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when i tried to load Hangouts it wanted to send a text message to confirm it or something. I don't like that. the last thing I need is more text spam. it used to simply ask to activate SMS. but i'm not interested in using a Google app much less one to text with. I want to find out how to block...

by the looks of the notification area this appears to be Android 4.0--ice cream sandwich. more likely some budget/Chinese tablet that has a ROM that included phone settings and mobile network status, so if it's wifi only you're going to see that signal meter empty unless you enable airplane mode...

When I got my G3, I had to add a line to keep my number on my Convoy 3 so I made the G3 the new line, so it's a new number. I use the phone for one thing--syncing my watch and as a mini tablet for times when i'm out and without a laptop and need to get online. The new number is getting a text...

Are they seriously going to call it 'lollipop?' time to rethink converting to Windows RT. Android is losing my interest with each 'upgrade' and being so dumbed down. the interface is looking about as ridiculous as the names they're giving it. Kit Kat was also a stupid name. Key Lime Pie...

What about those of us who actually like the start screen on our laptops ? Will we be forced to adapt to a legacy desktop and start menu again?

Thanks to some talented developers over at XDA and an app called MultiROM, there is a means of using the Developer Preview of Android L on the 2012 WiFi only Nexus 7, and I've had time to use it today to see what has changed, and I must say it has revived interest in both stock Android as well...

After my Note 3 got updated to Kit Kat OTA I lost the cool S4 light effect lock screen effect option. I now have the ancient ripple effect from the Galaxy S3 or none. Only options now are none, ripple, and watercolor. Light is missing and has me TO'd. Even after root and a custom ROM it...

not sure if i should post it here but i'm not a member of XDA. the AccuWeather widget on the HD ROM seems incapable of automatic refresh, i got it set for each hour but it never updates on its own unless i manually tap refresh on either my Gear 2 or Note 3. or wake the Note 3 up. i have GPS and...

The new TouchWiz is cool. I'm rooted but Kit Kat firmware doesn't do custom ROMs, so is there an Xposed hack to get the S5 toggles, notification shade, settings UI? I already side loaded the launcher and S Voice and found a lock screen replacement. Also can one get ultra power saver mode as well?

The only two theories are 1) sunrise time or 2) it's daytime. But that cannot be because 1) it's showing 1 AM or 1 PM neither of which correspond with sunrise or sunset, and 2) it's 11 PM

when my S4 got botched up by my attempt at rooting in order to block the KitKat OTA from installing onto it (i expected it to turn into the iOS 7-inspired UI seen in the Galaxy S5--did not want) i had to replace it. given that i am eligible for Verizon EDGE, i got the Note 3--a phone i wanted...

KitKat was a non-issue for my Note 3, which surprised me. but given that it was not much on my Nexus devices i didn't expect much. absolutely hate the all-white icons though. and, like my Nexus 7 and 10, no surprise, no ART. that's all that makes KitKat KitKat was ART. but without it's just a...

One of the features the S4 should have is Social Hub essentially avoiding the need for the awful Facebook app and consolidating all your feeds into one widget. Problem is, it appears to be missing on my Galaxy S4. Am i missing something? Tried to find it in the Samsung App store but no dice...

I know this isn't the proper forum but the forum for the S4 appears rather dead lately. I keep getting this pop-up to update to KitKat on my S4. i am not a fan of KitKat on the S5 (seen it in store) and not a fan of all-white icons, and any other changes that may cause issues later on. as of...

I like my S4 UI the way it is. i do not want the Kitkat flat design stuff they put in the S5, and i don't want the white notification icons that are part of it either. i am not rooted, just got this S4 a few weeks ago. i really like Nature UX and TouchWiz the way it is. i disabled 'software...

for the last two days, my phone seems to be preferring 3G service despite good LTE signal quality in my area. what happens is i can toggle Airplane mode and then turn that off, and it will get on 4G LTE with three bars for a few minutes, get very good speeds, but, all of a sudden, it will drop...

Hello, i've had a SGH-i535 D2VZW Samsung Galaxy SIII for almost a year now, and while it's an excellent phone and is reliable to a fault, i've had a battery drain from Hades for as long as i have had the phone. at first, i figured it's the usual 'Android sucks on battery life' kind of thing, i...

soon after i got the 4.3 OTA this notification pops up and then my wifi connection automatically disconnects from the phone and it dumps to 3G. clicking it in the shade pops up a dialog saying 'your internet connection is unstable blah blah' and mentions this auto switching feature. i went into...

I'm a bit concerned, as i've read this and that on XDA about people wanting to reset their 'flash counter' for some reason. what is this thing? does it fry the phone's chips after X number of custom ROMs thus turning it into a literal brick? seems important enough if so many ask about resetting it?

Bluetooth was the first to die. now it won't play music at all except through the microphone on the top of the phone. been having tons of wifi woes that somehow work themselves out with a reboot (rebooting should never be an acceptable solution) and now worse yet, the Goo.im app tells me it's...

almost all the good ROMs out there, especially the KitKat ones, seem to all be for the GT-i9300. hardly any exist for the i535. is there a reason this model is the least popular one?

Battery life. 1 day, 12 hours.

This toast notification started popping up when updating a lot of apps in Play Store. It doesn't stop anything but does slow down the store app and sometimes it crashes. Internal storage has well over 8GB left. Is this a new bug?

I have a VZW GS3 with an AOSP-based custom ROM on it, that has a toggle known as 'F-charge' meant to quickly charge via USB. unfortunately, when i plug it into my computer (or with the power adapter) and tap it, it remains 'F-charge Off'. it won't enable. am i missing something?

I have a rooted Verizon Galaxy S3, and it's random rebooted before (it's an SD card problem as the same card caused similar problems on other phones and it always happened while playing music off the card) and i never thought nothing of when it did it today except after an hour i went to check...