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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dixi1801:
As the title says, I'm wondering if anyone has made the switch and how you've all felt about it?

I realise these threads are horrible, but I'm pretty scared about the switch (not sure why! I used to love android) from iOS to Android and would like to hear others experiences!

Thanks in advanced guys/girls :)

Dixi1801
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beauenheim:
Android hasn't changed much since from when you've switched (2013? From your profile?) The Nexus 5 is a great phone, and its pure android experience is much better in my opinion than using an iPhone. I've used a 5S for a couple of days, just couldn't stick with me.

Why are you wanting to switch back?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dixi1801:
Round about there, with my note!

I'm wanting to switch, well, going to switch because I need some money for some bills... So selling my iPhone seems logical!

Plus, the nexus 5 is almost new and going for £180 from a friend, which I can't moan at! A powerful device for barely any money, and the left over money pays my bills off!

I love the customisation options of android, and rooting and flashing is what brought me to android in the first place, I fear I've become the typical apple user... Used to the walled garden and scared to move away haha!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitformer:
My wife had the iPhone 4 4s and the 5c.I got her a n5 like mine after about a week of me teaching her about fastboot and adb she can sideload and install like a pro,she's been using iOS for years so Ive got faith in you:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dixi1801:
Thanks so much for that, I read about the camera being a bit poo, but I've read from users it's not that bad, I know reviewers have to play on some things haha.

Getting a bit excited for it now, just waiting for the guy selling it to get in touch. He won an M8 at work, so he's shifting his nexus lol, lucky sod.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitformer:
Its funny now that understands why I think android as a whole is better.My wife will look at other people and try to help them in carrier stores. That's how quick she was.Me I'm just like,(in carrier stores) Root your phone and remove all crap that's installed you'll like it better.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistahseller:
I'm in the same boat as you. The other day my girlfriend was like "I think instead of the iPhone 6, I want a phone like you have". I thought I had heart failure for a second I was like huh?!? She has been using apple her whole life but She said she loves the customization. She wouldn't get into flashing Roms and so on but I would set it up like my n5 is so she could customize away, and show her some.of the screens on the home screen thread because the possibilities are endless.

Sent from The Deathstar
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptir:
Well, the camera isn't great. It's probably the worst of the mainstream smartphone cameras (HTC One, Galaxy S4/S5, iPhone 5S, etc...) but it's serviceable for basic point-and-shoot work.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joannn:
I would suggest you to just go for it , I am a content N5 user. It will take time to get used, but once you get on with the customization part you will start loving it. All the best .:good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
Then check this thread out. A lot of people say otherwise.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2553258
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goofball2k:
I came from a 4s to the Nexus 4 and haven't looked back, and probably won't unless Google does something terrible with Android and perhaps the next rev of Nexus.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
The last person I knew with an iPhone and not a Nexus5, was trying to put their life back together!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitformer:
Even slim isn't my 1st choice my wife is actually making "her own" build. She wants a "girl version"Whatever the F that means. Serious though it's a big change for most to switch os to os.Be supportive:good:

[MENTION=5758296]D.D.P.[/MENTION] what do you think
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.D.P.:
Though I loved hacking and available hacks and mods and the devs on Cydia, I'd never go iOS over android os. I have compared the two, and I can't say I'd stay if I was making this transition.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitformer:
In the "smart"phone era I went BlackBerry (which at the time of the middle 2000's was great for my business a d employees) to windows(palm) to apple 3g/s to the tilt( android) I found windows to iOS was harder than iOS to Android..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.D.P.:
Right, but android is a win for UI, for easy "noob"-friendly modding, and BB is always good for business. IOS is simply a popularity ploy and does nothing for me professionally or personally. I can hack and mod android to become the work I don't want to do. Its easy for anyone. Plain and simple.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markdapimp:
Nexus 5 is more for like the Android geeks who love to flash roms and kernals and isn't afraid of anything

If you like the user experience with an iPhone I would recommend you the HTC One

its got the same build has the iPhone 5s and has amazing sound and a amazing microphone

Sound wise it literally blows the iPhone 5S and Nexus 5

I have a iPhone 5s and a Nexus 5 and the HTC One and a Galaxy Note 2 (I got alot of phones)

I love the HTC one and the Note 2 and Nexus 5

iPhone isn't just my thing, if i do go to like a party of whatever I carry both the HTC and iPhone for picture quality.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habitformer:
Agreed.lots of logic between these two posts.

My note 2 is a mistake.I for it while had galaxy nexus,hoping to make me switch from nexus.I didn't work a d my note two became a spare back up for my Gnexus..I waited the 2 years for it to come.couldn't be happier. I really think apple owners have issues with "keeping up with friend's and there iphones or I pads....Me I want to not just own my device.Freely from carriers and OEM crap.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wedgess:
This thread went a bit off topic, please keep to the original discussion in the thread title.

Thanks

Thread cleaned
[Zooper Widget General] CPAPerseus:
I'm trying to find a way to make the text I'm specifying look like it's being chiselled on the background I'm setting; whether that background be a piece of wood, or a piece of marble, etc.

I tried searching around for these types of font, without much luck.

The other option I tried was to use the font options to create the effect; once again, without much luck.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Zooper Widget General] tygerchylde:
What kind of font options did you use?

The easiest way to do what you're asking is to find a font that looks like what you want, make the font itself semi-transparent and add a shadow offset by a couple of points to the left or right and make the shadow solid. One could also make the shadow offset by a point or two vertically to create the depth you're looking for.

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Dafont.com is a great place to look for fonts.
[Zooper Widget General] CPAPerseus:
Thanks for the tip.

It's given me a good place to start. Tried some test widgets & it's heading in the right direction. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ysungji:
I'm rooting my Verizon Galaxy S4 (16g) with Cyanogenmod but only thing that stops me right now is the camera. The camera on the phone works great with Samsung's camera software. But since I'm moving on from Touchwiz to Cyanogenmod, I'm curious if there is any way to keep the Samsung's camera app on a custom rom. Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] aznbatman:
Unfortunately the Samsung Camera App requires the Touchwiz framework. It doesn't work on AOSP roms. You can try the Eclipse rom. It has that AOSP look and feel but is touchwiz based so it has the Samsung Camera app on it. The dialer, settings, contacts, and notification panels are all AOSP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshm.1219:
You can only use it on a TW rom. It hooks into proprietary TW framework that we can't get source code for to port to AOSP.

If you use a GPE rom, such as the one by Danvdh, it's a little different. Since these are built on the GPE device base they're still AOSP roms but they use Samsung drivers for the camera. It's still as not as good as the full TW camera, but with a third party app (Google's camera still sucks) it's the best camera experience you'll get on AOSP on this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mistertac:
All very true.. Have you used that Lenovo Super Camera??? I thougt it was really cool, comparable to the Wiz Camera, just depending on which version you found it either required all sorts of permissions/libraries . if we could scrounge up just an easy to install... No permissions Lenovo that'd be cool

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshm.1219:
Yeah I tried it right when it got pulled from that Intel phone Lenovo came out with, I've never been much of a camera aficionado though. I thought the gallery app was really cool but a lot of Chinese all over the place lol.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggeralds:
Curious, am I the only one (Tmo M8 and TWRP 2.7.0.2) that backups are reeeeeeealllly slow? It has been almost 40 minutes and I am at about 45-50%. No errors, just hanging out on backing up data. Progress bar still has animation.

Thanks in advance.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaythenut:
yeah i had that use nanroid its a lot quicker
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggeralds:
OK thanks....

Couple things then......how long did it take? How do I stop it (hitting power button just brings up the twrp swipe to unlock screen)? If I can't stop it, how do you reboot this thing?

Thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
Hold power and volume up, that will reboot the device. So nandroids are slow ? Did you set to compress ? If so check those settings
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggeralds:
Thank you. That worked. Yes compression was set. But hell even after more than an hour it was still at the same spot. Compression that big of a pig?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
Yep, just do without compression and it will be done in about 3 minutes i guess
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggeralds:
4! BOOM!

Thanks again......it's rom time......!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] harshal.n.karandikar:
Hi Folks,

I was using HTC explorer Earlier and thanks to XDA Member I had several roms that I could choose from.

Well Now i am using xperia Ion HSPA version Lt28h to be very precise, my question to all of you using Xperia Ion is: Which Rom is the best so far (I am not asking this to compare anybodies work neither to show some roms down) I am asking this opinion so that I would not need to keep on flashing different roms as I have on my explorer.

Certain things about my usage and also about the understanding after going through the development section:

I use my phone for camera mainly and then gaming also to listen songs. My problem: my phone heats up almost to 49 degree Celsius while playing games even like candy crush.

Also my battery back up is very low+ the performance has gone down in terms of processing speed in the album app.

Please assist / Help me by giving your comments on which rom is the best (where the phone wouldn't heat, would have good atleast decent battery backup and has honami or cybershot camera app)

Btw, I had heard that Nature Rom is the best so far wout any bugs and has a theme engine + honami camera too :laugh: please tell me the reviews on that rom as well :fingers-crossed:

Thanks a ton for patiently reading through my pain area's and problems :highfive: looking forward to responses from Ion users:cowboy:
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flux_88:
I flashed a bad ROM and have no other zip on SD to mount.

I can flash any recovery from MotoTool.

ADB push doesn't work says device not found.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
accidentally installed a jellybean copy of dynamic instead of the kit kat version.Safe strap is the kit kat version. Now my stock slot is showing 0 space for system and I cant seem to straighten this mess out. Anyone have any help they can give?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
no one has any ideas how to fix this?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_R_Josh:
Did you install the JB version in a slot? Or is it in the stock slot? Does the rom boot? What happens if you try to install something to the stock slot?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
jb version went into the stock slot, boots till it gets to the safestrap options screen and i cannot install anything into any slot....the stock slot shows

0 space but the data partition has almost 27 gigs.

im at a loss
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_R_Josh:
What (if any) errors do you get when doing just a wipe on the stock slot?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
dont have the option to wipe the stock slot. only option is activate
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_R_Josh:
Will it let you mount system in the "mount" tab?

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I had some file system errors that only went away with a wipe from stock recovery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
how do i get the stock recovery back?

no it wont let me mount system ....and thanks for your help here
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_R_Josh:
I was still able to boot the rom, so I rebooted to stock recovery from there. There's usually a combination (holding home/power/volume) while booting but I haven't done it yet on this phone. Lemme look around/test on my phone.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_R_Josh:
Hold power/home/volume up all at the same time.

(I sent this earlier but it never went through. ..)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
Tried kies recovery and now its even more messed up. I'll play with it some more and see what happens
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kizzle4:
Same problem

I had installed kitkat instead of jelly bean, was even on new kit kat safestrap 3.72... I even tried the factory recoverys wipe, now i have no roms, and 0/0 free space on system and 0/0 on data in stock slot, and nothing else installed at all.. when i did at least have working rom in slot 1. Someone please haaalp! lol
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandman7793:
Here you go. Follow this guide. This is probably your only option at this point.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2559715
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kizzle4:
Thanks. Have all that downloaded and ready to go.. have rom running on slot 1. Just obviously missing space overall now. Is there anyway to just restore that partition? Has anyone else experienced this? All I did was wipe like the rim thread told me to do. Don't understand how and why this happened.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoshann:
Any luck with this? I have about the same issue but haven't had a chance to give this a try
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kizzle4:
Ended up doing mj5 restore. Staying on jelly bean for now...
[General Questions and Answers] Galaxy Y User:
So I just got a Galaxy Trend Plus and manage to get it root and install cwm. Now I want to install several large game like Gangstar or NFS. The problem is currently I only have 313 mb in my internal storage but I also got a 8 gb external SD card. I know that game like Gangstar only got apk about 20-30 mb but it data is over 1gb. So my question is is there a way to install the data directly into the extSD not the intSd or atleast least link the game with the data that I put in the extSD?? I already tried link2sd but it's no good and Foldermount I must have the data in the internal sd before mount it to the extSD.
[General Questions and Answers] _LOSS_:
Try int2ext.

First partition your sd card with a fat32 and a desirable size ext2, 3 or 4 partition.

This works best with newly flashed devices.

1. Backup your present ROM just incase

1. Wipe data/ factory reset

2. Wipe cache partition

3. Wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)

4. Format /system (under mount)

5. Flash your desired Rom/zips

6. Flash int2ext

7. Reboot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
Ok, here is my issue:

I have had the N5 for a while, and I used to get decent reception in general, then one day I had really bad reception, I couldn't figure out what I did to cause that issue, so long story short I did a warranty exchange, before I got the placement phone, I flashed the old phone to stock, unrooted and locked the bootloader using the Nexus Root Toolkit (and it still had the same issue)

Got the new Nexus, swapped the SIM, assumed it was obviously a hardware issue because the reception was perfect again...Yay!

Now here is when I made a stupid mistake...

I didn't do a backup, restored a previous backup from my old phone (like I said I assumed it was hardware and that seems to have screwed me)

Guess what happened...

New phone, no reception now, can restore to stock/unroot/lock, still the same issue...Reception never comes back... It isn't no reception, it is bad reception, and I have flashed radios until I was blue in the face...

So basically there is something that was flashed when restoring, that doesn't get reverted during the flash stock/unroot process of the Root toolkit...

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
In case it matters, I am in Canada with Rogers.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yea, it sounds like your provider with the issue. if you have root, you can try adding these lines to your build.prop(and reboot) to see if it helps any..

ro.ril.hsxpa=3

ro.ril.gprsclass=12

ro.ril.hsdpa.category=27

ro.ril.hsupa.category=7
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
thanks for the quick reply.

But if it was a provider issue, why would the phone what worked fine until I did a restore? and now after I re-flash to stock, the issue remains...

Doesn't re-flashing to stock imply that all changes are completely taken out, it is now exactly as it was out of box?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I'm not understanding this part. Is it bad reception or no reception?

If the backup you restored from your old phone included /efs you're at the end of your journey
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
It is poor (bad) reception, I may get 1 or 2 bars in a 5 bar area, and like I said, before I restored I was getting 5 bars in the 5 bar areas...odd...

Edit: So the only thing that makes sense, is that restoring a backup in TWRP is flashing something that doesn't get reverted to stock in the Root Toolkit...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
You know I just what? I just went upstairs and even by my signal booster, there is no signal, so I would say the new phone has no signal, not weak signal...(sorry I was wrong) Could I have flashed something specific to another region that is messing up my radios?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Check your twrp backup. Please show us a screenshot of all the files you restored.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
Sure, I was trying to do a stock/unroot again, so I will need to minute to get back to a point where I have TWRP again... Basically I did a restore with all the boxes checked.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
only restore boot, system, data. if you are restoring cache as well, you are restoring some data from previous that can be bad. anyways, if you are going back to stock, i wouldnt restore anything as you dont know if you are just restoring whatever is causing the problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
Exactly, but the problem is, when I am using the Root Toolkit and doing a Stock Flash/unroot, it doesn't resolve the issue...so I need to know how to get back the way it was before the restore...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
thats because you are using a root toolkit. why do you think that most experienced users here do not like toolkits? flash stock onto your phone using fastboot(the right way), itll wipe out all your partitions first, and wont leave any crap behind.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
Ok, I hear you...I was being lazy...You are right...LOL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
No, you misunderstand me. I want to see what files are within your backup. The one you restored. You don't need to have twrp to do this. Any files browser or even on a PC. I need to see.if you've restored efs because your symtoms match restoring efs from another device in which case you can't fix it but a professional can.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottRTL:
Here are the files I restored...

Who are these professionals you speak of?

Shouldn't a 5 month old N5 and a new N5 both be the same?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Every phone has unique efs. It contains Imei and other stuff unique to your phone that allows it to connect to mobile network. If you delete it or restore over it from another device, you'll lose network connectivity

Your backup does contain efs so yea, you over wrote your efs and now you need a professional.

Who are the professionals? They work for LG.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
if his efs was wrong or bad or missing, he wouldnt have any connectivity at all, ever, until it was fixed. from what i understand, he mostly has terrible connectivity with sometimes no connectivity. that wouldnt be an efs issue.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
That's why I asked for clarity earlier and he advised he has no connectivity after all.

All signs point to efs

[MENTION=1811927]simms22[/MENTION] sorry, mention as tapatalk wouldn't quote
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
if absolutely no signal anywhere(not just in a certain place), then i agree with you 100% about it being efs, without a doubt.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Definitely. We can only go on information provided. I can only do the maths :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darksora145:
Call your service provider and ask them if there is a scheduled maintenance in your area. That maybe causing poor reception in your area
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] pezlomd:
Hello everyone. I have been using the note 3 for a while now but I came from an s4. And I remember being able to use a Google edition camera that had HDR option and took amazing pics in low light. That same camera app installed on this phone but there is no HDR option.. And richtone HDR really doesn't seem to do much in the stock cam.. Is it missing libs?! If anyone can maybe recommend me a good way to take some awesome HDR pics I would greatly appreciate it!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigHobo:
I'm looking for the exact same thing. Been looking everywhere for it.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] qu1nn:
is there any application that can make the phone appear stealth when a port probe is done?

thanks

qu1nn
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] qu1nn:
bump...........
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] nash2000:
I'm having an early issue trying to root this phone. When I click to get my token I get a prompt that tells says device not found. I've uninatalled and reinstalled the driver 3 times with same result. Oddly though...just as the drivers were done installing I get a blank black prompt window...it kinda flashes then disappears. It seems almost as if the drivers didn't install correctly but they do show up in my programs on my PC. Any ideas?
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] TheEmpyre:
Have you enabled USB Debugging? Also Completely EXIT HTC Sync Manager (Right click on system tray and Exit)
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] nash2000:
Yes debugging is on...not sure about sync manager. This is my 1st HTC phone. All I did was install the drivers from the link...and of course the toolkit.