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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Dmon:
Don't know if this will do it for everyone since I'm not sure if there are several issues, however...

When I bought my Wizard I had superb reception for months but over time it became really lousy. So bad I was about to buy a new phone. However I popped the lid where the antenna is you to take a look at it and when I put it back the reception was excellent again. Didn't give it much thought, I was just glad my problem was solved.

Recently however I have had sporadic problems with my reception and I noticed that I sometimes lost reception (PhoneAlarm tells me if I'm not holding it) and I often had just one or two bars. I noticed that if I squeezed my phone (in anger) I immediately got better reception. For me the problem was the two springy things connecting to the antenna, they didn't always touch. I popped the lid and loosened the antenna foil with a knife, then i slid a piece of paper under it and then pressed the foil back in place. I have had full reception ever since.

I hope this info helps someone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SamSungBear:
Is it possible to run a ROM like CM11 or omni on a rooted S4 AT&T with a SS recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jmjoyas:
Right now it is not possible to run AOSP/AOKP ROMS even with SS. We can only run TouchWiz based and GPE ROMs.

All you need to know - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] stingerbs:
I'm hoping for something to be released soon but at the moment it isn't possible.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MajorBen1997:
I've been trying to install ROM's all night, from ARHD to Bigxie's Google Edition ROM and they all flash but it always gets stuck on the HTC screen and then just bootloops. The only one that worked was CM11 but then it didn't recognize that I had a SIM card in so I can't use that one! What can I do to solve this? Also, my phone says Verizon on the back so shouldn't it be an m7VZW?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Yes make sure to only use roms that work on the Verizon version. As for the sim card as it is the secondary network mode you may find issues. Mainly as there was no gpe version for Verizon. So be careful
[Moto X Q&A] robbie0228:
can't connect to the rsd
[Moto X Q&A] Travisdroidx2:
Can you manually boot up into boot loader mode? If so flash the system.img manually.

---------- Post added at 05:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:34 AM ----------

Method 2 from here.

http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/guide-moto-x-return-to-100-stock-using-t2446515
[Moto X Q&A] robbie0228:
problem solved, Thanks
[General Topics] wjoa:
Xda Good friends, a few days ago I got the root access on my samsung galaxy s3 smartphone mini GT-i8190. During my time of use I used the famous task killer to optimize and close the apps background, but I heard about an app called Greenify, I wonder what the difference between a task killer and this one? .. What would be better? which would give me better results? ..

Thank you

Sincerely WJOA
[General Topics] veldom:
Task killer for Android <= 2.3.6

Greenify for Android >= 4.0.0
[General Topics] Stuart Little:
Greenify, because of SWAG :p

I'm using greenify for almost a year on all my devices and I still love it ;)

November/December will my HTC One M8 arrive !
[General Topics] fdm861:
Task Killer have Auto-Killer?!

Greenify has.
[General Topics] methuselah:
well as somebody said

greenify for 4.0 and below task killer.

well greenify work on different concept..it hybernate your app. i mean it force close them...whereas task killer just end task. the ended task cause instability and its better not to end tasks..coz they will again restart
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tampqq:
Hi, i'm using N8010 device and I have a problem about emoji.

My question is is it possible to have color emojis on my device? like in android 4.4 kitkat.

If so please guide me or just send me the link.

Thankyou
[Micromax A110] rohit4kk:
Anyone plz tell me how can I add wallpaper chooser for rom??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] breakneat:
As the title states, I need to root my NC5 phone without using TowelRoot.

The process went as follows - I was upgrading my firmware to run the new Hyperdrive 18 ( requiring NC5 firmware and I was on MJ7 ) using Surges method to keep root and update everything but the bootloader. I forgot to flash the rooted NC5 firmware first. I now have Hyperdrive 18 running on a stock NC5 system. I also did not get a chance to flash the wifi module, so I have no wifi with wich to use TowelRoot, and I'm also stuck on a stock NC5 system.

Is there any help for me?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] liljoe727:
Why do you not want to use Towelroot.com? It is by far the easiest option and this would not have happened.

Jesus loves you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] npjohnson:
Go to towelroot.com on your pc and click the lamda. It will download tr.apk, then just email this to yourself and open it. Violla.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neontc:
Or put it on an SD card since it seems like Internet connection is an issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] breakneat:
An update first.

I'm deployed and in port in Dubai, UAE. I was quite intoxicated while I attempted this. I didn't flash the rooted firmware and then want able to flash the WiFi module because I don't have SafeStrap installed anymore. So now I'm left with a phone running the new hyper drive 18 on unrooted NC5 firmware. Half of the neat features just don't work since I don't have root.

Towel Root requires internet for some reason. So im stuck in that respect. I've downloaded the latest version of it just in case it works offline now, one can only hope

Thanks again for all of the quick responses!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nothinghf:
This version work in NC5 without internet connection.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ymDroid:
Yup sounds like Internet connection is the issue.

Neontc gave you the answer.

Download the apk files to a PC, connect your phone to the computer as a MTP device, and transfer the files to your sdcard.

Make sure Allow Unknown is checked under security in your settings, and open, and install apks using any file manager.

Download Safe Strap 3.72 and Towel root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] breakneat:
At this point, I have most everything that I think I need - I'd just like to have my wifi working again. If I can download the complete stock NC5 firmware, I'll try to reflash at that point and re-try to install SS and TR, then maybe Hyperdrive 18 again. Thanks in advance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bornthor:
The problem with this is that after you install towelroot and hit "make it rain" it tells you it needs access to the internet.
[Nexus 5 General] dhinged:
The Nexus 5 looks and runs great, but everything's so big I feel like I'm using a toy phone. The PPI really would have made more sense on a 4.5/4.7" screen (or even a 4" screen for us small-handed), and for a budget phone I would have expected 720p (pixels) resolution. This would use less battery which would require less battery so it could have kept about the same thinness (but I'm perfectly happy adding thickness and heft for more battery).

I don't understand Google's thinking behind this phone. It's a great-quality phone, but it's just too big for the things on the screen. They look great about 10 inches away but normal distance from my face, about 7", everything just looks oversized. I feel like at this screen size they could have added another column or row to the launcher and had them match up to the bottom dock shortcuts.

I know how to change the PPI, but I would just more like to know what made Google decide to go with such huge icons and fonts on such a large screen with full HD (1080p) resolution and not add any more real estate to things like Chrome or Settings or anything.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
You don't change the PPI, you change the density lol :p

The Nexus 5 isn't really meant to be as much of a "budget phone" as it is a "developer device" (officially for AOSP, and unofficially on here) or "reference device for other OEMs", hence why it has a 1080p display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. It just happens to be cheaper as they also cut some corners (and probably to make it burn a smaller hole in developer's wallets).

Anyways, nothing looks "oversized" without changing the density. Most (if not, then all) Android devices have the density set relative to the resolution (NOT physical screen size nor pixels per inch) as well as what sort of device it is (phone or tablet). It's a standard, not "whatever the OEM wants", if an OEM wants something to appear smaller or larger in their bloated system apps, they're going to modify the app itself, not change the density (which affects ALL apps rather than just the intended). I also have a Note 3 (which I never use and just gathers dust), it's the same resolution but much larger, and the stock density on that is also set to 480 (same as the Nexus 5). I also know that the HTC One (M8) and OnePlus One are also set to 480. Just about ANY Android phone with a 1080p display uses 480 (stock, at least), I don't know of one that doesn't.
[Nexus 5 General] teonagode:
Nova Launcher is the solution ;)
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
I liked more the Galaxy Nexus size. Based on my experience "width" is what matters for one-handed phones.

However....5" is not bad. The only f***** thing here is the resolution. 1080p is a waste for a simple 5" screen.

It must be something slightly bigger than 720 without jumping to 1080.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
I have no problem with the dpi [emoji4]
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
1080 isn't a waste at all. Its HD. If it makes sense on a 32" TV several feet away, it makes sense on a 5".screen several inches away. Its called "viewing distance".

Choosing some arbitrary resolution between 720 and 1080 is a silly idea. These resolutions are a global standard and media content is created to these standards. Choosing something win between would mean no content was optimised for our display so something would be lost in the downscaling or upscaling.

1080p is perfect for the distance you view it. If you sit 1 metre away from a 50" 1080p TV, it won't look HD. It will look lower blocky. That is because the pixels are literally bigger than a 32" TV of the same resolution. Its designed to be viewed from further away. As you move the TV further away, the image gets clearer as the pixels appear smaller.

All PPI is about is measuring the amount of pixels in an inch. This is a fixed value. A 1080 screen always has the same amount of pixels. This means the pixels are bigger on a bigger screen, so the PPI decreases. The smaller the PPI is, the further away you would expect to view it from.

1080p on a 5" screen would be ridiculous if the device was intended to be used at over 1 metre away though. Because that is beyond the optimum viewing distance. It would mean that the image again lost detail.

I think 2k and 4k on this size screen is over kill. But that's not because of these reasons. We would definitely notice a sharper image on the display. The problem is that there is a massive performance hit. The GPU works harder meaning its slower than it would be on a lower resolution. It uses battery because of this.since there is very little content, its not a worthwhile trade off at this time.

That said though, visually it would look better. The screen may need to be 6" to really get the benefit though. Otherwise the PPI would be too high for the viewing distance and your need to move the display closer than the screen closer than the usual distance to get the full effect

DPI is something entirely different. That's what causes the assets on screen (buttons, icons etc) to appear bigger or smaller.
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
Yeah I know all that. Just saying...1080 is a waste for a 5". A waste of GPU and resources.

We don't really need more than 330ppi on a Phone....

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Your first sentence directly contradicts your last sentence. If you understood optimal viewing distances you would know that we do need a higher PPI. Why should we be restricted to lower quality videos on a mobile phone?

Yes,it uses more resources to play higher resolution content. But its not a waste because a majority of content is at that resolution
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
Well at the distance I use the phone 330ppi is optimal!

I think 330 is ok for phones. Look at the iPhones they've a good screen without having 400+ PPI.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
Yeah sorry, when i said "phone" i was meant aproximately 5"... Not 4" or 6" or much more.

I was trying to say that I prefer a 5" screen with 720p than a 5" screen with 1080p. Regardless of the lose of quality.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Ok no worries.

As I say, it depends on how good your eyes are and how far away you hold your phone. 1080 is about right for a 5" screen if you have 20/20 vision and hold your phone an average distance from your face, so the 1080p resolution is the average for our phone.

So then this probably means that you hold your phone a little further away than average... and if you do that's fine. It just means that you're outside the bounds of what a Nexus 5 is catered for, which is the masses (average)

EDIT > I'm like you though, but with 1080. 1080 is great for me with a 5" screen. A higher resolution at that size would be almost pointless for me as I would need to hold it closer, so to get a 2k phone, I would need a bigger screen size as holding it closer isn't really an option.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Just thought I'd say I agree with you lol :p 1080p is enough on a phone, for most. On a tablet however, higher than 1080p would be pretty nice if the specifications support it decently.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Yeah. I also forgot to say that bigger than a 5" screen is also not an option for me as I cant reach everywhere one handed. So I cannot increase screen size and I cannot ergonomically reduce viewing distance, so I am stuck at 1080. With a tablet, one-handed operation wouldn't be a restriction, so I could increase screen size. My viewing distance would be largely the same, so the 1080p resolution could get blocky with a bigger screen if I don't increase the resolution.

Not sure what the next gen of phones I buy will offer. I'm possibly willing to go up to 5.5". BUT I don't think that increase in size would warrant an increase in resolution for me. So if OEM's start to make 2k the standard, I'm going to have a problem.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
The Nexus 5's 4.95" and 1080p already feels perfect.. I have a Note 3 and never use it since I hate the size (and not to mention being a Samsung product). I have a feeling that if newer devices are going to be larger, I'll be sticking with my Nexus 5 for a little longer.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
True that.. Note 2/3 have attractive amoled screens, but when it comes to an actual professional pure crisp and sharp screen nexus 5 is damm good.. Extremely sharp and natural colors
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
I think for a lot of people, 5" is the sweet spot.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
AMOLED.. Personally I think they're ugh. Mostly people who do nothing but Facebook/etc on their silly Samsung devices (aka the majority) say its better, but colour reproduction means nothing to them. Lol. I love the Nexus 5's screen.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Its a compromise. LCD is better colour reproduction but then Amoled have individual pixel lighting, meaning pure black saves energy and also can be used as a night clock without the entire backlight panel lighting up the room.

2 ways to address this.

1) Colour profiles for AMOLED.

2) LED backlighting like TV's for LCD
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
I love my lcd screen more than my friend's s4 amoled screen [emoji14].. Its colorful but not as sharp as that of nexus 5.. And whites are completely dead..
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
I don't see why it would be less sharp. Maybe the oversaturation of colours just makes it seem that way.I dont think there is an argument of sharpness between LCD and Amoled technologies...except maybe image retention
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
I said personally :p "Most" apps that I use don't even use pure black (nor have the option) so it doesn't always help. For a night clock I have a generic LED/LCD one (can't remember, hardly matters anyways lol) so not much point for me. May vary for others though. Again, personally.
[Nexus 5 General] ali262883:
More sharp because s4 has pentile arrangement.. And a greenish screen.. I hate that thing.. Viewing photos spoils the fun.. Everything looks cartoonist
[Nexus 5 General] peachpuff:
So much fail in this thread...
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Care to elaborate?
[Nexus 5 General] peachpuff:
Not from you, its the people you are providing your answers to who don't understand basic things.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Ah ok. i thought you meant my answers weren't accurate. Sorry for the presumption.
[Nexus 5 General] dhinged:
OK whatever it's called, I've seen that referenced as "PPI", "DPI", and now "density".

It seems like it's equally meant to be both as the Nexus One sold terribly partly due to its price and partly to its availability (online only, with no support). So the later iterations of the Nexus were made more available and had the price lowered (cut corners or not) to make it more appealing to the mass market especially since the carriers were less interested in it because Google didn't allow their bloatware on it (which is why Verizon wouldn't carry anything but the Galaxy Nexus which was experimental for both of them).

I don't know what you mean by "nothing looks oversized without changing the density". Everything on the Nexus 5 screen looks oversized relative to other phones, such as the Moto X, Droid RAZR MAXX (my previous phone), the Droid MAXX, the Samsung Galaxy S5, the HTC One M8... they all seem to have better relative-sized icons, text, lines, etc, and have more screen real-estate regardless of their screen size or resolution. The Nexus 5's 5" 1080p screen appears to be wasted on under-dense graphics that look good 10" or more away but appear unnecessarily large 7" or closer (remember this is subjective so when I say that it just means in my experience compared to other phones I've handled).

It doesn't matter if the OEM sets the density relative to the resolution and not the screen size; from what I've read, LG set the Nexus 5's original density higher (it was based on the G2) and Google requested it be set lower so everything appeared bigger on the screen. That means the OEM had their own definition of "properly sized" and Google specified it be "oversized".
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
This is an open post, not directed at anyone in particular. Its just info

PPI and DPI are different things. PPI is how many physical pixels there are in an inch of screen. DPI is an android scaling mechanism used to make assets (buttons, icons etc) smaller or larger

Lower DPI makes assets smaller. Higher DPI makes assets bigger.

It is supposed to be proportionate to screen size and resolution. If a 10“ tablet has the same DPI as a 5" phone at the same resolution, everything would be twice as big at the same viewing distance because the 10" screen is twice as big (meaning the PPI is halved). This means no additional screen real estate is gained from the bigger screen so DPI is used to scale those assets to appear a similar size visually as they would on the phone to the user ...whilst having more space on the screen for other stuff.

I personally feel the DPI for the N5 is too high. I set mine from 480 to 370 to be much smaller to meet my needs.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
[MENTION=4055041]dhinged[/MENTION] You have one of two choices

1) Unlock bootloader and change dpi to a lower number and use a different launcher

2)Sell the phone and get another with 720p screen like the Z1 compact.

Ranting about big icons does not do you any favours. Be proactive and do something about it if you have a massive problem with it.
[Nexus 5 General] dhinged:
Thanks for the explanation rootSU.

Thanks for the instruction step #1 topgeardave and the snarky pointless step #2.

My original post not only ranted, but asked why Google made the decision (in XDA users' opinions) to make things bigger on the Nexus 5. I've gotten a lot of good information here, but your post was mostly just snarky.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
I don't know why they did it. I suppose its subjective whether it looks good or not. Perhaps then team charged with that task thought that size looked best.
[Nexus 5 General] dhinged:
Well Google obviously thought it looked better bigger than what LG thought was reasonable. I'm of course assuming somebody at Google just thought it looked better; that's not really speculation or reasoning or informed information.

Of course I'm not expecting somebody to say "Here's why" (though it would be nice if there was someone in the know who could post here), just for insight or speculation or reasoning from people more educated on Google/Android hardware/software than I am (saying they probably just thought it looked good is not an educated guess, sorry rootSU).
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
It's as educated as you'll get here. No one here knows. There are no educated guesses. We either know why or we don't and anything in between is speculation.

What I do know is that products are sent to focus groups and they have input into how a product should be. So yes, my guess is as educated as they come and if by your reasoning, that is not educated then educated guesses cannot exist.

Here are a couple of things to factor in.

1) Why do you need to know?

2) How does knowing help you any?

3) Only Google knows the answer - ask google

4) We are not google

If my answer is insufficient, go straight to the horses mouth because I 100% guarantee you that if it is not information released into the public domain, then no one here knows the answer
[Nexus 5 General] sinkster:
I'd imagine the reason for the N5 being bigger than previous Nexus models is the general trend for bigger phones. As has been mentioned, the Nexus 5's main raison d'etre is for development of Android; while we hate to admit it, the huge majority of android users will own Samsung phones, have no idea what rooting is for, and basically go along with 'bigger is better' because of marketing. While Google can determine the OS features and design direction, they have minimal input to any other android phone's physical spec. I'm pretty sure that future versions of android will cater for ever expanding screens, and that future Nexus devices will reflect this.

Personally, the Nexus 5 is the limit for me size-wise, though no doubt in the future it'll seem relatively compact (just like my X10, Xperia Arc, and HTC OneX do).
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
Yeah me too I'm having some (very lesser) problems with "one handed" usage. I don't use a case because the resultant width will be too much for my hand.

Of course this is all subjective, it depends on the user's hand size.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Indeed. Sometimes to reach the very top-right corner, I have to jiggle the phone's position in my hand a little. I wish you could choose where the menu assets went on screen
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhinged:
I bought the Nexus 5 to test apps on, and have left it sitting to test the battery (no non-stock apps installed), and it's been going for 3 days and is at 70% battery. That's phenomenal to me. I haven't activated it on a carrier yet, so maybe that's the reason, but Cell Standby in Battery Usage is saying about 15%, which is about normal on other phones I've seen.

I'm used to Verizon devices which last a day for phones and about 4 days for a tablet, so maybe it's just Verizon.

Can someone clarify on how good this battery actually is? Is it just that it's not attached to a carrier yet?