On stock Sammy ROM, the ori gallery is used to set lockscreen wallpapers so no so easy to remove for me. Besides, I like quickpic anyway.

@DarkAngel: Just tested Wifi-direct-ing to an S2 a couple of days back. Zero issues. On Wanam 2.0 + Stockmod kernel.

Receiver device ROM/Kernel issue maybe. Or something you freezed/removed?

Anyways, got an interesting issue to share. This might sound obvious, but iPhone certified headphones with FULL 3-button controls (vol +, vol - and play/pause/answer) do not work "properly" with any Sammy devices after the S2 it seems (it doesn't work at all with the original SGS, but that is an entirely different story). This is due to the damned auth chip/circuit that must be built in for full "made for iPhone" certification.

Single button ones WITHOUT official certification (and hence no auth chip) work fine.

So, my plastic fantastic TDK EB950 is "made for iPhone" (don't look at me like that, there's no un-mic'ed version okay). Only the center button works, and even then only to change tracks with the music player.

Pick up a call with the center button and the entire headphone stops working (it's shown as disconnected even).

Only 2 ways to make it work it is to either remove and reattach after picking up a call (which is a PITA) or the "press-hold-center-button-while-attaching" trick (which makes the call function work, but screws up music player control).

Ways to solve?

1) Get another, android friendly mic'ed IEM (which might be an issue considering there's not many of these) or a normal one button "universal" mic'ed IEM.

2) Get a normal unmic'ed IEM and answer calls like I used to do, by holding the phone up to your face. Lol.

3) Get the Belkin iPhone mic adapter. Which surprisingly works fine with the S3 due to it's single button unchipped design (even though it's "made for iPhone" lol). Or any other cheapo adapter for that matter (though I can't guarantee that cheapo adapters wont screw up your SQ).

As I had the Belkin adapter from my iPhone days, I went that route. This would definitely work even with the ADDIEMs (aka the Apple In-Ears) if you plan to use that (for some reason).

It's just sad that most IEM manufacturers aren't making Android friendly mic'ed IEMs though. IINM there's only headphones from Ultimate Ears, Nocs, Meelec and Monster if you want working controls and a mic with your headphones.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 5 2012, 06:59 AM

Funny, I have ALL of the above uninstalled EXCEPT Samsung Account. Try that restoring that?

BTW, I ran back to Siyah now, need the swap support. I'm now using enough RAM at times that my backgrounded music player dies lol - blame 16 parallel running tabs in browser opening up the desktop versions of Gmarket + our sad sad 1GB RAM lol.

Swap on ExtSD = multi write wearing the disk out = change ExtSD. A far better option compared to the old put swap in IntSD option (fried IntSD = die).

Will try out swapping and see how it turns out. Virtual memory yum.

The other option is getting myself an SKT E210S from South Korea, which isn't viable at all lol.

Bloody 1GB RAM. I knew it will come back to bite me in the backside one day. Hopefully the official JB release later addresses the memory allocation issues.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 5 2012, 08:54 AM

On 1.5beta4. Not THAT bad, but definitely not butter like StockMod. Oh well.

Now gotta get swap working. Repartitioning the ExtSD is gonna be a beach. At least I got my IEM call controls working, in a very inelegant manner though.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 5 2012, 08:57 AM

You have JBphrenia lar bro. Dangerous wei. Need so much butter in your diet not healthy you know.



This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 5 2012, 09:00 AM

OCing my GPU a bit, pushing the steps up. Butter seems to come back a bit. Not bad.

Hmm, glad to hear WiDi is working for you again.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 5 2012, 09:10 AM

FreeVPNToday. PTPP. Works FINE with the S3 (or the S2 for that matter). Just need to get a new password EVERY TIME you need to connect, that's all.

Orrrrrrr, you can buy HaxSync. Deleted the built in SNS (Facebook) sync for it, works farrrr better IMHO.

I'm using an Anymode Samsung twin-port 1A car charger I got during my S2 days. Works fine.

Running latest Wanam 2.1 with JB Domination (Modded) with no problems - themed phone and contacts and everything. Gotta love the VRThemes framework, it's so easily adaptable to any ROM release it's almost trivial.

Now gotta wait for AndroidGX to update his theme, whch isn't VRT based. Supposedly he's going VRT too, which is gonna be rad.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 01:08 AM

Well, this "RAM ISSUE" is actually quite real. Our 1GB RAM really isn't being used optimally. Case in question, after 1 full day of use, I open Poweramp and leave music playing in the background. Then I open a few tabs in ICS+ with Gmarket pages inside (full desktop pages with lotsa lotsa pictures).

On the S2, default behavior upon overmaxxing RAM would be that ICS+ would close (and it'll take quite a while for it to reach that point).
Now, Android just "politely" closes Poweramp.

After about 5 minutes.

WTF? So much for multitasking. Damn memory leaks.

Now testing swap partition on ExtSD to help "lessen" the issue. Hopefully JB manages RAM better - or the 64GB version comes with 2GB of RAM lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 01:27 AM

Yes, that's it. You know what Windows Virtual Memory is right? If your RAM gets overused to a certain amount, programs that "don't really need to be in RAM" gets transfered over to a swap-file on your HDD. That's virtual memory.

This swap works about the same way, but it's actually an entire partition. Stuff that "don't need to be in RAM" (for instance, a game you just jumped out of) can be sent to this partition to be kept "on hold" until you need it.

Advantage of doing this is that you can even keep huge games "on hold" without closing it. In effect, you're increasing the amount of "memory" you have - and you can keep more stuff running at the same time.

If it works as it should lar.

Disadvantage is, stuff in swap runs SLOOOOOOOW (if it runs at all), and thus it's really more suited to keeping things "on hold". There's gonna be a little lag too when you bring stuff out of swap back into "active RAM" - but we DO have a quad-core processor after all.

Also, as it's on a specific partition at the end of your memory card, any damage (yes long term use of swap on ANY flash memory run the risk of "killing" that portion of flash memory) will be limited to that part of the memory card ONLY. Even if your entire memory card goes kaput, you can easily replace it too.

Which is why this is the best way to run swap IMHO (vs using the "popular" way of putting a page-file/swap partition on internal SD, which is faster but, well, will kill your internal SD - which in turn is not as easily replaceable as ExtSD, right?).

Ah. Virtual memory. A favourite subject of long time N900 users. Dark Angel care to chime in?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 01:48 AM

I junked Kies/Kies WIFI a LOOONG time ago, so this is a GREAT replacement app. Thanks for the heads up. Was surviving on Sshdroid lol, although I rarely need to use the computer anyway nowadays lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 02:30 AM

Mine's slightly warmer too. If it's TOO BAD (aka, like the iPhone 4S piss yellow screen) get it changed ASAP. Otherwise, it's just Sammy and shitty AMOLED manufacturing QC (the screens are SUPPOSED to come out of the factory with a slight blue tint, supposed to anyway).

For me, I like slightly warmer whites so I decided to live with it (it's more "correct" anyhows. Bluer whites are actually quite wrong). Plus, my unit had no other noticeable defect.

It's all up to you though. It's your device and you're under warranty.

But that said, the iP4S piss yellow screens really are piss yellow.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 04:03 AM

DA... swap. You know you want to.

Swappppppp. Your fond memories of Maemo demands it.



This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 09:47 AM

Like Wanamlite 2.0. Not much diff really lol.

Bottom area of the S3 gets hot for the same reason the top part near the camera gets hot on an S2 - the cellular radio systems are located there.

Not so sure which genius thought it was a good idea to put the heat generating parts closer to the users hands though.

Anyway, after staying Stockmod for so long, I'm now firmly back in the Siyah camp (as I was in the beginning). A few tweaks and it's almost as responsive as stockmod now, plus all the extra goodies like sound tweaks, cifs and ntfs support - AND SWAP! OH GLORIOUS SWAP!

Anyways, planning on buying the Mercury Color Screen for the S3 and give myself the Black S3 Samsung denied me. Yum.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 11:31 AM

It's out. There's even two versions out already, flat and curved - both fully cover the screen IINM.

Not sure if the local guys have it though, I tend to import my stuff myself.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 11:34 AM

Yep. No changes.

No need reformat. You need a computer and a memory card reader though. EVEN SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU BACK UP THE DATA YOU HAVE ON YOUR MEMORY CARD - just in case.

Use a software called Minitools Partition Manager (its free). You can resize the partitions on your memory card without reformatting it. No data lost asso.

After resize partition, create new primary partition from the free space and format it as "linux swap". Pop into S3, flash Yank555's script and you're done.

Last I checked got a couple of people running swap on exfat with 64GB cards no problem.

@cloudfan: S-off? We dun need no S-off here lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 05:06 PM

Siyah is pretty customizable. You can set it up to save battery if you want.

But I agree it's pretty mafan. Wanam's stockmod XLG9 kernel is great anyway, so why bother?

I'm sticking with Siyah for the NTFS and the Swap support, otherwise the butter of Stockmod is pretty tempting.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 9 2012, 08:55 PM