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hey everybody I'm Chris Wilk and welcome to android authority QA episode number 14 jun 5th 2013 xi'an asks i had the galaxy s3 from Rogers in Canada but I'm thinking about switching carriers to wint if i unlock the galaxy s3 will i be able to use it with wind unfortunately no rogers uses gsm technology for their network while wind uses UMTS the s3 that rogers puts out isn't compatible with UMTS so even unlocking your phone won't do you any good in this situation Kevin asks I'm switching from a galaxy s3 to an HTC One soon how can i backup my apps and transfer them to the new device well Kevin there are a few ways you can do this first you can try Google's method just go to settings then back up nice set choose to backup your settings there now when you log into your HTC One with your google account it'll automatically start downloading all the apps that you used unfortunately that isn't going to actually back up the apps it just redownload them automatically if you really want to back them up you can use helium which was formerly known as carbon backup that'll allow you to backup to the cloud with a premium version but if you just want to back up to your pc or an SD card that'll work fine with you you're going to want to back up to a pc because the HTC one doesn't have an SD slot hope this helps ravit asks do you know when samsung will update the galaxy s duos to jellybean i'm having issues with mine we have no idea actually samsung did announce that the galaxy s duos was going to be getting an upgrade to jellybean but that was back in September 2012 and we haven't really heard anything since now you mentioned you're having issues if you want you can always try running a custom rom that uses jellybean but that's beyond the scope of what we can talk about in this video and as always it's a little risky Anna cool says I'm looking for a safe method to root my lg optimus 2x p990 v30 be running ice creams sandwich I found one method but it uses nvflash which I've never used before is there any other reliable method it looks like you've done your research and looking around the main option we found was the all-in-one tool kit available on xda-developers now that will work with your version but it does use nvflash luckily though it does everything for you and we've heard reports that it works fairly well any other options we found only worked on gingerbread a mirror says my phone gets hot and starts to slow down there are a lot of apps running that I don't even use what can I do without knowing what phone or version of Android you're running it's hard to give you specific advice but there are a couple general things that might help for one try uninstalling apps now if these came pre-installed on your phone you probably won't be able to get rid of them but you might be able to disable them and keep them from running if that doesn't help there is a last resort option you can try first back your phone up as we talked about a few questions ago then go into that same menu settings backup and reset and reset your phone but again make sure you're backed up if this seems to improve performance just start installing apps that you need one by one and if you notice performance take a hit take a look at the app that you installed last that could be your problem gian says I have 1080p m2ts video files from a sony hx5v an ex-player crashes and bsplayer works but the video plays slower than the sound how can i watch these on my tablet now it sounds like the issue you're having is that the video is too high of a bit rate for your tablet to handle now there's an option that should work for you without having to buy anything what you want to do is transcode your videos from that fairly unusual format to something that tablets are more used to like mp4 there's a ton of software that does this but it's fairly likely that something was included with your camera that might do right out of the box now while you're transcoding you might also want to lower the resolution from 1080p to 720p because that's probably the highest your tablet shows anyway on that size of a screen Jonathan asks when is the next Nexus device going to be released well you didn't say whether you're talking tablet or phone so we'll cover both first there was a rumor that Asus was going to announce an updated Nexus 7 tablet at this week's computex but their event came and went without any word of it the event still is going on as I record this but we still haven't heard anything and it's looking less likely that we will when it comes to a new Nexus phone it's even trickier 1st LG said they weren't working on a nexus 5 but then we heard Larry Page and seen a nexus 5 prototype from LG in person for more details on this see this week's a a weekly that came out on Sunday now long story short we'll probably see a new Nexus device soon but we have no idea when where or how Humphrey says I work in construction and I need a durable phone which phone is more durable the HTC One or the samsung galaxy s4 now that's a tricky question to answer the HTC one's aluminium body is more likely to den while the s4's polycarbonate body is more likely to scratch that's not even bringing the glass in to either of these equations well i would do is leave durability out of it and pick the phone you want based on the features you want then just get a really tough case because if you do that you're pretty well covered especially if you use a good screen protector as well try asked what is the one year warranty on my galaxy s4 cover now before I answer your question I just want to say real quick that the protection you get will kind of vary based on your carrier now the Samsung warranty by itself basically covers anything that is Samsung's fault say your volume rocker stops working and it's through no fault of your own your warranty will cover that now so you drop your phone and it breaks the warranty won't cover that if you want to get more detail you probably have a copy of the warranty available to you given that you own it and that's where you'll find all the details sabash asks how do i import my bookmarks from google chrome into the galaxy s4 stock browser i'm sorry to say this but it doesn't look like you can you're not the only person on the internet who's looked for ways to do this and as far as I can see nobody has successfully been able to import their chrome bookmarks you're basically going to have to do it manually now if you wanted to go the other way there are all sorts of ways to import other bookmarks in to Chrome unfortunately the other way around just doesn't seem to be possible right now Todd says my phone automatically uploads photos to the instant upload folder in Google+ do instant upload and Google Drive share the same storage and if so what is the purpose of storing photos in my Google Drive account first things first yes google+ gmail and google drive all shared the same storage now as to why you might want to upload photos to your google drive that's different for everybody i know i don't if you do however and you don't want google+ to instantly up your photos that's easy to turn off just go into Google+ then go to settings then camera and photos and auto backup and just turn the feature off now that won't happen and that's about all we have for today folks if you want a little more detail where some of the links we mentioned we have a written companion to this video android authority calm you can find the link down in the description you want to ask us some questions of your own you can also find a link for that in the description if you just want to stay caught up with what we're doing make sure to subscribe to our channel i'm chris book for android authority and as always thank you for watching