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[One (M8) General] KidCarter93:
My favourite launcher on the M7 is definitely the stock HTC launcher, especially since Sense 5.5 (I think) when BlinkFeed had an option to remove it, rather than having to flash the mod to remove it.

It's been since we've had the option to remove BlinkFeed that I've actually enjoyed and found it more useful to use it.

I do also have the pro versions of ADW, Apex, Nova and TSF Shell though so at least I can always switch to them whenever I fancy.

Talking about switching to a custom launcher, I usually switch to one of them every 3-4 months and stick with it for a few weeks, as I like to customize the hell out of my homescreens from time to time and they're obviously better for doing just that.

ADW isn't as relevant these days though as it simply hasn't got the customizability of Apex and Nova.

I don't have a favourite between Apex and Nova though as they both offer great usability and customization and I tend to switch seamlessly between them, dependant on what kind of set up I'm working on.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
BLINKFEED/SENSE!!!!!!

If i haven't told u guys already hehe :p:silly:
[One (M8) General] A7llaman:
Sense / hands down[emoji4]
[One (M8) General] gtg465x:
Sense for me. I would likely use Google Now Launcher if the app closing animation wasn't an annoying slow fade out. Not sure why it does that, because Google Now Launcher has a different (and better) app closing animation on Nexus devices. Sense must interfere with it somehow. Oh, and Sense also screws with the nav and status bars when running Google Now Launcher, so they also don't look as good as they do on Nexus devices.
[One (M8) General] GedBlake:
Sense/Blinkfeed launcher, IMHO, is the best.

...and this is coming from a guy whose a fully paid up member of the Nova Premium club?, with around 20+ paid for icon packs running on other Android devices.

The Sense/Blinkfeed launcher may lack all the configurable bells and whistles of Nova and other launchers, but it just looks better (icons seem to have better definition/resolution) and it just feels incredibly smooth. And of course it has Blinkfeed iteself, which I find very useful for quickly checking my Twitter feed as well as keeping me up to date with news stories (most of which are Android/Tech related).

The Sense/Blinkfeed launcher also has that famous animated HTC flip clock widget, which has been endlessly plagiarised by others... probably a bit sad I know, but it was that widget that impelled me to buy my very first Android device, the HTC Wildfire, back in 2010, (upgrading from a Motorola RAZR), 'cos I thought it just looked cool?. And I still think it does today, on the M8?.

Anyway, just my thoughts.

Rgrds,

Ged.
[One (M8) General] jambo89liam:
Yahoo Aviate for me, simple and easy to use.
[One (M8) General] thefoss:
What solutions have you found for using Blinkfeed WITH a non stock launcher? Only thing that's help me back from flashing AOSP or GPE is how much I use blinkfeed
[One (M8) General] Jiyeon90:
Nothing comes close to nova since it lets you customize anything
[One (M8) General] bit1:
I'm split here. I personally use Nova but primarily it's for the ability to infinitely scroll. I tend to have about five screens and BlinkFeed always being the far left stopping point always bugs me. Same for Google Launcher and Now screen. Can you customize Sense to allow infinite scrolling? If so, I'd probably jump back on the Sense bandwagon since I feel it is the smoothest when I tried using it
[One (M8) General] panoulil:
Action launcher! I only use one screen for my most used icons. I then have an alphabetical list on the left side. Love it!
[One (M8) General] mcwups1:
If you're in love with Blinkfeed, try Flow.
[One (M8) General] raviluke:
HTC sense is amazing. I love blinkfeed but recently I realised it was the cause of my heavy battery drain. So I took it out but I'm still on sense.
[One (M8) General] benj!:
I'm always trying new launchers but always end up crawling back to Nova.

I do wish Nova offered shadows for icons and the snappier app animation that Blinkfeed has, though.
[One (M8) General] jshamlet:
I almost hate to say it, but I've been sucked in by Themer. It still needs some polish and optimization, but I absolutely love how configurable everything is. I have created three or four themes so far, though I am starting to think I may end up creating different themes for different moods/ seasons.

About the only irritating issue is that it is large enough to get booted out of memory periodically, and it takes a second or two for it to restore itself.
[One (M8) General] JTC303:
I really liked Themer but the lag/loading was too much to bare for me, is it any better? sticking with nova prime until someone can surpass it (imo)

[JTC One M8]
[One (M8) General] popoyaya:
A nice trick with Nova is to install the screen off and lock app and set it to run when you double tap the screen in Nova gestures. No more reaching for the power button! You can even set a nice crt off animation.
[One (M8) General] jshamlet:
Unfortunately, no. I finally got tired of the lag and constant loading as well. I'm back on the stock Blinkfeed launcher for now, but I may try Nova again. I had it on my old phone for a while, and it was pretty nice.

A shame, Themer is incredibly nice, they just need to seriously address the performance concerns.
[One (M8) General] modros:
KK Launcher works fine for me
[Asus Transformer TF700] vnomad:
I'm trying to flash TWRP as a step to installing KitKat but I'm getting stuck booting into fastboot/bootloader trying to install the TWRP Recovery.

After I've installed the adb and fastboot files (15sec ADB Installer v1.3) I connect my tablet and open command in the directory folder and when I type "fastboot devices" all I get back is:

C:\adb

What am I doing wrong? I already have TWRP.blob inside the folder directory but I can't use fastboot to install it because it is not showing my device

I installed 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.3

I installed it on Win 7 64bit Lenovo G560 laptop

I unlocked the tablet myself using the Asus Unlock utility

I only have USB 2.0

I'm not sure if the tablet is in fastboot because I'm not cold starting it. I'm just connecting it to my PC and then opening a command window inside the adb files folder C:/adb

My tablet is running on Android JB 4.2.1 Build 10.6.1.14.10

I started the bootloader to get into fastboot and when it does I'm getting this message

"key driver not found...booting OS

Android cardhu-user bootloader (1.00 e) released by "WW_epad-10.6.1.14.10-20130801" A03

Starting Fastboot USB download protocol"

as well as the three bootloader icons

What can I do now because typing "fastboot devices" is returning nothing and typing "fastboot continue" or "fastboot reboot" just brings up the message "< waiting for device > " but nothing happens beyond this.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Open Device Manager on your PC. Near the top you should find an entry for a fastboot connected device (your tablet needs to be connected via USB in fastboot mode and yes, you are there when you see the three icons). If there's a yellow triangle next to it, you do not have the correct driver.

Try the ones from this post or try the tool, it's fastboot with training wheels ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2646279

If the driver checks out ok (no yellow triangle) you may have an incompatible USB cable. Is it the original charging cable?
[Asus Transformer TF700] vnomad:
In Device Manager the ASUS is no longer showing a yellow triangle and it appears to have the right drivers installed. The problem I'm having now is that when I uninstall the drivers for the Asus TF700 in Device Manager I reconnect the device and Windows (7) automatically installs the same drivers. I have even tried "Updating the Drivers" by navigating to the folder where I have (correct) Windows Drivers provided in thread above but I receive a message that device has the most up to date drivers (paraphrasing). I have also tried to do the same thing by navigating to a folder where I have Google Universal Drivers 0.73 installed but again I cannot seem to install them.

How can I override Windows from automatically installing the other drivers or is there a system folder I could send the correct drivers to when installing.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] futureshock:
Hello...

now in ms voice command 1.6 should be the option available that the commands you say and answers comes in the bluetooth headset...

but i have no change to hear there anything or say something...

is there any fix out there or anyone with the same problem??? maybe its a headset problem too???

please help
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Moskus:
You'll find the sollution somewhere in this thread: (Somewhere around page 9 if I remember correctly)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=283412
[General Questions and Answers] bpy13:
Hello guys

I am using HTC desire 816 dual sim for couple of months and faced the problem of internal storage as it has only 8GB. Than I rooted it and installed 'Foldermount' but faced kitkat sdcard issues. I fixed with some apps though it doesnt fix permanently. But still I cant move any data or obb folder to sdcard. actually i can move it with es file explrer or using pc but the app doesnt recognize it.

So friends please give me a quick suggestions or solutions otherwise I have to sell the phone.

Hoping for the best solution.
[General Questions and Answers] Killwish:
Sorry bro but I didn't get, what do you want to do now?

IF you phone have some problem then firest do a factory reset, if it don't solve the problem then flash stock rom.

And there are many apps to do stuff like folder mount.

but please explain your problem,...
[General Questions and Answers] bpy13:
Transfer obb to Ext_SD

My main problem is I cant move my game data/obb files to my external SD card. I tried a bunch of apps like GL to SD, apps2sd, directory bind etc other than foldermount but failed every time.

Ok now the option is to do factory reset or flash stock rom......though i used iPhone for 4 years and jailbreak and other things was a very easy things for me but I am very much new in ANDROID.

So i need some idea about how to do flash stock rom and factory reset and how these can help moving apps data to external sd card.

May be I have explained my problem.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Killwish:
okay Bro,

I have a thread regrading folder mount.

read it here http://xdaforums.com/android/help/how-to-foldermount-t2828552

and you can factory reset your device ..

go to settings-> accounts-> backup and reset-> factory data reset

and if you want to flash rom , I don't have much info about flashing rom to HTC. but you there is a thread of custom rom for HTC Desire 816 dual sim. ask about it there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2712315

good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Machinegunjoe:
Alright guys, I downloaded NC2 kernel and FINALLY flashed alliance rom , at first it was all fine, it flashed quicklly and I got to looking around the rom and noticed when my phone screen times out and I go to turn it back on with the home button it doesnt work AT ALL I can use the home button while my phone is on doing any normal task, but when I go to push it to light my phone up to swipe it , I get nothing
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMcGuire:
If the mods don't delete this ------ I'll post the fix (which I'm sure the OP found):

Go to Settings --> Custom Settings --> Lockscreen Mods --> Wake with Home Key (make sure that's unchecked) - so it says: Home Wake Enabled.

The rom came with that disabled on a clean flash. I originally thought I broke something when this happened to me, lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tensa Zangetsu Hollow:
I have a doubt, if for example my s2 is sph-710bst, can install a firmware to him sph-710 sprint u other firmware?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Surj138:
Yes you can, although you might need to make carrier-specific changes to get working MMS
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gil81:
I had the boost variant..now its my mothers..lol

But yes you can flash any sprint rom just fine..i also found that i had better service with sprint modems. Although it only goes one way with the modems. Boost can use sprint..but sprint i dont think can use boost.

And you will need to change your apn's to have data and mms working. There are different ways to do this, depending if you flash touchwiz or a cm, aokp, aosp based rom.

A quick google should supply the boost apn settings… as i dont remember all of them. And there are guides, myself and others here to help with the how to if you need it.

There was a zip file to fix boost apns at one time.. but i think it became outdated or unusable..as i had it but always just edited them myself. Its very easy.

Link to the old mms fix zip for boost. Not sure if its still viable. But my mother has this device and i will be at her house next monday. So i can post her mms settings then..if you need them.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedirkalater:
cant get captivate into download mode now, but I have in the past.? weird to say the least. This phone actually even had cyanogenmod 7 on it at one time but it was a nightly and lots of things were glitchy so I took it back to stock rom with ODIN one click. I finally got it rooted with one click root again yesterday that I found on youtube but couldnt install rom manager due to parsing issue incompatibilities with my version of the android market and 2.1 eclair. Rom manager was not on my version of android market so I'm pretty lost as to how to get this phone back in order. I have the ODIN one click program and was going to go back to stock but now I cant get it into download mode for some reason. I have tried holding every button and removing battery and connecting USB while standing on my head, LOL.??!! is there something you can do while trying to root a phone that can disable the ability to get into download mode? Have I broke it for good?What I'm trying to do is root and install recovery like clockworkmod and maybe one of cyanogenmods stable roms. or some type Jelly bean rom. I am currently still at 2.1 (update-1) android. Tried Kies and it would never connect with my phone on my windows 7 PC so I couldnt update to 2.3.5. and tried to do an OTA update to 2.3.5 and it said and I quote that I had used all my attempts to update and had to wait 24 hrs and try again!?

I have found several good tutorials on how to root and install CWM from android 2.3.5 but havent found alot of tutorials that give instructions on how to go from 2.1 android. There is sooooo much out there online on these phones that it's confusing and I'm stuck and all I want to do is wipe the phone out completely, root, clockworkmod and install a stable rom. Phone is now stuck saying twlauncher has stopped unexpectedly not working I'm stuck please help if you can. HOT MESS HERE!
[XDA Assist] Unixman0x0:
After googling day and night with no results i am posting this thread to resolve karbonn a90 pattern lock issue. I've tried many softwares and installed karbonn drivers to boot into recovery mode or flash my device but i was failed to get any recovery mode or a successful flash. Please help me friends! :(
[XDA Assist] Darth:
Hi,

Many times when this happens, you do need to wipe and reflash your firmware. I can't find anything useful on that for your device though, so you will need to ask for help here..

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

Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hamra:
I kept reading and rereading news websites, and Samsung pages, about how Knox 2.0 will allow play store apps...

Yet, I can't find a single website/person claiming they did it... Am I missing something?

The Samsung Knox apps is a joke..
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phusion:
+1
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hamra:
Anybody? :-/
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxilick:
Knox eh? Not point involving myself with it, my phones are 0X1 almost as soon their unboxed .
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
i will get right to it after seeeing the full review on mobile-review i was really disappointed with the low light ability of the cam even with OIS

heres the comparison

S5 Vs N4

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/low/note4-25.jpg

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/sgs5/low/sgs5-26.jpg

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/low/note4-27.jpg

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/sgs5/low/sgs5-27.jpg

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/low/note4-20.jpg

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-note4/photo/sgs5/low/sgs5-20.jpg

N4 vs Z3 , Lumia 930 , S5

lumia 930

Z3

N4

S5

source
[Galaxy Note 4 General] saifullah90:
wow lumia really kick it ass
[Galaxy Note 4 General] duykhang524:
Who cares about nokia phones you can only take good pictures with it. There's no ecosystem, they are worthless.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] xManMythLegend:
Samsungs always had a terrible time with lowlight shots.

Note 3 is abysmal as Samsung always has that over processed cartoon like gel appearance.

Was hoping for much better but the Z3 woops it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Toss3:
I really don't get why samsung don't work on improving the low-light performance; it's been their cameras' achilles heel for like forever.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alexcarterkarsus:
There is another website that compares the low light performance of N4 against Z3, iphone 6 plus and butterfly 2 (from htc).

http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/talk/102/4914690/1/rv/samsung-galaxy-note-4-review/

It is actually a blind comparison of the 4 phones (named A, B, C and D), but the general consensus is that A =butterfly 2, B=iphone6p, C=N4, D=Z3.

In my opinion, N4 outperforms iphone6p in many cases, and is at least as good as Z3, while Z3 absolutely tanks in the last competition.

That's why I have much more faith in the low light performance of N4 and looking forward to it :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
sorry but imo N4 look the worst after Butterfly 2 , IP6 plus looks it has good color reproduction under low light with good details , N4 has horrible over processing with denoise filter and ****ty contrast ( like all samsung phones = ****ty low light performance ) , Z3 looks ok better than N4 and even it doesn't have OIS

Nokia still the king of low light photography
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
yep its sucks , cams on Samsung phones works great with good light but as soon u go inside with medium lighting the images will become really bad and with low light the images turns horrible specially with night mode on u will get unusable bad image with no details at all :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ewingr:
White balance is off on all but the lumia. Wonder if WB settings were different between them.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] katamari201:
Those images are hardly conclusive. The mobile-review is a rushed review of a pre-production unit with preliminary software. Most importantly, the Note 4 camera isn't less capable. It has OIS and a Sony IMX240 sensor. It is just the software that needs tweaking. This is their first OIS camera so we shouldn't be judging it until the final retail product is out. They may be too conservative with the OIS and instead are using too high ISO and too quick shutter, the opposite of what LG did on its LG G2. And you shouldn't be directly linking to images on another site. It is bad manners. Link the whole review instead.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Strategist:
The E-price shootout is quite encouraging if the C phone is in fact the Note 4. Definitely beats B (supposedly iPhone 6+) in most of the shots and D in the flash shot.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
All the images in eprice. Com is inconsistent, each one looks different and not taken from same spot
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alexcarterkarsus:
Another low-light camera comparison, between N4 and ip5s

http://www.ppomppu.co.kr/zboard/view.php?id=phone&no=2803207

got to say, I got even more confidence with N4 now :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] aznmode:
Based on those reviews it still seems to be an improvement over my note 3. Hopefully it get better from here. But Note still is the better device out of all 4 IMO. So I'm content with the result.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] k1ng617:
Man, I sure hope those are legit. I've seen many differing photo comparisons and some just make the N4 look horrendous. There was an youtube comparison between a Z3 and an N4 that made the N4 look worse than my N2. Not sure what to believe ATM.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] xManMythLegend:
I believe history. Samsungs sensors and features are not the problem. Its the insanely terrible processing that turns medium to lowlight pics into smeared noisy nonsense. For many lowlight is a majority of where they take pics (most social events are dimly lit) Nothing Ive read or seen leads me to believe they even care to fix it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kannanX10:
dont go by that video,i do watched that................that seems to be from some other device rather than note 4 or there might be issues bcos most of the n4 pics he compared seems to be blurred.......................have seen much better n4 pics from mobilereview's russian review and i even checked 100% crops of full res images in comp with ip6+ as provided by them and note 4 has better details and its the clear winner.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Zanr Zij:
Almost N4 low light shots haven't got ISO info. This mean they are software processing, different to iPhone 5S. When taking low light shot, you have to wait some seconds for intergrated photo software tweak it, like Note 3.

iPhone and Z2/Z3 normally push higher ISO to get better low light shot. You will spend less time for each shot.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] *Emix*:
That "comparison" is obviously fake! Note 4 pics on that video look worst than S4 or S5.

And who the hell is releasing camera (photo) comparison on YT? Without the jpg files? I call that comparison BS.

This one looks real and how Note 4 pics SHOULD look, i just hope to se Note 4 vs. iPhone 6 or 6+ soon.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ipmanwck:
Note 4 looks really good. Hope it's true.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kannanX10:
it seems Note 4 is the winner in eprice low light comparisons

http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/talk/102/4914690/1/rv/samsung-galaxy-note-4-review/
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
the N4 look good but the over processing ruined then , good job samsung -_-
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
no way its winner , horrible over processing + redish yellowish WB :(

IP6 plus just have better details and better WB
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 299792458:
In the eprice shots...actual color temps of various lights are probably lower and therefor more yellowish in reality... I'd bet the Sony xperia z3 is most accurate and n4 is closer to that than iphone. .. or so it appears
[Galaxy Note 4 General] katamari201:
Note 4 has a lot of hazy shots. The sky is not black. It is a haze. Contrast is also much lower. This mainly for outdoor night shots. Much worse than Z3 and 6 Plus. Also blurrier. It seems like a big software issue, as indoor night shots look good. However, Note 4 and Z3 expose too much. Things are too bright and unnatural. iPhone still has best overall camera for low light. If Samsung can fix software camera issues, it can get close to or exceed iPHone. But right now, it is even behind a phone like Z3 that has no OIS at all.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] skibadee:
Wonder what the nexus 6 camera will be like. After seeing the leaked specs today I'm holding off the note 4. Apart from the stylus and sd card slot, I'm finding it difficult to see why a note 4 would be much of an upgrade on my note 3. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
haha not gonna happen and i guess they don't care , Samsung phones has the worst low light capabilities since Galaxy S1 and its still not fixed on S5 and N4 which kinda joke

IP6

IP6 plus

IP5s

GS5 LTA-A

M7
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yahyoh:
dont hold ur breath Nexus = mediocre cam , only if they add raw photo taking and manual control then things maybe will change