yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Stratty:
error while restoring /systemorig!

I just updated my razr CDMA X912to ICS (OTA 6.16.211) and used the DroidRaxrUtility 1.7 (thanks mattlgroff!) to root and install safestrap 2.0. I am going through the motions of backing up and restoring but keep getting the error "error while restoring /systemorig!"

I dont feel confident to add a custom rom on my safe system until i know I can restore on my non-safe system.

Steps taken:

-reboot into recovery (safe system :disabled)

-create backup

-reboot

-make subtle changes to wallpaper and add a few apps

-reboot into recovery (safe system: disabled)

-restore for ext-sd

-locate back up made and confirm restore.

it checks the md5 sum and then begins to restore /systemorig and eventually fails.

Update: I had to do a full wipe and recovery using the blur 6.12.181 stock image. now i am able to restore safestrap backups. I used Mattlgroff's 1.7 utility, option 1
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr06u:
[Q] How To BackUp&Restore arc S Stock Firmware before Rooting to Preserve Warranty

Found this similar post for Galaxy S2 but I need the instructions for Xperia Arc S.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1366485

Phone Details:

Model number: LT18i

Android version 2.3.4

Build number 4.0.2.A.0.42

Kernel version 2.6.32.9-perf SEMCUser@SEMCHost #1

Phone is unrooted, Bootloader locked , everything is exactly how it came from shop (stock).

Question 1

My phone is in Warranty (is bought from Vodafone Romania) and I would like to root my phone, but i want to backup the stock firmware completly before all this process in case I ever want to reverse process ,or get my phone back to its old state like it came

I would also need to know how to restore this backup/unroot/flash/whatever the phone in case I need to send it to repair. I saw in the thread posted upper in this post a reply from sxi200 who said something about " use a download mode jig to reset counter to hide flashing" . I would also like to know about this method if it's needed or not in order to preserve warranty.

Thank you in advance.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arpith.fbi:
best way is to flash your country's firmware..or else u can install cwm-installer and backup your stock rom in recovery..
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr06u:
Where can I find the firmware for my country or where can I find a tutorial of how I can install cwm-installer and backup my stock rom in recovery.

And if I use cwm-installer will I need to reset counter to hide flashing when I will use the backup?

Sorry if the questions are silly I'm just starting to learn those things.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gogobaba:
U wont lose ur warranty by rooting u will lose it if u unlock your bootloader
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ysr84:
Hi All,

I have a Rogers I747 system Dump uploaded to my drop Box.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5zbwf3fjpimethj/BfgAAhppni

Enjoy!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nelsocracy:
Awesome, thanks! I've been looking to go back to my Rogers stock (on dietics now), but couldn't find out how. Can I just flash this or does something need to be done to it first?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ysr84:
I am sort of new to this too... I was told by the good people at xda to provide a dump for system... i am sure someone can compile it or something to make it workable.... if anythign is required on my part i will gladly help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XblackdemonX:
Thanks a lot I can'T wait for roms and kernels for my device!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] djnoicatse:
I'd love to flash back to stock rogers as well. Anyone able to make it a flashable .zip?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] iTchill:
Yeah this is just what i needed before i start flashing like crazy !

Slim ics for real ...loved it on my infuse
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Raul77:
Would this help with Root and not updating the counter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
Do not flash system dump

Hello, everyone.

DO NOT flash the Rogers System Dump, or any system dump for that matter.

It's simply a set of system files from a Rogers unit, which will help developers design a ROM around a Rogers base.

I sent my Rogers system dump to a few developers for this purpose. Hopefully, over the next few days, we'll have a new ROM with all the features of the Rogers ROM, and without the AT&T influence (they have a habit of ruining good features).

If you're looking for a stock Rogers ROM, you'll have to wait.

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Do you, or anyone, know if there is a stock.tar rogers firmware floating around? Would be great to provide to the devs here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 so that we can have a root only solution for Rogers.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
I wish I knew ...

I'm also looking for such a file. I'd like to have it, just in case.

Peter

P.S. To anyone who knows the answer, what happens if I take an existing custom ROM, for example, the DIET ICS ROM, and overwrite the system files with my Rogers system dump, repack the ZIP file and then flash? Would this work? Would this then become a flashable stock Rogers ROM?

Although I'm quite experienced and familiar with rooting, flashing, etc., this is getting a bit beyond me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lgkahn:
can you post just the modem.. so we can try flashing to at&t and see if we can get the ability to choose 3g/4g /networks thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Lol, sometimes these things are best left to the devs, trust me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
You're right ...

LOL

You're right. I played around with a custom ROM, tried a few tests, and none worked. Fortunately, I did a Nandroid immediately beforehand, so all is well.

I'll wait for a real developer to make a proper ROM.

Peter

---------- Post added at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:20 PM ----------

I wish I could, but I have no idea how to extract the modem.

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dstruct2k:
Anyone want to post steps to do a dump? I've got a Telus model here that's just aching to be helpful to the cause. Although I have already rooted/installed CWM....

I could always just go borrow someone else's for 20 minutes and dump to my SD card though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Uss_Defiant:
I'd also like the steps too plz, thx. Can dump my bell model.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ysr84:
To Dump...

go to your command prompt and type

"adb pull /system C:/sgs3/system.img"

C: is your C drive and sgs3 is a folder which you would have to create.

Takes about 15 - 20 minutes and i believe this is a system dump....

I am not sure how to do a modem dump... i guess it would be a folder in there which needs to be pulled.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XblackdemonX:
Rogers Modem

Hello guys,

I followed this guide here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1705650 (credits to: UpInTheAir)

And I extracted my Rogers modem!

Here it is! Rogers SGH-i747M Modem DUMP (I747MVLLE8) :good:

Flashable version! modem_CWM_Rogers_i747M.zip
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nk_blu:
Is it the modem or the ROM that allows LTE toggle on our Canadian I747M (compared to our AT&T neighbors) ? Based on my experience with modem flashing from Nexus S and i9100M, my download and upload speeds, and latency and overall connection stability were affected.

If this modem is flashable, I want to try using AT&T modem to see if I get better connection stability.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
I cannot believe AT&T doesn't offer the option to disable LTE. I guess they are after increased data consumption, but at the expense of customer dissatisfaction due to worse battery life...come on! I guess we really don't have it as bad as we think with Rogers.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Uss_Defiant:
It's the rom that supports the lte toggle, not the modem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
Anyone flash the modem on at&t?

Zepp's V6 SuperCharger...I put that **** on everything
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdbeitz:
Does anyone know the files needed to make the toggle work? I'm currently merging the rogers dump with my Diet ICS rom.... works great except i cant get the lte toggle to show >.<
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
TetheringManager ???

Although this is only a guess, could it be the TetheringManager.apk in the system/app folder?

I'm looking through all the files now, and this is the first one that popped up as a potential candidate.

Peter

Addendum: I overwrote the AT&T TetheringManager.apk with the Rogers equivalent, but that didn't give me the toggle. At this point I have no idea where the LTE Toggle is located.

Maybe, instead of using AT&T as the base and copying over Rogers files, you may have to use Rogers as the base and go from there. Hmm.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dstruct2k:
That made a folder called "c:/sgs3/system.img/" and copied the entire /system/ folder from my device into it. I guess that works, but I was expecting an actual .IMG file.

Using this method, I have ripped every partition of mmcblk0 into individual .BIN files. I'm RAR'ing it now (ZIP doesn't support files this large apparently...) and if anyone would like a TELUS dump, let me know. I still have to identify what each partition is, and I'm open to suggestions on how to do so.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dstruct2k:
Please delete that "flashable" zip file; I don't think we've got the right partition for the modem, in that file I found the following:

System halted.Attempting division by 0!.Uncompressing Linux....decompressor returned an error. done, booting the kernel...NULL output pointer and no flush function provided.NULL input pointer and missing fill function.invalid header.file corrupted.dest len longer than block size.Compressed data violation.

That looks more like kernel code than modem code. I don't want anyone flashing the wrong files until we've taken a closer look at things on the I747M.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XblackdemonX:
I've flashed the file on my device and my radio still works fine
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dstruct2k:
That's good to hear, but you flashed it back to the same device it originally came from, so that's not much of a test lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdbeitz:
The only problem with that is i can't get the rogers dump to boot on my phone... so i dont know where to start
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
I can't either, if I use your base ...

I'm having much of the same problem. If I use your base ROM, either 7112 or 7412, and then overwrite a variety of Rogers files, I can't get my phone to boot, either. I simply get stuck at the Samsung boot screen.

I've got a few other ideas, which I'm testing right now.

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XblackdemonX:
At least it doesnt give any errors. try it on yours!!:good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdbeitz:
awesome. hop on in the #attsgs3 irc with us
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PeterGuru:
I'm stumped!

Sadly, my ideas didn't work. :(

Let me play around a bit more ...

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Good news guys, Rogers bell and telus full firmware are out in the general section!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] anethema:
Nice! Downloaded from the updates site and seeding torrent.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brac20:
One of the primary uses for the Nexus 7 will be as an eReader. To that end I was wondering if anyone conform whether the android Kindle app is compatible with the Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
No reason it wouldn't be, along with the B&N Nook app, Kobo, etc., etc.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IncredibleMango:
You should definitely be able to use the Kindle app, as well as the Amazon AppStore, and the Amazon MP3 store.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brac20:
I assumed as much I just wanted to be 100% sure as that's where all my books are ;-)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
Kindle app on Nexus 7 and an actual Kindle side-by-side would be a nice comparison, if anyone can comment on that.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamhlj:
I could have tonight. I forgot to do it tho.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adiliyo:
I've tried both, the nexus is hands down a better experience, its smoother and the screen is much nicer
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saadi703:
The best kindle experience is available not on kindle fire rather it is available on Kindle iPad app. The interactive magazines on kindle store does not appear so interactive on kindle fire however the same magazine is very interactive on kindle iPad app. This is kind of surprising but true and I know because I have both. Also the iPad screen has better aspect ratio in order to fit the magazine fully in the screen whereas on kindle fire it does not fully fit the screen because of 16:9 aspect ratio and same is the case with Nexus 7. You can read magazines without much zoom on iPad as compared to any 16:9 screen ratio table which includes not only the 7 inch but the 10 inch tablets as well. I use to own Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I know how good the magazines used to look on iPad as compared to Tab 10.1.

Don't worry though I myself have order Nexus 7 for myself but I won't be using it for reading though. I wanted a 7 inch Tegra 3 tablet for gaming so thats what I am going to do on it. I hope that games would be compatible with 4.1 soon. The biggest problem with Android Eco System i.e. app compatibility on multiple devices.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
That might be true for magazines, but for ebooks I've found a 7" in portrait to be ablout perfect. It just about equals a single paperback page, and is very easy to old for longer periods of time. Text on my iPad is excellent, but it gets heavy after awhile and I don't like the Kindle 2-page format in landscape. And the iPad is positively ungainly in portrait.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SSK_:
Play Books apps is nicer than the Kindle Android app, but, I think I'll do my book shopping on the Kindle store because it's very easy to strip DRM and share with others in my household. I haven't been able to find a solution to make Play Books DRM free/share with others I'd share a physical book with otherwise.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adiliyo:
I agree that play books has a better ui, but I keep both on it as I use the kindle app to side load the books I already own, if I don't find a book on the play store for a great deal I also tend to buy them on kindle since its multiplatform.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saadi703:
Yes that's what I said in my post as well that books are ok with 7 inch tablet but magazines are not so exciting. For books 7 inch is ideal size. Kindle magazines for Android Kindle are most not interactive although same magazine when downloaded on iPad is interactive. It is kind of strange because the Kindle app for iPad is also made by Amazon and why would amazon make a better app for iPad as compared to Kindle fire. It confuses me. The Kindle for Android is same as for fire.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandyN:
Can anyone provide screenshots of the same book/page on the Nexus 7 and a Kindle e-ink device. Just wondering if I'm going to still want an e-ink device for reading in addition to my N7.

Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DagsJT:
I'll be keeping my Kindle as the e-ink display is just a lot easier on the eyes for reading as well as the battery life being superb.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
Sorry, missed that in your post. I'll note that I've decided that a good combination is a new iPad for a 10" device and a Nexus 7 for a 7" device. Best of both worlds, really.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbrickg:
e-ink is really nice for brightly lit environments. battery life is much better. and they they weigh a lot less. but they make really crappy general-purpose tablets :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
Sure. I actually have both, because I live in SoCal and so no tablet is going to work everywhere I want to read.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wes_s:
The wife has a kindle and a flyer. If I had to choose one I would pick a tablet because its so much more versatile but eink readers are very good at the one thing they are for. Synchronization between both kindle and the app makes it quite convenient to have both too.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zinfinion:
The margins in the Kindle app on Android are still too large for my tastes. They are much smaller on the Fire proper. So there is a difference between Kindle app and Kindle device.

I'm currently using Aldiko for sideloaded epubs. I'm hoping Google Books will allow sideloading in the near future as I find it a better user experience than Aldiko.

I've tried the vast majority of other readers, and so far haven't found anything better.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wes_s:
The Nook android app allows sideloading of epubs. It's very nice as far as the user interface.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zinfinion:
Same issue with regards to margins. At the font size I use, my margins in Aldiko are about 2 characters wide, while the Nook app's are about 6-8 characters wide. As well, I'm not a fan of the book title and page number always at the top (same in Kindle app). The shadow on the left (presumably mimicking a page bending in towards the spine) is also rather off-putting. Obviously these are all my personal tastes. If I could eliminate those 3 things, I'd be perfectly happy with the Nook reader.

Back to the Kindle Fire vs Kindle app, this is a good comparison shot that clearly shows the differences (Kindle Fire left / N7 Kindle app right):

cdn.arstechnica.net//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/nexus-7-kf-text1.jpg

Source: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-googles-nexus-7-is-a-fantastic-200-tablet/2/

If you Google either of them and include margins in your search, you'll find I'm not the only who wishes to have more control over them.

Update: I checked out Mantano again, and I am pleased to say it's improved quite a bit over the past two months. Premium has two options that were missing in the free version, large shelf view icons and custom margins (Essentials supports margins as well) and is also a better PDF viewer than Adobe. I'm fairly certain I will like this much more than Aldiko (or Kindle or Nook).
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thor79:
This was the only downside I could really see for me coming from using a Kindle Fire...the formatting in the Kindle App on the Nexus 7. I was used to using my Kindle Fire with the text at the next to smallest size and with the smallest margins possible. Doing the same on the Nexus 7 results in significantly bigger text and a lot of wasted space.

I'm wondering if there's a way to force the Kindle app to think the Nexus 7 is a Kindle Fire so it will display with the smaller formatting. The size difference is so bad it was almost the same size as the size I set when I'm using the elliptical at the gym (with the Kindle Fire, haven't used it for that yet with my 7). I increase the font size a great deal so I can still read despite my head bobbing while on the elliptical. With the 7 if I have to change it, it won't be by much. Really hate Amazon for gimping the Kindle app in this way.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adiliyo:
It probably has to do with the nexus using phone apps in a lot of places instead of tablet apps, I'll change my DPI today and see if its any better
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dark_dragon:
Sorry if I'm a bit off topic but when u go on the kindle android app and go to the kindle store does it open on a browser or the app? Please!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nospin:
It opens in a browser. I hope amazon changes this, since having your own in app store isn't "illegal" in Android. Unfortunately the restrictions on iOS may be affecting their decisions.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R3ACTOR4:
There are two things being discussed here. Ebook sand Magazines.

I wanted to know about the latter...What apps are people using for magazines. On my dad's iPad2, I just drag and drop the pdf magazine and see it on the iPad. However, it seems, Magazines is the only way I can read mags easily. But I live in India, so I can't buy mags here. Now what do I do?

Any suggestions? I have seen ezreader or something, and it lags while opening a heavy pdf. And all the .pdfs I have are around 150 MB...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Parastie:
Has anyone tried the different floating players?

I was using Super Player because it was free, but recently purchased Floating Player Beta. They both have the same issue, when playing a video in the window (or paused) then lock the screen then unlock the tablet reboots. I'm using .28 stock rom with SIO installed.

Anyone else?

EDIT:

Sorry, it's called Floating Player Beta. Not Pop-up Player Beta. ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jlomein:
I'm using Virtuous Prime rom. I can confirm I've replicated your issue with Super Video.

One solution i've found is to go to Super Video settings > Player Settings > Enable Keep Play (Do not pause video playback when screen is turned off).

This will prevent your Prime from screen locking, so pressing the power/lock button merely turns off the screen (pressing the power/lock button again turns the screen back on without having to enter an unlock pattern). Of course a side effect is the video's playback (including audio) continues playing even while the screen is off.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Parastie:
Well at least I'm not going crazy. I'm guess it does as well with Stick It. I've sent logcat to Floating Player Beta, as they responded to my comments. Hopefully we'll find a solution. I have no idea what's causing it. SW Codec does not have the issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] lil-devil:
i don't know about you

but for me the tablet will restart like that if you do the same thing with reg video players....

so i don't think its the floating player thing as it maybe the prime's problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] K.0.0.L.:
I'm using this app as my file browser but some how I can not see my external SD card.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] nmccart:
I use ES as well (love it!)

When I click "Favorites" in the top left-hand corner, them my choices are:

Home | / | Downloads | Pictures

/mnt/extSdCard/

(can't capture a screenshot of that page to show)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] alacrify:
If you haven't, you might try X-plore too - also free, and has some really nice features. BTW I can see \mnt\extSdCard fine too.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Arcadia310:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuhAFHuNZk

Hope you guys like it!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mikelebz:
Amazing comparison.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] MyronJ906:
Good video.

Haha, I found it laughable that the 2 points that made the GS3 win were not related to the actual phone, but instead branding.

However, I can agree with the point. For general consumers, that is definitely a plus. Also, it was a competition on which should be THE Android flagship, and that makes the points even more prevalent.

Most Androids just don't have good presence or accessory support.

I can agree with the decision, but still think the One X is better as a general phone. Especially once ROMed up. When we get source, we'll be blazing!

Thanks for contributing. It was definitely interesting