HTC Eye Experience topic

I saw there was a update to the camera app a little while ago. Was wondering did any of the versions of the M8 get the Crop Me In feature yet?

Your Experience with Desire 816 !!! topic

Hello,
dear users of the HTC Desire 816 , i have a few small questions for you. I am hoping to buy a Desire 816. I just want to know from real users just how is the device ..

How is the Camera ?
How is the performance ?
Display Quality ?
Have you experienced any problems ?

Please your opinion will be a great help for me ....

ARM Sets New Standard for the Premium Mobile Experience (ARM Cortex A72 & Mali-T880) topic

Here we go again! | WOOT WOOT! |

Quote:

ARM Sets New Standard for the Premium Mobile Experience 03 February 2015 News Highlights: New ARMv8-A-based ARM® Cortex®-A72 processor, 50X increase in CPU performance compared to just five years ago New ARM CoreLink™ CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect, allowing higher system bandwidth, and increasing system efficiency New ARM Mali™-T880 GPU delivers console-quality gaming and stunning visuals in a mobile power envelope Optimization for the leading-edge TSMC 16nm FinFET+ process with ARM POP™ IP Cortex-A72 licensees include HiSilicon, MediaTek and Rockchip. Cambridge, UK, Feb. 3, 2015 - ARM today announced a suite of IP that will enable a new standard for premium experiences on 2016 mobile devices. At the heart of this suite is the ARM Cortex-A72 processor, which is the highest performing CPU technology available for developing mobile SoCs today. In target configurations, the Cortex-A72 processor will deliver CPU performance that is 50X greater than the leading smartphones from just five years ago. The ARM premium mobile experience IP suite also offers a significant graphics upgrade generating a stunning visual experience for users at up to 4K120fps resolution. Devices with this new industry-leading technology suite are expected to enter the market in 2016. The ARM premium mobile experience IP suite offers the most compelling mobile technology available today. Alongside the Cortex-A72 processor is the new CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect and the new Mali-T880 GPU, ARM's highest performing and most energy-efficient mobile GPU, along with Mali-V550 video and Mali-DP550 display processors. To further ease chip implementation, the suite also includes ARM POP IP for the leading-edge TSMC 16nm FinFET+ process. "Our new premium mobile experience IP suite with the Cortex-A72 processor delivers a decisive step forward from the compelling user experiences provided by this year's Cortex-A57 based devices," said Pete Hutton, executive vice president and president, products groups, ARM. "For multiple generations, together with our partners, we have delivered the leading-edge of the premium mobile experience. Building on this, in 2016 the ARM ecosystem will deliver even slimmer, lighter, more immersive mobile devices that serve as your primary and only compute platform." The 2016 Premium Mobile Experience The premium mobile experience IP suite addresses the ever-increasing demands of end-users for their primary, always-connected mobile devices capable of creating, enhancing and consuming any content. For 2016 devices, ARM and its partners will boost the mobile experience associated with use cases such as: Immersive and sophisticated image and video capture, including 4K120fps video content Console-class gaming performance and graphics Productivity suites requiring fluid handling of documents and office applications Natural language user interfaces capable of running natively on a smartphone. Introducing Cortex-A72, the Highest Performance ARM Cortex Processor More than ten partners, including HiSilicon, MediaTek and Rockchip, have already licensed the Cortex-A72 processor, which is based on the ARMv8-A architecture that delivers energy-efficient 64-bit processing while providing full backward compatibility to existing 32-bit software. The Cortex-A72 processor will deliver substantial new benefits: Sustained operation within the constrained mobile power envelope at frequencies of 2.5 GHz in a 16nm FinFET process and scalable to higher frequencies for deployment in larger form factor devices 3.5X the performance of 2014 devices based on the Cortex-A15 processor Improved energy efficiency that delivers a 75 percent reduction in energy consumption when matching performance of 2014 devices Extended performance and efficiency when the Cortex-A72 CPU is combined with a Cortex-A53 CPU in ARM big.LITTLE™ processor configurations. CoreLink CCI-500, Extending Efficiency Across the SoC The CoreLink CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect enables big.LITTLE processing and delivers system power savings thanks to an integrated snoop filter. CoreLink CCI-500 delivers double the peak memory system bandwidth and offers a 30 percent increase in processor memory performance compared to the previous generation CoreLink CCI-400. This enables more responsive user interfaces and accelerates memory intensive workloads such as productivity applications, video editing and multi-tasking. CoreLink CCI-500 fully supports ARM TrustZone® technology for a secure media path enabling protection of multimedia content when used with the Mali product family. Mali-T880, A Ground-Breaking Mobile Graphics and Visual Experience The new Mali-T880 GPU delivers 1.8X the graphics performance of today's Mali-T760 based devices and a 40 percent reduction in energy consumption across identical workloads. The Mali-T880 enables high-end, complex use cases to be enjoyed on power-constrained mobile and consumer platforms with its advances in energy efficiency, additional arithmetic capabilities and scalability. For mobile gamers, the result is a more advanced gaming and console-like experience. Native support for 10-bit YUV provides stunning fidelity for premium 4K content, complementing the Mali-V550 video processor and Mali-DP550 display processors. Energy-efficiency continues to be the guiding design principle across the spectrum of the Mali product family, including a diverse set of proven, system-wide bandwidth reduction technologies. In premium device configurations, the Mali-V550 video processor fully supports HEVC decode and encode on a single core. In addition, it offers scalability up to 4K120fps with its full eight cores. The Mali-DP550 display processor offers enhanced capabilities for offloading tasks such as composition, scaling, rotation and image post-processing from the GPU to maximize battery life. Improved Time-to-Market with FinFET Technology The new POP IP for advanced TSMC 16nm FinFET+ enables any silicon vendor to migrate from 32/28nm process nodes with predictable performance, power results and time-to-market. ARM POP IP will enable Cortex-A72 processors to sustain 2.5 GHz in smartphones and scale to higher frequencies for larger form-factor devices in typical conditions. POP IP also supports implementations of the Mali-T880 for TSMC 16nm FinFET+. Advancing Mobile Ecosystem Innovation with ARMv8-A Leadership The mobile ecosystem is already taking advantage of the benefits of ARMv8-A with the move to Google Android™ 5.0 Lollipop. The new IP suite builds on this, enabling partners to deliver even more performance in the slimmest of form factors without compromising battery life. Over the course of 2015 and 2016, ARM expects significant adoption of Google Android 5.0 Lollipop in the premium mobile device market, further unleashing the capabilities of 64-bit ARMv8-A based CPUs. This opens the door for more application developers to take advantage of the doubling of SIMD multimedia (ARM NEON™ technology) and floating point performance, crypto instructions to protect consumers data and 4GB or higher memory support; delivering the next-generation premium mobile experience. Partner Quotes "The need to be always connected with access to data, premium content and storage is dramatically changing as more devices and people use the connected cloud for digital experiences," said George Yao, general manager of Turing Processor BU, HiSilicon. "HiSilicon is committed to offering platforms that support these demands by delivering more performance and outstanding energy-efficiency. We are pleased to support ARM as it introduces the first full suite of IP targeted at premium mobile platforms. The game-changing Cortex-A72 delivers more than 3X the performance of 2014 devices and Mali-T880 takes state-of-the-art graphics to the next level. Our partnership will usher in a new era for mobile and networking solutions." "The pace of innovation in mobile is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, which means we need to deliver the latest technology to our customers as fast as possible," said Joe Chen, senior vice president of MediaTek. "We are pleased to partner with ARM for the launch of Cortex-A72, bringing the ARMv8-A architecture to market with leading performance and energy-efficiency benchmarks. Ultimately it is all about providing a better experience for end users as the complexity of applications, content and devices increases." "Increasingly, consumers are adopting mobile devices including smartphones, tablets, phablets and other large screen devices as their primary compute platforms. These larger form factor devices demand higher performance and energy-efficiency that scales across a variety of processor configurations," said Mr. Feng Chen, chief marketing officer, Rockchip. "Rockchip is pleased to partner with ARM to introduce the Cortex-A72 to enable a wide range of premium mobile platforms that consumers can take advantage of. Rockchip is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge CPU and GPU technologies and solutions to our customers and end users to enable a compelling user experiences for personal and enterprise use." "TSMC's 16FinFET+ process is already delivering exceptional results with SoCs based on Cortex-A57 thanks to rapid progress in yield and performance," said Suk Lee, TSMC Senior Director, Design Infrastructure Marketing Division. "The combination of TSMC 16FF+ process technology and the implementation advantages of ARM POP IP gives our customers the opportunity to rapidly bring highly optimized mobile SoCs based on Cortex-A72 to market in early 2016." "Cadence and ARM have a long history of close collaboration that has resulted in some noteworthy achievements enabling mutual customer success," said Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for EDA, Cadence. "In support of the new ARM Premium mobile experience IP suite, Cadence has created a complete system-on-chip (SoC) environment to optimize its implementation, verify the system during OS boot-up and analyze interconnect subsystem performance. ARM used the Cadence digital and system-to-silicon verification tools and IP during the ARM Cortex-A72 processor development to ensure that the flow met complex mobile design requirements. This will help designers to shorten time to market while achieving optimal results at advanced process nodes." "Through more than 20 years of collaboration with ARM, we've enabled our customers to use Synopsys tools to quickly get their innovative products to market while meeting power, performance and area design targets," said Deirdre Hanford, executive vice president, customer engagement, Synopsys. "Early adopters of ARM's new suite of IP, including the Cortex-A72 processor, CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect, Mali-T880 GPU, Mali-V550 video processor and Mali-DP550 display processor, are already using Synopsys tools, methodology and professional services to design and verify their products aimed at delivering a premium mobile experience. For the ARM Cortex-A72, a member of this new suite of IP, our Reference Implementation (RI) builds on our successful RIs for ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 and will enable designers to take advantage of the 10X increase in design throughput that Synopsys' IC Compiler™ II product offers, while achieving the performance target in a mobile power envelope." Ends

Planning to upgrade to Note 4? Here's my experience after 3 weeks. topic

I've been user of the first generation of Galaxy Note franchise: the Galaxy Note GT-N7000, since 3 years. The phone that back in 2011 was ridiculously big and most of the people said that nobody would use a phone bigger than a 4.5 inch device. The phone that started a new era that now any brand has his own phablet (Xperia ZL, LG G3, HTC One Max, Nokia Lumia 1320 etc). After three years, I've decided to go for the next big phablet, the Note 4.
This is not a review. My english is not so good to elaborate a proper review of every feature of this phone. You can see amazing reviews at Engadget, Android Police, Youtube or even here in XDA)

Size Comparasion:

If you thought that your N7000 was reeeeaally big, then get prepared for the Note 4. It's taller than his grandfather, but also is less wide so it's nice in hands.
The N7000 is 78,6 x 153,5 mm while the N910C is 82,95 x 146,85 mm. The weight is almost the same, just 4 grams less than the Note 1.
Build Quality:
I think this is the most important difference between both phones. We all know that Samsung ditched polycarbonate in favor to metal. The ORIGINAL (later I will explain why I call it original) Note 4 comes with a brand new metallic frame with chamfered edges and a soft matte strip with the same color of the phone (cold white, pearl black, pink). Personally I don't know why they're still using polished metal for phones, did they not learn the lesson with the iPod touch? The HTC One? The iPhone 4, 5, 5S? Two days after using my Note 4, I saw a lot of scratches on on them, and after a week, it started to oxydize due to hands sweat. I was so angry that I've took metal polisher and started to polish it. The scratches disappeared, but then I polished the matte white strip.. HOLY DIFFERENCE! The phone now have a glossy finish and, due to this, a better grip. Take a look:

Screen
I never saw a better screen than the one in my N7000, until now. The Note 4 comes with a incredibly sharp 2K Amoled screen clocked at 60Hz. It's fast and inmerssive, and the best? There's no input lag. View angles are nice in both phones, the colors are morea accurate, the brightness is nice at direct sunlight and in dark enviorments.

Battery and OS:
I never thought that a phone could run out of battery after 2 days of heavy use. AMAZING BATTERY USAGE. My Note 1 can't stay turned on more than 6 hours. Also, Ultra Power Saving mode does his job pretty well. About the OS, it comes with Kitkat 4.4.4. If you're using AryaMod in the GT-N7000 and switch to the Note 4, you will not notice too much difference. And that's due to Samsung's Touchwiz. Belive or not, Touchwiz is getting better. Almost lag free and very, VERY smooth than before. The only lag issue I found is trying to open the recent apps menu for first time, but that's something that Lollipop claims to fix so I'm not too worried.



So that's it. Belive me, the 700USD that this phone costs are totally worth. If you can afford it, go and get one. You will never regret. Thanks to everyone in this community, it's time to turn off my N7000, pull out the battery and save it in my desktop's drawer. Good luck!

Anyone have any experience with this store topic

I just put an order with http://lumias.ecrater.com/p/21915606...eywords=flex+2 and I know I'm safe bc of paypal buyer protection but should I be expecting to open a dispute.

[Q] Xperia Z 6603 Death Experience - Help Please topic

Current Status
summary
is dead as a dodo
Details

• Phone shows red light when on the charger (either computer or wall)


• Phone goes into Flashmode when plugged into computer using volume down


• Phone goes into Fastboot when plugged into computer using volume up


• Phone buzzes once when power is pressed and then nothing at all


• Phone buzzes once when power + volume up is pressed a few seconds (3 i believe)


• Phone buzzes three times when power + volume up is pressed a few seconds (12 or so)


• Phone accepts flash without errors


• Applied http://forum.xda-developers.com/xper...5#post58600079

History (facts)

1. Phone working correctly till screen replace (good battery life)


2. On replace first time it started ok and it looked perfectly functional


3. Regrettably I broke the replacement screen too :cowboy:


4. Second screen took forever to arrive by the time it arrived upon installation the phone was dead

Repair Attempts

• Bought a second battery thinking the long period without charge may have affected the orginal battery


• Tried using the power + volume up go get 3 buzz


• Tried unplugging the battery putting it on the charger


• Tried flashing the phone with original firmware/software. AFter complete no errors, however nothing changed. Had the phone on the charger for quite a while (+10 hours)


• Tried fastboot mode changing system worked fine, unable to change kernel though error not allowed


• Tried soldering the cable under the believe that the tinkerin with the phone may have affected the connectors

Environment Details

• Xperia Z 6603


• OSX 10.10 as desktop OS


• Flashtoo flashtool-0.9.18.4-mac.dmgk


• Current Device: C6603 - CB5A1PYQTP - 1270-9108_R2D - 1269-5309_10.5.1.A.0.283 - GLOBAL-LTE_10.5.1.A.0.283

Last Flash log

Code:

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02/050/2015 19:50:44 - INFO  - Device connected in flash mode
02/051/2015 19:51:05 - INFO  - Selected Bundle for Sony Xperia Z (C6603). FW release : 10.5.1.A.0.292. Customization : Vodafone_NZ3
02/051/2015 19:51:05 - INFO  - Preparing files for flashing
02/051/2015 19:51:15 - INFO  - Please connect your device into flashmode.
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Opening device for R/W
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Device ready for R/W.
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Reading device information
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Phone ready for flashmode operations.
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Current device : C6603 - CB5A1PYQTP - 1270-9108_R2D - 1269-5309_10.5.1.A.0.283 - GLOBAL-LTE_10.5.1.A.0.283
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Start Flashing
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  - Processing loader.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:17 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Processing of loader.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Loader : S1_Root_5ca3 - Version : APQ8064_39 / Boot version : S1_Boot_Lagan_1.1.1_1 / Bootloader status : ROOTABLE
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Processing partition-image.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Processing of partition-image.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Parsing boot delivery
02/051/2015 19:51:18 - INFO  - Phone boot version : S1_Boot_Lagan_1.1.1_1. Boot delivery version : S1_Boot_Lagan_1.1.1_1
02/051/2015 19:51:19 - INFO  - Boot delivery up to date. Nothing to do
02/051/2015 19:51:19 - INFO  - Processing kernel.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:19 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:19 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  - Processing of kernel.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  - Processing rpm.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  - Processing of rpm.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  - Processing fotakernel.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:23 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:27 - INFO  - Processing of fotakernel.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:27 - INFO  - Processing amss_fs_3.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:27 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:27 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing of amss_fs_3.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing amss_fs_2.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing of amss_fs_2.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing amss_fs_1.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing of amss_fs_1.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  - Processing apps_log.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:28 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:30 - INFO  - Processing of apps_log.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:30 - INFO  - Processing cache.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:30 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:30 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/051/2015 19:51:36 - INFO  - Processing of cache.sin finished.
02/051/2015 19:51:36 - INFO  - Processing system.sin
02/051/2015 19:51:36 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/051/2015 19:51:36 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/003/2015 20:03:22 - INFO  - Processing of system.sin finished.
02/003/2015 20:03:22 - INFO  - Processing userdata.sin
02/003/2015 20:03:22 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/003/2015 20:03:22 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/004/2015 20:04:28 - INFO  - Processing of userdata.sin finished.
02/004/2015 20:04:28 - INFO  - Processing elabel-C6603-row_201310171741.1_10.5.1.A.0.292.sin
02/004/2015 20:04:28 - INFO  -    Checking header
02/004/2015 20:04:28 - INFO  -    Flashing data
02/004/2015 20:04:35 - INFO  - Processing of elabel-C6603-row_201310171741.1_10.5.1.A.0.292.sin finished.
02/004/2015 20:04:36 - INFO  - Ending flash session
02/004/2015 20:04:36 - INFO  - Flashing finished.
02/004/2015 20:04:36 - INFO  - Please unplug and start your phone
02/004/2015 20:04:36 - INFO  - For flashtool, Unknown Sources and Debugging must be checked in phone settings
02/004/2015 20:04:36 - INFO  - Device connected in flash mode
02/005/2015 20:05:03 - INFO  - Device disconnected

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Please any advice or help will be much appreciated, I've done a lot of reading but there is lots of information floating about this problem and is hard to know whether I'm reading all the relevant info.

How reliable are Nandroid backups? Anyone ever experience bugs after restoring? topic

I was wondering how everyones experience with nandroid backups are and how reliable it is. Do any of you experience any bugs after restoring? Do any of you ever have any problems going back from a touchwiz and CM rom often? (Of course I do a full wipe before restoring) I seen a few users always mention they get bugs after restoring from a backup, I was just wondering if this is just a a few people.

I have 2-3 backups I want to go back and forth from, and there are days believe it or not when I miss touchwiz lol. So going back from touchwiz and cm roms won't give me any sort of bugs or anything? I am just questioning the reliability of nandroid backups

anybody familiar with double din experience topic

I Have a 2004 sierra and I'm looking to get my first double din so I don't know too much about them or have any experience on how they work or there UI.
I was really into the Alpine line but a blogger or whoever on youtube said Alpine is laggy, and said that pioneer has a really good GPS system and is updated the most frequent. But to my understanding I thought pioneer was a lower brand and that Walmart sells pioneer product. I'm not looking to spend 0 and hope for the best and I'm not looking to overpay just for a name. I really don't mind paying 600 since you get what you pay for. Does anybody have any good recommendations on a model that has all the bells and whistles and 3 RCA connections?
GPS (not so important tho)
HDMI or some way to mirror. I could do Google Maps that way
Bluetooth streaming.
DVD player
3 rca outlets for amps
Not laggy

I did see some Android powered double dins but from what I read they were all Chinese brands.