Android: Phone News and Discussion Thread
#5481
Safety Car
If you have insurance I don't see why they wouldn't. That's crazy though with your power button. How hard are you pressing it? Mine's still intact on my Galaxy S and I've had this phone for almost two years now.
#5482
Suzuka Master
when i change permissions to rw-r-r is that going down in root explorer.
Like owner is RW
group R
others R?
Like owner is RW
group R
others R?
#5483
Suzuka Master
well got it to work, but is it functional in any way?
the voice doesnt work and neither does the bar with typing?
the voice doesnt work and neither does the bar with typing?
#5484
Safety Car
The search bar with typing works but its only every now and then. Lol. You can try the other apks if you like. I just reverted back to the old GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk from the 4/29 GAPPs. No point until it gets voice search IMO. They're close but I think everything else needs to be updated like Maps, G+, Chrome to the Jelly Bean version.
#5485
Suzuka Master
okk for some reason it works now. So i was about to ditch it like you but now the search works. And also i realized that in the lockscreen with CM9 with having the extra apps to select i put the one straight up as the google search bar, so now its kinda like accessing google now on jelly bean but can only be done on the lock screen. I was kinda annoyed that i had to press the search bar to see cards but my keyboard would come up. SO i like what i did there. I'm gonna keep it for a ltl for now.
#5486
Go Giants
Rooted my Galaxy Tab 2 with some mod and its running nice
#5487
Suzuka Master
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I need some help this is ny first android phone and i noticed that the battery life in my galaxy s3 is very short even if i dont use the phone. I did some research and i found this but im not sure how to update this file as i mentioned befkre its my first android
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
#5488
Safety Car
I need some help this is ny first android phone and i noticed that the battery life in my galaxy s3 is very short even if i dont use the phone. I did some research and i found this but im not sure how to update this file as i mentioned befkre its my first android
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
Last edited by CGFebTSX04; 07-04-2012 at 12:47 PM.
#5489
Safety Car
Oh also here are the Easy Rooting methods for the S3:
International version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1703488
AT&T version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746665
T-Mobile version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746682
Sprint version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746680
Battery power_profile.xml fix (International S3):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...highlight=root
International version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1703488
AT&T version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746665
T-Mobile version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746682
Sprint version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1746680
Battery power_profile.xml fix (International S3):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...highlight=root
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#5491
Suzuka Master
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What kind of battery life are you currently getting? When you go to Settings --> Battery Usage, what is taking up the most battery? Which version of the Galaxy S3 do you have? It sounds like that problem is for the International version. The fix requires a custom recovery and root to replace the Power_Profile.xml Seems like its an indicator problem than actual battery life use itself. Samsung will probably release a patch for it if you don't want to wait to root.
#5492
the overexplainer
don't worry. When I got my nexus i had no idea what I was doing and planned on keeping it stock. After I learned a bit more i made the jump to rooting and flashing and have never looked back! So glad I started modding. Have fun.
#5493
Safety Car
Once you got some basics down on how to do it, you can start playing with custom ROMs, themes and then kernels. Its pretty difficult to brick these things unless you unplug the power to your phone while it was flashing something. Even then, it would have to be during a low level flash. Learn how to get into Download Mode and use ODIN or Heimdall for the Samsung phones. It will save your butt a few times and actually my preferred method when messing with Samsung phones instead of a custom recovery like CWM (ClockWork Mod).
#5494
Safety Car
I dont use it alot... it wont hold a whole day on one charge... not even 10hours once i unplug it at 5am and come back home from work around 3-4pm... i use low brightness battery saver mode basicly everything i can but my iphone 4 which was 2 years old could do better than that... i love this galaxy but i am a bit disapointed
#5495
Suzuka Master
from the verge of SIII battery life. First though is yours a LTE or HSPA+ device? cause this test below is HSPA+ i believe. And it will also be the reason for major drainage. Just like how 3g takes up so much more battery than edge. LTE takes up so much more battery than 3g, kinda why you cant compare it to the iphone, and its also why i bet apple hasnt released an lte phone yet since they like getting the best out of devices. And they werent ready for the 4s to have lte probably because of battery issues.
The famously large 2100mAh battery within the Galaxy S III has few competitors on the market. Only the Galaxy Note, at 2500mAh, and the Droid RAZR Maxx, at 3300mAh, can claim to contain larger cells inside smartphone-like enclosures. That gets the GS III off to a good start, though you shouldn’t expect it to actually be too far ahead of the competition: its vast 4.8-inch display and superpowered quad-core processor do make full use of the energy available. Under intensive use, the Galaxy S III lasted a solid seven hours before flashing up a low battery alert — that time included capturing 137 GPS-tagged photos and six 1080p video clips at an average length of 40 seconds, running multiple instances of our favorite benchmarks, and the usual poking and prodding that comes with investigating a new device. The following day, I was able to go from 8AM to 11PM before facing a critical battery warning, while again giving the phone regular use and syncing up Gmail, Twitter, and Flipboard.
Predictably, battery drain was at its fastest when the self-illuminating AMOLED display was turned on, with a period of nearly three hours around lunchtime knocking only a few percentage points off my energy reserves. With judicious use, you could probably go a full 24 hours between recharging this phone — not terribly impressive to someone coming from a featurephone, but very reasonable given the size of the display and the amount of power the Galaxy S III offers.
Predictably, battery drain was at its fastest when the self-illuminating AMOLED display was turned on, with a period of nearly three hours around lunchtime knocking only a few percentage points off my energy reserves. With judicious use, you could probably go a full 24 hours between recharging this phone — not terribly impressive to someone coming from a featurephone, but very reasonable given the size of the display and the amount of power the Galaxy S III offers.
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Created a new simplified homescreen setup yesterday. On a kick lately for simple is better for my main screen.
edit: Sorry for the large pic apparently pics don't auto resize in this forum section and I am to lazy to do it.
edit: Sorry for the large pic apparently pics don't auto resize in this forum section and I am to lazy to do it.
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#5500
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Created a new simplified homescreen setup yesterday. On a kick lately for simple is better for my main screen.
http://jrphotodesign.net/android/hom...5-07-07-06.png
edit: Sorry for the large pic apparently pics don't auto resize in this forum section and I am to lazy to do it.
http://jrphotodesign.net/android/hom...5-07-07-06.png
edit: Sorry for the large pic apparently pics don't auto resize in this forum section and I am to lazy to do it.
#5501
Safety Car
If you think that was good, you should check out this site:
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
Lots of great themes/setups on there. Both Android and iOS btw.
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
Lots of great themes/setups on there. Both Android and iOS btw.
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I have found lots of great ones from some homescreen threads on AndroidCentral. I will have to lookup up the ones user but he has lots of great ones that he posts on deviantart.com.
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hahaha that things is never ending LOL
#5504
#5505
'Big Daddy Diggler'
Was thinking about picking up a Verizon SGIII, that was until I Put Jelly Bean on my GNex. The phone is a screamer. It just does everything better than my wife's SGIII from mobile.
#5506
Safety Car
Crap I think my Nexus just bricked itself. Seems to be the same emmc problem that killed my first Galaxy S. Its been having issues the past few weeks but I was able to ODIN it back to stock. ODIN won't write to the NAND now so I can't do anything to it at all. Here's to hoping Handtec will warranty this.
#5507
Suzuka Master
damn that sucks what were you doing??
Google now is cool. While i cant always use the search right now. WHen i'm not home all i gotta do is check google now and i'll know how long it will take me to go home
Google now is cool. While i cant always use the search right now. WHen i'm not home all i gotta do is check google now and i'll know how long it will take me to go home
#5508
Safety Car
Ironically, I wasn't doing anything on my phone. My phone was sitting on my desk and I went to go check on it cause I was waiting on my gf to call me back. It wouldn't turn on so I did a battery pull hoping to reboot it. It got stuck at the Google logo so I thought no problem. Went to recovery, tried to fix permissions, wipe cache, reflash a ROM. None of them would work. All it said was "Can't mount sdcard". I had this problem last week and I was able to reflash it via ODIN. Unfortunately, ODIN can't even save it now. It gets stuck at NAND Write then fails. I think it might have something to do with the fsync option that was enabled in Franco's kernel. It finally caught up with all those random reboots from testing his tweaks. One of the reboots probably messed up my NAND with the fsync option. At least that's my theory cause I only started having problems once he started adding new tweaks to his kernel.
#5509
Suzuka Master
damn that sucks good luck man!
I need to be more careful. I thought the only real way of bricking it is while rooting.
I need to be more careful. I thought the only real way of bricking it is while rooting.
#5510
Safety Car
I think Samsung had a batch of EMMCs that were prone to getting corrupted after a while. I probably got one of those again unfortunately. If yours had any issue, it would've happened by now. My other Galaxy S (i9000T) never had any issues and I flashed that thing like no other to do a stress test. I gave that to my brother and he has no issues with that phone. The Galaxy S (i9000M) I'm using now had the EMMC fail twice and Samsung refused to fix it the second time. My internal is gone on the i9000M so I'm running Android on my 8GB external SD Card by using the vold.fstab trick. It thinks my external card is my internal card and that I don't have an external card. I just hope Handtec is quick about the warranty process. I'm gonna be using my Galaxy S for the time being.
#5512
Suzuka Master
lol i wanna say i've done at least 20-30 so mike is probably triple me? lol Well maybe not on the galaxy nexus since thats new. I've been flashing since February '11
#5514
Safety Car
Someone had the exact same issue as my phone in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1671044
Played it exactly to the tee so its definitely a hardware issue again. Hopefully Handtec won't require me to send it in with the original box cause I'm not home right now.
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If you think that was good, you should check out this site:
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
Lots of great themes/setups on there. Both Android and iOS btw.
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
Lots of great themes/setups on there. Both Android and iOS btw.
i was hoping for more pics...
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#5516
Safety Car
#5517
Safety Car
CyanogenMod on Jelly Bean:
https://plus.google.com/117962666888...ts/PNJutPNhixo
On Jelly Bean
Unless you have been internet deprived lately, you are aware that Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean (JB) is due out in the coming weeks. Which inevitably leads to the question: How does this affect me CyanogenMod?
Now, to preface this, we do not have our hands on the source code, and things in this post may change dependent on analysis of the code first hand and the impacts. That said, we do have a general understanding of the changes and what we can expect, and this post serves to highlight the key changes.
CyanogenMod Next
Many have asked whether JB will be CM9.1 or CM10. Keeping with the pattern thus far, every newly named AOSP update results in a bump to the CM major version. This has the added benefit of fitting into the pattern of [insert codename position in the english alphabet] = CM version. Examples being: G is the 7th letter thus CM7, I is the 9th letter thus CM9 and J = 10.
I can’t believe its not Butter
The ‘Project Butter’ enhancements to Android are much anticipated and should not be a huge pain to merge. We anticipate some breakage in existing libs but nothing that the reference board devices or some hackery won’t overcome. Essentially, if your device met our criteria for CM9 (512mb RAM, etc) and is already supported, then you should be in line for CM10. There may be some added headaches around hwcomposer, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get source.
Another fresh start?
With CM9 (and ICS) being such a large jump from CM7 (GB) we decided it would be best and most efficient to essentially rewrite CM enhancements from scratch. This added a bit of time to our development cycle, but the initial investment in cleaning our codebase has paid off, and CM9 is better for it. Now that JB is around the corner, we are in a place where most of our code will merge cleanly into JB, with minimal fuss.
What needs rework?
Since we don’t have source, we obviously can’t give a 100% analysis. What we do anticipate refactoring is Trebuchet and the LockScreen enhancements, along with the Theme Engine.
In addition, we expect to have to hand merge (versus a more automated method) the updated Framework code. This isn’t because of massive changes, but from what we’ve heard, the Framework code has been split into multiple projects to better the PDK (Platform Development Kit). Should be doable in a weekend’s amount of time.
CM7, 9, and 10 at the same time?
Our goal is to release a stable CM 9.0.0 (and any needed .1’s). After that, we will work on CM7 and CM10 only. As stated above, CM9 devices are highly likely to get CM10, so maintaining a separate class of devices for CM9 only is inefficient.
ETA?
When it’s ready
Unless you have been internet deprived lately, you are aware that Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean (JB) is due out in the coming weeks. Which inevitably leads to the question: How does this affect me CyanogenMod?
Now, to preface this, we do not have our hands on the source code, and things in this post may change dependent on analysis of the code first hand and the impacts. That said, we do have a general understanding of the changes and what we can expect, and this post serves to highlight the key changes.
CyanogenMod Next
Many have asked whether JB will be CM9.1 or CM10. Keeping with the pattern thus far, every newly named AOSP update results in a bump to the CM major version. This has the added benefit of fitting into the pattern of [insert codename position in the english alphabet] = CM version. Examples being: G is the 7th letter thus CM7, I is the 9th letter thus CM9 and J = 10.
I can’t believe its not Butter
The ‘Project Butter’ enhancements to Android are much anticipated and should not be a huge pain to merge. We anticipate some breakage in existing libs but nothing that the reference board devices or some hackery won’t overcome. Essentially, if your device met our criteria for CM9 (512mb RAM, etc) and is already supported, then you should be in line for CM10. There may be some added headaches around hwcomposer, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get source.
Another fresh start?
With CM9 (and ICS) being such a large jump from CM7 (GB) we decided it would be best and most efficient to essentially rewrite CM enhancements from scratch. This added a bit of time to our development cycle, but the initial investment in cleaning our codebase has paid off, and CM9 is better for it. Now that JB is around the corner, we are in a place where most of our code will merge cleanly into JB, with minimal fuss.
What needs rework?
Since we don’t have source, we obviously can’t give a 100% analysis. What we do anticipate refactoring is Trebuchet and the LockScreen enhancements, along with the Theme Engine.
In addition, we expect to have to hand merge (versus a more automated method) the updated Framework code. This isn’t because of massive changes, but from what we’ve heard, the Framework code has been split into multiple projects to better the PDK (Platform Development Kit). Should be doable in a weekend’s amount of time.
CM7, 9, and 10 at the same time?
Our goal is to release a stable CM 9.0.0 (and any needed .1’s). After that, we will work on CM7 and CM10 only. As stated above, CM9 devices are highly likely to get CM10, so maintaining a separate class of devices for CM9 only is inefficient.
ETA?
When it’s ready
#5518
Safety Car
I need some help this is ny first android phone and i noticed that the battery life in my galaxy s3 is very short even if i dont use the phone. I did some research and i found this but im not sure how to update this file as i mentioned befkre its my first android
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/m...ife-complaints
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1646610
I haven't read through the thread and XDA's search button isn't working but maybe they fixed the battery profile in that update.
#5520
Safety Car
Jelly Bean Transition Animations on ICS
Someone ported the Jelly Bean Transition Animations for any ICS ROM (Works great on my Galaxy S CM9):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1738350
You need to be rooted and flash the zip file with CWM. If it doesn't work the first time, you need to "mount /system" in CWM prior to flashing. Note that this can mess up your ROM so make an nandroid backup if you don't know how to flash/push the old framework-res.apk. You can probably also just reflash the whole ROM that you were on WITHOUT wiping.
It has 90% of the Jelly Bean animations. It's missing the animation from the home launcher and multitasking launcher. They're saying maybe that's tied to the new Jelly Bean launcher. Its made my transition animations a lot smoother on my Galaxy S for sure though and should hold me off until CM10 and my Nexus comes back from repairs once I send it out this week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1738350
You need to be rooted and flash the zip file with CWM. If it doesn't work the first time, you need to "mount /system" in CWM prior to flashing. Note that this can mess up your ROM so make an nandroid backup if you don't know how to flash/push the old framework-res.apk. You can probably also just reflash the whole ROM that you were on WITHOUT wiping.
It has 90% of the Jelly Bean animations. It's missing the animation from the home launcher and multitasking launcher. They're saying maybe that's tied to the new Jelly Bean launcher. Its made my transition animations a lot smoother on my Galaxy S for sure though and should hold me off until CM10 and my Nexus comes back from repairs once I send it out this week.