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[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] BlackCube:
Hello, I have been trying to flash for 2 days now but still couldn't get it working.

Initially, my I9305 is running on stock without root. I wanted to root it and then install recovery and ROM.

And so I prepare the necessary files, and start to flash.

I used CF-Auto-Root to root my device first, then got Resurrection ROM and Gapps to flash.

Then I started to get some issue, as it always fail. Error message like no file context and so on. So I read online resources, and found out that I had a older version of TWRP installed which may cause the install.

I then tried to upgrade TWRP but it doesn't allow me to. No choice, I had to flash philz touch, and I did.

I then tried to flash Resurrection again, boot up, and it keep giving me bootloop. After which I downloaded nameless ROM, and CM11 but same issue.

Yesterday night, I downloaded the stock firmware to try. I flashed it, and it is successful based on ODIN, but it still won't boot up.

I just tried it again and it stuck on the Samsung logo screen.

Can anyone tell me what else to do? What I have to do?

This is the stock firmware that I have downloaded and flash - I9305XXUENH1_I9305EVRENH1_EVR.

Let me know what other information I have to provide.

Thanks!

Here's the Download mode information.

Custom binary count: 9 counts

Current binary: samsung offical

System status: custom

Knox void: 1

RP SWREV: A2

Update: 16/1

I just tried to go into my recovery mode and apparently, it has been changed back to stock recovery which I assume is because I have flashed the stock firmware.

I am trying it yet again after wiping in stock recovery, to flash the stock firmware again now.

P.S: I have posted it in http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/qa-samsung-galaxy-s3-lte-roms-kernels-t2999494 but no reply. So trying my luck here.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] BlackCube:
Ok, this is funny. I waited for 2-3 days before posting here for help. And it doesn't work for all those days.

Now that I just posted, it finally worked. I am getting into the setup screen.

Anyway, for those people who may have the same issue as me in the future, try to wipe everything after flash to stock firmware. then flash stock firmware again.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] PhilCapron:
After flash

It's a good call,as per your last post,to wipe data and factory reset after a flash and even a second install.Need to give time for changes to occur.Don' go too fast.HTH.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] QA Bot:
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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sschuhmann:
FF OS 2

Hi all,

i recently became very interesed in FireFox OS. Is there a package of FireFox OS 2 for installation on a Galaxy Nexus?

The Galaxy Nexus is my productive device, is FFOS currently stable enough to be a daily driver?

TIA

Steffen
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djalouk:
Hello,

Just a minor issue but, my profile picture is OK in Gmail and Google Keep (ie this is the same picture as shown in profiles.google.com, I use the default one), but is different in the Play Store app. Note : I don't use G+.

Any idea on how to fix that?

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Settings > Accounts > Google and sync People, then clear cache in Settings > Storage > Cache.

Alternatively, remove and readd your Google account to force it to clear and resync.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djalouk:
Thanks for the tip, I tried Settings > Accounts > Google checking sync People details, then wipe cache and Dalvik via my recovery, I still see a different picture in the Play Store app.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KreAch3R:
[MENTION=4242517]djalouk[/MENTION]

I don't use G+ too and I always had Play Store using the default avatar (the blue human), while on Keep and Gmail etc I get the correct one (the one I get on profiles.google.com). It has survived multiple years, phones, android versions, flashes etc so I don't think we can change that. I just always thought that the Play Store was querying Google servers for my Google+ avatar ( no profile = no avatar = default) while Gmail, Keep are querying about our Google account avatar and getting the correct image. Just a guess though...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djalouk:
Here is what I see. Sorry I was not clear, I was talking about the background, the profile picture is correct.

The Gmail app displays the right background, the Play Store app doesn't.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
If you don't have a Google+ profile then its using whatever is default in the app.
[Android Apps and Games] seanspotatobusiness:
I've just discovered that Amazon has an app store for Android. I was looking at an app and I noticed that there are two different publisher names given for the two different instances of the app. See the screenshots (click to enlarge).

Amazon app store:

Google Play app store:

Is "softDesk" trying to sell someone elses app or am I just confused?
[Android Apps and Games] DelBoy:
I believe it is the old version while it was not FREE.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
The Yotaphone 2 is now established, no longer on the horizon, so I thought we should have a dedicated thread to it, reviews about it, thoughts etc.
[YotaPhone] manmikey:
Thanks for the in depth review, it's clearly hit the sweet spot for you ☺

I have a question about notifications.....when in the yota panel or yota cover mode and it is on your desk EPD facing up, what happens if you get a notification from say whatsapp or xda developers I.e. one that doesn't have a specific widget on the yota panel, is there any indication on the EPD that a notification has been received and if so can you interact with it or does it just send you to the OLED side?

Secondly, if you have your home screen mirrored on the EPD and again it's laying on your desk, will the notifications appear in the notification shade and can you swipe down the shade to check and interact exactly with them as you would on the OLED display? I.e using whatsapp as an example again , get the new message notification in the shade, swipe it down, click on the message, whatsapp opens and you type in a reply and send it....All from the e ink side.

Battery drain leads to battery anxiety, I am hoping that the yota 2 works how I've described above as I spend a lot of time lighting up the OLED on my phone just checking and responding to notifications and it could be a game changer to be able to do that from the e ink side. Saving the OLED for the more intense stuff like games, videos web browsing etc.

Thanks in advance

Mike
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Not a problem, it very much has and also it was a slow day at work :P.

The notification widget on the panels and covers has 4 items, phone, text, email and general notifications. Phone and text can be interacted with, and lovely apps they are to use as well. A great example is that if someone sends you a text that just says cool (even with third party text apps) then the text will show up and atop it is a picture of a man adjusting his bowtie. Lovely little easter egg. The email sends you to the stock email client, hoping for a way to get that to associate with gmail to come out eventually. The fourth is for other notifications (whatsapp, xda and everything else). The email and notification icons will simply send you to the front screen. You can just mirror them straight back over though. And I suppose having the phone implement everything would be a bit tricky. You never know, development might add them later. Sorry I write too much. In short, you can't interact with 'other' notifications straight from the screen but have to mirror it back.

To answer your second question - yes. If your using mirror on the home screen it will appear just as the same homescreen and same android, just on the back screen. Anything that comes up you can interact with, including pulling down the notification shade, opening your apps (in this case whatsapp) and interacting with them as you would (replying straight from the app). The only difference is its slower obviously, but still very do-able. If your going for super battery saving then it doesn't strike as a problem if you have to take a bit longer. It's enjoyable and pretty anyway, and very easy on the eyes.

So to summarise, yes, you can use the EPD just as you would the amoled. Even if you have to turn over activate the notification from a panel you can just mirror it straight back over, avoiding amoled over use.

I'm the same, always hate having the battery life hanging over me. The yota has got rid of that for me. It came off charge at 6am friday morning, its now just before 5pm - gsam says 34 hours. Battery is on 35%, both data and wifi have been on and being used constantly, games being played a lot, internet and youtube have occurred here and there. I've been trying to push it through its paces when have had the time. Had a couple of cheeky battery draining apps for first half of Friday so got rid of them but still.. It's nice to have 35% and feel confident that I could probably get another full day out of it if needed. And all in such an interesting package.

So, 48 hours battery life without a struggle with normal usage is perfectly feasible and also the charger charges it in a very short time, super convenient.

Hope I helped, sorry for the length again.
[YotaPhone] manmikey:
Thanks that really helped ?

I really like the idea of a more than one day battery life for moderate to heavy use, I'm out of contract in a couple of months and have been considering an xperia Z3 which has a large battery and is being reported by users as achieving 2 days use, however this phone is intriguing, I can think of so many potential uses for the snap shot on the EPD and to be able to control music and audio books etc. But it's the battery life that is most tempting with this device your quoted figures are impressive, how much were you using it during that period?

Another question if you don't mind, in some reviews and videos I've seen views of yota panels than display what look like short cuts to regular apps such as chrome, youtube, currency converter, maps, whatsapp , can you configure the yota panels to show an icon of any app in the app draw? For instance I use audible a lot and the EPD would be perfect for using and controlling audible from a short cut on the Yota panel. Would this short cut direct you to flip the phone to the OLED then mirror it back as per the general notifications you described above?

Thanks

Mike
[YotaPhone] zute333:
It is a nice freedom to have to be sure, to not feel you have to charge it over night. If caught in those party situations, or when just away from charger its nice to know its fine. I read some z3 reviews and the z3 seems to do something similar with battery. The z3 would almost certainly beat the yota in a hands down typical battry test but for long term endurance with conservative usage (and lots of use of the EPD) then i'm certain that the yota could take it. And even if not, the EPD is amazing to have. Keep stumbling across more uses for it. (currently replying to your review on a laptop with your reply screenshotted onto back of my yota). I would say that other than when at work (minimal usage but still some games here and there) I was using it between normal and heavy usage depending on the time. Normal - moderate for most of the time with a few sessions of heavy usage. Data and wifi on the whole time, almost always downloading and updating apps too. More than I would usually use it basically and 2 days use was a breeze. In a few days I think i'll go for intentional conservative usage and see how long it goes for.

Not at all. The app shortcut widgets have different sizes available, 1, 3 and 6 apps. Each one of these widgets can be configured, you can choose any app. Clicking on the app from the EPD will open the app directly on the EPD, it'll basically activate mirror mode without having to switch over. A wonderful feature I think. So you would be able to open audible from the shortcut and control it straight from the EPD without the need to even activate the OLED at all.

The z3 is a good phone, better processor, better camera etc. It rivals the s5, the m8 etc in terms of features. For me though, the yota covers everything pretty well, even if it's using now slightly outdated specs - it does the job happily. And the EPD adds a whole new level of functionality and makes using a phone a very interesting practice again. It's a new way of using a phone and that's what's most attractive for me.
[YotaPhone] manmikey:
Thanks again for your reply, it seems that the yotaphone will do pretty much all I would want it to on the EPD, it has really got my interest up now! I'm seeing a yota panel with my most used apps that would not really suffer from being on the EPD, audible, fotmob, kobo, whatsapp, beyond pod maybe even words with friends!

I think along the same lines as you in wanting something a bit different and interesting, I've had two android phones now and before that an iPhone, to be honest another straight forward android seems a little samey now hence deciding that battery life would be my priority rather than screen size or the latest cpu etc.... If only that eye watering price would drop a little come March.....
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Yeah above all I wanted battery life with decent enough specs and something different. I finished my contract and began saving with the express aim of getting this phone, once got the money figured might as well as no other phone appeals to me enough. The modular smartphones coming up certainly piqued my interest but I can't wait for them, wanted a new phone now. For me the yota is worth it so far and I hold out hope for the duration of my ownership of it.

Good luck to you whether you decide to go for it or something else.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
20% discount offer on facebook if your still wanting dude. £444 seems pretty reasonable.
[YotaPhone] manmikey:
Oh that's so tempting, i don't have face book tho, where's the discount coming from,yotaphone themselves? I've been waiting for March to see what the HTC One M9 and Galaxy S6 looks like....trouble is android now looks the same on most handsets, so will a M9 be that much different from my M7 meh.

My kids have Facebook tho, how do you get access to the discount?

Thanks
[YotaPhone] zute333:
yotaphone themselves indeed, celebrating 120,000 fans. Seems a bit harsh on the rest of us but i'm not one to begrudge success on a company I would like to succeed.

They all look the same now. Samsung have never been that good on the aesthetic look of their phone's imo, the m7 is beautiful in the same way as the m8 and m9 and possibly so on. And yeah, launchers are pretty stripped down now, and I find having a launcher that you can theme, or using something like dodol or themer you can get a phone looking exactly how you want, which negates manufacturers launchers anyhow. The only real difference comes from the odd gimmick here and there or in the case of the note edge a part of a screen. That one I kind of get but I'm also of the opinion that a whole second screen beats a sliver of one on the side :P.

Sorry, what you actually want to see is this: https://www.facebook.com/YotaPhone/posts/439221752895395

I hope the link works and the discount is still active if you go for it.
[YotaPhone] manmikey:
Well Zute333 thanks for the heads up on the discount , my daughter pulled up the voucher code via her FB and I've bought one at £421.80 ☺????????

It feels genuinely exciting to have something different to use over the coming months. Btw Is it a mini or micro sim?

Thanks again for helping me decide

Mike
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Well I'm a bit gutted if i'm honest, got mine at £495-£555 (discount still pending, long story), with the bumper. But to be fair I've had a lovely few weeks and am getting the jolla tablet for hilariously cheap price so counting it a good overall load of deals lol. Still though, £421.80 is epic, congrats and I hope you enjoy it dude. Lollipop on the way at some point, can only improve things.

It's micro sim.

EDIT: nano-sim

No worries dude.
[YotaPhone] bartveld:
I'm even more gutted: it seems this is only valid in the UK, as I can't change the country field to any other. Website is partly in Dutch, though.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Sad for you dude. I think they made the post in other languages for other countries but can't find em and don't know if they did one for the Netherlands.

I don't really mind having paid full price, just happy to have it. You can always wait, another offer will surely arise, the standard price will also probably drop eventually.
[YotaPhone] bartveld:
By the way, a reseller here in Holland says in its specs the Yotaphone has nanosim. I assume they're wrong?

---------- Post added at 12:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:43 PM ----------

Also, I see different specs on radio: some say 3G, some say 4G.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Ah, no I was wrong, I got the names mixed - thought there was mini and micro, equating micro with nano. The yota 2 sim tray is a nano-sim tray.

Also it can do 4g.
[YotaPhone] bartveld:
Thanks.
[YotaPhone] smekla:
Hi all, newbie here! i've just bought Yotaphone 2 couple days ago, can't say how happy i am with this phone so far. It's fast enough and the always-on screen is amazingly convenient. Can't say much about battery life yet as only charged it once so far.

The only couple of minor things to mention though - the back-panel is very, very slippery so can easily drop the phone out of your hands. The other thing - email notifications on the back-panel. It's configured to default email app (as mentioned in some previous posts) and looks like there's no way how i can change it to gmail which is my primary email. But am i right thinking that there should be an update to fix this?
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Hey dude. Lovely phone isn't it. Yeah the back is pretty slippy, the bumper solves that problem if you can manage to get one? As for the email notification on the back, I agree, it's annoying that you can't configure it but I think they'll probably address that in an update, maybe make they're own email client like with the back sms app or something. Only time will tell on that front I suppose.

By the way, get someone to text you the word 'cool' and leave phone EPD facing up. Lovely little easter egg type addition by Yota. Figuring out various other ones over time :p
[YotaPhone] smekla:
Haha that's a good one with the "cool" message! thanks for sharing :)
[YotaPhone] Rarelyamson:
Thanks for all the reviews. Currently have a Nexus 5 and looking to get this phone as the Nexus 6 is too big.

Can you please confirm if there is a notification light on the front or not?

Think I'll wait till lollipop or another discount presents itself :)
[YotaPhone] zute333:
No worries smekla, good luck finding the others. Have discovered 4 more so far, most by luck which has been nice, great way to find them.

Rarelyamson I don't think there is a notification light, I guess it was figured to be redundant most of the time when you have the EPD.

Probably won't be too long, they seem to be getting a lot of attention so far.
[YotaPhone] smekla:
I think this phone has a future, i love the idea of having two screens, don't need to carry-on my e-book reader with my, now i've got it in my phone :)

and zute333 is right, there is no notification light on this phone but the second screen is always on which gives you more details than a notification light.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
already started saving for yota 3 :P
[YotaPhone] smekla:
wondering what it will be like - maybe having a foldable keyboard and true-color e-ink display :D
[YotaPhone] zute333:
I just hope they keep the matte texture on the back, so lovely to touch.

Perhaps a backlight for either side?

Love your icon smekla, cute little guy isn't he.
[YotaPhone] smekla:
hmm not sure about the backlight on the e-ink screen, seen Kobo e-book reader with backlight some time ago, can't say i liked it much - the backlight makes text to look somehwhat pale and weird. but totally agree the matte texture feels great to touch and what's even better is that no fingerprints stay on that texture.

the icon - thanks and that's a girl hiding under the coat :)
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Ah, my bad, she's a cutie nonetheless.

Yeah I agree about not wanting backlight, it's just something I could see them potentially doing. Hopefully they'll pay attention to us on here and not fix what isn't broken. Really hope it stays 5 the same size as well, its perfect at the moment I think. Tablet version could be interesting. So much nicer to read off without one. And yeah, love the lack of fingerprints and how immaculate it remains. Quite impressed with the front screen in that regard as well really.
[YotaPhone] zehoo2:
Mmmm maybe once I get tired of my 6+ I'll move back to android and pick up a yotaphone 3 or 4. I really like the idea of the e-ink back and they've really improved upon the first iteration.
[YotaPhone] varun.gid:
I just got my Yota 2 a couple of days back. . so far loving it the uniqueness of the phone.

For me battery life is decent.. no complains getting used to doing basics on EPD. I only wish we could add 3rd party widgets like gmail whatsapp etc on the backscreen. it would make the experience way better..

n i heard the yota support also isnt that great, so i even doubt this will ever see lollipop and 3rd party support.

Also, the keyboard has to be fixed asap! I have to type slowly otherwise it wont work accurately at all.
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Some 3rd party apps do have widgets. Appygeek has a couple that can be used on the EPD, as time goes on hopefully more developers will get involved.

Yota support has been pretty good so far for me, they tend to address most problems that occur in updates, either via ota or updates of the apps themselves.

They've just sent a run of survey's around, that should help isolate issues and fix problems further. I believe they'll get lollipop done, it just might take a bit of time. It'll happen though. Keyboard is an issue but you get used to it. Swype input largely negates the problem too. It should be fixed, but there are ways around it for now.

Hope you keep enjoying it as you get more used to it.
[YotaPhone] varun.gid:
Ya well i was seeing the MWC coverage and apparently Yota is scheduled to do an official Launch in the US and mostly with Lollipop.

I'll be keeping fingers crossed.. Once the device reaches Us hopefully there will be more active development.

One quick question.. If i mirror my main screen (desktop) and keep it will it use battery or will only use battery when a notification comes in?
[YotaPhone] zute333:
Yeah once the US gets hold of it I imagine this section of xda will pick up somewhat.

The EPD should only use battery when the screen refreshes, though if your using normal android on the back switching between screens, opening and running apps etc will probably use more battery than normal. If just stationary however, then usage should be minimal.
[YotaPhone] varun.gid:
Ahh ok i imagined so too.. i usually thought it would be a good idea to keep my IM app like whatsap on the EPD for battery saving but i think i saw more drain..

Actually kind of defeating the purpose i feel.. Also if i keep it on the the YotaPanel with the clock, will that also use more battery>?