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My phone is rooted and I've uninstalled some factory apps; now I'd like to factory reset it and re-root it. Google tells me that I need to re-flash the firmware in order to restore all the factory apps. Do I have to flash the default firmware, or can I flash a more recent Android version? If default, where can I download the Gingerbread 2.3.4 firmware for an LG VM701, and what (Linux-compatible) program do I need to flash it to my phone?
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Mar 19, 2013 13:47
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Mar 19, 2013 13:50
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Aatrek posted:CM Dev Team: "We aren't supporting the Galaxy S4" Dev Dude posted:There are two variants which will be a pain to maintain, [and] the bugs we have on the S3 will probably be there on S4, too (camera)... Oh well, if there are no stable-ish CM roms for the phone, what is the point of getting it? 
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Mogomra posted:That's really interesting. I always assumed that CM and Samsung phones would start to be more of a thing since Steve Kondik is/was working for Samsung. Mogomra posted:Aren't there like 12 versions of the S3? And I haven't had any issue with the camera on my S3 so far.
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To be fair, it's more:Aatrek posted:
Mogomra posted:That's really interesting. I always assumed that CM and Samsung phones would start to be more of a thing since Steve Kondik is/was working for Samsung. CM support for Samsung has improved, directly as a consequence of Steve working for Samsung and getting free hardware. He's done a lot of work in maintaining the Qualcomm-based Samsung handsets, namely the Skyrocket, T-Mo SGS2, and North American SGS3 series. Mogomra posted:Aren't there like 12 versions of the S3? And I haven't had any issue with the camera on my S3 so far. Mogomra posted:Oh well, if there are no stable-ish CM roms for the phone, what is the point of getting it?
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Mar 19, 2013 17:27
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Aatrek posted:CM Dev Team: "We aren't supporting the Galaxy S4" Official response: https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/7jywLJdswki tl;dr: they haven't decided yet, and wont until they have the device (and that's how they handle every device - including the Nexus 4)
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Mar 19, 2013 17:52
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8th-samurai posted:My Verizon Gnex had poo poo battery life on stock (shocking) even with Juice Defender. I am regularly getting 24+ hours on CM with lean kernel and greenify as my only battery saving app. Well I decided to be optimistic and give it a go with CM10 and lean kernel. This is at least twice as terrible as before. I pulled my phone out and charged it when I noticed it was burning my leg. By the way that is a fast wall charger, where apparently it couldn't even keep up and was actually losing battery slightly before I disconnected it to go home for the day. 
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Mar 20, 2013 00:58
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peepsalot posted:Well I decided to be optimistic and give it a go with CM10 and lean kernel. This is at least twice as terrible as before. I pulled my phone out and charged it when I noticed it was burning my leg. By the way that is a fast wall charger, where apparently it couldn't even keep up and was actually losing battery slightly before I disconnected it to go home for the day. Your signal is awful, it didn't show green once. That'll rape your battery.
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OK I guess I need to update PRL (and profile?) after any reflash like that? I was simply at home and work where I go every weekday and signal is not usually that bad.
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Mar 20, 2013 01:26
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peepsalot posted:OK I guess I need to update PRL (and profile?) after any reflash like that? I was simply at home and work where I go every weekday and signal is not usually that bad. I do also run the "beastlybattery" power mode on lean kernel, but frankly I don't know all that much about tweaking that stuff. Something is definitely wrong. Here is my battery today, I have terrible signal at work and get worse battery life when I'm here versus at home and even that isn't as bad. 
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8th-samurai posted:I do also run the "beastlybattery" power mode on lean kernel, but frankly I don't know all that much about tweaking that stuff. Something is definitely wrong. Here is my battery today, I have terrible signal at work and get worse battery life when I'm here versus at home and even that isn't as bad. That's because you're on wifi which overrides the use of mobile radios.
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The Gadfly posted:That's because you're on wifi which overrides the use of mobile radios. Right for data, the phone radio is still on right? Just not the LTE radio. I also never shut my wifi off, I used to use tasker to toggle it based on cell towers but it didn't make much difference in battery life so I stopped. 8th-snype fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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Mar 20, 2013 03:05
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8th-samurai posted:Right for data, the phone radio is still on right? Just not the LTE radio. I also never shut my wifi off, I used to use tasker to toggle it based on cell towers but it didn't make much difference in battery life so I stopped. I think the mobile radios go into a passive state when wifi is on. They aren't using any data in this state so it requires very low power. I don't know exactly how it works and I might be wrong, but I'm guessing that a lot of the power required to communicate with a transmission tower is during an upload from your phone to the tower. I have no idea how many watts this takes, but it should be way more than just receiving a signal from the tower. The reason why bad mobile connections rape your battery life is because your losing tons of packets, and your phone is constantly having to resend requests for those packets to the tower. Each time you have to send a request, it requires a non-trivial amount of watts because your phone is having to generate a radio signal with its transmitter and send it to the tower. On the other hand, I doubt that receiving a signal takes much power. Your phone would just need the power to passively receive the signal. Wifi, being much shorter range, loses less packets which saves battery. The transmitter for wifi might also be more power efficient than the mobile radio transmitter.
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The Gadfly posted:I think the mobile radios go into a passive state when wifi is on. They aren't using any data in this state so it requires very low power. I don't know exactly how it works and I might be wrong, but I'm guessing that a lot of the power required to communicate with a transmission tower is during an upload from your phone to the tower. I have no idea how many watts this takes, but it should be way more than just receiving a signal from the tower. The reason why bad mobile connections rape your battery life is because your losing tons of packets, and your phone is constantly having to resend requests for those packets to the tower. Each time you have to send a request, it requires a non-trivial amount of watts because your phone is having to generate a radio signal with its transmitter and send it to the tower. On the other hand, I doubt that receiving a signal takes much power. Your phone would just need the power to passively receive the signal. Wifi, being much shorter range, loses less packets which saves battery. The transmitter for wifi might also be more power efficient than the mobile radio transmitter. No, I am talking about the telephone radio not the data. lovely signal on that will kill a battery dead on any phone ever and wifi has nothing to do with it.
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I have a Galaxy S2 from Sprint. I'm tired of waiting for Jelly Bean, and tired of the crap Samsung gives me. However, a friend has told me that rooting/Cyanogenmod aren't the best options for the S2, due to bricking or something like that. Unfortunately, the OP dates back to 2010, so there's not much information there relevant for my phone. Should I look further into this, and where should I look? I know zero about rooting and using roms, Cyanogen is the only one I've ever really heard of, I just want to try out the Jelly Bean stuff that I'm missing and also other fun things. 
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I have CM 10.1 on my Nexus 4 (nightly from the 17th), and I've noticed that the app switching thing sometimes takes several seconds to show up after I hit the soft key. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Mar 20, 2013 04:42
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8th-samurai posted:No, I am talking about the telephone radio not the data. lovely signal on that will kill a battery dead on any phone ever and wifi has nothing to do with it. Right, but lovely voice/sms signal kills a battery dead a hell of a lot slower than lovely data. A half-rear end voice/SMS signal with wifi is probably less of a drain than lovely 3G. It's probably more than just juice used for transmitting, though. Data gets used by apps whereas it's not really the same with a voice signal while in standby.
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8th-samurai posted:No, I am talking about the telephone radio not the data. lovely signal on that will kill a battery dead on any phone ever and wifi has nothing to do with it. All radios on a telephone are "telephone radios" I'm not sure which radio you're talking about. WCDMA and GSM radios are decoupled, you only use one or the other. The other radios are for stuff like WLAN and BT. Which radio are you referring to specifically?
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Like the poster above said, the voice/sms radios. Yes, they will kill a battery slower than a data connection but bad voice signal will still kill a battery. I used to have the same bad signal eating the battery issues in my office with a dumb phone. I have better cell reception at my house and get slightly better battery life there. I'm not even sure why this is confusing to you other than I don't know the specific sperg name for all the radios in the drat phone. Hell, I'm not even the one unhappy with my battery life.
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I'm pondering the Nexus 4, and I saw this on the shipping info page:quote:As a precondition of replacement, Google may remotely disable the damaged device which is to be returned to Google, with the consent of the purchaser.
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Seven Round Things posted:I'm pondering the Nexus 4, and I saw this on the shipping info page:
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8th-samurai posted:Like the poster above said, the voice/sms radios. Yes, they will kill a battery slower than a data connection but bad voice signal will still kill a battery. I used to have the same bad signal eating the battery issues in my office with a dumb phone. I have better cell reception at my house and get slightly better battery life there. I'm not even sure why this is confusing to you other than I don't know the specific sperg name for all the radios in the drat phone. Hell, I'm not even the one unhappy with my battery life. You're talking about the GSM radio (2g). I didn't know that you were referring to the radio that is used for voice calls and sms when you said telephone radio. WCDMA (3g) is the default network and the preferred network for data. This means that the phone isn't going to use the GSM radio unless you lose connection to WCDMA or you're calling someone or a sms message is being pushing to your phone. Basically it isn't used a whole lot and I doubt that the GSM radio is affecting his battery life, but he can check the signal strength by disabling 3g and seeing if his signal gets better. If he has a bad 3g connection and a good 2g connection, I would disable 3g at those locations to save battery. If he had a solid 3g connection and a poor 2g connection, I doubt that he would notice any battery drain unless the 2g connection is set to default.
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So I recently dropped ParanoidAndroid on my Toro (high ram use was a bummer; it kept killing Screen Filter in the middle of the night when I was using my phone in bed) and went back to Shiny but missed the color calibration, so I installed Franco Kernel, which I hadn't used in ages. I don't know what the gently caress he did to his kernel (when I was using it a few months ago it was probably the best out there) but whenever I started streaming music through Spotify it would bring my phone to its knees. It even locked up after a while. I tried a few different profiles, but it kept happening regardless. I flashed back to stock and the issues were gone. So I'd avoid Franco Kernel for the time being.
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Seven Round Things posted:I'm pondering the Nexus 4, and I saw this on the shipping info page: Why does this clause bother you? If the phone is broken and you're returning it, what does it matter what level of "disable" they're doing? It's to make sure that the UPS dude or whoever can't steal the phone and get a free toy/make calls on your dime.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Why does this clause bother you? Edit: I don't know anything about any such implementation in the Nexus 4, that's just the general idea.
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The Gadfly posted:WCDMA (3g) is the default network and the preferred network for data. This means that the phone isn't going to use the GSM radio unless you lose connection to WCDMA or you're calling someone or a sms message is being pushing to your phone. Voice calls and SMS are done over WCDMA/UMTS by default, it is not normal for your phone to go all the way back to GSM just to handle calls and texts unless you're in a situation where the 3G coverage is very bad but the 2G service is good - in those cases you'll still get the phone draining battery attempting to maintain a 3G signal though.
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Walrusmaster posted:Thank you both for your help. After trying 9 ROMs I finally found a version of AOKP that had the option AND wasn't horribly buggy. What ROM did you end up with? The wife's phone is acting up and after a couple of days trying to figure out how HTC's fuckery works for rooting with the S-Off and all that other poo poo I think I may have it ready to go and I can download a new ROM for it. Coming from the S2 community the Sensation is a pain in the rear end to do anything worthwhile to and not many ROMs out there I am impressed with. Golbez posted:I have a Galaxy S2 from Sprint. I'm tired of waiting for Jelly Bean, and tired of the crap Samsung gives me. However, a friend has told me that rooting/Cyanogenmod aren't the best options for the S2, due to bricking or something like that. Unfortunately, the OP dates back to 2010, so there's not much information there relevant for my phone. Should I look further into this, and where should I look? I know zero about rooting and using roms, Cyanogen is the only one I've ever really heard of, I just want to try out the Jelly Bean stuff that I'm missing and also other fun things. I have a TMO GS2 and have brutalized that phone since I learned to root it. I think the longest I have had a custom ROM installed is three weeks before something new catches my eye and I install it. Yes, you do have to be careful with the initial process because you can brick it but I have done some nasty stuff to it on occasion where I had to break out and use ODIN to do the wtf have you done factory restore but that is solely on me and not the ROM's or processes. There is a more recent post on xda forums that has a good how-to for your phone. The guy who started the post is pretty active and responds to inquiries it seems promptly so you may want to take a read and ask questions. It's the XDA forums and so long as you stick to the developers area and avoid the rest of the site you should be okay. I have never had problems with the forum area but I tend to stick to the developer area anyways. demonR6 fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Why does this clause bother you? If the phone is broken and you're returning it, what does it matter what level of "disable" they're doing? It's to make sure that the UPS dude or whoever can't steal the phone and get a free toy/make calls on your dime. quote:I'm a bit disconcerted that they have the ability to do this. The actual clause isn't the problem, it's the power they must have if they're able to enforce it. I don't mind it being banned from Google services, or having its IMEI marked as stolen, or whatever- that all makes sense. But if by "disable" they mean "brick", then it's presumably phoning home frequently, asking its manufacturer whether it should stop working yet, and that's not something I want my device to be doing.
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demonR6 posted:I have a TMO GS2 and have brutalized that phone since I learned to root it. The problem is that the E4GT storage controller has a firmware bug whereby, simply wiping the device from some versions of stock recovery even can permanently brick it. These days E4GT ROMs should all workaround and be safe from that particular problem, unless the packager is extremely neglectful.
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Install Gentoo posted:Voice calls and SMS are done over WCDMA/UMTS by default, it is not normal for your phone to go all the way back to GSM just to handle calls and texts unless you're in a situation where the 3G coverage is very bad but the 2G service is good - in those cases you'll still get the phone draining battery attempting to maintain a 3G signal though. Ah, I'm on Verizon so I wasn't sure about that. In that case, the radio used mainly for mobile data and the "telephone radio" are actually the same thing. For the guy with the battery life problems, I would still check to see if your 2g signal is any better and if it is, disable 3g where you get bad reception. If you're not so lucky, download an app like tasker and force the phone to only data sync maybe once an hour. That should help your battery go from being dry raped to only mildly raped... wait, that doesn't exist but you know what I mean.
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demonR6 posted:What ROM did you end up with? The wife's phone is acting up and after a couple of days trying to figure out how HTC's fuckery works for rooting with the S-Off and all that other poo poo I think I may have it ready to go and I can download a new ROM for it. Coming from the S2 community the Sensation is a pain in the rear end to do anything worthwhile to and not many ROMs out there I am impressed with. I'm using an AOKP variant from this XDA thread. You should use the latest 4.2.1 version on their goo.im repository, the 4.2.2 version had no camera and a broken keyboard, 4.2.1 (from February I think) worked perfectly, including the on-screen buttons.
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is https://www.cyanogenmod.com still compromised? edit: never mind. after googling and going through xda I finally saw a guide right there on goo.im, 1 click away from the home saying which I need. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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I was reading a few pages back and some of you guys were getting some supposedly awesome battery lives on the vzw gnex. I'm running CM10.1 M2 with The performance is also trash, but I can't tell whether to blame unpolished CM10.1, or my phone being old. Can anyone recommend some good battery saver/performance kernels or something?  Or should I just get a new phone immediately?
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Logikv9 posted:I was reading a few pages back and some of you guys were getting some supposedly awesome battery lives on the vzw gnex. I'm running CM10.1 M2 with
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SalTheBard posted:What is the easiest way to get rid of root?
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SalTheBard posted:What is the easiest way to get rid of root? Depends on your phone model. The best way is to reflash the original stock image to the device (not just a "reset device" action). I never root until I have a proven reversion method on hand, just in case.
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LastInLine posted:My GSM Galaxy Nexus has excellent battery life on CM10.1 on the stock kernel, so much so that I've basically stopped even caring or checking on it. I know the VZW Galaxy Nexus has bad battery life due to the non-integrated LTE but what are you considering bad? Worst case scenario is about 5 hours with occasional weak signal (but airplane mode on whenever there is no signal at all), with moderate use. On a normal day I usually get maybe 6-7 hours before I really, really need to recharge. Plugging in my phone about halfway through my day is required at this point.
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