yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S6 General] rp3:
Interesting as I'm the other way:

I have an S6 Edge (having swapped a S6 wanting it to be less wide). I'm interested in the S7 (not edge) because it is 2.74mm wide as opposed to 2.76 on the edge and 2.78 on the S6. I use Tmobile USA so their preorder promo of Netflix and VR makes the cost of upgrading attractive.

I wish the phone had a even higher screen to body ratio (73% is my target, the LG G2 is my ideal). I also wish it was more boxy a la Note 5. I also wish they would put a soft-touch plastic back on it (a la Nexus 5).

Beyond the looks, I don't see a a major reason to upgrade. No game/app/photo/competitor phone makes my S6E seem insufficient. My Gear VR experience has me thinking of future things to add, but none of those things were added to the S7 other than better cooling
[Galaxy S6 General] HKSpeed:
I like how they removed the chrome trim around the home button. Very stealthy on the black model. I also like the increase in RAM to 4GB. I'm going to wait for the S8.

Was there an announcement of a Samsung equivalent to Apple's 3D touch? I guess the rumors were untrue.
[Galaxy S6 General] psych0r3bel:
I think you missed the most important part of the S7 that EVERYONE here in NA should be excited about: North American version uses SNAPDRAGON 820. AOSP is back!
[Galaxy S6 General] Maknora:
the major reason why the s7 is better than the s6 is that there is 4gb ram on it. it makes a difference folks. I had an edge and now an edge plus and the edge plus doesn't slow down at all. the only difference? extra gig of ram. the s7 is gonna be raved in reviews and will be revived as the best galaxy ever.
[Galaxy S6 General] abdelha:
the S7 is better in every category, but still it's not worth upgrading from the S6, if you had S5 then yes for sure, or even NOTE 4......but the S6 is just fine....if i would upgrade then it will be because of the battery and new camera tech....
[Galaxy S6 General] zeehkaev:
After having the S6 I kinda see this as a neutral aspect... I like the Exynos a lot !

Lets see how the new Exynos goes with the S820 and we'll see. For someone who is not a flashaholic, I would really recommend the S6 or any other Exynos based device without thinking twice, my phone runs perfectly.

My old Z2 with a Snapdragon 801 had a lot more issues than the S6, not to mention the speed difference!
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Agreed. But actually they both look good benchmark wise, almost equal. Still prefer the EXYNOS, although this time I won't mind either, as I made an effort to get exynos in the past only even if it meant importing.

http://www.mobipicker.com/galaxy-s7-exynos-8890-vs-galaxy-s7-snapdragon-820-performance-comparison/
[Galaxy S6 General] djbutter:
They got rid of the IR blaster for the S7? I had no idea. That's a deal breaker for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] VICosPhi:
Wow...no IR blaster?! Who is the Dr. Evil at Samsung that decided to do this after adding water resistance and expandable storage??

No IR blaster is a deal breaker for me as well...going to stay with my S6 edge, like the size of it anyways!
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
Not upgrading either because of this, I use the IR blaster every day, it's so much better than trying to find the remote and it even controls air conditioning, if there is no ir blaster on the s8 I might even put off upgrading even longer maybe wait till note7. Oh and I really wished they make the back plastic and removable again too, glass just sucks (plastic>>aluminium>>glass)
[Galaxy S6 General] silent_freak:
Now that Samsung Galaxy S7 is here, how does it effects the scope of your Galaxy S6?

Created a thread, got locked. Didn't know about this one. So, let's continue discussion here:

Well, Samsung did pull an Apple here. The launch of S7 felt like a bloated launch of iPhone 6s series. While not much changed on the outer shell of the phone, a lot of cool stuff got introduced inside the phone.

Waterproofing - IP68

SD Card is back

Insanely improved Camera with Dual Pixel auto focus and f1.7 lens

New display with Always on tech

A beastly processor upgrade - CPU/GPU brings significant gains over 7420

3000mAh of love.

So, are you planning to upgrade to S7 or any worthy competitor like LG G5 or maybe even Xiaomi Mi5 (awesome VFM)? Also, given the poor tracks record of Samsung with software updates, do you think we will receive all software goodness and maybe an Always-on implementation (AMOLED, should be possible)? :confused:
[Galaxy S6 General] P30SiNa:
Samsung always makes their previous phones buggy and leave them at a terrible state after they release a new phone. this happened to my Note 3. they released a really broken android 5.0 update and they didn't even update it to 5.1 after they released Note 4.

Now same thing is happening to Note 4 after the release of Note 5. and then again, same thing will happen to S6. They do update S6 but will leave some bugs, forcing people to pay for their "next big thing". altought 6.0 was a good update for S6 but I'm sure future updates will break some stuff.

I don't consider their new processor a new success. We do not need 8 core cpu on a phone. These lazy samsung devs put more powerful hardware on their phone because their software is not optimized enough. they should optimize their software for speed improvement instead of putting 8 core or 4gb of ram.

My PC had 4gb ram and I played lots of great games with it. now a 3gb ram is not enough for these samsung phones. why? because their software is a total mess.

I liked Snapdragon's move for going back to 4 cores. again 8 core is useless.

I'm done with this company. From now on, only Nexus.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ramsey:
I thought there was an IR blaster on the S7, that may just ruin the deal for me.. The one the S6 is super powerful lol. I love having an IR blaster! The ones on Samsung devices are always the best ones, then the HTC ones. LG has them but they're almost useless.

By the way, this person advertised that he's creating a product and wants people to back him up. It's an IR blaster that attaches itself to phones, seems really cool: http://www.eyekickstarter.com/
[Galaxy S6 General] Duzzy5:
You can sell your used S6 for about 300-350€ and buy s7 for 720€. so paying ~400€ is fair, for such improvements? for 400€ you have some things better on paper but in real life... i dont think so :D not worth to upgrade i am staying with my s6 untill s8 i guess.
[Galaxy S6 General] lummujaj:
Or sell s6 and buy MI 5bpro ... 400$ (375e) for 128gb snapdragon 820 ...and snapdragon killed the new exynos. Dont be like iFools to stay loyal to the company who rapes you. 4 months for an update to theirs flagship ?? Really ...
[Galaxy S6 General] silent_freak:
This.

Also, Snapdragon 820 looks like seriously well optimised to me.

---------- Post added at 08:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 AM ----------

Haha. Amen. I always plan to buy a Nexus but somehow it is always ruined for me.

Nexus 5 = Poor camera and pitiful battery life.

Nexus 6 = Huge and expensive with a really poor Amoled.

Nexus 5x = Performs poorer than Nexus 5 due to its hardware encryption.

Nexus 6P = Snapdragon 810, need i say more.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamykowsky:
As it is mentioned in tittle, is it possible to turn off increasing volume of ringtone?

I'm on stock Marshmallow.

Thanks for the answers.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00143:
Yes, but you will have to be rooted and twrp installed. Just flash the attached zip file in twrp. It will replace your audio_ext_spkr.conf with a modded one to make the ringtone normal.

Disable Ascending Ringtone
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamykowsky:
Thank you a lot. I'm already rooted and with twrp. One more time, thank you.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ar.rayan:
and how to restore it back if i want ?
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00143:
Flash this to go back to stock....

Stock Ascending Ringtone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbrk9:
Deleted files system does not turn on the tablet. How can i fix?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sl75:
Im a complete newbie to andriod and im struggling to find the correct way to restore an nandriod backup to my htc one m8. Ive read loads of different threads and guides but so far none are working for me.

I have an HTC One M8, ive unlocked the bootloader and installed twrp.

Ive downloaded this file:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64893769&postcount=842

But how on earth do I restore that to my phone? Any help appreciated please im really stuck.

Thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
If you read the OP of the thread you got that from, you will find the instructions on how to do this. It's right at the top of the first page.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M7ammad.eb:
Well something I've just noticed.. we can turn "mobile data" on/off while screen is locked.. previously that was a problem for alot of users who forgot there backup code and tried to log in to Google account but they were turned data off!!

But on the other hand I think this is a security lack.. which mean that if I locked my mobile anyone can change it without my permission!!

What you think?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okolobaccess:
Well to me, when i noticed it yesterday and was excited with because i have lost my data by doing factory reset on my S5 when i was unable to unlocked the device which was very worrisome.

It good to be able to access the data service when the device is lock same as to be able to turn on the flash light on lock screen, on can turn on/off the data service without unlocking the device, sometimes, people send me chat on Whatsapp that am not ready for, so instead of silencing the device, i just turn off the data which will prevent such notification. So to me, the merit outweigh the demerit.

My thought.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M7ammad.eb:
Well I think that what they thought about when making this change!
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomad4ever:
Guys, I'm coming from the LG G2, still with a Kitkat Rom and planning to buy this phone. I played around with it in the store today and have some troubles understanding how it might work for me.

Example, I have about 3.500 contacts synced in my Google Account, neatly organized in Groups, which I use heavily and don't want to give up.

As I understand, Huawei uses its own contact manager as a substitute to the Google Contacts app, as far as I could see it would allow for Contact Groups also.

How would I go about using it? Google seems to be not supporting Groups anymore since Lollipop & Marshmallow (that's one of the reasons why I never updated my G2 with newer Roms). Although the contact manager from LG was always just a tuned version of the Google app, if I'm not wrong.

How did you get your existing contacts from your Google account into the Huawei Contact Manager? And did it transfer existing Groups also? The model they sell here seems to be the international version (L29).

Thanks for your help!
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomad4ever:
Nobody is using groups to organize their contacts? Wow, I thought it's more common...
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 6802227:
Im sure there is a contactapp for you in the playstore ;)
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomad4ever:
Yes, but the standard Google Marshmallow app doesn't support groups anymore..... Hmmm....
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomad4ever:
I can confirm now, that the group management works with the Huawei contact manager, if anybody has the same inquiry.
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pasil.pt:
My contacts are managed on Exchange Outlook server. and I have no problems syncing them on Mate 8, as every group is present
[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ziggy58:
Google Contacs

Is there any way to get Google contacts on Mate 8 NXT-AL10?

Play store say not compatible with you device. I have copied them from my other phone to this phone but would like to keep everything synced.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cha0zine:
Hey.

I have a few questions.

Does installing recovery void the warranty? Can the XZDualRecovery be uninstalled easily? Can I still update to Marshmallow via official update when it comes out when I have recovery installed on my phone?

Thanks!
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
I think that Sony does void warranty if you do an "unauthorized software changes" and changing software in any other way than trough OTA is unauthorized by Sony, so yes. But you can completely restore your device to factory state by flashing an official FTF image trough flashtool and restore Sonys recovery and basically get your warranty back.

If you follow the above steps installation of XZDR is quite easy and fast.

You will be able to update to official MM by flashing MM FTF image trough flashtool and restore your phone to "official" software state. But with XZD recovery you will be able to flash leaked MM from beta program even sooner and easier.

This guide does not unlock your BL and does nothing irreversible to your phone * providing you do everything correctly.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cha0zine:
Thanks for answering! Much appreciated!
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeebarbas:
can you back up the drm keys through this method?
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
Rooting with this method wont unlock your boot loader so there is no need for that, your DRM keys wont be touched.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeebarbas:
Thank you for replying. sorry, im such a noob but after flashing su and subinaries do i need to update the su binaries or i could jsut leave it as it is?
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
You can leave it as is, you will have full root functionality. Of course you can also update binaries to have up to date bug fixes and security patches, update trough normal method works fine.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talkativetaurus:
[MENTION=4584036]5ageman[/MENTION] Hi. Thanks for the tutorial. I m a noob in this rooting stuff. Last night i rooted my phone Xperia Z2 5.1.1 using kingroot bcos i was scared of rooting with some other steps and bricking my phone. But then i realized that xposed wont install unless i have custom recovery. But i m quiet confused with few things related to root even after reading so many posts. So just need to know what exactly recovery is. Like when i restart my phone and then press vol up or down key what will exactly happen? Is this something like safe mode and some other mode in laptops??
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
Recovery is actually closest to BIOS in PC terms although its much more. Xperia Z2 has no recovery by default, you'll need to flash it manually. See step 2. And only then you can eter recovery. By pressing vol down when the green LED lights up you will enter TWRP a custom recovery made by Team Win Recovery Project. Nothing will happen if you do nothig, you wont accidentaly wipe or brick your Z2. If unsure what to do next just tap the reboot button and then system to reboot to system as nothing happened. Go step by step, no hurry.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talkativetaurus:
[MENTION=4584036]5ageman[/MENTION] thanks alot for ur answer. Now my doubt is clear.

But i have few more questions related to ur tut.

1- i have already rebooted my phone a number of times after rooting it. Like for some other purpose and not for recovery or super su. So will the tut work for me as i read somewhere that one need not restart the phone after rooting using kingroot and install recovery directly. Or if it was for some other device i dont remember.

2 - According to the end of step 5 and step 6, does that mean that i have to download super su from chainfire while i m still in recovery mode? And once agn in the system after uninstalling kingroot and rebooting in recovery do i have to install SuperSU in the recovery mode? If yes then how?

3- last question. Entering recovery is just vol down button or power + vol down both.

Once again sorry for such basic questions but i m completely new in the world of rooting plus i want to make sure i know what i m doing.

Thanks for ur patience. Appreciate.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
1. You cannot install recovery directly from the system on Z2 like on other phones, Z2 has no recovery partition. This can only be done with unlocked bootloader. Just make sure you have a working root access with Kingroot and USB debugging enabled when you connect your Z2 to a PC.

2. Download superSU from chainfire while still in system, then reboot to recovery and flash it trough recovery. It's a flashable zip. Before booting to recovery unroot your phone trough Kingroot app. SuperSU zip will flash su binaries and the app to system partition automatically and will root your phone again. Rooting trough Kingroot is done only to flash the recovery, then its deleted.

3. After you successfully install tge recovery when you power on your Z2 it will vibrate and flash green LED on sony bios logo. Then you hold down vol down key until led flashes purple. Afterward it will boot to recovery.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talkativetaurus:
[MENTION=4584036]5ageman[/MENTION] Thanks for ur reply. but i have few more things to say..

1- no i didnt mean in the system. What i read was that when u root with kingroot u r nt suppose to reboot until u install recovery. Otherwise it might cos prbs and nt install SuperSU.

2- What does flashable exactly mean. Is it nt just installing? I dload the superSU from chainfire while in the system and install in the recovery, right? Where will i find the zip to install it? (sorry... Had to ask)

3- i think i got that...i ll knw that exactly when i try it...lol
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
1. You wont face any issues if you reboot, but you dont have to. Just plug your phone to PC while your phone is in android. Yes you download in system and then install - flash in recovery by tapping "install" and then you navigate to supersu.zip and select it and then swipe to flash it. The supersu.zip will be there where you download it, most likely on internal storage in download folder.

2. Flashable means its installed trough recovery - its flashed as opposed to being installed normally in android system.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemanja899:
So is it safe to root my Z2 with this? I have 15.1.1 264 stock rom, is this safe?
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ageman:
If you follow the guide correctly and know basic android rooting and romming then yes its safe, I rooted my Z2 the same exact way. 5.1.1 264
[Android Apps and Games] Devam03:
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Current Stable Version: 2.0

Created 2016-02-22

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[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] Faheemarif252:
I'm thinking of buying the honor 5x... It is of 280$ in my country.... Should i go for it, or is there any other phone in this price range i should consider....

One of my main concerns would be if this phone will get custom roms..... I will most likely get the L21 ver.....
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] eksasol:
I don't know what country you're in and if the prices for other devices are inflated too. I would not pay $280USD for this device however, that's more than the retail price.

I think this phone will get custom roms, but whether it will get official CyanogenMod support is a different story.

Any OnePlus device will perform better and have better camera than the Honor 5X. I had the OnePlus X before this, which is generally better, but I bought the Honor 5X just to try something different, and it have better battery life, bigger screen, and the finger print reader.. I also had the OnePlus One which had a very nice camera and good battery life.

Other phone to consider is the Alcatel Idol 3, which is about the same specs as the Honor 5X but smaller screen. There is the new Idol 4 as well.

Also the Nexus 6 is a good consideration.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] Faheemarif252:
Thnx for the reply..... Not only prices are inflated in my country, many phones are not available at all.. One plus x and the idol 3 aren't available in my country, i can get a used one plus one for 250$.... But i really don't wanna go for a used option....

Also i know that the l24 model will get custom roms... I was talking specifically for the L21 model..

Will this model get roms apart from cm?? Like aokp etc??
[Wing, P4350 General] Tha1nOnly:
Hello Fam,

i have copied the contacts on the device to the sim card because i have flashed the rom with the german touch-it from itje (congrats to this guy who made such a fantastic thing possible in our language). now i want to copy the contacts back from sim to device but i do not know how (i need this because the cube shows that i have no contacts when i want to make a shortcut on it. i think its because they are on the sim)

can anybody help me out?
[Wing, P4350 General] langer hans:
i think i can write it in german:

1. klick auf kontakte

2. klick auf menü

3. klick auf sim-manager

4. klick auf menü

5. klick auf alles markieren

6, klick auf kontakt speichern
[Wing, P4350 General] Tha1nOnly:
dank dir, muss man ja auch erstma wissen ;)

ach eine frage hätte ich da noch: wie kann ich denn das datumsformat im allgemeinen umstellen oder funktioniert das nicht?
[Wing, P4350 General] langer hans:
das müsste eigentlich unter einstellungen- system- regionaleinstellungen gehn!

mfg
[Wing, P4350 General] Decon Frost:
Hallo,

Ich bin ein hollander, konten sie das bericht her oben im english ertzalen?

sry fur mein slechte deutsch
[Wing, P4350 General] XyRay:
Klik op contacten

Kilk op menu

Klik op sim manager of sim beheer

klik daarin op menu

Klik op alles markeren

klik op kontacten opslaan

Makkelijk toch ???
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petrevirgil:
Hello,i just noticed that in development thread are so many interesting custom ROMS but no stock deodexed stock ROM(i noticed that in custom ROM facebook ,dropbox syncronization is off and i want so much that picture from facebook and dropbox to syncronize with gallery and only in stock rom is possible.

I search for hours how to deodex stock lollipop ROM but i must be honest and I MUST recognize that i am not capable to do this.

I kindly ask some of you ,would you like to deodex lollipop stock ROM and make a thread ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] GZA1337:
Could someone please make a video how the s7 behaves regarding mulit tasking. We know that the s6 had major problems with this. There were a lot of tweaks with LMK but nothing really satisfying.

So please, open some apps (also chrome with some tabs open), maybe a game or two and jump between the recent apps.

With 4 gigs of ram there should not be a reload ...

Thank you very much!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] borimol:
Multitasking is fixed. We have tested it on MWC stands, using many different apps and opening a lot of browser tabs, and it works so good.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] matheus_sc:
Great to know
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] GZA1337:
really good to know. looking forward to a comparison video
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Gilg@mesh:
multitasking is fixed with Marshmallow 6.0.1