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[Android General] t3al:
This is a guide to enable Google Now Cards / Now on Tap in any country, if you get the not available in your country.

Works on Android L/M/N

NO ROOT REQUIRED

Video:

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!! WARNING: THE FOLLOWING STEPS MAY VARY DEPENDING ON THE ANDROID VERSION YOU ARE IN, BUT THE GUIDE SHOULD STILL WORK !!

Instructions:

(1) Remove SIM card (if you have one)

(2) You need to come from a fresh install (factory reset)

(3) At the first time setup skip all steps. No wifi, no email, no time/date, nothing.

(4) Disable Location

(5) Connect to Wi-Fi

(6) Go to Settings > More > VPN and connect to any VPN from US or UK (I use vpnbook.com PPTP) - Add a simple pattern for security

(7) Once you are connected with the VPN, Tap the Google App

(8) Sign in with your account

(9) After you sign in, you'll see a new window introducing 'Google Now'. Click "Yes, I'm in".

(10) To enable Now on Tap go to Settings > Google > Search & Now > Now Cards > Now on Tap and enable it

(11) Insert your SIM card and delete VPN (and the pattern you set up earlier if you wish)

(12) Enjoy Now on Tap

Hit thanks if this guide helped you!
[Android General] andreascig:
cheers mate it works like a charm :D
[Android General] EvilCuLT30:
Not working

I tried it and it doesn't work. It still says not available in my country when i try to enable it at Now Cards in Settings.

1] I removed SIM card,

2] did Factory Reset,

3] Turned Off Location Services (I assume this is GPS?),

4] Enabled Developer Mode

5] Connected to my home WiFi

5] Downloaded and Installed my VPN apk

6] Choose USA server.

7] Opening Google app as it says is doing nothing - just directs to the search bar. So instead I added account. Settings/Accounts/Add Account, then added my Google Account.

8] I have a two-step verification so I had to change that to another mobile number also based in my country (Where normally Google Now is not available). After receiving the code I entered it and my account was setup.

9] After Account was set, no prompt for Google Now and Now Cards are not available in Google Settings.

10] Estimated cost of damage about 125EURO considering one working day to restore all.

11] Ideas?
[Android General] rohan.thota:
how to select a VPN ?
[Android General] t3al:
Try bestukvpn
[Android General] andre512:
That's works for me!!!!! Really thanks

Enviado desde mi GT-P5110 mediante Tapatalk
[Android General] bicho19:
Thank you, worked perfectly
[Android General] cuthighfit:
This is awesome!

---------- Post added at 08:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:31 AM ----------

This is awesome!
[Android General] sami-shalhoub:
maybe you can try this, work perfect with me and only take like 15 minutes :P

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/g...-nowgoogle-t3138439/post61425631#post61425631
[Android General] nexususer.am:
works for me!

thanks
[Android General] Deleted member 5191487:
Worked on my Nexus 5

I live in Tehran (Iran) and your tutorial worked for me.

I just need to mention that one extra step was crucial to the VPN process and that was setting up a VPN on my ADSL router.

I also had to disable TwoFactor Authentication in order to login without using the simcard.

Thanks for the tutorial.
[Android General] yesbou:
Thank you works fine on D6603
[Android General] Xlydven:
Do you connect to a VPN in setting or install an app for that? Cant open store without logging into gmail

Edit: NVM that, I got it working. Thank you.
[Android General] IKnowIRock!:
bestukvpn doesn't work for me :( Not any VPN I tried on internet. How can I fix this??
[Android General] ichundu:
Search for freevpnaccess

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android General] t3al:
I use Android's VPN under Settings > Wireless & networks > More > VPN (you need to set a lock screen PIN or password or pattern.

Sometimes it is down. Also try bestvpanusa
[Android General] t3al:
Updated guide for Now on Tap cards
[Android General] Borgsky:
It works perfectly just activated it on >

[ phone : hammerhead ]

[ rom : 6.0 - MRA58K ]

[ kernel : stock ]
[Android General] siamak5561:
Try HotSpotShield, worked for me.
[Android General] ganaa_sb:
Well it s works on Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia :) Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] nowfalsalahudeen:
anybody have feel yellowish color on your mi4i in white contents like settings ,dialer...i compared mi4i display to the yu yureka display..i think it has slight yellowish tint..i dnt think its not actual white color.yu yureka display has slight bluish color...hows your display..is there any prob..or ask for replacement
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] candiesdoodle:
Try switching to "Standard" or "Cool" in additional settings > contrast & colors > colors (it may be set to warm)
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] limcb99:
having the same problem ,compare to my REDMI 2 ,yellowish very obvious at the bottom part of the screen :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] HereticSoul:
Dull/Yellowish Strip at the lower bottom of the Display

I have noticed that the lower bottom (Just above to the navigation key) there is some dull color as compare to the rest of the display. I have installed some of screen/display testing apps on the phone and I notice that there is some issue with that. Has anyone else notice, It is not noticeable easily but with screen testing app you will notice the difference especially when the display is full white and bright. Also that part of the display make some different sound when you tap it with your finger like some kind of hollow thing but when you tap on the rest of the screen you will notice the sound feel like solid. Please let me know of someone has experience the same.[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] zerocool420:
I m not facing this issue. My whole display looks same. Whole display have a little yellowish tilt. Due to to this black looks more dark.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] 90210ALPHA:
This helped.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] mahesh616:
I also faced that problem and ask for replacement . now I am not facing this issue my whole screen is pure white.
[Note Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MHeat:
Ok, this is my situation, I have a galaxy note edge SM-N915T the one from tmobile, i bought it from a third party brand new unlocked, it came with original firmware from Trinidad and Tobago 4.4.4 Kitkat, I recently downloaded the Tmobile original firmware from Sammobile 5.0.1 Lollipop, i flashed the firmware and the phone boots and works fine, but whenever i try to do a wipe data/reset through the stock recovery everything goes fine until it says

--preload checking...

E: Failed to Mount/Preload (no such file or Directory)

Can anybody explain why am i getting that error message? like i said the phone works fine but i am just curious about this error

The phone is fully stock, no root no custom Rom

thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musicguy99:
There are many different variants of the Galaxy S6 edge. Why are there only subcategories for the US variants?

Here's a list that I could find. I think there may be more too...

SM-G9250 (China, HK)

SM-G925A (AT&T)

SM-G925F (Global)

SM-G925FQ (Turkey)

SM-G925I (LATAM, Singapore, India, Australia)

SM-G925K, SM-G925L, SM-G925S (Korea)

SM-G925P (Sprint)

SM-G925T (T-Mobile)
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brar.arsh:
SM-G925W8 (Canada)

It would be better to be categorized according to Model number rather than careere.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
probably because this is an English speaking, USA based forum
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elliwigy:
you forgot g925v.. verizon... probably the largest US carrier lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpfeifer:
SM-G925R is the Us Cellular variant. Ik there aren't nearly as many USC users as the big 4 but their worth mentioning since they're completely unlocked.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
Since when was XDA American?
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the Doctor:
Since JB Online LLC purchased it on January 10, 2010 (source). Before that, I believe it was Dutch owned.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tryfound:
So the Pirate Bay being hosted in Sweden means it should be in Swedish and only cater to Swedish users? Location of the server and language aren't relevant, the users make a social site like xda and the question above is a valid one if it's deemed that a large proportion of S6 users have a non-US variant.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killerkob:
In agreement that subcategories should by according to the model, or at least extend to international carriers....
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
I never said anything about only "catering" to any body; if thats your perception, than its your error
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSA:
Unless you guys post in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354

You are wasting your time
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehdi_s82:
I do not think G925F is global necessarily. It's for Europe... I found out G9250 has the most comprehensive list of supported 3g, LTE bands.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihaveabu:
I know that there was a memory leak issue with 5.02 but it's apparently fixed before the fw was deployed:

http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/clarification-xperia-lollipop-fix-t3087240

So that doesn't help explain my issue. Very often, when I have any combination of Spotify + Google Maps, Spotify + Chrome, Chrome + Google Maps, etc open, the app that's in the background will just flat out close. It's stupidly annoying while driving when my music just dies, or when my navigation disappears and I miss my turns because I don't hear any audible alerts. The issue goes away after a fresh restart, and will come back usually within a day or two.

I did not have this issue on 4.4.4.

My free ram hovers around 500-600MB at all times.

RAM status today

RAM Status after fresh restart

I absolutely hate why nothing can be properly backgrounded like in iOS. The moment I press the home button or switch apps, all my open tabs in Chrome have to be reloaded. Filling out forms in a Chrome tab while referencing another app is almost impossible... This was actually an issue on 4.4.4 as well as 5.02. I have not found any way to fix this, no matter how many times I restart my phone. I don't think my old Galaxy S3 had this problem...

Why does Android make us work so hard for a properly working phone, if we can even have that at all? As a consumer I should not have to go through 7 levels of technical hell to make a phone work properly. This isn't Linux.

Sorry for the rant. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? Everyone says RAM clearing apps are bad. So that's not an option right?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwsdert4:
.726 has this problem and as far as I can recall it was pretty serious. Fortunately in .26 the problem has been solved. It's about memory management in lollipop being poor rather than memory leak.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihaveabu:
.26 hasn't been released for D5803 USA right? I don't see it in the firmware thread

Still doesn't explain the Chrome issue. Whenever anything is backgrounded (not closed) in Chrome, all my tabs have to be reloaded. Most of the time now, even just switching from one tab to the next within Chrome while it's open forces a refresh of the tab. WTF
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] don_gabrielli:
I never had any memory leak issues with any of the firmwares. Try to turn off Stamina mode just to see if it is affecting (I have it off, and queue background data off as well). Make sure also you have not enabled Developer Options and checked the setting 'Don't keep activities' or some other setting that limit the amount of process you can have in the background.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihaveabu:
Dev options are not enabled. And stamina only kicks in at 50% battery. I could turn off que data but does that have anything to do with RAM?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihaveabu:
I just called Xperia tech support and they suggested I do this:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...uctions-using-Pc-Companion-Win-or/td-p/249946

Has anyone done this and fixed the issue?

I am apparently not the only one who has had this problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia/comments/356f80/z3c_502_stock_memory_leak_or_something_else/
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoscheiTheDeathless:
There's an Xposed module called App Settings that lets you force the OS to keep stuff resident in memory. Because it's an Xposed module, I have no idea if it's compatible with LP or not. Also, there's a point where you can run out of memory and experience involuntary restarts if you keep too many apps resident. Still, it's worth trying, imo.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heywheelie:
I was told that the memory leak wouldn't be fixed until 5.1 or even 5.1.1
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerflash:
726 did indeed have this problem. i used the xposed module for the memoryleak fix and it did indeed work...phone was much faster.

People are saying sony phones do not have the leak but the leak affects each phone in slightly different ways.

I the new .28 USA firmware running on my phone now and it is working rather well. granted i still have the lollipop memory fix module activated but i will do some testing with it off as well.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iFlasher:
Nope, the problem is not solved in any lollipop firmware, atleast for me. I tried all the latest, reflash and wiped all (Included Internal Data) and the problem still here. Is Ridiculous how with 2GB RAM I can´t have atleast 4 apps opened without the preocupation of they get killed for itself. I remember with my Nexus 7 Tablet in Android 4.3 had a looot of apps opened and no one get killed itself, it was a great multitask experience that I can't get yet in Xperia Z3 Compact. I tried edit minfree values, uninstall apps, change firmwares, edit services.jar, install tweaks, edit my build.prop, etc. Also I noticed with the Task Manager of System Tuner app that "/system/bin/mediaserver" is always eating more than 60mb of Ram, this is since kitkat and continues to happen in Lollipop, after of some hours, this same process can take up to 160 - 200 mb of RAM!!! The worst thing is that in other devices this process don't seems to take a lot of Ram as in Z3 Compact did. Idk, it would be good that we can improve multitask in this device.

I compared the /system/bin/mediaserver usage with a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and it only takes 5 mb of RAM while in Xperia Z3 Compact it always start eating 50 mb of RAM and it increases up to 160 - 200 mb in some hours. You can see my proofs here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60569610&postcount=9

So Idk what to do now, I hear that the only good devices that take importance in multitasking are HTC M9 (M8 and M7 too) and the Asus Zenphone because they merged their own patches to ART to improve a lot how multitasking is managed in android. I think sony do their devices to kill apps very agressive, so in this way they can presume that his device is more smooth than others but useless for multitasking. Weird...
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sophos1:
Hmmm, idk. My GPE m8 on 5.1 is experiencing these same symptoms. Super annoying to have my music cut out in the middle of a workout. ?

I play with my food
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iFlasher:
I referring to HTC M7, M8 and M9 with Sense, because they get own HTC patches. Well, is what I hear, and also I see some tests in YouTube and the multitask is very good.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boojay:
Any feedback on how .28 is running compared to .726 with the xposed fix?

Like many, I uninstalled the fix after I read the thread pointing out that having it active was pointless as Sony had already fixed the memory leak themselves, but after reading your reply, I decided to reinstall and sure enough, my phone does seem snappier. Having read the changelog for .28, it didn't seem worth upgrading unless performance was noticeably better.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerflash:
I will tell you im enjoying .28 with the fix running. There are enough fixes in there to make it worth it i think
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degraaff:
No issues on 23.1.A.0.726 here, I have averagely 250 MB more free RAM on Lollipop than on Kitkat, with all the same apps installed. :good:
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iFlasher:
Guys, the problem is not how many ram do you have, the problem is if you can multitask some apps without someone get killed. I can multitask within 2 or 3 apps sometimes, but I can't get more than that without someone gets killed...
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] framerper2:
It was to be expected that Lollipop in Sony devices would be problematic. For the time being, I prefer to stay in KitKat and then make the jump to 5.0.2.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degraaff:
Lollipop on Xperia started off at 5.0.2
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] framerper2:
And nobody said otherwise. I said that I prefer staying in KitKat until the Lollipop update is better to making worth the jump ;)
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mshnayde:
Okay this is really weird and hope I didn't break anything.

Last night during some free time was surfing XDA and downloaded a Candy 5 version ROM which I thought was from the SPRINT

NOTE 4 forum candy5-release.v2.5.0-20150505-UNOFFICIAL-armani.zip

but can't find the thread anywhere today when I go and check.

Phone is running but it's definitely not CM based. '

No errors. Data and calling work.

Really weird.

I wonder if it's somehow not wiped correctly?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heavanly281:
Post the link?!?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbedard:
Hehe no worries
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heavanly281:
Well downloading and flashing well see how this goes ?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxSTARBUCKSxx:
Best of luck.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbedard:
It dont flash not for our device hes fos for sure
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxSTARBUCKSxx:
I was thinking the same thing. Removing link...
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonebeatz1234:
What happened when you flashed the rom just curious. I dare not
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbedard:
Twrp doesnt flash it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessenj:
I just got two of these phones for my wife and kid. Since I'm a Note 3 owner and have been on 4.4.4 Biggins ROM cause I love the customization and the Xposed modules, the Lollipop roms are kinda new territory for me. So - that being said - what are some things I need to know with rom'ing and rooting an S5? Both phones came with 5.0 and I am not sure if I should downgrade them to a 4.4.4 rom so I can use Xposed (from what I understand, Xposed doesn't work on Lollipop), but here's the questions I need help/advice with:

1. Is there a version of Xposed that works with Lollipop

2. What do I lose besides Material if I downgrade from Lollipop to KK

3. Are the radios for KK better or worse than the Lollipop ones

4. What's the most customizable (battery icon, tether, network speed indicators, status bar mods, themes, etc.) Lollipop ROM? Which is the most developer active ROM for LP & KK?

5. Which offers the best battery life? LP or KK

I could use some advice from you, the XDA community since I'm not a noob but don't feel like "experimenting" with unstable features since these aren't my daily phones.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Jesse
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldeveraux:
Nice double post by the way :p

1) not for touchwiz based ROMs

2) You're flashing an old ROM over a new ROM, you lose your system and data

3) some say the L kernel has better battery life, most say it's worse. It's probably a toss up

4) You need to determine that for yourself. They are all basically the same due to locked bootloader, only TW based ROMs will work, which severely limits things

5) see 3
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjiggywiggy:
Pretty much the same thing ldeveraux said, except for the radios they are basically the same if you mean cell service. I notice no difference. Also, for a ROM that is most customizable I would say either MOAR or Alliance. MOAR has lots of user customized things while Alliance has themes.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessenj:
Thanks for the replies. I realized based on your responses, how I might have been a little more vague than I intended, but either way, the answer I was looking for most was pretty much addressed. I've decided that I'm going to downgrade firmware to the latest KK MOAR rom since both phones have no other data and a wipe won't disturb anything. I have TiBu backups of the apps, settings, etc so I'll just reload them both. Also, since theming is less important to me than customization, MOAR is the way I'm leaning, but I was wondering what the daily driver experience has been like for both. Has anyone run both MOAR and Alliance long enough to see general battery life comparisons, speed, features? Like, for example, are either roms having issues with common functions, like screen sharing, GPS, MMS, tethering, KNOX, etc? Since I mostly run Xposed with the modules I like, out-of-the-box tweaked interface is less of a priority since I'll just tailor the functionality afterwards.

As always - BIG THANKS for taking a look at my post and taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

Jesse
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] mort29:
Reminders (most, not all) have stopped working on my Advantage. They show correctly in the calendar and sync with the desktop where the reminders pop up but for most of them nothing happens on Adavantage.

The odd one still works as normal but for most of them although the agenda shows the appointment about to happen no pop up, sound or even notice of a reminder having been missed appears.

I seem to remember a slightly similar thing happening with WM2003 after I had changed the time zone, and had to delete and then reinstate each appointment to get the reminders up again. But in this case neither has the time zone changed nor does deleting and reinstalling (nor before you ask soft-resetting) the device makes any difference.

Any ideas anybody?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] mort29:
Resolution

I had some recurring reminders which were set to go off at 1 minute before and some at 0 minutes.

When I set all of these to at least 5 minutes before everything returned to normal.

Strange unless there is some time issue in the device or OS somewhere - anyway, just in case someone else gets this problem.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] hammermedia:
It may sound funny but change time zones, have it change the time zone. Then hold the power button until it asks are you sure you want to reboot. Let it reboot then change the time zone back. Sometimes that helps cuz it will rebuild the alarm database.

Your other option is Scarybear fix notifications and Check Notifications. You can view the alarms and remove the ones that are invalid. You need to be careful though. Delete the ones that say NULL.

I've benn through this for YEARS and that's the only way I've had 100% success.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] apd:
I agree with everything hammermedia says bar one - I find Scarybear sometimes doesn't too well on WM5. Dinarsoft Memmaid does the trick

on the notification queue for me.