Recent content by Galane

I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 SPH-L720T with a damaged screen. I was able to connect a mouse by USB OTG, turn on Screen Mirroring and use my Samsung Smart TV to get to and enable USB Debugging. Now I want to use the Android Manager software on Windows 10 to back up the phone but it won't go without...

Still nothing from anyone for this very common, very sturdy (the back is a thick plate of aluminum), 1024x768 tablet.

A friend upgraded on T-Mobile to a new Samsung and gave me his old Samsung Dart T499 to tinker with. Already have it rooted, pulled the bml5.img and dug out the unlock code. Just need a non-T-Mobile SIM so I can enter the unlock code. I also downloaded the old Odin and ClockWorkMod files for...

I have a couple of apps on my phone that automatically rotate to landscape and only work in landscape. One will rotate to either landscape orientation, the other is fixed to one way. At times, one or both of those foul up the accelerometer so that some other apps (Kindle in particular) will no...

The manual rotate button only appears when auto rotate is *disabled*. When auto rotate is *enabled* the video player will not rotate the video.

How stupid is that? I have to *disable* the auto rotation function then *manually* tell the video player to rotate the video so it fits the screen in landscape mode, because with *automatic rotation* enabled the dumb thing *locks into portrait mode*. Just testing some 1080p H.265 on my Sprint...

Since I still owe over $200 on my Galaxy S4 with destroyed display and digitizer, but can operate it via the USB port with Vysor, I'm wondering if there's a way to convert it into a media center device to connect to an HDMI port on a TV? I've seen MHL+power and OTG+power cables, but is there a...

Dropped my G4 L720T and the display and digitizer are dead, kaput, defekt, non-functional... I can still receive calls thanks to the physical home button. I was able to backup everything with Kies. Is there an app I can somehow push to the phone that will mirror the display to my Windows PC via...

Does any company make extended batteries with enlarged back covers for the Galaxy Grand Prime? The stock battery is the same as the Galaxy S4, so any thicker battery that's the same length (unlike those huge 7000+ mah ones) would work, if there were backs to fit over them.

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery Interesting information. What I'd like to see is a somewhat higher capacity battery with the NFC antenna, with a back cover that's thickened just to the point where the cover is flush with the camera instead of having the camera slightly protruding. I don't need...

Same procedure to apply the OH1 update which includes the Stagefright fix. TWRP Manager still not working. It fails to detect that Busybox (free version) is installed and still stops dead at 9% downloading TWRP 2.8.7.0, so boot to TWRP Recovery to update it.

Is there a way to apply the Stagefright patch without having to unroot and replace the stock recovery?

This assumes you are starting with a Sprint SPH-L720T with Lollipop 5.0.1 OD2 full stock ROM, rooted with TWRP Recovery, with no stock files or apps deleted. 1. Use a file manager that can access cache to copy update.zip to the external SD. Why? Because in OD2 apply from cache is deprecated...

Ooooo. The update also plays a musical bit at the Sprint Spark screen instead of the 'ding'.

So it's nothing big or particularly useful.