Gta 3 game review + market fix - HTC Amaze 4G

I was expecting overheating issues lag and crappy controls but no its runing smooth 0 lag and kind to the battery too. 30 mins of playing = 10% battery
The phone does get warm but nothing even close to high temps or overheating 38.4C after 30 mins O.O
This fixes market I hope.
1. Download the stock T-mobile rom from : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308078 (Version doesn't matter)
2. Open the zip file go into the system folder and copy build.prop
3. Place the file somewhere on your sd card.(remember where)
4. Clear data from Settings > Applications > All > Market
5. Download and install ES File Explorer from the market
6. Launch ES File Explorer. Enable both Root Explorer and Mount File System under Settings > Root Settings..
7. Navigate to /system. Here you will find the build.prop file. Take a backup of it by copy-pasting it to your SD card.
8. Replace it with the one from step 3 (the one in /system)
9. Reboot & try to find the game in the market.
10. Let me know if it worked.

I've been playing it quite a lot of on my Amaze as well.
Great so far, but I have noticed some slowdown in certain areas, especially when driving into multiple cars at a high speed (probably due to the physics)
Controls are nice too. Shooting is a little difficult, but it was like that 10 years ago. Great game, worth the five dollars

getrdy said:
I was expecting overheating issues lag and crappy controls but no its runing smooth 0 lag and kind to the battery too. 30 mins of playing = 10% battery
The phone does get warm but nothing even close to high temps or overheating 38.4C after 30 mins O.O
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Did you have to change your build.prop to download it? It is showing as not compatible with the Amaze.

It won't even show up on the market for me
Does anyone know what can I do to get it? I really want that game so if I have to change something in the build.prop like it was mention then I could do that I just dont know what part to change.

there are couple versions of the game just make sure you type in grand theft auto 3 and you should find the right 1 that's the 1 I download
Im runing quicksense 1.5.1 maybe it has a masked build and i can see all of the versions dunno
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Also try looking for rockstar games they are the publishers of the game
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No luck.
I'm pretty sure the developer of the ROM you're using made some changes to the build.prop because I can't see any version on the market.
I'm rooted but running stock ROM

I have a friend using htc sensation and he can run the game without any problems .he is running stock rom and I'm guessing it should be released for h t c amaze pretty soon
the only other thing I can think of is this application called market enabler ive used it before but not on the amaze so I'm not sure if it works
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Alright, I'll give that a shot

Well, neither recommendation worked so I had to do something I don't like to do and only do in times of suffering....I had to Google the apk lol.
I agree with most of you. The game is smooth but when you're driving and there's lots of cars around and/or raining it does get a little slow but overall It's a great game.

I'm sorry you couldn't get the game started I really don't know what else you can do at this point.on the other hand for everybody else got the game going there is a graphics enchantment patch
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399258
it does make the game a little bit slower but it's definitely worth it ha I'm using it and it's working fine
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getrdy said:
I'm sorry you couldn't get the game started I really don't know what else you can do at this point.
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You completely misunderstood me.
I said that I already have the game but I got it from googling the apk since the market wouldn't let me buy it.

It runs smoothly for me as well. Sometimes its choppy but that is rare and only when i'm hauling ass in the banshee. Great game for the amaze.

With chainfire you should be able to install nvidia tegra games

I sent rockstar an email they got back to me that they will have there tech department test it on some amazes and verify it runs fine and add the amaze to the compatibility list.
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ok i think i figured out why it does not work for some people but for others it does
i just flashed beastmod 2.whatever latest ver. and tried to install all of my apps back.
i got all of them except gta3 so i went to the market trough my pc and looked it up clicked install and it made me choose a device - HTC Ruby (grayed out) HTC Amaze (compatible) and some older phones. So... im assuming the htc amaze is my first amaze that was broken and i returned it so that leaves me with HTC Ruby. then i went into the build.prop and saw that the device was marked as HTC Ruby not HTC Amaze. Even though its the same device the market does not recognize Ruby.
So this could be a solution but im not a dev so cant be 2 sure its gonna work.
I need a stock Htc amaze 4g build.prop so i can swap it out with the one that came with Beastmod.

I was on quicksense and it didn't show after sending the email to rockstar and getting there reply just a couple hours ago it showed up in my market again I did nothing else nice
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ebatr8 said:
I was on quicksense and it didn't show after sending the email to rockstar and getting there reply just a couple hours ago it showed up in my market again I did nothing else nice
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dont see it in my market

mikeschevelle said:
dont see it in my market
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What rom are you running?
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beast 2.1.2

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[Q] Touch Screen issues

Hey All!
My amaze is awesome except that I can't play games well on it! When trying to play games like Gta 3 or Minecraft that have virtual buttons my touch screen does funky stuff. When holding down a button to move forward my character will start to move and then stop like the touch screen has stopped registering my finger that is still holding down the button.
My question to you all is do you have issues where your screen is flakey or do I maybe just have a bad unit? I have even noticed in web browsing that the page stutters sometimes even when I'm scrolling slowly on a fully loaded page.
Same here on gta and other games... You got a screen protector?
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Nope, I don't. I'm thinking its the pin in the back like a couple other people have said. I might just take it back and get a new one though. Lol. Its bad though... I can't even play any games on it that have virtual buttons! That and it won't detect more than 3 fingers on the multitouch test app I got.
Is this actually a problem on the Amaze or just a faulty device of op?
I believe it's a faulty device. Mine works with 4 touch points without a problem. Including other 2 device from my family member
Which Rom are you on? If its Fourth Sense then that ROM has a touch problems. Happened to me , I changed the Rom back again and that did the job for me.
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papcoz said:
I believe it's a faulty device. Mine works with 4 touch points without a problem. Including other 2 device from my family member
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I don't believe its a faulty device, it might be the actual rom, or some apps...when I restart my phone I run the mutitouch app and all 4 points register perfectly...after about a minute or so, the 4th point starts messing up...
sometimes, I can only get 1 touchpoint at a time to register properly....I'm on stock rooted rom.
I'm going to nandroid my phone and put stock nonrooted and stock rooted on my phone, to find out if it fixes the problem and if the roms make a difference. If not, then I would blame some of the apps. I've heard some roms such as beast rom work very well with touchpoints, so i'm guessing it has something to do with the stock rom itself.
right now I'm on stock kernel, but I was on faux, I'm going to also try to see if kernels make a difference:
This won't be over night, I will need time to do all this, I don't have time to mess with my phone when i need it.
update:
other people with roms and problems: it seems to be the rooted stock does not work well with touchpoints,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430210&highlight=gta
so far beastmod and android revolution hd are roms that have been reporting to work well with touchpoints if you want root.
Or.... Buy a phone for gaming....lol
Wasnt the main selling point of this phone the camera?
There is no doubt my old g2x blows away the amaze for games and video....
But I knew that buying this phone.
Even the best game eVAHr , atomic bomber, doesn't respond well on this phone. I mention this because AB is a pretty basic game.
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After 25 hours use of new ICS leak - my experience

Simply good. I didn't expect to be this stable. Everything works. I made a Day in the life without an issue. I even took 3d pix and video. Battery life is similar or slightly better than Gingerbread. Just wanted to share my experience for those who hasn't tried. I did not flashed the new firmware (CDMA). Just same ole method of Wipe / Flash. Cheers
asbury said:
Simply good. I didn't expect to be this stable. Everything works. I made a Day in the life without an issue. I even took 3d pix and video. Battery life is similar or slightly better than Gingerbread. Just wanted to share my experience for those who hasn't tried. I did not flashed the new firmware (CDMA). Just same ole method of Wipe / Flash. Cheers
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Thanks for the info. If you do start having problems please post back here. I did the hboot downgrade but revolutionary won't five me s-off so I'm forced back to hboot 1.5 and stuck with s-on and can't flash the firmware.
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My battery life seems tons better than it was before. But who knows, maybe I had some crappy rom that said it was using a single core but it was really wasting battery by enabling the second one at all times.
All I know is I was reading on my phone for about an hour this morning and it was still at 92%.
Other than that, I'm pretty surprised with how well it's running. Sense 3.6 is ok, a little jarring to see some of the sense colors go out of the way for real ICS stuff (like when you're attaching a google account).
One thing I don't like is how they ruined the default app behavior. Before if you clicked a link from a twitter app, it asked what application to use. That's ok, you can change that particular thing from the default apps settings (and ICS Browser + destroys the default Sense browser), but if I'm in an email and I click a twitter name, it just goes straight to the browser. Previously it popped up a menu for a browser or twitter apps, and I'd rather have it go right to the app.
I'm a little disappointed that the Car Panel isn't there (Well, it is kinda. When I plug it into my car dock, the icon shows up in the bar, but there's no Car Panel App or anything). Other than that, the desktop dock mode is nice with the added music player feature. Everything runs smooth, and I definitely like the swipe feature in the drop down menu and task killer.
Adding the performance tweak has made this thing fly..sacrifice just a little battery but its worth it.
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Saneless One said:
One thing I don't like is how they ruined the default app behavior. Before if you clicked a link from a twitter app, it asked what application to use. That's ok, you can change that particular thing from the default apps settings (and ICS Browser + destroys the default Sense browser), but if I'm in an email and I click a twitter name, it just goes straight to the browser. Previously it popped up a menu for a browser or twitter apps, and I'd rather have it go right to the app.
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Menu>settings>app associations
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Does anyone know if there is a copy of the voicemail program that works on ICS?
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BrianBaker said:
Menu>settings>app associations
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Like I said, that works fine for which browser to open thankfully, because the stock browser is as bad as it's ever been, but there's nothing in there for anything else I want to deal with, like twitter links from gmail. They don't let you add anything
Peep is missing, it kinda kills Friend Stream's usefulness & Twitter contact syncing.
Great release though.
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I dunno why, but the app isn't letting me quote.
Here is a link to a working sprint VM app. Its been posted a few times in different ics threads.
From my dropbox http://db.tt/tGNkDwVa
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Can someone confirm that MHL and OTG works on ICS?
I ****ing love this ICS leak! Like the OP said, everything works! From 3d to in car Bluetooth to HDMI out, its all flawless. I love the tweaks HTC made to sense, I don't even mind that its not sense 4.0. I'm using apex launcher to replicate that stock ics look and best of all, I can use chrome!
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Very nice ics starting rom
Hi,
I tried this ROM this afternoon,
My phone: HTC EVO 3D x515m
Camera: 5M*2
hboot: HTC *** UNLOCKED METHOD ***
SHOOTER_U PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.49.0018
Oct 3 2011 15:03:01
First, I extracted the boot.img from the archive and I flashed with the option of EXT Recovery.
I rebooted in recovery (4EXT v1.0.0.5 RC3 Build 102)
I Wiped data, system, CACHE, Dalvik-Cache
Then I flashed the ROM and then reboots Virtuous_Shooter_v.3.0.0.zip
I tested:
Bluetooth OK (associated with a headset MOTOROLA)
Phone OK (not stop during a call)
Wifi OK
2D and 3D camera OK
Spiderman 3D OK!
I realized that the ROM was not rooted. So I flashed in Recovery mode, Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip. ROOT is ok now.
When configuring the phone, I took the backup on Google. All my applications were then restored.
I restored the data from each application with Titanium Backup.
I think we would finally an ICS ROM from which The developer will be able to build their new ROM.
It's really good. thank you to Virtuous Dev Team: Diamondback, Flemmard, seo, rmk, chrisch1974, eViL_Dee, mdj, cypis, cjward, tbalden
Thank to Mdeejay!!!
Sincerely,
oh yea, best part about the perfect leak, no sprint bloat!
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Noiro said:
Peep is missing, it kinda kills Friend Stream's usefulness & Twitter contact syncing.
Great release though.
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I saw somewhere that Peep isn't going to be available anymore with the ICS update and the official Twitter app would replace it. Don't remember where though.
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My battery life has been worse than when I was on mean or zr3d. I am down half battery and it is only noon.
I don't like the new gmail app. The old one was dark this one is white and for me hard to see what is new and what is old.
In time it will be better. I dis not flash the firmware. Just the ROM.
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I've tried clean Rom and icsensedeck and my camera doesn't work... Locks up and power cycles.
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HuDuVuDu said:
My battery life has been worse than when I was on mean or zr3d. I am down half battery and it is only noon.
I don't like the new gmail app. The old one was dark this one is white and for me hard to see what is new and what is old.
In time it will be better. I dis not flash the firmware. Just the ROM.
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The Gmail app isn't new in the update(just the icon), and it's always been white since the beginning of time... A lot of ROM developers and themers have made different color variants, though, with the most popular being the 'Inverted Gmail' which is probably what you got used to using.
My experience with the ICS leak was good and bad. I like all the changes to UI, but some of the stuff was buggy at times. First, it took a few reboots/battery pulls after flashing to even boot into the ROM for the first time. I have Sprint VM saved on SD, and after installing it, it didn't work. Cache cleaner app was non-responsive. I'd go to clean the cache and it would sit there for several minutes 'cleaning' until I just gave up. I restarted the phone once and when I went back to open my text messages, all I saw were phone numbers(instead of contact names) for a few minutes until I turned on Wifi and everything sync'd again.... just a few things I can remember right off-hand. I'll probably just wait until we at least have a 'Sprint Leak' to go back again. I'm sure the OTA isn't too far away anyway..
tyler.durden said:
The Gmail app isn't new in the update(just the icon), and it's always been white since the beginning of time... A lot of ROM developers and themers have made different color variants, though, with the most popular being the 'Inverted Gmail' which is probably what you got used to using.
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Actually gmail does update for ICS and only for ICS. It is completely different from the gingerbread version it takes some time to get use too but the end result is I kind of like it.
I love the release but I just wish the app drawer was side to side instead of top and down.

GSIII Flipboard APK Available

Seems a sneaky dev swiped it from a Galaxy III demo unit at a show.
Its now available for any device.
I plan on giving it try later today.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644212
Thanks Valcho!
Google currents works well, I'll see how this one holds up
Has issues on mdeejays ICS rom (gsm). Pretty often, the screen does not update after doing a swipe (meaning you actually are on the next screen, but it continues to show the previous one right after the transition is done.)
Tried deinstalling Chainfire, which helped with some minor artifacts, but did not solve the real problem. Anyone else having these issues?
Arbelzapf said:
Has issues on mdeejays ICS rom (gsm). Pretty often, the screen does not update after doing a swipe (meaning you actually are on the next screen, but it continues to show the previous one right after the transition is done.)
Tried deinstalling Chainfire, which helped with some minor artifacts, but did not solve the real problem. Anyone else having these issues?
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+1
same issue here. Assume its similar to the chrome browser flickers, and in the giffgaff app when you try and open the keyboard it fails.
think the GSM leak has a few minor bugs in it still
I did find though sometimes if you leave it a minute, go into the article a minute and back again, or flick quickly back and forth a few times it rights itself
Been running this for a day or so.
Working good so far.
Been using it for about a day. I've had a couple FCs.
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Runs and looks great. However it fc's on certain feeds. So far the feeds that have fc on me are
Engadget
Abc news
BBC news.
All others are working correctly. Also I'm running this from my sd because when I had this on my internal mem it fc on everything.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
So far, so good
Installed it last night on my Senseless ROM from monx and have had no issues so far.
I was a little disappointed that the app doesn't download stories for off-line reading (I spend 80% of my commute underground with no data service). In that regard, I am back to Pulse as my main news reader. It does exactly what I need.
Latest version seems much better
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Lothaen said:
Latest version seems much better
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Have a link for that?
EDIT. Nm I see it in the OP.
Thanks!

Some Games don't work... yet...

Hello everyone,
I just got my 4G LTE yesterday, I upgraded from an EVO 3D and I've noticed that some of my high end games don't work on the new phone. Originally I restored them from a TB, but I when as far as deleting everything, uninstalling and downloading them from the Play Store and re-downloading their supporting files. Still no luck.
The games I've tested so far NOT to work:
Dead Space
Mass Effect Infiltration
Both, when they are about to start they return to the home screen.
I wanted to know if anyone else has tested any other high end games and has had no luck or found the way to get them running to share some experience with us.
Thanks all.
Don't mean to troll or anything, but there is another thread that ttalks about this. Don't worry, give the game devs time to optimize for sense 4.0
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I don't think it's an issue with sense 4.0.....I think it's more because of the new device and android 4.0.
Asphalt 6 didn't work either.... But it worked fine on my EVO 3d with Android 4.0.

Need Testers - Hopefully Better Multitasking (Flashable Zip Inside)

first thing, this wont brick your device (0% chance)
what i have done is patched the services.jar to allow more apps to stay in memory (up to 8 i think)
ive been using it and so far my browser have not reloaded once, only when i load up over 8 apps at the same time
this means your phone will have less available memory, but its being put to good use, since its not being used anyway lol
the main change ive noticed so far is improvement in the browser, way less reloads.
i need a couple people to flash this and report your findings
it also makes your phone UI a bit faster as well. lemme know. maybe its a placebo for me, which i hope im wrong
flash away
Safe to assume this needs to be used on the newest base?
Rxpert said:
Safe to assume this needs to be used on the newest base?
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yeah its for the newest base
I'll flash this bad boy right now. I'll let you know the results.
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report findings on browser reloads for now
does it work on the 1.22 build?
HTC EVO LTE
He already mentioned it had to be used on the newest base
Rxpert said:
He already mentioned it had to be used on the newest base
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lol cool just double checking...
HTC EVO LTE
Might be just be me but ever since i installed this battery drained faster
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Another note is Mikey mentioned he fixed MeanROM on the previous base to have a higher OOM priority (lower number) for the browser, gapps, and other stuff so they wouldn't get killed so easily.
Any thoughts on doing the same thing also? I have no idea if Auto Memory Manager works on ICS, that allows you to modify the OOM priority for specific apps.
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This keeps the browser in memory even after running 6 apps. I'll keep testing it through out the day.
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Testing now.. Hey flex I'm loving stock w/ goodies but I'm a noob and can't post in development yet. Am I the only one have issues adding a card in google wallet and gTalk won't log in correctly. You're the man by the way.
there is also a script the zeppelinx is working on the deletes the time when android is suppose to kill apps. it is in the v6 superccharger thread.
I was able to go about 8 apps deep before it killed sky fire. I got about 5 with the tweak in the other thread.
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Do you need to be on the deodoxed rom to flash this. Also I'm on 2.13 htvdev unlocked with no desire to s-off, will this mod cause some sort of discrepancy in build that will stop me from being able to apply future ota updates.
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flex360 said:
first thing, this wont brick your device (0% chance)
what i have done is patched the services.jar to allow more apps to stay in memory (up to 8 i think)
ive been using it and so far my browser have not reloaded once, only when i load up over 8 apps at the same time
this means your phone will have less available memory, but its being put to good use, since its not being used anyway lol
the main change ive noticed so far is improvement in the browser, way less reloads.
i need a couple people to flash this and report your findings
it also makes your phone UI a bit faster as well. lemme know. maybe its a placebo for me, which i hope im wrong
flash away
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Yo flex, i'm flashing now.. and will report back :good:
Doesn't seem to be working for me,a lot of my apps reloaded when jumping around. Running stock w/ goodies 2.02
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Under developer options I have standard number of background options selected, which one do you guys have it set too?

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