yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] rcraig617:
I Googler and couldn't find a solution so I just make sure to charge when I'm not using so I have a full battery most of the time. If you do find something please post I'd appreciate it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niczoom:
Can a modifiaction like the 'Circel Battery Mod' be done dynamically (run as an app), or does it have to be embedded into SystemUI.apk to work?

Can an app also change these system settings (modifications) to accomplish this? or does any system/framework change 'have' to be baked into the apk?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] confyzone:
Hiya every one,

I just recently switched from a SGS2 Skyrocket to this One X Evita

I have a few questions,

1. I've already unlocked the bootloader and done the root guide for the rogers one x, and in the bootloader menu it says **tampered** and **unlocked** which is what i want if im not mistaken, however i do not have a SuperSU or Superuser app in my phone's menus, so the question is should I? or do i just download one from the playstore?

2. On a scale of 1 to 10 what would people rate the difficulty of flashing custom software on this phone as?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
1 your doing it right. Download supersu from the playstore. Run it. Then GooManager from the playstore. Install TWRP (it is a recovery for your phone) by clicking the menu button and selecting install openrecoveryscript.

Then you can download a Rom onto your sd card, and flash it through your newly installed twrp.

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2. I can flash stuff while driving... It's pretty easy.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] E.Cadro:
Great now they will ad no flashing while driving to the no texting while driving. What you get a ticket for? flashing while driving :p

Sent from my HTC One XL using Forum Runner
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] confyzone:
Just tried supersu and I was told no binaries are installed

Edit I think I know where I failed as I forgot to run the bat as admin

Edit 2: Got SuperSu up and running, and flashed TWRP through Goomanger, I'm used to CWM on the skyrocket so hopefully not much of a difference
[HTC One S] blinksilver:
Can someone attach the android info txt from from the latest t-mobile build? I'm on linux so getting it out of the ruu is a bit of a pain.
[Android] Matias.s:
hi everyone, i was wondering if its possible to use ics libs on gingerbread. What's the merge point?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsmas:
Hi, friends. I flashed a few custom roms and kernels, also quite a few applications. Now I want to start fresh with a new custom rom and installing afresh applications. I do not know what kind of folders and files are in Internal SD card (accumulated over a peroid of time). Can I format the internal SD card, just before flashing a new rom. if so how? thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahilarora2003:
If you are on safe kernel then yes you can format your internal sd card. Just go to SETTINGS>STORAGE>FORMAT SDCARD(INTERNAL STORAGE)

:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.ketan:
Yes you can format as above said by sahil, but make sure to copy DCIM folder, if your camera having default setting and your snaps are there. Same way copy any other folder, which you have manually create/edited like music/videos. Rest of folder will recreate as system need.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Another alternative is to mount in windows and format there, as Dr k said keep the dcim folder.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baz77:
note that on some kernels, the emmc and sdcard are swapped, so format sdcard can sometimes wipe external.

Happened to me unfortunately a couple if times so take caution and remove external and format both to be sure
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacktackle:
Dr. Ketan,

i've formated my internal SD with panasonic sd formater there after it's not reading the internal SD. when i went to CWM recovery and wipe factory and now it's stuck in boot screen.

is there any kernel which can fix my internal sd?

i was on JB 4.1.2

thanks awaiting ans
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soldjer330:
philz kernel myabe? its fine for me
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazibasit:
U might have formatted ur sd card with different file system. So format it with exfat or ntfs
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikashrastogi:
Hi All,

I have done repartitioning to my N7000 (using 16GB internal + 16GB ext card) with Odin with PIT file & the required *.md5 and used the 10gb Data partition PIT file.

But after reboot the application partition completed, but the rest partition not showing and giving error of "Blank USB storage"

I have tried to connect with PC to format it, but also there the partition is not able to format.

Kindly help if anybody have faced the same issue and done some solution to restore this internal memory.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=6041351]vikashrastogi[/MENTION] PIT file is usually flashed aside and together with an entire stock firmware.

I have no clue how could your phone survive such attempt :D

tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
Method derived from this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769411

IF YOU TAKE AN OTA AFTER DOING THIS AND VERIZON/SAMSUNG DECIDE TO UPDATE BOOTLOADER

IT COULD BRICK YOUR PHONE

THANKS TO ADAM OUTLER FOR HIS DISCOVERY ON HOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

I DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS, JUST A WAY FOR NOOBS LIKE ME TO DO IT ON WINDOWS EASILY!

*** MUST BE ROOTED

*** MUST HAVE USB DRIVERS FOR SGS III INSTALLED

*** VERIZON ONLY !!!!

MD5

aboot.img 0BA9AD45FC15CF3D62AF7DD363686B3F
stockboot.img 149B318C76A3EEFD495FCFA98BCDAF28

NOTES:

1. No responsibility taken for bricks. sorry.

2. This is confirmed working on my device and many others

3. Restore method taken away.

4. The bootloader used in unlock is from adam outlers method

5. How do you know it worked ? Samsung splash screen is blazing fast when unlocked and phone boots faster

opposite when locked, right now thats the only way besides actually trying to flash something like a kernel.

Download zip

here

HOW TO UNLOCK:

**** IF YOU HAVE ANY PROGRAMS THAT SYNC WITH YOUR PHONE THEY NEED TO BE UNINSTALLED OR NOT RUNNING BECAUSE THEY CAN CAUSE BRICKS, Pdanet, easytether, droid explorer, kies, etc., etc., on down the line. I repeat if you have a program on your computer that syncs with your phone, it is NOT COOL TO HAVE THAT RUNNING! ****

1. menu > settings > develop options > (unplug phone) > usb debugging > ok > (plug in phone)

[USB DEBUGGING HAS TO BE CHECKED !]

2. If you are not rooted, get rooted first !

3. download the zip and extract somewhere you will be able to find it

4. pick option 1 and your done

I removed the restore to stock, because it was causing problems, however if you want to restore your backup that the program makes simply run this from command line

adb shell su -c "dd if=/sdcard/bootloader_backup.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5"

or in terminal emulator

su -c "dd if=/sdcard/bootloader_backup.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5"

IMPORTANT NOTES: YOU CAN NOW RESTORE BOOTLOADER COMING FROM ANY OTHER METHOD [/SIZE]

SOURCE FOUND HERE http://pastebin.com/yFXFQihb

____________________
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] con247:
Link broken. Probably because I haven't paid $50 for CleanRom yet
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Watanuki-Kun:
Link works fine if you remove the xda developer part in your hyperlink

http://www.chrisridgeway.com/http://xdaforums.com/unlock_VZW_sgs3.zip to

http://www.chrisridgeway.com/unlock_VZW_sgs3.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
yeah true story.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hmong_Xiong:
Lol nice job! Thanks!

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] azbobs:
So someone won the bounty for unlocking the bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] asenduk:
Is this process reversible?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Morocotopo0301:
I can't believe this is actually happening! Feels like a dream come true! :eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
no need to be ignorant, never sold a rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stevenjcampbell:
Yes I wonder too. As in warranty return needed, can we go back or is there evidence it'd be locked for good.

I wonder..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elite49:
Will try one of the two ways of unlocking later today. OP is this all the instructions? We don't even plug the phone in?/ Lmfao no seriously the instructions need to be more specific.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Skyrocketing:
Good stuff! Excited to see how this affects the S3 ROM development
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Shibby87:
+1 any hints on whether this is possible or not?

Sent from my rooted Verizon SGIII running CM10
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
good question i can make it reversible. I'll add that now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hesh.monster:
I thought to reverse all that was needed was to flash the stock files through ODIN, or is this method different than Adams?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] seittit:
Thanks XDA for making a grown man shed a tear of joy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fsunoles157:
how can i check to see if it took and i am unlocked?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
Yeah but why gothrough all the trouble when you can just restore it the same way you flashed it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
adb reboot bootloader

should say qualcomm secure = on (something like that)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
My little tool now unlocks and relocks without the need for ODIN.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fsunoles157:
just to be sure if we are unlocked it should say Qualcomm secureboot = Enable
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scott:
It doesnt affect the flag in Download mode. It will still say enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duarian:
If we unlocked by pushing the boot image via terminal emulator, should we avoid using your re lock method? Or would it be safe to unlock again so we can re lock in the future?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSavvy2:
So I'm gonna go out on a limb and state that I used it and ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION to what it told me. It backed up my previous bootloader and saved for re-locking if I so choose to do that. However, my question here is if one decided he likes your methods here, and wanted to have a backup of stock locked bootloader.....but already flashed the unsecured one earlier, how might I go back really quick so I can make a backup of it?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and see if I can answer my question, but please confirm with me. I saw the files in the R&D thread that he had the samsung factory images for odin - both bootloader and PDA images directly from samsung. Might we just flash those to return to stock, then use your tool so we have a functional backup of it? I dunno here, help please?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
At this point you would not want to relock with this method if already unlocked with another method, as it only restores the backup created by the unlock. However tomorrow it will be universal, just have to change it, need to get a copy of the stick bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSavvy2:
Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that by you unlocking it, it just backed up your current aboot.img (which is already unlocked) so you just effectively saved your backup as something that's already unlocked.....maybe see my post too, I'm wondering about this also. Relocking wouldn't do anything unless you ran it to unlock and created a backup (as stated in op).

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Awesome!!! Ignore my posts then.....lol. Thanks for the insight.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
Your correct and the OP clearly states only to relock with this if used to unlock. This will change tomorrow when i get a copy of stock bootloader and can make our universal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duarian:
Yep. This is why I always double check before doing anything haha. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] p-slim:
This procedure worked flawlessly and effortlessly, thanks op
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Srambo217:
Jellybean... Soon...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tedkord:
OP - thanks for making this easy for Windows users. But, I'm a little confused by the instructions (I'm not very bright, never have been). Do I need to be booted into download, or recovery or just booted into Android to make this work? Do I need to be on a stock Rom, or can I do this with a custom Rom or kexec kernel loaded?

Sorry for all the questions, I just don't want to brick.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] doeboy711:
You should just have to be in any rom, stock or custom (which means having stock or custom kernel doesn't matter either). Just have the phone on and run the program listed in the OP and you should be good to go. I will be doing this when I get home from work in about 1.5 hours. It should not change anything about your phone except that it's not has an unlocked bootloader and should not wipe any data.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
Thank Adam Outler!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
The procedure should be done while phone is plugged in at the home screen. The unlock procedure can be done in any circumstance where you have root. However the relock should only be done of you have restored to stock or plan to do so immediately following the relock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] junjlo:
Unlocked Bootloader

nice job
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] halfcab123:
Thanks :) and thanks to Adam outler
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tedkord:
Thanks for the reply. Had a look at your source, looks like you need ADB setup on the PC, too. I know that's probably obvious to most, but to relative noobs like me, it may be an important point.

Any way, thanks again for making this so easy for people like me. I'll be unlocking tonight when I get home from work (and have a PC already setup with Samsung USB drivers and ADB.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hanoverfiste:
Im an idiot

adb reboot bootloader

Phone goes into download mode showing Qualcomm enabled

How do I then get out of download mode?? Told you Im an idiot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] redbearde:
turn it off and turn it back on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hanoverfiste:
I don't know why I thought there was another way. Thanks told you I'm an idiot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] doeboy711:
Thanks op for your tool to Adam's awesomeness! I just got done using your method and it worked great!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrpickem:
Does this mean we can return to standard recovery after unlocking BL...or must we continue using Kexec recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FryDay444:
Flash the normal CWM 6 from EZ Recovery and you can flash without kexec.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mystikalrush:
Bit new to having unlocked bootloader, coming from a DX that never got it, but is this basically what having a unlocked bootloader does in a nutshell?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Touch recovery worked for me... running cm10 booted up fine in seconds! Feels like a nexus galaxy on speed!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
Lates cm10 or did they make a non kexec one?

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Khishawn:
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I wanted to double check before I do anything.

Before I use the above unlocker would I have to do this:?

http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/

and then I would just use the OP program?

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ahodson1985:
Correct. Install drivers and adb via the sdk, then you'll be fine since it's just a handful of adb commands being automated to reduce human error when flashing
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Khishawn:
Thanks a lot! Im so excited to be unlocked. Hopefully we will soon have some fresh roms to flash on :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
LOL, I'm getting a kick now out of all the posters that flew off the handle & switched from VZ to another service with horrible service just to get an unlocked bootloader........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
I tried unlock and relocked. It worked.

When you relock you get a wrong message at the end "you are unlocked" instead of "you're locked". Batch needs to be modified.

Still waiting for the info how to check if you're unlocked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] spiderj:
When I try to run the Android SDK Tools setup from that link, I get an error $(^Name) has stopped working. any thoughts on what that is about?

I have downloaded it twice and same thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmotyka:
So my dumb ass decides to use you tool while running a kexec cm10 rom and i stupidly flashed non kexec twrp recovery so after using your tool i had bootloops, now what made it worse is i forgot to put the "non kexec" version of cm10 on my sdcard so i couldnt flash. So i was able to recovery from this series of retarded decisions by pushing the cm10 to my phone while in recovery i then from there was able to flash cm10(non-kexec). So if any of you end up in predicament like i was all you have to do is adb push the rom you need to your phone while in twrp :)

I know this is a bunch of mumbo jumbo but im at work and had to post quickly. I will clean this up a bit later. :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Not sure. It says 8/15 it runs awesome and phone does not get warm at all like on stock

http://goo.im/devs/invisiblek/i535/...2vzw-CM10-invisiblek-KANG-08-15-2012-1920.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XTRoRDiNAiRE:
yesterday i did the method that adamoutler posted

then today i did this one..is my phone going to blow up?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmotyka:
YES!!! With 100% certainty it will blow up!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Duck and roll!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
Can anyone tell me if I Odin to root66 will my bootloader be locked?

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ericlmccormick:
What is the best way to verify that the bootloader is truely unlocked?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
Boot up your phone. If the "SAMSUNG" flys by really fast the there u go.

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
I concur. On a side note I'm on cm10 and if I set the kernel to powersave the phone still feels very fast and pulls 2900 on quadrant still. I wonder if this might get me 5 hrs of screen time? Maybe if I turn off lte it will get me 6?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XTRoRDiNAiRE:
so exactly how much time do i have before it blows up:crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ericlmccormick:
Got it, the Samsung screen used to show up and say unlocked, but now Samsung flashes for a millisecond and then moves on. Cool!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antawnm26:
Damn, seriously three post up which is the OP explains that...lmao
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
So my experience with this method so far.

1. I unlocked. Phone rebooted. The padlock went away.

2. I relocked. Phone rebooted. The padlock didn't come back.

I have no idea if the relocked worked.

There is no method as per yet to find out if you're locked or not other than the padlock being visible or not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Flip35:
Op after unlocking the bootloader with this method if we already had root end custom recovery, do we still get to keep the cwm recovery and if so would we still be able to flash roms like we used to?, and kernels since we couldnt before without kebec method? Noob here so just trying to find out info anyways thank for creating for windows u dont knw how exciting this is, i dreamed of this moment, lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thisiswang:
i didn't have padlock even when i was rooted
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antawnm26:
flash a kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
Flash the sprint kernel through odin. If it fails, you're locked and if it passes, you're unlocked. Your phone won't boot with the latter but at least you'll know. :laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] redbearde:
Okay, so when I ran the batch file and my phone didn't reboot, should I assume it didn't work?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
I'll try that and report back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] loryndm:
Another grown man has shed a tear...today is a great day for humans, geeks and those in the pursuit of intellectual freedom!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
Had that backwards the first time. If you're locked, it should fail in Odin and your device will boot. If you're unlocked, it will pass and flash the kernel but cause the phone to get stuck on boot up in which case you'll likely need to odin the stock Verizon kernel. Here's a video from Adam showing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vJxPT4eEg&feature=player_embedded
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crazydad:
Ok ... So kinda new to this samsung phone. What is good about unloking bootloader??? Is there an auto root that will unlock the bootloader?? dont get why unlocking the bootloader is good. Thunderbolt had it unlocked when i rooted it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
I cannot find an odin flashable custom kernel to test this. I checked the s3 sprint forum. A little bit of help here guys and I'll test it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
That's because part of the initial root procedure required flashing an older engineering bootloader to get S-OFF as it was locked from the factory with S-ON and then rooting. The unlocked bootloader now allows us to avoid having to use kexec for custom kernels and also makes the phone slightly less brickable. And as Adam said in the other thread, developers will have a lot more confidence in modifying things knowing that it's most likely recoverable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Cyc323:
A quick question

I am using Bean's built 8. Will this work for me, or do I need to return to stock mode before I can unlock the bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crazydad:
Thanks for your quick reply!!! I get it now!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
Beans is using a kexec kernel. It will work but then in order to use it properly you have to wait for a beans rom without a kexec kernel.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Flip35:
PJ so now we can flash any rom from any recovery? we dont need to switch recoveries like we used to to flash cm10, so i can just keep cwm and flash away like my gnex right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
From my understanding, the custom kernels in CM9/10 and others were made to work with kexec. Saw somewhere that you'd need to wait until the developers redid the kernels but not 100% sure on that.

No idea. Sure it's floating around somewhere. Maybe http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1820884 or http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1741905. Not sure if one of those are the ones though. And you're more brave than I am. lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SJUnion:
I know this had been said, but thank you and Adam. You guys could not have made this any easier for the enthusiasts here.

We are split up in an interesting mix here on XDA...the super geeks, and the normal geek. As a normal geek with no super powers, this just rocks.

Im still just kinda looking at my phone...like...wha...that was easy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
Unbelievable.

I flashed with Odin this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1820884

Post #6.

It passed and the phone rebooted.

Clean ROM 1.1 started normally with this Sprint kernel.:laugh:

Here is the screenshot.

So I do have an unlocked bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
Are you normally roaming? Or is that just a side effect of it being a sprint kernel?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boomerod:
Thanks, OP! That was so damn easy it makes me want to slap my momma!

Not sure I had to, but after 1st reboot from your app it hung at Samsung Galaxy S III splash screen...got in patient and did a battery pull. On power up phone booted to home screen in record time. Sweet!