I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Android where you have choices.
Welcome to android. Soon you'll be like others here and will have the files needed to root/install custom rom/install custom kernel before you even buy your phone!
If you miss some of the stock stuff you can always try some of the touchwiz based roms. They won't be like cm10 obviously but they are streamlined with a lot of the carrier/samsung crap removed.
tzones said:
Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
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I am still experimenting, but so far it seems that battery life has seen an improvement. However, I must qualify that with the fact that I did not restore EVERY app on the new ROM because many apps were no longer needed. So, any improvement may not be specific to the ROM itself. However, I read a few posts where people were actually having worse battery performance; so I am very pleased that this is not the case with my installation. Sometimes I wonder if the people having sporadic issues that others are not having is more related to HOW they flash and how/if they restore various system data/settings. I pretty much wiped everything and restored very selectively with regard to system settings/data.
@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
cbski9 said:
@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
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I don't mean touchwiz the launcher. Touchwiz is the whole wrapping that samsung puts android into on their phones. It includes the features that the S3 came with like s-voice, some of the camera features, the eye track to keep your screen on.
Keep what I said in mind whenever you see things on these forums you might want to try that are touchwiz only when you're on CM10 which is aosp. The same can be said when you see things that are AOSP only when you're on a touchwiz rom.
I'd also like to point out that it usually takes 3 battery cycles to fully see how your battery is so don't freak out if when you flash a new rom the batter is trash. It might be trash the first day then it is great after that.
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
forwardbias said:
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
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I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
crash822 said:
I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
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Thanks, I will check that out.
Related
As we all know the stock ROM that verizon pushes to our phone has a new annoying feature. When u connect the phone to the PC it makes a virtual CDROM drive. Ever since that got created on my phone it has caused me nothing but headaches. Namely that it causes my optical (DVDRW) drive tray to cycle open and closed. I thought that once I rooted my phone and installed a custom ROM that would go away. Sadly this is not the case. how do I get my phone to stop creating this virtual drive? Im assuming there is something in the ROM that can be changed to stop this. Now I know there is usually a CDROM.ISO file that exists in the stock HTC ROM and if u remove/rename that the drive wont show up in My Computer. My question is why does the HTC Android Phone USB device still appear on my system? Is there a way to prevent my phone from doing this? I am really tired of having my drive tray open and close for hours on end. I have taken to disabling the DVDRW in the device manager to get it to stop. I want to avoid doing that. Please help.
Nobody has any ideas??
Well I have some news. After I posted here on a whim I decided to send a support email to HTC. And they responded with some nifty instructions.
1. dial ##7764726
2. hit call
3. Type password 000000 (thats 6 zeros)
4. hit feature settings
5. choose cdrom
6. click disable
7. hit menu then commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
I tried the above instructions but I did not get any password box. It actually called the number. Maybe this only works if you are on the stock ROM? Anybody have any ideas about this?
The tip that they gave you won't stop it from showing up as a CD-ROM Drive. All that does it prevents that prompt for VZW driver installation. Any ROM based on the stock ROM (Virtuous, Skyraider, Redemption, etc.) will have this CD-ROM drive show up, though most of those ROMs have the driver issue disabled by default.
Switching to an AOSP ROM (like Cyanogen(mod)) will get rid of it.
I tried the HTC tip from within the stock rom and it does show up.
Why is it that this was never removed from any of the roms based on the stock rom?
I have tried Cyanogenmod and it restarts on me at the wierdest times.I can not even be doing anything with it. And poof it will restart. Dunno why either.
Rooted, yes? SwiFTP from market, no USB cable necessary.
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Yes its rooted. Thats how i got cyanogenmod flashed enuf to know its restarting for no reason. Seeing as my 2yo lost the wall charger adaptor somewhere in the house its the only way I have of charging my phone. its also how I put my audio books and music on my phone. The amount of data moving across is more than what a wireless connection should transfer. Its alot faster with a direct connection. Besides, Doubletwist airsync is not worth the money.
Why is it that this was never removed from any of the roms based on the stock rom?
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Because they can't. It's part of the framework now.
I have tried Cyanogenmod and it restarts on me at the wierdest times.I can not even be doing anything with it. And poof it will restart. Dunno why either.
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CM6 or CM7? CM6 is stable. Minor bugs, but reboots shouldn't be noticeably more than stock. On stock, I'd get maybe one reboot per week. On CM6, about the same.
CM7 is considered in an alpha state right now. It's going through nightly builds. Each build adds a feature or two, and then the next build is meant to add in another feature or two, while fixing bugs that came up from the last build's feature introduction. We may not see a release candidate for at least another month due to the fact that their remaining feature list to be implemented is still rather long.
Bottom line is, if you're slamming CM7 for stability, well, that's to be expected. It's not even officially in beta yet. The sad thing is, it's more stable than all but the grade-A ROMs out there today.
No CM7 for me. I live and breath with my phone to use something that is still being developed. I had flashed the following flavors of ROM:
Incredibly Re-Engineered rebooted 4 times in a matter of 8 hours.
Cyanogenmod 6 stable rebooted twice in the same time period.
I flashed nothing else to the phone except the radio which is 2.15.00.11.19. I did the radio b4 I even got around to flashing the rom and never had a single issue with it. Wanted to make sure nothing was gonna go south b4 moving on. Had the radio flashed for over a week and never had to restart my phone once. Im just trying to find something other than the stock rom.
I like the cyanogen rom cause it has the vanilla interface. Thats the first thing I flashed. Only part I didnt like about it was the camera interface. Felt like I had less control over settings. Also there are no ability to do wide screen pics from what I have been able to figure out. i like that ability. Hence the switch to the Reingineered. Was happy with it for the most part. Felt snappier than the stock interface only had a problem hitting the button for the phone cause it was so blasted small on the screen. Kept fat fingering the home and menu buttons below the screen. I want something stable and doesnt lose any of the features I have on the stock rom. I know thats asking alot but one can hope.
UD?
Maybe try UltimateDroid v 2.5?
Lots of features you describe - I run it w/ InvisibleK's #18 kernel, haven't been happier.
Plus, no annoying popups when connecting USB
I do know that Skyraider sense 3.5 has the CD-ROM feature removed. That rom is based off of sense if you like that kind of stuff( I know I do)
So basically all that will show up in device manager (if you have Skyraider rom) will be the mass storage device(s): SD and internal. No cd-rom device detected from phone. If I remember correctly, I think the developer created a script that removed that from his rom.
Ill give it a whirl
Hi,
I am what you might call a total Apple zombie, in fact I never had any other SmartPhone but an iPhone since '07. Due to the huge disappointment with the 4S, I was finally fed up and switched to the Galaxy Nexus. However, while this seems to be a cool developer phone, I have huge issues with using it in a productive environment. But that is probably just due to my own ignorance ...
[Backup&Restore]
Poor me is hit with an update notification like 50 times a day. I suspect that I will lose all data when I hit install so I am quite hesitant here. With my iPhone I did not even had to bother with stuff like that, it synced with iTunes over WIFi whenever I was in one my home networks. The Nexus does not seem to offer such functionality.
What I expect to be backup'ed is all:
of my mail (around 4GByte) that I frequently need to have available offline
my Navigation system and maps (Sygic + Navigon atm)
my music would be nice due to reasons I elaborate on later
SMS, phone records, etc ...
I tried the following means for backups already:
ADB: with command line "adb backup -apk -shared -all -f ./backup_all.ab" --> result was only 700MByte so I won't trust it a bit (my data is around 13GByte)
Titanium Backup: told me all worked fine but my phone has not enough free space for saving the backup to the pseudo-SD, the file is corrupted, and dropbox is rejecting the maps and my email account data (looks like they are bigger than 400MByte or something ...)
Google Sync: is missing all that des not have a google stamp on it
[EDIT] Noting is worse but to switch on Navigation and get the message that the map was not downloaded and to reload 400-800MByte of maps over a roaming 3G connection at the airport or use a super slow paid airport WiFi. Same goes for my e-Mail, I need it searchable and accessible.
What are the pro's suggesting here? I only have around 3GBytes of disk space available on my phone, the cloud services does not like big files, and the ADB backup seems to lack some stuff (though I cannot really tell what it is leaving out).
[Navigation]
I am abroad very often and do not like to pay insane roaming fees for online navigation systems. That is why I acquired two products, Navigon and Sygic since Navigon Europe is crashing right away.
I am used to the iPhone 4, which means: load App, set destination, boom, go ... My Nexus however, needs a warm-up of around 15 minutes and then constantly loses its signal. Furthermore the screen is not always auto-rotating so that I go in the wrong direction from time to time. Am I just too stupid to operate such things?
[Music Sync]
As I said, I am used to iTunes and all is synced automatically. With the nexus I tried Google music but it is not originally available in my country and it cannot find any management software apart from sync. The Music webpage does not let me logon since a couple of weeks now but the Music Manager works on Windows and uploads some of my files. However, how do I add or delete new songs? Am I stuck to add the to iTunes, import them by Music Manager, and wait for an upload?
I also tried Winamp sync but it crashes whenever I want to sync by WiFi and my Mac is not seeing the device sometimes.
[Car Mode]
Both of my cars support the iPhone by cable and BT. I usually use the cable mode because the phone needs to be charged anyway. My cars are playing the music right away and I can use the steering wheel controls to skip tracks, etc. With my Nexus all I see is "cannot play". When I use Aux-In, which sucks btw., I have no knowledge of any way to make the buttons bigger etc. I needs some filigrane fingers to operate that thing when on the go. The Google car App does not want to install itself because it seems to be incompatible with the nexus ...
How can a fit-finger syndrome person like me control their phone in a car?
[Network Access]
Whenever I am in highly shielded environments (that happens often), such as a underground parking garage, a hospital white room (MRT, CT, etc.) or in a research center with much electromagnetic interference, my Nexus is losing its GSM network access and this is okay. However, it does not gets it back when I am out again when I am not switch the phone off and on again! I have already had overflowing mailboxes so often that I have a habit now to restart my phone whenever I am outside again. That is ridiculous! Is that a hardware problem of the phone or do I just have a bad model?
I hope you could enlighten me, as I am totally ignorant concerning Android and their phones. They are indeed a world on their own! Please keep in mind that I am not very knowledgeable so I would appreciate human-understandable information
Included too much information. What update? I'm assuming you're stock and didn't root or do any tweaks?
Just update, all of your settings and such will still be there.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
zephiK said:
Included too much information. What update? I'm assuming you're stock and didn't root or do any tweaks?
Just update, all of your settings and such will still be there.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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OTA 4.0.2, it is rooted for the Titanium Backup, stock ROM and kernel (4.0.1, KK1-Baseband, 3.0.1 Kernel), no other tweaks I am aware of.
An OTA update doesn't erase anything..
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I'm in a similar kind of position and I think that provided you have standard recovery the update will work fine and you'll lose no settings although I've seen some suggestions you'll lose root by updating. Not sure how it would affect you if you have a non-standard kernel tho...
c_desal said:
OTA 4.0.2, it is rooted for the Titanium Backup, stock ROM and kernel (4.0.1, KK1-Baseband, 3.0.1 Kernel), no other tweaks I am aware of.
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Having root doesn't mean anything. As long as you didn't do any changes to the kernel, or anything outside of /sdcard/ even though you have root. You'll be fine, it won't wipe anything. Just accept the OTA and everything will be okay.
I'd recommend using https://market.android.com/details?...m9yZy5wcm9qZWN0dm9vZG9vLm90YXJvb3RrZWVwZXIiXQ.. as it will keep your root access post-OTA.
@daz.g: Not having the stock kernel provided by Google and accepting the OTA is a huge-nono and will most likely fail. You can keep root with the app I linked above. But using stock ROM + stock kernel + root, your options are rather limited and it's better off going off with Custom ROMs. If people are going to be risky and root, might as well go all the way. Risking and flashing ROMs aren't even that scary
Hi, hoping that someone out there will have some answers or solutions for me! My boyfriend is knowledgeable enough to help me flash new roms/radios to my phone, but is not confident enough to change anything like overclocking, or any of the advanced settings in my current rom, CM 7.2
Even back in 7.0 and 7.1, my phone was always losing signal--for example, losing data connectivity in my office for several hours! This is using the radio that comes with 7.2, as well as several others (my current radio is 12.28h.60.140fU_26.06.02.25). I'm kind of at my wits end---it's frustrating when everyone around me is using their phone no problem and I can't even get a signal because my phone is saying it lost data connectivity because it's out of range/roaming! Is this an issue I could bring up with my wireless provider, or is this a rom or hardware issue?
My other current concern is that in the last week, my phone has been running very slowly--there is a delay almost every time I press an icon, whether it be messaging, gmail, or facebook. Facebook and other apps have been especially slow--if I haven't opened it recently, it will take about 10 seconds to start loading, with a black screen in the mean time. I've tried switching apps from the phone to the SD card and back, and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'd hate to re-install the rom and go through the work of changing all of my settings if it ends up not fixing anything (waiting for an official release of CM9 anyways). Is there any settings I can change that would speed it up?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
your best off trying a new radio and flashing your rom over, yeah this can suck but im sure it will be well worth the time spent in the end.
you can restore most apps+data to the same point with titanium backup
if you use a custom launcher most of those settings can be backed up
sms backup + will take care of messages and call logs for you
really it wont take too long and you will be much much happier.
just make sure to do a full wipe when you reflash the rom
and when you change radios you can wipe efs and change ril-libs
this may also help out a lot -- here is some info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970809
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335127
again - read through this material first - do a full wipe - reflash rom - try new radio -
wipe efs and change ril-libs
you are now happy... after you restore everything to your desire!
do a nandroid!
I think that what demkantor said regarding radio and the sorts is pretty solid. Radios are a trial and error thing, it's different for everyone, so test and see what works for you in terms of performance/battery life.
Performance wise, if you like CyanogenMod, I would highly recommend switching to ILWT CM7. It is considerably faster and has better battery life when compared to official CM. You can find it under the development section in this forum.
From there you can use the Supercharger V6 script, which also adds a boost most welcome. Try to avoid using task killers, they'll only slow down the phone as it will try to restore the killed processes. Also, try to keep your app count as low as possible. Having many apps slows things down A LOT. Ideally you should only keep the apps you need, in addition to 20~ complimentary (games and so on). There are also other apps called 'rogue'. They tend to hog your system resources and drain battery. You should notice this by looking at the battery stats/running processes windows. You'll have to
From there, you can achieve more performance you can overclock. My suggestion is to use CPU Tuner, get familiarized with it and set up some profiles, in order to preserve battery as it degrades.
(Hopefully) last edit: I wish I could add more to this subject but my provider's reception up here does not allow me to. I hope the above info will suffice.
Sent from my DZ.
OK, first of all, @demkantor, Titanium Backup is awesome! it kept all of my presets for EVERYTHING. Thanks for that referral!
I reflashed CM7.2 last night and all seems good so far--not as laggy as it had been, though I haven't opened tons of programs since last night, either.
I will take a look at the efs and ril-lib details--I've used that thread to find radios before, but kind of ignored those subjects, since the new radios technically worked, but not WELL.
@crestofawave Thanks, I might try ILWTCM7, at least until CM9 comes out, because battery life has also definitely always been an issue for me. However, not super confident about adding the supercharger V6 script and fiddling around with my CPU. Is there any sort of beginner's guide you can recommend for doing this? If I switch to ILWTCM7 but don't run the script or overclock, can I still expect a significant change in performance/battery life?
I really can't do much else about reducing battery usage--I've recently switched to the paid versions of some games, to eliminate those battery-eating ads I hear so much about, and I keep bluetooth, GPS, and WIFI off unless I am actively using them.
I have flashed many Roms over the last year, Jedi Roms, Infamous Roms, Stock, and most recently Rushing's Shadow Rom. I have stuck to only Touchwiz based Roms since I need WiFi Calling to use my cell phone in my apartment.
The one thing I noticed every time I flashed is that the phone would get significantly slower after I rebooted the phone the first time after I installed a bunch of apps. (Not after the first one I do after the phone has resynch'ed contacts and stuff from google) Additionally, after a couple months the phone would get so slow that I would reflash a new Rom (generally, by this time a new version, but if a new version is not available, I usually switch Roms)
The apps I usually download include:
Google - YouTube, Maps
T-Mobile -Visual Voicemail
Media - Pulse, BeyondPod, a music player
Root stuff - Titanium, Rom toolbox, ES file explorer, etc.
Popular apps - Facebook, twitter, ebay, bank of america, etc.
Are any of these apps known to degrade the performance of your phone over time? Is there a way to diagnose which of these apps are running and when?
A second theory I have is that something on my SD card is either corrupt or not getting wiped properly. Then, these corrupt sectors/files cause performance to decrease over time? Has anybody heard of anything like this? Are there any utilities out there to look for corrupt file. Can anyone reccomend a SD cleaning app that might help if this is the case?
A third theory is that these customized Roms aren't as stable as they are thought to be. I don't believe this is the case since the developers on this forum are much smarter than me, and thoroughly test their roms. Additionally, I have seen this happen with Stock rooted also, which also discounts this theory.
Most of this is spit-balling so that people can see my symptoms (if you had similar symptoms, please share troubleshooting steps and resolution) as well as maybe trigger an idea in someone that has an easy fix to my issue. I like this phone a lot and I don't want to buy a new phone just to avoid these issues. I think this phone is still capable of handling the workload of a 2013 smartphone.
Please let me know any tests/logs that would help you help me solve this problem.
I just discovered that my phone hasn't been backing up of late.
After a long talk with Verizon tech support, we discovered that this seems to be a common problem since the last o/s update - if any screen lock is in use, Google Backup just hangs ("waiting to backup" message), and the "backup now" button is greyed out.
If you turn off screen lock, all works just fine. Turn it back on, and things are broken again.
Anybody else see this? Any fixes?
And, on a different note, even when backup up, it seems like Google Backup ignores data from Samsung Voice Recorder that's stored on an SD card. Any suggestions on this?
I have stopped using Google as a backup method completely and use Samsung Smart Switch. It will create a complete backup of pretty much everything onto your SD card and makes it a breeze to do a complete restore. Something to consider...
mikeyk101 said:
I have stopped using Google as a backup method completely and use Samsung Smart Switch. It will create a complete backup of pretty much everything onto your SD card and makes it a breeze to do a complete restore. Something to consider...
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Thanks.
An interesting thought, but not automatic, and involves swapping SD cards frequently if one wants to keep a backup separate from one's phone. Me, I want automatic and OTA.
I'd kind of like it if Samsung & Google got their acts together (probably only if Verizon beats up on them), or there's a patch or work-around (what I'm hoping to find).
Personally, I like being able to control the backups and the fact that only I have access to them. I dont trust any cloud based storage to be able to keep things safe or give companies like Google the possibility of accessing any and all information. I keep a lot of the Google stuff that might track me or identify me for commercial purposes turned off. If I have to swap out a SD card or two from time to time, so be it but then I feel my stuff is more secure that way.