Some guy reported problem w the 01 Aug FB app

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1..._2013_can_kill/

Lost his lockscreen ...although it could be a case of user error...

Why don't you perform a factory reset and reinstall all your apps?

You (and any others interested) will be ecstatic to know that 4.3 for x86 has been released:


http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20130725

You can get me some fried ayam as well if you're happy.

If u run viber, wechat and fb all the time say goodbye to your SOT.

How did this guy get this way....

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114522360143802...sts/F9AzAV1eDPj



This post has been edited by joytest: Aug 3 2013, 11:40 AM

Enable 2 factor authentication now! At least u can lock the phone from accesi g yr account.

Login to google and go accounts /setti gs/ security or something....on mobile now can't remember.

Great. If they've sorted out the drain issues then it will be good to use.

A week already.

*Past devices*

FB app is known to be problematic. Twitter I don't know.

Factory reset?

A factory reset will reset you to a clean setting of whatever ROM you are on, and you will maintain your root status.

Kekekekekekekeke some news

Qualcomm exec on eight-core mobile chips: They're 'dumb'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/qu...ore_chips_dumb/


Some comments:

Posted Friday 2nd August 2013 23:19 GMT Chris 19
I agree. 8 core phones are pretty dumb.

And I say that as a mobile app developer, working at the sharp end with heavy realtime graphics.

Put more CPU cores on the chip, and yes, they'll get used.. up to a point. The OS will use a 2nd core effectively. 4 cores, and you're seeing diminishing returns from the OS side. A mobile OS is designed for low power, meaning it does as little as possible. It might check email while you're browsing the web. It doesn't need 8 cores for that.

Apps: well, some games might use more cores. Not many. Not much else would use it. The few that might probably won't, because most phones still have 1 or 2 cores, and the devs want a big market. What else? Video encoding? No, there's a hardware encoder on the chip. 3D rendering? On a phone? No. There's a GPU for regular 3D.

So what are the 8 cores for? That one time when you want to revisit the 90s and draw a mandelbrot?

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Posted Saturday 3rd August 2013 04:46 GMT Zola

So what are the 8 cores for? That one time when you want to revisit the 90s and draw a mandelbrot?

No, it's for when I drop my Smartphone into a mains powered dock and start running a full desktop OS. With all 8 cores going gangbusters on whatever tasks I'm performing on my full desktop OS.

Try not to think about the limited smartphones of today, which are running operating systems that massively lag the prodigious hardware they have available to them.

Some firms (eg. Ubuntu) have embraced the "hybrid" approach and it's quite compelling, while potentially disruptive for an already ailing PC hardware industry. It remains to be seen if the other mobile OS vendors with fingers in the PC/desktop OS pie, ie. Apple and Microsoft, will ever follow the lead of Ubuntu - due to conflicts of interest I find that incredibly unlikely, so it's just as well I have no interest in what they do.

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Posted Saturday 3rd August 2013 11:24 GMT Anonymous Coward


Re: Yes, definitely dumb

I don't really know why you've been downvoted here. People should look at their task manager from time to time. I'm a pretty heavy PC user, my quad core PC is generally idle for most tasks other than gaming with the occassional spike on a single core.

When given the shocking battery life of modern phones, personally I think phones would be better sticking at 2 -4 cores, 2xlow power, 1 dedicated to the UI, 1 for smooth multi-tasking, i.e. downloads/app installs/email sync so it doesn't affect the UI and the 3rd (and 4th) core being a silly powerful battery sucking monster for gaming and such.

I'm still on the Nexus S, granted I don't game, but the UI does get a bit jittery when downloading/installing apps/send e-mails with attachments. A 2nd core would rectify this, but I definitely don't need 4+.

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Posted Saturday 3rd August 2013 04:04 GMT Zola


Re: "Dumb" until Qualcomm are able to produce an 8 core chip

It isn't rocket surgery to create an 8 core chip.

The difficulty Qualcomm likely have is that they are using their own architecture for their multi-core SoCs, and not using standard ARM IP.

So stuff like big.LITTLE has to be re-invented by Qualcomm, stuff like the CCI has to be re-invented and updated to support more and even heterogeneous cores.

Yes, it's probably (relatively) easy to go from a dual-core to a quad-core and then an octa-core design when all the cores are 100% identical, but in the current 8-core SoCs not all the cores are identical (which would be very bad for power consumption) and it's this point which is most likely making life that bit more challenging for Qualcomm. They'll need to be considering how they solve the power problem as they ramp up the number of cores, and if they decide on using big and LITTLE cores they need to work out how they achieve it - design another new architecture for either the big or LITTLE cores? Not quick and not cheap.

This is all most certainly not rocket science, but because of the route Qualcomm has taken to market - ploughing their own furrow which has served them well up until this point - they now have a lot of work to do to catch up with the likes of Samsung and Media-Tek who are simply using off the shelf designs from ARM.

Quad core CPUs for phones is ridiculous overkill and completely unnecessary. Going to 8 core is ludicrous.

Generally, I'd agree - for todays smartphones.

But these 8-core SoCs aren't only going to be used in smartphones, they'll be absolutely fine in tablets with much bigger batteries, and I want an 8-core SoC in my "hybrid" smartphone of tomorrow which will run a full desktop OS when docked.

The big.LITTLE concept makes a lot of sense when thinking about "hybrid" products that sip small amounts of power while offering moderate processing capabilities when mobile, but are able to provide much more processing capability when docked and on mains power.

Octa-core processors may not be the most sensible option today with relatively dumb smartphone operating systems but in the future, with more capable operating systems and form factors, their benefits should be more obvious.

Qualcomm claiming 8-core SoCs are "dumb" is just deflecting attention away from their current ability to compete.


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Well, I suppose it's a bit of Qualcomm on sour grapes that they haven't yet gotten an 8 core SoC, so it will be interesting to see WHAT THEY SAY when they've gotten an 8 core SoC.

Bro:

Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II > Sprint Galaxy Note II Android Development > [KERNELS][CWM][ODIN] Kernel Repository - Download Them All Here! (SPH-L900)

You are probably using the N7100, or N7105 (LTE)

What is your ROM current version?

If you are already on DMF1/2 or DME6 then you have the EFS partition problem as stated in the warning. Follow their advice.

I am on stock rooted DME1 only, to avoid that hassle.

This post has been edited by joytest: Aug 4 2013, 12:20 AM

You can perform a nandroid now. You can read post 7 and go to i9000as thread and get the pre rooted stock then reflash your recovery and kernel.

Tibu may restore the crapped up bits..and since its fb and twitter doesn't all yr stuff live on the server?

Waiting. ......waiting. ...

Which module? I think modaco may have a repository.




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6 months of being TS here today

There's a Brightness setting in the stock browser, don't know if it's independent of the main brightness setting or not.

I'm on stock rooted, and don't care about status normal since I won't do an OTA. If you're on a CM ROM, why do you even want "Normal" anyway?

Where is this setting?

Dude you can only take the roms etc for your specific model. Anything else will brick your phone.

How did u get your perseus kernel in the first place?

Please see post 7. The correct links are there and even the correct index thread to all roms is there. Don't go on a wild goose chase.

Well no harm trying if you really want to but it's pointless anyway. If you are rooted any knowledgeable person will know even if your status is normal so if u send it to the tech they will know anyway.

Travel Advisory (JAPAN !!!)



Make sure you secure your bluetooth pairing pin......

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/03/an...-vulnerability/