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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] PeartFan40:
XDA is not a help site, and we don't encourage members to create help threads just to get someone else to show you, what you could have looked up yourself. The answers are there, if you put some effort into it. This is the wrong section, btw.

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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
[Motorola Droid 4] fade_to_red:
I noticed this morning that there were repeated messages stating that "shell is requesting/granted superuser permissions". After rebooting my phone, nothing looked different. Then I read an article online on phandroid (unable to post links currently.) that mentioned a "rootchecker". I confirmed what I found after going into recovery "q/e 1/1" on my phone. Sorry about the noob type question here. Has anyone come up with a counter reset for this? Or are we more or less due to the locked bootloader?
[Motorola Droid 4] The Magician Type 0:
So far no way to reset the counter has been found. The best you can do is unroot and get a 0/1, but that's practically pointless. I'll let you know if things change.
[Motorola Droid 4] gdeeble:
Has anyone try to format the entire phone, and then fast boot back?
[Motorola Droid 4] The Magician Type 0:
Someone mentioned trying that, but I never heard the results.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Pretty sure the two things you saw are unrelated. The repeated superuser requests come from /system/bin/dumpstate. It was doing that on my phone too but I just manually killed it and that stopped. For qe you need to remove qe from the boot partition, some of the custom roms here have removed it already.
[Motorola Droid 4] jsnweitzel:
Fastbooting back to stock will show qe 0/1, tried it yesterday on my spare D4
[Motorola Droid 4] danifunker:
It's almost like Motorola has us all figured out! This and the unrootable Atrix HD... I think we just have to get better. I'm sure there is a root check somewhere in nvram or something
[Motorola Droid 4] podspi:
Whoa. I mean, it probably just writes a value somewhere we can't touch (yet?), but still.
[Motorola Droid 4] Morlok8k:
repeated shell auto-granted permissions

I too have the repeated shell granted superuser permissions.

Its been so annoying, that I've just kept it temp-unrooted until i need root.

You say that it comes from "/system/bin/dumpstate", how do i go about fixing this?

Note: I rooted my phone with the D4 ICS tool. I had been thinking that the problem was with that - maybe it didn't clean up properly after rooting. Now I know that wasn't it.

EDIT: Found out how:
[Motorola Droid 4] Morlok8k:
After doing this, here is what i did in a terminal emulator:

su
mount -o remount,rw /system
chmod 644 /system/bin/dumpstate

i had to do the "644" instead of "a-x" because i kept getting an error message "Bad mode 10|"
[Motorola Droid 4] ebf:
When I entered "chmod a-x /sys/bin/dumpstate", it returned "Bad mode". So I too tried

"chmod 644 /sys/bin/dumpstate" in the adb shell. It returned "No such file or directory". Has something changed from when the instructions in this thread were posted? Or am I doing something wrong.
[Motorola Droid 4] ebf:
No such file??

When I entered "chmod a-x /sys/bin/dumpstate", it returned "Bad mode". So I too tried

"chmod 644 /sys/bin/dumpstate" in the adb shell. It returned "No such file or directory". Has something changed from when the instructions in this thread were posted? Or am I doing something wrong.
[Motorola Droid 4] efreedus:
No such file???

When I entered "chmod a-x /sys/bin/dumpstate", it returned "Bad mode". So I too tried

"chmod 644 /sys/bin/dumpstate" in the adb shell. It returned "No such file or directory". Has something changed from when the instructions in this thread were posted? Or am I doing something wrong.
[Motorola Droid 4] Lum_UK:
It's /system/bin/dumpstate not /sys/bin/dumpstate
[Motorola Droid 4] je2854:
removing execute permissions does not do anything.
[Motorola Droid 4] supraket:
Should I or shouldn't I?

Got my new D4 some 2 months back, unrooted.

Was planning to root it. Now going through this thread, brings me to a question "Should I or shouldn't I?"
[Motorola Droid 4] je2854:
I say.....

You should:

unlock tether, free apps, better phone, harder to replace if something goes wrong (worth it to me)

You shouldn't:

warranty risk, stock performance, easy replacement
[Motorola Droid 4] intellitek:
I haven't personally tried this, but is this executable required for anything else?

Why not rename it and leave a dummy script in it's place?
[Motorola Droid 4] je2854:
I think it would still try to read it (the coding) seeing it is coming from Moto themselves... IDK though.

the file is meant for QE warranty purposes
[Motorola Droid 4] intellitek:
Okay, well, let's say, hypothetically-speaking, somebody was willing to experiment with this.

When exactly does this "rootchecker" run? I guess I'd need to rename/replace it before it runs, but after I've rooted. Or somehow before, although I believe that's currently not possible. I'll try and see if the bin is signed.. not sure how to check if it's actually verifying it on exec, though, without rooting.

EDIT: Nevermind, it looks like it's built into the boot and recovery .img files?
[Motorola Droid 4] je2854:
you -could- ADB shell from recovery and delete it RIGHT AFTER you root. this way there shouldn't be a chance of being detected....
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Annex1:
Yes That's Right! a new version of MIUI is out. And that means I have a Template out for you nice, good themers.

I would like to add... This is the first Template for 4.1.1 JB. KANGERS <- for Trolls

MIUI JB 4.1.1 Theme Template
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Slicktune:
So I Decided To Flash It And My Phone Turned Black...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Annex1:
your not supposed to flash this... It's a theme template, to make MTZ theme for MIUI.

I hope you can get the phone back up a running. 1 question, how, or why did you flash it....? It's a RAR file.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Annex1:
Love the pic you used for this...lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Slicktune:
Nvm False Alarm... Its Up And Runnin again pheww, i confused rar because i dont have a zip app on windows 7 and most of the stuff i dwnload from here comes up as rar so i was like MIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!:eek:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Annex1:
Good to see you got it back up and running. This is just a template to make a theme for the rom...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Woody:
Hello my friend. Nice to see you in here. I picked up a G3 today. Took me all of 10 mins to root it and start modding. If only B would get one, then 3/4 of DD would have an SGS3. Hope to see some more of your work. Hope all us well Annex.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Annex1:
Yeah I keep helping other themers and random fellow XDA members... I miss ZEN. even though there's roms to flash, I can't decide on which one to stay on.... What are you running now?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Woody:
I am just stock/rooted for now. Had it less than 24hrs, so tasting stock for now. Wondering what JB is going to bring and how the butter will be on this beast.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Akuma10:
I recently was running the Amoled Blue theme for Paronoid Android and found out that there was a issue with the Phone.apk. the issue I was having was that when I received a phone call, I was not able to answer since the answer and ignore buttons were bunched up.

The fix is you need to use a file explorer (I use the one from Rom Toolbox) navigate to system -> app -> find and delete the Phone.apk.

Next go to SDCard -> Download -> look for the original Paronoid Android zip folder. Click on it. Go to system ->app -> click on Phone.apk. and then Extract. Take note to where your file explorer stores the apk file (mine made a Extracted folder) look for the Phone.apk. Copy the folder and then paste the Phone.apk into the system folder of your current rom (which should be the AMoLED BLUE Theme) then to the app folder and paste it.

Last you have to fix permissions and set them to rw-r--r--. There you go. Problem fixed.

This worked for me. Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kickthefreak:
can you attach the phone.apk here ? :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Akuma10:
attachment

Hey sorry for the late reply. There is the phone.apk file. All you have to do is download it and edit the permissions to rw-r--r-- and place into the system/app folder. I have taken a screenshot so you can see how to set the permissions. Hope this helps
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] arinoth:
I was wondering if there were any network storage access apps out there for the N7. I'm not looking to stream to it, I'm mainly looking to see/access the files in their native format from my home server to my N7.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] uberNoobZA:
Search play store for smb

AndSMB works for me
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] nm8:
Astro and ES explorer
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] monty13:
Total Commander

With the LAN plugin
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] quidnunc:
Has anyone tested which has the best performance?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] NicholasQ:
Solid explorer is free and has FTP
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] R3dbeaver:
ES Explorer
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] erica_renee:
FX File explorer one of my fav for accessing ftp and lan..

ALSO LIKE xplore.. dual pain explorer also good for ftp lan local Picassa and so on.. NEW to me but i love the dual pane switch thing in this one..

ES FILE ESPLORER Very popular tired and true by many as one of the best.

ASTRO One of the very first and has a app for anything add on modules .

The list can go on and on.

two not very popular are fx explorer and xplore .. give them a try .. My two fav.. For working with ROOT FILES NOTHING BEATS ROOT Explorer.. everyone who owns android should own this one..

Good Luck
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] lostwhat83:
ES Explorer

It has LAN, 6 different cloud storages that you can link, and it has root Explorer built in (enable this feature in options menu). I stream movies from my buddys NAS with this file Explorer. It's free, at least check it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Comet1966:
I would like to have a kernel that will give me good performance but great battery life! What do you guys suggest and post some screenshots of your battery life with the kernel please!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
theres no point in these kind of threads. read the kernel threads and general/q&a, you'll find out why.

Sent from my i9250
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zeinzu:
Stock. More performance means less battery and/or stability and vice versa. Stock was already built to be the median between the three.

Sent from my Stock AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Petrovski80:
That's kind of the same as asking for a 400HP engine that has the fuel efficiency of 5 liter per 100 km.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] camf3xu:
just rooted/unlocked, looking for something to flash. not looking for something with nightly builds, just want something faster that has everything working properly. phones a bit laggy right now, and was hoping to fix that (mostly dealing with messaging)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Well i recommend synergy even though it has nightly builds, it gets better every night :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
flashed synergy as my first s3 rom earlier this week.

Im really liking it.

Ive been looking at a couple others, but im happy with what I have right now. (r60 build)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Young War:
Another vote for Synergy, here.

Sent from Galaxy S III on Verizon (Unlocked Bootloader)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WuTangWindu:
+1 Synergy
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
Synergy
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trbman:
synergy is where it's at so far. until one of these JB builds are more stable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eakrish:
I'm running Beans build 10 with lean kernel .5. I'd say it's pretty stable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] peaceofpi:
Running Synergy R64 from last night - holy awesome! My only issue is finding the right combo to get Google Wallet to work fully again. Have the prepaid card set up no problem, adding others - just sits and waits. When I flashed r60 I had to do a few tries (12) to find the right zip and build.prop settings to make everyone happy
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pyunny:
another for synergy. just flashed earlier this week and currently on r64. for me it seems just as stable as stock with a bettery battery life and smoothness to spare.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] intelinside83:
I'm running CM10 and love it! Jelly Bean is awesome!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
Favorite flavor of ice cream?

.....similar to what this thread is asking.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
LOL exactly.

I flashed the root66 ROM ten minutes after the phone came out of the box (synergy was not out yet) & have never had any reason to flash any further (I have tried all the other ROMs except for CleanROM, but after testing I ALWAYS end up restoring a nandroid of the setup in my sig)

I debloated the setup totally. It is fast as hell, every single app etc. work perfectly, battery life is awesome etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] devilchrist:
running cleanrom. last time i checked synergy thread some had 4g issue.

I like it but has zero benefit from what i see to be rooted. gs3 in stock form is already fantastic.

i'd root to do nandroid backup but that's about it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1ManWolfePack:
Zero benefit?

Again, back to my previous argument. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

How about blocking ads and getting rid of the WiFi popups. That's reason enough to root for me...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] guthrien:
Synergy is like running a better stock phone, it's amazing. The S3 is already so fast I've seen not much difference between it and a Jelly Bean system even stock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ryno77:
What about stock rooted and the root checker verizon installed.... How do you block that on stock rooted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dan_joegibbsfan:
You gotta be careful reading to much into the Synergy thread. I've dirty flashed every build from r23 with zero issues. I noticed a big performance increase with r23 but I got another big performance increase with r64! This phone is unbelievable right now and Ziggy is still working on more kernel magic.

I have not tried any other ROM since Synergy is performing so well.

P.S. I underclock my phone to 1350 with the XDA SetCPU.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yoyoche:
Vote clean rom. Fast, smooth, good battery with clean kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aznguyen316:
Clean Rom + clean kernel was great for me.

i wanted to check Jelly Bean and I must say it's really good. Seems stable to me, I don't know if I could go back, JB is nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antawnm26:
Clean ROM by far,but synergy is a close second

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

He is asking which is more reliable/stable guys not the one with more options...I have ran Scotts Clean ROM and synergy and hands down the Clean ROM is much more stable/reliable
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Pete7ate:
It is more accurate, clearer and stronger.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GatorLCA:
I've been running the 8/29 build of Paranoid Android 2.0 and it's been pretty damn stable. The newer builds seem to have gotten a little more unstable but the JB experience is pretty damn good
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kwhodson:
Beans 10...IMO
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Shibby87:
Synergy remains one of the best ROMs I've ever flashed period. Had it on my Incredible, now on my GS3. I wanted to Odin back to stock before unlocking the bootloader, left stock on it for a day then rooted and flashed a Synergy nand. The battery life alone is worth rooting and unlocking + team Synergy has killed the notorious root checker and OTA updates.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dswann:
I am really liking Synergy. It was my first custom flash. It has been rocked stable and very very smooth!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ajthearmo:
Been running CM10 8-16 build

Everything works minus nfc

I love it and its JB awesomeness; from what I've heard the newer builds have a lot of bugs, 8-16 still works flawless for me! Gps works just turn on wifi to ensure a faster lock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] maxpowerSr:
I have been running Synergy and it has been great for me. Lately, the kernel that comes with it has caused some issues. They will get it sorted quickly but in the meantime, I have installed Imo' Lean Kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ka1z0ku:
Synergy is the best if you want a fast yet reliable experience. If you want to be on the bleeding edge, CM10 official nightlies are full-featured and somewhat less buggy than other 4.1.1 builds. But the tradeoff there is some features are occasionally broken or buggy (MMS, NFC, data). They are a work in progress though and get better with time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] guthrien:
I previously voted Synergy which is as stable and featured as a TouchWiz ROM gets but now I switched to the Jelly Bean build and I don't think I could go back to TouchWiz. Plain Android is so much better.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] douglasf01:
I am running the 9/2 build of paranoid android on my GS3 and I am loving it. the only two issues I have is music playback which seems to "skip" like a cd did when it had a scratch on it, and blue tooth media seems to be a bit scratchy. other than that the 4g, mms, and everything else works like a dream.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tu3218:
Clean ROM is stable as can be. Great battery life an not one thing wrong. Beans 10 was awesome but had a little minor issues but nothing bad. Worse was the battery life I was getting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dswann:
I am hoping to move to cm10 once an official milestone is reached. I am assuming there will not be only nightly builds?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zalithian:
There will be a milestone eventually, but I have no idea when. It's clearly not there yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] guthrien:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1788443

There seem to be a lot of CM10 builds. I'm running this one, I can't find too many faults. NFC works. I suppose, one day, there will be a JB Verizon update and they'll be able to shave the touchwiz cruft off it and all will be perfect.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bock123:
I have to agree that Synergy gets my vote. Besides what has already been mentioned, the commitment and daily dedication of the developers is unmatched.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] piiman:
Well then he should just stick to stock. It is by far the most stable an reliable and no matter what anyone say its just as fast. But what fun is that:o
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Serinety:
Running paranoid, love it. I love synergy and clean Rom is top notch.. But paranoid and all the phablet options just unlock so much potential for this phone. I wouldnt go back... Everything works for me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] flash_27:
It's really hard to go back to 4.0 when you go 4.1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aznguyen316:
Yup. As much as I LOVE and recommend Clean Rom... once I did paranoid and now currently on CM10 9/1 nightly, I just can't go back. I don't have any major complaints either on CM10 so I'm sticking with it =)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] epagib:
Synergy. Running the latest r68 with Imoseyon's lean kernel. Very slick.

Sent from a SYNERGIZED GalaxySIII
[HTC Sensation] Weevil Kneevil:
Hi,

I'm using a CM9 Nightly. I really like how the phone behaves now, but something I really miss from the stock HTC software, was how it integrated my Facebook contacts into my phone's contacts. It synced all the contact details from my friends, and made it available for offline viewing.

I've tried the official Facebook app. No joy. No additions to my phone's contacts at all. Even with contact sync turned on for that acc.

I've tried Friendcaster, that synced the names of my friends to my phone book, but no contact details for offline viewing?

The stock "People" on the stock HTC ROM had a great way of doing this.

Any clues?
[HTC Sensation] Weevil Kneevil:
Nobody?
[HTC Sensation] Weevil Kneevil:
Sorted!

Used this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1860924

If anybody elsr has a similar query. Followed the link for facebook sync.

Thanx
[HTC Sensation] aznprodgy:
youre welcome :) and you found it all by yourself!!! see guys, a little searching never hurt anyone :laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Lboog:
hello. i am trying to Remove Gapps apk with a root explorer. I searched every folder and can not locate...can someone direct me to were this is located. thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
Oooh. Be careful. There's been many a sad tale from users removing things such as that. Since you have to flash them to install them, you probably need another zip to revert.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Lboog:
Thank you

thank you, i'm trying to fix a problem with JB Muni rom...the posted that was what was needed to fix the issue....i'm a noob so i can't post on that thread, but thanks for the 411
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gregsarg:
Ranger got it ...

Removal of Google services will render your device useless if done incorrectly.

Services framework is built into the rom.

The only current rom that has this separation done for you ...is CM ....

Be careful, and run 2 backups before removing "anything " Google services related ...g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
You should use Titanium Backup and freeze any app, then see how your phone runs. You can step back easier to a working system if you have to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Lboog:
I'm just trying to fix the att carrier in the top left corner....i don't want to brink my phone ...is it best to just wait until MIUI provide a fix..or if i do the two back ups and delete will it damage my phone? I really like this rom....it has lags but over all i like it best but just want to fix that at&t problem ....thanks for your reponse
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gregsarg:
If you are not "sure" what you are removing, then dont remove it.

I am "sure" that the carrier icon is a system process that will break other areas of the phone if removed.

Perhaps you can request this feature change in MIUI ??

the developers are very kind, and may decide to cook that feature in....g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Lboog:
Iagree with you...thanks for the response!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
The carrier name isn't an app that you can remove. You would have to do some decompiling voodoo or some such surgery. Just put a piece of bacon over it -- you'll actually look forward to looking at it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gregsarg:
I love bacon ......g