Official Android discussion thread

[RCuber]

@tkin yes it will work.. but you cant top it up with $25. Only $20, $50 etc..

BTW.. one purchase Go Power Master had issues after reinstalling it didn't show up as purchased item in Play store, many others also complained about the same in comments. other than that I haven't faced any issues.

 

[arijitsinha]

Exactly.. and why to pay extra 5%.. allmost all the bank have VCC option

 

[RCuber]

^^ VCC provided by banks are one time use only.. and wont work with Paypal/Google Pay etc. EntroPay VCC are prepaid and can be used multiple times(till the validity expires or you run out of funds) EntroPay is for people who don't have a CC or don't want to risk giving out CC details to vendors

 

[thetechfreak]

Updated to Android 4.2.2

 

[mitraark]

I want to read about the chipset and processors used on android devices ( i'm confused , l9 has 1 Ghz TI OMAP, but Cortex A9, and what is Neon ? )

 

[tkin]

I want to read about the chipset and processors used on android devices ( i'm confused , l9 has 1 Ghz TI OMAP, but Cortex A9, and what is Neon ? )

Ask what you want to know here, NEON is the ARM's instruction set dedicated for video decoding afaik.

 

[coderunknown]

I want to read about the chipset and processors used on android devices ( i'm confused , l9 has 1 Ghz TI OMAP, but Cortex A9, and what is Neon ? )

chipset (in case of mobiles) = processing core (or think of it as processor itself) + ram + baseband + usb + video decoding unit + a bunch of other stuff.

now processor can be swapped for any available units ranging from Cortex A5/A7/A8/A9/A15 or ones designed by Qualcomm/Marvell/Apple. As hardly anybody cares about video decoder, usb, baseband being used those are ignored in discussion as they don't add to performance and discussion is solely for the processing core.

NEON is a SIMD engine available on the current gen ARM cores (ARM v7 based).

 

[Minion]

PS: I've been monitoring the battery drain very closely and it ain't 25% less but more like 10 -15%
The recent update from Samsung has got a few goodies bundled in and I'd like to stay on 4.1.2 at the cost of some battery juice.
Hope folks at Samsung address these issues in the coming updates and also bring "moveable homescreen wallpaper" back which is amiss in TW [though a few launchers like Nova / Go have this feature but I'd like to have it in stock ROM/UI]

Any pointers for saving some juice - pardon my ignorance
Please find screenshots of partial and kernel wakelocks from BBS

Is you phone rooted you can try using one power guard it seriously save significant amount of battery.just make sure to choose conservative in daily mode and switch on reboot protection.

my batt screenshots
*i.imgur.com/MxlPY.png

*i.imgur.com/7YB50.png

*i.imgur.com/6lleM.png

Is this normal...the last part i switched off data usage or wifi...data usage also seems to be consuming a lot of battery...

Your screen is consuming too much power try to decrease your screen brightness and sleep to 30 sec.

Hmm, how do I know which bloatwares are safe to remove? I'm mostly interested in flashing a rom just to change the interface, any ideas on how I should reset to stock GB UI? I'm probably just wanting to be spoonfed by now, sorry for that.

you can use NOVA theme.

 

[mitraark]

I have an L9, Its specs are

Chipset TI OMAP 4430 - what are other chipsets and which are better ?
CPU Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 - what are other CPU and which ones are better ?

I have read about GPU in xda, although it is not possible to decide exact rank, but it is usually considered

Mali 400 > Adreno 220 > Power SGX 540

 

[tkin]

I have an L9, Its specs are

Chipset TI OMAP 4430 - what are other chipsets and which are better ?
CPU Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 - what are other CPU and which ones are better ?

I have read about GPU in xda, although it is not possible to decide exact rank, but it is usually considered

Mali 400 > Adreno 220 > Power SGX 540

Its like this, first you must know about the cores, only two cores are relevant in android, Arm Cortex series and Qualcomm Snapdragon and krait, which are derived from arm but with qualcomm modifying them a bit.

Now, Krait~CortexA15>Cortex A9~S3

Your SOC is good, now a faster SOC would be say your CPU+SGX543/Mali 400MP, adreno only comes with qualcomm soc.

Now about GPUs:

Adreno 320>Mali 400MP~Adreno 225>Adreno 220>Mali 400(single core)~SGX540.

Now Snapdragon CPU from qualcomm is as fast as A9, so a soc like S3+Adreno 225(Xperia SL) will beat the L9.

Your SOC is fine on the CPU side and can match all S3 or A9 cores, the GPU is a bit week, but faster than all sub 23k mobile GPUs.

 

[Ayuclack]

OR ELSE GET Cyanogen MOD 10 for the best Battery Life !!

USING From Day 1 I Got This Phone and in all Of My Devices !!

*i.imgur.com/sJgGoPb.png?1

 

[ithehappy]

Without Screen On time battery stats is meaningless.
I probably said that a hundred times in XDA!

 

[Ayuclack]

Now its 4 hrs and 32 min and 24 % Battery Left !!

 

[theserpent]

^^ which phone?

 

[ajayritik]

Finally had to do a factory reset of my LG Optimus Net to see if it can fix the auto dial thing. After that reset it still did auto dial couple of times but not as bad as before. I will try for few more days and see how it goes.
Anybody here using Easy Money Expense Manager App?

 

[Ayuclack]

^^ which phone?

Xperia S ...See the Last Image !!

 

[theserpent]

Ok.. I bought tapatalk from google play, but there are two deduction, one is 50 Rs, another is 159 Rs. Why is that 50 Rs for???? Transaction Description is something like GOOGLE * MAR

Even i had got one deduction like that when i made a GOOGLE wallet? is it for creating a google wallet? I had bought thq bundle

Ok.. I bought tapatalk from google play, but there are two deduction, one is 50 Rs, another is 159 Rs. Why is that 50 Rs for???? Transaction Description is something like GOOGLE * MAR

Even i had got one deduction like that when i made a GOOGLE wallet? is it for creating a google wallet? I had bought thq bundle

 

[Ayuclack]

Same Thing Happens With iOS I Was Charged 2 $ for Nothing... Just after Giving The CC Details !1

 

[RCuber]

AFAIR thats done to test the validity/funds of the card (by charging $1) , it will usually be returned after a couple of days, paypal, play store does this, not sure about iTunes.
Note:this is done only once during the first time you are using the card on that store.

 

[arijitsinha]

I googled it, there I found that it is for first time usage charge for google wallet, and they will refund it.

@theserpent Have not you got the refund yet?

I added My Debit card in paypal, they deducted 109 Rupees, but after a week they refunded also. But WTF with Google wallet..!!! 2 weeks, still I dint get refund.