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Annoying FRF 91 problems

Hey guys i recently updated to FRF91 manually ( stock google update ) and i am facing a couple of annoying glitches.... the purpose of this thread is to have a centralized list of all the problems and workarounds hopefully:
Flash: Well before FRF91 i had FRF50B in which i had an option ( in the browser settings ) to turn flash off or on demand.... Now its missing in FRF91
Messaging: firstly in conversation threads my picture is not shown and i cant figure out a way to get it to show my picture ... by the way it was ok on 2.1
Market: Market is very very very slow even on wifi .... Plus whenever i uninstall or install an application it gets stuck on the progress bar ( when u go to an app's description page and click on install it shows the progress bar which shows the download progress and once downloaded it shows install progress and thats where it gets stuck, even after the application has been installed.
Browser: Browser also seems a bit patchy.
Any one of you all facing any of these problems ?????

Flash (or actually, browser settings): are just in the same place.
Messaging: I think it was mentioned on the forum, together with solution - but don't remember the thread.
Market: it was mentioned 10000 times on the forum, together with solutions. The easiest of them is to clear all Market data and cache in App management. It flies.
Browser is great and fast as hell. The only thing it's missing is the need to enter "about:debug" to get to UAString setting. I'm waiting for someone to recompile it, leaving the debug settings always on.

Thanks Jack. I really apologize for my ignorance.
I cant find the flash settings in brwser my friend help me out

I have sporadic issues where the images do not download for MMS.
It happens with a variety of people on a multiple incoming networks.
I didn't have the issue pre update

nadeemhasnaat said:
Thanks Jack. I really apologize for my ignorance.
I cant find the flash settings in brwser my friend help me out
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Open browser, then:
Menu/More/Settings/Enable Plug-ins
Select Always on/On demand/Off

The issue with your picture not being displayed in messaging is down to your phone number being programmed on the sim card.
Go to Settings > About Phone > Status. If "My Phone Number" shows as unknown then the phone is unable to recognise your number against your Facebook profile hence why nothing shows.
My understanding is that the phone reads this info direct from the SIM card so perhaps a SIM update from your network provider will solve this. Alternativly inset your SIM card into a "dumb" phone and it should let you change the number programmed on the SIM card. Android cannot do this for some reason (although ive heard the iPhone can!)

dr9722 said:
The issue with your picture not being displayed in messaging is down to your phone number being programmed on the sim card.
Go to Settings > About Phone > Status. If "My Phone Number" shows as unknown then the phone is unable to recognise your number against your Facebook profile hence why nothing shows.
My understanding is that the phone reads this info direct from the SIM card so perhaps a SIM update from your network provider will solve this. Alternativly inset your SIM card into a "dumb" phone and it should let you change the number programmed on the SIM card. Android cannot do this for some reason (although ive heard the iPhone can!)
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Ok i have discovered another issue. The delivery reports dont seem to work. But that was a problem on FRF85B as well.... When you long press a text message and check delivery report it keeps saying "pending " even though the other person has already recieved it ... any work arounds ????
Also my market issue is still there

"I have a funny issue with my exchange. When i get a new mail, i get a notification on my N1. But even after i have read that email on my PC.The notification doesnt go away .... and when i check my phone after some time i think i have recieved a new email but its only notification of old one .... is there a workaround for that guys ?"
I have this same issue that you have, but on a HTC Desire with custom Froyo ROMs. I don't remember it being a problem with the stock ROM, but on a Desire this stock ROM includes HTC Sense which I think does its own Exchange stuff, rather than use the Android Exchange apps.

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Would anyone be interested in finding the solutions to the problems below as a "job" and giving me a price for the solutions?
(1 - Data Roaming Nag)
Recently upgraded from HTC desire running 2.2 (I think?) to Razr I which is now running 4.12, before if I'd be abroad I'd simply get a text from my service provider about the rates, I always had data roaming enabled as it's a business phone and only €2 for the first 50mb which is more than enough for a days use. So I set the razr up in much the same way, albeit on 4.12 but I had data roaming enabled and when I first got connected to a foreign network it prompted me about data roaming, which I thought would be just a once off for the first time since I already had it enabled, I clicked yes to acknowledge it anyway and continue using data roaming which was fine, but then it seemed as soon as I dropped out of coverage and came back, the notification would come up again. It actually got so frequent that the notification was on my screen almost every time I unlocked the phone and it got pretty annoying.
Has anyone else experienced this and found out a way to disable the popup? I'm not sure if it's android or motorolla related?
(2 - Enable USB Mass storage)
I've seen mods of this but I don't think they are compatible with 4.12, if anyone has a solution or could edit the settings.apk to enable it and post it that would be great
(3 - Contact Sync Issue)
My contacts are not syncing properly. I've over 2,700 contacts as it's a business phone. I save all to my gmail account under different groups (my contacts/business/sport) and never had sync issues on my old desire but I'm having issues with this. When I check the account in settings, sync is fine for everything (calendar, gmail etc) but contacts and the last successful sync is days and days ago. The error just reads "Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back again shortly", which obviously isn't the case. I've tried "contact sync fix" app and although it works, I don't like using such a solution and would of course much rather it to just work as it's supposed to. Also I'm getting a "Sync - too many contacts deletions" notification sometimes that I'm not sure what to do with, when I click it it comes up saying "Deletion limit exceeded" and then says there are 8 deleted items for contacts account [email protected]. What do you want to do?" giving me the options: Delete the items - undo the deletes - do nothing for now. I don't know what to do so just choose "do nothing for now" contacts seem to be still intact but I'm very worried about losing any.
(4 - Space between numbers)
I'm not sure if this is a new thing with the newer androids, a dialler issue or what, but the phone is automatically adding gaps between numbers when I try and save. I've a lot of numbers and prefer to keep them all the same formatting, which is, for example, +353871234567, if somebody rings me, sometimes it comes up as +353871234567 which is grand, other times it might come up as 0871234567 so all I used to need to do was delete the 0 and add a +, now when I edit the number, spaces are automatically added and it shows up something like 087 123 4567. This used to only happen with landline numbers and then sometimes if you tried to delete say the space between 3 and 4, it would delete the space AND the 3!
I thought it was an issue with Go Contacts/Dialler EX but it's happening on EX Dialler too even though I've clicked off the area code setting, so I'm thinking it might be an android issue? Anyone managed to sort it out? I may have found something to do with it from Android Development, but I haven't a clue if that can be changed as a mod for a specific phone?
http://developer.android.com/refere...I'm having on an otherwise pretty good phone.

#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..

pangyaaaaaa said:
#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you think there will be a solution, ever?
I think I solved the contact sync issue, I chose the "undelete" option and then I noticed 8 new "my contacts" groups in gmail itself (from desktop) so I deleted them groups from gmail and I think it's ok now. I also sent Go contacts/dialer to system app (because of a missed call issue) so I'm not sure if this contributed, I also deleted the "contact sync fix" app. Hopefully the issue doesn't resurface.

OP this>>>>Job/Payment offer! Is not what XDA is about, now you willing to "donate" for items you are looking to resolve it different. BTW moved as this does not belong in the Development Threads.

That's fair enough, thanks So, donations offered for solutions folks!

MMS Issues on Custom ROMs

I've seen a few different solutions to the spotty MMS issues on custom 4.2.2 ROMs floating around so I thought I would create a thread to catalog them here. For those wondering there is an issue with seemingly all the D4 4.2.2 custom ROMs that causes MMS to randomly stop working. It seems rebooting or wiping cache/dalvik seems to fix it for some but it eventually comes back. I don't send many MMS messages so I can't really attest to how well any of these work.
Solution #1:
1. You will need a root file explorer like Root Explorer.
2. Navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
3. Rename telephony.db to telephony.db.xx
4. Reboot your phone and all should be well.
(Thanks to NeoPheonixTE on DroidForums for this one)
Solution #2:
Use the Verizon Messages app from the Play Store.
(Thanks to ws6formula350 on DroidForums for this one)
Solution #3:
Go to Settings, Wireless & Networks, More..., Mobile Networks, Access Point Names. Scroll down until you find whichever APN that your phone is using - in my case, my phone uses "LTE - Verizon Internet". Tap on the selection - NOT the blue bubble on the right - and scroll down until you find "MMSC". Tap on that, and in the box that comes up, type "http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms", without the quotes. Submit, press the Menu key, tap "save", back out to the Home screen, and reset.
(Thanks to Jishkah on DroidForums for this one)
If others have suggested these solutions elsewhere let me know and I will give them credit as well.
Good luck and let us all know if any of these solutions work for you!

Hey. Made an account to say this: I'm not sure if Solution #3 works. More than anything, I've found that MMS in custom ROMs are a hit-or-miss; every once in a while, they'll send, but, a vast majority of time, they won't. I found that bit of advice - changing the MMSC setting - on another website, and it seemed to work for me. However, the Droid 4 jumps between EHRPD - Verizon Internet, and LTE - Verizon Internet, so I'd recommend applying this setting to both of those networks.
Once again, I'm not sure if that'll work for sure, but it's worth a shot, no? Another idea that I had would be to copy the APN settings from the stock ROM to whatever custom ROM that you're using - I haven't tested this out, but it may work. It may also bar you from using Wireless Tether, too. Once again, I'm not an expert.

ZTE Axon Bugs

Anyone know of a bug tracker for the ZTE Axon?
I have seen quite a few bugs so far and am wondering how to provide feedback. Off the top of my head some bugs I have seen:
- Google fit can't count steps correctly on the ZTE Axon, unlike on my Nexus 5. I may walk for a couple of hours and only see a few minutes show up on Google Fit. I **hope** this is a software problem.
- Sometimes widgets don't work (I have weather underground, fitbit and google fit on my main screen) forcing me to do a restart. I haven't seen that in a week or so though.
- Take some photos with HDR on and some photos with HDR off before going back and looking at the photos. The pictures with HDR off sometimes are lost.

Don't know of one but this is as good a place as any to begin listing them. As far as notifying ZTE, their CS is decent, maybe send list through them.

Another potential problem - I am having a lot of issues trying to send/receive pictures over MMS/SMS (I haven't been able to successfully send or receive a picture yet). Anyone else have problems?

Make sure you select your mobile carrier/provider correctly. A lot of providers have unusual rules when it comes to picture/MMS messaging. I use Handscent (now Next SMS?)and you can select the provider in the app to make sure you are following the rules correctly on size etc.

Understood. But I have never ever used anything other than unlocked phones with T-Mobile and it "just works" without me having to mess with anything. There is something wrong happening here.
I have two other Nexus 5s in my household and checked their APN settings:
- One is running 4.4.4 and an older version of Hangouts. I have verified that MMS works on this phone. I went into the Hangouts configuration and I saw that it had the APN just for MMS pointing to a MetroPCS APN which was not configured on my phone. The default APN configuration fast.t-mobile.com is identical to the one that is configured on my ZTE Axon (the ZTE Axon has only one APN configured).
- The other is running the latest 5.1.1 (the SIM is relatively new - this is my old phone which I installed clean for a relative) and the latest version of Hangouts. I checked Hangouts configuration - the option to choose a different APN just for MMS is gone...but MMS is still working on this phone. It also has the MetroPCS APN configured in the APN list but is not selected anywhere.
So I tried to add the MetroPCS APN configuration to my ZTE Axon and "Saved" it. Save was successful but the MetroPCS APN did not appear in the list. I partially re-added the MetroPCS APN and I saw the MetroPCS APN in my APN list. I completed the MetroPCS APN configuration and it disappeared again!
Jonathan - Do you have MMS working on the ZTE Axon with T-Mobile? This looks very broken to me.

gflash2015 said:
Understood. But I have never ever used anything other than unlocked phones with T-Mobile and it "just works" without me having to mess with anything. There is something wrong happening here.
I have two other Nexus 5s in my household and checked their APN settings:
- One is running 4.4.4 and an older version of Hangouts. I have verified that MMS works on this phone. I went into the Hangouts configuration and I saw that it had the APN just for MMS pointing to a MetroPCS APN which was not configured on my phone. The default APN configuration fast.t-mobile.com is identical to the one that is configured on my ZTE Axon (the ZTE Axon has only one APN configured).
- The other is running the latest 5.1.1 (the SIM is relatively new - this is my old phone which I installed clean for a relative) and the latest version of Hangouts. I checked Hangouts configuration - the option to choose a different APN just for MMS is gone...but MMS is still working on this phone. It also has the MetroPCS APN configured in the APN list but is not selected anywhere.
So I tried to add the MetroPCS APN configuration to my ZTE Axon and "Saved" it. Save was successful but the MetroPCS APN did not appear in the list. I partially re-added the MetroPCS APN and I saw the MetroPCS APN in my APN list. I completed the MetroPCS APN configuration and it disappeared again!
Jonathan - Do you have MMS working on the ZTE Axon with T-Mobile? This looks very broken to me.
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More information - it screws up once I try and set the "MVNO type" and "MVNO value" which is set for the MetroPCS APN on both Nexus 5s (MVNO type - GID, MVNO value - 6D). If I set the MVNO type to GID and leave the MVNO value as the default it blows away my default T-Mobile APN when I save. If I set the MVNO value to 6D as well, the MetroPCS APN disappears on the save.
EDIT: Also double-checked my default APN settings against what T-Mobile suggests:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090
The fast.t-mobile.com configuration provided by the SIM (and shown in the Axon) is identical to this.

gflash2015 said:
More information - it screws up once I try and set the "MVNO type" and "MVNO value" which is set for the MetroPCS APN on both Nexus 5s (MVNO type - GID, MVNO value - 6D). If I set the MVNO type to GID and leave the MVNO value as the default it blows away my default T-Mobile APN when I save. If I set the MVNO value to 6D as well, the MetroPCS APN disappears on the save.
EDIT: Also double-checked my default APN settings against what T-Mobile suggests:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090
The fast.t-mobile.com configuration provided by the SIM (and shown in the Axon) is identical to this.
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The support document is correct and my APN is set the same.
However, I am talking the messaging client. Most MMS messages have a limit set by the provider. If I'm correct T-mobile is 1MB. You have to set that limit in the messaging program or app. If you don't, the message just gets blocked by the provider. Have you tried sending a picture message of something that you know the size of? Like a 30KB jpg or something. If that gets through and others don't that's your issue. The only reason why I say this, is that I had the same issue when I got my OPO. It was the whole reason I started using Handscent in the first place, because you can choose what network you are on and it will re-size pics appropriately.

Found My MMS Problem
I went outside my house and tried to resend (and try to re-receive) my MMS messages. MMS worked!
Came back inside and it stopped working. Turned wifi off while inside and it worked again!
Narrowed the problem to the adblock plus wifi proxy on my phone (as I don't have the phone rooted yet I can't use AdAway - ugh). Once I turned that off MMS worked while wifi was on.
Even though I have worked in telecom in the past, I did learn something here - I thought MMS messages came in over the mobile network...but that does not appear to be true. They must be retrieved from the internet (whether it be 3G/LTE or wifi). It now makes sense that the APN defines a MMS URL. I guess the mobile network (probably via SMS) provides a key to look up the MMS at that URL.
Still doesn't explain the wacky disappearing MetroPCS APN...but that is not as big an issue for me now since I can get MMS to work.

I'm still having problems with sending and receiving MMS the messaging ap crashes every time I try to send one or try download one that was sent to me. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. Nothing.

Arsenic53 said:
I'm still having problems with sending and receiving MMS the messaging ap crashes every time I try to send one or try download one that was sent to me. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. Nothing.
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What have you tried? Have you tried MMS in both the Messaging app and Hangouts? Have you tried on LTE and Wifi?
What happens when a message is sent to you? In Hangouts if it receives the message from the mobile network but can't get the MMS, it tells you there is a message waiting (the ZTE Messaging app displays nothing).

Agreed with gflash2015, need more detail. All my mms come through no problem.

gflash2015 said:
What have you tried? Have you tried MMS in both the Messaging app and Hangouts? Have you tried on LTE and Wifi?
What happens when a message is sent to you? In Hangouts if it receives the message from the mobile network but can't get the MMS, it tells you there is a message waiting (the ZTE Messaging app displays nothing).
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Well today I got a software update from zte and it fixed this problem.

Not sure if it's a bug or intended but music services, such as Tidal, that provide hi-fi streaming music do not work on the hi-fi setting. Music streams fine on the other settings but not on hi-fi. Seems that this was overlooked. Hopefully an update can resolve.

I am having a problem with the camera on my Axon Pro. I guess this would be considered a bug. It seems almost all the pictures I take have a skin image softening effect to them. Outdoors, with daylight, indoors even in a bright room, etc. No matter what effects I try changing, it seems just about every image I take has a softening effect to it. When you view the image in the gallery and zoom in, you can see everything looks softened or blurred. Not sharp and detailed. I have tried various other camera apps in the Google Play store, and it seems that this softening effect is just built in to the base camera firmware or something, because it happens with every camera app I try. Google Camera, Camera FV-5, Camera MX, etc.
The only time it doesn't apply the softening effect is when you are close to something with the flash on, but even then, it still comes out softened sometimes. I took a picture of my cat from about a 2 feet away, with the flash on, and it came out super clear and detailed. I was using Camera FV-5. But when I try taking pictures outside, in my backyard or wherever, or in any other situation, it applies that image/skin softening like effect. Very VERY annoying.
It's not as noticeable when you just view the picture zoomed out all the way, but if you pinch to zoom you can see that effect I'm talking about. I hope it's something that can be fixed somehow... Otherwise I might have to sell my phone and get the Samsung Galaxy S6. I like everything else about the Axon Pro, especially the audio/music quality, but I'm also a photography guy and based on reviews I read, I expected the quality to be pretty good. I didn't see anything about a softening effect in any reviews I watched/read.
So anyone else experience this? Can this be turned off somehow and I just am blind and don't see the setting? Or is this something ZTE would have to fix with an update? Or is it not fixable at all?

Are you on the bokeh setting?

No, not in the Bokeh mode. I did try that, and that is a nice feature to have.. I tried all different settings though, auto mode, and manual mode. For some reason the pictures I take all seem to have this softening effect applied to them. It's strange.
I don't know, maybe I'm just expecting more out of the 13mp camera than it's capable of... But then why did my Sony Xperia ZL from a few years ago, which also has a 13mp camera, not have this softening effect?

Trouble with Music Player
My Axon is just 3 days old. There is this annoying problem with its music playback, it just randomly skip last part of the songs. like it wont play last 4-5 seconds. It is there for mp3 and FLAC files. These same files plays just fine on my nexus 5 and ipod and PC. Phone is just new, no settings changed yet. Installed Play Music and tested with different sets of files.
I have contacted ZTE support. They tried to clear the cache and test in safe mode and it still continue to behave the same. So they are replacing the device.

bluefish123 said:
My Axon is just 3 days old. There is this annoying problem with its music playback, it just randomly skip last part of the songs. like it wont play last 4-5 seconds. It is there for mp3 and FLAC files. These same files plays just fine on my nexus 5 and ipod and PC. Phone is just new, no settings changed yet. Installed Play Music and tested with different sets of files.
I have contacted ZTE support. They tried to clear the cache and test in safe mode and it still continue to behave the same. So they are replacing the device.
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Isn't there a setting mentioning something about fade? I'd check myself but I've parked the Axon while I test drive a Z5.

augie7107 said:
Isn't there a setting mentioning something about fade? I'd check myself but I've parked the Axon while I test drive a Z5.
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Couldnt find any except for a setting in music player which hide audio less than 60 seconds, it is already disabled. No specific setting for fade.

bluefish123 said:
Couldnt find any except for a setting in music player which hide audio less than 60 seconds, it is already disabled. No specific setting for fade.
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Sorry confused with nubia music player, it has the fade setting

Remove SMS Limit (manually preferred)

I'm looking to remove the SMS limit. I'm currently on 6.0 (pure nexus rom), but I would also like to know how to do it on 5.1.1. Manually is preferred so I know exactly what is being changed on my device.
Why? Because it's my phone and I should be able to remove this ridiculous limit if I want to, and...
I wrote a python script that sends out multiple SMS to a large group of my friends. I keep getting that annoying pop up that the app is sending large amounts of text messages, and having to hit the allow button multiple times. This wouldn't be an issue if hitting the allow button actually sent all of the text, but it doesn't. Quite frustrating.
I've read a few thread on XDA about the issue, but can't seem to remove the limit. I tried following a guide in one of the s3 categories to no avail.

I am looking for this too!

After hours of searching today - it appears that the setting has been moved into the framework?
com.android.internal.telephony
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...droid/internal/telephony/SmsUsageMonitor.java
I hope I'm wrong as I'm no Android dev.... But, if I'm correct the only way I know of to "fix" it is to make the change in a custom Android build/ROM.
This SUCKS as I use mass texting for business purposes (communicating with many individuals who sign up for contract work). I really like Android N (along with AndroidPay) - but, looks like I'll be going back to M (on a custom ROM)...
If anyone locates/determines a way to alter that file using RootExplorer/Sqlite or some other way - please let me know.