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[G4 General] valerinism:
I haven't seen this tip posted yet so I thought I'd put it up.

You don't need to have one of those fancy circle cases to see what the time is. You don't even have to press the power button or tap the screen. While the screen is off, swipe your finger from the top to the middle of the screen. It will show you a clock that disappears as soon as soon as you lift your finger. It will also show you your notification bar. So if you have your lock screen set to not show you any notifications, you can use this method to see if you have a text or email or whatever, with out having to unlock your phone.

EDIT: This doesn't appear to work on all phones. YMMV.
[G4 General] 20degrees:
You can do it from the middle of the screen also. Just slide your finger downwards.
[G4 General] Andrew025:
And of course... it doesn't work on the at&t model.
[G4 General] kyle1867:
Doesn't seem to work for me...

Is it double tap then swipe? I'm trying all sorts of tapping combinations and nothing interesting is happening, other than the screen turning on as normal when you double tap
[G4 General] 20degrees:
Place thumb on screen, slide down. The screen has to be off of course.
[G4 General] kyle1867:
-Turn screen off

-Put finger anywhere on screen

-Without releasing, swipe down

-Release finger

Is that right? I've tried about 10 times and I'm getting nothing. Is there a setting to enable/disable this somewhere? I might have disabled it by mistake
[G4 General] sablemonster:
You have to keep your thumb on the screen. As soon as you lift your finger, the screen goes back to sleep. You should notice the notification light come on if its working.
[G4 General] fr4nk1yn:
It's kind of annoying. I found this awhile ago.

If you can't get it to work ya the screen, one-one-thousand,then swipe down.
[G4 General] 0rigin:
I am amazed how people don't find this out on their own within the first hour of handling the phone.
[G4 General] Andrew025:
Do you have an AT&T model?
[G4 General] Svartsyn333:
Doesn't work for me. I have the international version with o2 ROM branding.

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Oh, this only works with activated lockscreen. I had mine off.
[G4 General] sharpehenry:
In case you guys haven't read the instruction manual that came with the phone, all gestures and tips are in there.
[G4 General] AegisValour:
Is there a way to disable this?
[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
From what I've read, it does not work on AT&T models. And I don't think there is a way to disable the function, for models that have it.
[G4 General] sladflob:
And of course it's in the insanely small/thin font that you have no chance of reading if you're long sighted but aren't wearing your reading glasses (e.g. when you wake up during the night).
[G4 General] bigjustinturbo:
Correct. Your Lock Screen must be set to at least Swipe, and the screen must be locked at the time. It won't work on None, or if your phone hasn't locked yet due to setting a Lock timer after the screen timeout.
[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
At risk of sounding dense, what is the main benefit of this? I rarely use this, but don't recall seeing notifications with it, at least not the sort that show you a text. I see a clock and the status bar at the top (signal strength, etc).

If I want to see the time, I could wake the screen up, including by double-tapping (so no need for access to the rear buttons). I see more notifications that way as well. One advantage of this would be if I'm in a dark room, and I'm trying to avoid disturbing people by lighting up the whole screen. But at least for me, that scenario is not common.

Am I just missing something about what makes this feature handy?
[G4 General] 0rigin:
It's useless imo. And what annoys me more is the fact, that I can't turn it off.
[G4 General] sharpehenry:
I'm wondering if disabling swipe views and doubled tap to screen on actually increases battery life. My nexus 5 with custom kernel had that function but battery drain was significant.
[G4 General] player911:
Honestly it is just easier. Instead of Double Tapping to turn on, checking for notifications (if you have none or none you are concerned with), then double tapping off.

It is a quick peek. Shows you the time and notifications. You don't always have to wake your phone by double tapping. It is a 1 quick swipe gesture that turns the screen on, shows you relevant information, and turns off in 1 swoop.

I use it ALL the time. I have the Verizon model btw. Whether you use it or not, it is a super nice feature and just something that really adds to the convenience.
[G4 General] juju2011:
Works on my Canadian model as well pretty useful thx dude
[G4 General] KingFatty:
I wish I could make it work when my screen is unlocked. I usually have my phone screen OFF but the phone is unlocked for 30 minutes after turning the screen off. So within that 30 minutes, I can't use the quick peek to the time, and have to turn on the screen then turn it off again.

But I guess it's better to put up with turning the screen on/off for the time while staying unlocked, instead of locking the phone just to get quick peek time back.
[G4 General] dontbeweakvato:
Did you know there its a double tap to sleep function. With screen on double tap the status bar ..... Double tap where it says 4g lte on the top of the screen. Oh and your tip..... Lg tells you that if you turn on help settings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustF:
Hello,

lol

:D

Did anyone try this app:

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justforfun.simplevibrator

?

Lol

Amazing!!!

Just asking...

:D
[Android General] cachetesmata3:
New

Enviado desde mi Ascend Y300 mediante Tapatalk
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JediAndroid:
Hi all, I have an SGH-i747 with ver 4.0.4 which has been rooted. I will like to update my version systematically with the original updates i believe there where from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 then 4.1.2. then 4.3, 4.4.2 etcc.. its there a place where i can find the original ups, my phone will not take the original firmware updates on its own. Reason is once i try to flash any ROM pass 4.1.1 i loose the Mobile Data getting the no sim inserted msg and no signal, forcing me to go back the original state in order to work. seems there is a problem with the modem once i go pass 4.1.1. .. thank you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
What bootloader version is on the phone? Where did you get the firmware to flash? You're using desktop Odin to flash?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jason2678:
Are ota updates an option for you? If they are you can unroot and flash the stock recovery; it might be easiest just to Odin back to stock.

Otherwise enewman has posted firmware updates to xda. They are bootloader + modem zips you can flash in custom recovery. You have to flash them incrementally, mjb then ne4 then nj1. Search the forum here and you'll find them. Just be careful and read read read those threads. Messing with bootloaders is the best way to hard brick this phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gfinockio:
I'm in a similar situation - I've been on a custom version of the Stock ROM for 4.1.2 - never bothered to update the bootloader because I had the soft unlock done, didn't want to lose it. Now I'm bored with it. I'd love to get up to 4.4, or even a 5.0 ROM... but not sure the steps needed to do so. I'm vaguely aware that I have to update the bootloader/kernel, etc... but it seems like I'm 4 years behind the curve with all the ROMs and threads about bootloaders, and I've lost my touch.

That thread with the list of bootloaders sounds good though, I'll go looking for it to start I guess.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jason2678:
Here you go. This TLDR post has all enewman's firmware update threads linked to it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gfinockio:
Thanks! I'll give it a look, down a couple of shots of liquid courage, and give it a go this weekend.

EDIT: Yikes, didn't take long for that to fizzle out. I'm using a i747M. Noticed that my current baseband version isn't listed anywhere on that thread. Hmmm. Oh well, guess I'll do some more digging later...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
With an i747m, you can flash the latest 4.4.2 using firmware from sammobile.com and desktop Odin.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gfinockio:
Do I need to do them in sequence, or can I jump to the latest? I'm assuming once I've flashed the stock firmware, I can load any current custom ROM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
[MENTION=1165141]gfinockio[/MENTION], is your phone sim unlocked? If not and you don't see any mention of the warranty bit in download mode, you could flash back to stock 4.1.1, use the free method to sim unlock, and then run OTA updates until you are running the latest ROM. OTA updates are the safest route to upgrade the phone.

If you phone is sim unlocked already, you could flash directly to the latest ROM; however, you will not be able to downgrade the bootloader as any attempts to downgrade the bootloader could hard brick you phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gfinockio:
I used the "free unlock" in 4.1.2 (so it's unlocked) but I thought when you upgraded the bootloader you lost that lock. Now that I believe that isn't the case (and I've used a different tool to unlock as well), I may just try the OTA updates. I was with MTS (Manitoba), but now I'm with Rogers, so I guess I would just use the Rogers OTA images to upgrade from 4.1.2 to 4.4? Do I use Odin or whatever to do that? Once I upgrade to a "stock" image, won't the updater just prompt me to upgrade again and again until I'm "up to date"?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
Unlocking the phone via code or the free method is permanent even after upgrading the ROM, bootloader, and modem.

The carrier ROMs for the i747m are pretty much identical but I always recommend sticking with the original carrier's ROM. If you download the stock image from sammobile.com, use Odin to flash the ROM.

OTA updates will not work with a rooted stock ROM too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] komali2:
When i search for the stock firmware on sammobile for the i747m, it doesn't have any listings. Are you able to find it on there? I don't see it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
Search for the sgh-i747m.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
Check here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SGH-I747M/

you can sort by carrier or country.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkharbinger81:
Hey guys I have a weird issue with my VZW dinc I originally went through the htcdev.com website unlocked bootloader and had s-on and was ok with that, we'll somehow I managed to get locked again with s-on my SD card won't mount, I can't flash a rom from SD card only the emmc partition. And I can't mount any of them through fastboot or usb in recovery the ruu for froyo isn't reading the phone when im running 4.3 and my twrp recovery won't let my side load either so what Roms I have is all i have any ideas how to fix this I can't even adb devices in command prompt it don't show up but the phone shows up in fastboot or hboot mode
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A. Nieveen:
Well currently i am using jackpal.androidterm emulator and always needed to type 2 commands bf new entriws would be allowed.

Namely the following commands. 1. startup su by running su command. 2. mounting r/o to r/w of /system mount blabla.

Well here comes in my helpfull hint (^o^)

go into settings menu and alter the startup command send to shell into this line of text.

su && busybox mount -o remount,rw /system

now ur emulator will always start with su approved (#) and /system

running as r/w mounted. u could add more commands as long as u

add these symbols btween commands && . take note there aint spaces inbetween or it wont work.

ohh and easy command help for terminal u get by typing the next

line of text. replace the COMMAND with desired item.

busybox COMMAND --help

use the busybox command on its own to see commands it can use..

hope helps someone who wanna know more about busybox and terminal emulator commands.

And if u wanna use bash scripts just add it to the startup command.

su && busybox mount -o remount,rw /system && bash

u need bash installed of course, and i used an alternate path so the program stays clean. i used /data/local/foldername to store my bash, busybox, android toolbox so they wouldnt get corrupted. the android toolbox i found in my /system/bin and i put bash and busybox into /system/xbin and all seems to work fine.
[XDA Assist] Kenzerr:
Hey guys, I need your help on how to unbrick Tecno P5s...it has bricked after i tried to change the status bar appearance using the ROM ToolBox Pro application... please help on how to recover it again. Any help will be appreciated.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
Hello lads,

I've got a problem, my SD Card Slot has stopped working.

I've tried another SD Card, i've tried soft-reset's, i've tried different WM6 ROM's, i've even found an original Orange ROM on the Prophet Wiki, and I still can't get it working.

Anybody got any idea's please ?

Thanks,

Ferret !
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] lastnikita:
Yep, just keep waiting :D

Or you may want to try to keep it shutdown for a few days, mine began to work again (on its own....) after 4-5 days if I remember well, good luck ;)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
It seems to come back every so often - But then just locks the phone up when I try and access anything !
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] korben:
sorry, wrong forum
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
I had it working for abit - But now it's stopped again :(
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] loko:
BiG BlUFf

Got same problem here. Nothing we can do then? I've tried almost everything! I've even installed WM6, and no use.

I need my sd for the maps in the tt. dunno how I'm gonna work it out.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
Exactly - I'm supposed to be driving about 400 miles in about 3 weeks time, so need to get it working.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] loko:
HI!!!

hey! found a solution that worked, at least for me. I fully dissasembled the hole phone and took a look at it, and found that the problem was that the pins were dirty! Can you believe it? ****, so much work and that was the problem! So I got a fake sd card, the tipical that come with any phone or whatever but ar only made of plastic. I put some alcohol on it and put it in and out several times. Don't put to much alcohol or you can break something,ok? and tried the sd card then. It worked perfectly. I don't know if this will help, but I hope it does!

Please tell me if it works for you too,ok?

Good luck.

bye.

Ivan.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
I tried cleaning them up with abit of tissue wrapped around that plastic SD card, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

I don't like the sound of putting alcohol inside the phone :p
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] loko:
Ok, I understand. But the truth is that the pins get dirty, and the alcohol cleans very well in first place, and evaporates very fast in the second. Give it a try, but only a couple of drops of alcohol. Really it worked for me.

bye.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] PPCNUT:
I have heard that a small amount of alcohol used as loko suggested actually works. Good luck with getting it working again.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
I think i've finally got it working - And not by using the alcohol drops.

I actually dropped it from about 3ft today, and all of a sudden, it's working again !

So next time it stop's working, I'll drop it again !
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] loko:
Jajajajajajajajaj

Ok.

I'll give it a try next time!!

That's a good one!
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
Still ain't got a working Storage Card - Anybody else experiencing this ? Or anyone fixed it ?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] agoesp:
i have that problem too, my mmc (512MB) not detect. i'm using dopod 818, i had update rom, but still have that problem. someone have another solution than using alcohol???
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Stuclint:
Remember Nintendo?

Remember when you used to have to blow in Nintendo games to get them to work? Well, the same problem plagues the SD slot in the Prophet. I'd say 9 chances out of 10 is, your pins are dirty like loko says. He's also right about using Alcohol to clean them too! I would assume that you wouldn't put beer in your phone, but rubbing Alcohol is used to clean a lot of eletronic equipement especially where contact points are involved. I would be much more weary of putting tissues in there than Alcohol. I had the same problem, and solved it by blowing in the slot just like back in the day with Nintendo. (after flashing and reflashing for days, thinking it was a software problem) If you're afraid to get spit in there, you can get a can of compressed air from any good electronics store.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
The alcohol didn't work either.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] parmenides:
SD slot doesn't work

Try drinking it (the alcohol). At least it might make you feel better.

But seriously, I followed the advice to blow in the slot, and that worked for me.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Rudegar:
drinking rubbing alcohol can make you blid or even kill you

i'd sugest crying over drinking that or better yet

getting some drinking alcohol :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] enduromen:
I think the s200 is a drunk PDA:p it may whant more give it whisky this time lollolo.

Now for serios try dissasemble e verify the conector is not so dificult there are a lot of manual´s were how to do it. The first day i buy my s200 i dissassenble it completly to clean and change cover because it came to me almost dying.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] FerretAD:
Well it still doesn't work - And it's now long out of warranty, so I think i'll open it up this weekend.

-=EDIT=- I've opened it up now, and the slot for the SD card is sealed, and you can't actually get at the pins, so I had a look down the slot for any bent pins, no bent pins :(

So i'm still no further.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] Soheil86:
Dissappearing Files Into Folders of Storage Card

I dont have this problem till i upgraded my rom to Touch VIII , & I have your problem :( :( :( :(
[XDA Assist] NickHark:
I need help refreshing playlists on my SG3 (SGH—747) Android 4.4.2.

I create three podcast playlists on my PC daily, e.g.

Playlist.m3u the contents of which are typically: extSdCard\Music\Podcasts\The John Batchelor Show\JBS_150707A.mp3.

I FTP the playlists and the MP3s to my S3 on a daily basis.

The issue I am trying to resolve is that some of the podcasts listed in the playlists are duplicated. I have an app that deletes duplicates in playlists.

I have tried deleting the cache; deleting the data; and force stopping the media player in the system apps utility, before and after I ftp the updated playlist. Sometimes it works, and sometime it doesn’t.

There must be a location on my phone that stores the playlists (other than in my “\memory card\Playlists\” folder where I keep all of my playlists, so that the image of a deleted playlist is retained, and then combined with the new playlist?

I cannot find any app that would simply update (all) the playlists while disregarding the way the playlist looked yesterday.

Where can I go to find any possible answer? Or, How can I better phrase the question to find an answer?

Thanks for your help.
[XDA Assist] gwilly330:
After doing the xposed lollipop rom update for armv7 for my LG optimus l90 and I flashed it using twrp...... my phone rebooted like normal but once it got to T-mobile it got stuck there so I booted in twrp custom recovery mode and wipe the dalvik cache and the data. That did not work so I did a factory reset, now everytime I try to boot my phone it shows the LG logo and boots into recovery mode!! I don't have access to download mode because I unlocked the bootloader with this link: http://xdaforums.com/lg-l...e-l90-t2836457

So I only have access to Recovery mode (it is stock recovery though because I did a format through stock Recovery) (yes I have SD card) and fastboot!!

Does anyone else know how to fix this?? I think I might but I don't know where to get stock lg roms that are zip files and I can only get .kdz for the LG flash tool, but I cannot use that because I don't have Download mode.

Please help! Also I do not have root permissions anymore, so If there is a way to gain root through Recovery or Fastboot for this device that would be great!
[XDA Assist] gwilly330:
Please help anyone!!
[XDA Assist] Razvan:
Hi there

You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here:

Optimus L90 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Before that please see this thread: How to unbrick your hardbricked phone, working with all l90 models.

Good luck
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cremaster:
The other day a young girl about 200 miles away decided to steal her daddys truck and go meet an older pervert she met on the interwebs. Well an Amber alert was issued and my phone woke me up, and the orange triangle with a number stayed on my phone. I was told by verison that it would not disappear until the alert was canceled. It was canceled and it is still on the phone and Verizon now says they just don't know how to make it go away. I can live with that but I don't ever want to hear another Amber alert. I am not cold or uncaring but I think that the Amber thingie is missuses for children that are missing but safe. I can set it to not go off except for presidential alerts and I had it set but it went off anyway. I don't want to root and there seem to be no solutions on the internets yet. I would think that with the proper file viewer I could go in and switch the sound file to an empty or super quiet audio file. Sort of a windows work around. Anyone here know how to do this? I am not android literate but I can follow directions.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bort76:
I don't know if you are on lollipop yet, but for me there is an actual app called "Emergency Alerts" in the app drawer. The setting are in there.

I think on kitkat, the settings were in the Messaging app.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrecless:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+turn+off+emergency+alerts+in+android
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mechachu:
So I'm attempting to use WiFi tether router. I'm on stock OF6 rooted. It works for approximately 10-20 minutes and then the WiFi on my phone toggles off. WiFi tether router stays on but of course, ceases functioning. Any ideas?

I have keep WiFi on during sleep set to always and everything else in advanced unchecked. I've tried the two WiFi options in WiFi tether router on and off. I have sprint connection optimizer turned off.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woodboy12:
I'm having the same problem, it keeps disconnecting after several minutes. The phone shows the WiFi Tether Router running normally, but it disconnects from my iPad and disappears from my list of wireless networks. If I disable and restart, it again works for several minutes, then disconnects

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CZ FORD:
Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem ????
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SektorZero:
Hi! I tried to root my Moto G with the method of the sticky "all in one" ... but my wifi signal is broken now ...

I followed this step: http://xdaforums.com/moto-g-2014/general/fix-wifi-missing-file-t3007540 but still fail at connect ...

Ideas?

Thanks in advance!!!!