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Gps fix tests

I'm making this post to clear the gps problem up, a lost of people have responded to my earlier post stating that it was crappy hardware that accounted for the long gps lock on the g2x. So I did a test I flashed all roms for the g2x c7,bionix,eagles blood, and the pure aosp rom, none of them were able to lock on my position while outside. I did every fix on this forum that I could with bionix I opened the hidden menu (1809*#999#) changed the setting to the ones that were mentioned on this forum, and tested position got satellites but no lock, for the aosp rooms with no menu I did the "gps-fix Apk" nothing worked. So I said screw it, restored my cwm recovery, fired up my maps and guess what I got lock in 3 seconds... Restarted my phone opened test hidden settings and cleared sat data did position test again, again got lock in 3-4 seconds, restarted one last time downloaded gps test from market and fired it up again 8 sats in a few seconds. So my conclusion is what I thought it was, THAT IT IS NOT A HARDWARE ISSUE
It's the half baked gingerbread roms that are betas and nightlys, that are not ready for primetime. If you need your gps go back to stock otherwise you will have a phone that has bonky gps. The dev rooms are good on speed and can be used for daily use if you don't need gps or don't care.(there's also lock screen issues with the roms) Again every one before you say it's hardware try to test it
first, it's just good science to experiment before you say false crap. For people looking for a gps fix save your self time and re flash stock or wait for the official gb rom so the devs can port the correct drivers, or until the devs correct the gps issue.

I agree. It's obvious that this is not a hardware issue. It is either software it drivers.
Hopefully this gets fixed with future roms.

and how does this apply to "devolopment"?
wrong section.

crazythunder said:
and how does this apply to "devolopment"?
wrong section.
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How does it not? Developers and non developers should know if there roms have bugs. So that's the purpose of this post, and of my experiment. Also people want to have a clear response on why a feature on their phone is not working, not stupid remarks( with no proof) on it being a hardware issue. this was a valid test that I performed on gps fixs working, or not working. Therefore it's a part of development, thus being in the correct section.

evilgrim said:
How does it not? Developers and non developers should know if there roms have bugs. So that's the purpose of this post, and of my experiment. Also people want to have a clear response on why a feature on their phone is not working, not stupid remarks( with no proof) on it being a hardware issue. this was a valid test that I performed on gps fixs working, or not working. Therefore it's a part of development, thus being in the correct section.
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I think that many people misunderstand the point of the development section. ROMS, Kernels, Radios, Tweaks(maybe).
That's it. No posts about what may or may not be wrong with a phone. That's what general is for.
If you didn't DEVELOP something, your post probably doesn't go in Development.

hiko36 said:
I think that many people misunderstand the point of the development section. ROMS, Kernels, Radios, Tweaks(maybe).
That's it. No posts about what may or may not be wrong with a phone. That's what general is for.
If you didn't DEVELOP something, your post probably doesn't go in Development.
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Is a gps a component to develop for? for example if a gps does not work, shouldn't a fix, be developed to fix it?

I'm running stock and I have the same problems with my GPS, so there is probably not going to be a solution to this until new firmware comes out from LG.

I'm on stock too. Lock takes 30 seconds - 10 minutes. Usually about 2 minutes on average. Not a deal-breaker, but annoying
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The GPS firmware is buggy and we're just going to wait for a new radio and hope it's fixed.

i probably should read through all the threads but im lazy
when people say their gps does not work, do you mean you don't ever get a lock? the problem i've experienced is the gps is not accurate. I was in chicago this past week, and many times it seemed like the phone had a lock onto my location (when only arrow is shown, not radius), but it was putting me blocks away.
btw im on stock rom

I have mixed results with my GPS. Sometimes it locks right on, sometimes I have to reboot.
Sometimes GPS fails while it is being used for things like navigation, requiring another reboot.
It's always dead on accurate for google maps / navigation but is often wrong when I use other programs that need GPS, like GasBuddy.

GPS takes like 10 to 20 minutes to lock, any ROM, outdoors. It's messed up.

strung said:
GPS takes like 10 to 20 minutes to lock, any ROM, outdoors. It's messed up.
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there's something wrong return your phone on my g2x i get lock on stock and only stock in 3-5 secs

strung said:
GPS takes like 10 to 20 minutes to lock, any ROM, outdoors. It's messed up.
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diablos991 said:
I agree. It's obvious that this is not a hardware issue. It is either software it drivers.
Hopefully this gets fixed with future roms.
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Its the driver i believe as i have tested all other options

jsauce75 said:
I'm on stock too. Lock takes 30 seconds - 10 minutes. Usually about 2 minutes on average. Not a deal-breaker, but annoying
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tweek gps setting using method in first post

shniggies said:
i probably should read through all the threads but im lazy
when people say their gps does not work, do you mean you don't ever get a lock? the problem i've experienced is the gps is not accurate. I was in chicago this past week, and many times it seemed like the phone had a lock onto my location (when only arrow is shown, not radius), but it was putting me blocks away.
btw im on stock rom
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I never really got good lock in urban areas, even with a dedicated gps. try is is sub urban or rural areas...

Since I have this screenshot saved I'll keep flaunting it at every GPS thread. This is taken after cold boot and ten seconds after starting app. Stock rooted. GPS fix apk was run once a long time ago. GPS is amazing on my phone.
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New FW update - nothing new?

Had an update in Kies this morning, haven't had it connected for perhaps a week or two. Updated it but can't find anything new. Can anyone else? US 6120

Which FW version you are updating to?
I Updated from KK3 to KL1, and feels many subtle improvements.

Yep KL1 now. What have you noticed as differences? Only updated this morning and havent used the thing much since but nothing was apparent

I haven't had a random reboot since installing it and I think there are some new widgets as there are a couple that I've never seen before.

I'm looking at the new FW right now. I'd be going from KJC to KL1. I'm rooted with some bloatware removed. I've read that the root is no problem. What about the bloatware that's gone, will KIES throwup when it sees it missing?

I spoke too soon my Tab just rebooted itself, after not doing it for about 2 days after updating.
I only had one thing missing when I did the update, Yahoo Stocks, and it updated without a problem. It will however remove root, I just flashed the root.zip again in recovery and then had to update the su binary (thru superuser app) as the root.zip file has an older version.

Cptnodegard said:
Yep KL1 now. What have you noticed as differences? Only updated this morning and havent used the thing much since but nothing was apparent
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I used to have some glitches (finger swipe -> screen move -> sudden stop -> move)when swiping through screen, it's totally smooth now.

kzoodroid said:
I only had one thing missing when I did the update, Yahoo Stocks, and it updated without a problem. It will however remove root, I just flashed the root.zip again in recovery and then had to update the su binary (thru superuser app) as the root.zip file has an older version.
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Thank you. Done. I'll re-root later.
Do I dare say it feels faster moving to and from and opening apps?

The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.

speedrabbit said:
The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.
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Yes, I felt as soon as I updated that scrolling seemed worse. At first I thought maybe I needed to clean the screen and I realized it was already almost spotless.

Tried messing with the TouchScreen Booster app on the market, hoping to both increase the scroll speed and the the overall sensitivity, but it didn't seem to have any effect. I find that a lot of my quick taps are missed, I assume not because they weren't detected but because they're below some minimum time threshold to avoid accidental taps, but it results it me retapping buttons a lot.

I've noticed that the 7.0 PLus is absolutely horrible with stylus input. Don't know what it is, but they barely even work at all

Cptnodegard said:
I've noticed that the 7.0 PLus is absolutely horrible with stylus input. Don't know what it is, but they barely even work at all
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My stylus works fine, but still stylus on capacitive screens are terrible.
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speedrabbit said:
The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.
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Launcher only reloads when you run out of memory in your app. Yes, even with 1G RAM the Honeycomb tablet run out of RAM easily. Is there an option to disable dock in Go Launcher? I use go on my phone.
Quicklaunch settings alread present in previous KK3 build.
I used to have very unsensitive scrolling when moving my finger fast or scrolling horizontaly on top edge of the screen but it feels fine now.

GaresTaylan said:
Yes, I felt as soon as I updated that scrolling seemed worse. At first I thought maybe I needed to clean the screen and I realized it was already almost spotless.
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I have noticed slow swiping in every application EXCEPT Opera. On flick and opera and it will scroll to the end of a page of you don't stop it. I wish the rest of the aps would roll like that.I

amtrakcn said:
My stylus works fine, but still stylus on capacitive screens are terrible.
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That's the result of trying to write with a stylus. There's lagg, you have to press so hard that being accurate is hard (resulting in the squished O etc), and it doesn't register all the strokes leading to cut off lines in the Es, last P etc. Are you saying yours isn't like that?

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I have noticed slow swiping in every application EXCEPT Opera. On flick and opera and it will scroll to the end of a page of you don't stop it. I wish the rest of the aps would roll like that.I
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Oh geez, you're right. What the? Why can't all apps be like that??
amtrakcn, yeah, I figured out the reloading, but the honeycomb launcher seems to do it a lot. Maybe it uses more RAM than your typical launcher and so gets closed more often. Looking at 'ps' it seems like perhaps it's keeping all the potential widgets you can load 'ready'. Go Launcher doesn't seem to close the Honeycomb launcher, but perhaps because it either gets killed less or doesn't require as many sub-processes to be running (which get killed).
It's too bad the Quick Launch setting doesn't allow you to simply remove the extra button.
I think at this point if I could get Gmail w/o panes and faster scrolling, I'd be pretty happy. Might have to cross the fingers for ICS though?

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That's the result of trying to write with a stylus. There's lagg, you have to press so hard that being accurate is hard (resulting in the squished O etc), and it doesn't register all the strokes leading to cut off lines in the Es, last P etc. Are you saying yours isn't like that?
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Yes there is a lag. But the movement are finely regietered without much pressing.

Well, that lagg is pretty killer. I've written pages up and pages down on my iPad using handwriting, and it works well for two reason: first off, there's no such idiotic lagg. Second, there are dozens of apps on the iPad that has magnification mode, letting you write big letters in a box and have it shrunk down. Those kinds of apps don't even exist on Android, at least not where you can also import documents and do all the other things that have made it possible for me to go a semester without using any paper whatsoever. What annoys me is that this issue with stylus input means that even if that software were to be available, it still wouldn't be the same.

Cptnodegard said:
Well, that lagg is pretty killer. I've written pages up and pages down on my iPad using handwriting, and it works well for two reason: first off, there's no such idiotic lagg. Second, there are dozens of apps on the iPad that has magnification mode, letting you write big letters in a box and have it shrunk down. Those kinds of apps don't even exist on Android, at least not where you can also import documents and do all the other things that have made it possible for me to go a semester without using any paper whatsoever. What annoys me is that this issue with stylus input means that even if that software were to be available, it still wouldn't be the same.
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Android is not quite efficient, the lag is almost not solvable.

amtrakcn said:
Android is not quite efficient, the lag is almost not solvable.
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I kind of agree. Have tried all sorts of note taking apps on TF101 in particular trying to get the Jot stylus to work consistently well. SuperNote was best with the Jot stylus but still not perfect (what is?).
Got a feeling without a full-blown digitizer we're SOL for now.

[ROM][PORT]JellyBread-CM7

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This is a port from the EVO 4G of a ROM by kendallc123, this thread can be found here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974067
-CM7 Stability
-a2sd
-GApps included
-JB font
-JB wallpapers
-Nexus 4 UI sounds, ringtones, and notification sounds
-ICS/JB Theme by Sonnysekhon (inside theme chooser)
-Sony Xloud Audio Engine and Beats Audio
-Bravia Engine
-3G, 4G, & Wifi Speed Hack
-Battery Saving Tweaks
-Zipaligned
v1:
-Added ICStorch
-Added Email
-Added Sense 4.0 clock
-Keyboard Lights
1. Download ROM
2. Place ROM on sd
3. Reboot into recovery
4. Make a nand backup (if you want, usually a good idea)
5. Superwipe at least 3 times
6. Wipe dalvik cache
7. Install ROM from sd
8. Reboot and enjoy
*kendallc123-for letting me use this ROM
*LOTK:
-jamieg71
-ropodope
-PapaSmurf151 (for his continued help)
-kendallc123
*megaghostgamer
*BigSplit
-Anyone who I forgot, shoot me a PM.
Disclaimer: You are responsible for your own actions.
Link:
http://d-h.st/YRK
MD5 Sum:*c30d051f1b63bed84e40cc0fbdcb8ae4
If you like or appreciate my work hit the THANKS button.

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Good job on all the ports and roms guys time to load up boot manager again
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Looking Hellua nice

will not boot for me i did the fastboot commands and still

tello2323 said:
will not boot for me i did the fastboot commands and still
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Do you have an SD partition? I think you have to have one for this ROM, didn't think to test without an SD partition. A2SD is baked in. It would be great if someone could confirm this, cuz I don't wanna delete my partition lol.

bilgerryan said:
Do you have an SD partition? I think you have to have one for this ROM, didn't think to test without an SD partition. A2SD is baked in. It would be great if someone could confirm this, cuz I don't wanna delete my partition lol.
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Well in SS the a2sd version will still boot with no partition but it will reboot upon installing a app.
His md5 could be bad or maybe not a full wipe. Its hard to tell based on info provided
Sent from a freaked out Jellybean

If you guys have problems with a ROM: BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE AND IT IS MORE LIKELY TO GET SOLVED. It's not just my ROMs we are talking about, we can't help you if you are vague. And logcats are the most helpful thing if you have a problem that is not in the OP. We are here to help but you have to help us to help you.

bilgerryan said:
If you guys have problems with a ROM: BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE AND IT IS MORE LIKELY TO GET SOLVED. It's not just my ROMs we are talking about, we can't help you if you are vague. And logcats are the most helpful thing if you have a problem that is not in the OP. We are here to help but you have to help us to help you.
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Well put, I used to hate someone saying this is broke and leaving it at that. Because 75% of the time its user specific or created so its hard for us to track down what happened. The standard for reporting bugs should be
The security type of phone eg s-on/s-off
Wipe process( most important part of flashing)
If the md5 was checked and matched. If anything else was restored in recovery or flashed with the ROM. But that's my opinion
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Yes definitely. The more relevant information provided, the easier to diagnose the issue. Then formulate a solution.
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MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Thanks so much for this, much different than the stock GingerBread I just replaced.
I've only been using Android about 6 months and was running a rooted stock kernel and dodgekernel, but I have to say this build feels much quicker and looks much slicker and has a very nice kernel built in.
I don't know if I was just behind the times or what but is that really just a skin/look change on the Play Store? It's extremely different and very nice looking to what I was using before (and about 10x faster).
I did run in to a couple issues, that are probably just user issues.
I've reinstalled all the apps I was used to but noticed that starting up a navigation, or music file or inputting an address doesn't bring up the prompt I'm used to of "Which application should we open this with". In fact I cannot find where any default tasks can be assigned anywhere. Whenever I go to manage applications, "Launch by default" always says "No defaults set." for every single application.
Another oddity that I think is related to this, when I hit the 'action'/'smart' button my bluetooth it just goes 'dut-dut' and does nothing.
I'm pretty sure Voice Commands is installed, but it won't come up and now I've installed My MotoSpeak and that will not respond either, and I think this is because I cannot choose that button as a task and nothing is set up by default.
Thanks for the help and the nice build.
EDIT: I just noticed that the CM10 roms says that "BT call audio." could be a problem. I know that is a whole different animal, but could that be an issue here as well? Its odd, my BT will play media music fine, but will not play phone/call audio correctly, just hear a buzzing.

itjstagame said:
Thanks so much for this, much different than the stock GingerBread I just replaced.
I've only been using Android about 6 months and was running a rooted stock kernel and dodgekernel, but I have to say this build feels much quicker and looks much slicker and has a very nice kernel built in.
I don't know if I was just behind the times or what but is that really just a skin/look change on the Play Store? It's extremely different and very nice looking to what I was using before (and about 10x faster).
I did run in to a couple issues, that are probably just user issues.
I've reinstalled all the apps I was used to but noticed that starting up a navigation, or music file or inputting an address doesn't bring up the prompt I'm used to of "Which application should we open this with". In fact I cannot find where any default tasks can be assigned anywhere. Whenever I go to manage applications, "Launch by default" always says "No defaults set." for every single application.
Another oddity that I think is related to this, when I hit the 'action'/'smart' button my bluetooth it just goes 'dut-dut' and does nothing.
I'm pretty sure Voice Commands is installed, but it won't come up and now I've installed My MotoSpeak and that will not respond either, and I think this is because I cannot choose that button as a task and nothing is set up by default.
Thanks for the help and the nice build.
EDIT: I just noticed that the CM10 roms says that "BT call audio." could be a problem. I know that is a whole different animal, but could that be an issue here as well? Its odd, my BT will play media music fine, but will not play phone/call audio correctly, just hear a buzzing.
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There are ICS/JB themes you can download, but some of the theming is within the ROM. As for BT calling, I am only able to test BT by sending files, I no longer own a headset (My Planatronics took a ride in the washer).... Speed is what I shoot for on all my ROMs

Also... Did you restore data when you restored your apps? If you did, reflash and restore apps without data, it might fix your problem.

bilgerryan said:
Also... Did you restore data when you restored your apps? If you did, reflash and restore apps without data, it might fix your problem.
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Absolutely agree :good: . A Fresh CLean install when first flashing a Rom will avoid a lot of issues. It may take more effort, and time. But it usually gives the best results.

bilgerryan said:
Also... Did you restore data when you restored your apps? If you did, reflash and restore apps without data, it might fix your problem.
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I used to HATE restoring data, but in most cases its safe since the recent updates to TiBU
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bilgerryan said:
Also... Did you restore data when you restored your apps? If you did, reflash and restore apps without data, it might fix your problem.
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I actually didn't know there was an option for that, how would you go about doing that for future reference?
Whenever I run a new rom I wipe data 3 times, cache and davlik and start fresh.
I don't use that many apps anyway, just some key ones every day for the drive, so only takes about a couple hours to get set back up and much of that time is just experiencing the new rom and finding what's different.
Yeah speed is incredible, I mean my old kernel was ok when run at 1.5Ghz, but that stock htc launcher or whatever 2.3.5 had would often 'spin' for 5-10 seconds when just trying to switch apps or multitask. There were other instances too, just felt like I/O speed was much different.
I'm sure it helped to not have any of the Sprint/HTC cruft to deal with, but especially navigating apps in the launcher, multitasking and browsing Play Store are beyond incredible, basically instant. My wife finally played with the new rom a bit and said she thought it was just 'too fast' compared to her 4s, she just "didn't like it". I have no idea what that means, but I for one love the speed. I don't need it to be slow to convince me it's working .
This is also my first time using link2sd, I didn't know about it with my old rom and was perpetually with ~40mb left (and a full SD). My trial of the rom and adding sd-ext was because I finally upped to a 32gb and decided to look around while I was upgrading.
As for exact issues: Pressing the 'smart' button on my Bluetooth headset does nothing, getting me 2 quick beeps.
Voice/phone audio through my BT will not work. It's odd because all media, music, text to speech, everything else works fine, and the microphone works fine for voice recognition, etc.
But when on the phone, it sounds a bit like when a phone is half off the hook, a steady, kinda staticy tone and every now and then a juggling/clunk sound (reminds me when someone on the other end played with hanging or half hanging up the receiver). I can switch to headset or speaker while in the call and both are fine, and bluetooth goes silent while in the other modes. It's crazy though because I will hear my gps speak to me overtop of the staticy 'lack of phone' while on BT.
The first issue I fixed: After much internet searching I found other users on ICS experiencing the same issue with the button and they suggested downloading Voice Control Test. It sounds odd, because I've downloaded all sorts of stuff and they work but I have to touch the screen to start them. But just as was reported on the website I found it on:
1) Install Voice Control (Test)
2) Start it up
3) Press the button on your BT
4) MAGIC, suddenly your phone brings back the old Gingerbread option asking which App you'd like to use to complete this action and you can choose to pick a default too, my choices were Voice Control Test or My Motospeak, for some reason stuff like iris and jeannie were missing, but regardless, I hit default, My MotoSpeak and now my 'Smart' button works fine.
5) Un-install Voice Control, button keeps working fine.
Also I haven't tested entering a GPS location yet, but I was playing with some other apps and again was prompted for that other action. This might have reenabled the old prompting for various commands somehow.
Also, I noticed that there was no option for 'Voice Command', which most forums seem to suggest is the old 'built in' app that ran when you pressed the BT button. I'm not sure, but that basic issue might just be that no default app was installed to begin with, but it is annoying that installing something like My Motospeak doesn't help and there's no way to manually set this to the BT button 'action'. Maybe having something lightweight like Voice Command in the rom by default would be a nice feature, the same way you have that light term emulator there by default.
Any thoughts at all about phone audio over BT? It seems so odd since media works and seems more difficult, like maybe an issue with how the dialer is handing off or passing the audio stream to the BT. Maybe there are other 'dialers' in play store, I'm not that familiar, but this seems like it'd be in a common piece in the rom that handles phone audio.
For now I'm going to try to get a voip/sip set up and see if that works, might be nicer anyway because then I can use data while on the 'phone' finally on Sprint.
Thanks again for the work on the rom.

itjstagame said:
I actually didn't know there was an option for that, how would you go about doing that for future reference?
Whenever I run a new rom I wipe data 3 times, cache and davlik and start fresh.
I don't use that many apps anyway, just some key ones every day for the drive, so only takes about a couple hours to get set back up and much of that time is just experiencing the new rom and finding what's different.
Yeah speed is incredible, I mean my old kernel was ok when run at 1.5Ghz, but that stock htc launcher or whatever 2.3.5 had would often 'spin' for 5-10 seconds when just trying to switch apps or multitask. There were other instances too, just felt like I/O speed was much different.
I'm sure it helped to not have any of the Sprint/HTC cruft to deal with, but especially navigating apps in the launcher, multitasking and browsing Play Store are beyond incredible, basically instant. My wife finally played with the new rom a bit and said she thought it was just 'too fast' compared to her 4s, she just "didn't like it". I have no idea what that means, but I for one love the speed. I don't need it to be slow to convince me it's working .
This is also my first time using link2sd, I didn't know about it with my old rom and was perpetually with ~40mb left (and a full SD). My trial of the rom and adding sd-ext was because I finally upped to a 32gb and decided to look around while I was upgrading.
As for exact issues: Pressing the 'smart' button on my Bluetooth headset does nothing, getting me 2 quick beeps.
Voice/phone audio through my BT will not work. It's odd because all media, music, text to speech, everything else works fine, and the microphone works fine for voice recognition, etc.
But when on the phone, it sounds a bit like when a phone is half off the hook, a steady, kinda staticy tone and every now and then a juggling/clunk sound (reminds me when someone on the other end played with hanging or half hanging up the receiver). I can switch to headset or speaker while in the call and both are fine, and bluetooth goes silent while in the other modes. It's crazy though because I will hear my gps speak to me overtop of the staticy 'lack of phone' while on BT.
The first issue I fixed: After much internet searching I found other users on ICS experiencing the same issue with the button and they suggested downloading Voice Control Test. It sounds odd, because I've downloaded all sorts of stuff and they work but I have to touch the screen to start them. But just as was reported on the website I found it on:
1) Install Voice Control (Test)
2) Start it up
3) Press the button on your BT
4) MAGIC, suddenly your phone brings back the old Gingerbread option asking which App you'd like to use to complete this action and you can choose to pick a default too, my choices were Voice Control Test or My Motospeak, for some reason stuff like iris and jeannie were missing, but regardless, I hit default, My MotoSpeak and now my 'Smart' button works fine.
5) Un-install Voice Control, button keeps working fine.
Also I haven't tested entering a GPS location yet, but I was playing with some other apps and again was prompted for that other action. This might have reenabled the old prompting for various commands somehow.
Also, I noticed that there was no option for 'Voice Command', which most forums seem to suggest is the old 'built in' app that ran when you pressed the BT button. I'm not sure, but that basic issue might just be that no default app was installed to begin with, but it is annoying that installing something like My Motospeak doesn't help and there's no way to manually set this to the BT button 'action'. Maybe having something lightweight like Voice Command in the rom by default would be a nice feature, the same way you have that light term emulator there by default.
Any thoughts at all about phone audio over BT? It seems so odd since media works and seems more difficult, like maybe an issue with how the dialer is handing off or passing the audio stream to the BT. Maybe there are other 'dialers' in play store, I'm not that familiar, but this seems like it'd be in a common piece in the rom that handles phone audio.
For now I'm going to try to get a voip/sip set up and see if that works, might be nicer anyway because then I can use data while on the 'phone' finally on Sprint.
Thanks again for the work on the rom.
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If you are using Titanium Backup it restores app data by default, there are three options near the top of the screen when choosing apps to restore... Thanks for the input tho, it's something I don't really think about because I no longer have a BT headset. I'll have to look into it... Too fast? Lol there's no such thing.

Reddit Wallpaper Changer (Auto-wallpapers from subreddits)

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Multi-subreddit support
Different subreddits for homescreen/lockscreen
Group subreddits for easy-switching (Presets)
Wallpaper history & saving images to storage
Blur, darken, grayscale, and crop images automatically
Sort by Hot/Top/New, NSFW, or post upvote count
Image resolution filtering
Tasker & Nova Launcher Integration
Rules for battery level and network status
App Dark Mode
...and many more
Download:
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Even if you're not a Redditor, the app includes presets grouping the most popular image subreddits. There's probably a wallpaper category for any category you can think of.
The app is designed with battery and performance in mind, so the app only runs when it needs to update a wallpaper and manages its own footprint.

Reserved

The app is great, but doesn't work well on my xiaomi Mi8 Lock screen. Works only in home screen. (Miui global 10.2)

Lazarus Long said:
The app is great, but doesn't work well on my xiaomi Mi8 Lock screen. Works only in home screen. (Miui global 10.2)
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Thanks for the support - I've been looking into getting certain features to work with different manufacturers. I'm leading to believe mfc like XiaoMi and HuaWei use different lockscreen frameworks that cause the AOSP wallpaper flags to fail. Hopefully in the near future I'll find a solution.

Hey OP great work! ?
One suggestion I have for improvement is to have night mode feature where it only takes dark images at a specific time interval.

cyanides13 said:
Hey OP great work!
One suggestion I have for improvement is to have night mode feature where it only takes dark images at a specific time interval.
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Thanks! I love this idea and I've been researching about it, but it slows the image search down by a lot. It'll come around eventually, I just need to find the best way to implement it

Nice app,dev!I have a little request:can you make wallpaper to change everytime you turn on the screen like in 500 firepaper app? Thanks anyway

rezzo87 said:
Nice app,dev!I have a little request:can you make wallpaper to change everytime you turn on the screen like in 500 firepaper app? Thanks anyway
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Good idea, I'll see if I can add something similar. I forgot about 500 Firepaper, Chainfire did a really nice job with unique features

One more request : Can you please add option to manually change to a new wallpaper using some finger swipe gesture?

Possible BAD Bug.
Pixel 3XL here, not unlocked and not rooted...just pure android with Feb Patch.
Downloaded and installed. Let it change my wallpaper a few times. Then hit change once but then hit the home key during the change....I guess it was going through the process of changing the wallpaper as my wallpaper went from a graphic to black...and then the whole screen on my Pixel is black. Nothing. Reboot, google boot screen shows...then bam, BLACK screen. You can tell it thinks it's displaying a screen (lock screen, unlock with fingerprint gives haptic, etc) but it's all black, no words graphics nothing. Rebooted into Safe Mode....still solid black but says "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner. Eventually just had to factory reset via Recovery and phone is working perfectly fine now.
Not saying it was your app, but yours was the only thing I had downloaded in over a week....and I was literally using it when it happened. Still though, love the app!

LiquidHonesty said:
Possible BAD Bug.
Pixel 3XL here, not unlocked and not rooted...just pure android with Feb Patch.
Downloaded and installed. Let it change my wallpaper a few times. Then hit change once but then hit the home key during the change....I guess it was going through the process of changing the wallpaper as my wallpaper went from a graphic to black...and then the whole screen on my Pixel is black. Nothing. Reboot, google boot screen shows...then bam, BLACK screen. You can tell it thinks it's displaying a screen (lock screen, unlock with fingerprint gives haptic, etc) but it's all black, no words graphics nothing. Rebooted into Safe Mode....still solid black but says "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner. Eventually just had to factory reset via Recovery and phone is working perfectly fine now.
Not saying it was your app, but yours was the only thing I had downloaded in over a week....and I was literally using it when it happened. Still though, love the app!
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Damn I had heard of this with another wallpaper app but this is a first with mine. My deepest apologies if you lost any data. I'm putting this first priority to make sure it doesn't happen again.
My guess is SystemUI ran out of memory and crashed, and sometimes it takes up to 20-30 seconds for that service to get restarted - hence the black screen and device still responding to the fingerprint.
I'm going to PM you so we can try and figure out more of the details.

LiquidHonesty said:
Possible BAD Bug.
Pixel 3XL here, not unlocked and not rooted...just pure android with Feb Patch.
Downloaded and installed. Let it change my wallpaper a few times. Then hit change once but then hit the home key during the change....I guess it was going through the process of changing the wallpaper as my wallpaper went from a graphic to black...and then the whole screen on my Pixel is black. Nothing. Reboot, google boot screen shows...then bam, BLACK screen. You can tell it thinks it's displaying a screen (lock screen, unlock with fingerprint gives haptic, etc) but it's all black, no words graphics nothing. Rebooted into Safe Mode....still solid black but says "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner. Eventually just had to factory reset via Recovery and phone is working perfectly fine now.
Not saying it was your app, but yours was the only thing I had downloaded in over a week....and I was literally using it when it happened. Still though, love the app!
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I had the EXACT same issue on my OnePlus 6. I had to do a factory reset as well. Lost some data that I hadn't backed up in the process.
 @chibichuba

@nightfireblaze8
I have sent you a PM with a few questions, hopefully we can figure this out. I've also opened a ticket with Google, I believe this to be an issue with a native Android library
@LiquidHonesty
PMs are disabled on XDA for you, is there another way I can reach you?

chibichuba said:
Damn I had heard of this with another wallpaper app but this is a first with mine. My deepest apologies if you lost any data. I'm putting this first priority to make sure it doesn't happen again.
My guess is SystemUI ran out of memory and crashed, and sometimes it takes up to 20-30 seconds for that service to get restarted - hence the black screen and device still responding to the fingerprint.
I'm going to PM you so we can try and figure out more of the details.
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No worries, I had a fairly new backup but lost about the last month's SMS even though it claimed I was backed up. LOL no biggie.

LiquidHonesty said:
Possible BAD Bug.
Pixel 3XL here, not unlocked and not rooted...just pure android with Feb Patch.
Downloaded and installed. Let it change my wallpaper a few times. Then hit change once but then hit the home key during the change....I guess it was going through the process of changing the wallpaper as my wallpaper went from a graphic to black...and then the whole screen on my Pixel is black. Nothing. Reboot, google boot screen shows...then bam, BLACK screen. You can tell it thinks it's displaying a screen (lock screen, unlock with fingerprint gives haptic, etc) but it's all black, no words graphics nothing. Rebooted into Safe Mode....still solid black but says "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner. Eventually just had to factory reset via Recovery and phone is working perfectly fine now.
Not saying it was your app, but yours was the only thing I had downloaded in over a week....and I was literally using it when it happened. Still though, love the app!
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Same thing happened to my phone last night on Pixel 3 XL . Changed the wallpaper then screen went black and phone rebooted to recovery screen saying " Cant load Android system, your data may be corrupt. Giving me 2 options Reboot or Factory data reset. Rebooted like dozen times even in safe mode but no luck. In the end i had to factory reset and loosing my important data as there was no way to backup.
Not being rude but there is some really bad bug. Other than that the App is really awesome.

cheemacool said:
Same thing happened to my phone last night on Pixel 3 XL . Changed the wallpaper then screen went black and phone rebooted to recovery screen saying " Cant load Android system, your data may be corrupt. Giving me 2 options Reboot or Factory data reset. Rebooted like dozen times even in safe mode but no luck. In the end i had to factory reset and loosing my important data as there was no way to backup.
Not being rude but there is some really bad bug. Other than that the App is really awesome.
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I've been researching this issue over the past few days and I've come to the conclusion that this is an issue with Android's SystemUI, specifically with devices that have updated via OTA.
As much as I want to think that I can fix this, I have noticed this issue mentioned in every major theming service and wallpaper app and has to do with how AOSP variants handle SystemUI changes. This app actually doesn't touch any part of device storage or the system partition at all, Android system does all the work and my app just sends the request to do it.
In the meantime I've tried to mitigate any possible causes by limiting maximum image sizes and setting strict resource management for the app.
Changing the wallpaper more often on these OTA-updated devices seems to increase the chances of encountering this issue, but a Google Product Expert gave the advice to use Rescue OTA to prevent having to factory restore, found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz6x7k-VkpUJMlZ1aEliVnhMOHM/view

@nightfireblaze8, @LiquidHonesty, @cheemacool,
Were you guys using the stock Dark Mode/Automatic theming on your devices (for the Settings app, quick settings drawer)? I've been in talks with a Google team member and we're narrowing down similar factors.

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chibichuba said:
@nightfireblaze8, @LiquidHonesty, @cheemacool,
Were you guys using the stock Dark Mode/Automatic theming on your devices (for the Settings app, quick settings drawer)? I've been in talks with a Google team member and we're narrowing down similar factors.
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Yes, if I remember correctly.

Yes , dark mode always on for me

Question S22 Ultra Spen & Note issue

Hello everybody,
I am enjoying my S22 Ultra which is almost 2 days old now.
Something strange happened.
I have also raised this in another topic but by then, i didn't know the reasons and i didn't give much details.
Today i had some testing.
Yesterday night, after i set up the phone 99% (with the apps i used but not fine tuned), i charged the phone to 100% for the first time (the only 100% was when i got the phone before first starting) and as it hit 100% i removed from the charge and went to sleep.
This morning, to check notifications and take notes of some of the items, when i got Spen out and used it, the phone (touchscreen) got laggish and phone started acting a bit late and weird in terms of response to open apps or make actions in them.
Anyways, after like 5 minutes the phone made a soft restart itself and drained around 6-8% of battery.
I wasn't pleased but didn't make a big fuss out of it.
This happened when i tried to resize the note app size with Spen drawn out. First instead of resizing, the note (right and bottom quarters) were dragged out of the screen making the right end and bottom sides unusable and also made the resizing impossible.
After the reset, some hours later, i tried the same and got the crash report of notes. Literally the notes app crashed when i resized the note screen with the Spen.
Did this happen to somebody else?
Any recommendations?
I thought of removing Samsung Notes and reinstalling but also thought maybe Spen also need to be formatted etc.
Otherwise the phone seems to be acting pretty good with just some minor milisecond lags/stutters once in a long while, battery still has 17% with around 4,5hrs SoT (and this is as said the 2nd day, battery is still learning, didn't do any power saving, never turned bluetooth off etc. So using it as it must be used) with a total of 22hrs battery usage.
Have around 100 apps that i use installed etc.
So it would say otherwise it is holding pretty good.
Would appreciate if you guys can help me pinpoint and solve this issue.
Thank you in advance

First thing I would do is check if any updates are available and install them to get up to the latest version.

Clear system cache.
Try a hard reboot (NOT factory reset).
Try in safe mode as a 3rd party app may be the cause.
Return Samsung apps to their factory load version; undo updates. Clear related app cache then data if the former doesn't work.
Try to find the root cause rather than doing a factory reset as the issue is likely to reoccur.
Factory reset if you did a major OTA upgrade.
If you used SmartSwitch, if suspect malware or if you can not resolve it (if so use discretion loading 3rd party apps after the reset!).

I did and didn't see any updates.
The device is SD 512 btw if that matters
Rubby1025 said:
First thing I would do is check if any updates are available and install them to get up to the latest version.
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blackhawk said:
Clear system cache.
Try a hard reboot (NOT factory reset).
Try in safe mode as a 3rd party app may be the cause.
Return Samsung apps to their factory load version; undo updates. Clear related app cache then data if the former doesn't work.
Try to find the root cause rather than doing a factory reset as the issue is likely to reoccur.
Factory reset if you did a major OTA upgrade.
If you used SmartSwitch, if suspect malware or if you can not resolve it (if so use discretion loading 3rd party apps after the reset!).
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I didn't do smart switch. Downloaded everything from scratch.
The data was mostly on cloud anyway (OneDrive and Google).
Only thing i did was to increase additional RAM to 8gb rather than 4 (12+8 now rather than 12+4).
Do you think it is fixable or shall i return/replace it?
However, mimicing the same for the service would be hard.
Also, tbh, worried if i replace and get a phone with bad battery or bad cpu etc.
Man, i h8 this situation Samsung put which make us think 3 times before doing something with the phone.

Digie said:
I didn't do smart switch. Downloaded everything from scratch.
The data was mostly on cloud anyway (OneDrive and Google).
Only thing i did was to increase additional RAM to 8gb rather than 4 (12+8 now rather than 12+4).
Do you think it is fixable or shall i return/replace it?
However, mimicing the same for the service would be hard.
Also, tbh, worried if i replace and get a phone with bad battery or bad cpu etc.
Man, i h8 this situation Samsung put which make us think 3 times before doing something with the phone.
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Your call on returning. Since you don't know the cause it's hard to say. It's likely not hardware but that can't be completely rules out. Many apps aren't compatible with Android 11 and especially 12, that's probably the cause or a bug on the Samsung side.
Personally I haven't found a keeper in any of the Samsung post N10+ releases... my N10+'s will likely be in use for years. Between Samsung and Gookill Android I no desire to deal with their substandard bs... hype walks, functionality talks.
They haven't given more than they took away since the N10+. Not having an SD card causes many issues and is not acceptable. It's far more important than 5G or variable refresh rates, the latter two contribute to reduced battery life. Scoped storage and forced encryption has also degraded performance and battery life. When I add the known excellent build quality, form factor and reliability of the N10+, it became the logical choice. Bought my second new one 5 months ago.
I use whatever comes in handy.

blackhawk said:
Your call on returning. Since you don't know the cause it's hard to say. It's likely not hardware but that can't be completely rules out. Many apps aren't compatible with Android 11 and especially 12, that's probably the cause or a bug on the Samsung side.
Personally I haven't found a keeper in any of the Samsung post N10+ releases... my N10+'s will likely be in use for years. Between Samsung and Gookill Android I no desire to deal with their substandard bs... hype walks, functionality talks.
They haven't given more than they took away since the N10+. Not having an SD card causes many issues and is not acceptable. It's far more important than 5G or variable refresh rates, the latter two contribute to reduced battery life. Scoped storage and forced encryption has also degraded performance and battery life. When I add the known excellent build quality, form factor and reliability of the N10+, it became the logical choice. Bought my second new one 5 months ago.
I use whatever comes in handy.
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I was asking about your opinion since you are more experienced in Samsung than me.
The battery drain occured after the Spen issue happened.
And today i got the "Notes stopped working" error when i was playing with Spen/notes to see if i could replicate the error.
And just now, i tried to replicate it again and moved the window around aggressively.
Only issue is time to time Spen stopped dragging it as if i have lifted.
Other than that, the phone acts/reacts normal.
The only differences are as follows;
1) The note screen is smaller than the beginning if it may have an impact
2) I think the first time it rebooted, i was dragging it aggressively while it was giving (or trying to give) the first time tips for the Spen notes
Did it fix itself, maybe?
Maybe shall i try increasing the size of note window and test again?

I got burned by snotes so I never have used them in their latest incarnation.
If that's the only issue with the spen/display it's likely nothing serious. Most issues on my N10+'s I fix by playing with them; play & learn.
Go to Device Care>memory and clear the cache, now open the app giving you trouble, and see what populates in that cache screen when it loads or when there's trouble. The apps at the top have most recently loaded. Developer options>running/cache services too.
You can also see ram usage in Developer options and running services, check for memory leaks, etc.
Further down, open Standby apps, do all buckets show as active? If so global power management is not enabled. However if you can change the bucket state it means power management is running, if so disable it. It's a know trouble maker.
Global power management is disabled. You can not turn it on/off here, it's found in Device Care>battery. Only enable fast/super charging there on the switch toggles.
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