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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Doomwake:
Im running Cyangenmod 11 on my mdk s4 but i'm confused about these modems and kernels threads popping up every once in awhile.

My question is would it benefit me to flash modems and kernels for ever day use and if so how do I know which ones work best for me? I'm guessing the modems would help with signal and the kernels would help with battery life and performance. However I have no idea which one I should flash and how big of a difference it would make.

Thank You,

Doomwake
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] skepticmisfit:
what modem are you currently running?

im a safestrap user but based on my experience with previous samsung phones the newest modem is usually the best.

about kernels, the only one i see anyone using is Ktoonsez's kernel. apparently it's really good :D

and another important tidbit: the only way to tell if a kernel/modem makes a difference is to just flash it! try it out, if you like it, great, if not, then hopefully you made backups and/or can revert to previous kernel/modem
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Triscuit:
If you have an MDK bootloader you can flash modems at will and it will not screw up anything. Kernels will help with snappiness and/or battery life.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] lokerman:
kernels and modems

As mentioned, you can flash any of the modems, and the only way to know if any of the modems are better for you in your particular area are to try each of them and if one of them stands out as having better performance for you, then stick with it. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter. I've not noticed any difference between any of them in terms of performance/signal, etc.

The kernels are something that can help with battery if you know how to tweak the settings a bit to get that effect, but mostly they have minimal effect on battery life; battery life is 99% determined by your individual setup: the apps, the configuration of everything on your phone, how you use it, etc. Your best bet for battery life help is to find a really good battery life article here on XDA and really get to understand the details of how battery life is effected on these phones, and how to best maximize battery life on your phone. You'll find out that it is something you can control to a very large extent, independent of your kernel or ROM, or your modem for that matter.

Hope that answers your question.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
Noticed that my Note 3 N9005 has weaker flash light compared to my S3, the weak flash gives my pictures in dark a tinged yellow color, is it ia something I do while taking pics make it yellow or is my flash defective??
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
downloaded 3rd party flashlight app and it did give me a much stronger flashlight than phone's flashlight widget, however; I still don't know how to make flash stronger while taking pictures or videos, any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HanZie82:
Flash in pictures should be on full power (if needed).

Flashlight apps wont use full power, else you will break you LED.

It doesnt have enough cooling to be turned on on full power.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
What do you think about some pictures in dark have yellow tinge?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HanZie82:
I think if you want high quality pictures get a high quality camera. ;)

This is still a phone, but should produce nice images tho.

You could try to make a picture and attach it here so we can see what you mean.

But its possible the flash is not working like its supposed to.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
Ok will try thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone98RC:
Hi, I'm having a very unstable S3. Unluckily I'm an advanced and enthusiast Android user, unluckily because I've to suffer the continuous proposals of an untouched device, as solution for all my problems, you should understand me! [emoji16]

So... I won't renounce uselessly to any app or tweak, if you are not expert surely you can't help me.

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My device:

Device: Samsung Galaxy S3 International 16 GB (+64 GB exFat SD);

Rom: CyanogenMod 11 M9 (upgraded from M8);

Modem: LG8;

Kernel: BOEFFLA Kernel (the last stable release, sometimes the last beta);

Mods: BRAVIA Engine 3 and xLoud (both flashed before kernel), Xposed Framework (some modules included GravityBox, with "few" tweaks enabled), customed build.prop e init.d script files.

The "heavier" build.prop tweaks:<br />

power_supply.wakeup=enable

persist.sys.ui.hw=1

debug.sf.hw=1

dalvik.vm.checkjni=true

dalvik.vm.verify-bytecode=true

dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit

dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=y

Useless report init.d tweaks, there are stupid things respect to build.prop ones.

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Premised my device specifications, I'm having a "war" against System UI who freeze the entire system for a long time before goes to FC. After many full wipes, the same problem.

In the first middle of July I decided to reconfigure my phone at "workmanlike", knowing what to do, how and when.

According to a terrible ARHD experience in last summer, "two" reboots instead one, then the wizard, then Xposed Framework, kernel and mods, while at last I did all the rest.

Initially I was moved by the greatful performance, but after a week, regressions started with the already cited System UI crashes, that make the everyday life an hell. Now the problem is extended to other apps.

Main apps sometimes require a long time to be opened, showing a black screen until a FC.

Enabling the view of all the ANR dialogs, I noted that Facebook at casual times is not responding and at bootup it slow system for many seconds. I always hated Facebook Android development, performance and battery saving are critical for everyone.

Since some days also cLock have lots of FCs, and upgrading from M8 to M9 I did a mistake: I reflashed Gapps, causing another "collection" of FCs of Google services such Play Services and Play Framework, because I replaced part of updates with old versions... so I think and I hope I'm wrong, less problems is better!

I need your help to know causes of my terrible instability, I know also a fast, powerful but rare S3 in my hands, I want know what let it to be so useless and enervating.

I did lots of resolutive attempts, e.g. wipe cache and Dalvik cache, do data restore and wipe with Titanium Backup, but nothing. [emoji26]
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Go back to a stock rom after a full wipe. If still the same then your nand has bad blocks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone98RC:
According to eMMC BrickBug Check no bad blocks were found, nor affected by Sudden Death.

Why should I turn to the stock firmware?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pulseuser:
+1

Return to a good stock firmware and don't install any mods to see if it is stable for maybe a day or two. Then one by one install the mods that you use. (Too many mods could cause stability issues due to some conflicts I'm sure you know). And it could even be one of them that is causing issues/or cyanogenmod has stability problems

Sent from a "Galaxy" far, far away with my Ultra Ray Gun
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone98RC:
Try the stock firmware is useless:

CyanogenMod 11 since some months is considered stable, I've no enough time to make lots of attempts as you require to me.

CyanogenMod 10.2 stable... terrible: fast reboots cause bootloops, camera is unstable and there are some FCs in certain conditions.

I've asked your help for exhaustive answers, you should know what can be conflictual better than me, i.e. some build.prop line.

Undo phone to the original state (rooted or unrooted) is only a waste of time.

I know that there isn't any hardware or logical issue on my device, I know that CyanogenMod 11 is an almost stable rom... so where I "concretely" wrong? If you need more info about my device hardware/configuration... simply ask [emoji106]
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Shrugs and walks away...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone98RC:
I've not understood your answer.
[Security Discussion] Jadeus:
If you want to be in control of your privacy download Pemsys, a permission manager app for Android.

Features:

Manage permissions granted by apps already installed

Get notifications when new permissions are being requested

Keep an eye on apps that may be accesing your data

Filter apps by permissions

No root. No ads. Free.

It is already available in Google Play.

website: pemsysandroid.appspot.com/[/url]
[Security Discussion] traceless:
Sounds interesting, bitte before I try it I'd like to know how this works. Is it another AppOps client? Does it need 4.3?
[Security Discussion] Jadeus:
It is not an AppOps client, you cannot disable/enable permissions for each app. It has support for Android 3.0-4.4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmortum:
Hello!

Last night I attempted to flash my Note II SCH-I605 that was running 4.4.2.

This is what it came loaded with.

I used this custom load to flash it: root66_VZW_stock_system.tar.md5

Now it will only boot to the Samsung Galaxy Note II splash Screen.

After this it only goes to a black screen and will not boot any further.

I did not know that this version of Android has a locked boot loader.

I have tried to clear Cache and Erase Data/Factory reset.

It ALWAYS says "Error" right before rebooting.

Now, when I attempt to flash it back this is what I get:

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

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

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> I605VRUEMJ9_I605VZWEMJ9_I605VRUEMJ9_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/005> Initialzation..

<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/005> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/005> sboot.bin

<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/005> FAIL!

<ID:0/005>

<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed.

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

Can someone please walk me through the steps on how to get this resolved?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] exmortum:
Fixed it!!!

I followed jadon0827's advice in this posting:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2788925

And my Phone booted back up!

Now I just have to pour through everything on here to see if I can root my phone from a 4.4.2 stock image.

Unless someone would like to save me some time and tell me if it can be done for sure...
[General Topics] Menneisyys:
It was a few months ago that I reviewed the non-EDGE-based, old version of the vertical shoot’m up Burning Armor. Now, the EDGE-based version has been released.

Availability, compatibility

It’s available here and compatible with WM2003+ platforms. Note that it’s not compatible with previous operating systems, despite what the information page of the game states (I’ve tested it on my PPC2k2 iPAQ h3660: a no-go). The game costs $19.95 and there is a demo version available.

I’ve tested it on my several Pocket PC’s (Pocket Loox 720, Dell Axim x51v, WM5 HP iPAQ hx4700, HTC Wizard); I haven’t encountered any problems. It’s only on the non-overclocked HTC Wizard that controlling the ship with the stylus (and constantly keeping the touchscreen depressed) resulted in a decidedly lower speed (as with many other titles); this, however, wasn’t that big a problem.

(Note that you must enable stylus control in Options – the game defaults to D-pad based controls, which, in my opinion, isn’t the best with the game genre.)

Gameplay

It’s really better than the previous version. It’s perfectly playable even on high-resolution (VGA) devices, while the previous version had serious speed problems on them, making most models useless for playing the title on.

Music, sound effects

The quality of the music is also definitely better than in the previous version: the sampling frequency seems to have been increased.

Overall

Give this version a try if you are into the genre. While it’s certainly overpriced (now that the, technically, still superior and more enjoyable Skyforce Reloaded only costs $5 at ClickGamer, $20 is, in my opinion, a bit on the expensive side), you may find it worth paying for if you, for example, have already played through Skyforce Reloaded. If you, on the other hand, have never played the latter, give it a try first.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bustinstugots24:
Is there a way to download additional don't types of than what stock offers? Right Now stock offers 6 fonts. Thanks!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
There are more available on LG smartworld.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bustinstugots24:
How does one get to this smart world???
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
http://us.lgworld.com/mobile
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bustinstugots24:
Had no idea about this. Why didn't LG include this in stock. Guess it's better for less bloat
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrikdk551:
Hi everyone

i have a error at when i boot up - unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped .

i cant get into the phone .because when I'm doing the final setup it just kept going back to the final setup.

I have try all! but i cant rest the phone or put new rom on it.

and when i try to Unlock the (lock state) i get i unlocked - but when the phone is restarting is got locked again.

I have trying to use - Android ToolKit and Nexus Root Toolkit but i cant get ,my phone to work.

I hope some can help me. And tell me what to do.

thx a lot for your help
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
First, don't use a tool kit, use fastboot. But if you're unlocking the bootloader and it doesn't unlock it's most likely your emmc has failed and you'll have to rma the device

Boot into the bootloader and from your pc with your device connected to it type

fastboot oem unlock

Then reboot. If your device is not unlocked it's most likely bad emmc.

See rootSU's roll up sticky in the general forum of none of this makes sense to you
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
all this x3
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
x4!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
A little ninja action:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLastSidekick:
x5!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
X........k........you get it. ;)
[Sprint LG G3] Will32:
For anyone that doesn't know, [MENTION=2673389]justinswidebody[/MENTION] has purchased a sprint variant LG G3 for no other reason than to send it by mail to [MENTION=1157052]thecubed[/MENTION] in an attempt to get us root. Proof is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54829826

To me, this is amazing! I wish I could afford to help him with his expense, but I'm not sure I can at the moment.

What I can do is make this thread in hopes that he will post right under me (if he noticed the mention) so that myself, and everyone that wants sprint root can at least give him a thanks for what he did.

But that's not all hes good for, he's also said that he thinks he has a tether mod for us once we get root.

I'm glad you got a g3 Justin, and thanks again!

Please wait on posting here so that justin has a chance to grab 2nd post and hopefully we can rack up his thanks meter and get him some donations.
[Sprint LG G3] justinswidebody:
Well thank you very much for the shout out. I really appreciate it.

I don't think I can get us tether.... I know I can. :) looks like my traditional method should work. But if not I Will find a new way. :)

Once again thank you
[Sprint LG G3] thecubed:
Yes, super special thanks to [MENTION=2673389]justinswidebody[/MENTION] for that - without him we'd still be weeks behind for Sprint root, rather than just a day away.

You're the man!
[Sprint LG G3] generalkrank:
Yes thank you justin you are the s*** and i really appreciate what you have don't for the sprint community, me included. Who knows how much longer it might have taken if you didn't get our devs what they needed to perform the magic that they do. ( i say magic because its beyond my scope of comprehension)

Edit**** sorry cubed special thanks to you too for you time your a man among boys
[Sprint LG G3] D-FUSE:
That is because my boy Justin is da man!!!

using my bs non rooted G3 on Sprint
[Sprint LG G3] justinswidebody:
Iomonster thank you and the team for all you guys have done. I can't wait to be able to enjoy my phone
[Sprint LG G3] fgcchevy:
Justin is

Sent from my Lg G3
[Sprint LG G3] thunderwagn:
Big props to you Justin? and to cubed as well.?
[Sprint LG G3] holmescal:
Thanks so much Justin & thecubed
[Sprint LG G3] Rally187:
This is awesome. You guys are incredible. Thanks so much! i will pitch in at the beginning of the week and thats a rally promise
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] simian253:
Hello,

I am having an issue with my acro s it will not go into debug mode when connect to my pc any more, it was working fine but has just stopped. I have checked the developer options and it is selected there. I have tried in different version of Windows and no joy so I think its the phone that has the problem. I am running stock 4.1 and rooted. Please help.

Simon
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevev:
I have 2 Nexus 5 devices. The one my wife owns does not like the latest Google Camera apk from the Play Store. I have re-flashed the stock 4.4.4 ROM from Google as well as verify the checksum of the image. The stock camera apk that comes with the ROM works fine. I have tried booting into safemode and finally got the new camera working. Unfortunately after booting to normal mode the camera crashes again. I have cleared cache and it did not help. Also sometimes when she calls me her voice sounds garbled and jittery a little. The bootloader is unlocked but no root access. My question is could the unlocked bootloader be the issue? Or is there something else I can try? Thank You in advance. :)

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bm19981217:
I don't think it's the unlocked bootloader. I'm running LiquidSmooth (with unlocked BL of course) and it works fine
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vin4yak:
Bootloader status doesn't have any impact on camera or any system files for that matter.. Since you've already flashed factory images and still face this camera issue, it could be a hardware issue.. Do you get these crashes while using other camera apps as well?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevev:
I tried a bunch of camera apps from the Play Store and none of them crashed. Is it possible that the camera has bad firmware?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wotta:
On paper (or browser) the Z1 Compact looks almost perfect for me. I'm a normal sized person, so the S5, HTC One M8, LG G3 and OnePlus One are a bit wide for comfortable one-handed use. I don't care about the reduced resolution; there's still plenty there. But... no 700MHz band, so no LTE on AT&T.

I'm on Verizon (which I despise) currently, and will switch off it. Does this phone work well with LTE on T-Mobile, and has T-Mobile's suckage reduced enough for it to be a usable carrier now, or should I stick to a phone that will work well with AT&T? (And if you think it's worth T-Mobile, how much and where has your T-Mobile experience been?)
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schlengge:
If you ask me this strongly depends on which region you live in.

So I dont know if anybody can help you in an international forum.

For me LTE works like a charm but I live in Germany so....
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steanne:
i switched from verizon to t-mobile in philly when i got this phone. 4g works fine. also, there's an internet-only $30/month unlimited data and text with 100 minutes plan: you'll have to order an activation kit from the t-mobile website.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camaro322hp:
I've been using this phone on T-Mobile for about 5 months now. LTE works fine, but H+ is adequate for my needs so LTE is switched off most of the time. As far as the T-Mobile network, coverage around populated areas has been fine. However, once you get out in the un-populated areas, coverage often drops to 2G or nothing at all. Verizon is superior in this regard. For me, it's not a huge deal and I'll take the $ savings over coverage everywhere. But if coverage outside of the cities is important to you, then I would not recommend T-Mobile.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericnch:
A better question would be: Is T-Mobile worthy of being on the awesome Xperia Z1 Compact?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruffblaza:
Hello i have been a very long time user of xda on all my android phones, in the past i have had this odd problem with my galaxy s2 it would do the mysterious "charging but not charging problem" basically i would leave the phone in charge at like 45% and come back an hour later only to find out the logo says its charging but it actually dropped to 24% which was strange at the end after months of changing the cables it ended up happening only "some times" later on i figured lets just change that usb power adapter and what do you know problem solved. But here is my new problem i just recently got an xperia z1 which i have a lot of usb cables for i started using the original cable and it charged as normal, then i was using my cheap cables and i noticed instead of the problem the galaxy gave me this one gave me a new problem where it would be at 61% when i leave it and 20 minutes later i come and its at 62% i put the original cable back and it worked like normal again so i guessed this is a similar problem like the galaxy except with the cable instead. Now 2 months later i am still using the original cable and i have this different problem it would go from 50% to 80% in 40 minutes and then be stuck like that for an hour an then move along like normal. I dont know what the problem is now because this is original cable and original power adapter. Any ideas?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrash:
I know that Xperia S had that, some kind of protection for overcharging.

It would stay at 88% most of the time, because first time it charge to 100 and then stop to charge and let battery drain some power. So maybe z1 have some similar stuff, but I didn't recognize that on mine. For me he stop around 96% mostly.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Duvel999:
Use only the original Sony cable.

I had problems also.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2842707

Sent by my Z1 with XDA Fax
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olokos:
You may have a bad reception and live in a hot place.

If your reception is bad then the phone draws tons of power. Quick fix: flight mode.

If your device is really hot when charging then the charging current is limited in order not to damage the phone. Try charging it in a cool place.

If this won't help either then buy a charger with 2A=2000mah output current.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcsy:
Would always recommend using better cables to charge... Original Sony cable does +1500 ma charge and cheap cables does +300

That's your 20 minutes per % lol

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Tapatalked from HTC EVO 3D GSM

CM JB 4.4.2 | 29 July 2014 | NOOP
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olokos:
I don't think that using genuine cable does any difference in Sony devices like it does in Samsung. Actually just using shorter, but thicker cable than genuine would improve charging speed.