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[Motorola Atrix HD] ericpeacock79:
Hi,

How does one go about "unlocking stock wifi tethering"?

I've been searching for "wifi tether" and "mobile hotspot", to no avail....

I tried a few wifi tether apps from market, but they either don't work or are horribly slow (716kbps on speedtest app)

Enableing wifi tether is one of the 3 reasons I wanted to root my phone... I've already got the other two done - adaway and remove some at&t bloatware.

Thanx,

-Eric
[Motorola Atrix HD] Wolf_Gang09:
Is there anything other than deleting bloatware and changing the boot animation that will interfere in OTA updates?
[Motorola Atrix HD] OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF:
I need root for sd card swap with internal memory (5gb internal is too little)! and many other things.
[Motorola Atrix HD] diamond12:
Tethering thread.
[Motorola Atrix HD] ericpeacock79:
And i just somehow missed that in my search results. <facepalm>

Thanx :o
[Motorola Atrix HD] Pharawer:
same here there wasn't any explicit warning of incompatibility,the app just said u should have a backup of titanium or nandroid and i did the titanium backup but i don't know how to use it. Men!! anyone knows how to fix this?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Youngunn2008:
Restore a safe strap backup.

Sent from my MotoAHD Maxx
[Motorola Atrix HD] Pharawer:
Thanks, but just saved my phone right now using RSDLite. No need for strap now (wich i didn't know how to use it ) xD

Help its appreciated ;D
[Motorola Atrix HD] Justice.Dazzle:
1. Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper

2. Titanium Backup

3. Blackmart

4. SS3

5. Run Nandroid

6. Check out different ROMs

7. Root FastReboot
[Member-Found Deals] grayfoxmg1:
Phone is one of today's Laalo deals, I figure for $80 its a good back-up phone to have, though it is the Virgin Mobile version. LINK
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] kouss77550:
Night Mode doesn't work on my phone, is someone having the same issue? And even if the night mode doesn't work, are the other tools of chainfire working?
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] ZakooZ:
Nightmode doesn't work here either. 16 bit and reduce texture sizes options in OpenGL settings work though
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] iamareebjamal:
The push command is not working properly

Thats why
[Galaxy Ace S5830i General] kouss77550:
Ok, thanks!
[Motorola Atrix HD] Hemotherapy:
I know all about AirDroid, but the Atrix 4G for awhile had a proprietary app that it used to do this, you could use it to listen to music off the device IIRC, send text messages, use certain apps on it all from your phone. I -THINK- this had something to do with webtop being on the phone too though, but I can't remember the name of it, does the AHD have this?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Markyzz:
Nope. Cool idea though. Airdroid is fantastic though so i dont think i would want more moto apps.

Sent from my phone.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] DeviantWorkshop:
Where is the Service Menu stored on the device ? Can it be updated ? Is there a way to view or have full control of the storage/memory on a device through a program on my pc ? I would like to see how the service menu, bootloader, rom, recovery ect. is configured.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] DeviantWorkshop:
OK, think I figured this out that the Factory Test APK is the service menu... I just got my first android and still trying to break this thing down... I would still like to figure out how the file structure is stored on the device as far as the CWM recovery partition (if there even is one) and i'm assuming the bootloader is seperate from the OS. If anyone can help clarify it would be appreciated
[Samsung Captivate Glide] elban:
here is some information on the partitions you may find useful:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1454862&highlight=partitions
[Galaxy S III Android Development] pierrechn:
just got my galaxy s3, not feeling the touchWiz UI . what is the best rom for the galaxy S3 ? one that will still allow me to use all the features of the galaxy S3!

thanks !
[Galaxy S III Android Development] marcellocord:
i smell flames and a close.
[Galaxy S III Android Development] ChrisHRocks:
Run away. Run away and hide now!!!!
[Galaxy S III Android Development] jonny68:
[YOUTUBE]JmvCpR45LKA[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S III Android Development] chemita:
Yeaaahhhh

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[Galaxy S III Android Development] delsus:
Dam so that's what I have been doing wrong... Why did no one tell me this is the wrong place to find porn.

Oh and I forgot inb4lock
[Galaxy S III Android Development] jonny68:
on a completely unrelated note you are the longest running member ive ever seen on xda 2004 you joined 8 years ago **** me i cant even remember what phone i was using then never mind a smartphone :D the longest before you ive seen was 2006:highfive::good:
[Galaxy S III Android Development] pierrechn:
haha , so none of you are gonna answer my question ?? lol
[Galaxy S III Android Development] Taker18:
CyanogenMod10 Nightly

InsertCoin 2.0.1

ARHD

AOKP

AOSP

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Android Development] mrbuzz1967:
you're not allowed to ask this as roms are subjective and each flasher has their own view.

read and read some more and then when you've finished reading, read some more!

just try different roms and see what suits you.

got to go, gonna be closed sooooooon.
[Galaxy S III Android Development] graffixnyc:
OP, why not try making an effort to at least read the stickies.. If you had you would see one discussing this. Best rom threads are not allowed and I'm really getting tired of having to close 5-10 of these per day :-/

Thread closed
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
"Error while searching for networks" detailed discussion

If anyone out there has some really deep knowledge about what the Android system does when it interacts with the radio and searches for networks, etc... i'd love to know. It's always so disheartening when a non-specific error message appears and you have limited means of discerning exactly what is happening under the hood to cause it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
picked up another phone... same problem

on a whim i picked up another Motorola Defy because i utterly love these devices and they are starting to go away... the restore with clockworkmod was perfectly simple and straightforward... but the new phone has the same problem: "Error while searching for networks" and there is no way of connecting to any GSM tower.

this is incredibly frustrating, and i cannot for the life of me figure out what the difference between these phones can be. why would one phone be connecting just fine and the others totally and utterly failing to? they are all US T-Mobile Defys.

i'm going to borrow a buddy's SIM card and see if it will register on any network, maybe my SIM is just doing something loopy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
IMEI all zeros

on all of the phones that are experiencing the GSM problem, Android reports the IMEI to be all zeros under "About Phone"

this is also the case with the latest brand new phone that i just purchased. now, i'm fairly certain that this wasn't the case until i put the CyanogenMod 10 ROM on it. how the hell can a ROM foul up a radio so badly? (and how can it happen on just some phones but not others of identical model?)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
a-ha, i may have discovered something non-symmetrical between these phones after all...

there are slight differences one phone's kernel version data. they are very slight, only pertaining to details after the version number. (which, for all i know is just a checksum or some other value specific to when the kernel was compiled)

Phone #1 (currently can connect to GSM networks)

Kernel version

2.6.32.9-ga649a2e

hudsoncm@il93lnxdroid52 #1

Thu Jan 20 07:50:55 CST 2011

Phone #2 (used to connect to GSM networks but no longer does)

Kernel version

2.6.32.9-ga649a2e

hudsoncm@il93lnxdroid52 #1

Thu Jan 20 07:50:55 CST 2011

Phone #3 (brand new and has never connected to any network under CM10)

Kernel version

2.6.32.9-ga28fcc4

fdc376@zch68lnxdroid12 #1

Wed Apr 6 15:55:29 CST 2011

... so, that seems to raise more questions than it answers for me. two of them appear to be completely identical, yet they behave differently with the SIM card (Phone #1 sees networks, Phone #2 does not).

the last one, Phone #3, has slightly differing kernel version data but i don't know why. that phone also cannot see networks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
read this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1857054 , If you have 0000 as your IMEI, you may have to correct it for it to be allowed to connect by some networks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
i'm reading other forums and seeing repeated references to the files...

libril.so

librilswitch.so

... which appear to live in /system/lib

one user on a forum asserts that "These types of bugs are due to mismatched RIL and Radio" but does not offer any information on how one might go about checking this or addressing the problem.

i'm going to try copying those two above-mentioned files from the "working" phone and pushing them to one of my non-working phones. let's see how this goes.

(and, of course, anyone with real knowledge in this area is free to jump in at any time... but for now this is a sort of fun intellectual exercise, just seeing my own process play out in this thread that i alone am posting in. ah well, maybe it will help some future person someday.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
thanks! great irony, to see an expert pop up right as i comment about being monologing to no one in this thread, hah. i'll read that other thread right after i try my file copy experiment.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
i've copied over libril.so and librilswitch.so to the non-working phone's /system/lib directory, but i see that the permissions were altered in the process. i've fixed that (set them to RW- R-- R--) but now i wonder if a chown command is in my future, too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
upon reading that, i started to follow instructions for repairing a lost IMEI.

one of your instructions in this post is to "Download EFS Folders for modification and restoration My Android Collection" however when one visits that link there does not appear to be any entry (even when you expand all the sub-sections) called "EFS Folders" or anything that makes mention of "modification" or "restoration"

help?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
sorry its in My Android Solutions and mostly for Samsung , none for motorola, you may need to search google . But mostly flashing the initial STOCK firmware the unit came with would correct it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
maybe i'm misunderstanding what you mean when you say the "efs folder is found in your root of your Internal Phone memory"... because none of these three phones appear to have any folder called "efs" anywhere i can find it, least of all in the root location (at least when viewed with Root Explorer)

in the root path i see folders like...

acct

cache

config

data

dev

etc

mnt

pds

... and so on and so on, but no efs folder in there. is it a hidden folder? is there a way one must manually turn on the viewing of hidden folders in Root Explorer?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
heh, that sort of reminds me of using a recovery CD that would ship with PCs back in the day... where does one acquire the stock firmware that comes with a device? is there a hidden recovery partition that does not get disturbed somewhere on the phone?

i tried to choose "stock recovery" instead of "custom recovery" in my bootloader, but that just resulted in the boot error image (similar to this but with a little android figure as opposed to a phone)

EDIT: seems like RSDLite with the stock SBF file might do me right. i have both of those (but i recall RSDLite being an absolute bastard when it comes to ever seeing a phone properly) so i'll try that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
yep, it should be hidden and cannot be edited , and all the information, I am able to provide is based on Samsung, so I am afraid it can be different for your units.

---------- Post added at 11:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:35 AM ----------

try your original backup. that should do it

---------- Post added at 11:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:37 AM ----------

use your WIKI http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Motorola_Defy
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
any suggestions on where i might look, heh?

sadly, i misspoke... don't have the original backup for this device. i have only backups after installing CyanogenMod in various stages
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
trying now to download the stock rom from the wiki. i cannot say how much of a strong and passionate hatred i have for all these goddamn terrible upload sites. is there a reason that the community can't just settle on ONE that is reliable and useful? the stock Froyo rom for my Defy is linked in a thread with a multiupload link and that forwards to a lnx.lu link which is a steaming pile and doesn't even load in Chrome or Firefox. It loads in IExplore but doesn't download.

is there not just one standard site where people would upload?? :eek:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
got RSDLite to recognize phone

so... for those who later find this thread and keep on reading (i'm continuing to post in the spirit of this) i will report that now RSDLite is updating my phone back to the Froyo 2.2 stock image that i have.

getting RSDLite to see the phone involved getting it into the bootloader (not, as i now realize, the "boot menu")

power on Motorola Defy with VolUp pressed... bootloader (some folk even say that hold VolUp while inserting battery)

power on Motorola Defy with VolDown pressed... boot menu (and then recovery)

... so that was the trick on that one, i do recall knowing that in the past. learning is fun. re-learning is less fun.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
wonder of wonders... using RSDLite to push the stock 2.2 rom to the phone worked, and upon boot (wherein the whole MotoBlur nonsense started) i was able to see that the phone thinks it has an IMEI number now! so now i'm going to see about doing a step-by-step upgrade to CM10 and i'll see if the IMEI stays put. =)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
make a nandroid backup using CWM first so that you don't need to do it all over again
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
hah, yeah... that's the first thing i'm doing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
backed up a nandroid image of the stock environment and ROM. god, it sucks so hard.

now upgraded to CM7.1 ... phone can see its IMEI again, but cannot see any networks still. strange.

searching for networks does NOT immediately generate a "error searching for networks" issue, so that's good. perhaps this is a baseband problem.

man, this whole affair has been a wild learning experience from start to finish. i am certainly enjoying the journey, but i wish that this was all rather more academic and not something that came up simply because i had a problem with my primary phone. always much more rewarding to do experiments at one's leisure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
CM 10 is running on the phone now. still not seeing any T-Mobile networks, but at least it's running correctly. Fascinating, this whole process is. I really need to hit the bed soon, though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deviant Ollam:
no joy

I've thrown in the towel on this project. Utterly everything tried has failed and there is no way to get the phone to see GSM networks. Since it is exhibiting a number of small quirks now (GPS failing to lock, even after long long times... the occasional screen flicker) i'm forced to conclude that there is a strong chance of physical damage or other hardware problems at work.

I don't know if that's surely the case, but it's enough of a chance that i'm no longer going to mess with this phone.

Interestingly enough, since i've all but written off this damaged phone (that's the A phone, for those who had read this entire crazy thread) i took the opportunity to do a serious tear-down of the device and found that it's wildly easy to get it all apart. i encourage folk to try if they've ever had a Defy which got some moisture under the glass or something like that.

1. the seven external black screws removed and the two silver colored screws found beneath the battery cover are removed. (using a Torx T-5 bit, if you're curious)

2. CRITICAL POINT - both the microSD Card and the SIM card must be removed or else they will pin the circuit board to the plastic body.

3. with all screws removed, gently pry the front glass panel and bezel apart from the main plastic body

4. take care to avoid losing the volume button and power button, as these will become free at this time

5. the display screen will slip out of the glass/bezel portion rather easily, but the earpiece and LED lights and all that whatnot are still connected to the circuit board by means of a cable

6. the main circuit board can be wiggled and lifted out of the plastic body at this time

7. the circuit board is now tethered two two other components (display module and front glass/bezel/earpiece/LED/etc) by ribbon cables. these cables are attached to the circuit board by means of simple headers that can be popped off with some care and the use of a thin tool or probe

8. you now have the phone totally apart and you can swap pieces around (replace the screen or a cracked glass bezel, for example)

9. putting it together is just the reverse... popping the cables back onto their respective connector headers is the most intricate part, and even that isn't too hard at all.

... i used this knowledge to swap the front bezel from my B phone (the phone which is dead but had a working earpiece) onto my A phone (the phone which had been my backup because it worked but could only be used on speakerphone) and now i have one fully-working phone and one totally dead one which i'll use for parts or otherwise just scrap.

so... not a great result (sorry to anyone who read this thread the whole way through seeking help with the "Error while searching for networks" problem) but at least a silver lining found in the end. thanks to all who suggested things and good luck to anyone who has such a problem in the future!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukekaramazov:
hello all. i have same issue here. i have a cheap chinese tablet with allwinner a10 a8-cortex. it seems everybody have this imei issue but nobody talk about recovering allwinner based device. can anyone point me to this imei problem answer? thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P3nguattack:
Hey I actually read this whole article as I was having the same problem on my LG-K330 and I just want to thank the OP for such great follow-up and most importantly literacy. Im sure you know what its like to try and read threads like this and all you can notice is bad grammar and spelling errors that are just as difficult to decipher as the problem you're trying to troubleshoot. I experienced my error a few hours after my phone dropped onto a hard rubber mat from about 3 feet high. To fill you in, this phone already had a spiderwebbed crack in the digitizer and after the most recent drop now has a hole all the way through the glass above the screen to the motherboard. Of course I automatically assumed it was a hardware issue due to the fact that it happened only a few hours after I dropped it, but after taking it apart twice and making sure everything looked okay and all the antennas were making a connection, (this phone has no wires. The antennas are visible without removing any screws and connect to the motherboard using spring pins) I am fairly confident everything is alright in that department. My phone would go from "service disabled" to "searching" at seemingly random times and at one point had me believing if I put enough pressure on the spot where the hole is i got it to at least say searching more, but I now am pretty confident that that was incorrect. It took me two days to have the time to fool with it, but after I did im starting to think it might just be a screwy Sim card. I got it to come up after a few restarts to where it said "searching" consistently instead of service disabled, and I went into the settings and searched for networks and it picked them up this time. Then I selected "automatically choose network" and after about 2 minutes it connected and I have 4G again. This was before I stumbled across this post, but Im concerned that it will revert back to "service disabled if I turn it off or anything. After reading all this I feel like I may be able to permanently fix the issue until I can buy a new phone if that does happen to happen, so I just wanted to say thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trammo:
i just bought honour bx mobile...but network is not coming, while searching for network it showing "ERROR WHILE SEARCHING FOR NETWORK". Please kindly advice me?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koy168hk:
i got the same problems on my Samsung Note8. actually, more serious.

i think its a system bug.

I change my sim to my friend phone, its work perfectly. I take all the working sim into my phone, its cannot search any network.

I choice option find network provider myself, its show "Error while searching for networks"

If i choose auto search network, its show "successful registered on network", however its doesn't'.

I check that my phone Radio power is off and no way to turn it on.

Anyone, any method for it?

I try wipe cache partition already, on off my phone, change different sim card. type the *#*#4636#*#* , show that network is not available. use some apps to force enter into the menu, i see that radio power is off. and no way to turn it on.

Now, he last step I am going to factory restore.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koy168hk:
ok. i try factory reset, the problems still exit.

any idea to me?

I am going to try refresh the rom....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koy168hk:
ok, even refresh the firmware, the problems still exit, give up and go repair centre tmr.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
If you dont follow the portal or missed it this cool little script was featured today. Might be something for those of you that use tvout.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1934495

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...light-off-without-sleep-for-hdmimhl-playback/
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] m4127440:
Nice find
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Shortbus-Driver:
I've never gotten TV out to work...ever..

I'm on barebones and still can't lol.

I don't miss it ...never had it.

But it does bug me that it just doesn't work for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] getochkn:
What cable did you try? The phone only suports RCA video out via a cable like this.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Shortbus-Driver:
Yea that's what I've got
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TwitchyEye:
Plug the red wire into the yellow jack?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Shortbus-Driver:
Lol I've tried every combination....

The best I've gotten is sound on a static screen...now I could make out that the picture is there but so much static screen that it wasn't viewable.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] m4127440:
i have 3 different brand cables...one hard wired to my truck tv one for my portable projector and one for my pc monitor...all 3 cables are red to yellow for video.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] BEERINAT0R:
I just wanted to see what good screen protector works well with the UAG Case?

Thanks all!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] falcons2:
I'm using the uag case with the dba just like glass protector and it works great
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jonny68:
The screen protector that comes with the case is fine albeit a fingerprint magnet but doesn't really bother me as much,it does the job fine.