better than sense in use, and ' I've never owned a samsung ' line doesn't really help your argument. Takes a while to get use to touchwiz , just as it does for Sense.

as for the thread in general

I actually like the led behind the speaker grill that HTC have been doing since EVO 3d days.

the blue charge light on my note 2 lights up half my bedroom.

Dont get me started on stupid notifications ... why light up the screen with a OK or Cancel notification for your battery is critical message and making your phone die ten times quicker.

One of the things I liked about android when I first jumped ship, was the lack of nanny messages about performing operations on programs.

For instance closing a program and not having a your about to close this program notification.

If the Samsung had forward facing speakers and no physical buttons on the front screen I would buy them over the HTC every time.

Plastic or metal doesn't matter to me, but replaceable battery and expandable memory does.

Who the hell designs these phone?

and why the f#*k is the font on a 5inch screen only 5pixels tall???? :eek:

dam it my OCD is kicking in.

OCD OCD OCD....:D
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
Maybe you're right, I never gave Touchwiz a real long dedicated try. It was too repulsive at first glance. I didn't have the same reaction to Sense so I stuck with it and now I'm used to it.

I disagree here. With my old Blackberry and Motorola Photon Q (android phone), I was able to full customize the notification lights. Ex: missed call or voice mail would be constantly flashing, email would be a slow pulse once in a while.

I do wish the One had a replaceable battery, but I've gotten used to that change just like I had to get used to lack of QWERTY ):

In the end, both are things that allow the phone to be thinner. I'm glad they brought back the MicroSD slot in the One M8 though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stealthybox:
Hey there EVO owners,

So I got S-OFF, but now my phone is a little stuck.

I have an EVO 4G that had the stock Froyo 2.2 running.

( We managed to keep it away from the 2.3.5 OTA )

I was able to get S-OFF using Revolutionary for the 2.16 hBoot.

Afterwards, I attempted to use the default CWM to flash the [Triple S] ROM.

- Partitioned ( 0 swap, 1024 ext2 )

- Wiped Cache + Dalvik

- Flashed Triple S

- Rebooted

Result: Boot Loop at the Triple S Android Splash Screen

I thought, "maybe CWM messed up", so I flashed Smelkusmod Amon Ra based recovery and tried flashing Triple S again with the same result.

Now I'm trying to get [JellyBread] and App2SD to flash.

The initial flash did make it to JellyBread's Nexus Android Splash.

After several attempts at wiping and flashing, however, the phone will no longer reach the Android Splash Screen. It gets stuck on the White HTC Evo Splash Screen on boot after flashes.

I have S-OFF

I can boot into Recovery

I've tried a full wipe and proper partition before flashes. (as in wiping everything)

I have tried Smelkusmod's [ext2 > ext3] and [ext3 > ext4] features

What's causing these boot loops?

My girlfriend just needs a stable phone, but it would be nice if it wasn't running all of the Sprint junk that comes stock.

The stock battery life is atrocious.

Any help is appreciated; thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinman12:
Save your SD to PC

Format using smelks again 1024 swap 0 ext 3

Move everything back to SD card from your PC

Wipe everything except SD card

Flash sense ROM

Be it one of mine or captian throwbacks or who evers

Read the op make sure the rom

Supports ext3

If it has a2sd it will reboot 3 times and take a while to boot
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stealthybox:
I feel like that is exactly what I've been trying to do over and over again.

Do you perhaps have a ROM that you could recommend me flashing?

She just needs something fast and stable.

Is there any reason why I might be having such terrible luck getting this phone to flash and boot properly?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] josemarin:
Hi!

How to set an application on Speed Dial, in build time?

There is an XML to do that, but I don't know what parameter to use to specify an applciation to be associated with an key.

Thanks!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] daothuan:
i remove nav bar buttom done, but in home screen it's that

how i can move down that?

sorry bad eng
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] KokaStoyanov:
Try to install another launcher

I think there's no solution to move it down, it's just a bug associated with launcher or ROM you've installed.

Just install another launcher or turn the nav bar ON again.

P.S. I recommend you to install Nova Launcher.

Hope I've helped;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tieuthanhtien:
[ROM.ICS.13] [Neo] [Xperia Z1 Honami ROM_Superlative Edition

Hi man. Is this the [ROM.ICS.13] [Neo] [Xperia Z1 Honami ROM_Superlative Edition at topic http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2433897&page=7? How can you install it? I also find all ways to install this rom for full one night but when I complete the Aroma installer and come to set up wizard It face bug. And I can not complete the setup wizard because It is always forced to close at the fifth step. And the home screen come to a black color screen. It seems to be normal at the locked screen but There is no way to switch to the home screen. However, I can still open the setting via the quick setting on the top. I reinstall the rom for 4 times with both stock based rom ICS verson .578 and .13 and both different kernel as some comments at the topic.

So can you tell me any solution for my problem?

Thanks very much for any help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Garridon:
Like the title says.

Is there any way to have the music I have bought on the play store to be on my internal storage to be readable by other apps and devices?

I always played my music I downloaded from other places through my Xbox by just plugging my phone into it. But I uploaded my music to Google play so that it would be synced to my tablet. Now I can't do that at all without dlna (which I can't play while playing a game). There has GOT to be a workaround or something, I can't be the only one with this sort of problem......
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] treffer:
You should be able to grab mp3s from the play store. You should also be able to strip the DRM tags with e.g. eye3d. This requires that you own the music and you'd still have to transfer it to your (emulated) sdcard.

Besides that I can recommend subsonic + dsub. It's an awesome tool to stream / play music and it can stream e.g. to a chromecast. It might be possible to use it in jukebox mode, which means you'd need a raspberry pi or alike and you could play your lib with it. But I have not yet tried that (I have a chromecast ;) ).

Basically: If you don't know how you are going to play your music in 5 years don't buy from crippled stores. And noone known how to play songs in 5 years from now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Garridon:
Thanks for trying to help. I used the play music downloader in PC and put my library on my storage. A few songs are showing up twice in my play music app, but not all. I can live with this I guess. Hopefully Google makes this easier in the future.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shadavis08:
Google play music is crappie. I stopped using them a couple years ago. And again thank you for this app
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Many users have active sync accounts with pin code lock screen requirements. Vzw added a "feature" where you type if wrong 10 times and the phone will factory reset. With the lock screen gestures enabled it is much much easier to accidentally wipe your data due to this.

Until we get an insecure kernel that disables write protection to /system and can disable this "feature" be warned!!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] 123421342:
A sync account meaning a google account? This "feature" is pretty damn annoying.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
anyone who selects or is forced to use a pin for their lockscreen....