yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Cst79:
I do believe than an update from Samsung will improve the battery on the Snapdragon 820 edition. It's impossible for such discrepancy between Snapdraon and Exynos. On the other hand, it may be that Qualcomm is just behind with their efficiency and people are just not believing it yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] eric150:
I get 7-8 hours SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] squallz506:
I got 30hrs runtime and 11hrs SOT and am now on track to get almost 3 days runtime and 9hrs SOT. I'm not disappointed. Screenshots are in the post your battery life thread. I'm on my z2 tablet now so I can't post them. SD820 on Verizon BTW.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweets55:
Something is obviously draining your battery. I really don't see why anyone complains about battery life of any phone the first week they have the phone. Most people never put the phone down. I got my S7 Edge the first day people got them with T-Mobile so I think two weeks now. I'm a power user and killed the battery once at like 8pm after taking it off the charger at 7am. I had the Sony z1 and returned it since battery life sucked.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Slayix312:
I can't post my Gsam stats on the mobile xda app, but I am at 42% battery life left with 5 hours and 11 minutes of active time over the course of 9 Hours. Very heavy usage those 5 Hours btw. GearVR for 20-25 mins, YouTube for an hour and Spotify both to and from my work. With the occasional Web browsing.

Damn good for me.

I want to point out I disabled the majority of the bloatware with package disabler though.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] quasar99:
I've moved from an Xperia Z3 and i find the battery life to be much, much better. No complaints here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Jaglag:
Ok this morning i get a popup about some apps moved into power saving mode now.

atm im coming home and get 70% batter left, WOW!

so far it says around 40h lifetime of the battery i think you are right guys i should give the phone a bit more time....

btw im on the european version of the s7e i think thats the exynos version right?
[HTC One X] Giovix92:
Hi, i have an HOX 32GB International version. I've read about new layout, but i need an explain how to apply it and what it is, because i haven't understood much :) Anyone can help me?

Much thanks in advance!:)
[HTC One X] pablus96:
New layout is a way to use all the 25 GB for apps and not only for media. In this forum you will find a post with roms and recoveries for new layout. To enjoy this function you only have to flash the new recovery and format all your phone, then you will be able to install roms that use new layout. Repeat, the roms for new layout are in the same post that the recovery the HOX international needs.
[HTC One X] Giovix92:
So... I've found a recovery called Twrp_BiG_2853. I suppose that is needed for new layout. Can you give me some link of roms that needs of new layout?
[HTC One X] pablus96:
This is the link I was talking about before. There are not much roms with New Layout, but these ones are ok. http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-x/orig-development/storage-layout-hox-endeavoru-t3022358
[HTC One X] Giovix92:
delete.
[HTC One X] Giovix92:
I can't see any link
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwaylu:
Hey all,

I recently did the misfortune of flashing a nexus 5 bootloader on my nexus 5x -- right before I was going to send it in after getting my replacement for a cracked screen no less.

I found a thread here talking about how to recover it but it only hosts the applicable TOT file for a 32 gb device.

Is there any knowledge or documentation on creating that TOT file myself? I have a fully functioning 16 gig 5x that was sent to replace the (now) bricked one.

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiousInquisitor:
Have you tried just flashing the 32 gig TOT to see if you can get the bootloader back? Its worth a try. The phone cant get any deader.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwaylu:
I'd like that as a last resort -- I'm just not versed enough in this kind of restore process to say whether or not that would make things worse.

Has that kind of thing been attempted before?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eldgrim070:
Don't flash a 32GB TOT on a 16GB phone. It will ease all software and leave the phone in firmware update mode. My phone is stuck in firmware update and needs a 16GB TOT. Hope somebody post one soon.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiousInquisitor:
You flashed the 32GB TOT? While the wrong TOT may screw with the partition sizes, it may fix the bootloader and stock recovery. So, have you tried to enter fastboot mode or recovery since doing it? Let us know what you find.

Also, will you please post a picture of the firmware update screen?

Here is a case of the 32 GB TOT working on a 16 GB 5X. Note you need to flash the full N OTA to fix the borked partitioning. Note the useful info starts on page 4 post 37.

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/help/device-locked-t3355549/page4
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eldgrim070:
The USB port on a laptop matters. Using the USB 3 port would make my Nexus 5x reboot half through flashing. Using the USB 2 port, I successful flashed the device. Everything is good now.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiousInquisitor:
So did you flash the 32gb tot to a 16gb phone?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seemgura:
Did you find the solution? I'm in the same problem :(
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnrovich:
Same here... any news?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sfhub:
Just flash the 32GB tot file then flash an Android N beta OTA (probably would work for FULL non-beta OTA as well)

The 32GB tot file includes

PrimaryGPT

modem

boot

recovery

system

BackupGPT

The only things that are specific to the 32GB model ore the PrimaryGPT and BackupGPT, which are the GUID partition tables.

It won't ruin your phone to have the wrong partition tables since it basically only affects the user partition.

Once you install the Android N beta OTA update.zip it will fix up the GPT tables for you.

Please also notice the above is not a typo, the 32GB TOT file is *missing* the vendor partition, so I would advise flashing a full build of something after flashing the TOT file to get things working.

Also if you are just looking at flashing the TOT file because you trashed your EFS partition due to TWRP restore bug, do *NOT* flash the the TOT file. It will just make your life more difficult because it will lock your bootloader and then the real fix of restoring old EFS backup or writting zeros to EFS partition becomes more difficult.
[Android Head-Units] creamerBot:
I have just received my CarPad3 (the VW looking one) and have installed XDauto on the unit, i have only temporarily plugged the unit in the car for testing, and noticed two things that I would like to figure out fixes for.

First, when i play music from the bluetooth app, the volume is very low compared to other apps. I have pressed the volume plus button on the bluetooth app, but nothing seems to happen, or it is already maxed out. Is there a way to make an adjustment to this?

Second, would be the that when i shut off the car, the unit just seems to keep rebooting. It was only a test connection so i just disconnected it. I need to do some further testing, but wondering if there is anything obvious that i need to change either in the connection or in the software.

Finally can anyone point me in the direction for the code for the BT app on github. I might want to play around with adding some features. I use BT audio quite a bit and would like to add to it if i could figure it out.

Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
TileIconifier

Build small or medium tiles for almost any application in Windows 8.1 or 10 (Build 1511 / 10586+)!

Features:

* Customisable Small and Medium tiles, with configuration remembered between uses

* Dark and light skins

* Picker to allow icons from EXE, DLL and ICO files

* Ability to use most image file types (Including PNG/JPG/BMP/ICO)

* Ability to create custom shortcuts to ANY file/folder on your machine, which allows you to have multiple shortcuts with different arguments to the same executable

* Automatically populate Windows Store Apps

* Automatically populates installed Steam games

* Automatically populates Chrome Apps

* Choose from a list of useful Explorer shortcuts

*Change icon size and position with live preview of background colour and text overlay

* Completely open source

Downloads:

Please find the repository and latest releases here at my GitHub: https://github.com/Jonno12345/TileIconifier/releases

Bugs:

None that I know of, but let me know as soon as you find something and I'll resolve it ASAP!

Frequently Asked Questions:

Can you add Wide and Large tiles?

Unfortunately these options are only available for Live tiles, not standard LNK files with a VisualManifest, which is how this utility works. Unless Microsoft add support for it, this feature cannot be added in the near future.

Microsoft Office/Mozilla Firefox/Other shortcuts aren't working, can these be tiled?

There is some mechanism I have yet to understand overriding these from being tiled. The easiest way to resolve this is to go to your shortcut within TileIconifier and click 'Quick Build Custom Shortcut'. This will create a second shortcut with the same parameters that can be tiled, which you will then find in your start menu under 'TileIconify'.

How can I help?:

The source is there if you wish to make any amendments (The code itself could probably use a lot of optimisation). Otherwise, suggestions for UI improvements or features would be great! I have now started adding translations, if you're able to assist with these it would be great!

Donations:

Please be aware that donations are absolutely not required. This software will always be free, open source and supported to the best of my ability. If you would like to support me with this and future aplications, please visit this link: https://www.paypal.me/Jonno12345

Thank you!
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[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] asmodeopt:
Really cool. Works beautifully and uses a much better approach than all the alternatives imo. Just needs wide tile and large tile support.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Marotheit:
I've honestly been waiting for a utility like this that can accomplish just that, but from what I've read, I'm not entirely sure it's possible.

If Jonno12345 can make this happen, I would be very impressed and basically kiss his feet.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Unfortunately we're all just piggy-backing off the VisualManifest.xml available, which doesn't have a specification for wide or large tiles. At least at the moment, making live tiles is the only way to achieve this. That said, if I ever think of a way I'll be sure to share ;)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Marotheit:
Yep. It's unfortunate, because if it did support wide and large tiles, I wouldn't honestly care about live tiles. The tiles are just a really quick, easy way to customize your start menu, and have it look nice.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
This is amazing! I love the option simply to extract the default program icon - 90% of the time, this is really all I want to do so I'm already over the moon about this program. Thank you!

The one drawback I see currently is that the custom color picker only seems to support codes that comprise just numbers. Using #ffb900 for a gold, gives back a kind of error - the box where you put in the custom color goes red and changes are not saved.

I actually don't need the wide and large tile support, personally, so if you fix the color picker, this program is basically feature-complete as far as I'm concerned :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Oooh dear, I was testing validation ages ago and forgot to actually set it for hexadecimal...! I do apologise... Will fix that immediately, check back in 10 :)

Edit: Uploaded a new build where it'll let you use #ffb900. Whoopsy :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Thank you - this is awesome!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DroidShift79:
That's indeed pretty nice and awesome, [MENTION=1878179]Jonno12345[/MENTION] :) Thanks for that.

May I ask if it could be possible to add an icon scaling option to the tile?

So it's customizable how big the Icon would be shown on the tile?

But that's just a wish :D I'm glad about your tool as it is. Thanks again.

//EDIT:

Oh, and speaking about wishes, can you give TileIconifier a nice dark skin ^^
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Good thoughts - I'll see what I can do :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Have added a light and dark skin on the latest release - I'm not sure how happy with it I am currently, some feedback would be good!

Tweaked a few other things but haven't looked at the icon scaling yet. Still in mind though..!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
With the last update this utility is quite solid!

I get an error and crash when I tried to make an icon for Avast antivirus. I just needed to create a new link to the program which was fine. But it looks like some attempts to Iconify a program like an antivirus might result in the program crashing.

If you're looking for any more wishlist items, I'd suggest integrating a visual color picker.

As always, many thanks for this program!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thanks a lot for the feedback :) I'm suspicious things like Avast might have issues with things writing to it's own program directory which may explain it. Noted though, thank you.

A colour picker is a great idea, will add that to my list of things to do :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Was a lot easier than I expected. Added a color picker, and now the icon previews live update to show the color in the background. Thanks :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DroidShift79:
Awesome Mate :D Highly appreciated!

Allthough that dark theme. Dark would look better, then just black:

Maybe set #323232 as backgroundcolor, that would be dark.

something like in DarkSkin.cs

...
using System.Drawing;

namespace TileIconifier.Skinning.Skins.Dark
{
public class DarkSkin : BaseSkin
{
public override Color BackColor => ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#323232");
public override Color ForeColor => ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#E3E3E3");
public override Color DisabledForeColor => Color.LightGray;
public override Color DisabledBackColor => Color.DarkGray;

public override Color SortableListViewBackColor => Color.Black;
}
}

But maybe another way without using special skinning .cs files would be more appealing.

(Some guy miles away from coding speaking here) :)

I love what you did so far. It's working great.

Still crossing the fingers for you being able to implement icon scaling :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Good input - the dark skin would look better not being pure black. Will change that, thank you :).

I'm not very good at UI design, I did have a quick look around for a winforms skinning library I could use but I didn't find any I would be allowed to implement. Either that or they were a lot more complicated than I intend on implementing really requiring images for each element and so on. For now I'll apply your suggestion and the source is there if someone fancies doing a far better job of it!

Icon scaling is still in mind, haven't attempted to tackle it yet but I think it should be plausible :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DroidShift79:
You are awesome. Thanks for doing all that.

//EDIT:
[MENTION=1878179]Jonno12345[/MENTION] You inspired me to to install viusual studio :D (I've never done any coding in my life :D - I'm some of those graphic guys)

Anyway you latest source is to complicated for me :D The new Skin seems to overwrite the colors I set with the visualstudio designer... So I decided to play around with one of your old versions to learn visualstudio designer :)

Here's what I got.

I'm no coder or anything near it. you're project inspired me, so I hope it's okay to play around with it for learning purposes.

And maybe you got a hint for me how to "disable/remove" your skin part in the latest version so I can keep on playing around?

Sorry for leaving all dat noobish talking here. I'm just hyped^^
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Feel free to do whatever you like :) I've uploaded another branch without any of the skinning here - https://github.com/Jonno12345/TileIconify/tree/without-skinning

Have fun :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Half-Mafia:
This is a very neat program, but I'm having trouble pinning Custom Shortcuts. I see the created .vbs files but when I right click I have no option to Pin to Start. What am I doing wrong?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Hans Maks Kan Chiapa:
What a great find! After searching this afternoon I was almost certain of two things: Oblytile was no longer functional under Win10 and all the alternatives consisted of programs that required resident proxies to launch apps from tiles (that was unacceptable for me). Thinking MS must have gone mad not to include such an obvious feature in their new Start Menu, I stumbled upon xda and this little program. THANK YOU!!

One quick question - I might be missing something here. Is there a way to remove medium tile descriptions from the start screen? Once I have a cool looking tile I don't really need an app name obscuring parts of it.

Thanks again!

EDIT: forget it, I'm an idiot ;) I missed that option despite it was staring right at me ;)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
some programs from the windows store don't show up in the "New Custom Shortcut > Windows Store" app list. For instance, irfanview and shareX (both ported to the store with the Desktop app converter - though other such programs, like Spotify, show up normally in Tile Iconifier's list so that may or may not be related). Do you know how I can create a tile for such a windows store app when it's not found in that app list?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Found the answer to my own question - adapting the insight in this older post. If someone else needs it, I can write out the steps to take in more detail.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] :
Can you please explain those steps? I'm in the same boat. I hate the default tiles for apps like Whatsapp or Gravit Designer, but I can't find them in TileIconofier. Thanks in advance.

---------- Post added at 02:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:32 AM ----------

Can you please post those steps. I hate the Whatsapp and Gravit Designer default tiles but I can't find these apps in TileIconifier.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Sure - I'll write it all out in the next day or so. Cheers.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] LEXX911:
Some icons are showing up as blank or black with the Spring Creators/April Update. Restart "Windows Explorer" in Task Manager restore it.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Morten Anakin:
Hi, great app, work without problems until aprils update. After that it opens with an error, and some icons restart (mostly google apps). Any fix? :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] TaliQuarian:
I can confirm this program still working fine in Windows 10 ver 1803 (April update):)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FourOne82:
I noticed that, question is: Is there a more permanent solution to this problem? Cause i have that every second day after the first Bootup.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] bumpaneer:
I resized the blank tiles to small, then back to medium and mine have been fine ever since.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FourOne82:
Sadly this is not working for me, problem needs to be fixed by Microsoft i guess. Only Apps that never have problems are Microsoft Apps, probably because they are not using the *.VisualElementsManifest.xml like other apps do.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] :
I am having an issue with this program and was hoping someone could help. Not sure where else to post this question but I have 2 games that seem to be linked for some reason by Tileiconfier. I have 2 Games, Saints row 2 and Team Fortress 2. I can set each icon to what I want but eventually over time one of those icons will change to the same one used by the other game. So Sanints Row 2 randomly changed to TF2's icon and then after I fix it, a few weeks later, TF2 will change to Saints Row 2's icon and it happens over and over again. And it is just these 2 games. I really dont understand why...
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jerber:
When I try to use a different icon for Mi PC or Recycle bin, or my E and F hard disks I get nothing...

Any help?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] level_zr0:
anyway to get transparent tiles?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] niral.naik:
error
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] plastic_green_head:
Seems this has been abandoned. Windows Store apps are no longer compatible and haven't been for some time. Git issues left unanswered and no updates in nearly a year. Take the git page down if you have zero intention of fixing it.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Om1krony:
Does anybody have a soloution for the excel problem? When I create an shortcut to an excel file only excel opens and not the file itself. I just write the path of the file in the field shortcut target. Shortcut argument is empty.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Batero2000:
Does this program still work? I have May 2019's update & I can't create any custom tile.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] SoRadGaming:
Any way to use a Gif?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Aoi v1:
[MENTION=1878179]Jonno12345[/MENTION] I would like to contribute to this awesome tool by helping you translate the app to spanish! Please contact me if you're interested :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] justinmreina:
feat. request - send feedback menu

Hi Jonno,

Would it be possible to integrate a 'Send Feedback' option into the menu? Perhaps -

Menu Listing Idea:

Help

○ TileIconifier Help

○ About TileIconifier

○ Div (e.g. '-----')

○ Donate

○ Send Feedback

Sharing as an idea, the time taken to find this thread to submit feedback discourages submission.

Thanks for this app, use ALL the time! :cool:
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] crmsn:
Hopefully this is acceptable given the age of the thread and its last post. I spent a decent amount of time looking for a vector image of the tileiconifier icon to use with my dock and when I couldn't find one, I decided to just make one myself using the ones shared by the original creator, AdamDesrosiers. If this is not acceptable, please feel free to let me know. I am only sharing this here so that it might help someone else looking for a transparent icon to use with docks, tileiconifier, etc. Thank you very much to the creator of the app and the artist who created the icon.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] compuzak:
This is app is still working in Win 10 Pro 22H2, for me.

(Sorry for the necro-post)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Very odd... Can you provide a screenshot showing the options you get when right clicking the shortcut? I'd suspect this to be more of an issue with the Start Menu than anything, but certainly new to me!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] JL94x4:
How would i get an Xbox App pinned with a custom icon? Don't want the app name that the Xbox apps give when pinned.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Not sure if my PM went through, but make sure you're trying to pin the shortcut from "All apps" in your start menu:
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Hmm, not quite sure on this one (I don't know if it's possible to run a native modern UI app from command line or other interface). Will look into this and let you know if I have any success.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
You can run modern apps from command line using Start.exe. Here is an older link referring to windows 8 but it still holds true:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-8/opening-windows-8-apps-command-prompt-or-script

At least, this works for the few apps that I know how to name properly. Not sure how you identify any given app though. But I agree, easy creation of tiles for Windows store apps would be great.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Half-Mafia:
I never really use that app list, so thats why I could find it :). But this is much easier then the way I was trying.

Thanks again for this great app and Keep up the great work:good: