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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
Hi everyone,

I have a Xperia Arc (LT15i), and I have a problem. Since yesterday, my phone didn't recognize any SIMCARD. It's locked to Vodafone Spain and BL is locked too.

I saw that my Xperia Arc doesn't boot...and I've flashed FIX Fota Bricked Pack for unlocked Bootloaders...and my Bootloader is locked...since this...No SIM Card detected...and no signal...incl one SIM for Vodafone SPAIN.

Any solution????

If I downgrade from ICS to GB with Flashtool it's possible to fix this problem...or what else???? Any ROM for fix this problem??? PC Companion and SEUS said me that my software is up 2 date...and didn't repair...

Thank you in advance! PLZ Help Me! For me it's a BIG BIG problem! I don't have phone!!!....
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Try flashing a stock ROM using the flashtool and report back.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
Where can I download Stock Rom? What Stock ROM? ICS or GB?

Thanx...Tonight...i'll flash...then report!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
From the stickys in general, and I would go with ICS.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
I've flashed various ICS stock ROMS...and the problem is the same...Insert SIMCard and restart the phone...

I've used Flashtool 0.9...is there any problem with this version?

Please...any solution? Is my phone dead?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
Today I've used SEUS to Update from GB to ICS...and the problem is the same. Still saying...No SIMCARD detected, only emergency calls...or...insert SIM CARD and restart the phone...

What can i do?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Have you taken it out and give it a wipe?

Sent from my Phone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
What???? Sorry but I don''t understand you....
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Have you taken the sim card out of the Phone?

Sent from my Phone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
Yes...

And the result is the same...SIM CARD not detected, only emergency calls.

Any solution???
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adielee:
Maybe try put another sim card into your phone and/or your sim card into another phone to test.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
I put the SIM on another phone...and SIM seems to be functionally!!! But the same SIM in Xperia Arc nope!

I'll tried anothers SIMS in arc and the result is the same...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
After reading many webs...I believe that I found the solution...

Just in this forum...there is a thread with No sim card detected and Emergency Calls...after many tries...solution is Omnius Server and Unlock by certificate replacement. I bought a Single Android License Unlock...tonight I'll try this...if it's resolves my problem, xperia arc will be my phone...if not...BRICK ARC WITH MY HANDS!!! Muahahahahahahaha...

Post results tonight!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredo31:
hello!

I've got the same problem as you but with my xperia play R800i.

I unlocked it with omnius. I bought a Single Android License Unlock.

Now, it doesn't recognise the sim card.

Could you tell me if you have solved your problem.

Sorry I'm french I don't speak english very well.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeO2K1:
All OK!!!! Successfully my Xperia Arc is fully functional...

I bought a Single Android License Unlock from a reseller of Omnius Server in Spain. Only I Need is download Omnius client, connect TestPoint (Clip to bridge 2 GND in Xperia Arc...i don't know on Xperia Play, see testpoint tutorials or Omnius Help!)...then...Network Unlock by certificate replacement...3 seconds left...Power On Xperia Arc...and...

You Hou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

SIMLOCK removed, SIM CARD Reconigzed and the best BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED!!!!! Muahahahahaaahahahaha...

And that's all!

My best 22 € inverted!

Thanks for all 2 people, tutorials, etc... and Omnius-Server also!

See u !!!

Happy Flashing!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echoedge:
Which Android devices can boot from mini-SD card besides the Nook?

+5 points (redeemable to your self-confidence for helping someone in need) to anyone who can share this information.

Please tell.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leapinlar:
Nook Tablet. LOL
[Nokia Lumia 800] ybregeon:
I just had my Lumia 800 unsimlocked officialy by my operator (Orange France) this morning, after receiving a code. My phone now works with different micro-sim, as I wanted. I am a beginner with the Lumia so forgive my stupid question please: now that my mobile is desimlocked, do I have to consider it unbranded? Is it the same? Next time I will make a firmware update through Zune, will it detect this fact and install me an "non-branded" rom?

Thanks for your answers.

I love this forum, so usefull:silly:
[HTC One S] K-Nose:
Hello everybody.

i have a problem....with my freshly unlocked S.

I first started off with the aio and unlocked my OneS and flashed twrp afterwards.

Then I flashed my first ROM (Liquid), did a full wipe and did a reboot...but it hangs in the boot animation.

With another ROM i got the same result...so iswitched the to clockword mod recovery i flashed again....same result.

Can someone give me a hint what could be wrong????
[HTC One S] baseballfanz:
Usually TWRP will flash the boot.img for you. I have heard situation where it doesn't.

Just extract the boot.img from the ROM file and use fastboot.

fastboot flash boot boot.img
[HTC One S] K-Nose:
That did the Trick! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kadosEidetic:
I noticed that my brother had ICS for his droid razr maxx and so I went about updating my phone so that I could have ICS as well. During the first attempt it downloaded fine, rebooted and started the installation. During the installation though it stopped around 30-40%? ish and rebooted saying the update failed. I have had this problem before and so I thought it was because my phone didn't have some of the applications that It came with from Motorola. I recovered it to my last recovery which I saved with everything still installed but the phone still rooted. The installation didn't work so I figured that I would just factory reset and try it again, thinking the phone would update then.

Phone: Droid razr X912, stock ROM, no root, Superuser is installed but does not work, installed OTA root keeper to check if I had root but didn't work. Bootstrap doesn't work.

Where I am now:

1. Stock ROM

2. factory reset

3. Gingerbread 2.3.6

4. No root and unable to re root

5. Cannot update ICS

Where I am trying to get:

1. Either I would like to get back to one of my recoveries that I made using CMrecovery or

2. Get to ICS.

What I have read so far:

Something about locking the bootloader. Said to use some adb reboot recovery command in a command prompt? I am really new at this so I don't know what this means(should provide somewhat of a idea of how much I know) I can read articles if someone can point me in the right direction

I am unsure what to do in this situation. Thanks.

Edit: Tried Doomlords unrooting script and that didn't work, Says that the phone is in R/O mode most likely (that is my conclusion) from reading a few articles.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] baune7:
Ok...I'm no expert but I can tell you what I would would do and hopefully we can you all fixed up. So you're on stock Gingerbread right? Do you have the stock recovery too or a different one? Anyways try booting into recovery, wipe the cache, do a factory reset/data wipe, clear cache again. Then restart the phone to see if it boots up all good.

Now, do you have the official ICS .211 .zip update file? I'm assuming you do, make sure it's on the "external" SD card. Shut the phone down, and boot back into recovery. Select update.zip from SD card and run the update. Give it plenty of time to run. Sometimes it seems like it is hanging but it's just thinking. Might take in upwards of 10-15 minutes to run through completely so make sure you have a full battery before beginning.

Mine did hang and installation failed. This is actually common when doing a forced update in recovery. Don't worry, all you have to do is force shut it down and repeat the above steps and run the install again. It "should" install fine on the second try, mine did and many others on here too. After it's finished and you're all booted up you should be on the official .211 ICS version.

If you want to root, search for matt's utility for the .211 version (I believe it's the 1.7 version) and simply follow those instructions, works great and don't forget to donate. He's saved lots of us RAZR users. Also, if you want the .215 leaked update, get Voodoo OTA rootkeeper, run that, get the .215 .zip update file from you're external SD card in recovery.

When all is said and done. You should be on the most recent stock .215 ICS version, and rooted. Hope this helps

Edit.. .If this doesn't work, and I don't know if it will, I hope it does, you'll probably have to use RSD to flash a stock image. I think they are .fxz files, not sure. I've never used RSD on my RAZR, only my OG Droid1.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kadosEidetic:
Thanks for the Reply, I do not have the .211 ICS .zip, Though if you or anyone else know where to find it? I do know how to do the force install that you recommended that I do.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sk842018:
http://eclipserom.com/vforum/showth...cial-4-0-4-(211-OTA)-Fastboot-Files-for-XT912

There you go
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kadosEidetic:
Thank you. Will try it and let you know if that worked! :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] n8w:
Matt's utility (found in the Dev forum) is really all you need. I'm guessing that having bootstrap installed is one of the issues as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kadosEidetic:
Oh, I will check that right now while I wait for the ics rom to download, thanks for more options, may try it first if it is all that I need.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sk842018:
You can get the utility at same link I posted earlier..^^^
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kadosEidetic:
I just wanted to let you know that I did get it working again with your help! I ended up having to use RDSLite to restore it but its back up and got it working again! Thanks so much guys!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gstar1897:
Tried the ics t-mobile leak and worked awesomely for me! (goo.gl/aQuKS) its German but Google translates it brilliantly!

another opportunity is (like I did) installing miui which is officially supported and use Nova launcher if u like.

Nevertheless, T-Mobile leak works like a charm!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] willbe90:
did you get it re-rooted again?

I was having an issue with the update also. Had to go through an arduous process but finally figured it out.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mediumsteak:
Hey when I use the sense keyboard, the vibration intensity is just fine. As soon as I switch to ICS or gingerbread keyboards, the vibration goes through the roof - each key you press make the phone shake horrendously.

Any thoughts as how to lower the vibration intensity on ICS/Gingerbread keyboards? These 2 keyboards are much more user friendly and simple to use than the bundled Sense keyboard

Also, what other keyboards do you suggest? Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] _MetalHead_:
Try a 3rd party keyboard like Swift Key 3. Aside from the fact that it is easily the best keyboard out there, you can adjust the vibration intensity.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] theking_13:
Here ya go, for the ICS/JB keyboards.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
Hi

I recently restored my Nexus with the toolkit but when it put the files back, I think a permissions problem has occurred. I can rename folders, but I can't delete them. I have a rather large folder that I can't get rid of. When I try in various programs, it says delete failed, or no permissions, etc.

I am rooted, and have installed Terminal emulator, but am not terribly familiar with how to use it.

Any tips would be helpful.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
Simple solution might just be that your file explorer app doesn't have root access. Force stop it in apps->settings, check your superuser app and clear any saved entries for it, and launch the app again. It should request root privileges.

Where are the files/folders in question located? If they're in a secure place like /system/ then it's more likely to be the above scenario. If they're just in your sdcard folder, are they user made, or at all special?

Edit: Also in the future, this sort of thing is what the Q&A forum is for.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
I was using Root explorer, and have granted it root access

It is in /SDcard, so it shouldn't be anything that's protected
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
Did you check the permissions for what you're trying to delete? They're displayed right in the normal view in root explorer, and you can edit them from the long press menu.

Anything unusual about the files/folders themselves? Were they created on the phone? By you? By apps? Copied and pasted over USB from a computer? You could try deleting from your computer over USB.

As for command line options, you can try 'rm -r [path]' for a folder and just 'rm [path]' for a file. rm is the delete(remove) command, -r is the recursive flag to apply the action to all items in the directory if a directory is the target. Pretty sure that you can do that straight from terminal emulator on your phone, and from a command prompt over usb you'd need to use 'adb shell' first.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
In root explorer the info under the folder says

rwxrwxr -x

I'm pretty sure that the problem started when I restored from the nexus toolkit on pc. I had a similar problem with my camera in that it couldn't save pictures to a folder, but all I did was rename the folder, and the camera app created a new one.

rm -r [path] in terminal emulator says "permission denied"

EDIT

upon further googleing, the 'chmod' command might be what I want, but I'm not sure which syntax is right.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
For chmod you want 'chmod [number] [path]', where number is a string that's a bit complicated to explain. You can learn about it by googling chmod probably better than I could type it out here on the fly. But if you use 777, it should assign full permissions, which would display as rwxrwxrwx in root explorer.

You can achieve the exact same effect in root explorer though, long press and choose permissions and you'll get a 3x3 grid. All boxes checked= full permissions, same as chmod 777. The three lower boxes for special permissions should be unchecked (fyi, they would turn chmod's numeric component into a 4 digit number, and as far as I know, android doesn't really use them at all).

Also, did you type su in terminal first? It doesn't innately have root (just like any app) so you need to do that and confirm the popup first. You'll need to do this before using chmod, and if you didn't do it before using rm, try it again.

Worth a try but just for reference, rwxrwxr-x is the normal permissions set for folders on the sdcard, so that's not immediately looking like a problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
at the top of root explorer, theres a button that says mount r/w. press it, now it should say mount r/o. go ahead and delete that file now :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
Found the button, but didn't work :(

it might be the files within the folder, rather than the folder itself. going into it, some of the files have a shield on them

When I go into its permissions, some of them were unchecked. I checked the 9 at the top, and it says:

"permissions change was not successful. Please note that some files systems (e.g. SD card) do now allow permission changes."
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
Well under normal circumstances, individual files on your sdcard should have permissions rw-rw-r--, and folders have rwxrwxr-x. (For reference, this is read as read, write, execute for Root, System, and Other, with dashes indicating that a permission is denied. So rwxrwxr-x means all permissions are granted to all three groups except for write to Other). This ties into larger aspects of the OS that basically exist to stop individual apps from reading or writing whatever they want without being included in groups.

The fact that you can't do something that shouldn't require elevated permissions, and you're getting that kind of error when you try to execute commands with higher permissions, suggests to me that your sdcard partition is using the wrong filesystem. Sort of sounds like a program tried to treat it like a real sdcard and formatted it to something else, in which case I have a hunch you're going to need to back up your data and do a full reset.

You might get a simpler solution if you ask in the thread for the toolkit you used. It's not something I have any experience with so good luck.

Out of curiosity, are you on Jellybean now? Jellybean changed the address for the sdcard partition, so if the toolkit wasn't updated to reflect this, it seems like the likely place things may have gone wrong.

---------- Post added at 07:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:53 PM ----------

Actually if you want to check if it's using the right filesystem, run the command 'mount' from terminal. It'll give you a bunch of information, probably towards the bottom will be a line that mentions sdcard. Mine reads as

/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard0 fuse [more info about how it's currently mounted]

Yours -should- say that if you're on JB. If you're not, it should say something instead of /storage/sdcard0 (maybe /mnt/sdcard? I forget how it was on ICS). If it says something in place of fuse that may be the problem.

..I actually think mount used to say that the sdcard block was formatted as yaffs2, while everything else was formatted as ext4. Or maybe I just looked up that it was yaffs2 online, not from terminal on my phone? I wonder if this whole thing is the reason why some people seem bootloop-prone when flashing JB roms, if the changes have cut out access to important information about the filesystem, it may be triggering a really long error scan if their sdcard partition is large.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
yes, backed up in ICS, and went to Jellybean.

doing a 'mount', I believe the line reads

/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,realtime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

The files that have the shield icon have permissions:

rw-rw-r--
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JoeSyr:
Yeah so everything that I can think of for you to check seems to be displaying as though normal. Although I don't know what aspect of these files root explorer is reading to mark them as protected and put the little shield on them.

You've tried these methods (rm, chmod) on individual files within the folder too, right? I guess this comes more from experience deleting protected files in windows, but I've found that sometimes a folder will deny deletion as long as it contains protected files, but it's relatively easy to give yourself permission to delete the individual files one by one, after which the folder goes down too. Possibly time consuming without a batch function, but easy.

My understanding of the fuse filesystem, by the way, is that it's just a virtual layer that allows the sdcard block to be treated differently than everything else on the phone, which is important for what happens when you plug it into a computer and the device is read. And I believe that the sdcard is supposed to be formatted as yaffs2 (everything else is ext4). Not sure how to check that directly, but it's possible that it has been changed to something else. But unless you can't delete -anything- on the sdcard, this seems unlikely.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
yeah, I tried deleting files individually on the phone, and in windows. Wont let me do anything.

I guess the only sure fire method of clearing these files at the moment is to do a factory reset.

I can back up my stuff with titanium, so not that big a deal.

Your assistance has been much appreciated

:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cilraaz:
Try deleting them directly from /data/media instead. If you're able to delete them there, reboot afterwards to ensure /storage/sdcard0, /sdcard, and /mnt/sdcard are updated properly.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warlock257:
That worked :laugh:

It's gone from all those folders.

Thanks very much!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gnocchi_ny:
+1 This worked for me as well. Thanks for posting...:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] warhummer:
Had the same problem. Deleting through the /media path worked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chetqwerty:
+4 You Sir are a genius! Thanks given!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Revenant Ghost:
Sorry to necro this thread almost 4 years later, but I had the exact same issue with deleting a folder on internal storage (Android Lollipop). Regardless if you're still here on XDA or not: thanks for this solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mirhl:
So.. Not really a I9250, but I guess my problem on i9100 is the same.

For some weird reason this just happened to WhatsApp directory.. But whatever.

After digging deeper and deeper in recovery, it seems like the folder wasn't own by media_rw group, but root

I just had to run

chown -R 1023:1023 <folder-path>

For some weird reason neither chown nor ls -l were correctly working when booted on normal system
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WisdomHunter:
[MENTION=2962632]Cilraaz[/MENTION], I have no idea if you're still on XDA but after at least a week of intense searching I found your advice which solved my problem! Thank you.

My problem was on i9500 (still) running stock Lollipop. I've been preparing to install a custom recovery, and did a TWRP (2.8.7.0) nandroid backup. Problem was I then couldn't find the TWRP backup folder. It would only show in TWRP's file manager. Root Browser didn't show it with SU privileges, nor ES File Browser and connecting it to the PC didn't help either. It's only after looking in /data/media/0 that I could find the TWRP folder. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maxxx23:
DUDE I LOVE YOU I SEARCHED FOR THIS FOR 6 DAYS NOW
[HTC EVO 3D] 00mpollard:
This little mod will improve your GTA 3 graphics dramatically!

Just download attached rar file (gta3_full_effects.rar), and copy extracted file (gta.set) to: /sdcard/Android/data/com.rockstar.gta3/files/GTA3

- backup existing one

Basically it is .set file from Xperia Play

and that's it, now all of the effects are enabled (such as car lights, traffic lights, raindrops and a lot more)

See the screen to see difference.

Run's beautifully on my Evo 3D!

Thanks to infazz over at the Sensation section for the original upload. Just thought i would share it!

:good:
[HTC EVO 3D] Roca22:
Thank, very much
[HTC EVO 3D] 00mpollard:
They are fine for me...hmm

Does this work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nvmehaterz:
Let me try and make this an easy question. I used to be able to go to the play store and purchase apps on my att acct, now its only giving me an option to buy thru credit card only. Is there something I did to make that option go away or is it not an option on the new gapps? I'm running milestone 6 from, not sure if that matters. I flashed the latest gapps dated back in may I believe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Kflan22:
They got rid of that on newer phones and updated play store...I called google about that and they said att and other carriers are no longer doing that as it cuts out a lot of issues with billing and shizz..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] mikeqjames:
I had the same problem. I cleared the data from the play store about five times and the option finally came back. It was just trial and error.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] T3hBraveBoss:
How to update clockworkmod recovery,trying to flash cm9 and cm10 but I recieve a status 7 installation aborbted error. So i assume cwm needs to be updated
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gtuansdiamm:
I believe its still an Odin flash
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] T3hBraveBoss:
Can you elaberate please