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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
If you have a look around the forum and the internet, you'll notice every device from every brand has this issue. Sony has it worse, they dont even last 7 hours.

Turn off Google data backup, opt out of personalized apps and turn off location services.

You could always just disable Gplay services for now. I'm not rooted and I've done it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] random_username_:
How did you disable it ?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
Settings --> General --> Application Manager --> All --> Google Play Services --> Disable.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navcom.vos

Hi All. I have got a new news app and would like to get some feedbacks.

Thank you and I hope you can join our community and help us iterate it to something great.

We keep the news fun and sexy with engaging social features like polls, up voting, down voting on user comments, leader board and points ranking system based on our unique scoring algorithm.

VOS requires no sign up or sign in to keep our users as anonymous as they wish or make themselves known how sexy they are on our leader board by supplying a display name and photo.

Join our community. Share your thoughts on relevant world topics see how in tune those views are and get socially validated. For all of us Jon Steward wannabes here is the chance to get creative with photo comments MEMEs. It pays to be in the know cause smart is the new sexy.

VOS has traditional news app functions such as bookmarking articles, following sources, news video clips, trending topics alert, predefined keywords alert, widget, light / dark theme, sharing to mainstream social platforms, clean reading view and much more. Aggregating news articles from 40 countries and hundreds of sources this is one place to keep yourself in the know with events happening around you and the rest of the world.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks guys for downloading VOS News. Please leave us feedback or suggestions on how to improve VOS. Yours thoughts are always welcomed. Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
If anyone would be kind enough to grab me a few screenshots of my app for 7" and 10" tablet I would be very gratefull :)
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Have I mentioned its a free app?!?
[Android Apps and Games] AJM-hackers:
Just curious, for what violation did Google take down your previous app? Developers cannot completly remove apps, it didn't even show up in my installed apps so Google must have removed it for an infraction, why?

---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:07 PM ----------

Also second question, why does your app have camera permissions?
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Hi AJM, they took it down for keyword spam. Funny cause that was taught online on how to get better ranking for keywords for having keywords 5 times in ur description but I guess Google now bans that strategy.

The camera permission is for setting up a user photo if you chose to have one, it for the social features. You can now write comments to articles and get voted up or down from other users. You get points for your activities to get on our leader board. Give it a try :) Thanks for your question.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
I am thinking about adding video news clips to the articles. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
VOS News now has video clips!!! Get your up to date news coverage now in video format.
[Android Apps and Games] iTzGavin96:
Looks like a great clean news app. Gonna give it a try! Gj dev for getting featured on the portal :p
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks so much for your support Gavin. Hope the community could find this app useful. Thanks again
[Android Apps and Games] Malave:
I've never been happy with a news app until now. The UI is slick. Great job.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks Malave I am so glad you enjoy the UI. There are still lots of room for improvement thought in terms of UX and design. Thanks again for your kind feedback and giving VOS News a chance.
[Android Apps and Games] edrsn:
nice app you have made and can't use accentuation in app comments?! cmon
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Haha sorry edrsn, thanks so much for the feedback, just let me know what issues you come across and I will do my best to fix the bugs. Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] edrsn:
Edit / Delete comments and ability to add other news sites

btw five stars already, good job!
[Android Apps and Games] budbay:
Great app. Love the ui. I would like to see ability to add categories for custom topics and maybe a way to set location for weather and local news.
[Android Apps and Games] iTzGavin96:
Great app so far, love the transparency in the app as well. Looks beautiful. One recommendation I'd make is maybe the option to filter/customize the type of news/news sources kind of like how play newsstand does it because to some people, "world" news would be irrelevant. Keep up the fantastic work though. Never enjoyed reading as much until this app!
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks budbay for trying out VOS. Great ideal on the custom topics, I will have a think on how to implement this feature. As for the weather, the reason it currently only does major cities because I didn't want to activate GPS to gather user locations. Maybe later with positive user approval we could activate the GPS to allow more accurate weather reporting.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks again Gavin. Yes I think too its a great idea to allow a filter for topics as another XDA user has mentioned. I will work out an implementation for this feature and update you since it's ready.
[Android Apps and Games] repair_man:
Great app

I've been using Flipboard as my main source for catching news...that will now come to a end.

You've created a great and very good looking news reader that I'll use from now on. May I suggest the possibility to have multiple countries as source for the news feed? To me that would make this lovely news reader complete :)

Thank you for a work well done!
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Wow repair_man thanks so much for your positive comment. Your request is awesome, I would have never thought of it if it wasn't from your feedback. Technically its shouldn't be a problem for me to implement a multi region feed, but I will need to work out how to sort the feed. What do you think? Sort in chronological order or does it have the articles are order in language / regions. I am getting all these valuable ideas from you guys I should really get a to do list going and prioritize which to work on first. Thanks again repair man :)
[Android Apps and Games] repair_man:
Great feedback on my feedback;)

To me it would be great with a tick box next to the countries I want to receive news from. That's all really. The way you've listed the categories is great and so easy to use, :D :good:

Best regards

/Anders
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Yea I pictured that too checkboxes next to the each country on the selection list. How about the actual news feed? How to sort the articles? As the user could possibly have selected US, Spain, France, how should the order of these articles appear on the scrolling list view? Let me know what you think. :) thanks for your input.
[Android Apps and Games] TheDudeAbides:
I like it. My only request would be that the widget not be so narrow. Wider cards would be nice. Other than that, I'm on board! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Hi Dude, thanks for giving VOS News a chance. Haha I tried to do something different for the widget perhaps not everyone will like it. Let me play around with the cards dimensions to see if anything else look better, honestly I went straight for the portrait layout and didn't have time to try landscape. Thanks again for your kind feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] repair_man:
I would like the news feed after one another, eg US, Spain and France headlines under each other within respectively category. That would give me/the reader a summarised view at a glance. Doesn't that sound nice ;)?

I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain...;)

Regards

/A
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Yup I total get what you are describing. Sort the feed by region first and display sub headers for each region. I think it makes sense to do it that way too. Thanks for your input I will try it out as soon as I can.
[Android Apps and Games] THEbigSWEEN:
I'm not one for news apps, but saw this on the portal and had to try it out! UI is sleek and sexy! Good job with this. The only thing I might suggest, as it was mentioned before, is localized weather and possibly local news as well. Would it be possible to do like some weather apps where you can just put in your ZIP code to get the area rather than GPS/location? Keep up the good work!:good:
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks BigSween for you support. Yes you have a great idea to implement localized weather by using postal code, I do like that. But I will have to figure out how to handle not US region that doesn't use postal codes. Maybe leave other regions as is and just add postal code weather support in the US. Anyhow I will put it on my to do list. Thanks so much for you kind comment and good idea.
[Android Apps and Games] iTzGavin96:
update pushed today is running great. Still running stable and as beautiful as ever. bye bye play newsstand :)
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Thanks Gav for your kind support :) hopefully for the next release I will be able to add few of the cool features that was suggested by everyone :) I have been asked to do a multi region feed, what do you think? More than one region on a single feed sounds good?
[Android Apps and Games] iTzGavin96:
i think splitting up the regions would be a great idea. Im going to try to work on a video for your app this week by the way, school has just started back for me and im transitioning from my old windows 8 laptop to my new macbook pro so it may be a few days. Il let u know for sure though
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
Wow a promo video for VOS. I am so excited to see it. I have always thought about making one but don't have the skillset or creative power to do videos. Thanks so much.
[Android Apps and Games] b7898:
VOS News is back online after moving to a new server.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeYuse0406:
I decided to use google+'s auto backup feature to backup my photos and videos. I always used dropbox but wanted to give google a chance since storage pricing are a lot cheaper.

My issue is that on settings I have it set up to upload at full. However, videos recorded at a resolution of 1920x1080 get resized to the following resolutions:

854x480 and 320x240 - Actual video sizes seem to remain same as originals.

I have 100gb of storage and have only used 2.3gb. Is this a known issue; is there anyway to get the videos to upload at theor original resolutions?

Also, once photos and videos are uploaded, is it safe to delete them from my Note 3's sd card?

Thanks guys!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeYuse0406:
Bump!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msheikh25:
I'm not sure if you found the answer anywhere else but I just noticed this today also and wasn't able to find any information on it. But looking more into it, I realized the videos are correctly uploaded at full 1920x1080 size if you check from google+ on the web instead of the google+ photos app on your phone. I even downloaded a video onto my computer to verify and that is probably also why the video storage size is still the same as on your phone. Once a video is uploaded, you have the flexibility of viewing it in a lower resolution online and I guess the google+ app only allows you to view in the lower resolution even though its uploaded and available at the higher resolution. So its safe to delete the videos and photos from your phone.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inc0gn3gr0:
My roommate and I are having the same issue where our auxiliary ports. We tested 3 different cables on 2 Toyotas and a VW. It looks like there is a issue with how the ports are grounded in the Toyotas, is this a software or hardware issue? In Toyotas the phone could not recognize if it was connected to headphones, auxilary or not connect at all. It would constantly switch between the 3. And end up often choosing to play sound through the phone speakers. The VW had no issues.

Any fixes or suggestions?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwelke@live.de:
Same problem here. If I put in the cable the icon shows up for a second and than disappears. When I touch the other end of the cable while it is plugged in, the icon shows up permanently
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inc0gn3gr0:
What kind of car are you driving?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwelke@live.de:
On my car (Honda Civic Eg with Jvc Radio) everything is ok, on the car of my chief with an fm transmitter the aux icon disappears within a second. On my old Moto Razr I everything worked as expected. I dont know if its a software issue or hardware issue. Maybe I give this phone back, I'm not sure, I like it but this aux issue really annoys me.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inc0gn3gr0:
2011 Camry 2010 Corolla the icon for aux might show, the icon for headphone might show or nothing. It is random and I don't know if it is hardware or software.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colbyfink:
Having the same issue. There is another thread about it as well. Really bums me out because I love this phone but I use music through my phone in the car quite often.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seaders:
So I went to replace libaudioflinger.so in /system/lib with one I'd built myself, but unfortunately something obviously went wrong and when I rebooted the device, it just hangs on the loading screen.

The good thing is that the original file is in /sdcard named '_libaudioflinger.so_', and I can connect via adb there. If i run 'su' which gives me some sort of root access, but when I try 'mount -o remount rw /system', it shows up as "Operation not permitted". If I'm able to get that filesystem mounted, I just need to run "mv /sdcard/_libaudioflinger.so_ /system/lib/libaudioflinger.so", anybody any ideas how I might be able to recover this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seaders:
Hopped on #android-root and they got me all sorted. Basically just had some sort of a bad root/su which wasn't giving me the correct access. All back up and running 100% now, though.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
If it boots into the bootloader you can always flash the factory image
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
You can't brick a device by swapping system files.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
My S5 came with German O2 firmware installed so I tried debranding it by using Odin 3.09 and the DBT version of the G900FXXU1ANE2 firmware. Here is the log shown by Odin:

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> G900FXXU1ANE2_G900FDBT1ANE2_G900FXXU1ANE2_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/007> Initialzation..

<ID:0/007> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/007> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/007> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/007> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/007> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/007> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/007> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/007> tz.mbn

<ID:0/007> sdi.mbn

<ID:0/007> NON-HLOS.bin

<ID:0/007> boot.img

<ID:0/007> recovery.img

<ID:0/007> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/007> modem.bin

<ID:0/007> cache.img.ext4

<ID:0/007> hidden.img.ext4

<ID:0/007> FAIL! (Ext4)

<ID:0/007>

<ID:0/007> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I tried twice and got the same result. My phone says 'Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again'. Kies doesn't recognise my phone. Any solutions?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
No. If you had bricked it, it would respond as well as a brick i.e. not communicate with Odin at all. You just had an unsuccessful flash. If your phone won't boot, then it's described as a boot loop.

Odin software is a Samsung product, and as you might expect it's full of DRM. It won't allow you to flash a lot of things that you would like to. To recover, you need to flash a full OEM (stock) image that has Odin friendly signatures. If you did a full Nandroid (backup) and you should have, you can probably restore that too.

Otherwise, if your phone was originally from O2, then look for a full O2 firmware. Other OEM carrier images for your specific S5 model may also work. Or they may not. It depends on your bootloader and how the incoming firmware is signed.

The most effective way of debranding is usually installing a custom ROM which has been formatted to be flashable. That can range from something that is 99% stock and essentially just debranded to extensively modified ROMs. There are many ways to go about this and many combinations that will work. A good starting point though would be to get your phone working normally again by flashing a full O2 image as a baseline. Then do some more reading to discern your options.

Having said that, if you can't find an O2 image nor find another OEM image that Odin accepts, then consider a custom ROM.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
Problem solved. I managed to flash the German O2 firmware and subsequently the UK BTU (unbranded) firmware. Hope I haven't SIM-locked my phone now. Will find out tomorrow when I get a micro SIM for it. Thanks fffft.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
That would be almost unheard of. Flashing a different ROM will not normally re-lock a phone. If your phone was unlocked in advance, it should remain unlocked. You could check in the service menu.. but pragmatically, you'd probably find it easier to use an old SIM, or a friends SIM from a different carrier to see if you get a locked SIM dialog on screen or not.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
Where do I find the service menu? Do I need to have a SIM inserted to access it? On a different note, is there a way to confirm that the phone is region unlocked after I effect 5 mins of calls from it?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54068395&postcount=7

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54086561&postcount=10

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
The service menu says that the phone is not SIM-locked. I'm not sure that using an out of region SIM card is a 100% reliable test since it would still connect to an in-region carrier to enable roaming. Thanks for your help once again.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
100% region lock test

You will need root to check

Region lock is implemented by using a network blacklist. It may blacklist (block) entire countries, not just a single carrier. This is in contrast to a SIM lock that would whitelist just one carrier.

Using a root aware file manager, look at the /system/csc/customer.xml file.

Under the security heading, you should either see something like this:

<Security>
<NbNetworkLock>0</NbNetworkLock>
</Security>

Or like this:

<Security>
<NbNetworkLock>2</NbNetworkLock>
<NetworkLock>460BB</NetworkLock>
<NetworkLock>250BB</NetworkLock>
</Security>

If your file mirrors the first example, then your phone is not region locked. If you have MCC codes listed as in the second example you might have an active region lock. The first line is the number of MCC entries and the actual MCC codes represent carriers that are blacklisted to you. But it could be because your carrier is blocking roaming there rather than a region lock.To distinguish the two we would also need to see if the region lock flag is set in the NVM.

Describing how to check and remove the NV flag would be a much longer post. But if the entries concern you, simply edit them to MCC codes that you will never visit which effectively circumvemts the region lock. Do not delete the MCC entries outright unless you also clear the NV flag. You can look the MCC codes up online to see what carrier(s) they correspond to.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
Thanks for your detailed explanation. I prefer not to root the phone for the time being. I'm confident the phone will unlock itself after 5 mins of calls as per Samsung's instructions.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
Then you have more faith in Samsung than many of us. A number of people have said that five minutes was insufficient. You might want to make a few more calls than that just to be on the safe side.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lambada24:
OK I'll do that. Is receiving calls good enough?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
We don't know. Everyone hates region locking, but no one has done any rigourous testing. The mechanism that clears the region lock may round down minutes or perhaps misses some calls. Maybe Samsung actually set it a bit higher e.g. 7 minutes to foul up grey market sellers.

I would check the blacklist to be certain. In your place, given a rash of people saying that they made 5 -10 minutes of calls.. and the region lock remained in place,.. and if it would cause you significant inconvenience if it remained intact - I would strive to have 10+ minutes of both received and placed calls.

Do what you think best. And feel free to let Samsung know that you are unimpressed.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrasec:
Hi I have a S900H from Europe its region locked because I can't use a SIM here in the Americas If I decide to root would I be able by changing the MMC codes as you mention to unlock it??
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
Your phone has a different processor than the models sold in the Americas. But I would think that the blacklist would be the same. So yes, it should work to circumvent the region lock.

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[Off-topic] burghardt:
Salut a tout le monde

Je cherche un bon forum PDA francaise pour apprende la langue francaise.

Est-ce quelq'un connais un bon lien?

Merci pour moi aider
[Off-topic] naillik:
bonjour voila un bon forum pour toi http://www.forummobiles.com/index.php?showforum=175
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanmlam:
I have been using my F400S on AT&T since its release and sphynx rom and vdt are both buggy options to remove the Korean language leftover after switching to English. I would like to keep my phone but get a fully stock all English Rom running on it. What is my best option? I no longer get LTE thanks to sphynx and it won't let me flash to stock in flash tool because my phone comes up as unknown. Just getting frustrated.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZigZaGz:
Don't think So....

I am assuming you mean with the TOT file ? If so, I would not flash it being the TOT includes everything ABOOT.img BOOT.img which could cause some headaches I would suppose. I have been testing abit with making a rom based off the D850 but being the zip must be signed for 3e stock recovery to work and I am having trouble getting the zip signed due to size I suspect but to be honest I have limited knowledge with stock recovery. Give it a bit and I sure someone with enough know how will make a flashable zip with D850 system.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanmlam:
I'm also just trying to figure out if there is any benefit for me to sell my f400 and get an AT&T d850.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ground beef:
I've done a few searches and haven't really found any definitive answers so here goes:

I'm currently running 4.2.2 on my SPH-L720

Software/Baseband version: L720VPUAMF9

Hardware version: L720.08

Kernel version: 3.4.0-953334

se.infra@Sep-87 #1

Tue Jun 25 09:36:29 KST 2013

Build Number: JDQ39.L720VPUAMF9

It's rooted and I have wi-fi tethering (main reason for rooting)

Do you think it's worth it to unroot, then upgrade to 4.4.2, then re-root for purposes of wi-fi tethering?

If yes, is it as simple as unrooting, doing OTA update, and then rooting and install whatever wif-fi tethering app I need?

If no, why?

Thanks.

GB