yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudeeps:
Hi All,

I'm new to android and have a query. I want to factory reset my phone. I have backed up all the apps using app back & restore and thus have all the apks saved. I want to know that if I restore these apps from the backup, will google play update still work for these? Please guide me.

Thanks in advance :fingers-crossed:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiffer1991:
I think so yes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudeeps:
Thanks. Can someone confirm please.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anasdcool71:
Obviously google play updates will work. They don't work only when the APK is signed by another key. And backing up an app dosen't do that. The key will be the same. So you've got no reason to worry about.

System.out.println("Sent from my SGY");
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hauntedhunter:
Another query

Is there a way to group widgets of a same application? I mean, when I say add widgets on homescreen, all different sized widgets of the same app is displayed ( like desktop visualizer will have 1x1,1x2,2x1,3x1 etc all showing ),is there a way to have it only show desktop visualizer and then on selecting it show all sizes under it ? Please help. I'm using Apex Launcher ( free ) with android 4.0.3 !
[HTC Desire S] Sengeh:
Can anyone guide me step by step to s off , root and install custom rom?

I am running ics. Please help. Thanks!
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
They already have. Read the stickies and the recent threads as everything is in there.
[HTC Desire S] Sengeh:
Would u guide me? Im confused with all the things.

I am running ics installed from htc dev (wwe).

Many bugs, got fed up and i wana root and install custom rom.
[HTC Desire S] Jack_R1:
If you need someone to guide you - then custom ROMs are not for you.
[HTC Desire S] colarus:
With ICS you AFAIK need to make htc dev unlock to get root. The "normal" guides won't work.

Gesendet von meinem HTC Desire S mit Tapatalk 2
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
Totally incorrect. I (like many of the older members of the DS Owners Club) got S-Off with an XTC-Clip and we have no problem at all with getting root.
[HTC Desire S] Jack_R1:
One of the "normal" guides includes unlocking by HTCDev and downgrading by relocking.
[HTC Desire S] bayusuputra:
I will be a little more kind now, here's the step by step guide:

1. turn on your phone

2. prepare your PC, you have to be connected to the internet

3. connect your phone through USB cable, the LED should light up, and choose charge only, don't forget to turn off fastboot in settings-> power

4. log in to your xda account

5. go to Desire S page

6. READ THE STICKIES and all the GUIDES and NOT JUST ASKING TO BE SPOONFED!!!

7. follow the steps carefully

8. you should either be HTCDev unlocked, rooted and running custom ROMs or,

9. You are S-Off, rooted and happily flashing ROMs without the need to use ADB..

10. PROBLEM??? :eek:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Alikalix:
How often are being Facebook photos updated in SemcAlbum?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] UnfairlyAttractive:
As the title says, I am unable to get into recovery mode, or boot normally. The only thing I can do is boot into download mode.

After much research, I think what I did was trigger the eMMc hardbrick :(

I was on AOKP Milestone 6 and I wanted to flash CM10, so I went ahead and tried to do a factory reset. It hung in the middle of it so I was forced to turn the phone off. After that, it's just been stuck in a bootloop. I've flashed every single ROM on the freakin internet, in every single way (ODIN, one-click). Nothing sticks. Not even this one ROM that's supposed to boot straight into recovery.

I heard something about a custom PIT file that may help fix this, but I haven't been able to find it.

What other options do I have? Will Sprint help out if I play dumb?

Thank you guys so much for taking the time to read and/or respond to this, I really appreciate it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
Try flashing E4GT-EL29-directbootCWM via Odin. That will boot you into recovery where you can try flashing something. I suggest doing a factory reset from there. Then flash CM10 and see if it boots.

If not, check the first page in the eMMC thread for the custom .pit file that will repartition the device. There are 2, make sure you select the one that only makes you lose 3GB instead of 8GB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] UnfairlyAttractive:
Thanks for the reply! I have actually flashed that with no luck, but I'll take a look at the thread and try the .PIT fix.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26428986

The pits are attached to that post... I imagine you need to find out what blocks are corrupted. That should give you a good place to start.

Is Odin failing on flashing any specific partition? Good luck btw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] UnfairlyAttractive:
So i've been looking at the PIT thread and this seems pretty far out of my depth haha. I think I'll try Sprint before I try to figure out how to find the blocks and all that. Besides, i dont think I can even go that route because it seems like I need recovery mode to use the tool to find the bad blocks, which I can't get into right now.

Odin for the most part did not fail in flashing ROMs to my phone. For a couple of ROMs it did, but when it came to any stock ROMs or the EL29 direct boot everything went perfectly. It just didn't boot normally afterwards even though ODIN showed 100% success in flashing the ROMs.

I'm just glad I have Google voice and a new N7 so I can still call and text at this point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] zacsxe:
Hi everyone,

I need some help with the YouTube app because for the life of me, I cannot get it to go into tablet UI.

I am using the AOKP ROM: [ROM]LF6/AOKP/PA[July16th] |KING-KANG| 'Chasing Unicorn's Swagger'

What I've tried:

The phone's general UI is default and I believe that is in Phone mode. My approach is to change each app to tablet UI individually so I pick which ones stay in phone interface and which ones are in tablet.

I go into Paranoid Settings > List of apps > Youtube

I change the UI to Tablet; DPI to Tablet. I've tried Force Scaling on and Force Scaling off.

I clear the data for the app in System > Apps

When I launch YouTube, I get a more spacious Phone UI. I want the 3D thumbnail wall UI for YouTube that I had when I had a tablet.

Has anyone else found a solution for this?

Thank you in advance

I forgot to add that I have the Galaxy Note SGHi717. (AT&T)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blubberor:
Hi is it just a matter of editing the build.prop in the ROM before flashing or do I just need to exchange the recovery.

Might be interesting as people are still waiting for ROMs for the TF300TG ;) I know 3G won't work in this case...

Best Blubberor
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NixZero:
keep in mind that if you flash stock jb or derived (like hydro jb) you cant go back so be really, really sure that you dont need that 3g
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blubberor:
was only thinking of CM10 and derivates ;)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holden72:
I used Hydro 4.4 and CM9 (and CM10), all for TF300T, on my TF300TG.

Just flashed via recovery in the usual way.

Everything works except the 3G, obviously.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blubberor:
I did so as well, BUT they latest recovery is now correctly set to TF300TG and not TF300T - as there is a "model check" within the installation process you need to find a way to get it working on the TF300TG.

Nobody realized this problem before??
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holden72:
With TWRP yes, with CWM no.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blubberor:
Hi you mean installing CWM solves this problem already or is it that there is non specific for the TF300TG instead of just TF300T (so they don't differentiate??)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holden72:
When i try to flash Hydro 4.4 3G, TWRP blocked me for mismatch.

CWM doesn't.

Sorry for my bad english.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] mrExtrm:
I welcome I have a question is a few roms which all np tongues don't have idroid and my question is following how to add the tongue so that it is possible to use it
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
am unable to understand you but thanks for following the rule which is "write in English"

what do you want to do:- add more language or want to add specific language

please also tell what rom are you using

and what do you mean by np tongue

I think according to you tongue=language but what is np
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] mrExtrm:
so I would like to add some language to the rom I'm currently using idroid and there are only three languages ​​ie English Italian and some still do not know what is: D and I'd like to add such as Greek or Polish, and to be able to change the language settings
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] iEthos:
Hello

Wanted ask if this phone will be running 4G after some upgrade?

Thing is UK is planning launch 4G at the end of this year..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vis-tec:
No is the answer.......

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/09/...awei-ascend-p1-lte-and-samsung-galaxy-s3-lte/

Edit: Answer is Yes, if you have the One XL, though i was in the Int One X forum.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] iEthos:
Pitty
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lsujim:
Is there a SamsungCamera.apk out there with a working shutter sound On/Off toggle? I know a majority of the custom ROMs have silent shutter sounds even if you turn the toggle on or off. Is there one out there that actually works on and off?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Hope you are rooted. Navigate to \system\csc\ and find feature.xml. open it and find the line that says

"<CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>true</CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>" Change true to false. Save and reboot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vulcZ:
Damn, for some reason this doesn't work for me. I make the change and save the file, reboot and I still don't get the option to disable the camera sound. I'm doing this all with ES file explorer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
If you are on ICS you have to edit a line in the build.prop as well for this to work. Open your build.prop and find the line that reads

"add camera sound property for SPR concept ro.camera.sound.forced=1"

and change to

"add camera sound property for SPR conceptro.camera.sound.forced=0"

Again this only applies to ICS. Jellybean only requires the edit in 2nd post and build.prop doesnt need altered
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Compusmurf:
if you're using ES, check the permissions of the file afterwards. it seems to like to change them on it's own. I switched to root explorer to avoid that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] chard87000:
Guys how do you change storage when using the jellybean stock cam??!!b4 on ics it has an option.
[HTC Rezound] 996:
I think a lot of people underestimate the Rezound. It is a powerful phone only to be held back with Verizon bloat and stuff. 342 PPI is incredible to me. Still one of the best displays out there. Who cares about AMOLED (even though it looks pretty damn good). I have friends with the GS3 and the GNEX. Looking at their phones is nice. But the screen resolution 1280x720 is amazing for a 4.3 inch screen. Wish we had some more up to date Sense 4 roms to compete with the look of the OS. 3.6 is getting kind of old IMO...I cannot move to AOSP because I am attached to the smoothness of sense! A bit off topic here but yeah.

Any input?
[HTC Rezound] abby_nitewolf:
My hentai vids look amazing on the rezound screen!
[HTC Rezound] Ndaoud360:
Yes one of the best screens to date on any smartphone (not counting those 5in tablet phones) if you consider ppi which rez has 342 best clarity out there. Only other one to compete ppi wise is Sony Experia s which has the same 342ppi with 720p

But for looks GSIII probably does have the best looking cause of samoled HD screen.

Also you know there is Sense 4 roms for the Rez?
[HTC Rezound] 996:
I know of some old roms for the rez..but nothing up to date. I only wish there would be some up to date and EFFICIENT sense 4 roms which won't destroy battery life. -_-
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
Screen is great.

The one thing my brother agrees is better than his 4S. (He doesn't understand all of the techno stuff)
[HTC Rezound] cslingerland:
Smoothness of sense? Have you even tried aosp?!?! Soooo fast and smooth:)
[HTC Rezound] AshtonTS:
The xaiomi mi-2 has a 4.3 720p @ 342 point as well :p

Sent from my HTC Droid Incredible
[HTC Rezound] 996:
I still think sense 4 is smoother then aosp (on the resound). Aosp in general is very smooth.
[HTC Rezound] Damasterjj:
Iphone 5 has lower pixel than rezound
[HTC Rezound] localceleb:
And this is why battery life sucks...
[HTC Rezound] 996:
IPhone 5 has lower ppi than the iPhone 4S lolol
[HTC Rezound] AshtonTS:
No it doesn't.
[HTC Rezound] Sparx639:
Its exactly the same lololol

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[HTC Rezound] 996:
Whoooops. Read the specs wrong!

*edit. I think it actually has a few lower.

**edit. Nevermind. Lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leap_ahead:
can any dev port the Nexus 4G JRO03R to nexus s ??

like this old thread :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1474878

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] nised42:
I had to go back to using my Samsung Galaxy S 4G after dropping my S2 in some water. The problem is, I can't remember my pattern combination password and it keeps telling me that the information that I enter for my Google account is invalid. I can log into my google account online, so I don't see why I can't do it on this phone.

Anyway, it eventually came down to my last solution which was to hard reset the phone and lose everything that was in it. I successfully made it to the recovery screen with the Android and the triangle and it gave me all the options I needed. The problem is my Volume Down button. No matter how much or how hard I pressed it, it wouldn't work. I took the actual button off so I could see if there was anything wrong with it, but no matter what I did, nothing would work.

So my general question is; is there anything I can do to get back into this phone? I'm willing to take it to one of those stores that unlock phones for a price. I'm close to just giving up and selling the thing to help save up for a newer phone, but it'll take a while before I do get a new phone what with the sort of budget I'm living on. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Beastmode:
Load the phone to the pattern lock or whatever..then do adb reboot recovery...once in recovery u can use the capacitive buttons menu and home to scroll up and down and I believe search button to select

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If helped don't be afraid to hit the thanks button ;) it doesn't bite lol
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vopezy:
If your comfortable, open it up and manually close the switch
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jeffsf:
If you can get into adb as root, you can do most anything without wiping the phone. That would include, for example, opening the system preferences database and changing the lock screen to insecure.

Edit -- Now that I'm awake and can get into my phone, /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db may have what you need, the secure table in specific. Looking at my phone, the magic incantations within sqlite3 might be

To show all entries with "lock" in the name:

sqlite> SELECT name, value FROM secure WHERE name LIKE '%lock%' ;

My phone returns (and yes, that last key name is spelled that way):

lock_screen_owner_info_enabled|1

lock_screen_owner_info|(some stuff here)

facelock_detection_threshold|0.0

lockscreen.options|enable_facelock

lockscreen.patterneverchosen|1

lockscreen.biometricweakeverchosen|1

lock_pattern_visible_pattern|1

lock_pattern_tactile_feedback_enabled|0

lockscreen.disabled|0

lock_pattern_autolock|0

lockscreen.password_type|65536

lockscreen.password_type_alternate|0

lock_screen_lock_suer_override|1

sqlite> SELECT name, value FROM secure WHERE name LIKE '%lock%' ;

An example to change the entry for "lockscreen.disabled" to "1" :

sqlite> UPDATE secure SET value=1 WHERE name = 'lockscreen.disabled' ;

To exit .sqlite

sqlite> .quit

Whatever the BBS mangles things into, those are single ticks, not "curly" ones (on the key with the double quote, next to the Enter key on my keyboard).

You may need to reboot for the system to see the changes in the database.

From frameworks/base/core/java/com/android/internal/widget/LockPatternUtils.java

private final static String DISABLE_LOCKSCREEN_KEY = "lockscreen.disabled";

/**
* Determine if LockScreen can be disabled. This is used, for example, to tell if we should
* show LockScreen or go straight to the home screen.
*
* @return true if lock screen is can be disabled
*/
public boolean isLockScreenDisabled() {
return !isSecure() && getLong(DISABLE_LOCKSCREEN_KEY, 0) != 0;
}
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
My gf's optimus shows Facebook in running apps using anywhere from 70-100mb!! Is this right?

My Xperia S only shows 18mb!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] thanhma:
Hmm mine uses only 13MB,

Try a reboot then see the task manager again
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
Did you have Facebook built in? We had to download it which are odd for Android phones
[LG Optimus 4X HD] thanhma:
Yep I downloaded it from Google Play too
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Ben36:
Strange! No idea why then? Lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryanfritz1:
I have been running AOKP ICS for a while now and I had TWRP as my recovery. Well after flashing around a bit I had to reflash a rom and was unable to inject TWRP for it to boot. As a result I have CWM 6.0.1.3 I think. Is this the latest and why would I have a backup fail to create a MD5, therefore rendering that backup useless? CWM seems fine for flashing and wiping, but backups are super important. Any help would be awesome!

sent from the other woman
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dropple:
6.0.1.3 is the latest and I know, it can't make a nandroid backup

If you want make a backup on CWM just back to 5.0.2.7

Or use TWRP, I like TWRP ;)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
What is the point of a "RECOVERY" if it cant make backups? WTF over. confused
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arschend:
I'm kinda in the same boat. I ran into this issue when I was trying-out CM9. Now I'm on CM10 9/14 Nightly, which installed with CWM 6.0.1.3. I'm ready to flash the NS4G modem AIO and give it a spin now that the roaming issue is fixed. However, I want to be safe about it and run a nandroid backup first. If I can't restore my nandroid using CWM 6.0.1.3, can I use 5.0.2.7 with CM10?

Can I just CWM flash 5.0.2.7 over 6.0.1.3 or am I better off flashing TWRP?

Thanks in advance,

Al
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
Why does cm roms install a recovery any ways?!? I remember back in froyo rom days around hear. Some Devs *****ing about roms installing recoverys & apks to /data/ every one at that time came to agree that Roms SHOULD NOT INSTALL A RECOVERY.

I mean if a new cm rom needs a new cwm recovery then FLASH the new recovery reboot recovery & flash the rom:rolleyes:

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Believe it had to do MTD. Last I read about this, been a while, the 5.5 version of CWM was specifically for MTD and the 5.0 version was BML. I could very well be incorrect, but that's what I recall reading a while ago.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
5.0.2.7 works on MTD

IDK I just miss having the cmw flashable cwm recovery zips. Luckely I have got gotten in to a pickle like many have

Rocking cm9.1
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arschend:
OK -- Now I get why I couldn't flash 5.0.2.7 over 6.0.1.3 when I was trying to get back out of CM9 a month or so ago. However, I ended up Odining back to stock and installed TPR MTD and I could swear that I ended up with CWM 5.0.2.7 on MTD.

I'm soooo confused.....:p

I just want to make a restorable nandroid of my CM10.

Thanks,

Al
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dropple:
Oh ya?, TWRP can flash cm9/cm10, without need a new recovery like 6.x CWM
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbelos:
Are you guys actually having trouble with backups? I backup and restore with 6.0.1.3 almost every day.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arschend:
Yup. I've never been able to restore a nandroid using 6.0.1.3. I always get an MD5 checksum error. To be honest, I haven't tried in a while, but that was my experience a month or so ago when on CM9. I have no idea if the problem lies in the CWM backup or the restore process.

I'll give it another shot now to see if I can backup and restore my CM10. Stay tuned.

Edit ----

Well, Ahhhl be! (my best Gomer Pyle impression -- you youngsters can Google Gomer Pyle). I ran a nandroid in 6.0.1.3 and advance-restored data successfully. I don't understand what all the complaining is about.... :D

Al
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zman519:
No problems hear. Just confused as to why roms now days install recovery?

BTW your Kernels are the Shizt :cool:

Rocking cm9.1

---------- Post added at 12:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ----------

I know that just about every time I have had problems nandroiding my sdcard was on the way out;):banghead:

I forget the name of the program (Windows) but it has a Black Cats face (head shot) for in icon & its really good at testing flash media.

Rocking cm9.1
[Off-topic] E:V:A:
This is my own completely Off Topic Discussion thread.

A place where I will bring HW related discussions, that do not fit into

specific threads or discussions.

Please, do not post here with general questions or other junk that I have not initiated myself.

Also do not ask where to find files/programs mentioned in this thread, because if I have not linked to them, I don't know!

They will be removed. (Thanks for understanding.)

See you.
[Off-topic] E:V:A:
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[Off-topic] bedwa:
Didn't see that anyone mentioned it and I'm not sure if the S4 modems are as well, but the initial container that the modems are in on the HTC used S3 chips is a fat16 format. I saw that with a simple hex editor showed it and I was able to see the modem file structure as well. I'll snag a few S4 modems later today and take a look. Couldn't unpack and repackaged though, which is probably the EFS formatting with it.
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Off topic goes in off topic ;)
[Off-topic] bedwa:
Sorry it took so long

I had intended to do this at least a week ago, but had not the chance. Both the S3 HTC Radios and the S4 HTC Radios are fat 16 imgs.

As you see in the Rezound screenshot, in the first few lines of the HEX table in the bottom left mentions no volume label and a fat 16 label on the type. in addition when I use IMG viewers it shows the same with both the MDM9K image and the main IMG. This should theoretically enable us to possibly use amss imgs or other parts of the radios with other devices or even cross the modem over to other Samsung devices with the same modem chips.

In addition as per the Ville screenshot, this is the One S modem for one of the European basebands. Again the HEX shows Fat 16 as the file type, but the file structure and amount of files are much more plentiful. If this can become of any use, great. If not, oh well... but it is good food for thought either way.

On other notes, I did try to copy files from the LTE baseband (MDM9k) from the Vivid and move them to the MDM9k IMG for the rezound, but the IMG bloated. I haven't had enough time to try and mount the images in my Ubuntu environment, but doing it in Winblows caused the IMG to bloat up too much and caused radio issues and IMEI unknown blanks.

Happy perusing and happy hunting!