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I can live with the Nexus 5X' relative sluggishness when compared to the Nexus 5, but what really stops me from doing my work is the phone killing apps when I switch between them. Example: I may be filling out a form on a website in Firefox for Android. I need to look up a word in the...

Is it possible to install MIUI original apps on Cyanogenmod or any other phone/OS? Living in China, backing up to the Mi Cloud is easier than to syncing with Google, as it does not require switching on the VPN and thus does not drain the battery waiting for a VPN connection and gets generally...

After purchasing the Mi4c and waiting for it for three weeks, I keenly unboxed it and started tweaking the living hell out of it. Among others I installed several Google apps, the google account manager (switch off sync in China as it will draaaain your battery), and MIUI 5.10.16 dev. So far so...

I've obtained a Samsung Galaxy S3 from a Chinese vendor (live in China). It seems legit (weight, size, runs Chinese (no-market) Android 4.1), but upon starting it with volume down, I don't go into download mode but into something called "factory mode". A blue menu with the option to run tests...

My Google Maps was working fine yesterday on ICS 4.04 with CM9 nightly. Suddenly, this morning, it started force-closing on me. I wiped the app's data, uninstalled, reinstalled, but to no avail. Logcat shows that maps throws a Java.IllegalArgumentException (greatest common divisor should be...

I'm using Android 4.04 with Cyanogenmod 9 (nightly). When my screen goes off and I hit menu to reactivate it while still in the grace period, Android invariably shows me the list of recent applications. Also, after exiting that list (back), the list won't show up again on long-pressing menu...

I probably should report this to CM and I'm intending to, but first I want to find out whether it's Android or CM-related. I read reports about touchscreen lag or "sticky" touchscreen sensitivity when dragging the finger over the screen (e.g. when scrolling through a list or drawing lines in an...

Unhappy with Samsung's stock ICS version, I moved on to a CyanogenMod9 nightly build for my SGS2 - an admittedly risky thing to do on April 1st - which proves fantastically stable and fast. However, when I installed the Facebook app (painstakingly: I'm in China), I found that the option to sync...

Yes it sounds like a catch-22 and that's exactly what I think it is. Yesterday my phone battery bailed on me. So I plug it in for a night and wake up to see it hasn't charged at all. It's still off and continually displaying the battery charging icon, after which it shows the Samsung Galaxy S2...

I have a Chinese (PRC) version of the Samsung Galaxy S2. This caused a lot of trouble in the beginning because it doesn't come with the Android market or any of the Google services. Also it didn't allow the installation of non-Chinese ROMs. This was remedied by installing ownhere's hacked mod...

1. Whenever I join a contact with his/her Facebook profile, the contacts app takes the name from Facebook and always shows the last name first. There is no way to force it into displaying another name. This gives me a messy list of contacts. How can I change this? 2. The default Contacts app...

The default setting in my phone is to save newly created contacts to Phone instead of to Google. I assume this is why those contacts don't show up in my GMail. I have changed this setting now. However, is there a way to sync those contacts to GMail after all?

1. I have loads of contacts (probably a couple of thousand). Normally you can do T9 search, like if I wanted to call "liliane", I would type 545263 and it would show liliane and a couple of numbers that have 545263 in them and other names that correspond to the combination. This works on the...

I have a Chinese SIM card (China Unicom). If I try to "add a contact" or also change the contact settings, it takes a lot of time (+5 seconds) for the screen to show up. That's very annoying and it does not happen with my German or Belgian SIM cards. Any ideas? I've already set "save contacts"...

The stock browser on my galaxy s2 does not seem to have an option not to load the mobile versions of webpages. It's quite annoying, e.g. mobile Google checkout does not allow editing payment methods. This is android gingerbread onwhere mod based on Chinese firmware. Sent from my GT-I9100 using...

I have bought a SGS2 in China. It comes with Chinese firmware (has English language though) but mostly with Chinese software and without Android Market. So it does not sync with Google, searches go through Baidu, I can't find and install most apps so it's essentially not very fun to use. I have...

I bought a Samsung Galaxy S II in China, after checking that it was a genuine model (comparing weight, software operating speed ...). When I came home I realised it didn't come with the Google Applications we're used to in the West: Street View, Android Market (there is a Chinese version but I...