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[Galaxy S 4 General] MarkMRL:
Did you know that Samsung has a system called DVFS that basically does nothing other than cripping your phone's performance with aggressive underclocking? There's a big thread about it here, but other than that, it seems that this issue is not very well known, which is surprising considering the SGS4 is a very mainstream phone. When I discovered about it I was shocked because this system does literally nothing useful, but it makes gaming or other high end smartphone activities (heavy browsing, 3D games, heavy multitasking, etc) lag like crazy.

It shocks me that Samsung has implemented such a thing and that you cannot disable without rooting (and obviously voiding the warranty and your Knox flag), and nobody except a few XDA users noticed.
[Galaxy S 4 General] s14sh3r:
You say it does nothing useful, but what does it do for battery life?
[Galaxy S 4 General] MarkMRL:
Nothing? The phone already has extensive battery saving options, and it already has an underclocking option right there. Not to mention, swappable battery. Why is this thing enforced on everyone? If you use your flagship tier phone like it was an old Nokia from the nineties then it might not affect you. Since I use my phone for browsing internet, multimedia, and games, it does affect me a lot. I don't give a flying **** about one hour of additional battery when my phone slows down to a crawl. If I wanted to enable crawl mode I should have the option, the phone shouldn't decide arbitrarily when to slow down.

Also, if you really want to get into conspiracy theories, what makes you think this isn't a marketing ploy by samsung? To force users to get the S5 because the old one has such poor performance in games and stuff like that? The average smartphone user is so dumb he wouldn't realize it's all planned right in the system itself, they'd go ":eek: hurr, my phone can't run games well anymore, better go out and buy the S5, that will surely play games better, with it's multiple megapixels and cores and newer stuff I have no clue about".
[Galaxy S 4 General] s14sh3r:
Good points. I'm not arguing against you, btw, I'm not even sure how to tell if my phone is using it since I'm using Omega ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] MarkMRL:
Well, if you play any game or if you browse a lot you'd probably notice because performance drops a lot and lag increases. I don't know what Omega Rom is, this is an issue in stock rom. Of course it doesn't affect me anymore because I have the knowledge to research this stuff and eventually find a solution (even though I obviously have no idea how the solution is made), but for the average user this should be an issue, I mean everyone should know about it, it's too shady to be ignored, this is planned obsolescence at its finest.
[Galaxy S 4 General] MarkMRL:
Also, if this was introduced to save battery, how come so many people are complaining about battery drain on Kitkat?

It's obviously a marketing strategy, and I will spread the word about it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] planetf1:
There's a technical paper on dvfs around which goes through some of the techniques samsung uses to optimise performance and battery use. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lcjp2012_ham.pdf
[Galaxy S 4 General] MarkMRL:
I don't care and I don't have the knowledge to understand anything in that document.

What I care about is:

Galaxy S4 on 4.3 and under: great performance, no issues.

Galaxy S4 on 4.4: awful performance, issues.

Other phones on 4.4: great performance, no issues.

It's no coincidence this happened only a few months before the S5 is released.

Either Samsung did something wrong with this implementation, or they did indeed do it to force users to upgrade because the older model is no longer viable for high end smartphone use.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
This has nothing to do with the user-space policies which you're complaining about.
[Galaxy S 4 General] S1LENT_:
Will deleting the twDVFS.apk be sufficient to disable this frequency scaling on my S4? Or is using the Xposed module necessary?
[Galaxy S 4 General] yahyoh:
delete
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raadio13:
I bought a Bad IMEI lg g2 Phone. Can i Unlock ?

And how ?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ingoljosh:
No and No way.

Blacklisted.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Decepticaons:
All you can do it use it with a carrier other than what it was designed for. If you bought a T-Mobile one I believe you can use it with Verizon or AT&T or vice versa.

Sent From My Frosty Verizon LG G2
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxZombiePikachu:
actually it's the Verizon one which is sim unlocked to use with other carriers
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raadio13:
Its a estonian fone tele2. Network unlock wount help me ?

Or change rom or imei ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] medmansri:
I've dropped my MDA and now theres a big ugly gash on it. Only on the front case. Is there a way to replace it with a new one?? :cry:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mlts22:
T-mobile Equipment Protection?

This is a long shot, but check (most likely you know this or not) if you have T-mobile Equipment Protection as an option.

I checked http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm22023.htm?

Its a $110 deductible (assuming T-Mobile US) for the MDA, so if you have damage that affects use of the phone, it may be worth paying the deductible and obtaining a replacement.

As for buying case plastics for a do it yourself replacement, I have zero clue here.

(Edited for spelling mistakes.)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] kanate:
Check this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=49361
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] edsub:
I ordered a replacement battery cover at htc europe. I bet they do cases as well.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] bruce1x:
del
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanostray:
Hello guys,

As the title suggests, does anyone know how to disable the notiification from Update center in the statusbar? I'm 4.1.2 and I get really annoyed by the notification for a new software update. I dont want to freeze the app because updates not firmware related might come in
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjraider:
Long press notification > App info > "Meldingen weergeven" off
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain Sweatpants:
long press notification>app info>force stop. You will need something like autorun manager to stop the notification reappearing because android won't let you disable notifications from system apps.
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] Sudbury78:
Oddly enough I noticed and confirmed in store that the black 12.2 is totally sold out in store and online and can't even get it shipped. Popular or didn't sell well and they are pulling it? .

Went in to buy 10.1 after returning my note 10.1 and don't think the size is bad. For $150 more USB 3.0 and 32 gb not 16.

Damn you bestbuy.
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] fatalxiceman:
i was told black were only available online. i got the 12.2 in white. gonna just cf black wrap the edges and call it a day
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] ad78:
I returned my 12.2 note pro and got the white tab pro. Why not for 599. White is actually better and good looking than the black one.
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] blazeplacid:
That's pretty odd.

I just picked mine up on April 1st and all the stores around me had the 32 white in stock.

Now only one store shows it in stock.

I'm assuming they are selling well.

$600 is the price most people pay for ipads
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] fatalxiceman:
awaiting on a root for this device then it'll be smokin!
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] seejeremy:
Root is already available...
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] dorpmuller:
Where? Got a link?

Rich
[Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 General] seejeremy:
My mistake, I forgot we were talking about the 12.2. My bad.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesjes3000:
Hi Guys,

Installed the 4.3 update on my SIII a couple days ago - all was fine until today.

As soon as i am away from WiFi and on Data - my phone will display a 3G Symbol or H+ Symbol in the notification bar signifying the Mobile Data is connected - however none of the apps work or update I cannot use the internet or anything that needs data.

A restart of the phone kick starts the data for about 5mins and then back to normal.

Baseband Version

I9300BVUGML1
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] astuermer:
I've purchased an EVGA Tegra Note 7 recently.

After updating to 4.3 the devices immediately freezes upon booting the system... can't be used anymore.

Any idea how to get it working again?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] koalauk:
Mine does it now and then

It starts slow and gets to a point it really crawls and reboot normally solves the issue but I have no idea a what is causing it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rybonesachu:
dear friends I jst tried to install a custon rom on my galaxy mini but it went wrong and nw its got bricked...

pls help me to install the stock rom..... or tell me the procedure to update to gingerbread... pls pls...

thanks in advance...:crying::crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeeX:
Get a stock firmware from www.sammobile.com and flash using Odin
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kecikhebat:
how did u flash the custom rom?CWM?odin?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sobers_2002:
Hi all,

After holding off on the kitkat bandwagon for a while, I decided once the OTA was available that I should just do it.

Background - this is a D802 european model with root on stock 4.2.2 firmware. I also have TWRP 2.6.3.3 installed.

Prior to proceeding with the update, I made a backup of the phone and rebooted the phone a couple of times to make sure everything was okay.

After that, I then clicked install on the OTA and the phone rebooted. After rebooting it has been constantly going to TWRP. I have tried wipe dalvik, wipe cache, restore backup, restore factory settings, reboot to system but nothing works.

Also, trying to get into download mode just boots into TWRP. When I try to do a adb sideload, the device just shows up on the PC as LG-D802 and no drivers are found for the device so I am not able to install a new firmware or can't try to go back to stock either.

Please help!

Regards,

sobers_2002
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
*sigh*

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
[General Topics] Nutdhanai:
Sign up live.mail2web.com and use push mail on your WM5 devices for FREE!! (Your WM5 must have push mail enabled - aka AKU2)

Setting on your WM5 Device ActiveSync

- add server source..

Server name: mobile.exchange.mail2web.com

User name: [yourusername]@mail2web.com

Domain: ad2

Just forward mail from your current email account to this new one or use mail2web for your main mail account.

and let me know if your battery draining at double rate or not when using push mail..

Hope this helps anyone who wants to try push mail technology.
[General Topics] vijay555:
Nutdhanai: this is useful info, but FYI, it's fairly well known info.

But it's useful to have it again, I suppose!

http://xdaforums.com/search.php?sea...dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=200

V
[General Topics] Nutdhanai:
Yea i thought i ve seen this here before, I saw someone asking about push mail service in other forums so I thought someone may need the info here too..
[General Topics] jaceuk:
great I was gonna ask about this as I've tried emoze with no result

how do I set up the AKU2 for an exec on tmobile uk,will it run ok?
[General Topics] alfredtv:
i am aware of this, but wanted to know if anyone had an idea as to how to change the reply-to address???

I have emails forwarded to the mail2web account so i can get the exchange sync on my Wizard but do not reply to them from it as i do not want that email address to be avaliable
[General Topics] ftg888:
mail2web

Ive been using the paid service of mail2web (i liked the free service enough that i wanted a full service) for the last 3 months now, in europe, in china the push email has worked great (no i dont work for them, but geeze when something just works its nice).

1) get the free account at www.mail2web.com

2) choose your emailaddress@mail2web.com

3) redirect all your email to your mail2web.com address

4) when u want to reply to something simply setup an imap, or pop3

account that you never poll, so when u want to reply to an email,

switch account, new, send email. its a bit cludgy, we need a better

email client that allows us to adjust the from address.

a.
[General Topics] Mudstuffin:
As far as I am aware, it is something they have to do at the server end. I spoke to them about it and changing the domain of the reply address is one of the features of their buisness packages.

However, they did say that they are thinking of adding this to the personal package soon (don't know if that includes the free one or not!)

Hope this helps!

Si
[General Topics] marc2503:
That would be awesome. I currently use a forwarding-account from http://www.pobox.com and would like to be able to use my Pobox-address as the default address from Mail2Web-live.

--Marc
[General Topics] AlanJC:
Re: mail2web

You can simply reply to emails through the mail client, it will send them from your mail2web account.
[General Topics] lesteryh:
Just followed the instruction and got the push mail work perfectly, but some question to ask here, can i know what's the different between this setup and if I setup a pop mail with auto connect option enabled?
[General Topics] AlanJC:
Pop mail will check mail at the intervals you specify.

Push mail keeps a data link open to the server and gets the mail as soon as it arives.
[General Topics] nmt1978:
For the pushmail to work, does our phone require to be connnected to the internet either throught wifi or GPRS or other services offered by the mobile service provider?
[General Topics] AlanJC:
Yes, it needs internet access.

GPRS is what it's designed to work with as this stays active while he phone is in standby. It will work with WiFi, but while the phone is in standby it will try to connect by GPRS if you have a connection available.

It could in theory work on a Bluetooth PAN with internet access, but I haven't tried this.
[General Topics] matrix849:
ok i have mail2web set up but push email is not working. I have a t-mobile MDA with the new T-Mobile US ROM (the t-mobile provided rom) and if i send recieve i get my email but so far i have not received a push email..... any thoughts..... directpush is green in the connection manager.....
[General Topics] alfredtv:
i have the mda for t-mobile usa too

go to active sync on the mda and then

Menu

Schedule

and change to "As Items Arrive"

when you do that it will say you can get items imediatelly or something like that and it asks for your device address $$$$$$$$$$@tmomail.net

and there you go
[General Topics] matrix849:
Thanks buddy works perfect!
[General Topics] jaso2005:
very very useful, very pleased with it now on my vario ii.

It Sync's contacts and calender too, so for backup purposes its fantastic
[General Topics] gunsandrosses:
Is it possible to push from two different servers?

I have been using gmail for a long time. My biggest complaint is that everytime I sync it deletes all of the information that was downloaded the last time I synced. Someone recomended mail2web.com to use as an exchange server which works great. I didn't know my wizard could do push mail. Now that it does I would like to download my work email and my gmail, but keep them seperate. Is that possible? If it isn't does anyone know of a pop or imap service that works better then gmail? Thanks a bunch.

-Ross
[General Topics] Trucido:
Re: Is it possible to push from two different servers?

In Gmail you can select the option of leaving a copy of your mail in Gmail account in Options.
[General Topics] gilfr:
I use mail2web.com with free live services and it work's well.

But i don't understand why deleted items folders and drafts folders are not sync. I've look at the activ sync stteings but i didn't found how to make those folfers sync. with my Tytn.

Is there some people that have those folders Sync. ?

Is it a limitation for free services at Mail2web ?

thanks for answer
[General Topics] gilfr:
Nobody has the same with Mail2Web ?
[General Topics] luchino san:
mail2web works really well, thank you very much! ;-) ....howerver I still have a problem, it seems that mail2web can't push emails coming from my gmail account...

with my vodafone mail account all works fine.

gmail is already configured for pop3 access...any ideas about what could be the solution?

thanks in advance
[General Topics] cybiker123:
gmail will work if you go into the mail2web configuration and set the email aggregator to be set up for gmail and then you will be able to get your gmail account to push to your device also make sure you have email forwarding from your gmail account to your mail2web.com

let me know if that helps
[General Topics] gilfr:
Is there some people that can get the deleted items folders and drafts folders to be sync with Mail2Web ?

thanks for answer
[General Topics] AlanJC:
You only do one or the other. Simply forward your gmail to your mail2web, and that will be almost instant. If you use the aggregator, it will only check once per hour.
[General Topics] luchino san:
Thanks very much to you both!.....I forgot to forward gmail ---> mail2web :oops: .....doing this way is much better than the aggregator. Now everything works like a charm...

Ciao, Luca
[General Topics] atomickarma:
Top service

hi - just got setup with port88.org, seamless push email is here again!

Seriously, the solution is superior to mail2web simply because of the alias provision, and I can look back on those frustrating days restarting emoze on both my phone and pc with a find smile and happy heart

I've also passed on the details to a couple of colleagues, so thanks Austin!
[General Topics] crazybat2000:
i have got one,but i found that it can't push really.
[Xperia Z1 General] ChillyWilly73:
Hello All,

I just wanted to make everyone aware of something on my Z1s (Tmobile) that has been bothering me. When taking flash photography I was getting a wash out on the right of the pictures. At first I thought it was the camera but I experimented and realized that this would only happen when using my case (Tech-21 Impact Tactical Shell) purchased from T-mobile. Upon closer inspection by using the flashlight feature of the phone, I realized that the tiny edge of the case around the flash is causing the reflection. You would figure that a black case would not reflect light but it does. I rubbed the small little area with a lead pencil and it improved. So I will try to coat it with some other Flat Black paint and see what works better.

I guess since the flash is so close to the lens this can happen with other cases as well depending how big the hole around the flash is. Hopefully this will help others out.

Peace !

Walt
[Xperia Z1 General] HarpingOn:
Happens with almost every case with a cutout for the camera. I've tried almost all of them on my Z1, haha. Expensive is no guarantee. I've had €45 cases that do this (noreve, roxfit, krusel, zenus) and all the way down. Best I found was a £2.99 thin plastic one.

If it ever comes, I have an aluminium bumper frame on order from China.

I know you have a z1s, but check the Z1 accessories forum, case discussions in there.
[Xperia Z1 General] epsix:
I have the black tech21 case too, can I just cut the camera hole a little bigger?
[Xperia Z1 General] HarpingOn:
I thought about using a rotary tool to enlarge the cut out in a roxfit case, but the noreve has a huge cutout and it still happens
[Xperia Z1 General] epsix:
Can you recommend a good case?
[Xperia Z1 General] HarpingOn:
I'm using a Love Mei aluminium bumper at the moment. Check out the cases thread in the accessories forum, I've posted my good and bad results in there.
[Xperia Z1 General] jmwils3:
For the z1s? Can't find the link to that, can you post it?
[Xperia Z1 General] HarpingOn:
Sorry it was the Z1,
[Xperia Z1 General] jmwils3:
Oh, ok. Got me all excited for a nice bumper for the z1s. No one seems to make them yet, or any really nice case for the z1s aside from the nilikin frosted one I have, and it's a bit lightweight for my taste.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haxorcraxor:
*#7284#

UART=MODEM

USB=PDA

qualcomm usb setting= MTP+ADB

Ok and then connect your phone again

Sent from Geek by Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE GT-i 9305 using tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahul1681990:
Still facing same problem. Help me sort out the problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThePapaman1:
Hello everyone,

I have a rooted Skyrocket with Cyanogen mod 11 Kit Kat 4.4.2

Now I bought a flex cable for it, model # i727, rev 4.6 off of eBay.

Opened up my phone and replaced the older one, but the mic still doesn't work. When I make phone calls I have to put the phone on speaker in order for it to work, I don't know why that is the cause. I've spent money on this already and want to know if you guys have come across this problem at all. Thanks! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThePapaman1:
No love?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradthemarsh:
Hi, I know this is a really old question, and I've long since switched to my S5, but as for the microphone, I did have the same problem with my skyrocket. It turned out to be the fact that the tiny little hole for the microphone had dirt in it. I poked it with a pin, blasted some compressed air on it, good as new. My wife will actually uses the phone every day. ☺ best of luck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Lukaslukasm:
Before the KitKat update, there was a feature that was simple but very effective and I absolutely miss it. Let's say you were in any application and someone called you, you would receive a call pop up from the bottom of the screen with three options (to accept call, deny call, I do not recall the last one) and when you decide to accept the call the popup would disappear and now your status bar would be green (to let you know that you are in the call) and you were able to keep doing what you were doing before the call (like multitasking the call and whatever you were doing). Since upgrading to KitKat, the popup shows up as normal but when I accept the call I am forced into the call screen. I've checked throughout my settings to see if it's an option to get it back but nothing :( :(. I am wondering if anyone knows a fix to this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Yoshi1221:
If I have to multitask, I just press home and it gets out of the call screen. I have that issue with my S-view flip cover when in a call it always goes to the call instead of what I was doing before. If you just press the home key, it should get you out of the call screen. It's something I always had to do even with JellyBean.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almahix:
My new Note 3 screen went bad. It only responded to S-Pen. Verizon wouldn't replace it under warranty (I recently bought it on Swappa) so I had to send it to Samsung for repair. I sure miss it. I reactivated my Galaxy Nexus to use in the interim. I used to think this phone was slick. I am now spoiled by the Note 3 and hope it comes back soon.