yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walkinhotdog:
Hi everyone,

I just purchased a lg g2 (hasnt arrived yet), but I read about the terrible camera afterwards and am wondering if I should return it. I currently have a htc sensation, i think that camera is ok, it at least has a quick shutter speed. I also used a sony z1 compact, although it takes great pictures, its slow as hell, it doesnt take a picture until 2-3 seconds after pressing the shutter.

1. is the camera is deal breaker? I tend to take spur of the moment pics so I need quick shutter speed

2. does the camera mod help much?

3. did the newest 4.4.2 update do anything to improve the camera? I'm not sure if what I read was before or after the update

4. are there any other major issues that I should be aware of?

I'm a simple person, I like to customize a bit but stability is most important. appreciate any responses that will help me decide. thanks
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roeio82:
1. No it's not, shutter is pretty good and you have an option for multiple shots so don't worry about it, it's not a deal breaker.

2. Camera mod? Don't know any but if you will replace the rom you will lose the stock camera which is as I said pretty good, amazing photos in full light and nice photos in dimmed area.

3. Not that I know of, as a 4.4.2 user of the d802 I haven't noticed any difference.

4. I think that the most major issues on android in General is the memory consumption.

Also the stock 4.4.2 doesn't support ART which is a major update for kitkat, you can really feel the difference.

And ofcourse the damn LAG issues on stock rom which drives me crazy when I surf the web or open a PDF file which BTW the CM or any moded rom doesn't have these problems...

I hope you enjoy your new G2 phone but I would consider buying the G3 if you can :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] |Madman|:
Its not really worth it, G2 is a great buy atm, with all the people going nuts for that extra resolution that isnt really worth it the G2's price has dropped and its specs are still some of the best, plus the G3's stock rom has mostly the same features(IIRC), its mostly just aesthetics changes that the G3 has over G2.

Also, there are G3's stock rom ports, what more do you need?
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] cemr82:
My 3 month Gear NEO 2 is stuck in the booting process.

I've tried to press the home button for 5 seconds, let it to discharge and charged it again and.... still stuck in booting process

Anyone knows how to fix it or ..... I´m a luck guy with a piece of garbage in my wrist ?

I have a youtube video ....As a new user i´m unable to post it here ... my youtube video "Samsung Gear 2 Neo Reboot bug"
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] 2ndcarpenter:
Have you tried connecting it to Kies? Maybe you can get it to reflash or reset that way?
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] Restless-rooster:
Yes!! I am having the exact same issue. I was told my an att rep to contact Silver light Inc out of California because they make it. I have not done it yet. I plan on going to an att store where I purchased it from. If you would like the silver light phone number they gave me, let me know.

Good news is our watches come standard with a 1 year warranty.

On mine, I noticed I can do a few things still. Right after it reboots if I hold down the home key for 1 second and let it go, I can get into the restart menu and it will connect to my phone, and I can then double press the home key to get to s-voice. As soon as I swipe down to get to the main screen, it shuts off.

Since this is a few days old...did you figure anything out yet?

As to the other user, the watch will not connect to the PC right now because it's stuck in a reboot loop.
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] Restless-rooster:
AT&T gave me the wrong information. They gave me the information for the company that makes the Martian watch apparently. Damn AT&T.
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] pcbobsledder:
having the same problem. Won't stop rebooting.

I'm having the same issue. I was woke up in the middle of the night to see my watch rebooting over and over and over. I let the battery completely drain, plugged it in to charge and it just starts the same reboot loop over and over and over, again. I was hoping to find some solution but doesn't seem like many people are having this problem and I don't know how to reset the watch, any ideas?
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] Restless-rooster:
Let me tell you. ..samsung and att both are being a real pain in the ass about this. So here's what happened so far. I called samsung, they said call att. I called att, they said call samsung. I canned samsung and they said call att. I told them no. I said att told me to call them. Then samsung said take it to best buy and they can fix it. Best buy said they needed a reciept. I left best buy and went to att because this one doesn't have an att store inside. Att gave me the reciept, went back to best buy. The same guy at best buy (the samsung area) plugged it into his computer and 20 seconds later said he can't do anything I have to call samsung. So that's where I am at now. I am so pissed off. Best buy is not close to me. It's about 40 miles away. This is realllllly starting to piss me off.

If I was you I would call samsung for warranty information. If they tell you to call anyone else or go anywhere else tell them no and you want to send it to them for repair. I have a feeling it has to do with the newest software. I can't even figure out how to connect it to Kies or downgrade the software or anything.
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] Restless-rooster:
I fixed it!!! Found this post and it worked...
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] pcbobsledder:
Thanks, but not working.

Thank you for that. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. Mine boots to a screen that says, "Rebooting". It only appears for 3 seconds, then restarts, and shows the screen "Rebooting".

Here is a video of what is happening, youtu.be/Ny8jghLZrYU
[Samsung Gear 2 Neo] DrMichaelUSMC:
Same problem.

I'm having the same issue with my watch. It is essentially brand new. I've worn at maybe six or eight times since I got it. I feel like I've been horribly abused by Samsung over this , and I can't find anyone to help. Best Buy said they can't help me, and I had the same run around with Verizon and Samsung the other user was having with AT&T and Samsung. I know the watch might not be new tech now, but to me a six-year-old watch is not that old, especially when it has essentially not been used. The battery is good in it, the watch looks perfect and has no scratches, but it's stuck on the loading screen. If anyone has yet found a solution to this, please help.
[XDA Assist] dawi24:
I want to give my S3 Mini Root Access to potentially start installing Custom Roms. However, researching the topic has gotten extremely confusing. I have the international version but I don't know from which country. I got it off Amazon.com. My questions are

1. How do I go about giving this S3 Mini root Access

2. How do I go back to the Stock ( Samsung FW/ Rom if I do not like the Rom I installed)

3. Are there easy methods to rooting with a MAC device? ( My main computer but I can find access to a windows computer if needed)

amazon.com/gp/product/B009PLBLQC/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Any help or information will be greatly appreciated.
[XDA Assist] Perseus:
You may wish to review this nice Guide [How-To][GUIDE] Root [i8190/N/L] easiest way

You can also post on that thread if needed.
[XDA Assist] dawi24:
Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to root my phone. Now my question is that I would like to run a lag free system. Would changing the Rom fix that? Will I lose any features on my phone? I want a rom that is Simple ( google edition phone/ no bloatware) My current system is 4.2.1, would I need to stay on 4.2.1 to keep my features or that doesnt matter.
[XDA Assist] Perseus:
Please post that question in Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting so that the right experts may help you.
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Dear internet community,

i would like to adress my problems concerning the installation of Xposed and GravityBox on my Fairphone. You must know that this is my very first smartphone and i dont really know how to use them yet. But i know that i would like to be able to change my Locksreen wallpaper, whích is the only intention for me to try to install Xposed in the first place.

So lets get to the nuts and bolts:

Firstly i tried to "unroot" my phone (of which i dont have any clue what that might mean), but the program i used (universal unroot) gave me this message upon trying: "please allow root access now. If you cant allow root access your device is most likely not rooted". At this point i dont know if i am able to allow root acess to that program, which ist rediculous in itself since this program should allow me to do that in the first place. I checked in the settings but couldnt find anything that looked like root access.

The next step was to install Xposed (version 2.6.1 and then 2.7 both with the same result). After the installation and the reboot, Xposed states unter the "Framework" category that: "the latest version of Xposed is currently not active (my app manager tells me it is). Did you install the framework and reboot?". Again i did the reboot and i installed it. If try to go further into the Framework menu and press the "install/update"-button it tells me: "failed to get root access. make sure your device is rooted properly and you have not blocked shell commands".

My question now is: do you have a solution for my problem? I would be very thankfull and appreciative if you would offer me a solution, since my intentional desire of changing the Lockscreen Wallpaper is such a small thing that it is quite hillaours as to how much effort has to be put in to change this small detail. Please dear community, help me out! :)

With kind regards

Alex
[Fairphone 1] Hyst:
Hi Alex,

First of all: I see no point in "unrooting" my device. Since you said, you don't have any clue what that might mean, maybe this helps.

The term "root" is comparable to the "admin rights" on your computer. Some people do not need those rights. But If you don't need it just don't use it. If you "unroot" your device, what you do is, you throw away those admin rights. I don't see why you want to do this. The only reason which comes to my mind, is if you want your manufacture to repair your phone using your warranty. They basically don't like it if your phone is rooted, and say it violates the warranty conditions. But then again: fairphone comes pre-rooted, so having root does not void the warranty of your fairphone.

Usually if a program wants to have those root(/admin) rights, a screen pops up where you have to confirm that the app might use those rights.

If you want to know for what root rights can be good for, just google "rooting android" or something like that to read up on that topic.

Seems like you are actually unrooted. To use xposed and all its cool modules you need to have root rights. Unrooting your phone to use xposed is just contra productive. Maybe install SuperSU to re-gain root rights. But maybe you need to re-flash your OS.

Wait, what? Did I understand correctly, that you unrooted your phone to use an app that requires root so that you can change your lockscreen background?

Dude, you can do this in the settings without any root/unroot/xposed stuff.

As you said it is just a small detail, and such a standard feature, so it would be CRAZY if you need to go through such a hassle.

Just go into settings and somewhere in the display or lockscreen settings you can choose a background (you might need to disable the mood background for this). I do not have my fairphone anymore, so I cannot tell you where exactly that option is. Maybe someone else can point to the the exact location of that setting.
[Fairphone 1] dirtycutmaster:
I can't find any option for a different lockscreen image on my FP - only normal background image (wich is then also used for lockscreen, if I have mood background disabled). So I would also suggest GravityBox, which seems to be a too complex topic for your first smartphone ever... :eek:
[Fairphone 1] Hyst:
I know that this option is there. I had a custom lockscreen background (without using some xposed module like gravitybox). I will check with a friend who has a Fairphone, and tell you where the setting is.
[Fairphone 1] Hyst:
I am sorry. Apparently I was mistaken. Changing the lockscreen background to a different wallpaper than the homescreen background seems not to be possible. You can just choose between mood background or not. I thought I had two different backgrounds while I had my Fairphone, but seems like I was wrong. :( sorry

Why is this not implemented? What I know for sure is that is a feature in CM and and Samsungs stock android version. I do not know about AOSP android.
[Fairphone 1] dirtycutmaster:
Thanks for your feedback, Hyst!

I second your question about the missing implementation, but that's quite in a row with some other phone's stock features I am missing on the FP - e.g. a more solid gps, special character search in contacts and some other things other phones can do. Then I remember, Fairphone is still quite new on the market and neither has the experience nor the financial background to act like e.g. Samsung would do. And taken that into account, I'm sure they will grow with the requirements...
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Yeah i know now why the Phone needs to be rooted in order to work in a way i would like it to.

So atm the only viable solution that i could find is to reflash the Android of my phone. I tried to but the installation progress aborts itself so i am not able to reflash atm. The Fairphone support team got a mail from me, so lets wait and see.

Now in a later post of yours you said that it is not possible. But i qould like to go into why i unrooted my phone. I was watching a Video from this site and misunderstood what has been said. I unrooted my phone, thinking that this would be necessary to make Xposed work. By that time i didnt really know how all of this works. I know its a rookie mistake and a "stupid" one, but i learned something and i am okay with it.

The next task now is to reflash my phone. Maybe you guys have an idea as to why it wont work: I followed the instructions on the Fairphone website and it still aborts during installation.

Edit: I am not allowed to linkt external websites, so i cant give you the video and fairphone installation guide links.

Greetings

Alex
[Fairphone 1] arghwhymustiregister:
Hope I didn't get it completely wrong but just wanna throw in another idea: why don't you reset your phone to factory settings? Reflashing it sounds like a lot of work for a beginner like you.. (Didn't do it either)

Since the phone is/was rooted from release on, resetting it should do the charme, imo. If you don't have a lot of files to lose I'd try that.

PS: really funny how complicated it got for you since your main intention was to change the lockscreen wallpaper :))

PPS: follow this http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Fairphone_Fairphone/Guides#How_to_partition_your_Fairphone from the 4th point on
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Yeah, i tred that a couple of times, but it wouldnt remove the unroot :)

Thanks for the link, i will try that in the meantime :)

PS: That, unfortunately, didnt do the trick :(

Edit2:

Since the Fairphone support hasn't replied yet, i tried another solution, but i need to ask you guys for help. I was following the instructions in the Fairphone wiki under the "How to restore Fairphone if you totally bricked it" topic. All the necessary files and programes are downloaded. Now when i choose the scatter file of the fairphone binarys the program gives me this message: "Error initialising scatter file failed. Please check the name of scatter file which you load is legal". if i press the download button the program gives me this message: "Download list is empty, please select a scatter file before executing"

I really dont get this. The fairphone binarys are supposed to work with this program, yet they are not. Can anyone help? Is there something really pbvious i have overlooked?

Greetz

Alex
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Bump --> Please help me to figure out the SP Flash tool. To see the details check the post above :)

Thank you sooo much :)
[Fairphone 1] haffenloher:
I don't think you need to go through that mouch trouble as you're still able to use your phone (if I understood that correctly).

How about re-installing the Fairphone software from recovery? There's a nice guide on how to do that at:

fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202478028-Manually-install-Fairphone-OS-software-update-version-Cherry-1-6

Afterwards the superuser binaries should be back and you will have root access again.
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Thanks for the hint, but that exact process does not work, since the update aborts itself giving an error message but not specifiying on which error exactly cause it to abort... I am frustrated at this point. :(

Greetings

Alex
[Fairphone 1] haffenloher:
Which Fairphone model do you have? If it's the old one (from last year's batch), did you already use the repartitioning tool to "unify" your internal storage? Which update did you try to apply (exact filename)?
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
Its the second Batch phone, so the FP1U. I tried it with almost any OS given on the homepage. Those are the ones i tried:

OTA_AOSP-4.2.2_2014-08-05.zip

Fairphone_FP1_OS_v1_6_OTA_2014-07-31.zip

Fairphone_Cherry_1.6_FUSE_Image_2014-07-31.zip

Fairphone_FP1_OS_1G13G_v1_6_OTA_2014-07-31.zip

The Fairphone updater tells me that my phone is running the "Chenpi" version 1.5 which i cannot find on the hompage (thats strange isnt't it?)

What else could be done here?

Greetings and thank you very much for your ideas so far! ;)

Alex
[Fairphone 1] haffenloher:
Applying that one from recovery clearly should have worked. I've even used it myself with my (already repartitioned) first batch phone.

If you want to be sure the .zip file you downloaded is not corrupted, compute its MD5 checksum. If you're under Windows, use a tool like heise.de/download/md5summer.html

Under Linux, just use md5sum <filename>

The checksum should match the one found on Fairphone's software update page: 664ca09368a4c922a12dc2526afe092b

1.5 is the version your phone was shipped with, I think. As they issued the update to 1.6 just a few days after the new phones started shipping, I guess they thought putting only the new image up on their website was enough.
[Fairphone 1] AdmirAlex:
The awesome support Team worked something out and my phone is finally rerooted! Now, i have installed Xposed, rebooted it, installed Gravitybox, rebooted it and both programs are working fine. After some fiddling around it finally has worked!! For most of you it might seem to be a small thing and really not that important, but for me it is. Honestly the only two things i really use to personalize the phone is the Wallpaper / Lockscreen and the WakeupCall ringtone.

Thank you so much for all of your support and patience!

Greetings

Alex
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snoozer854:
I am running 11-20140803-Nightly-hummingbird & wallpaper disappears after going from Portrait to landscape mode & the only way to setup the wallpaper I have to reboot.

Every once in awhile I will get a System UI stopped message too.

After the wallpaper disappears system seems to really lag.

I figured maybe my system was getting all junked up due to so many updates I have done since 10.1 days, so I did a system reset with CWM & figured I would start over.

After installing the nightly mentioned above & gapps rebooted & noticed all the folders were still there from before, do these not get wiped when doing a system reset?

Any suggestions on what to do with the issue I am having & how do you completely wipe the system to start over?

This is getting a bit frustrating. :confused:

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated

Thank you
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2092952:
You don't really want to completely wipe everything -

do not

wipe emmc internal storage. Only data, dalvic, cache is necessary.

Don't know what folders your referring to. Folders on internal storage will stay. Any other folders in the rom sections that were wiped will be repopulated upon flashing a rom.

The wallpaper issue sounds like a bug in cm. Try the m9 build. I use m9 and have not seen that problem, not with m9 and not with m8.

I have no idea what you install on it, but it could also be an app your installing that is breaking things.

Anytime you want to start fresh do a full recovery backup in the recovery so you can go right back to exactly how you had it if a new rom install doesn't fix your problem instead of wasting time.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snoozer854:
Problem solved

It appears it was due to newest beta of Apex Pro that I was using. I installed one of my backups of Apex through Titanium Pro just to see if that was the issue & by golly I think it was.

Seemed like every time I would rotate my screen the wallpaper went Poof!
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keshabbhattarai126:
Solution for wallpaper issue

Especially this problem is found in cm11 snapshot M9 M10etc. But M11 has no issues. I am using m11 since its realse and absulotely no wallpaper issue has been encountered. If you are using 3 party launcher to set wallpaper the it is my request to use default system wallpaper tool to change wallpaper. And thats it.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasik80:
I wonder why my opo with Mahadi latest ROM and the AK Kernel overclocked to 2.8 gives me a result of 35833 while on all stock I had 38000+

Is there anything wrong or it's normal?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheCrazyLex:
It seems like cm has many performace improvements while mahadi is not (very) good optimized for the OPO.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] davehutch:
Is there any? The reason I ask is that MobyMemory say their 4GB MMC card is compatible with the QTek S100 but I have the i-Mate JAM.

Can I use it?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Darthbelmont:
nop.... you can't............... and its the same machine!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoshiFan501:
is there a way to replace the HTC Splash screen with the one from the GPE M8
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobmannh:
You can make your own : http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/themes-apps/mod-customize-boot-splash-online-splash-t2817059
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoshiFan501:
Ah cool! Awesome!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoshiFan501:
is this any different than flashing one through RUU
[XDA Assist] DarkBaron1239:
I am going to root my Micromax unite 2 a106.. and when I extract this Driver auto installer... this is what i get.... can someone provide me the proper file ?
[XDA Assist] Perseus:
since we do not have a forum for this device, please post your request in

Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Also please see Micromax Unite 2 All things and Development Thread regarding Rooting this device.
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thakrage:
Hey there.

This is my second day with the tab s 8.4, and I'be noticed that my tablet has been awake all day, even while I was at work.

See the screen shot.

Do you have any experience with this or do you know of a way to identify the app keeping it awake?