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P5110 is the Galaxy Tab 2 while P7510 is the original. The difference is that the newer ships with ICS and has a different SoC along with a slightly larger battery, while it is a lightly ticker. The P7510 came out almost a year ago.
If you want future software upgrades the P5110 is a safer bet. See that datasheets for more info.
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I've seen a number of people report that the WLAN test dialer code will allow the driver to reload properly (example). I believe it's *#*#526#*#* on many Samsung phones, but this post indicates that it may also be *#*#528#*#* or *#*#232339#*#*. This may not work on all devices, since manufacturers tend to include/remove different dialer codes almost at a ...
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You probably have to use ODIN. I've done it myself, and it worked for me. I used it to root my phone (SGS2). I've postponed it for months, afraid it would brick my phone, but it didn't.
Make a backup of all important data.
Find a good manual on Youtube, XDA-developers or via Google. Compare them, and see what they say.
Be prepared that it can go wrong. ...
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ARM is currently not supported officially by heimdall.
You might have luck compiling it yourself:
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/
My advice however:
Use a supported platform once (Win/Mac/Linux-x86/x64) and enjoy on-device updates from then on via ClockWorkMod recovery (CWM) or RomManager.
Reason: Heimdall is only needed to install a ...
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Samsung's OTA updates are carrier-based, as usual. Kies updates are usually regional, but not particularly restricted; you can usually select a different region when installing Kies and get updates from there.
Kies updates are up to Samsung, though they would probably work with carriers on it to ensure it works well and whatnot. OTA updates are controlled ...
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If it's a wall charger with plugs that match your outlets, the input range should be covered.
Normal USB chargers are 5 V at up to 1.8 mA. The voltage is the main concern -- standard USB ports for PCs only go up to 900 mA, which is why they charge slower. You can see the USB power specs on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb#Power
(In sum, any ...
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If you visit the Market page for BattStatt, the developer's site for Battery Left Widget, and this Motorola Owners' Forum thread you'll start to notice a theme.
Several Motorola phones do not report their battery levels in increments of 1%.
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I don't believe this is a hardware limitation, but just the way the phone's manufacturer chose to implement the battery reporting code. My Droid 2 also only showed by 10% increments. However, on my current setup I'm using the Circle Battery Widget available on the Market and it displays the percentage in 1% increments.
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Is there something wrong with Cyanogenmod?
What you want is the stock version of android Samsung put on the phone, there is no revert as it was deleted when you put cyanogen. As you dont seem to have a copy I would go to Samsung support site or you will have to trust another source on the net and download it there. This would be another great community ...
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Your device, Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830, should be running Android 2.3. If so, you can set the storage location while within the camera app:
Access the camera app;
On your screen should be what looks like a cog wheel, tap on it;
for your device, while in landscape, should be at the left/bottom of your screen.
On the next screen, there's a scrollable ...
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It looks like a non-trivial issue, I'm afraid. The logcat output you provided didn't actually give the cause of the issue.
May I suggest that in the meantime you use another launcher? Nova Launcher and Apex Launcher are particularly good replacements for you Note 2, or if you want to get fancy then TSF shell is fun.
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Is it face unlock you are asking about? If so, there is a handy guide here. It requires your phone to be rooted and have ClockworkMod Recovery installed. Here are the installation instructions from the link:
Installation Instructions
Before you proceed with setting up Face Unlock on your Galaxy S2, make
sure that your phone:
is rooted, has ...
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You would need to use an app like SwiftKey Keyboard or SlideIt.
Edit #1: Take a look @Izzy's comment. It is also possible.
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If you don't have a Nandroid backup, you'll have to find a stock ROM for your device. Your device is not that well-known, the only resource I could find is on XDA-Developers. There you can find information on how to use ODIN to flash a stock ROM (post #5).
In the future, creating a Nandroid backup is always recommended before flashing a ROM, just in case ...
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Don't you have a Clear button in the top right corner?
This is what it looks like on my HTC Desire running Android 2.3.3.
What happens if you press and hold the voice mail? Do you get a menu to clear it out?
Update:
Tapping the notification dials the voice mail inbox, right? Unless you can tap and hold it to get a context menu from where you can remove ...
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There are more keyboards able to do this.
Swype comes preinstalled on Samsung smartphones, but can also be installed from Google Play.
You could also try SwiftKey Flow or Keymonk.
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On Windows XP, Connectify is limited to ad-hoc networking:
Support for Windows 8, 7, XP, and Vista – XP and Vista Ad-Hoc Mode only
Android doesn't support ad-hoc networks without modification or manual configuration (which will require rooting the device).
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It doesn't look good I'm afraid. You would need to be able to see 'something' relating to the phone from a 'lsusb' command to be able to use odin to recover your device without cracking it open.
You've probably already seen this, but it looks like the JTagBox is your best bet.
Good luck!
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The best you can do is power off the device completely, but do nothing for now, head over to samfirmware and download the appropriate ROM for your region.
Once you do that, refer to the instruction on using Odin.
You should have the PIT, and the MD5 file, and also the CSC file set up within Odin.
Then press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then ...
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Even if the other AP connected, you will lose your call. When you switch access points, you are going to drop the wi-fi call.
The device may have a hard time figuring out if it should switch to AP2 because it is still connected to AP1 and it can still see AP1. if the signals overlap, it will connect to the strongest one at the time, if it is already ...
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I had the same behaviour, related to frequent "driving mode" madness. I don't know if the driving mode is an effect of the same cause or not, but when one stopped the other did too.
What I did to stop it (some might be BS, but It didn't do it a second time, so I can't find out what was the help)
Dry it off (some rain might have gotten into the USB port)
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Yeah My Samsung Galaxy S2 behave like that sometimes... I thought I pressed the power button for quite too long (I was using an annoying skin fit cover). But now that you mention it, Yes it happens. But ever since I am using Amzer covers there has never been a problem like that. Yes the some weird app eats up memories and shuts down the phone, but it is not ...
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The core android framework, the UI and lockscreen are all compiled into the framework-res.apk. So naturally messing with it and improperly modifying this will result in infinite boot loops, strange overall bugs and "wonkyness."
If you have the ability to flash new framework-res.apk, it means that you have a custom recovery and root access. So just flash ...
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My phone is also on 2.3.3. The updates get pushed out depending on a number of factors including region (as mentioned by Crashhh in his comment) and carrier.
From my understanding, often the releases will be controlled by the manufacturer (and in the case of Samsung and most others, customisation occurs). Once the manufacturer is ready to support it in a ...
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Samsung with its quest to be different, enriched the stock browser, with its own brightness control, totally separate from the OS.
No root
There's no workaround, you have to set the brightness independently.
Even using an app to control the brightness levels, as soon as you launch the stock browser, its own brightness control overwrites the one from the ...
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Appears to currently be US only, and only added in the latest Epic 4G update. However the marketing materials keep mentioning Galaxy S devices, rather than any specific models, so it could well roll out to the rest of the Galaxy S range in future updates, or possibly even via the on-device Samsung Apps store that most Galaxy S's have (assuming your phone ...
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