yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jlomoro:
I'm rooted and I have no issues with galaxy app or samsung member. (THO on samsung member I am prompted when opened that I've altered my device or such that may cause issues they can't resolve, or something along those lines)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jacobgong:
Every single custom ROM I have used so far (on my old phone) has had some kind of bug/problem things like the phone trying to deep sleep while I'm still listening to music, connection with my watch cutting out for no reason, more battery drain from Android OS or some other stuff I can't turn off. Etc.

The brute fact is, the engineers at Samsung are just as talented if not more, and they have way more resources to do what they do. The only difference being they take more consideration for the general user where as devs here are only worried about the hard core geeks who will actually go through the trouble of flashing a custom ROM.

And no, there is no way custom ROMs can be more secure or reliable than stock. They may be faster, true, and have more geek features even I don't use like busybox or whatever, but normal people don't really care about that.

Also, most devs have a terrible sense of design, just the icons of the extra apps they introduce are horrible to look at. Sure you can download an icon pack and so on, but man! Do I get to have time to do anything else other than fiddle around with my phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] stevae:
yes, you've obviously made some very poor choices with the custom roms you have experienced. because not only me, but thousands of others write in on alllllllll of these threads about different custom roms, and the consensus is that these rom's are better than stock, in almost every way. and one fact you seem oblivious to, is that those engineers of samsung are constrained to the wishes of samsung, which is rarely in the favor of the user, but always in the favor of samsung. the favor of almost any titan company on the planet, is almost always at the detriment of the consumer. they are mutually exclusive. the private dev's can work FOR THE PEOPLE, and not for the mega corporation, and that is why they make much better roms. the FACT is that mega corp's like samsung, put apps on your device which KEEP IT FROM COMPLETELY going into deep sleep, because other companies pay them to. companies which want their sw front and center in all you do, whether you do or not. and yes, trhe dev's can make better security, more efficient i/o pathways, and an overall nicer experience, because they are not hampered with the requirements of all those paying corps. finally, you might be surprised at the size of the so called "hard core geeks" compared to the "normal users". it's probably different than you think. in any case, for many years i have bought new phones, used them as stock for a month or so, and ultimately always root them, because i prefer to actually own my device, instead of the manufacturer. you have little control over what happens on your phone if you are not rooted. they can force any update on you, and can change anything they will to. but if you are rooted, they have very little power over your device, and you have almost total control over it. after paying that much money for something, why be a bystander? why allow the large corporation dictate to your what happens on your own device? you are just a sheep in the flock. you might as well be on a CRapple device.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jacobgong:
Consensus of random people don't mean anything, I only believe in scientific studies and simple logic.

I have yet to see a scientific comparison show custom ROMs being faster or more battery efficient in any way. Personally I don't see a difference so there is no reason for me to believe that there is.

But I have experienced bugs and instabilities in almost all the custom ROMs I've used. And no it makes no sense to say that I have poor choice because poorly chosen custom ROMs are still custom ROMs, at the very least it shows that there are bad apples.

Do I hate bloatware? absolutely, it's been the reason I have rooted my devices. But I also know deleting them doesn't really do much other than freeing up storage space. I see no difference in battery life. Again, don't tell me that it does, I won't believe you. Show me a scientific comparison, with two identical phones one rooted one not rooted going through the identical battery life test.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] stevae:
damn man, you can't see the forest for all the trees in your way. lol. i actually am a scientist, although a biologist, and not anything to do with civil science. but we both know that there are no scientist doing such studies, which is why you chose to make the comment. who would pay for it??? it's very telling of your mindset. keep in mind, i'm not trying to convince you of anything. i have only debated the point. and for millions who just like me, have seen marked improvement in their devices since rooting and using a custom rom and kernel, we all understand what you seemingly do not. yes, i admit, that there are several poorly constructed custom roms out there, which is to be expected with anything which is open source. you might want to look up the term. but that was never the point. the point was the best against the best, and which is better. and clearly the custom roms are, or there would not be such a huge community on this website. so, if you want to bury your head in the sand, continue to be subserviant to the mega corps and believe you are better off with stock, by all means stick with stock. the only one you are hurting is you. but the rest of us will go on customizing our devices, and thumbing our noses at the giant corporate conglomerates, as we are intelligent enough to realize the self important motives they employ in everything the do, and none of it is actually in the favor of the people. bahh bahh, black sheep...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jacobgong:
You don't need to be a scientist to be scientific about it, it's as simple as having two handsets and doing a controlled experiment.

Your argument of appealing to the masses does not work because a lot of people root because they think it's cool to do so, or maybe they just like to play around with their device. It doesn't mean doing so makes your device faster. It could also be that they mistakenly believe that it makes things faster when in fact it does not and it's just a placebo effect.

Just look at all the "free up memory" apps in the app store, we all know closing apps reduce your performance and battery life yet people won't stop using those junks.

It's unbelievably easy for large groups of people to all be wrong, and as a biologist I'm sure you're familiar with a lot of such examples. Creationism maybe? Or how about the idea that experiencing coldness causes you to catch a cold? Or the idea that monkeys are less evolved than humans?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] stevae:
i will say this, and then i have to get back to work, as i am spending way too much time on this board lately. lol. every single device i have ever rooted, got much, much, much higher scores on geekbench and antutu benchmarks. and it wasn't even close. is that scientific enough for you? if not, try it for yourself, and try to be objective. ok, i'm done here. good luck. good discussion at least.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jacobgong:
I believe you, if you mean you flashed an AOSP ROM on a Touchwiz device. I know that can speed up things quit a bit but you also loose tones of functionality, I'm sorry but android stock camera is **** compared to what you get from the manufacturer. It was unbelievably how slow the shutter response is on devices that have zero lag shutter capability for example.

But on the other hand, we have seen time and time again that benchmarks don't mean much in terms of real world performance. The SD820 version of the s7 is comparable with the Exynos version yet the exynos version is significantly faster.

I'll have some time in the next couple of days, I think I'll try to do some tests to see if these is any difference to these ROMs with my old s5.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Kjc99:
Hey guys... Couple questions.... Does private mode still work if I root my edge... I know it did with previous Galaxy devices.... I have been holding off on root because of Samsung pay.

. But reading the first couple pages some were saying if I have the 935F in the USA that we still can't use Samsung pay anyway?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] stevae:
you're killing me, man. i really need to leave this thread alone, at least for the rest of this day. but, i have to say, no to the benchmarks between the sd820 and the exynos. if you look at the multi-core scores, it's not even close! and most of the intense things we do from day to day , uses multi-core processing.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jacobgong:
Yea sure, multi-core app launching, game loading, java scripting....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Donnavarro:
Hey guys just upgraded my phone from the galaxy s6 to s7! and just tuned in to the forum, and I must say I love the HATE here!! KUDOS YALL! HEHE
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Retro01:
I want to post message!:(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cfclay:
I have had many Android phones from Sprint, probably they've ever had. Also had most every tmobile device from G1 to 2008. I rooted every one every one of them , but I wouldn't call myself an expert. Just dangerous. But for the last 4 years I have been an apple fanboy until I was reminded that AL Gore was still on the board and I sold my iPhone and washed my hands real good.

Now about this rooting my s7. We keep so-o-o much more info on the phones now than we used to. All the banking, the password apps, all the shopping apps have your card info.... IS rooting still safe??

On the subject of accepting updates- some updates have made my Sprint Android devices nearly unusable, including my first stab at the s7 in April. I had to return it. This S7 I purchased in July most have had "the update to the update ".

One potential downfall that I say to rooting , the apps that I have used in the past like DirecTV would not work on a rooted phone maybe some others like Netflix or other streaming copyright material.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hapa8o8:
Indeed an increasing number of applications are requiring safety net/android pay. Glimpse, Snapchat, Pokemon (don't use that though) to name a few. It will be interesting to see what happens in the near future with additional apps adopting the Safety Net. I, too, have been rooting since my G1, but am also holding off on rooting my s7. Nougat is very smooth with the G930U firmware. Updating is easy with Odin and the sites Updato or Sammobile. That being said I'll give it a few months before I consider rooting this baby. :cool::good:

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] broucker:
+Google pay
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Silkwormgirl:
It almost impossible now to root 100% with android 8 on S7 edge

And would encryption be removed once rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] uniacidz:
Whilst this doesn't help in anyway but I am on latest Oreo S7 Edge and decided from day 1 not to root this.

I like to root my phones but have done everything I wanted to do with it

Blockada, disabled apps etc all without root.

Phone lasts a long time as well

So if ain't broke, don't fix it. I have to tell myself that all the time still cos my nature is to root or modify

Also as banking apps and others detect rooted phones so can't be stuffed anymore

Life is easier without root.

Sent from Samsung S7 Edge [Oreo]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OporKot:
Hello.

How it happened

I rooted my HTC One S, then flashed CyanogenMod on it. Used it for a few months, very happy with it. Then I tried to update - automatically, not manually (that was mistake number 1). The phone was then stuck in a bootloop into recovery. (Off>Recovery>Off>Recovery). I didnt know what to do, so I pressed 'Reset phone', or something like that. Since then, the problem has gotten much worse. Now there's a different bootloop: Off>HTC opening screen. That's it. Im desperately trying to access recovery mode, to flash a new ROM to fix the situation.

What did I try

1. Power + VolumeDown does nothing.

2. Installed the HTC One S toolkit. When pressing 'boot into recovery', it says 'device not found'.

3. Tried to boot into recovery from ABD tools, but it says device not found. I tried putting screenshots here, but XDA forum new user limitation doesnt let me. Anyway, if you add this to the imgur url, youll see the screenshots (sorry about this inconvenienace):

/SblBm3M

/6HEvZDk

TL;DR

Phone is stuck in a bootloop. Cant access recovery. Is there any way to fix this situation?

Thank you very much in advance for your time to help me out.
[Repurposing Old Devices] GabenHood:
I have re-purposed a 7" tablet with a dodgy touchscreen as a simdash with DashPanelCLI Alpha.

I can't post links due logging in incorrectly, just google "Android Dash Alpha".

And I also use an old phone for head tracking with opentrack.

Another failed link, google "Android Head Tracking" and find the first hit on Github.

I have only tested these on Windows and both are free options, i'm sure there a plenty of paid options also.
[Repurposing Old Devices] alray:
I like the opentrack thing, I already tested it with my phone and it was working really good.

:good:
[Repurposing Old Devices] Deivi_Z:
results give nothing :(
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
This project has been moved to the G+ community.
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
*Battery Life*

Parameters : Wake enabled, Email sync every hour, Calander sync, Weather sync

Companion Mode (BT with tethering): 3-4 days w/ 50-70 notifications a day

Standalone Mode (Cellular data): 1-2 days w/ 50-70 notifications a day
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
As you may have noticed. This is now a DevDB project. Across the top of the thread you will see "Downloads, Reviews, Feature Requests, Bug Reports". Please utilize these features.

Please use this template for filing bug reports on the "Bug Reports" page. This will make things go much smoother for everybody;

Release version-

Issue-

How often the issue occurs-

What you have done to try to resolve issue-

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[Other SmartWatches] Jequan:
Thank you very much for the work you put into this. I don't have my D5 yet (should arrive before weekend if i am lucky). I'll happily flash this rom as soon as i have it and report back.
[Other SmartWatches] the steve:
I'm so glad we have the last firmware update in the new custom rom, too. I wasn't able to use the latest watchfaces because they required the new firmware already for counter-clockwise rotation features.

I just installed the new rom over twrp like in the instruction. I wiped system, dalvic and cache only, didn't wipe 'data' though and didn't lose any apps/data. As far as I can see it works good, the watch got really warm and laggy at first but I will give the system some time to 'settle in'.

At first the recovery didn't find the 'backup' to restore. I had to put it in the directory ...\TWRP\backup\0000000000000000 . I discovered this by making a little backup from the old cache ( just a few MB) over twrp to look in which folder it will be put in. ;) Sherlock ;)

Thanks for the great work!!!
[Other SmartWatches] pablo11:
Thanks again mate :)

Out of interest - did you decide to stay with mailwise because it is a lighter client?
[Other SmartWatches] hoaihaiduong:
Thanksyou but 3G network not active. 2G mobile network ok
[Other SmartWatches] pablo11:
I know Loki didn't put this in his instructions so it's not absolutely necessary but:

The problem with this approach (not wiping everything) is that if you do experience issues down the track, it makes it much more difficult to pinpoint the cause.

Another serious point is that when you move to a fairly major update - which this is - a factory reset of the watch is best practice.

I would say even if you use the SP Tools version you should factory reset after the first full boot.

About recovery not seeing the data to restore - that's why Loki normally gives the whole folder structure starting with "TWRP" as top level. It also contains a small file which recovery looks for when it boots.

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More information please.

Did you do a full wipe?

SP or TWRP install method?

Did you check your APN?

Have you checked that the "screen off = data off" setting is not the problem?

Which band does your sim use for 3g 850 or 2100 ?

PS in future these reports would be recorded under the "bug report" tab.

Cheers
[Other SmartWatches] the steve:
Thank you for the advice! Of course you are right that a full wipe would be better but I did't want to setup everything from the beginning again. My watch actually works fine now and I don't experience any issues so far. I promise that in case of any problems with this rom I will do a full wipe and a clean flash first before bothering anyone here ;)
[Other SmartWatches] pablo11:
It's all good. If it's working well then that's what it's all about.

I was giving general advice really :)
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
Yep. Even with nano gapps, I'm down to less than 200MB free space in system. So at this point, every MB is starting to count. I'm even looking at removing any launcher watchface that can be duplicated with a clockskin except for the default.
[Other SmartWatches] pablo11:
I can never get the keyboard the same as it was in your last release. That was perfect. Is there a trick to it?

I have the folder on the SD card and the keyboard is invoked correctly but the layout with mic activation on long press is what I miss.
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
[MENTION=517216]pablo11[/MENTION] I'll have to get back to you one that, I'm trying to track down a more serious issue.
[Other SmartWatches] hoaihaiduong:
Did you do a full wipe?

SP or TWRP install method?

Did you check your APN?

Have you checked that the "screen off = data off" setting is not the problem?

Which band does your sim use for 3g 850 or 2100 ?

This call in 2G network ok no call amd data on 3G, In vietnam Vinaphone use B1 (2100)	UMTS
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
There may be an issue with the D5 base firmware that's causing this but both of you posts provide little information than other than "It don't work". In the future your posts should look something like

THIS

. They should also never be posted in general discussion but in "Bug Reports"
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
Reverted back to v1.2.0
[Other SmartWatches] Lokifish Marz:
All future W812 development can be found HERE
[Other SmartWatches] vadik15:
I apologize in advance if I repeat or I repeat someones question, but why you cannot delete the system the dials are in this firmware? Some of them are so ridiculous and not relevant, for example the snowman with the snow!
[One (M9) General] caseuno:
First of all Ive owned the nexus one, sensation, M7 x 2, nexus 9 x 2, one max, and now i have the M9 x2, ive bought my devices directly froom google or htc except for one of the m9s. ive had warranty work done on all the phonesllars so i can stare at cracks.
[One (M9) General] crachel:
What are you trying to say here?
[One (M9) General] caseuno:
just venting i guess
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Flower:
Hi All,

My sincere request to anyone who could help me.

I need a chinese dopot rom - and i really don't know where to find it. PLEASE, HELP
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] meschle:
You have a typo flower - should be 'Dopod' - and you may get more responses if title is 'Need Chinese Dopod Rom Please'

EDIT ive changed for you :D
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Flower:
Ok meschle.... i take the note :o

Anyway, I still have the problem.. and most important is that i don't know how to solve it...
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] df0972:
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Hi All,

My sincere request to anyone who could help me.

I need a chinese dopot rom - and i really don't know where to find it. PLEASE, HELP

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] jlc403:
Wi-Fi Calling is not working at all on my stock s7. Is anyone else experiencing this? Getting enablement error. Spoke with sprint tech support who is stumped and now escalating up to higher level team.

Rest of phone (including wifi and hotspot/tethering) working as it should.

Saw one post about disabling Bluetooth and BT share. tried that with no improvement.

-Josh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] JS_racer:
What kind of testing would help?

I have never used this before, so keep it simple, lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] cwb1231:
I have the same problem. . They told me, after escalating, that it was am account code error. . I am trying now to enable. . Update it works now after whatever account coding they updated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] jlc403:
That sounds promising.They have called me three times to keep escalating. Any chance you would PM me your #. I can ask them to look at your acct to figure out how to fix mine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] cwb1231:
Also if you have air rave try turning that off
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Ramondel:
I didn't have any problem with the Airrave and my S5 using Wi-Fi calling.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] cwb1231:
I think I had to do that sometimes because the phone was trying to use both or maybe just to eliminate that possibility
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Chetski:
Anyone have a solution for broken Wifi calling. I tried everything I could find including calling Sprint. Running the latest Sprint S7 update, was working before the phone updated. Really not looking forward to do a hard reset.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] jlc403:
It's a problem with the data code on your account.Will need tech suport to fix. They are having issues with s7 not carrying code over correctly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Chetski:
Thanks for the feedback, do you mean my Data plan is not correctly assigned to my phone. Ill probably have to hold the Sprint tech supports hand to get it going. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] cwb1231:
No its the actual billing codes for your account and how wifi is coded on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Chetski:
No luck, was on the phone with Sprint for almost an hour. They made a Ticket, said said I needed to take my phone to a repair center :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] cwb1231:
I have to tell you after the security update it reset my pattern lock and i ended up with factory reset because the Samsung website unlock feature isn't set up for the s7. Had to use Google website and my Google account to restet. Good luck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Chetski:
I know what you mean. Luckily I had fingerprint unlock working cause my pin unlock broke after the update. Hoping for a work around cause I got my phone setup just right. Is there a backup I can do that will restore everything exactly the way I have it now (except Wifi calling of course)? I had titanium backup years ago but it was a pain back then.