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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
Same issue here. Had it on KitKat but I could turn it back on there. Now it won't even turn back on until a reboot.

Another bug to add to the plethora of dissapoint that is Android Lolliflop.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheArc:
The Nexus device was made for advanced users, people keep complaining about small little issues like this.

Imagine this, if you could only hold 100kgs but we wanted you to hold more so we put an extra 50kg on you. But you would fall down, why? Because you can't handle the weight.

The same goes for devices, the torch is used by the flash sensor. The sensor gets really hot if you keep it on for 3+ minutes when it can only handle around two minutes so you're basically putting allot of pressure on the component. And when a device starts to heat up in a particular spot or all around it begins to malfunction.

If you need light just purchase a torch from a store.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
My old Inspire 4G got EXTREMELY hot when I left the torch on. This was back running Cyanogenmod 11 KitKat on it, and it would cause reboots. Eventually they fixed it and it just got hot. They even had an uber high flashlight option where both LEDs lit up bright. It still had no crash problems after it was fixed.

Thid phone can do it. It's just another bug that was not fixed, much like the lousy battery life and the WiFi bug. Still unfixed.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheArc:
I agree with you there but Google has been stuffing up recently but what annoys me is so many people are complaining.

The torch however could be fixed but I can tell that it gets super hot when left on for some time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
Sorry if my posts come off as rude, I'm a bit frustrated with Lollipop overall at the moment.

Yeah I agree, there is a lot of complaining but I can see where people would. It's a Nexus device so we shouldn't be having too many issues but this update is what I'd call the most frustrating yet. A lot of people and I are having many many issues with the update. I just expected more.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheArc:
No I wasn't offended, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, although I was a bit worried that I was about to start a war (Which is against the rules of my title). But I can see where you and many others are coming from as Android Lollipop is a huge step up and to see little thinks broken can be very frustrating.

But I can say that Google will be releasing updates that should fix these minor issues.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wollanup:
So there is a bug!

It could be normal to get LED turned off in case of overheating but in this case time should allow to turn it on again, not a reboot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrKaon:
This is not a torch problem but camera problem :crying:

From no where camera initializing process triggers and fails in old KitKat days it would cause a big battery drain mm-qcamera-daemon but still we were able to launch camera but now we cannot till next reboot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhojo1:
So you are saying that a feature that caused reboots is better than a feature that disables the overworked component until you manually reboot. That doesn't sound any better to me... In fact I would prefer this bug/feature because at least it does not permanently damage the phone if for example you left the torch on by mistake or it came on in your pocket.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shobuddy:
I just flashed the Lollipop factory image. Initially my app drawer looked like the "Guest.png" screenshot below. Somehow along the way as I was exploring lollipop, the app drawer changed to the "Me.png" screenshot below. Not sure what caused it but I would like to get the app drawer the way it looked when I first flashed lollipop as shown in "Guest.png" below; which is to say the screen with more apps on a single screen and the black background. I've rooted and flashed TWRP since flashing Lollipop. As an FYI, the "Guest.png" is from the guest account on my phone and the "Me.png" is from my account.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shobuddy:
Found answer on another thread. Just had to change the launcher.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roastmeat:
Hah,

probably was installing apps and the launcher was with it
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calico5:
Hello All,

I remember trying to get this to work back in 2010 on my HTC Desire! But had no luck :(

Is there a half decent way to pull facebook profile photos and assign them to Google Contacts? So that my address book isn't just a series of coloured circles?

I'm hoping there's a straight forward solution

Many Thanks

Calico
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrvtec69:
UberSync for Facebook
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ghri:
I was trying to unlock bootloader on my nexus 7 2013 wifi but when I arrived at the command "erase userdata" it din't work and remained the same until I forced the stop. Now my device it's on bootloader and don't unlock. I don't know what to do. I hope someone can help me...

Excuse me if there are some errors in my english xD
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] tigerdim:
I started a thread with the same problem over the weekend.

We are many to have the same problem now. Totally stuck, dont know what we can do at this stage.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mo123456789:
Hi,

i had exactly the same problem. I tried everything to fix it and no luck. I had to resort in sending it to Asus for repair. Unfortunately my warranty has expired. I just got a quote from them saying the motherboard has gone and it will cost me £250 to repair!!!!! I almost fell off my chair. A brand new 32gb tablet will cost be around £180. This is surely a joke? I will be giving them a call tomorrow to complain!

I hope yours is still under warranty because it is most likely your motherboard that has gone. I've read a few others having the same issue and its been the motherboard.

Mo
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] idonthaveausernamexd:
try using usb 2.0 and not usb 3.0 in windows and i have the same problem but no usb 2.0 only usb 3.0
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boeing94:
I've been on my way to turn in my Nexus 7 were I originally bought it in July 2013 due to several issues: the famous screen problem where the tablet seems to live a life on its own and where your only option is to do a hard reboot and also that it's been charging awfully slow the latest months.

Hower, a few weeks ago, it suddenly wouldn't start up normally. It always gets stuck on the Kitkat animation.

Just half an hour ago, after managing to charge it full via my computer, I booted it to recovery mode and emptied the system cache partition. That didn't solve the problem. I'm not even able to get to the recover menu anymore.

The reason why I'm not turning it in is because i'd like to do a backup on my files that are on it. Oh, and I should mention that the tablet is completely original and not rooted.

Any ideas? It'd be too bad to loose images etc...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boeing94:
Anyone?
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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sameh1165:
hw

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] typhoonikan:
share a folder on my phone to appear in my network places to send and receive files from within windows?

Should be simple. yes?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
I find Dropbox or Google Drive to be the easiest solutions for this. It sets up a folder on your PC and whatever you put in it will sync online and be accessed through the respective apps on the phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] typhoonikan:
With a little more investigation, Samba File Sharing located here does the trick. Astro and Ez File explorer allow you to view files on your network, but not the other way around. Samba adds your phones internal storage as a network folder. If your phone has an external sd card, then you can add to show it as well. Though, I would like the option to only allow certain folders to be shared, but this works just fine!
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] loumoli:
My wife purchased this as an extra and never used it. She's asking 10.00 if you want it send pm.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] blorgus:
Figured I'd post this as a public service announcement to anyone who might be on the Metro PCS variant of the Galaxy S3 LTE ( SGH-T999N also known as the d2mtr around these parts). Mine was a decent phone for the first 6 months or so, no major complaints, but when the 4.3 update hit it destroyed the phone.

Connectivity issues, freezes, TONS of added bloatware ( I was getting unsolicited baseball scores from METROZONE when coming out of my lock screen, and some extra row of shortcuts that would hang out on the left side of the screen and be triggered whenever your thumb would stray anywhere close when scrolling), but worst of all the battery life. The phone would be sitting idly on my desk, and out of nowhere it would get physically hot to the touch, like it was working feverishly on something behind the scenes, but not visibly running anything at all. Pulling the battery would correct this for an hour or so but then it would start back up at random, and burn the battery down to nothing in a matter of a couple hours.

I was very close to ditching the phone after googling around for comprehensible root instructions for the model, and trying a couple of them without success. One of these trials must have corrupted the stock ROM backup because when I eventually tried a factory reset, I couldn't get the phone to read the backup package. This sort of forced me to spend a whole day really wrapping my head around the whole odin/custom recovery/custom ROM ecosystem, and I came out the other side running what seems to be a very stable build of Cyanogenmod 11 on what feels like a brand new phone. It's been off the charger for about 6 hours now and its still at 82% battery.

If anyone's in the same situation on this model, let me know, and I'll get together a list of instructions maybe along with a dropbox link to the package of programs and tools I used. I spent 3 months wrestling with this issue, and I'd love it if someone else could benefit from that expenditure of time and effort.
[General Questions and Answers] OmNomSash:
Hi,

Was advised to come here by one of my friends about asking some advice about phones and such.

I wouldn’t say I’m entirely new with phones but there seems I be so many out there its getting hard to pick :(

At the moment I’m using a “Note 2” which I’ve had for over a year now, but I just feel its not keeping up any more so I’m looking into getting a better more up to date phone and fingers crossed you guys can point me in the right direction :)

My trouble is I was possibly thinking about getting HTC M8 but is it best holding off for a while and just getting the M7 or are the differences really noticeable, but then I’m thinking to myself should I just get Note 3-4 as I enjoy using a phablet it makes viewing more easier, and gaming more enjoyable for me to play

I’m really looking for any type of phone with just raw processing power for use with emulators and such that will have no slow down and quick opening of applications with not much slow down with opening, also with a lot of snazzy features would be great that I would never get bored of would be a great bonus :)

I would also like to stick on android… I don’t have any qualms with iOS I just feel once you have had 1 iPhone you’ve had them all :)

thank you very much :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssamboy:
It don't work. What am I missing?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honhan0904:
It work with me

Do you use dalvik or art??
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whataboutthis32:
Hi

I have a HTC One M8 and it was rooted and flashed with cyanogenmod. Today my phone just died by itself so I tried to start it up again. what happend was weird, it got stuck on the boot animation. i tried to shut it of and on and it kept getting stuck on the boot animation. I got in to the TWRP (2.7) recovery mode and tried everything there. I try to factory reset it and I get failed. it just says Unable to mount '/data' and Unable to mount internal storage. I try to shut it of and now it says that I don't have any OS installed. Through guides I mange to transfer a new cyanogenmod rom to the phone in hopes of trying to reflash it. But again, when I try to flash it I get failed and it says Unable to mount '/data' and Unable to mount internal storage.

I don't know what to do, I'm stuck. Help appriciated. I don't know what more information is needed to able to help me.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whataboutthis32:
so through a lot of searching, I think that my main problem is because i can not mount my data folder. Everything I do, I get the message E: Unable to mount '/data'. I look inside data and the folder is empty. I tried this "How to: Fix a corrupted DATA partition on the HTC One" on Android Revolution HD (can't link the site since i'm a new member) and it didnt help. I got stuck at the "mount /data" command. The whole folder seems corrupt. I read on some places that I should format it in windows manager but that doesn't seem possible. My phone appears as a "CD-device(F:)" on my computer and I cant format that.

This is my only working phone and I really need it to work. plz help.

I've tried dozens of unrooting guides but none of them seem to work because of my mount problem.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattprice86:
What carrier are you on?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Try to flash TWRP again. And update the version. Sometimes this alone will fix the data partition not mounting bug.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AkaDeast:
Hey, i just got the EXACT EXACT same problem! Did you manage to workout a solution for it? I've been reading all

day threads of the "E: Unable to mount '/data" problem, and i'm really really confused about what to do.. would be great if you could tell me how it went. :good:
[HTC One X] kabexa:
hello people! I write here to learn about the time of the battery life and the charging time.

Mi HOX charge in 4 hours and the battery drain in 6 or 7 horus of normal use(whatsapp, facebook and mail app).

Salute.
[HTC One X] Hugajohan:
Charging

Why does it actually take so long to charge? Mine also takes like 3-4 hours from 0% to 100%.

I don't charge mine to 100% or let it go under 20% but it still takes hours to charge. It usually holds

1½ hours screen on time.

Last 2 Days.
[HTC One X] bosas200:
Mine takes about 2.5h if i charge from 2%
[HTC One X] Hugajohan:
Battery life

If i install Android Revolution HD 33.1 and Alex 2.6 pa3 would i get much better battery life then viper 4.1.1 with Alex 2.6 pa3?

I see in gsam battery monitor that app usage is often at 80-90% and screen and phone radio the rest.
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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigmarv31:
GPS FIX

Im having issues with the gps getting a lock and was wondering if there was a way to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------

Sorry forgot to mention im unlocked with the latest twrp recovery and have flashed this rom over the Alliance 29 build and still no lock on GPS
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dkool1:
How do you disable the proximity sensor? Could not find it in the build prop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Epic76:
Hello i was wondering if anyone had issue with simple mobile. I just reuped but high speed data didnt come back up. Tried my sim on other phone and worked just fine. Could it be this rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Robin Son:
Bluetooth only problem

I'm running this on my i605 and Bluetooth is the only problem I have. I can't find a fix for it anywhere. Can anyone help or is this as good as it gets?

Battery solved, Setting -Motions and Gestures -Previous Note2 Gestures - an at the top turn it all off!

Fkfmfz thanks for the rom and any help

Founded what I'm looking to try. Does any dev's or experienced flashers even read this???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Robin Son:
On track without the fix. Just not 100%
[Xperia Z3 General] rideoutthetide:
I know there has been some discussion in this forum about just how waterproof the Z3 is exactly and how far you can push it, so I wanted to share my experience from the past week. On day two of a six day trip to St. John, USVI my GoPro developed a nice crack in its housing. Seeing as there is no Amazon Prime in St. John and certainly no Best Buy, the GoPro was effectively out-of-action. Wanting to still capture pictures of our trip I decided to put Sony's marketing to the test and it live up to it. I took it snorkeling on three different occasions, for upwards of an hour. The attached photos were taken at depths of 5-10 feet and I had the camera submerged at times for longer than hour in saltwater. The only hang-up was taking video. Since you can only use the hardware button to take pictures, I had to surface to start and stop any videos. Not a big deal, just a warning.

My only caveat is...make sure you rinse out your headphone jack. Though it is waterproof, I noticed what looked like some light corrosion after my first day (makes sense, salt water and all). From then on I made sure to rinse it down with some fresh water from a water bottle as soon as I got out of the water. No problems since.

Hope this gives everyone enough confidence to start taking their phone in the shower!

Let me know if you have any questions!
[Xperia Z3 General] Shuthefrontdoor:
Very cool pics man, thabks for sharig your experience, im still scared to even wash my phone under the sink lol
[Xperia Z3 General] ssj_jaypee:
that is amazing! you should share those pics with Sony Mobile, I'm sure they will publish it and give you some credit. Not sure how many people have done that yet!
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Nice photos.

From what Sony says avoid salt water. Despite their advertising showing oceanic photos, here is their warning:

"...we wouldn't recommend using your smartphone, tablet or accessory during a sandstorm or in a hot shower.

Never immerse your device in salt water

or let the micro USB port, headset jack or other uncovered parts come into contact with salt water. If you're washing dishes by hand, avoid letting your device come into contact with the detergent or any other liquid chemicals."

"Should the phone be submerged in salt water it would need to be washed off in fresh water and if

on warranty inspection it was evident that the seals had been damaged by salt/chlorine, warranty would be void.

"

This guy had it die on him in a pool:

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2014/10/15/4107561.htm
[Xperia Z3 General] Ulver:
Nice pics! I'm definitely not scared to get mine wet anymore.

Sent from my Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] rideoutthetide:
Yeah, I was a little hesitant at first. Lots of quick dunks to see how it went but my confidence grew after the first few attempts went without issue. I had my Nexus 5 with me as a backup, so I figured...worst case scenario I had a backup phone.

I'm not surprised Sony doesn't recommend saltwater. Saltwater basically destroys everything it touches. Having said that, provided that you have all the ports sealed up, saltwater really shouldn't be getting in (besides the headphone jack). Makes me wonder if Sony has some water resistant coating applied to some of the internal components as a failsafe (would be effective against freshwater, but not saltwater).

Either way, I'm now 4 days after my last submersion and am experiencing no issues, so I am pretty pleased with this phone.
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
Very brave indeed, great pics.

Sony is a joke with it's water resistance comments, because... Hey here is our new waterproof (no it's not) (it's water resistant Sony) that you can't use in any water except a fresh water steam or lake.

Because lets face it, almost all pools contain chlorine, and almost all water around the home contains chlorine, leaving us...???
[Xperia Z3 General] Bäcker:
since we know for sure that your phone is waterproof, could you please do the following test: http://xdaforums.com/z3/general/guide-test-waterproofing-water-t2897886

There is a theory that the Z3 has a valve/membrane to adjust for changes in air pressure which makes the pressure go down in that test.

thanks
[Xperia Z3 General] maple_mak:
Finally, I can take my Z3 to sea. Thanks for those picture!:)
[Xperia Z3 General] Krustnesis:
Just take some time and read about ip65 and ip68, sony says that you can take ur z3 to swimming pool which contains chlorine, but you have to clean it witch fresh water after this.

With salt water this is impossible, because, salt makes corride everything that it touches.

Greets, sorry for bad english :)
[Xperia Z3 General] xxquicksh0txx:
To be fair, it was a saltwater pool.
[Xperia Z3 General] rideoutthetide:
I actually had read that thread beforehand and downloaded the "Sensor Sense" app which has a barometric pressure reader on it. Sure enough, if I open the MicroUSB port and apply pressure I get no movement on the pressure reading. When closed, the pressure spikes and then tends to even out.

I also ran the app and dunked it under water while running. The reading accurately changed to reflect the water pressure.

In short, I think that test works :)
[Xperia Z3 General] Chyrio:
Been watching Top Gear in the shower since I got the phone. Scared the **** out of this waiter the other day it was hilarious. He was pouring water in my cup while holding some other plates and he tried to balance out and spilled just a little bit of water on my phone. I pretended to freak out for a second then was like dude... its waterproof all is forgiven. O and I need to set something straight. Water resistant = cant be fully submerged, so the Z3 would definitely be water proof. Honestly best use I have found for this phone so far being water proof is texting/using maps in the rain.
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
Try reading what I wrote with your bad English, what fresh water are you going to use? tap water also contains chlorine, maybe fresh water from your rain water tank? My comments are highlighting Sony's confusing and conflicting information.

And my pool contains salt and chlorine
[Xperia Z3 General] Krustnesis:
So if u have THAT much chlorine in ur fresh water then please forgive me. FRESH WATER means WATER FROM THE TAP. Concentration of chlorine in tap water is infinitesimal.