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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stefanosapostolopoulos:
hey I am from Greece. here we don't have nfc tags. except from Xperia tags which only one shop have them. and I don't know if they work for other brands. so where I should look to buy some nfc tags?what type of nfc tags for my a5(2017)? please help.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alstylez:
Hi got a galaxy tab 10.1 ive got the Kang CM9 ICS rom on it, worked fine for about a month then suddenly just started crashing

did a hard reset device powers on charges starts to load boot image then freezes and crashes.

im able to launch recovery mode, tried doing factory reset and it wouldnt go through.

tried cache whipe was able to complete and the boot logo lasted longer then froze and crashed again.

not sure what happened and im thinking the only thing left to try is a full reflash

has anyone else experianced this?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzoman:
I've not experienced this because I haven't messed much with Kang CM9 ICS, but my first suggestion would to be restore from nandroid backup. If you're like me, in the past, you didn't do one or can't access it. So a full reflash or possibly going back to stock and then a reflash would be my suggestion.

If you decide to go back to stock first, or still need to after a reflash, the overcome ROM thread is a good place to lead you to 7500 & 7510 stock ROMs. You'll find a link to a guide outside xda there where towards the bottom part of the guide it says Restocking yer system.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alstylez:
thanks Benzoman was able to reflash the stock rom from rogers using ODIN after which it got stuck in a bootloop. then tried data wipe in recovery mode and it booted up like normal.

any idea what could have caused it?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Depends if you had HC 3.1 as a base firmware, more likely to crash, then another would be what version of ICS you used, because the kang is at milestone 4, the current stable march edition.
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
Hi Guys,

I'm about to buy a Motorola Atrix 4G sim-unlocked phone here in India, through eBay. I got confirmation from the seller that it is an imported phone from US which has been unlocked for international carriers. I've a few questions now:

1. Does GB 2.3.4 come with an unlocked bootloader, so that I need not do anything to unlock it myself?

2. If no, then will I be able to unlock the bootloader using the method given in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1302423

I can see that there is a lot of community support for this phone and I would love to root it and install custom ROMs on it. Please clarify me on the above points.

Thanks in advance.
[Atrix 4G General] rockydev:
Hi Karthik,

I have also bought through Ebay.

1. Does GB 2.3.4 come with an unlocked bootloader, so that I need not do anything to unlock it myself?

A) If the phone is sim unlocked than most probably it has unlocked bootloaded. You can check this by restarting the phone, if UNLOCKED is displayed at the top during booting, then its bootloaded has been unlocked.

2. If no, then will I be able to unlock the bootloader using the method given in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1302423

A)I have used the same method for unlocking my phone.
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
Thanks for the reply. I do not see the UNLOCKED text while booting up. so probably the boot loader is still locked.

In the thread which you used to unlock, there is no step to root the phone after unlocking the boot loader. After unlocking, the next step is installing a custom recovery. So how do we root it? I don't want to explore multiple threads as the instructions are confusing. Please help!

Thanks in advance.
[Atrix 4G General] sakdroid:
This is NOT TRUE..

Sim Unlock and Bootloader Unlock are different.

Bootloader Unlock will allow you to install any other firmwares. This will display Unlocked message on bootup.

SIM unlock will allow to use other carriers SIM card other than Orginal carrier.

For Ex. if you have ATT US Atrix, you wont be able to use it for other networks until you perform SIM unlock. This will not display Unlock message on bootup.
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
Yeah that I figured out. I bought a sim unlocked phone and still the bootloader is locked. Thanks!
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
N00b questions

Few more n00b questions:D Please ignore my questions above. I've consolidated all of them below so that multiple replies can be avoided.

I've rooted and installed custom ROMs on my LG P500 for more than a year now and I'm quite familiar with the process. But this locked boot loader thing is really confusing me and there are so many threads with different methods. Really confused:confused: I've listed down all my questions below, pls help me:

1. Can I root my Atrix without unlocking the bootlaoder? I want to get rid of the so many AT&T apps as my phone is sim-unlocked and I don't need them here in India. This page from rootzwiki has a method to root a phone with locked bootloader. Can I follow this?

2. The same page has a method to unlock the bootloader. In that, it is mentioned that the SBF flashing need not be done if the phone runs gingerbread. The steps direct us to run the unlock command if we're on GB. But on all the methods here in XDA, the SBF flash method is mentioned even for GB 2.3.4 phones. This thread for example. which one to follow?

3. I'm planning to follow the above thread, but in that thread, there is no step to root the phone, after unlocking the bootloader. The next step given there is to install custom recovery. So what do I do to root it?

Please clarify these questions. Thanks in advance.

Karthik
[Atrix 4G General] consolation:
sorry for a bit of a thread hijack, :p

I'm going to be in India for a conference, can anyone recommend a prepay provider that works with AT&T Atrix and has reasonable data packs? Don't care about text/minutes, just need mobile data with decent speed & price. Bonus if it comes with a pony? :D
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
I've PM'ed you:)
[Atrix 4G General] giqbal:
1.Rooting a phone is different to unlocking the bootloader. So yes when you root the boot loader will remain locked. Unless you use a script which automatically roots and also unlocks the boot loader.

2.I would follow the example thread

3. You can use this thread to root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1255548

I would recommend you read this thread…its for beginners but has all the information you'll need

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1154600
[Atrix 4G General] gkarthik16:
Thanks a lot buddy!
[Atrix 4G General] sameerraees:
Atrix 4g Unlocking and Upgrading.

Hi there guys!

I am planning to buy Atrix 4g through Ebay.

The listing on ebay says that the phone is unlocked?

I am pretty much new to all this and all that I wanna know how do I get rid of Motoblur without putting any custom roms.

PS I heard that Moto has released gingerbread but I am afraid if I update with Motorola Software Update, it will re lock the phone?
[Atrix 4G General] sheennick123456:
Hi

I use atrix in mumbai..

The phone which you will get from ebay will be sim unlocked...that means you can use indian sim cards on the phone

To get rid of all blur software i would suggest you to install a custom rom from the forums..for which you will need to unlock bootloader root your phone and install custom recovery

Youll find tutorials for these in the forums

Cheers!
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
OK, here it goes.

I have a R800x CDMA Verizon Xperia Play

I had bootloader unlocked successfully by alejandrissimo.

I am rooted.

Today I decided to try the MIUI rom for CDMA.

It required custom kernel, and recommended Kieren's darkforest kernel.

I installed that kernel via fastboot with no problems.

Upon turning on phone, i get a page that says Sony, then I get ANDROID page.

Then it just stays on ANDROID. I can tell that it is not frozen because I can see the waving lines going across.

SO, I decided to just go back to stock kernel then try again.

BUT, I cannot get into fastboot!!

I hold search while connecting usb, and the led blinks blue once, then continues with boot.

I am at a loss.

I Can get into CWM.

Please Help!

Edit: I just noticed that after holding search then plugging in USB, the light blinks blue once. Then about 25 seconds later, the light turns solid blue for about 3 seconds. Then just to orange for charging. During this time, I can not get fastboot to recognize device, nor does my computer recognize any devices.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netizenmt:
OK, first - don't panic! I had some issues myself with this, but it's easy to resolve.

First - if you want to return to stock, the easiest thing to do is to download flashtool from this link:http://androxyde.github.com/Flashtool/

And the FTF of the stock ROM from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?u70ci3bdzak3u9e

Follow the directions on the Flashtool website for how to flash back to stock. This will make your phone just like it came out of the box. It does not touch the SDCard.

Second - Make sure the kernel you flash in fastboot is the one intended for the ROM you want to install. Also make sure you copy the zip file of the rom you want to install onto your sdcard. Then enter into CWM and do the following:

- clear data

- clear cache

- clear Dalvik cache (under the advanced menu)

- clear Battery Stats (same menu as above)

Then use the menu "install zip from sd card" (or whatever it says :D ) find the zip file you copied onto you card and load it. Reboot when finished and you should be good to go. Please be aware some ROMS take a long time to boot up the first time around.

Good luck.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
ok, small problem with that.

when I click to install flashtool, it tells me that it is not available for my region (Central USA).

I do have a nandroid and titanium backups made just before flashing.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netizenmt:
Use this link - I forgot about their link blocking us. But use that site for instructions.

http://www.mediafire.com/?t2pxz1j7snieeos

Having just unlocked my bootloader this weekend as well, I don't know what to tell you there. But since you can get into CWM, reverting to stock is a good way to go. Then try flashing the firmware, etc again.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
still stuck

OK, thanks for your help, but I am still stuck.

I can not get the device to be recognized.

So, now I need an alternate method.

I will attach the kernel that I flashed, maybe I could flash a ROM that could be compatible.

I tried to flash MIUI v4 from near the end of the MIUI port for CDMA thread (pg 9, I think) , which paxchristos and a few others reported working fine for the R800x

I flashed the kernel that was listed to use in the same post.

But, when I tried to flash the ROM, CWM told me that it was not compatible with my device. It checked the ro.build.fingerprint and determined that it was not compatible.

Maybe another rom would work, and then I would be able to work on it from there
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netizenmt:
Yeah, that seems to be the wrong boot.img. It should be called boot-v2.img.

EDIT: WOW - I just reread your post after posting mine and realized I pointed you to the same spot! :eek:

Try this ROM which is a version of CM9 that Chevyowner got working for our R800x. I know it works because I'm using it. http://www.mediafire.com/?1xnh54i6lvnnh73
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
It is the same one, i just renamed it because i thought kernels had to be boot.img to flash correctly. I will try that rom when i get home.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paxChristos:
just an fyi, you can name kernels whatever you feel like (I'm not sure about spaces, I use linux, so I never have spaces in names anyways :p )
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
Flashing now

OK, I just downloaded and flashed the ROM about 3 minutes ago.

I cleared everything just like you told me to.

It installed with no errors.

You may be right about long boot times for first boot, otherwise I have a really bad kernel.

It has just sat on Sony screen for the past 10 minutes.

It hasn't even went on to the android page that I got before.

Hoping that it will Work.

Assuming that it doesn't, what would be my best next move?

Can I flash a kernel (Such as doom_lord's CDMA Kernel) via clockwork?

I think I saw a video about it for the Samsung fascinate, however I seem to recall something about needing an s2 file or something??

I will update as soon as I get something. (hopefully good news)

Update: It has been about 20 minutes now and still on Sony screen.:confused:

Now it has been 30, im starting to get worried. Should I plug in? Should I just let it be? Should I let it die? Should I battery pull?

Major Edit: I got impatient and just battery pulled. I then tried to get into CWM, but failed. THen I got a bright Idea, why not try fastboot with the new rom. IT WORKED. I WILL NOW TRY TO FLASH A NEW KERNEL AND SEE IF THAT HELPS.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aDigitalPhantom:
it should not take 30 minutes to boot, only thing i can think of right now is to redownload kernel (boot-v2.img) and reflash that.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paxChristos:
is this your kernel, or someone else's? If it's yours/you have a working copy, could you post an md5 so the op can double check it?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aDigitalPhantom:
nope not my kernel, and i doubt i have an original working copy as i added 2 lines so i could mount my sdext partition.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
Finally!

OK, I am now back up and running.

I went through every kernel and rom for CDMA play, and got nowhere.

I ended up getting Doom's kernel to run. It worked, and booted to android... Then stayed at android.

Then I decided to flash my nandroid i made, and am now working on stock rom W/ DoomKernel.

The ROM seems to be lagging a lot.

Since everything is *working* now, what kernel/ROM combo can anyone verify working for the Play R800x CDMA.

I would really like CM9 or ICS based roms.

Thanks for your help getting me out of this mess!!

EDIT: Nothing seems to be working!! My touchscreen seems to be non responsive, no phyiscal keys except for the power key seem to be working with my original ROM now!!! Maybe somebody could attach a copy of the stock kernel for my device, so that I could start from scratch.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paxChristos:
If you're using keiran (darkforest) cm9 kernel the md5sum for it should be: 74a5be2bf95322b8c45780d9daeda4fa
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
This site has some of the stock FTFs, just extract the kernel.sin from the R800x one http://www.xperiagamer.com/Stock-Roms/233-se-stock-firmware-for-root.html
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paxChristos:
kernel.sin: http://www.mediafire.com/?e29j13d9wpgdvoj

md5sum: 45116201967408d70895ef63c500ed1e
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netizenmt:
@zeeky120 - I'm sorry you're having so many problems. For me when everything seemed hosed, I started over by using Flashtool and flashing the ftf file I gave you links for. Then once it came back up as stock, I started again from scratch. Depending on what your goals are, you need to flash the proper kernel for that. Then get into CWM. Clear DATA, CACHE, DALVIK CACHE before you do anything else. Then load via zip file the rom you want to install, making sure it matches the kernel you loaded. And, whether necessary or not, I always wipe the big 3 again, just in case. (Call me paranoid, but it helps! ;) )
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
Ok now up and running on stock everything working great just like out of box. The only thing I have done so far is to root. I want to do it right this time. I would like to flash cm9 based miui for r 800x. Could anyone provide detailed step by step instructions and links for download. Thanks in advance.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeky120:
Closing Notes

This thread has reached its end, because my problem has been fully solved. Advice to future users, always clear the big three, and when in doubt: use flashtool to reboot the ftf. Right now I am up and running on CM9 (use the link in Chevy's signature to download. I can verify that it works great on CDMA. (faster download speeds than stock!!!) Thanks for everyone for all of their help, and I hope to be contributing to development in the near future.
[HTC Sensation] durps:
My Android system sensor is ALWAYS on which doesn't let my phone sleep. Anyway I can find out whats keeping the sensor awake? What even uses the sensor? Im on ARHD 6.3, stock kernel, no auto light brightness.

I have wiped dalvik, cache, and fixed permissions.
[HTC Sensation] durps:
I think it"s the sensor that checks for light so that it sees if its enough light to light up the backlit keys, anyone know how to turn that sensor off?
[HTC Sensation] azzledazzle:
Download an app called watchdog it will tell you what apps are running over the set CPU threshold.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mayank77:
Hi is there a way I can turn my X8 into a mic connected to an external speaker.

I found some mic apps in the market.

Firstly , If I use the mic app without a headset , I say something in the phone mic , I hear it back through the phone speaker.

Secondly, when I connect the earphone into my X8 , then

if I say something in the earphone mic , I can hear it back through the earphone speaker.

But is it possible to say something in the earphone mic/ X8 mic and get it on an external speaker ?

That would mean use of green (audio) wire of the speaker and pink (mic) wire of the microphone. But the X8 has one port.

Is there any hardware available to make this possible ? It'd be awesome to use it in karaoke's :D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jimmy Thrashmetal:
Maybe using an adapted with dual plug, I will try and if it works I'll show you how :D
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deedii:
You can try looking for this one but I doubt it will work. We would be glad to hear some feedback from you. Goodluck :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X8Men:
You can try to make your own adapter the headset has this pin assignment:

The first pin at the top is the Left Speakers +

The second pin is the Right Speakers +

The third pin is the Microphones +

and the last at the bottom is the Ground -
[HTC Amaze 4G] hd2joel:
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
[HTC Amaze 4G] freakasis:
A lot of newer apps have a setting to store in ext_sd... if they don't, you're gonna have to move the stuff manually. Aside from editing the system files and changing the variables I don't think its going to be possible unless the app supports it. Sorry, just the way it is.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I have over 100 apps and don't have that problem. None of them are on my ext_sd... Quite a few big apps too... I've seen a few ppl with the same prob, but I don't get why. Maybe it's because I don't have any music or movies on my phone...

I guess I will consider myself lucky :screwy:
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
it is a true sd card, its just internal and its separate from the phones internal memory. i wish there was a way to default to the external sd, but no dice
[HTC Amaze 4G] hd2joel:
I notice your rooted and from the looks of your memory it looks like your phone is using the real sd card not the internal memorh. Im not rooted and mine looks opposite of yours i have like 7gigs free on my sd card and like 700mb of internal memory. I wounder if rooting fixes this issue and thats why more people dont seem to be having the issue.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
It's using internal for downloads and everything on my external was placed there by me manually (except for my cwm backups - I have 3 cwm backups on my SD which is hogging most of the space. I deleted 1 BU and now have 2GB+ available on my external.

I don't know if rooting makes a difference. I mean I deleted some bloatware, but none of the stock apps are that big in size, and I only removed about 10 stock apps/widgets. I only ran my phone stock for about 4 hours so idk :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] ChromeJob:
The internal memory is much, much faster (test it with SD Tools or AnTuTu Benchmark), so I wouldn't be in a hurry to move things to /mnt/sd_card/ext_sd. So long as you have the camera and other apps storing on on the ext_sd card, the 9GB internal should be fine for data, right?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jubeh:
i love how forum responses are always anything but a response to what op asked.

this is standard behavior for devices that have their own internal (mounted on android as /sdcard) storage partitions. the point is that, if this is not done, the a device with a large internal storage sees no benefit of it other than have a ridiculously large /data partition (we'd have over 13gb for apps on the amaze 4g for example).

ics has a better way of dealing with this treating the whole internal storage (no partitioning anymore) but again, the internal storage takes priority over the sdcard.

in my opinion it's better. I hated android automatically making several directories on my sdcard, but I agree the media scanner still has a way to go including media in the sdcard.

your best option if you don't like the new setup is to get a device instead with no internal storage that relies instead on a microSD
[HTC Amaze 4G] hd2joel:
No its not when all the new games need 700mb downloads and the only program that uses the real external sd card is the camera. I love the new games with console quality games that's why i got a phone with no battery life and a ton of horse power. It wasn't to send faster texts. But any app the has a check box to save to the sd card ends up using that internal space called sd card. So i have a full phone an empty "real" sd card and the only app the knows its there is the camera. I cant download my audio books unless i delete a game. I cant use that external space for anything but pictures. 16gb is a lot of space just for pictures. I get internal memory is faster i just wish other apps could use it. Not just the camera app. Its dumb to call that space sd card when every app thinks that space is an external sd card. No app looks for an ext_sd card. So your 32gig class 10 card you spenf $100 for cant be used for anything but pictures its a dumb programming move.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hd2joel:
Great answer if you don't like it get a phone with no internal memory brilliant! Why can't they just save the name sdcard for true external sdcards? The point of a ton of internal memory is to have a ton of internal memory so i dont get your point of no benefit. The benefit is i have 13 gigs for all these games that require almost a gig of space. I think thats why they started putting that much internal memory. With the new power of these phones the apps are getting huge. So put a lot of very fast internal storage space. And then you can use your real sdcard as you always have. Apps arnt 2mb any more. So 13gigs of app storage would be a great benefit in the day of gigabyte sized apps. SORRY FOR THE RANT IM DONE NOW. some people's kids just bother me with their logic.