Looking for advice on cover protector

My nexus 4 is at the moment broke the back and front screen. I watched a few vids and was led to understand
its a phone that was not made to be dropped, iv learnt that the hard way.

I have ordered a new back and new screen, from Amazon. Back has arrived just waiting on the screen now to start repair, it seems like it could be a DIY Job?

Anyway my main question is because I do not want it to fall and break again. Can anyone advise me on a cover that
will protect it at a price not too high and were are place to buy? Im in Ireland so it would be best to order from a EU site but I am willing to look at getting from ebay or amazon ect.

Ay help wud be great thanks all.

Need advice: S3 Neo or A3?

I need some advice ... which should I choose between a Samsung S3 Neo and an A3? .. Seem similar in performance but the price difference is big ...
What do you think? Thanks in advance for any opinion!

Advice for N910F lightweight and battery friendly ROM

Hello,

I am asking for your contribution in order to find a ROM that provides good performance while giving good battery life.
I am using Emotroid v8 but I find that the ROM implements lots of stuff I don't need (customisation, themes...)
I want a debloated ROM, Touchwiz or stock (I would prefer stock though)
What would you suggest?
Thanks for your answers

Need some rom suggestion / advice regarding flashing custom roms and what rom.

Few questions

1. I have sprint and nexus 6. Ideally I'd like a stock rom, but with the clear recent tasks button in the bottom, and enabled tethering, and also rooted. What minimalist or close to stock rom would you suggest? I am tired of using stock and having a pain every time there is an OTA update whereby it won't flash and having to go through the steps of editing build.prop and the sql database file to enable tethering.

2. What is the easiest way to keep a custom rom up to date. I just want it to almost behave like stock with updates easy to obtain and near automatic. Is there an app or rom that has this feature?

3. what is the difference between factory build LMY48M and LMY47Z? They are both listed as 5.1.1

4. I use titanium backup. However, if i update a rom and just save user data (when i previously had it save system data I had a problem) and after i flash restoring user data, I notice many of the settings such as my bluetooth and smart lock etc. settings aren't saved. Any suggestion to streamline the flashing process further?


Thanks for your help and advice!

New Battery Advice?

Hi all,

So I recently bought a new genuine note 4 Battery off of Amazon (bargain at £12!) and I'm just wondering about what's the best way to start using it?

The reason I ask is currently i'm currently running stock 4.4.4 BTU (before I was running 5.01. BTU) and I have the issue with the battery either going from 15% to 0% in minutes or sometimes it just turns off at 10% (like literally the phone just dies)

I've tried everything from a restore, new firmware, old firmware and event reset the battery status via the service menu. I'm just worried that i'll insert this new battery and may have the same issues, perhaps I'm looking into things too much?

Or should I give one of the new 5.1.1 roms a go?

Thanks.

Need Advice- Moto G (2nd Gen) Stagefright patch on rooted device incoming..

Hello folks..

I have a Moto G (2nd Gen) mobile phone with me, and had its bootloader unlocked + rooted pretty much within the week i purchased it.

I was under the impression that once the bootloader gets unlocked, i wont be getting any official upgrade notifications like that for Android Marshmallow etc. But today i been bombarded with the patch for the 'Stagefright' bug like crazy. Ignored it 4 times, but it again popped up.

Before i install it (it has been downloaded and ready for action), i just wanted to confirm if it ll be alright to go ahead with this patch? Dont want any silly boot cycles/bricking to crash my device :eek:

Advice on rooting, creating backup, and installing custom ROM

Hi, guys...I just unrooted, factory restored, and used flashtool to fully restore my sprint lgls990 following some connectivity issues. My phone is currently on android 4.4.2.

I am seeking some advice/help on basically end-to-end help. Initially, I used stump to root my phone and then installed xposed and a few other items.

What I want to do now is run the easiest root possible, create a backup, and then install a custom rom. Specifically, I'd like to use CM10 CM11: Royal Blue Cobalt from the Play Store.

I have a strong concern about rom stability, though. I want/need lte data, wifi, phone, playstore, maps, and the like, but don't want to sprint bloatware crap. Is that what a custom ROM does, keep the essentials and dump the carrier crap?

So:
I think using stump will be the easiest root process.

I have read lots about twrp, but haven't found very good instructions for a noob like me, can anyone point me to "the" thread for installing and using twrp?

Where do I find the rom so I can use the theme I have noted above?

Thanks in advance for helping this noob...

Need advice which tablet I should buy

IHello guys. I'm new here. I need advice from you which tablet should I buy.
Tablets which I can buy are: Acer Iconia One B1-730 and Lenovo A7-10
These tablets are about same price in my country (low budget tablets, can't buy more expensive).
Why I choose Acer: because this model come with 16gb storage and 2x cams(5 and 2 mp)
Why I choose Lenovo: looking bigger, and I think it can be upgraded to 5.0 lollipop and have gratis external keyboard and 16gb microSD in market where I found it, but I don't like it because have very poor cam.

FOR WHAT I WILL USE TABLET?: I'm starting medical university this year so some of my books are eBooks (my anatomy atlas) so I need for reading, surfing and multimedia (watch some episodes) .

Which of these two is better?
Thanks

Google Now search problems need advice

I have a Nexus player and after about the first week the voice search from the remote stopped working.

So what I did was I did a few reboots and cleared out some apps but that didn't help. I checked to see if there's any updates in the play store and there were not.

What I see now is that it's hit or miss on if the search even works (more misses and then hit) but more than that when I press down on the microphone button on the remote and record my question or search it keeps recording it doesn't stop.

The other thing is even if it does record it and stop it doesn't pull up any information. One of the reasons why I got the player was for android and was for the search integration right now I don't have it any help would be appreciated thank you.


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Some good advice from a C5 Ultra User and a mini review....

Ok so i've had my C5 Ultra for a few days now here in the UK and have had a few ups and downs but i've solved the problems I had with the phone.

I'm coming from the Z3 which I had an original sandisk 128gb micro SD card in. (Bear in mind I have tried several different Micro SD cards and I always buy original good ones)

Problems I had:

1. With the Z3 taking pictures was very quick whilst having the default storage to Micro SD card, DO NOT set the camera storage to micro SD on the C5 Ultra it takes 5 times longer to write to the micro SD card than the internal memory, so if you want to take photos in quick succession then don't save to the external memory.

2. Again an external micro SD card problem.....I have lots of apps and games, games especially taking up loads of space. I thought id be clever and install some big games and use lollipops feature of transferring them to the external memory to gain some space. This will slow the entire system down. DONT DO IT TRUST ME, pick your favourite apps and be done with!!

3. I have a Sony Smartwatch 3 and paired it with the phone and installed the Lifelog app. Currently (10th September) this app will slow your C5 Ultra down, it may not be optimised for Mediatek processors yet. Id wait for the app to be updated before you use/download it. Use the Google Fit app which works fine and can be left on even in stamina mode.

4. Don't expect the battery to be as good as a Sony Xperia Z3, its close and you will be happy with the C Ultras battery life but don't expect flagship battery life. (this may change as the battery on my C5 Ultra has not been run in plus I've been using this phone constantly!! Also the phone is on 5.0 lollipop and not 5.1.1 so the memory leak bug is probably there.) The good news is the battery life is better than the Z Ultra!

5. The phones 3g/4g signal is pretty weak, I thought the Z3 was bad but this is worse, hopefully in the next firmware update this will be resolved.

The good:

Being a heavy phone user and my previous phones being : Xperia Z, Z Ultra, Z2, Galaxy note 2, 3, 4, Nexus 6 and Xperia Z3 I can honestly say now that I have solved the phones problems, this is the best phone I have owned, its the perfect size and price for me. The Screen is gorgeous, both cameras are great, the in call speaker is better than the Z3. I got the official dock as well and love the portrait orientation. As you can see the Phone completes the rest of my Sony setup (Yep my whole house is a Sony Shop LOL!)!! Anyway, enjoy and if your after a phablet sized sony phone then this is the one to have. Thanks.

Can any advice me on upgrading from galaxy s4 4.4 to 5.0

Will the RAM will go down from
1.82 GB if I install official lollipop OS I need a screenshot of Running apps regarding this whoever using s4 on lollipop.
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Newbie Updating from 4.4.2 to 5.0.1 , but need advice first

Hi Guys,
I've been doing searches on here all night and I'm more confused than ever.
I just got a like new m8 that's still on 4.4.2.
I just rooted it with weaksauce. I would like to update to 5.0.1 and be able to root. I'm not sure if I need for s-off or unlocked bootloader, but I think I read some of these should be done before updating to lollipop.

I was planning to update with the ruu update from HTC website.
I think I read that I can't do the ruu update if I'm unlocked or s-off, but I can't unlock or s-off after updating to 5.0.1

Can someone who knows what's up with this clarify things for me? I don't want to update without being sure I have everything set right in advance.

Advice

AOSP is better or CyanogenMod

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bbc iplayer buffering issue? any advice

i have a fire tv and its extremely slow with buffering issue

does amazon fire tv automatically update the apps?
in the uk on virgin media, using sd picture setting but i still have buffering issues with wired or wirless connections

thanks

Advice on stock firmware compatibility

I have a Sprint Moto E on 5.0.2 and would like to upgrade it to 5.1, but the only stock firmware I found for the hardware model I have (XT1526) comes from boost (Sprint MNVO). My question is: is that ROM compatible with my phone? Alternatively, does anyone have or can share the Sprint 5.1 version? Maybe another stock ROM would work? Please shre some advice, much appreciated!

For he record, the available stock firmware that I am refering to are here and here.

Need buying advice - N910C of N910F ?

Which one should I buy if I'm after longer battery life / performance / XDA support?

I'm not a gamer.

Thanks in advance

I need advice!!! help?

Hey guys I really need advice, wife is preg so need the best batt life I can squeeze as she gets closer as I work 12hr shifts, upgrading from G2 an looking at the N6 or Note 4 on VZW.
The N6 will be rooted and rom'd from the start prob since it's a true Nexus as I understand, but have concerns.

1. I can't find a real, straight forward opinion on current battery life on LITE use and main draw being searching for signal in a warehouse.
2. reading that signal strength could be better.
3. read the call quality isn't that great.

Any help would be HUGE!!! is it all bs? or should I go for the Note 4?
If any/all issues could be fixed with a flash I'd really!! rather the Nexus since I can take it with me if i switch carriers, plus ...... it's a Nexus!!.
Also anyone know if VZW is still blocking non-network Nexus? Other carrier listings i've found are cheaper.

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