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  1. solitarymonkey

    Thread Notification bar auto hiding since update

    This morning, my phone updated to 39.2.A.0.417, and since then, I've noticed that when on the home screen (and only the home screen I believe) the notification bar at the top seems to auto hide. This was not something it was previously set to, and I'm not even aware of a setting anywhere that...
  2. solitarymonkey

    Thread Recovering from brick

    I dont know if this has been mentioned before, but i think it is quite important and could be helpful to many people. The other week I attempted to make a modification to what is displayed at boot and screwed up somewhere causing my device to become somewhat bricked. Literally the only thing I...
  3. solitarymonkey

    Thread Wireless charging and times needed to place on charger to work

    A few weeks back I bought a wireless charger off eBay for about £10 (I really didn't want to pay over £40 for the official one if I wasn't going to use it much), and I'm sure I've read something somewhere about someone saying the S6 doesn't always charge properly on the first placement on the...
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    Thread 5.1 expected in June. With awesome camera control!

    So, scrolling through G+, I came across this link; http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s6-gaining-manual-exposure-control-android-5-1-611730/ Reading through it got me a little excited, to say the least. Not only decent manual exposure control, but RAW format pictures for the best...
  5. solitarymonkey

    Thread Emoji problem

    Is anyone else having trouble with emojis not showing up? My main use case here is that when my girlfriend texts me, if she uses any emojis in the message, they come up as question marks. But my ones come up correctly.
  6. solitarymonkey

    Thread [Q] kitkat mount and verify /system as rw

    I'm struggling to get an app to run a "mount -o rw,remount /system" command and correctly verify that it is in actual fact remounted as rw. The code is doing it's job, and can write to the system partition, but only if I bypass the verification step which (by design, obviously) stops it from...
  7. solitarymonkey

    Thread Easy Kernel Installer

    Hi all. I have created for users a kernel installer, to take out the hassle of typing out commands yourself. For this to work, there are some requirements that must be met. 1-you have bootloader unlocked 2-you have fastboot drivers already installed. if you dont, please install them This was...
  8. solitarymonkey

    Thread flash kernel the lazy way

    hi all. this is my first post with something that may actually help people with flashing kernels (only tested it on my own R800i, and i'm not actually a developer, it's just something i came up with last night for something to do) basically, i have created a .bat file, that takes out all the...
  9. solitarymonkey

    Thread [Q] converting update.zip to fastboot flashable

    does anybody know of a way of converting cwm update.zip files into a fastboot flashable content. if it makes any difference, i am mainly interested in doing this for my xperia play and then supporting users wanting to try a new custom rom with minimal human input on their behalf (because of...
  10. solitarymonkey

    Thread [Q] fastboot on linux (ubuntu)

    hi guys, i'm really sorry if this is really simple, but i just cant get my head around it and i've been googling for ages and i just keep getting more and more confused. i'm basically trying to get fastboot enabled on my ubuntu linux install (11.04). would someone please explain to me in simple...
  11. solitarymonkey

    Thread [Q] dalvik cache (in laymans terms)

    hi! i'm not a complete noob or anything. but i do like to understand the things i know. please dont start insulting me and shout "just google it" at me, as i have and it all gets my head in a spin. and to make matters worse, i have a medical condition that hinders my understanding of "big...