Android Thread

[Cez★]

yes actually :lol:



the dudes name is mike

[stonehenge]

yeah i have helped him flash roms and shit regularly via gtalk, he just got a note 2 lol

[Cez★]

wish i could use dat gnex. be bamf

[stonehenge]

If it had better specs (it's no improvement from a gnex) I'd kinda want the First. It looks nice and is essentially stock Android with a launcher that can be disabled.

ffb but

:notbad:

[MikeH]

Copy splits the storage on shared folders, so should we switch?

[stonehenge]

well we're only using 1.4gb now that wallpapers are gone and i think we're all up to 3gb or so capacity right? Up to you guys, idgaf either way.

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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Heres-exactly-how-much-bigger-the-Samsung-Galaxy-Mega-is-compared-to-the-Note-II-S4-and-other-popular-smartphones_id41779

:alaverga:

[M.B Co]

Gimme somedin to flash on my lunchbreak....

[stonehenge]

It's not flashable but this music player is pretty damned nice:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2215857

[chevyrado14]

:word: installed it yesterday

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[stonehenge]

Me likes

[chevyrado14]

me too i uninstalled apollo. the lockscreen setting never worked past one time. hoping this guy will do something similar.

[MikeH]

Apollo displayed songs out of order for me.

[stonehenge]

kinda want to try Ninja SMS. I have some ke$h on GPlay but wanted to find the apk and try it first. don't see it anywhere :chin:

[chevyrado14]

looks cool if you find it :secret: post it in le db k thanks lol

[stonehenge]

:jester:

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still can't find it :pissedfist:

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Anyone on VZW who got their phone in January or later, your upgrade date is about to move 4 months into the future.

BigFgtRed

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Facebook home has a rating of 2.6/5 so far


ffb :security:

[chevyrado14]

thats because its not compatible with anything yet lol i installed it and got this

http://i.imgur.com/EVfoL6Q.png

[stonehenge]

thats because its not compatible with anything yet lol i installed it and got this

http://i.filmot.com/EVfoL6Q.png

changing imgur url to filmot since something is going on with my network and i can't see i.imgur.com stuffs

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at least it has a legit message instead of just crashing lol

most of the negatives i saw in the reviews on GPlay say that they miss widgets, app shortcuts, it ruins android, feels like an app not a launcher, etc, etc.

[Cez★]

really diggin this case. especially the buttons. feels like the OG buttons. way different from tpu i had

[chevyrado14]

they say the chat heads work in the facebook messenger app without home installed. from what i can tell they only work on facebook messages not sms. i sent my self a couple texts and they didnt show up. i cant send myself a facebook message to see if they show up.

[stonehenge]

i installed it to see if it would work for sms without installing fb, as expected it didn't. Still want to try ninja

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may have found ninja but it says 4mb even though market says 1.7mb

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lqwNMNZabLo/T9DjhZ7J4BI/AAAAAAAAAqc/QAwko1QjN4c/s1600/Gooby+without+car+suspicious.png

[Cez★]

:lol2:

[chevyrado14]

hmm looks like i dont have chatheads at all. there is supposed to be a setting to turn them on and off and its not there. :fp:

[stonehenge]

do you need messenger for that to work? I thought I saw a D-L post about messenger having chat heads even without Home installed. :chin:

download links for ninja aren't working even though it's a hosting site I've heard of and used before with no issues :fp:

[chevyrado14]

you can use them with just messenger installed but i guess they only work on the home supported devices for now too. i have the latest update but no option to turn them on. bummer.

[Sal]

OK, I'M FUCKING DONE. TWO WEEKS AGO MY PHONE UPDATED TO JB OR WHATEVER IT IS AND NOW I CAN'T UNINSTALL FB :ffuuu:

I've been wanting to delete FB for a while, but I wanted to wait til my background check was done. I thought deleting a FB acct while going thru a background check seemed a little sketch. :pow:

Can a I root/rom :shrug: without changing much about my phone?

I just wanna be able uninstall all that BULLSHIT preloaded app stuff.

I haz so mash confuse

Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2

[MikeH]

Go into settings>apps and disable Facebook if you cant uninstall it.

[stonehenge]

Yeah with JB you can disable them if they aren't uninstallable.

[MikeH]

fgt home for all phones http://www.modaco.com/topic/361924-facebook-home-download-including-patched-apk-version/

[stonehenge]

ffb

[Cez★]

:bishplz:

[MikeH]

Xenon was updated

[Sal]

Thanks Android homies, I disabled ALL that BULLSHIT!!!!

Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2

[stonehenge]

older versions of android couldn't do that without root, was teh ghey

[MikeH]

Flashed Xenon this morning. Seems nice.

[stonehenge]

Still in Carbon. Works great except for occasional freezes. Screen stays on and last thing i was looking at gets frozen there. Can't turn the screen off or tap anything. Battery pull is only option. Has done it two or three times.

[MikeH]

Carbon was fucking up on me the other day too so I stopped using it. Seems like a lot of people are have problems with it.

[stonehenge]

damn because otherwise it runs great

[chevyrado14]

Ninja sms and a few other apps are updated in le db

[stonehenge]

:shake:

[chevyrado14]

if anyone wants to try sliding messaging i just dropped it in the db. it has a cool google now like card theme.

[stonehenge]

Liking ninja, might buy it while its .99

Haven't tried sliding in a while, lemme try that. Does it have MMS yet?

[chevyrado14]

there is an option to turn it on. havent tried to send any yet

[stonehenge]

:chin:

[chevyrado14]

mms does work just sent myself a pic from my work phone

[M.B Co]

Weired. Flashed back to PA and got BT to work/pair with Ford Sync in da Edge. Never worked before that w/PA

[MikeH]

Bamf TWRP theme for N4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40303919&postcount=151

Same as this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942309

[chevyrado14]

Yea I was using it up until the latest update

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[stonehenge]

oo i like that

[MikeH]

TWRP looks like shit on N4 since they didn't feel the need to size it properly.

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Back on Carbon

[Cez★]

nexus battery pretty damn fucking awesoem. forgot to charge it last night when it was like 80% i think. charged it in the morning for like 1 minute and used it all day. 2 days 12 hours and 34 minutes on battery.

[chevyrado14]

ninja and sliding updated in db

[stonehenge]

Mike is good dev that supplies steady updates

[chevyrado14]

:shake: i just check blapk everyday lol

[MikeH]

ROM dev be hella slow lately. Hopefully we see an OS update at I/O.

[stonehenge]

Do want new goodies. Flashed a new Carbon nightly today. Hopefully they fixed whatever makes it freeze randomly lol

[MikeH]

That must be a GNex thing because I don't have that.

[stonehenge]

Its happened maybe 4 or 5 times in the week or so I ran it.

[JayBo]

Well, its been long enough. I think its time to root le s3

Sent from my SCH-I535

[Cez★]

Good luck

[stonehenge]

http://t.qkme.me/3paiy2.jpg

[JayBo]

dunno why, except I needs tether to use ipad skool gave me. Unless I could unlock wifi tether on le ifone. Never jailbroken one

[stonehenge]

wouldn't want to do hax tethering on work phone, i'd do it on the sammy

unless you don't have unlimited or the iphone tends to get better signal or something like that

[chevyrado14]

dropped this uccw theme in the db its called circle.uzip

http://i.imgur.com/jFYeQWS.png

[stonehenge]

lgb

[chevyrado14]

cant take credit for it seen it on reddit. i did make some changes to it after i posted. i changed the one unread counter from calls to gmail. and changed the date format.

[JayBo]

using this root method., except my build does not show up when i has to select one

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-siii/

[chevyrado14]

those toolkits dont work for the vzw version. look on rootz or xda for a vzw specific method.

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i used this one on my cousin s3

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/29256-tutorial-rootrecoverybootloader-unlockicsjb-verizon-galaxy-s-iii/

[JayBo]

stupid verizon. shit

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im in odin right now trying to flash the VRALEC bootchain

[stonehenge]

:chuy:

[JayBo]

lulz.

Says CUSTOM and has little unlock icon on it

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when trying to flash root.zip or VRALE6.bootloader.zip in recovery it says this.

--Install /sdcard ...
Finding update package..
opening update package...
Verifying Update package..
E:\SIGNATURE VERIFICATION FAILED
installation aborted

[chevyrado14]

try fixing permissions in recovery and try flashing again. or it might be a bad download. redownload and verify md5

[JayBo]

this shit gets harder and harder.. i swear.

[stonehenge]

:|

[chevyrado14]

this is jay imo

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2236661645/cab.png

[stonehenge]

:lol:

[JayBo]

:wtf:

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not sure how to fix permissions in recover. never done that before

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its still booting android recovery btw.. not twrp like I flashed

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hmm.. refuses to boot into new recovery. even reflashed in odin

[stonehenge]

so its not flashing correctly. make sure you have the right recovery, maybe download it again.

[JayBo]

hmm... let me look

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INSTEAD OF the newest twrp I tried downloading and flashing the previous one

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Hmm..

I hole Vol + , home and pwr and it just vibrates every so often, doing nothing. like a boot loop. let go of PWR, holding VOL+ and home and it boots to android recovery.

weird

[stonehenge]

O_o

im gonna miss my nexus if I have to get a non-nexus next

[JayBo]

waaaaaaait.

when I downloaded the .tar file for TWRP, it shows as a zip file in my explorer on W7. the CWM touch is a tar.md5 file...

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meh.. no difference after flashing the other recovery.

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going to eat lunch. brb

[chevyrado14]

if you can get root and boot install the goo app and let it install twrp for you.

[stonehenge]

the .md5 file is just a file to use to make sure your file downloaded correctly, it's not the actual recovery. The recovery should be a .img file unless the s3 is different.

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http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/23/aosp-now-available-for-xperia-z-on-sonys-github-open-source-video/

[Cez★]

i thought i was :derp: when came to rooting and shit

[stonehenge]

yaybo has the WORST luck with rooting and phones in general, even though he has had several by now and rooted them all. He still runs into weird problems that we never have.

[JayBo]

I followed every instruction to a T
It just won't boot into new recovery. Therefore I can't flash root

Sent from my SCH-I535

[chevyrado14]

make sure the new recovery file is the .img like juan said.

edit! should be .tar like the directions say. .img is probably for updating after its already installed.

[JayBo]

Well ive flashed twrp and clockwork mod with no luxk. Will only boot to android recovery

Sent from my SCH-I535

[chevyrado14]

try starting over with this.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709

do you already have jellybean? because there are special instructions on there for that.

[stonehenge]

XDA pages are showing up with shitty formatting for me, they just look like basic HTML pages wtf

[JayBo]

I'm on 4.1.2 so yea I have jb already

Sent from my SCH-I535

[chevyrado14]

In that case looks like all you have to do I'd download and flash a prerooted jb ROM from that XDA thread and flash in Odin

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[JayBo]

I'm trying to download the 4.1.1 one. 1.2GB. seems to be a large ass file!

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maybe do 4.0.4 and then upgradez

[chevyrado14]

id stick with the 4.1 rolling back might mess your phone up idk. after you flash the 4.1 in odin do this...

Step 8: Open up the SuperUser application from your app drawer and make sure the binaries are up to date! You can do this by sliding over to the info screen and selecting update binary.

Step 9: Download the EZ-Unlock app to your device from HERE.(Only use version 1.1 or 1.2 for now as the latest versions have issues!)

Step 10: Open the app and select unlock! Now your unlocked...yup its that easy!

Step 11: Download the EZ-recovery app to your device from HERE.

Step 12: Open app, select CWM recovery, tap the pulldown menu, choose CWM 6.0.1, select flash, then reboot recovery.

Step 13: Congrats you are now rooted, unlocked, and have a custom recovery installed!! If you want to flash a custom rom proceed to section 3 or 4.

[JayBo]

BAM!

Success! using these steps.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439

[chevyrado14]

:awwyeah:

[JayBo]

Hell, that was easy actually. Once I found the right stuff. I guess that OTA update they pushed out that I installed screwed me up

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Well!!
When in recovery I can see a folder I apparently tried to hide. That I want to see now and it shows up nowhere else lol. named .jayson

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NVM. Found them. FUck yeah. Score

[stonehenge]

Bad luck Brian overcomes the challenges

[chevyrado14]

Is now success kid

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[stonehenge]

:imo

[JayBo]

So I remember unlocking the built in wifi tether on my bionic and my friends razr with sqlite. But I can't seem to find that option on this phone yet.

Sent from my SCH-I535

[stonehenge]

That was a moto method. The Sammy is probably different. Flashing any aosp based rom (AOKP, cm, etc) should get you built in tethering. If you want to stay stock rooted for now, I'm sure there's a way to tether.

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So after the Verge review and half of the D-L review, my take so far is:

S4: better battery, more vivid screen, better good-light camera, "cheaply" made, fuck ton of touchwiz bloat (some good, most unneccesary)
One: more "accurate" screen but sometimes washed out, better low-light camera, mushy good-light camera, seks build quality, sense got more minimal instead of more bloated

dem trade-offs, not sure what to get wifey in a few months

[MikeH]

Email dbrand about custom skin and those fuckers told me it would be $60 :fp:

Fuck that. Told me $15 for material and $15 per hour to make it. No fucking way it would take 3 hours for the simple design I wanted.

[stonehenge]

but they are the boss of vinyl skins

[Cez★]

dfw anime vinyl skin

[MikeH]

but they are the boss of vinyl skins
I have no problem paying a premium since they don't technically offer customs, but $65 is ridiculous. I asked a couple people and they only paid $35-40. I think they are starting to capitalize on the fact that a lot of people are wanting them done now.

[Cez★]

That was a moto method. The Sammy is probably different. Flashing any aosp based rom (AOKP, cm, etc) should get you built in tethering. If you want to stay stock rooted for now, I'm sure there's a way to tether.

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So after the Verge review and half of the D-L review, my take so far is:

S4: better battery, more vivid screen, better good-light camera, "cheaply" made, fuck ton of touchwiz bloat (some good, most unneccesary)
One: more "accurate" screen but sometimes washed out, better low-light camera, mushy good-light camera, seks build quality, sense got more minimal instead of more bloated

dem trade-offs, not sure what to get wifey in a few months

get n4

[stonehenge]

can't have n4 because fgt verizon and coworkers have told me that tmobile is the gheys in Tucson :blah: we'll see though, maybe i can afford a CL phone and a month of prepaid to test out tmo here. want to send me your old cracked g2x or n1 or osmething? :cheeky:


i'm thinking i want to sync my music on my phone with my computer to make it easier to fix titles, album art, etc. Is my best bet seriously iTunes and iSyncr? :blah:

[chevyrado14]

i have an app called iTag on my phone thats pretty good at fixing the tags and album art. but if you have alot of music to fix it can be tedious.

[Cez★]

can't have n4 because fgt verizon and coworkers have told me that tmobile is the gheys in Tucson :blah: we'll see though, maybe i can afford a CL phone and a month of prepaid to test out tmo here. want to send me your old cracked g2x or n1 or osmething? :cheeky:


i'm thinking i want to sync my music on my phone with my computer to make it easier to fix titles, album art, etc. Is my best bet seriously iTunes and iSyncr? :blah:

u want g2sex? rofl. ill send. no has anything to do with it and needed to find time to light it on fire

[MikeH]

Best way to fix tags is to do it yourself. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

[chevyrado14]

i also use that on the pc too. the iTag app is good for stuff on the go tho.

[stonehenge]

That's what i have at home but i hate when i forget to change one or two or i'm in a hurry so I just copy the mp3s over without checking tags. Because of fgt MTP i can't just plug the phone in and change tags with a program, i need to copy the mp3 off, change it, copy it back. I'll give iTag a try, it just gets tedious doing it on the phone.

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u want g2sex? rofl. ill send. no has anything to do with it and needed to find time to light it on fire

:shake: let me see if wifey is willing to move to TMo if the signal is good, don't want to waste your time sending g2sex if I'd never get tmo anyway :jester:

[MikeH]

Emailed dbrand back and they are gonna hook it up. Here's the shitty photoshop I sent them :jester: http://i.imgur.com/vnhZXtH.png

[stonehenge]

stands for Super Fine?

you so full of yourself

[Cez★]

todo puto

[MikeH]

supa fly

[stonehenge]

was close

[MikeH]

fuck, just realized I have to order a new case now.

[Manbearpig]

Found a patch on xda that was meant for the epic 3g but was said to work on the s3
Before
387

After
388

Dunno wtf is up with the ping but :whoa:

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

[Manbearpig]

Lol whoops wrong after


Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

[stonehenge]

:roflmao: was about to say "ehhh nice improvement bro...." lolll but yeah, double speeds ftw

[Manbearpig]

That improvement is fucking ridiculous

That ping is absolutely retarded too :rofltank:

[stonehenge]

2x+ down, a little faster up and a little less ping, FIDIL will take it

and why the fuck do i keep thinking you live in "middleton" instead of "midland"

:what?:

[Manbearpig]

:smileshrug:

[stonehenge]

tell sprint to put LTE in middleton/midland imo

[Manbearpig]

fuck i wish

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i had 4g in austin

it was fucking amazing

[stonehenge]

hmm so the cheapest way to try TMo is the $70 bring your own phone plan? :think:

[Cez★]

shouldnt be. theres the $50 prepaid line or the $30 unlimited web and 100minutes talk

[stonehenge]

Don't think they have that anymore, they just have $50/$60/$70 depending on amount of data. So $50 is cheapest way to try it.

Mike, would a TMo straight talk sim give me an accurate test of TMos network or do they only use a few of the towers? :chin:

[MikeH]

Go to walmart for $30 plan if it isn't online. ST would give you accurate test of TMo too though.

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You also have to buy a $10 SIM for TMo too though. I believe.

[stonehenge]

From Walmart.com: "The $30 Unlimited Web & Text with 100 min talk plan works only with T-Mobile Phones purchased from a Walmart store or from Walmart.com."

:suspicious:

also, where would I get a sim? Walmart just sells the $30 cards right?

[MikeH]

Walmart should have the SIM card too, or maybe Best Buy.

[stonehenge]

do they charge for the SIMs?

[MikeH]

$10 for the kit.

[stonehenge]

so buy $10 kit, buy $30 card, then come home and set it up myself?

[MikeH]

Yup.

[stonehenge]

actually, i just found it on the website, its just down in the bottom left in black and white and i missed it: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

[MikeH]

you can get insurance on the $30 plan and TMo doesnt care what the phone is

[stonehenge]

brb calling insurance on cez' g2sex :jester:

trying to talk wifey into trying it, i've been opening her eyes to verizons fgtry lately

like their new device payment plan. they try to look like they are being tmo but you pay your normal monthly cost PLUS the device payment. fgts

[JayBo]

Ben trying different wifi tether apps. Seems most are having issues with 4.1.2 JB on the S3.
Go figure!!

[MikeH]

you try foxfi?

[JayBo]

I have. It'll turn on just wont broadcast an ssid

Sent from my SCH-I535

[Cez★]

how i take screen shots?

[chevyrado14]

Hold volume down and power

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[Cez★]

got it

[JayBo]

Trying to disable this annoying ass Ongoing "tap to enable WIFI" notification is dookie

[Cez★]

is it that much of a pain? lol i can just swipe it off

[JayBo]

I can't disable it at all! VZW disabled the option to make it go away. Tried what I read on the forums with SQlite and that didn't make it go away.

May be time for a rom

[Cez★]

:haha:


that sucks. is it that much of a bother tho?

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:cheeky:

those icons look a lil too cartoony lookin at the pic :rofl: kinda want to change
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8682624761_9500d44d5e_b.jpg

[MikeH]

try one of these
https://www.dropbox.com/s/96ovp3j7u2hdlcx/Black%20and%20Red.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bgs5mfaw9f5zcrp/Dark%20Metal%20Red.apk

[JayBo]

Well. Guess my last reply didnt post.

Which rom would be the best choice for s3?

Sent from my SCH-I535

[MikeH]

Lemme look real quick. You want Touchwiz?

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if you do then one of these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1973982
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832070

[Cez★]

try one of these
https://www.dropbox.com/s/96ovp3j7u2hdlcx/Black%20and%20Red.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bgs5mfaw9f5zcrp/Dark%20Metal%20Red.apk

how i use these?

download, recovery, apply?

[chevyrado14]

cez those are icon packs that work with apex or nova launcher. install them like a normal app and then choose the theme in your launcher settings.

[Cez★]

not sure wat launcher i has? :think:

[chevyrado14]

if your not sure then its probably stock. you can download either one i posted for free in the playstore.

[Cez★]

:shake:

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got em :shake:




apex has this fucking tab thingy at the top of screen thats kinda wtf. unneeded imo.


also wont set my fucking wallpaper right

[chevyrado14]

havent used apex in awhile so im not sure about the settings. but most of the stuff is changable just look thru the settings

[MikeH]

Haven't used apex in a while either. Like nova better.

[Cez★]

yea i switched to nova just now because apex was laggy and would freeze up going from twitter/messaging or anyhting to home. nova seems smoother

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fuckin nova did the same shit. fts :excalibur: back to stock.

[Manbearpig]

You gaiz like my icons?


Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

[Cez★]

:bogzcam:

[Manbearpig]

:ralphno:

Need pngs for a few of them

[stonehenge]

Battery feels like its draining faster lately. I guess it could be AOKP but I think the last Carbon was the same. It is deep sleeping and nothing is showing up too high on the battery list besides Screen.

I'm at 20% remaining after 8hr11m with only 1hr of screen time. The screen has used 53% of the battery in that hour it was on. Next highest is Phone Idle at 10%.

I know the GNex battery isn't amazing but its usually better than this. Still using the extended.

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It dropped like 5% while I wrote that and multitasked to battery info a couple times. :blah:

[JayBo]

Clean Rom flashed.

Sent from my SCH-I535

[Cez★]

Battery feels like its draining faster lately. I guess it could be AOKP but I think the last Carbon was the same. It is deep sleeping and nothing is showing up too high on the battery list besides Screen.

I'm at 20% remaining after 8hr11m with only 1hr of screen time. The screen has used 53% of the battery in that hour it was on. Next highest is Phone Idle at 10%.

I know the GNex battery isn't amazing but its usually better than this. Still using the extended.

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It dropped like 5% while I wrote that and multitasked to battery info a couple times. :blah:

fts. did you try turning it off then back on? that sometimes helped in my g2x

[stonehenge]

Yeah I've rebooted it.

Maybe its greenify :chin: idk, that should help not hurt

[MikeH]

I'm on Slim now. One of the few ROMs that doesn't have the hybrid bullshit, but has lockscreen walls.

[stonehenge]

I suppose I could go back to Slim, I don't think I'm using anything that it doesn't have.

[MikeH]

That Purity ROM looks nice too. I've been hoping it's gonna come to the Nexus 4.

[stonehenge]

Purity (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108705)
Slim (http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/all/viewcategory/407-toro)

will flash one later :chin:

[MikeH]

Slim be pretty damn small too. Only 100mb.

[stonehenge]

like the stock S4 rom that ends up giving you 9.5gb usable space on a 16gb phone?

:notbad:

[MikeH]

thats how the One X was.

[stonehenge]

fts, The S4 or Note 3 should be a decent phone but with processors that devs don't want , bloated as fuck stock roms, and fuckloads of sensors, NSIW. :blahclap:

I highly doubt VZW will get a nexus any time soon. Need to do the TMo SIM test drive.

[MikeH]

Would rather haz HTC One.

[stonehenge]

Flashed Slim but I don't like that DPI anymore and some of the settings are setup weird. Also, no reboot to recovery wtf. I made a backup after I got Slim setup and now I'm trying Purity.

[JayBo]

This ROM is great!

Sent from my SCH-I535

[stonehenge]

:orly:

[MikeH]

Flashed Slim but I don't like that DPI anymore and some of the settings are setup weird. Also, no reboot to recovery wtf. I made a backup after I got Slim setup and now I'm trying Purity.
Change DPI to whatever you want. Some of the settings are pretty stupid, like navbar, there are settings within the settings. For reboot go to developer settings and enable it, that was a CM thing.

[stonehenge]

Purity is nice. Has everything I need without all the extra crap. Feels a little faster too but idk maybe placebo.

[JayBo]

Its not fancy or anything but has the features I wanted when I rooted. Now to find a good theme

Sent from my SCH-I535

[stonehenge]

Did you flash an AOSP theme or a TouchWiz one?

Battery already feels better on Purity.

[JayBo]

Touchwiz. Flashed Clean ROM

Sent from my SCH-I535

[stonehenge]

Trying out SwiftKey and so far I likes

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Damn the AOKP twitter account retweets some horrible looking screenshots.

Also, I just noticed something jesty about SwiftKey, let me upload a screenshot.

http://www.imgur.com/klav1sm.png

[Cez★]

that read :scared:

[stonehenge]

Read? :wat:

If you mean the red, I uninstalled that keyboard already. Prefer stock.

[Cez★]

red :derp:

[MikeH]

Jay see if one of these themes work for you

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929403

[stonehenge]

hmm when I make a phonecall, com.android.phone craps out. I can continue my call as long as I don't hit OK on the error. When someone calls it also craps out but I can't answer the call, can only hit OK which closes the phone app.

probably from me restoring the call log, even though that hasn't been a problem before

[M.B Co]

hmm when I make a phonecall, com.android.phone craps out. I can continue my call as long as I don't hit OK on the error. When someone calls it also craps out but I can't answer the call, can only hit OK which closes the phone app.

probably from me restoring the call log, even though that hasn't been a problem before

Bet that's it. Happened to me before. I just stopped restoring it. Said f-it

[stonehenge]

fak. wiped allthethings (except sd) and flashed purity and minimal gapps, phone still fux0rd (haven't restored anything yet)

maybe it's a purity issue, brb xda

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don't see anyone with problems in the purity toro thread :think:

flashing normal gapps, maybe something is missing in these minimal ones

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Nope, gapps didn't help. :chin:

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wtf Purity's Preferred Mobile Network defaults to LTE/CMDA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA

and no I didn't misspell the first "CMDA", that's how its spelled.

Changed it to LTE/CDMA and rebooted, now I can make calls w/o it crashing.

[chevyrado14]

:fulloffuck:

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[Cez★]

:roflpow:

[stonehenge]

I'm glad that's all it took to fix it, I like this rom :jester: even though that is a ratard setting

[MikeH]

We are gonna get my mom a HTC One, gonna be jelly.

[stonehenge]

Dfw

[JayBo]

been noticing alot of 4g service in my area lately. How can you tell if they've converted one of the towers? cant find a news article or anything

[stonehenge]

If they announce it, it is usually a while later in bulk "LTE service now available in these 12 cities" even though they may have turned it on a day or two ago in yours.

But with that said, I think by now they may have stopped announcing every city they turn on unless it's a big one they have left. Not sure.

[chevyrado14]

i get emails every so often from vzw about new coverage its usually on thursdays i think.

[stonehenge]

orly? don't think i get those

[chevyrado14]

just uploaded shuttle+ to the dropbox. comparing it to the very similar Now Playing music app I like shuttle better.

[MikeH]

I just use Poweramp since I bought it a while back.

[JayBo]

If they announce it, it is usually a while later in bulk "LTE service now available in these 12 cities" even though they may have turned it on a day or two ago in yours.

But with that said, I think by now they may have stopped announcing every city they turn on unless it's a big one they have left. Not sure.


I've speed tested the LTE vs the DSL I have at the house now. Blows it away, with only 2 bars of signal I get constant 12mb download

ATT dsl at best is 3.

i'd cancel my dsl and only use my phones hot spot... but then during the day nobody could use the laptop/watch netflix on the xbox while i was at work

[stonehenge]

and it would be a bitch to have netflix/xbox/computers all running through your phone at the same time


I tried the free shuttle a while back and I liked it but I like NowPlaying a little better. Will try + version though. :shake:

[MikeH]

Got my mom an S4.

[stonehenge]

still not sure about wifeys future phone. She likes her fassy besides the slowness, likes my gnex, and liked her stratosphere. So she is leaning towards the S4. She likes how the S4 looks compared to the One also (idk why, I like the One more rofl).

I told her they both have advantages and cons... both are good choices.

[MikeH]

I went with the S4 because it was already on 4.2 and Samsung is better with their updates.

[stonehenge]

True. Wifeys will probably stay stock. Only ever rooted her phones to get a little more speed out of them. S4 won't have that issue.

[MikeH]

My moms will definitely stay stock.

[JayBo]

I was going to leave mine stock, but I've become so picky about certain things that ROM's offer, and bloatware shit they remove it couldn't stand it any longer :cheeky2:

[M.B Co]

AOSP Lockscreen. Anyway to change the dim setting?

Bothers me with a transparent status bar.

[stonehenge]

depending on your rom, there should be settings somewhere to adjust the transparency of the bars on the lockscreen and some still let you change the dim amount i think :chin:

[M.B Co]

depending on your rom, there should be settings somewhere to adjust the transparency of the bars on the lockscreen and some still let you change the dim amount i think :chin:

Hmmm. I've looked in PA and all the other AOSP/AOKP roms and didn't see anything like it. But doesn't mean it's not there.

I seen a few threads on XDA but the question was never answered.

[MikeH]

Look for a ROM that let's you set custom lock walls such as Slim.

[M.B Co]

Look for a ROM that let's you set custom lock walls such as Slim.

I'll check it out

[stonehenge]

fgt VZW and fgt ATT being like VZW: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/01/dan-rosenberg-has-unlocked-att-galaxy-s4s-bootloader-but-we-wont-get-to-see-how-for-a-while-here-is-why/

[MikeH]

bought this case and some screen protectors so can haz a little more protection while at work
http://www.amazon.com/Acase-Superleggera-Hybrid-layer-Google/dp/B00BR3OJOC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1367436417&sr=8-4&keywords=nexus+4+acase

[stonehenge]

looks like the same idea as the Otterbox Commuter I had on my D1, besides the silicon part liking lint a little bit, it was an awesome case. Obviously a little bulkier than a TPU but not stupid big and the hard outer shell makes it feel better in your hand than a big rubber brick lol

[MikeH]

I just wanted something with more protection than bumper/TPU case, but nothing extreme. I know the silicone will be a lint magnet, but oh well.

[MikeH]

http://i.imgur.com/ZRWTX3F.jpg

[stonehenge]

Looks damn nice.

[JayBo]

Lint sticks to my incipio like mad. But has saved mine already twice

Sent from my SCH-I535

[stonehenge]

they should make a case from a super bouncy ball

[MikeH]

Jay just needs a bubble for his phone.

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cez if you wanna try a new kernel I've been using sabermods for a while now. here is the newest
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40942531&postcount=1277

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and xenon was updated again

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talking to myself in here, thats cool

[Cez★]

Now u know how I feel in anime thread :foreveralone:

[stonehenge]

*watches loners*

[chevyrado14]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/27650600.jpg

[MikeH]

Juan, do you get a discount on VZW accessories?

[stonehenge]

i used to get 25% off accessories and 15% off my main line but after they made me "re-authorize" my discount, it went down to like 8% off or some shit. Fgts. So I'm not sure about accessory discount. Want me to put something in my cart and see if anything comes up?

[MikeH]

WTF, VZW is a bunch of fgts. What kind of shit is that? See what this would be if you could http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?&action=accessoryDetails&accessoryId=59904

[stonehenge]

it says my price is $39.99

don't see any mention of a discount anywhere. Either I don't get one anymore (fgts) or it's already reduced?

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Your savings today:
$0.00

F G T S

:imo

[MikeH]

fgts. maybe they wont apply discount to it since its already cheap. it isnt on sale, but no other qi charger other than china ones are that cheap.

[stonehenge]

I was wrong about the 8% discount:

05% Feature Discount
03% Bonus Feature Discount

:facepalm:

[MikeH]

:rofl:

why did your discount change? did VZW change the way they give discounts or did your work change something?

[stonehenge]

idk which changed. Verizon sent out an email (and D-L covered it) saying that you had to resubmit your work email address so it can be "re-authorized". If you don't then you lose your discount completely. So I did that and it went from 15% to 5% and it looks like no discount on accessories.

:nono:

[MikeH]

fgt vzw assholes

[stonehenge]

:imo

[M.B Co]

Pretty darn slick. Hope it get's ported.

9vlrgCteDac

[chevyrado14]

:notbad:

[stonehenge]

kinda want but dont rly want PA

would try PA again for that tho lol

[M.B Co]

Google+ has finally won me over. Didn't care for it but now I can't seem to put it down.

[chevyrado14]

must find :secret: version of these icons

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kov.theme.stark#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwi a292LnRoZW1lLnN0YXJrIl0.

[stonehenge]

lately i only like icons that are all the same color(s)

but those are pretty seksi

[chevyrado14]

For gnex guys i uploaded this holo dark theme to db. i moved the time and batt stats so it fits on the screen.

http://www.zaslike.com/files/hmr2enxdi9orb9pamlu6.png

[stonehenge]

bamf, lemme grab that

what is the directory on the sd that it goes in again?

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also :repz:

[chevyrado14]

/sdcard/TWRP/theme/ui.zip

dont put it in the lower case twrp folder it wont work

[stonehenge]

I've been trying to embrace PIE because more screen real estate is nice and a homescreen without bars is sexy.

I'm getting used to it already but sometimes it refuses to come up with the bottom border. I'm not sure why. Other times it comes up right away but sometimes it won't. I have the right border enabled also and that one seems to always work but my case gets in the way sometimes. #thinbezelproblems

maybe it's an issue with Purity. There aren't many PIE settings and I know roms like PA have fuck tons of options.

[Cez★]

fak. forgot to get dat saber kernel and new xylon

[MikeH]

havent ran xylon in a while. went to shit when they brought in hybrid