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[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
Some of you may have seen my post on upgrading from M9 to G4.

In that post I had said it appears that it was more of a Sprint issue than a phone issue. But I was keeping the G4 for other reasons.

Any way I had the M9 on swappa and prices seem to be tanking. I was offered $275 ugh.

Then I spoke to my wife and convinced her that she might be better off with the M9 than the M8 and she should at least try it.

Screaming bloody murder she agreed. The very first call went straight to voice mail as she drove away with her friend and I could still see her in the drive-way.

I would sell her reliable S-Off HK M8 if she was ok with M9.

When she got back I forgot that I left it in Auto (i.e. Global mode which includes GSM). I've seen phones misbehave when set that way.

I set it for LTE/CDMA. I suspect if I put the phone in CDMA mode it would be ok. But neither M8 or G4 needs that.

I have seen G4 do this once in a VERY weak single which is why I thought M9 was ok. But the M9 does this a LOT.

Ran the latest RUU on it that just came out which does have new firmware. And I only rerooted it via TWRP (nothing else), pure stock otherwise.

By the way Wifi Tether Router now works and only requires root, nice.

Anyways she drives off to go shopping. Still on the street I call her, didn't even ring once and went straight to voice mail (like the phone was off). Called 30 min later, rang forever and didn't even go to voice mail. Later I finally did reach her. Probably because she was out of LTE and in CDMA.

So now I feel guilty even selling it for any price. I really don't want to deal with Sprint on a phone I don't even want anymore.

I thought about making a "claim" on TEP and just couldn't do it.

So I figured why not try Ut-Oh. It does cover "damaged" phones. I told them exactly what was wrong and they refused to do ut-oh.

I told them I'll go drop in the toilet and be right back.

So I call them back with the toilet episode and they accepted it, so sad I had to do that, I tried the right way.

So I have not dropped it in the toilet. I really rather not. I hate seeing waste. I asked if the phone suddenly "recovered" in shipping when they got it back, what happens?

It can happen on dunked phones when they dry out.

They said I would still keep the replacement.

They said it will be a remanufactured phone.

Should I dunk it? It is S-Off, which is partly why I didn't want to go to sprint. I think you can hide it with hacked hboot, but I was not sure how fully hidden it was.

So should I dunk it and save headaches and feel guilty or just send it and they won't care. They will also see it's S-off too and they might take notice.

I prepaid to get new phone quick and just have to send old one back to not get charged.

Not sure if I should even try the new M9 with my wife again or leave it sealed and sell it.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] OMJ:
I wouldn't worry about s-off, you'll have you're replacement phone via ut oh

also, sounds like your issues are sprint related not that specific m9
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
It's either this M9 or all M9's. I tried it like 4 times each between G4 and M9. M9 would go to voice mail or no answer at all. G4 worked every time.

My guess is it's constantly bouncing between CDMA and LTE when it's asleep and if a call comes in while switching it loses it.

If I wake the phone first it will answer on LTE or CDMA.

I think it lowers power on radios when asleep and that causes it to bounce. It does not need full power on radio if no voice or data is going, just enough to hold the tower.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
Got the new phone. HTC's web site still shows it as NOT even shipped !!

Did not come in retail box or any accessories. Cosmetically it looks new.

Still deciding what to do next. Since it's not sealed, I thought I should at least try it even if I do plan to sell.

If Network wise it worked as well as G4 or M8 I'd be happy for my wife to keep it.

I am really curious, so I know going forward with HTC or any brand for that matter.

Her current M9 has been fine since locking it into CDMA Only mode. Rock solid.

I see this problem of Calls go to Voice Mail on LTE ALL over the place all brands (LG, Samsung, HTC, Apple).

Saw one post by someone that had 3 LG G3's, 2 worked fine the other had this problem, and Sprint told him it needs to be in CDMA only mode.

He even showed him one phone working and the other not in the store when on LTE/CDMA.

Is it just variability in how well antennas are tuned or calibrated? Are some phones programmed wrong? Could it be programmed wrong and be this subtle?

90% of the time it will run the same at the G4 on LTE. 10% of the time it will run night and day different.

By the way my first M8 had an issue that DATA would only work on LTE not on 3G. Wiped and re-provisioned a bunch of times.

Ended up getting it replaced with S5. Later when I decided to go back to M8 I found out it was a programming issue after all and was an easy fix that had to be manually done on the phone in EPST.

So I do worry it's something like that again. But this is much more subtle.

Do towers divvy things up by say MAC addresses and some phones end up on one piece of equipment and other phones another?

The whole LTE switch to CDMA for calls is a total hack job in the first place. I think Verizon does it too.

This is why older phones had TWO Radios, one to stay on 3G and allowed simultaneous Voice and Data.

The hack works most of the time. But I have seen it fail on G4 too. Where as if I had it in CDMA only it would never fail.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
This is crazy.

New M9 will not fully activate. Only get DATA (LTE and CDMA). Make a call and it will say Network Busy or immediately say Call Disconnected.

Tried with Sprint Tech for hours.

So we gave up and went back to her old M8 (that I deactivated Sunday).

First they say the SIM Card is tagged as lost or stolen. So the cleared that.

Then they reactivated M8. Same thing no Voice. Can't call or Text in or Out.

Worked with 3 techs. After 3 hours the tech spoke to another Tech saying he was seeing something similar on few customers he did swaps on.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
Doesn't get nuttier than this.

Tried sending text out on new M9 and it expectedly failed.

Then tried sending text from G4 to new M9. No error but nothing happened. Called it a night and told wife that she will have no phone today.

Left phone in CDMA mode. 4 hours later in the middle of the night I hear Ding. Text received! On M9.

Called M9 and it rang.

Switch to LTE and it worked too.

Did my acid test in wife's pocket book and let it sleep and it answered in 1 ring. I had just confirmed failed doing that with old M9.

Need to test a little more but it is looking like 1st M9 was indeed bad. I unlocked bootloader, ran latest RUU, and restored DATA partition with TWRP.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] Crawshayi:
I hate to say it but your experiences with the M9 are far from common. I had the M7. I had the M8. I had the M9. The M9 was the only real disappointment. I haven't done any hard testing in regards to the signal loss, but I think that's true. I definitely dropped LTE more frequently when going to the M9 compared to the M8.

I sell phones for a living and I really WANTED to have a good reason to push the M9, but my first experience with the phone was them taking HOURS to activate before I realized you had to set them to CDMA mode... absolutely ridiculous when the S6 beside them was up and running in 2 minutes... but I digress. I had the M9 since launch with Viper and for the most part felt almost like my M8. Except I ended up really missing my M8. The M9 just felt like a step backwards with nothing really new and exciting to offer.

All said and done, more than half of the M9s I did sell ended up getting returned. One guy gave it a fair shot on vacation, but he just could barely get the camera to take a good pic and ended up with an S6. I couldn't blame him. Is the M9 camera decent? Yes. Is it on par with it's competitors? Absolutely not. In fact some of the mid-tier phones took better pictures.

I have a Note 5 now. It's a huge jump in all honesty. Signal is phenomenal, battery life is great, camera is fantastic, fingerprint scanner is fast and useful, screen is bright and crisp, etc etc etc. I do miss the speakers, rooting, and Sense. Otherwise though, I'm not sure if I can bring myself back to HTC at this point. I don't know if anything can save them now...
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
Based on the rest of your post I think your first sentence meant to say "far from uncommon", not "far from common".

The replacement M9 is still running very solid though.

I was very close to also getting a Note 5.
[X Style (Pure) Accessories] Auramaster:
Just thought I would let you guys know, I have a OnePlus OTG (on the go) micro USB to USB cable, works 100% with the Moto X pure edition. In case you don't want everything on a micro SD card or something, this is a nice alternative.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caebron:
Gentlemen, I believe I have managed to brick my beloved Nexus 5. It began rebooting randomly a week or two ago, then several days ago it just got stuck in a bootloop (booting, shutting down, booting, shutting down, etc). I guess having the phone in a dock on my cars dashboard driving around in 97F degree weather with the sun shining in, caused the poor thing to overheat. I can't even get into a stable Recovery mode anymore, it just shuts down after a few seconds and then attempts to reboot. :crying:

I am fairly confident there is no remedy, but I thought I'd throw in my hat here to see if anyone has any pointers. I guess I am hoping for a best case scenario type deal. It is mainly the battery that would take damage from overheating, correct? If so, I might try replacing it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob420p:
Try hooking it up to a PC and seeing if u can use PC companion.try and reaserch it Ive seen it before on one of these threads.I'm sorry but I suck using pc s
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caebron:
PC companion is for the Sony Experia, no?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob420p:
Yes I should have said it different try wigs fresh
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caebron:
Yeah, I have the Nexus toolkit. But without my phone even turning on (or staying turned on while I try getting into bootloader), there isn't much the toolkit can do. Not sure where you're trying to point me with this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RolF2:
Looks like power button problem ...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caebron:
You know it's funny you would say say that. I was thinking about that myself. Is this a known cause?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RolF2:
Yes, thats known problem, you can find more threads about same simptoms as yours here on xda
[General Topics] boyfriendinacoma:
i just had hard reset my phone and didnt install all that At&t junk on it

but now i cant install windows media skins

its says this

cannot copy Thumbs: access denied

make sure your device has sufficant memory, that that file is not set as read only and that you have permission to copy this file type

what is happening?
[General Topics] TaurusBullba R.I.P.:
I'm not completely clear on what you're trying to do or on what device. But, thumbs.db is a "hidden" Windows file. Don't copy that over. Then you won't get that error.
[General Topics] boyfriendinacoma:
oh its the 8125

but what i did was hard reset and when the at&t cab was going to pop up i just soft reset and it didnt install it but im just trying to skin my 8125's wm player
[General Topics] sukniyom:
try to use USB_to_HDD.cab instead of copying via activesync. It's much better
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinkymonk:
I've googled everywhere and i desperately need 4.4.4 twrp backup so i can flash it via twrp .. i cant do it through adb becuase my phones usb port is messed up ..

Please anyone .. moto E .. bought in India. First gen
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinkymonk:
bump ???

anyone ??? jesus christ this forum never responds ...
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sanjay_chainani:
TWRP 4.4.4 backup

mega.nz/#!xFEwiQjS!l_3DnnMot0viz5wA2_tJXJENlLJVJpSM_SrUePHPOQ0

Here you go buddy . hope it helps
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinkymonk:
thanks brother .. you are a legend ... :good::D
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Here are a couple of apps, both free that should make a difference in system performance. They've made a difference for me. Both require root.

The 1st allows you to set fstrim to run on a schedule... You can google on fstrim and a popular app called "lagfix" however trimmer is also free and allows scheduling a weekly run which is only available in the pay version of lagfix. It also is ad free unlike lagfix.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fifthelement.trimmer

The 2nd app is called sEFix and it points to an xda thread that discusses how it handles "lag reduction" in it's description.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zdvdev.sef&hl=en

Hope someone finds these useful.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] wallah:
Thank you for that. Can you please give some advice hot to set the Treshold in sEFix?

Stock Rom + xposed
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
I slid mine all the way to the right...I was quite pleased with the result. For trimmer you'll probably have to reboot to see the most effect. I let trimmer run weekly.

If someone tries the apps and likes the results please reply back to let folks know. In the discussion I read gamers were especially happy with the FPS increase they saw when using sEFix.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] wallah:
Thank you, I will follow your instructions ?

Stock Rom + xposed
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] CK0y0TE:
I have +140 apps according to AR optimizing cache after a cache wipe in TWRP.

My phone (6939y, stock, TWRP, rooted, partitions resized) is never slow.

Why did yours become as slow to decide a tune-up is neccesary?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn 6039Y met Tapatalk
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Android 5.0.2 is known for excessive lag..thats the whole reason android 5.1.1 came out so quickly. If you are lucky enough not to NOTICE IT great for you! Using the dalvik runtime for xposed vs the art runtime is also known to add lag. I've left my idol 3 sitting in sleep for several hours only to find when it's woken it's at a crawl till I do a reboot. I have 12 different android devices(tablets, phones, android tv etc) all running a similar set of apps and that doesn't occur with any of the others...then again none of them are on android 5.0.2. Speed of the external microsd as well as readahead cache can also cause slowdowns....in fact it's almost impossible to nail down ALL the possible causes of slowdowns.

I have to wonder about folks who jump into a conversation they are not involved in just to say "Doesn't happen to me. What are YOU doing wrong?"
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Nikola Jovanovic:
After 2 days using sefix and trimmer have to say I'm not sure if it really works or it's placebo. Seems like it is a improvement but I get the same results with sefix on 256 or 1024 threshold..

Sent from hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Trimmer only runs weekly...it's more of a housekeeping issue. If you read the thread behind sefix it explains what it does which is solve a problem with random number generation (/dev/urandom) that can cause lag as apps wait on results...the program corrects the situation. If 256 is giving you the same entropy generation as 512 or 1024 then use whatever suits you but I can tell a difference in ui responsiveness....especially when hitting the button and having it come out of sleep..pulling down the notification bar etc.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Nikola Jovanovic:
That's obvious but no fps changes or loading times in games for me. :)

Sent from hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Did you try one of the games mentioned in the xda thread? The game would have to use /dev/urandom to get an increase in fps I would think. (I'm not a gamer) It's not a global fix to all games. Given the ui improvement and so far *knocks on wood* no battery drain as a result of running it I've been running it for several day's so far with nothing but positive results. On the other hand it's not really my job to "sell" you on it since I don't make a thing whether you choose to use it or not.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Nikola Jovanovic:
It sounds stupid that Google don't fix this things like entropy pool(it's not permanent fix though) or battery drains that come from location services, facebook, ui, media server, active radio even when phone sleeps, etc..

Sent from hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] gecko702:
What about the audio skipping? I haven't found a fix yet i use apollo player
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Nikola Jovanovic:
On stock 0.1 firmware no skips, but heard the other users have it.

Sent from hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
If you are referring to the skipping while listening through bluetooth that's not caused by lag and this won't do anything for it. I don't have any skipping when listening through speakers. A cause for that might be a slow microsd card if you are listening to music from it....you can try moving some music to the internal storage and see if it still skips to eliminate that possibility.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] gecko702:
Hmmm i see you got a point besides this microsd is from way back 2012 so i might as well upgrade to a samsung one then
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Not sure where you are located but here in USA I've seen plenty of deals for a 64GB around $17-20 US and $50 for the 128GB. Rather annoying since I paid $70 for my 128GB not very long ago. ;)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] gecko702:
Yeah i know i haven't taken care of buying another sd card lmao its a sandisk so its pretty slow I know amazon has good deals now
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] kl_h:
Man, thanks for these apps, they helped sooo much!
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Buckethead63:
Thank you for the apps !
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] Nikola Jovanovic:
On the stock rom there was big need for apps like this.. Sefix, fstrim.. Now I do manually input fstrim comm whene I feel like it, but on cm12 no real need for them. As I said, must have when you're on stock.

sent from Hell
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] wakolubawe:
Hey guys, I just wanted to say that if you want actually visible results from increasing the Entropy, I would suggest doing so from the Kernel Adiutor app.

On my 6045Y sEFix only went up to 1024, and I didn't see any visible results.

From the Kernel Adiutor app however, under the "Entropy" menu I set both my read & write poolsize to 4096, and now my UI runs at a constant 60fps, and everything just seems way faster.

I was really wondering if I should just flash CM12.1 to deal with lag, but now, after doing this I see no need :p
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Not sure what you looked at but the slider in sefix goes up to 4096[at least on my 6045i it does](slide it all the way to the right). You do however make a good point in that if the user already has kernel adiutor installed using it to set the entropy pool allows you to eliminate one extra app which can free up memory and resources.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] De3emon:
On my 6045i it only went up to 1024. Did even know what that was in kernel auditor but I set it to 4096 read and write and so far it seems about the same. My phone wasn't exactly slow before though so it's hard to say. I'm running VanirAOSP.

The only time my phone really noticeably lags is when it tries to do translucent effects. An easily testable example is when watching youtube videos in the browser and the pause/play/navigation slider fades in and out at the bottom. I wonder if there's any way to disable this effect.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] savzz.z:
Hey guys, I've recently tried an app called ROEHSOFT RAM Expander, and it works great! What this app does is use unnecessary external storage space as ram.. After the swap file has been applied you'll feel a slight change on your phone's performance! Of course, the RAM indication value will sustain but the phone now has more RAM! Tested and works great on 6045Y CM 12.1 20/12 OC Kernel...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
Hi guys, annoying problem here..

So my buttons stopped working randomly and I'm using the soft keys as replacement.. Very annoying.

The buttons stopped randomly. I flashed different ROMs with no luck.. Done research online and few people have same issue with no solution. Anyone know the cause? Thank you.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Have you tried flashing the stock images with fastboot?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
I haven't no but the people with the same issue have with no luck
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Surely it's worth a try...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gspotr:
Flashed it. Nothing changed =(
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhamer83:
How accurate is the battery usage page on the Pure? This is with 1hr 50 minutes of SOT @ 50% brightness and adaptive screen enabled.. Kind of hard to believe that only 5% of the battery was used by the screen.

[IMG="Screenshot"]http://imgur.com/ITwlNeN.jpg[/IMG]
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabinblitz:
I obtained S-Off on my One M8, but whenever I hook up my phone to a PC or Mac, it won't let me access anything on the phone. adb won't work, I don't get the option to select MTP, and the phone still charges. I got error code 43 on the PC, and I've tried installing HTC Sync on both to no avail. Any other suggestions at this point? I really only need to do this in order to get a custom recovery on my phone.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
In the title, is says "won't install correct driver" but in the post,it sounds like you are past that point, and trying to connect adb/fastboot. Which is is? Two completely different issues.

What version Windows? Win10 has been found to be very problematic with this phone. Also, is the port USB 2.0 or 3.0 (also makes a difference)?

Try installing generic adb/fastboot drivers.
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sheikboy:
Hey all,

So from what I understand, one of the few ways to get over-the-air live tv with an HD antenna on your Nexus Player is to get an HD Homerun or comparable device that transmits the signal over DLNA to your devices. This is a little over-kill for me, as I just need live tv on my Nexus Player. Is it possible right now to use a USB-to-Coax TV Stick (like this one: www(dot)hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr955q.htm ) with a usb to micro-usb adapter? Any reason why this won't work?

Best,

Sheik
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GabbyWC:
The link you posted above (when manually corrected) leads to a 404 error message. The correct link is http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr955q.html. Does the product's web site list Android compatibility? I doubt that it would work as you have planned but I wonder if it *might* be possible because they apparently support Linux (which is similar to Android). The Linux tab lists an e-mail address which you can contact for "customization of the Linux driver" so maybe that's the person to ask. Is there a reason why you don't just plug the OTA line directly in to your TV?
[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sheikboy:
I was hoping to use the Live Channels function on the Nexus Player, OTA works fine in the TV, but having one box for everything appeals to me
[Greenify] stevvie:
I have a Samsung S4 with CMOptimized 12.1 Fresh install. I installed greenify through the play store, then the donation package. When I click an experimental feture I'm asked to purchase the donation package even though it's INSTALLED. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both, Clearing data and cache on both. Even tried clearing the data and cache on the play store like it waasa advised for somebodt from the website. But still being asked to purchase it AGAIN and AGAIN. Can anybody help