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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
It's a little over hyped, i agree. I wish it was more like the S5 interface but that's for the note 4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Southern_mind:
The reason is touchwiz. Kit kat looks so much better than jelly bean but touchwiz is the same crappy looking junk.

But the lockscreen music player is awesome. Which is part of my kat.

Sent from my VZW Galaxy Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] micmars:
Thread closed; please take KitKat discussion here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Make a nandroid backup, flash a TouchWiz ROM, activate your phone, restore backup
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jordan23945bulls:
thanks, what if i want the stock rom? cause i want to sell the phone and dont want to screw anyone over, thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Then don't do the last step
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jordan23945bulls:
ok, thanks. i just need to find a rom thats pretty much stock and flash it, any you recommend? thanks.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] tdnookhd:
I'm currently running Google Hangouts 2.1 for SMS. I've been having some problems since updating.

The main annoyance is that I can not change the SMS received notification sound from "Hangouts Message". Doing so in the Settings > SMS results in it just switching to silent (no ringtone). This happens no matter what ringtone I make it, and once I do this it wont change from "silent" unless I delete all data for Hangouts in the App Manager.

The other annoyance is that MMS takes FOREVER to send. 3-4 minutes every time, regardless of signal strength. It eventually goes through, but it always fails, says "Retrying" for a minute or so, then finishes sending. Anyone else struggling with this?

Does anyone here have a fix for either problem?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] unstab1e1199:
Anyone not able to get your hangouts and sms to merge? I have the option turned on.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Napoleones:
This is one of the reason why am not using Hangout. Try other applications that will work fine for you.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
Im usually pretty good at figuring tthe smartwatches out. but how do you get to the different screens on the watch? whe i turn it on i get on screen with instagram .calculater etc. when i swipe i get to blank pages. ive accidenttly stumbled across other screens with other things on them but i have no idea what i did to get there! is there a manual for how to use this watch? or can someone give me some basic instructions please???
[Ornate TrueSmart] trent999:
I suggest you hold the bottom button down till the task list comes up, then swipe left to kill OUI2.0 launcher. When you do that, you will get a screen where you can select from available launchers...pick the little house with the android in it. Things will be more familiar then.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
thanks i will give it a try. how do i load the playstore on here or also others? when ii hook the watch to the computer it says on th watch that its a drive but it dont show up on computer screen ..ive tried on windows 7 and 8.1 not visible. is there another way i can get the playstore on the watch? and also is there a gmail app on here? where is it? i found the reg. email app.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
when i hold the bottom button down long press all i get is a black screen that says "no recent apps"
[Ornate TrueSmart] trent999:
That is because you haven't installed Google Apps yet, which is part of installing the Play Store. Check around XDA for installing Play Store. I haven't redone mine since I got it in early February, so I can't walk you through it.
[Ornate TrueSmart] Lokifish Marz:
Patch your watch. The patch installs Play Store.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
i'm dumb. how do i patch my watch?
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
ive kinda check around and i found the apk for the play store and DL it to my computer, just dont know how to get it on the watch since the computer wont recognize the watch as a drive even though the watch says its set up as to be a drive.

also how do you find the gmail appp on the watch? is there one? i set up my google acct on the watch, but i cant find an app on the watch for gmail.
[Ornate TrueSmart] Lokifish Marz:
[INFO] Everything Umeox x201 (TrueSmart, AW-414/420, AX-3, XTouch, etc..) sticky. Both methods are listed in "Kernels, Patches, MOD packs, ROMs" section of the sticky.

Sorry but have to be blunt. Using any x201 unpatched is extremely dumb. Unpatched, a hacker, malware and even malicious websites can remotely steal your info off the device an then brick it.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
went there. not being a developer, its all a little greek to me. i really am afraid to start screwing around with the watch without knowing what i am doing. i also dont know if i should get a sim card or not before i attempt anything. anyone caare to help me root or patch my mod and walk me thru it so i can get this watch up and running?
[Ornate TrueSmart] Lokifish Marz:
It doesn't get any simpler than this.

Most of the guides here for the x201 are done in such a way that you do exactly what the instructions say. Except for some rare cases, 99% of the time there are issues is because somebody skipped a step or did the steps out of order. The other part of the problem is people think "OMG new tech! It must be scary and complicated" when in fact the core concepts are the exact same as a computer. Install software, click button(s), wait, done.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
OK Well i got my yahoo mail set up. also got google play store on by emailing it to myself and then installing it. also found some apk's that i had from my zwatch that work on the omate: Aquamail, Easy uninstaller, Battery meter.

Two BIG questions: why does the watch have 2 sets of screens? the main screen set(which seems to be the default) with the blue background and the other set you get to by swiping down thats got a dark grey background with similar apps but has folders and more apps. i'd like to make that my default) but everytime you push the bottom button, it goes to the original blue default screen. same when you turn off and on the watch, it defaults to the blue set. how do you get rid of that blue default screen set. also is there a gmail app or do ii have to DL from play store? and is there a call log app? i cant find it if there is. THANKS!!
[Ornate TrueSmart] Lokifish Marz:
So you didn't install any patch. Not good. Almost every bit of info you just put on your watch (passwords, usernames, contacts, etc.) is now accessible by hackers, malware and malicious websites. Your watch can also be bricked remotely as well.
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
i dont know how to do the patch and im afraid if i screw it up i will brick the watch. can you explain the 2 sets of screens to me?
[Ornate TrueSmart] wmandel:
plus i cant get my computer to see the watch as a drive. i tried it with windows 7 and 8.1 and no luck. so i cant patch it unless i can get the computer to see the watch.
[Ornate TrueSmart] Lokifish Marz:
You don't need your computer to see it as a drive to patch it. Where did you read that you did?

Windows does not have to see any phone as a drive to recognize that it's there.

Getting your watch to be seen as a drive on your computer

Connect watch to PC

On the watch either a screen will pop up with a button saying "Turn on USB Storage" or "USB Connected" shows up in notifications

If you do not get the popup tap on "USB Connected" in notifications, the popup should now appear.

If none of these things happens the most likely cause it that the dock is defective.

There has been less than 5 reports of somebody actually bricking their watch and it wasn't from running either patch. The worst that happens is that you have to flash factory firmware to the watch. In the instances of people bricking their watch it has been because of flashing untested firmware that they got from somewhere other than myself.

The two sets of "screens" are launchers. You can either clear the defaults for the primary launcher or factory reset your watch.
[HTC One SV] Kohltont22:
My brother has my old One SV which still has twrp on it. Is there any way we can install the ota through it? Don't have access to a computer at the moment
[HTC One SV] Modding.MyMind:
Technically yes, but it's a waste of time setting it up to do this because it will still flash the stock recovery. So, you may as well flash the stock recovery.

If the phone is rooted and S-Off then you can flash it from your phone without a PC.

Open up terminal emulator:

dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21

OR

cat /sdcard/recovery.img > /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
[HTC One SV] Kohltont22:
[MENTION=5537766]Modding.MyMind[/MENTION] Its fine if it flashes stock recovery. He doesn't care about modding and tweaking stuff I think
[HTC One SV] Modding.MyMind:
Would be much easier just to download the stock recovery to his phone and use one or the other commands I mentioned above to write it to his recovery partition. This way all he has to do is just accept the OTA.
[HTC One SV] Kohltont22:
Most likely going to do that. Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
Has anyone figured out the best way to enable the wifi tethering capability?

I know on the s4, all the roms came out with this feature, it seems the s5 is still not rooted yet, what is everyone using, exploit or app?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inebriat3d:
this has been posted, but the best way to accomplish this right now without root is with FoxFi ( paid as far as i know and use now ) .. then USB or Bluetooth tether. you can then while tethered activate "wifi share" for your wifi devices. ..... if there is another method please someone post it!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guadalupeohara:
verizon s5 are not allowed to do it..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
Wow, what in the world is going on here...

Verizon may have made their last move. I just bought my phone with new 2 year contract, can i return and cancel my contract within a certain time period or am I inevitably effed?

I can not and will not put up with anymore of big Red's nazi ways, I am paying for a service and at the price im paying more than justifies my using of said service in any and every way that i want. If this does not get resolved soon, its a deal breaker for me and verizon. Not that it will make any difference...

and I hate that it would essentially make me move to a lesser carrier with less coverage and internet speed, but big red is starting to do that guv'mint thinking and i dont like where this is headed.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
donkey poo!!!

I require a real wifi tether, usb and bluetooth are too restrictive and time consuming.

I hope a few of the more experienced devs can chime in on whether this is something to wait for or just return/sell the device immediately?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tpike:
If you have one of their new plans which I'm assuming you do since you upgraded, you absolutely can use native hotspot. I ran it yesterday. You have to turn it on via settings instead of the traditional way of tapping the Wi-Fi app.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnKuczek:
Settings->More networks->Mobile hotspot
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
I upgraded, and paid full price for it....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tpike:
Did you try the method 2 posts up?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
No. For the reason of having unlimited data.

Sent from my SM-G900V on xda Premium app with no root
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike163:
I gave up the unlimited data plan and went with the Share Everything with 6gb of data. I did an analysis of my data usage for the past year and found that I never used more than 2gb a month. The unlimited talk and text is more important to me than unlimited data. Although I use the web quite a bit on the phone, I use wifi at home and at work, so it limits my 4G data usage substantially.

Verizon will eventually find a way to eliminate unlimited data altogether, or with some of the new Internet legislation being pushed throttle the bandwidth to the point that it's useless.

I don't understand what people are doing to use 30gb a month or higher unless you are using the plan as your home ISP service connecting multiple devices, or streaming movies all day long.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clint3131:
I have Verizon Home Fusion for home internet and I do not have wifi at work. Largest amount of data I can subscribe to per month is 30GB/month, for my home. I'm too far off the road for cable, DSL, and I didn't want Satellite (which still has limits).

I'm grandfathered into unlimited. I use about 30 GB a month tethering, mostly updates for the XBOX One, downloading stuff from the usenet, streaming Netflix or HBO Go to my iPad when I'm at my camper, which is in the woods.

I hope you have an understanding now of how someone can use 30 GB per month.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
On an average month, prior to acquiring my GS5, I was using about 45gb of data. That's web surfing, PC and Xbox 360 gaming, and streaming videos. On HEAVY months, I was up around 75gb of data used. My lightest month to date of data usage was 29gb of data. No way in heck I am giving up my unlimited when I have no home landline internet.. This IS my salvation.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tpike:
Well in response to the OP and to others who may be confused, WIFI tether (as well as bluetooth and usb) is built in and available as long as you have the share everything plan. Until we get root there will be no native wifi hack. I've been told a talented dev has an s5 in hand, i bet it wont be too long until root is achieved, after which native hacks will be forthcoming :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] razzrmaxx:
It takes time, has anyone here had the s4 before the s5? Do you recommend me to get the s4 or s5? I'm looking to upgrade but I have to pay full price for the phone because I use about 100 gb every month, the only two things that make me doubt is that wifi tether is not posible yet and since I eat my fingernails I can't open the usb with my fingers on the S5 lmao
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
On that note, (heh) if you wanted to, and I wanted to, but was talked out of by a dumb BBY mobile rep, was getting the Note 3 which is rootable.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
Thanks for your reply but I need to activate on the unlimited plan and although when I'm home I don't use that much but when traveling it sure is much cheaper than paying 7-20 bucks a day for WiFi access in some places.... not having root is no good in this particular case especially because I rely on it for work and has never been an issue until now. And giving more money to Verizon is not an options unlimited is already 125 per month
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tpike:
I'm currently still using my n3 cause it's rooted and running my rom. It's got Wi-Fi tether hacked as do most roms.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spelunker10:
Suggestion

To kprice8

What I would do if I were you. Put your 4G SIM card back in your old device until root becomes available. That way you have the Wifi Tether and can use your Unlimited data. And at the same time you can use your S5 for all your apps and such. But use the old device for calling and texting. Just my suggestion. You are lucky, I would never give up that unlimited plan. And these devs are extremely clever you'll have Wifi Tethering on your S5 in no time. :cool:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
Not an option. Took BestBuy up on their trade in offer. Didn't consider this at the time. But for the future, now I will know better...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smokncars:
if the image shows 259027657 kilobytes is 247.02802372 gigs in a month. because I was curious of how much I could use in a month streaming netflix and gaming. usually i use about 70 gigs.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillTheGreat:
To each's own, but I do think some people abuse it. It's not worth shaming someone for using a lot, nor is it brag worthy. However, I definitely use 30GB or so. I receive a lot of engineering plans, designs, as well as stream a list of stocks when I'm on the road. With things like Google Drive and Dropbox my usage has gone up. I do light NFLX streaming, and tether (with my old device). But I feel like most people who are in the 100+ are people who are using it exclusively.

I go home or the office and I have Wi-Fi that is simply more stable than LTE. Sometimes I think people just like abusing it for the sake of abusing it. A buddy of mines is just like that. "ha wifi? I have mobile data, let me sit here and run 50 speed test"
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guadalupeohara:
It's already backed.. Not work my phone..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
Yeah some people get out of hand, probably why Big Red is cracking down on it so much.

I know for other phones in the past there were 1-click no-root tethering apps you can download and would still allow it to work..

maybe someone with more knowledge in this area can tell me whether this is just an issue of the devs not working towards supporting s5? or does the s5 require some different programming and thus is hasnt been figured out yet? (Im sure the tether app guys would love to establish their market first..

Which is why it brings my to my other suspicision/concern -- too many people have and are going to get this device to not have root (and i dont want to hear any BS on this site [xda developers] about people needing root being a minority/majority) Thats total bull****, I did, do and will choose Android because of its customizability and open platform, if it becomes closed then i will look elsewhere until that option is no longer available. -- the fact that root exploit and one that works properly leads me to believe there were some major programming changes and security updates that are keeping this from easily going through. Either way, I am looking into other available options. Wifi tether is key for me.

Anyone know return policy on Costco's phones? and unless someone rootable comes out in the next month or two, looks like i will be buying a new s4 AGAIN.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huachipato:
The only tethering connection I have found to work with the USB connection using PdaNet+. From there - you should be able to hotspot from the connected computer.

I have tested the connection to the laptop - and it works (after updating the Galaxy S5 Drivers). I have not tried the hotspot portion yet, but I imagine it works since the data connection was working.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillTheGreat:
FoxFi's new update worked if you want WI-FI tethering. I've purchased EasyTether years ago and to my surprise it works with the S5 very seemlessly, however, they do not have the ability to have your phone act as a hotspot. You need to tether via bluetooth or USB and then have your laptop or w/e to create a network and act as the hotspot.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballisticevo:
Edit
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pyroelite:
Basically anything on kitkat got WiFi shut tha f*ck down. I'm paying for tethering now for a month out of sheer necessity & convenience in hopes they'll get root by then, but may be looking down the road at a G3...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huachipato:
Foxfi found a way to make it work:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2734833
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pyroelite:
Schweeet! Now let's see about getting prorated...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilsalmon:
I can confirm FoxFi is now working for WiFi tether with their paid premium version.

-Lil'
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naturalstamina:
Yes thank you and for those of you reading this, i will just link the other thread to make it easier

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2734833&page=3
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
I actually made a How-To on this topic. You can find it HERE.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vacaloca:
The kind that don't have root ;)

The check is hardcoded to launch an app in an xml settings file inside framework-res.apk. It might have changed slightly in the S5, but here is an example for the S3: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1800796 So having root makes it trivial to remove it. Interesting way of going at it though...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dennisg34:
Do you or anyone else know if when you uninstall the app for this (because of mentioning 3rd party has access to my emails and crap) the vpn it sets up temporarily needs to be removed somewhere? if so, where?

EDIT: Found the answer, Actually, you can remove the lock. Go to settings, Security, Clear Credentials. It will ask for your security then go back to pattern lock and select none. You have to add security again if you want to tether.

In case anyone was wondering this themselves
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kprice8:
XDA Developers was founded by developers, for developers. It is now a valuable resource for people who want to make the most of their mobile devices, from customizing the look and feel to adding new functionality.

Not all of us here are Devs. That much is certain. There is no need for you to sound nasty toward people who may not have as much know-how as you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Secondlaw:
Now that we have Root for the VZW Galaxy S5

Rather than using FoxFi (which I've paid for), I'd prefer to use something like this:

https://code.google.com/p/android-w...e=wifi_tether_v3_4-experimental1.apk&can=2&q=

The problem is that it doesn't work for me. I get and error while starting it up, "Tethering started with errors, Check "show log"".

The show log icon is there but clicking on it displays, "Unable to open Log-File, Log file doesn't exist".

Any other options? I like FoxFi but prefer the other one.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droid_Evo_8:
Here's what I did: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53431713&postcount=9

U must be rooted and install Xposed for the tethering to work.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Secondlaw:
Wow! Works great!!!! Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savagerun:
Thanks that works perfectly [emoji106]

Edit... Disregard that it says Foxfi i just haven't renamed it after uninstalling foxfi.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazing_steve:
I was able to get tethering up and running, but attempting to add 'WiFi Hotspot' to the quick panel settings proved impossible for me because SQLite kept throwing errors about 'Cannot open' when I attempted to access the settings DB.

Anyone have luck adding it as a quick panel icon?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savagerun:
Didn't even try that which would be nice. Im just using "HotSpot Toggle" from the playstore on my home screen.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savagerun:
What version of SQlite were you using? I just added WiFiHotspot to the quick panel without a problem using SQlite version 2.1, if you're using an older version that could be why your getting errors.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nc88keyz:
the xposed tether module works after a reboot, and then a few minutes later it returns to provision check. I am on an unlimited plan fyi. I could never get it to stick. The wifi patch and script edit worked except for the quick tile, i repeated the last command seperately and then it too worked just like an above posted mentioned, it threw out some memory error non-sense, cleared the quick tiles and magically the WifiHotspot tile appeared available.

I too got permissions error on sqlite even after using the corrected run.sh script.

Who knows, its working now though just fine.